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April 4, 2023
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
This week is the Feast of Passover and the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. These two feasts may overlap in their commemoration of the Exodus, but there is deeper meaning found in each and their respective observances.
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Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread (Out of Zion Episode #172)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Transcript
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Well, this week is the Feast of Passover and the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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Well, what's the difference in the two, you might be saying?
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And what can we learn from each?
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So welcome to this week's Shabbat Shalom devotional, when I seek to share just a little
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inspiration and bring a little peace to the close of your very busy week.
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We're going to take a break from our Torah portions this week in order to discuss Passover.
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So there are two feasts.
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Passover is on the 14th day of the Hebrew month and then the Feast of Unleavened Bread
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begins on the 15th and goes for a full week.
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Now Passover, actually what is translated into most of our English Bibles as Passover,
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that the Lord would pass over, could more accurately be translated as to hover over,
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which is a whole different concept that God was hovering over the homes of the Israelites
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with the blood of the Lamb on the lamppost to protect them.
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It's a different way of looking at it.
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And I want to read to you Exodus 12 verse 23 with that in mind.
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For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians.
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And when he sees the blood on the lentil and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over
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the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
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So you see how passing over isn't passing over and going on at all.
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It was to hover over that door and protect the Israelites from the destroyer who was
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going throughout Egypt.
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So one element of the Passover is the eating of the Paschal Lamb.
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In Exodus we read about that and we already talked about it last month.
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But the Lamb was to be eaten in community.
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In other words, you were to get a lamb the size of which was appropriate for your whole
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family.
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And if you didn't have enough in your family, bring in the neighbors.
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And so that this lamb was enough for a whole group of people and you ate it in community.
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So it's as though the Lord wanted them to come together and be in unity before they
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are set free.
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In Leviticus we see how that the eating of the sacrificial animals sometimes is to be
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eaten after the sacrifice and it is also with others.
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Unity is important to God.
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In Exodus then they are told to put the blood of the Lamb on the lamppost.
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Later in the wilderness in Leviticus we come to understand the importance of the blood
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sacrifice as a cover of our sin.
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Of course, as I mentioned last week, that also is the foundation of understanding Jesus
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and the sacrifice he made on behalf of the world.
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Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread then begins on the fifteenth of the month and continues
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and for a whole week the Israelites were not to eat any leavened bread.
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They could only eat unleavened bread in order of course to remember that night from the
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Exodus.
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But I think there may be more to it than that.
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So let's read from Exodus 12 verse 15.
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On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses for whoever eats leavened
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bread from the first day until the seventh day that person shall be cut off from Israel.
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So they are told to put away the leaven or what we would call starter and it is a different
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word than when it says that they should not eat leavened bread.
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That is the word Hamats.
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Leavened bread as I said last week was a symbol of Egyptian ingenuity.
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Now the starter took days to create so this was a real sacrifice for them to throw away
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their starter as well as the leavened bread that had been made from it.
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They were to leave Egypt and return to who they were.
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They were not Egyptian and so this type of Egyptian ingenuity they were to leave behind.
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They were to be a people on the move following a God on the move.
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They were of nomadic roots and they were returning to a nomadic season in the wilderness and
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matzah was to be their food.
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You could say that matzah was a bread or a food of faith.
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It expressed who they were and their faith in God that they were following Him.
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They were a people on the move and didn't have time to leaven their bread.
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So with that I hope you have a wonderful Shabbat break this weekend and I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
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Well, this week is the Feast of Passover and the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
2
00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,720
Well, what's the difference in the two, you might be saying?
3
00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,260
And what can we learn from each?
4
00:00:12,260 --> 00:00:16,540
So welcome to this week's Shabbat Shalom devotional, when I seek to share just a little
5
00:00:16,540 --> 00:00:22,640
inspiration and bring a little peace to the close of your very busy week.
6
00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:29,180
We're going to take a break from our Torah portions this week in order to discuss Passover.
