We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--It's Time To Remove All The Leaven From Your Life
Witness remove throughout the Bible: remove h5265 naca`to pull out, pull up, set out, journey, remove, set forward, depart
Joshua 7:13; Psalm 119:22; Proverbs 25:4-5
Exodus 12:15-20
15 “‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra’el. 16 On the first and seventh days, you are to have an assembly set aside for God. On these days no work is to be done, except what each must do to prepare his food; you may do only that. 17 You are to observe the festival of matzah, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you are to observe this day from generation to generation by a perpetual regulation. 18 From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day, you are to eat matzah. 19 During those seven days, no leaven is to be found in your houses. Whoever eats food with hametz in it is to be cut off from the community of Isra’el — it doesn’t matter whether he is a foreigner or a citizen of the land. 20 Eat nothing with hametz in it. Wherever you live, eat matzah.’”
The Feast of Passover, first fruits, and unleavened bread are celebrated in the month of Nissan on the Jewish calendar. That would be the month of April this year.
Leading up to the Passover, the Feast of unleavened bread is a time of contemplation. Physically and spiritually removing any leaven.
leav·en
ˈlevən/
noun
1. a substance, typically yeast, that is added to the dough to make it ferment and rise.
2. a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better.
"they acted as an intellectual leaven to the warriors who dominated the city"
Spiritually:
Leaven is anything that should not be a part of our spirituality--it is that which brings death and decay. Leaven can be compared to anything that stands between us and YHVH. It hinders our intimacy with Him. It is for this reason that we are to examine ourselves, as we clean out the leaven in our homes, for any spiritual leaven in our own lives. This is to be our preparation for this appointed time. Removing anything that leaven resembles. When we remove leaven from our souls it is the Ruach HaKodesh that does the sanctification. We as a symbol of the spiritual removal of corruption and bad influences from our homes.
Deuteronomy 16:3
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread the bread of affliction for you came out of the land of Egypt and haste that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
The unleavened bread is in connection to Yeshua. The unleavened bread is the picture of his holiness and sinlessness. His life and sacrifice was unleavened without the taint of the curse of death and therefore He was considered a lamb without spot or blemish for the ultimate Passover sacrifice.
1 Peter 1:19
on the contrary, it was the costly bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah, as of a lamb without defect or spot. - CJB
Yeshua did not suffer the natural process of corruption which was the promise given to Adam and Eve to return to dust. As the second Adam, his death killed the power of death by putting away sin for the sacrifice of himself. Calling himself the bread of heaven mentioned in Exodus as the manner that was provided. He is the ultimate sacrifice atonement for our iniquities and transgressions.
Yahweh’s appointed times are cycles of righteousness! He uses each of His appointed times to teach us about Him and about becoming righteous. Celebrating Yahweh’s appointed times as he intended for us to do, causes transformation in our lives. This transformation is a process and with the feasts being cyclical, it is constantly being built upon. This is the process of sanctification. This is how we are to ready ourselves to live our lives to honor Yahweh here on earth, but it is also part of our salvation.
These feast days are not just the feast days unto the Jews, but they are instructions given by Yahweh Himself. The lies and deceptions that have been told that the law has been done away with and these are the feast days of the Jews--is half truth. For Yeshua has said, I have not come to do away with the law but to fulfill the law.
ful·fill
verb
1. bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize (something desired, promised, or predicted).
"he wouldn't be able to fulfill his ambition to visit Naples"
synonyms: achieve, attain, realize, realize, make happen, succeed in, bring to completion, bring to fruition, satisfy
"he fulfilled his ambition to travel the world"
2. carry out (a task, duty, or role) as required, pledged, or expected.
"some officials were dismissed because they could not fulfill their duties
Matthew 5:17-19
The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it . Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord , your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.
284. You shall observe the New Moon and the beginning of the months-- Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
285. You shall slaughter the Passover lamb at night on the afternoon of the 14th of Nisan-- Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
286. You shall eat the roasted Passover lamb at night on the 15th Nisan --Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
287. You shall not eat the Passover partially roasted or cooked in water --Exodus 12:19 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
288. You shall not leave any of the Passover lamb until morning --Exodus 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
289. You shall nullify the leaven from your homes on the day before Passover --Exodus 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.
290. You shall observe a holy convocation on the first day of Passover --Exodus 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.
291. You shall not do any work on the first day of Passover --Exodus 12:16
292. You shall observe a holy convocation on the seventh day of Passover --Exodus 12:16
293. You shall not do any work on the seventh day of Passover --Exodus 12:16
15 “‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra’el. 16 On the first and seventh days, you are to have an assembly set aside for God. On these days no work is to be done, except what each must do to prepare his food; you may do only that. 17 You are to observe the festival of matzah, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you are to observe this day from generation to generation by a perpetual regulation. 18 From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day, you are to eat matzah. 19 During those seven days, no leaven is to be found in your houses. Whoever eats food with hametz in it is to be cut off from the community of Isra’el — it doesn’t matter whether he is a foreigner or a citizen of the land. 20 Eat nothing with hametz in it. Wherever you live, eat matzah.’”
