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Exodus 12:15-20
General Information
In Leviticus 23 the "Feast of Unleavened Bread,” is mentioned as a separate feast on the fifteenth day of the same month as Passover.
Today, however, the feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits have all been incorporated into the celebration of Passover.
Hence, the modern reference to Passover means all three feasts.
Passover is celebrated for eight days, 14- 21 Nisan.
The Lord said that for seven days the children of Israel must eat unleavened bread.
This bread, made in a hurry without yeast, represents how the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt in haste.
In Scripture, leaven also represents sin.
Today, cleansing the house before Passover is often a symbolic search to remove any hypocrisy or wickedness.
Unleavened Bread is one of the three pilgrimage feasts when all Jewish males were required to go to Jerusalem to “appear before the Lord” (Deut.
16:16).
Leaven represents sin
Luke 12:1
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Without leaven represents sinlessness
It is a picture of Jesus, the only one without sin.
He is the perfect unleavened Bread of Life
Look at what Jesus said:
John 6:32, 35, 41, 48
It’s been asked if one could get to heaven, if they perfectly kept the law.
The answer is a resounding NO…NEVER…NOT A CHANCE…UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES…AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN…FORGET ABOUT IT!
There are two reasons for this:
Jesus said you can’t get to heaven without Him.
John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
It would be impossible for us to perfectly keep the law
Here is what the Bible says about the human condition:
Isaiah 64:6
Jeremiah 17:9
Romans 3:10
Romans 3:23
At some point, we are all going to sin.
we might catch ourselves in an “innocent” little lie
maybe we will find ourselves in a moment of lust
perhaps, ever so briefly, we will place something else before God
We have all disobeyed our parents at some point
It is simply impossible to perfectly keep God’s law.
The simple truth is no amount of good works can save us.
Ephesians 2:8-9
His law was never meant as a means of salvation.
Galatians 3:23-25
The law was simply a means to bring us to faith in Christ.
It was meant to teach us that we are sinners.
Romans 7:7
The law made us aware of sin, and taught us that we could not meet God’s standard on our own.
It taught us that we need a savior.
That savior is JESUS
Jesus is “unleavened” or sinless.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He conquers the grave with his resurrection because he is not a sinner under the curse of death.
Jesus was scourged and pierced at his crucifixion.
As the prophet Isaiah proclaims, “By his stripes we are healed”
Isaiah 53:5
All of the festivals instituted by God, including Passover and Unleavened Bread, are “shadows of things to come”
Fascinating Facts
The only type of bread eaten during the eight days of Unleavened Bread is matzah.
It is made with flour and water only, not any leaven.
It is striped and pierced during baking.
The utensils used must never touch leaven.
Bakery goods are made with matzah meal.
On the night before Passover, the father does a final search for any remaining leaven in the house.
Traditionally, by candlelight, he sweeps any remaining bread crumbs onto a wooden spoon with a goose feather.
When finished, the bread crumbs, the feather, and the spoon are placed in a bag and burned the next morning.
The sweeping away of the bread crumbs (leaven) is akin to Jesus cleansing us of our sin.
Unleavened Bread in the Hebrew Scriptures:
Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18; 2 Chronicles 30; Ezra 6:22
Unleavened Bread in the New Testament:
Acts 12:3; Acts 20:6
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