We Shall Eat Unleavened Bread

 We Shall Eat Unleavened Bread

 

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Exodus 12:17 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.

 

 

When God delivered the children of Israel from Egypt, it was a very big deal.  At that time there was a rush to get out of the land.  There were a great number of people that had to get out quickly.  There was no time for preparing elaborate dinners or lingering around for normal home duties.  There was no time to prepare food in the usual way.  Cooks used leavening to make dough rise for baking bread.  That was time consuming.  So God told Moses to get the people prepared to head out of Egypt fast.  They had to eat there bread cooked flat without leavening.  Whatever else they ate had to be consumed in haste.  They had to be fully clothed and shod with staffs in hand and ready to move out when Moses said, “Let’s go”!  Oh, how they marched with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night heading for the “promise land” of Canaan.

 

Have you ever eaten unleavened bread?  You know it is heard to chew, it is tacky, and the taste is bland and unappealing.  Leavening lifts up texture of the bread adding tiny air holes in the dough to make it softer and easier to chew.  People prefer to bake bread with leavening to make a more appetizing meal.  But Moses and Israel were in a hurry, because God was planning to move them out with speed.  There was no time to bake bread the normal way.  And God does things by pattern.  He took six days to make the creations and rested on the seventh day.  So this is a pattern for how He plans to remove man from the obstacle course of planet Earth (Egypt) and our enslavement to devils confined in hell.  Abel was the first human being to be removed from the battlefield with demons.  Ever since that time, men were given an average of three-score and ten years to face-off with demonic spirits (tares) in captivity, Revelation 12:1-4, Psalms 90:9-10.

 

It took 40 years for Israel to march from Egypt to the Palestine area and during that time they had very little time to devote to making leavened bread.  Things were so tough on the people that they ran out of flour for meal and complained to Moses that they had no bread for survival.  God heard their cries and sent manna from Heaven to them.

 

Deuteronomy 8:3  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

 

Exodus 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

 

I don't know about you, but “manna” sounds like it tasted pretty good, like “wafers made with honey”.  I think I would have enjoyed eating it.  However, God showed me in a vision, that I was not getting human food. I was taken into a side room next to the main dining hall, in my vision.  They brought out for me an open Bible and in the pages was chilled ground beef that you buy in a grocery store.   I was getting the "Word of God".

 

Since all this business of bringing Israel out of Egypt is a “psychodrama” by the Playwrite-God, who Teaches using patterns and allegories, let us analyze what all this signifies.  We know that Egypt is planet, Earth the prison of the kingdom of devils.  They have captured men as fast as we are born, and enslave us to do “sin-works”.  God for His part always works six days and rests on the seventh day.  For example He built the Heavens and the Earth and planted Adam and Eve on it in six days.  But on the seventh day, He was in a state of “rest”.  One day with God is 1000 earthly years.  So all of Adam’s lifetime on Earth, Creator-God was in a resting state. Adam did not live one day with God, because he died after 930 years of life.

 

Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

 

God told Adam and Eve, “In the day that ye eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge, ye shall surely die”.  And Adam died 70 years short of “one day” with God.

 

We know Abel was taken to Heaven as the first human to be redeemed and glorified as a new angel.  This is the process that the Passover refers to, our home-going event.  Devils thought God was lying to them when He told them He needs all the SPACE they saw for His Family, and could not give them a place of their own.  They had only seen 24 children, (24 Elders, Revelation 4:4).  Surely He had to be deceiving them!  So after God flung them down to hell, devils demanded to see them.  God agreed to show them.  So men are paraded before the Kingdom of Devils as God shows them all those He had stored away in the “Chamber of Stars” as seedling, infant-spirit children.  Since our numbers are so great, this will take many generations to accomplish.  It is now the year 2026 AD, and still the parade of men born on Earth continues daily.  Redemption from death also continues as Father draws His children from spiritual Egypt.

 

Psalms  82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

 

Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

 

Jesus does the honors:

 

Psalms 110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

 

Isaiah 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

 

Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

 

Let’s get back to the main topic.  The children of Israel ate unleavened bread as they sojourned through the “wilderness of sin”.  Planet Earth is the “wilderness of sin”, the place where sin takes place.  God has sent down His Word (manna) through priests and prophets whose words form the historical and archaeological Jewish and canonical legacy record of sacred scriptures,  It took generations to compile this record.  And I will tell you, the GOOD NEWS continues this record.

 

Now what is this business about “leavening”?   Leavening is what cooks use to make bread rise.  Here in America we use yeast, baking powder or soda to make tiny air pockets that lift layers of dough to make holes in it so it is soft and chewable.  Each generation of men gets an average of three score and ten years to battle with devils before God removes them from the pit of hell and lifts them up to stand at Jesus’ throne.  You recall Jacob “wrestling a man” until sunrise (death) when he was returning to his dad, Isaac.  Even so we have to struggle with tares until harvest time (death), Matthew 13:30.

Humans die daily, and they are “the daily sacrifice”.  In the priesthood of Levi, two lambs were offered to God in the morning and two lambs in the evening daily.  From that activity we get the name, “the daily sacrifice”.  It commemorates the fact that God continually draws up His children dying all over planet Earth day and night.

 

Psalms 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

 

Psalms 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 

John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

 

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

 

John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

 

Clearly Jesus’ calling voice is all the leavening we need.  All those he calls, instantly RISE and fly way to stand at his feet.

 

Romans 14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

 

Our trek in hell began at each man’s birth when devils pounced on us a newborn infants, Revelation 12:1-4.  We grow up and many religions attempt to feed us as we move like the sun-son from east to west, which is our given lifetime.  What kind of bread do men feed us?  Look at this:

 

Matthew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

 

John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.   51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

 

All that priests and religionists have given men is in-part guess-work without leaven.  If it can be called bread, it was definitely flat.  Leavening makes bread rise, does it, not?  Now let us look at the perfect example leavened bread rising:

 

Matthew 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

 

Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

 

Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

 

Ah, there we have it at last.  When Jesus rose up to Heaven, He became leavened bread.  Thus all leavened bread must RISE! 

 

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

 

Those who preach Jesus and teach his words of life add leavening to their sermons and their bread served at their tables.  All leavened bread RISES.  And as Jesus said, if you eat his flesh and drink his blood, you too, shall live forever and rise when He calls your true God-given name from the Book of Life.

 

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

 

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