Exo 12:15-20 | KingComments | STEP | Immediately after the Passover the order is given to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread (cf. ). The immediate connection between the two feasts is strongly expressed in Luke 22: “The Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover” ( ). Here we see how the two parties are identified with each other. The meaning is clear. If we believe that Christ, our Passover, has been slain for us, then it is essential that our life will become a feast in which sin – of which the leaven is a symbol – has no place. God expects this of us when we realize that all our sins are judged in the death of Christ. It is important to always look at our home and our lives in the light of Christ’s death. Every sin (leaven) that has crept in again will then become visible. We must confess that sin and so remove the leaven. If the leaven is not removed, but eaten, the one who eats it had to be put away from Israel, that is to say be killed. For the church, the instruction applies to someone who allows sin in his life and refuses to judge it: “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves” ( ). The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first of the month. The number seven symbolizes a complete, a specific period. We can see that, for example, in a week that has seven days. When seven days have passed, a new week begins. Symbolically the number seven represents our whole lives. We would like to celebrate this feast because it results from our deliverance from the bondage of sin. God’s purpose is that our life should be a feast “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, without room for “old leaven” or “the leaven of malice and wickedness” ( ). To this feast, which also has to do with what has to happen in the houses, are linked two holy assemblies. There must be an assembly on the first day of the feast and an assembly on the seventh day of the feast. What happens in the houses is begun by the whole and ended by the whole. God wants His children in their families to be completely before Him and He also wants them all together before Him as a people.

‏ Exodus 12:15-20

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Immediately after the Passover the order is given to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread (cf. 1Cor 5:7b-8). The immediate connection between the two feasts is strongly expressed in Luke 22: “The Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover” (Lk 22:1). Here we see how the two parties are identified with each other.

The meaning is clear. If we believe that Christ, our Passover, has been slain for us, then it is essential that our life will become a feast in which sin – of which the leaven is a symbol – has no place. God expects this of us when we realize that all our sins are judged in the death of Christ.

It is important to always look at our home and our lives in the light of Christ’s death. Every sin (leaven) that has crept in again will then become visible. We must confess that sin and so remove the leaven. If the leaven is not removed, but eaten, the one who eats it had to be put away from Israel, that is to say be killed. For the church, the instruction applies to someone who allows sin in his life and refuses to judge it: “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves” (1Cor 5:13b).

The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first of the month. The number seven symbolizes a complete, a specific period. We can see that, for example, in a week that has seven days. When seven days have passed, a new week begins. Symbolically the number seven represents our whole lives. We would like to celebrate this feast because it results from our deliverance from the bondage of sin. God’s purpose is that our life should be a feast “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, without room for “old leaven” or “the leaven of malice and wickedness” (1Cor 5:8).

To this feast, which also has to do with what has to happen in the houses, are linked two holy assemblies. There must be an assembly on the first day of the feast and an assembly on the seventh day of the feast. What happens in the houses is begun by the whole and ended by the whole. God wants His children in their families to be completely before Him and He also wants them all together before Him as a people.