3. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was the final day of the Passover and the 2 feasts are part of one whole event – deliverance (pardon) and now fellowship with God. Eating the Passover sacrifice is a meal of celebration. This feast lasted 7 days (8 if Passover is counted) in which eating bread with yeast (the symbol of sin) is forbidden, the Israelites left in such haste they could not wait for the bread to rise. Remembering how the LORD redeemed Israel out of Egypt in haste and that they are called to be a "holy people.” On this day, the first sheaves of the barley harvest were presented to God, “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein” (v6-8). The Paschal Meal & the Lord’s Supper, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Mat.26:26-28). 4. “The Sheaf of First-fruits,” Yom Habikkurim. The day after the first Sabbath after Passover. Presenting a sheaf of the first barley harvest (it is ripe at Passover) as a wave offering by the priest; also making a burnt offering of a lamb and a meat/grain offering with wine. New Life Radio – Talk No 20
13 Derrick Harrison
24/02/2021
