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Unleavened Bread Basics

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The mastery of a complex set of tasks often requires careful and detailed practice in order to get everything settled and done in the right sequence. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is not an exception to this rule. On the contrary, there are some elements that are basic and indispensable and that require repeated, careful and attentive practice in order to get it done right.

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 A partial list of Scriptures used:
 

NOT our Holy Days. They are GOD's HOLY DAYS. We are privileged to participate and it must be done GOD's WAY.
Lev 23:5  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover.
Lev 23:6  And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus, instructions for the Levites specifically due to their teaching role.

We are saved by HIS LIFE. He came down from the cross/stake. But some religions have kept Him in the image, hanging on that cross to this day and emphasize that instead of His present LIFE at the right hand of the Father.

Deu 16:1  Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deu 16:2  Thou shalt, therefore, sacrifice the Passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

NOT just any place! And in very SPECIFIC ways as ordained by GOD.

Deu 16:3  Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deu 16:4  And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there anything of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

1Co 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1Co 5:2  And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
1Co 5:4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5  To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 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:
1Co 5:8  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.

FOOT WASHING attitude in dealing with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We need to meditate on the qualities of leavening that can be so prevalent in many of the angles, points of view and modes of action in life.

As long as they were observing these Feasts, they were teachable.

Exo 12:15  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16  And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Exo 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.
Exo 12:18  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Exo 12:19  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exo 12:20  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Heb Chames... all foods that leaven has caused to rise.

Let us always remember the Days of Unleavened Bread Basics and let us practice assiduously... that we may perfect our practice of the observation of these days!