7
00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:31,520
So there are two feasts.
8
00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,880
Passover is on the 14th day of the Hebrew month and then the Feast of Unleavened Bread
9
00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,480
begins on the 15th and goes for a full week.
10
00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:47,600
Now Passover, actually what is translated into most of our English Bibles as Passover,
11
00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:55,320
that the Lord would pass over, could more accurately be translated as to hover over,
12
00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:02,240
which is a whole different concept that God was hovering over the homes of the Israelites
13
00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,680
with the blood of the Lamb on the lamppost to protect them.
14
00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,600
It's a different way of looking at it.
15
00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:15,040
And I want to read to you Exodus 12 verse 23 with that in mind.
16
00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:20,680
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians.
17
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:28,080
And when he sees the blood on the lentil and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over
18
00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:35,360
the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
19
00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:41,080
So you see how passing over isn't passing over and going on at all.
20
00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:47,480
It was to hover over that door and protect the Israelites from the destroyer who was
21
00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,760
going throughout Egypt.
22
00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:58,400
So one element of the Passover is the eating of the Paschal Lamb.
23
00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,440
In Exodus we read about that and we already talked about it last month.
24
00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,040
But the Lamb was to be eaten in community.
25
00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,640
In other words, you were to get a lamb the size of which was appropriate for your whole
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00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:13,960
family.
27
00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:19,200
And if you didn't have enough in your family, bring in the neighbors.
28
00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:25,280
And so that this lamb was enough for a whole group of people and you ate it in community.
29
00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,640
So it's as though the Lord wanted them to come together and be in unity before they
30
00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,280
are set free.
31
00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:41,280
In Leviticus we see how that the eating of the sacrificial animals sometimes is to be
32
00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,120
eaten after the sacrifice and it is also with others.
33
00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,080
Unity is important to God.
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00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,920
In Exodus then they are told to put the blood of the Lamb on the lamppost.
35
00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,960
Later in the wilderness in Leviticus we come to understand the importance of the blood
36
00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,800
sacrifice as a cover of our sin.
37
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:13,400
Of course, as I mentioned last week, that also is the foundation of understanding Jesus
38
00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,800
and the sacrifice he made on behalf of the world.
39
00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:23,840
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread then begins on the fifteenth of the month and continues
40
00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,040
and for a whole week the Israelites were not to eat any leavened bread.
41
00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:36,720
They could only eat unleavened bread in order of course to remember that night from the
42
00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:37,720
Exodus.
43
00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,680
But I think there may be more to it than that.
44
00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,680
So let's read from Exodus 12 verse 15.
45
00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:52,120
On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses for whoever eats leavened
46
00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:59,920
bread from the first day until the seventh day that person shall be cut off from Israel.
47
00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:06,600
So they are told to put away the leaven or what we would call starter and it is a different
48
00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:12,120
word than when it says that they should not eat leavened bread.
49
00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,880
That is the word Hamats.
50
00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:20,320
Leavened bread as I said last week was a symbol of Egyptian ingenuity.
51
00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:28,520
Now the starter took days to create so this was a real sacrifice for them to throw away
52
00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:34,080
their starter as well as the leavened bread that had been made from it.
53
00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,440
They were to leave Egypt and return to who they were.
54
00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:45,800
They were not Egyptian and so this type of Egyptian ingenuity they were to leave behind.
55
00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,120
They were to be a people on the move following a God on the move.
56
00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:58,840
They were of nomadic roots and they were returning to a nomadic season in the wilderness and
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00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:00,680
matzah was to be their food.
58
00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:07,000
You could say that matzah was a bread or a food of faith.
59
00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,160
It expressed who they were and their faith in God that they were following Him.
60
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:19,680
They were a people on the move and didn't have time to leaven their bread.
61
00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:31,240
So with that I hope you have a wonderful Shabbat break this weekend and I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
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