The Truth of Genesis: Understanding ‘Unleavened’ as ‘sinless,’ ‘life without sin’ and Jesus Christ’s example
The Truth of Genesis: The Seven Feasts Of Yehovah, Part 3
In Part 2, we explained what Passover was, and revealed the events which encircled the event, which occurred on the 14th day of the first month, the month of Aviv.
After sundown, which starts the fifteenth day of the month, is the appointed time called unleavened bread. Leaven is what we call yeast. In the Bible, it is typified as sin. The word unleavened is first mentioned in the Bible in the book of Genesis, chapter 19, when two arc-angels walked into Sodom and came into Lot’s house.
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Notice the unleavened bread, which might be thought of as “sinless bread”. The word unleavened is found 50 times in the bible: 41 times in the Old Covenant, and 9 times in the Renewed Covenant.
Satan Before The Lord painting by Corrado Giaqunto circa 1750
In Exodus chapter 12, the moadim, or appointed time, is defined by Yehovah. A few of the verses to read are:
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord‘s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yehovah.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yehovah throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Bread that is unleavened, represents a life without sin. The body of Yeshua was dead in the tomb for three days. Corruption would have set in on the fourth day, as it did with Lazarus.
