The Feast of Unleavened Bread – Topical Teaching

Exodus 12:15 Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye shall utterly remove leaven from your houses…. PARDES – But it’s got to me more than just the plain sense of the text! And the children of Israel didn’t pick up special bread at the Egyptian market: Exodus 12:39  And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened; for the Egyptians cast them out, and they could not remain, neither did they prepare provision for themselves for the journey. Chag haMatzah (Unleavened Bread); the Festival of Spiritual Detoxification. Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. The Scriptures teach us that all Creation has a portion of divinity in matter,  it contains Elohim’s starter dough – ‘lechem min hashamayim’ or ‘sourdough starter’ from heaven’.  “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” The very act of Creation involved יהוה putting something of Himself into matter, whilst at the same time remaining separate from His Creation. We need to heed the parables: There’s 2 kinds of leaven: Chametz ha Ra/leaven of wickedness. Chametz ha Tov/leaven fit for the altar. The kind of leaven we need to search out is the kind of leaven that we try to hide from others, the kind of leaven we try to defend in arguments, the kind of leaven we deny we posses! We must ‘purge out the old leaven’ (1 Corinthians 5) and exchange it for a sacrificial sourdough starter lump, which has all the ingredients within itself to prepare our bodies for rising – the resurrection! Matthew 16:12  Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Get your eyes of the bakers bread….. you don’t want to be caught up with the baker that offended his master, you don’t want to be made ‘a feast’  for all his servants! Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. But he hanged the chief baker as Joseph had interpreted to them. Leaven is spiritual fermentation. The Bible informs us that our hearts are the bakers oven, that produce certain kinds of bread – ‘Lechem ha Ra’/‘bread not turned’, or ‘Lechem ha Tov’ – ‘the Creators sourdough starter’ within us. Hosah 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5  In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6  For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7  They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. 8  Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. יהוה want’s us to get rid of our adulterous and idolatrous lust which is is likened unto the inflamed oven of a baker who’s heated it to such extreme temperatures that he ceases from heating it only from the short time that he has to knead the dough. So this teaches us that leaven is in the atmosphere!  We’re not supposed to be solely focused on baking ingredients! You feed on leaven; you become tainted with it, it only takes a moment to become leavened if you’re in a climate where it’s present! The baker only needed to stop feeding the fire during the short period of the fermentation of the bread, because our unclean hearts are likened to an oven heated; and the unclean lusts of it are as the fuel that makes it hot. It’s an inward fire, it keeps the heat within itself; the fiery hot oven that receives the wicked bakers bread are