The Feast of Passover, first fruits, and unleavened bread are celebrated in the month of Nissan on the Jewish calendar. That would be the month of April this year.
Leading up to the Passover, the Feast of unleavened bread is a time of contemplation. Physically and spiritually removing any leaven.
leav·en
ˈlevən/
noun
1. a substance, typically yeast, that is added to the dough to make it ferment and rise.
2. a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better.
"they acted as an intellectual leaven to the warriors who dominated the city"
Spiritually:
Leaven is anything that should not be a part of our spirituality--it is that which brings death and decay. Leaven can be compared to anything that stands between us and YHVH. It hinders our intimacy with Him. It is for this reason that we are to examine ourselves, as we clean out the leaven in our homes, for any spiritual leaven in our own lives. This is to be our preparation for this appointed time. Removing anything that leaven resembles. When we remove leaven from our souls it is the Ruach HaKodesh that does the sanctification. We as a symbol of the spiritual removal of corruption and bad influences from our homes.
Deuteronomy 16:3
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread the bread of affliction for you came out of the land of Egypt and haste that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
The unleavened bread is in connection to Yeshua. The unleavened bread is the picture of his holiness and sinlessness. His life and sacrifice was unleavened without the taint of the curse of death and therefore He was considered a lamb without spot or blemish for the ultimate Passover sacrifice.
1 Peter 1:19
on the contrary, it was the costly bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah, as of a lamb without defect or spot. - CJB
Yeshua did not suffer the natural process of corruption which was the promise given to Adam and Eve to return to dust. As the second Adam, his death killed the power of death by putting away sin for the sacrifice of himself. Calling himself the bread of heaven mentioned in Exodus as the manner that was provided. He is the ultimate sacrifice atonement for our iniquities and transgressions.
Yahweh’s appointed times are cycles of righteousness! He uses each of His appointed times to teach us about Him and about becoming righteous. Celebrating Yahweh’s appointed times as he intended for us to do, causes transformation in our lives. This transformation is a process and with the feasts being cyclical, it is constantly being built upon. This is the process of sanctification. This is how we are to ready ourselves to live our lives to honor Yahweh here on earth, but it is also part of our salvation.
These feast days are not just the feast days unto the Jews, but they are instructions given by Yahweh Himself. The lies and deceptions that have been told that the law has been done away with and these are the feast days of the Jews--is half truth. For Yeshua has said, I have not come to do away with the law but to fulfill the law.
ful·fill
verb
1. bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize (something desired, promised, or predicted).
"he wouldn't be able to fulfill his ambition to visit Naples"
synonyms: achieve, attain, realize, realize, make happen, succeed in, bring to completion, bring to fruition, satisfy
"he fulfilled his ambition to travel the world"
2. carry out (a task, duty, or role) as required, pledged, or expected.
"some officials were dismissed because they could not fulfill their duties
Matthew 5:17-19
“Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. - CJB
Yahweh said that these are His appointed times.Yahweh then continues to give a summary of all His appointed times.
Leviticus 23:1–2
1 YHVH spoke again to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘YHVH’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:
Leviticus 23:44
So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of YHVH.
These feasts are for every believer, not only for the Jewish people. Yeshua also kept all these appointed times and so should we. So, now that we have determined that these appointed times are for all believers.
So as we begin the Feast of Unleavened Bread, look forward to the old you being renewed through the Ruach HaKodesh. Allow reflection of anything that hinders your relationship with Yahweh to come to the surface. Confront and deal with it.
Examine the strips and holes the patterns of the Matzoh. The holes representing Yeshua being pierced in the side. While the stripes or brownish patterns, are His stripes where He was beaten for you and me. To hear this again click here.
Yahweh said that these are His appointed times.Yahweh then continues to give a summary of all His appointed times.
Leviticus 23:1–2
1 YHVH spoke again to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘YHVH’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:
Leviticus 23:44
So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of YHVH.
These feasts are for every believer, not only for the Jewish people. Yeshua also kept all these appointed times and so should we. So, now that we have determined that these appointed times are for all believers.
So as we begin the Feast of Unleavened Bread, look forward to the old you being renewed through the Ruach HaKodesh. Allow reflection of anything that hinders your relationship with Yahweh to come to the surface. Confront and deal with it.
Examine the strips and holes the patterns of the Matzoh. The holes representing Yeshua being pierced in the side. While the stripes or brownish patterns, are His stripes where He was beaten for you and me. To hear this again click here.
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