In this episode, explore the profound connections between the ancient Jewish feast days and their fulfillment in Christ. Rabbi Schneider delves into the significance of Passover and Unleavened Bread, illustrating how these pivotal events in Jewish history parallel the life and sacrifice of Jesus. As we journey through scriptural insights, discover the call for believers today to embrace these revelations spiritually, focusing on a life of immediate obedience and humility in Christ.
00:00:01 Passover and Unleavened Bread Fulfillment
unleavened bread finds its fulfillment in Messiah Jesus and is closely tied to the Passover. Father God, we worship you today and we love you. And Father, I ask that you would send forth your spirit now as I proclaim your word, that Father, you would do something supernatural in each one of our lives, producing a greater love for you and increased obedience. Amen. We are in the midst now of the Passover season. When we study God’s Word in the Tanakh, in the Torah, what we call the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible, we find there are seven special holy days on God’s calendar, plus the Sabbath that happens every week. Now, these seven days, beloved ones, are divided into two groups. We have what’s called the spring holy days, and we have the fall holy days. We are in the midst now of the Spring Holy Days. The climax of the Spring Holy Days or the pinnacle of the Spring Holy Days is Passover. But closely related to Passover are the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of First Fruits, and the Feast of Shavuot, or Pentecost. Today, I’m gonna be focusing on the Feast of Unleavened Bread during this season that I’m just terming the Passover season. Now, I’m going to the book of Leviticus, chapter number 23, to set the context today. And I’m gonna begin reading in verse number five. Hear the word of God. In the first month, on the 14th day of the month, at twilight, is the Lord’s Passover. Now get this. Then on the 15th day of the same month, there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord. So what we have is Passover, and then the very next day after Passover begins the feast that we’re calling, what the Bible calls, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Now today, in the traditional Jewish world and traditional Jewish culture, we just call Passover, plus the seven days after it, which are Unleavened Bread, we just lump them together and call it, generally speaking, Passover. But we’re focusing particularly today on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Now, I want you to hear this as I set the context. All these feast days, beloved, these holy days on God’s appointed calendar have application for you and I today as children of God. In other words, these seven holy days didn’t just have application for ancient Israel or for Jewish people today, but they have application for your life and my life in Messiah Jesus, whether you’re a Jew or whether you’re a Gentile. Now, when it comes to approaching these holy days, get it now, we’re not under the law. This is not about spiritual obligation, but this is about gaining revelation and having an opportunity to be blessed through the revelation as we see that all these holy days, including the Feast of Unleavened Bread, beloved, are fulfilled in Messiah Jesus. In fact, the Bible tells us, we’re going to look in the book of Corinthians in just a moment, That when we celebrate Passover, Paul says, do it in recognition of Messiah Jesus. In other words, Paul made an assumption that God’s children would celebrate Passover, not because we’re legally bound by it from the law, but because it’s fulfilled the Messiah Jesus. Paul said, now, when you celebrate Passover, do it in the context of Messiah Jesus. In fact, we know that when Jesus celebrated the Lord’s Supper with his disciples, it was a Passover meal. So I’ve already covered that in my two previous episodes where I focus specifically on Passover. I want to go now to Unleavened Bread with the understanding that Unleavened Bread has application for us today, beloved ones, as Christians. Now I want you to consider with me a few scriptures. First of all, when we look at the prophetic meaning of unleavened bread, I want to consider, first of all, the context of the Feast of Unleavened Bread as it relates to instant and perfect obedience. Now hear me when I say this, to put it in context. Historically, Jesus was actually crucified, get it now, on Passover, showing that he’s the fulfillment of it. In other words, the Passover in ancient Israel, approximately 3,500 years ago, the Passover lamb was put to death. Its blood was shed. And then the blood of that Passover lamb 3,500 years ago was applied over the doorpost of the children of Israel. And then when judgment passed through the land of Egypt, whoever was in a home that was covered by the blood of the lamb, the blood had been applied to the Israelites’ doorpost and the sides of their door. When the angel of death or when the angel of judgment saw the blood, the angel passed over the children of Israel and they weren’t judged. The plague did not befall them. So in the same way, when Jesus’ blood covers our life, judgment passes us over. Jesus was crucified on Passover to show that he was the ultimate fulfillment of that Passover lamb that was put to death for the children of Israel. And just as they were protected from judgment 3,500 years ago, so you and I today, beloved church, are protected from God’s judgment against sin when his blood is covering our lives. Jesus was crucified on Passover for us to be so clear that he was in fulfillment of the ancient Passover, that he brought it to fruition, that he filled it up with meaning. Similarly, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which happened a day after Passover 3,500 years ago, is also brought to fruition by Messiah Jesus. Let’s study that right now. I’m going to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter number 16, to put this in context and to help give it interpretation and meaning. Hear the Word of God, Deuteronomy 16, verse 2. You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock