Passover and Unleavened Bread the UnEaster

Yah/God set apart specifically appointed time to celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. He put them in place thousands of years ahead of time, as signs, foreshadowings, of what was to come. They have been set aside for counterfeit man made traditions.

Doesn’t mean a Christian can’t take some time to get to know more about them. Check out our Scripture Survey on Passover as well.

Passover (Pesach)* Accept Jesus’s Sacrifice

Called Out of Captivity: As we observe this appointed time of YHWH/God’s, we are to remember we were once captives to lawlessness (sin), separated from God, just like the Israelites were in the land of Egypt. In order to get back in right relationship with God, there must be a sacrifice made because the law of sin requires a death. We are to remember he chose to bring us out of captivity through the sacrifice of his son, Jesus and set us free from lawlessness (sin). On this day, we remember his crucifixion, the original Good Friday.

*Passover and Unleavened Bread are one appointed time

• God called the captives out of slavery and bondage.
  • The Hebrews and whoever trusted in him (faith), put the blood of an unblemished lamb over the doorposts (obey).
  • Those who had faith and obeyed, He passed over (even the non Hebrews) because he saw the blood of the lamb.
  • Those without the blood, had their first born son killed.
• God appointed Passover for whoever in all generations, to remember he had brought them out of bondage and set them free.
  • God gave this as the first month of each year.
  • This was fulfilled when Jesus became the Passover Lamb.
• God gave the Brazen Altar in the Tabernacle for offerings of repentance.
  • When whoever realized they were walking in lawlessness (sin), they would repent and bring a sacrifice. This would put them back in right relationship with God and the people.
  • The people brought their sacrifices day after day, but did not change their ways. The sacrifices became meaningless to them and God could not bear it any more.
• God gave his Son, Jesus to take the place of the sacrifices. Jesus, was The Anointed One who serves as the unblemished, Passover Lamb.
  • Jesus and his followers were observing the appointed time of Passover when he took the cup and offered it as his blood, to be poured out for forgiveness of lawlessness (sins) for whoever put their faith in him and obeyed.
  • Following the Passover Meal, Jesus was arrested, tried, and crucified. He offered himself up as the once for all unblemished, sacrifice for lawlessness (sin).
  • He was sacrificed on Passover at the very same time all the other Passover Lambs were being sacrificed in the Temple.
• God will again, Passover on Judgement day, whoever has faith, brings the blood of the Passover Lamb (Jesus), and obeys.
• Revelation 12:11: They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death.

Unleavened Bread (Festival of Matzot)*Confess, Repent, and Be Baptized

Called into Righteousness: As we observe this appointed time of God’s, we are to remember God provides for us. We are to clean out all the lawlessness (sin) in our houses. Just as he prepared a way through the wilderness into the promised land for the Israelites, he has prepared a way into righteousness and the Holy Place through his son, Jesus. Jesus has paid the ransom for those have faith in him and obey. On this day we remember his triumphant descent – the original Holy Saturday.

*Passover and Unleavened Bread are one appointed time

• God called the Hebrews and whoevers to clean out all the yeast from their houses and they did not have time to prepare food for themselves before they left.
  • Whoever did not put the yeast out (faith), was put out of the community (obey).
  • They carried their unfermented dough and their kneading-troughs as they left. The bread they made from the dough became known as ‘the bread of affliction’.
  • God provided them with manna from heaven. He sustained them throughout their journey to the promised land.
• God appointed the festival of Unleavened Bread for whoever in all generations, to remember this is the day whoevers were brought out of bondage.
  • Celebrate at the place God chooses.
  • This was fulfilled when Jesus was buried.
• God gave the Bronze Laver in the Tabernacle to wash clean their hands and feet.
  • Being in right relationship and clean, they were now prepared to enter into the Holy Place.
  • There was a veil between the Outer Courts and the Holy Place, only a Priest could pass through into the Holy Place.
• God provided a way.
  • Before Jesus, one came preparing a way, he was called John the Baptizer.
    • John called people to an immersion in the river as a baptism of repentance from sin, marking a turning away from lawlessness (sin). This is referred to as John’s Baptism.
  • At the Passover Meal, Jesus, as the Bread of Life, offered the unleavened bread as his body, in memory of himself.
    • The bread representing dying to lawlessness (sin). Jesus was buried on the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
    • They had always eaten the unleavened bread at the Passover Meal, but Jesus changed why, he said to eat it at the Passover Meal in remembrance of him.
    • At his death, the veil between the Outer Courts and the Holy Place was torn from top to bottom, into two pieces, he had prepared the way for whoever into the Holy Place.
• God provided those who eat of the Bread of Life (Jesus), a way to live forever, free from leaven (sin).
  • He sacrificed his fleshly body and died to sin, once and for all. Those trusting (faith) and obeying him, have also crucified their body and are no longer captive to lawlessness (sin).
• John 6:51 I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. This bread is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

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