The Bible’s seven-day commemoration of Matzot (Unleavened Bread) is tied to both Pesach (Passover; without leaven) and Shavuot (Pentecost; with leaven).
Hallel Fellowship meets to celebrate the freedom and rebirth Heaven provides, taught in the Torah, Prophets and Apostolic Writings through the symbol of leaven.
The LORD instructs Israel to celebrate Pesach and the following Matzot without leaven:
“‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. ‘You shall also 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 permanent ordinance. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening [when Passover begins, Ex. 12:6], you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’” (Exodus 12:14–20 NASB 1995)
Then at Shavuot (Pentecost) seven weeks later, the LORD calls for an offering with leaven:
“‘You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the LORD.” (Leviticus 23:17 New American Standard Bible — NASB 1995)
Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus) taught important lessons the Kingdom of Heaven and the kingdom of the Adversary using the important Bible symbol of leaven:
“’The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.’” (Matthew 13:33 NASB 1995)
“’Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.’” (Mark 8:15 NASB 1995)
Apostle Paul drew from the celebrations of Pesach and Matzot to teach about the inner change for the reborn believer:
“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1Corinthians 5:6–8 NASB 1995)
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