Unleavened Bread - Escape From Sin!
"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you" (1 Peter 4:12).
The days of unleavened bread are symbolic of Christians coming out of sin just as Israel came out of Egypt. Egypt is symbolic of religious sin. Pharaoh is a type of Satan. Israel coming through the red sea was a type of baptism (1 Corinthians 10:2). Just as the children of Israel became free from slavery, we are to become free from sin.
God told Moses what to do as they left Egypt.
"Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD" (Exodus 13:6).
Unleavened bread is bread which has no yeast or other substance to make it rise or be puffy.
The days of unleavened bread were not thrown away in the New Testament. Paul postponed his sailing to Troas until after the days of unleavened bread (Acts 20:6).
Sometimes the days leading up to the days of unleavened bread are filled with trials. Sometimes the days of unleavened bread are the days of the most fiery trials.
Herod killed James the brother of John and because it pleased the Jews, he killed Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread (Acts 12:3).
The children of Israel drank of the spiritual rock and that rock was Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4).
As Christians, we are to be lively stones (Greek "lithos": building stones), a holy priesthood (1 Peter 2:5), Christ being the chief corner stone (Ephesians 2:20), the head of the corner (1 Peter 2:6-7).
Christ's message to his disciples is: If you have seen me, you have seen the Father (John 14:9-12).
"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust, my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower" (Psalms 18:2).
Christian make up the building blocks of the temple of God. If you have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you then you ARE the temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:16).
Just as Passover celebrates redemption and forgiveness for sins that are past, the days of unleavened bread celebrates the fact that we must continually cycle through the sin, suffer and repent cycle in putting sin out of our lives.
The children of Israel under the rule of Joshua (a prophetic type of the Messiah to come) served the Eternal in sincerity and truth (Joshua 24:14). We, as individual Christians should do the same.
"Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:8).
-- wilyelder
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