“…this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; you shall KEEP IT a feast BY AN ORDINANCE FOREVER.” (Exo. 12:14) One of the main purposes of this feast was to get rid of all leaven “Seven days you shall eat UNLEAVENED BREAD. On the first day you shall REMOVE LEAVEN FROM YOUR HOUSES. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL.” (Exo. 12:15) Paul explains the meaning of this, “…Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the OLD LEAVEN, that you may be a NEW lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Messiah, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the UNLEAVENED BREAD OF SINCERITY AND TRUTH.” (1 Corin. 5: 6-8). The Israelites used to gather yeast on grape leaves to leaven their bread if they needed to speed up the process, but God said “DON’T EVEN LET ANY LEAVENING TOUCH THE DOUGH. Just bake it and go.”
Jesus said, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.” (Luke 12:1) Jesus said in another place, “…beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of THE DOCTRINE of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” (Matt. 16:6-12) Doctrines of untruth…
Jesus makes it clear that we, “…shall not live on bread alone, but on EVERY WORD that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matt. 4:4)
THIS IS THE TRUE UNLEAVENED BREAD THAT COMES FROM GOD…
-Bill Stockham