of the herd in the place where the Lord chooses to establish his name. You shall not eat leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction. Here we go. For you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. So the Lord says you shall not eat leavened bread with with the Passover lamb. And then the Lord tells them that when they eat unleavened bread during the Feast of Unleavened Bread each year, they’re to do it remembering, the scripture tells us here, that you came out of the land of Egypt in haste and that you’ll remember this, the Lord says, all the days of your life. Let’s step back for a second and get what’s going on. The Lord told the children of Israel, I’m going to deliver you tonight. He says, now, when you hear my voice telling you to come out of Egypt, he said to his children 3,500 years ago, the Israelites that were in Egypt, he said, when you hear my voice, if you’re baking bread, don’t dilly-dally around waiting for the bread to rise. He said, as soon as you hear my voice, you come out with your bread, get it now, unleavened. Instantaneous obedience. They weren’t to wait. They weren’t to think about the natural. Well, my bread’s almost leavened. I’m going to wait to bake it. I’m going to finish it till it rises. God said, no, as soon as you hear me, bam, you obey me. You come out with that bread unleavened. It didn’t make sense in the natural, but God is teaching here the principle, get it now, of complete and instantaneous obedience. When he said, come out, they had to come. They didn’t wait for anything else to be done. They didn’t think about it. Bam, they obeyed his voice instantly. Now, think about this. As I said, beloved children of God, Jesus was crucified on Passover to the day, John 19, to show that he was the fulfillment of it. that even as the children of Israel were protected from God’s judgment against sin by taking the unblemished lamb 3,500 years ago and applying its blood on their doorposts, so too today you and I are protected against God’s judgment from sin when the blood of Messiah Jesus covers our life. And to prove this, Jesus was crucified on Passover. Now, moving forward, Jesus, to fulfill prophecy, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Why? Because Jesus fulfills the principle of complete, instantaneous obedience. The Bible says that he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to the point, hallelujah, of death, that at the name of Jesus, Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Yeshua HaMashiach, that Jesus the Messiah is Lord. Jesus was buried during the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the day to show that he is the perfect fulfillment of the one that instantaneously and completely obeyed God perfectly all his life, becoming, beloved ones, the perfect sacrifice for your sin and my sin. Can you lift your hands and just say, praise the Lord Jesus. We worship you, Lord, and we thank you for coming to the earth for us, leading a perfect, sinless life, always obeying instantly and perfectly the will of the Father. so that when you died on the cross for us, you would be the perfect substitute, the innocent one dying on behalf of us, the guilty, so that we wouldn’t have to die for our sin. Thank you, Jesus, for that divine exchange, giving your perfect life for us so that we wouldn’t have to be judged for our sin. We worship you and we praise you, King Jesus.
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I’m going to switch gears for a second, and I’m going to make a second observation and application as we’re focusing now on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Not only is the Feast of Unleavened Bread the fulfillment in Jesus of perfect instantaneous obedience, but also, beloved… The concept of leaven in Scripture is tied to teaching that produces sin. And the teaching that Jesus brought us did not produce arrogance and a sinful lifestyle due to arrogance, but rather the teaching that Jesus brought us, beloved ones, was the teaching of humility and dependency on God. In fact, the first of the Beatitudes that Jesus spoke was this, blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God, which is the opposite teaching that the Pharisees of Jesus’ day, the religious leaders of Jesus’ day were bringing. They were bringing teaching, Jesus said, that puffed people up and made them arrogant. Remember, Jesus told us the parable. about the two men that went to pray. The Pharisee said, Lord, thank you that I’m not like this guy next to me, this sinner. But the sinner said, Lord, forgive me a sinner. See the difference? The Pharisee had pride. but the simple sinner that recognized his need said, Lord, forgive me a sinner. And Jesus said it was that man that recognized his wretchedness, that he was poor in spirit, that went home justified. Let’s take a look at this, rooted beloved ones, from the scripture. I’m looking at the concept once again of leaven in scripture tied to false teaching and arrogance. Now remember, that Jesus is bringing us, listen now, the unleavened bread. So he’s bringing us teaching that doesn’t produce arrogance, teaching that’s sinless. We’re going to go now to the book of Mark and then Matthew. Mark chapter 8, verse 15. And he was giving orders to them saying, watch out, here’s what Jesus said. Watch out, Jesus said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. I’m going to continue with the same thought, the same premise in Matthew 16, verse 5. Hear the word of God. The disciples came to the other side of the sea, but they had forgotten to bring any bread. And Jesus said to them, Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, He said that, they said, because we did not bring any bread. But Jesus, aware of this, said, You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread? Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves and the feeding of the 5,000 and how many baskets full you picked up? In other words, Jesus said, the problem isn’t bread here. Didn’t you see that when we had no bread, I multiplied five loaves to feed 5,000? This isn’t about bread. Jesus continues on. Are the seven loaves of the 4,000 and how many large baskets full you picked up? How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? Jesus continues, get it now. But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. So once again, Jesus is speaking here about false teaching. He was speaking about the teaching of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Listen now, that produces arrogance. I’m going to go to the book of Galatians to further illustrate and fill out this concept. Hear the word of God. Galatians chapter five, beginning in verse number two. Behold, I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. What Paul is addressing here is what was happening in the early church. Gentile believers, people that were not born of the physical lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were thinking that they should get circumcised once they became believers in Jesus. And Paul rebuked them and he said, don’t get circumcised if you weren’t born that way. If you didn’t get circumcised as a Jew the eighth day, don’t get circumcised now. Paul said because circumcision is tied to the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through what became the law in the Torah. Paul said don’t get circumcised because if you do, you’re going to be basing your relationship with God on what you do in a way that it’s connected to the law. And if you make a covenant with God that’s connected to the law, Paul said you’re going to separate yourself from Christ because your walk with God is going to be based on the law rather than the grace that you’re going to receive through Christ. So Paul is speaking here about the false teaching that was telling Gentile believers to get circumcised, somehow thinking they had to add the law to their walk with Jesus. Let’s continue on, and I think you’ll begin to understand even more clearly. Beginning once again, verse 2. Galatians 5, behold, I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation then to keep the whole law. He said, you have been severed from Christ. You are seeking to be justified by the law. You have fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything but faith working through love. You were running well. In other words, you started out by simply following Jesus. Don’t go off base now by trying to add circumcision to it and identifying with the law. He said if you do that, you’re going to get off track and you’re going to sever yourself from Christ. Let’s continue on. You are running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion did not come from him who calls you. And then he went on to say, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Meaning that if you begin to get off track and begin to receive this false teaching of circumcision and trying to keep the law, establishing a righteous of your own, that is going to pollute your whole walk with God. I want to bring this even one step further and make it even that much plainer as we look at one more scripture. Beloved, today, hear the word of God. I’m going now to the book of 1 Corinthians 5, and I’m continuing in verse number 6. Your boasting is not good, Paul said. Do you not know that a little leaven once again leavens the whole lump of dough? And then he says, clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are, in fact, unleavened. For Christ our, get it now, Passover has also been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast. What feast is he talking about? He’s talking, beloved ones, about the feast of Passover, not with old leaven, but he said, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread. of sincerity, beloved, and truth. So you see, beloved, unleavened bread finds its fulfillment in Messiah Jesus and is closely tied to the Passover. I just want to impart this to you. God loves you so much. And he’s encouraging us here to keep our eyes on Jesus. Don’t look to the left. Don’t look to the right. Keep your eye on Jesus, who’s the author and the finisher of your faith. Don’t add the law to your faith in Jesus. Simply keep your focus on him. Listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit as you read God’s Word and develop a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit in your life. Amen. OBEY GOD THROUGH THE SPIRIT AND THROUGH HIS WORD AS YOU FOCUS ON JESUS. AND BELOVED, THIS IS THE STRAIGHT WAY TO LIFE. JESUS SAID, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, AND NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME. AND PAUL SAID, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD HAS BEEN REVEALED FROM HEAVEN APART FROM THE WORKS OF THE LAW. BELOVED, WE ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE OUR TREASURE IN JESUS. HE IS ALL YOU AND I WILL EVER NEED. Beloved, Passover is a very happy time of year as we celebrate freedom and deliverance. In fact, Jewish people greet each other during this time of year by saying to each other Chag Sameach, which means happy holidays. When we read about how Passover was celebrated during the days of the Bible, we find in the book of Second Chronicles, Chapter 35, that tremendous offerings were brought to the temple and offered up to God in thankfulness. I want to encourage you this time of year, beloved one, to present a special offering to the Lord as a token of your love to Him and a show of your appreciation for all He’s done for you. In ancient Israel, they brought the money to the temple. I want to encourage you, beloved ones, if this ministry is fitting you, present a special offering to the Lord now through discovering the Jewish Jesus. I know you’ll be blessed when you do it from a pure heart. Thank you and shalom.
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Blessings trump curses, and in the book of Numbers chapter six, we find the Aaronic blessing that God commanded Moses’ brother Aaron, the high priest, to speak over the children of Israel. There’s power in blessing, beloved ones, so take part in receiving Father’s blessing upon your life today.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider presents a message on the Feast of Firstfruits. That’s Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
