How do all of these feasts of Jehovah pertain to Jesus? God is not a coincidence God but a sovereign God who has given us exact details on everything we need to live a life pleasing to Him. But, has the ‘church’ ever taught this? Let us begin. There are four spring feasts; Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Weeks/Pentecost.
Jesus is our Passover Lamb.
1 Corinthians 5:7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
If you never really contemplated or studied the Passover, which was created in Egypt, then you may not fully understand the significance of Christ as our Passover.
Exodus 12:3-16 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. 12:4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
12:7 "Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 12:8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
12:9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
2:10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
12:11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.
This is the LORD’s Passover, not the nations’ Passover or the Jewish Passover, as some would now teach. Aren’t we also called to remember how the LORD redeemed His chosen people and destroyed Egypt, including killing the first born?
12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
12:14 "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Forever is a long time. More on this later.
Exodus 12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 12:16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
12:17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 12:18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."
1 Corinthians 5:8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
So how does this feast pertain to Jesus? He died for the forgiveness of our sins. If we confess our sins, He will forgive our sins, if and only if we have totally surrendered to Him.
1 John 1:8-10 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
So this feast to us is not about leaven or yeast but sin. Is it too much of Jehovah to ask of us to contemplate our sin and confess our sin for one week? Do you have no time to think of your sin before a holy God? There are two high holy days in this feast. One at the beginning of the week and the other at the end.
Let us commemorate this feast as Jesus died for the forgiveness of our sins.
Next time the other two spring feasts.