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Appointments With God Passover Unleavened Bread

Why Are We to Eat Unleavened Bread?

Why is God so obsessed with yeast, or “leaven”? What does leaven have to do with Passover and Pentecost, or Shavuot? What does it have to do with Yeshua of Natzeret?

Feast of Unleavened Bread 2007 — Day 1
Speaker: Richard Agee

Thought questions

  • What does "bitter" mean in the Bible?
    • How does "bitter" in Exodus 12:8 relate to coming out of Egypt?
    • To Messiah? What did God do when Messiah died?
    • How does "unleavened bread" relate to Messiah?
  • What did Hillel the First understand that he instituted with the "Hillel sandwich" of matzah and bitter herbs eaten during the Passover seder?
  • How does wine connect with the Messiah?
  • How does the Passover lamb represent Messiah?
  • What are the four cups of the Passover seder? How does that concept come from Exodus 6:6–7? How much of those four elements came from the actions of Israel?
  • Was the patriarch Job bitter?
    • How did his view of righteousness shift from how he started to where God took him?
    • How was that kind of change seen in Jeremiah in the Bible book of Lamentations?
    • What is the connection to Messiah Yeshua’s quoting of the Psalm, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
    • How did God feel about that moment?
  • Who was the apostle Paul addressing in 1st Corinthians 5:1?
    • What is meant by "hand this man over to Satan that his sinful nature may be destroyed"?
    • What are the elders in the congregation boasting about in verse 6?
    • How can the elders be "unleavened" if they are "puffed up"?
  • How is the situation of "being unleavened" connected to what Messiah did at His last Passover?
    • How does He make us "unleavened"?
    • How is that connected to the four cups of wine?
    • What does the "yeast of malice and wickedness" mean?
    • What kind of wickedness did the Pharisees have in Mark 7?
    • What does it mean to have the "unleavened bread of "sincereity and truth" when the word for "sincereity" in Greek means "purity" and for "truth" means "judged by sunlight"?
    • Why do we eat unleavened bread for seven days?