Feast of Unleavened Bread

“…for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread." Exodus 12:15

Yahshua’s (Jesus) sacrifice, symbolized as Passover, begins God's master plan for the redemption of mankind and for the re-establishment of His Kingdom upon the earth. The day following Passover marks the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 

According to Leviticus 23:6-8, “and on the fifteenth day of that month [observe] Yah’s Feast of Unleavened Bread.  You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days.”   (YAH is the name of the Most High God and the God of Israel according to Psalm 68:4.) Luke 2:41 and Matthew 26:17 bear witness to Yahshua celebrating this feast. (Yahshua in Hebrew means “Yah’s Salvation”; often referred to in English as Jesus.) In Acts 12:1-4, we are told that there was persecution of “the church” during "the days of unleavened bread" so this feast was observed after Yahshua’s death.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a seven-day pilgrimage festival. The first day and the seventh day are Sabbath days where no work is done and holy assemblies take place (Exodus 12:16).  The feast caters around leaven, or the lack thereof.  In this Feast, leaven represents sin as it so commonly does throughout scripture.  During this time, we are not to eat any bread with yeast.  It is an act which symbolizes our freedom from sin and death granted by Yahshua’s death. Such a physical conscientiousness is also to make us more aware to get rid of and not partake in spiritual sin (missing the mark of Torah) in our lives. This feast pictures Israel is free of sin. Out of slavery, Yah is calling us into a life of holiness…calling for us to be holy. Then, when we eat of Yahshua, Yah’s Salvation and His Word (Torah) made flesh, we are eating Yah's pure unleavened bread—the bread of Heaven—that is the guide for life and abundant living.