Articles & Messages
Feast of Unleavened Bread
By Messianic Pastor Allan Moorhead
As we approach the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, it is time to reflect on the purpose of the season. We know that all of the feasts speak to us as a shadow or fulfillment in some way of the major work of the Messiah, so it is important to understand all of the feasts. The Feast of Unleavened Bread represents holiness and leaven represents ungodliness. 1Corinthians 5:7-8 tells us to purge out the leaven for we are unleavened. Remove the leaven of malice and wickedness and instead have sincerity and truth in our lives.
Yeshua spoke of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees and their doctrines of hypocrisy (Matt 16:6 and Luke 12:1). Yeshua also spoke of the leaven of Herod and we all know what kind of man he was.
Therefore we are to be unleavened (holiness) and do away with leaven (ungodliness).
The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts for seven days. Why seven days? Since 7 represents completion, it seems as though the meaning here is the completion of our lives. The week of Unleavened Bread represents our life from our born again experience until death or rapture.
There are two Sabbaths that are special in the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It is the first day and the seventh day. The first day represents our first day of salvation and the seventh day is the day we come before the Lord thus completing the cycle of our existence in our corruptible body.
Since the feasts days are shadows of events yet to come or had already occurred dealing with Yeshua, we find the same for the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Yeshua became the substitutional sacrifice on Passover. Then Yeshua was buried on the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread at sundown. He was taken down from the execution stake and buried in a new tomb. So the first Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was fulfilled by his burial. On the third day he arose. Therefore there is yet to be a fulfillment of the seventh day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is something that we can look forward to. Hag Sameach.