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The Spiritual Significance of the Holy Days, Part 3

The Days of Unleavened Bread:  The second step toward our salvation

[Study Aired August 31, 2025]

Exo 12:15  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16  And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Exo 12:17  And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exo 12:18  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Exo 12:19  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exo 12:20  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

The emphasis in Leviticus is on “a sheaf of the firstfruits”:

Lev 23:9  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 23:10  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits [typifying Christ] of your harvest unto the priest:
Lev 23:11  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12  And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. [Typifying Christ]
Lev 23:13  And the meat [meal] offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
Lev 23:14  And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Both the “he lamb” and the “sheaf of the firstfruits” typify our Lord who gave Himself to redeem us. While ‘unleavened bread’ is not specifically mentioned, no leaven is specified as part of this wave sheaf offering:

Lev 23:13  And the meat [meal] offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil [no leavening], an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.

Our last study demonstrated that acknowledging our part in the death of our Savior is the spiritual significance of the Passover, which is the first holy day in the law of Moses. We are admonished against observing the “days, months, times, and years” of the law of Moses, just as we are informed that Christ is our Passover, and we no longer need the blood of bulls and goats which cannot cleanse us of our sins:

Gal 4:9  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements [The law of Moses, vs 1-5], whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Gal 4:10  Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Gal 4:11  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Heb 9:1  Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Heb 9:2  For there was a [worldly] tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Heb 9:3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Heb 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Heb 9:5  And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Heb 9:6  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Heb 9:7  But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Heb 9:8  The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9  Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10  Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Christ is now our redemption:

Heb 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this [physical] building;
Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Nevertheless, the gospel of Christ establishes the fact that these holy days were given to Israel for our admonition.

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world [G165: ‘aion’, ages] are come.

There is a lot of spiritual admonition for us in this second festival, the days of unleavened bread.

Christ told His disciples to “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Saducees”:

Mat 16:5  And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
Mat 16:6  Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Mat 16:7  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Mat 16:8  Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
Mat 16:9  Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:10  Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:11  How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning [physical] bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Mat 16:12  Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

The Lord was signifying the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees with the symbol of ‘leavened bread.’ He did not use the symbol of a stone or a serpent because neither of those are of any nourishment to anyone, but bread can and does nourish and physically feed us just as the doctrine of Christ spiritually nourishes and feeds us.

Luk 11:11  If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

It is not mere coincidence that Christ fed the multitudes twice with ‘loaves and fishes’, signifying His doctrine.

We are also informed that ‘a little leaven leavens the whole lump’:

1Co 5:6  Your glorying [in your tolerance of fornication in your midst, vrs 1] is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven [of self-righteous malice and wickedness, vs 8], that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 5:9  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators [G4205: ‘pornos’]:
1Co 5:10  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Co 5:11  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Co 5:12  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

The leavening of this Corinthian fornicator would ‘leaven’ the whole church of Corinth if the Corinthians refused to “purge [him] out.” The ‘leavening’ of the churches of Babylon is also called fornication:

Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication [G4202: ‘porneia’ her ‘leavening’]:

Paul associates leavening with “the leaven of malice and wickedness” while contrasting the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees with “the unleavened bread of sincerity and Truth.”

The goal of those of us who are seeking to know that unleavened mind of Christ is to put out all leaven, the symbol of ‘malice and wickedness’, all of the false doctrines of Babylon out of our house, and according to the New Testament, you and I are both the individual and corporate “house of God, which is the church”:

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The Lord will judge whether we are putting any and all  ‘leaven’ out of our spiritual house, and if He finds that we are not doing so, we will be “cut of from” His people:

Exo 12:15  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

The severity of this infraction is repeated in verse 19:

Exo 12:19  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

In cleansing the physical temple of His day, Christ signified how He feels about “the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” He will purge out all false lying doctrines and the “malice and wickedness” of both overt and covert secret sins in our lives which are His true temple:

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Paul exhorted the Corinthian church to “purge out therefore the old leaven”:

1Co 5:7  Purge out therefore the old leaven [of self-righteous “malice and wickedness”, vs 8], that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Christ’s body and His blood both signify His unleavened doctrines. The days of unleavened bread are seven to signify that the purging of sin includes our complete time in service to Christ while we are in the vessels of clay and on this earth.

Exo 12:16  And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

Christ is the beginning of the days of unleavened bread in our lives, and He is the end of the days of unleavened bread in our lives. These seven days signify our complete struggle against our old man with his lying false doctrine and his weaknesses and passions of his flesh. The convocations of the Lord’s people at both the beginning and the end of the seven days of unleavened bread signify the unity and the singleness of mind of those who come together in obedience to our Lord’s words:

Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling [“holy convocation”] of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

What is the spiritual significance of… “no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you?”

Every holy day and every weekly sabbath were to be work free. Being free from labor in the Lord’s service signifies our deliverance from the captivity and the slavery to our own works. When we acknowledge that it is our sins which put Christ on the cross, at that point we begin to put sin out of our lives, and with Christ in us we begin to have the dominion over the sins of our flesh. That is the meaning of being made free from the captivity to sin.

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Christ came to set the captives free and to give rest to those who were weary of the burden of sin, their own works, to which they were enslaved. “No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you”, means that we are now free to do what is necessary to feed ourselves… “that may be done of you.” In Christ we are no longer fed of our own works but of what He does in us. That is what the rest of the first and last day of the feast of unleavened bread signifies. That is why Paul exhorts us:

Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore [on the first and last days of unleavened bread and on every other sabbath] to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Our salvation is “His workmanship” (Eph 2:10) and “He performs the thing that is ordained for me” (Job 23:14). We are to “cease from our own works” (Heb 4:10), and acknowledge that “we are His workmanship”:

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of [our] works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The way Christ kept these two sabbaths at the beginning and end of the days of unleavened bread, and the way He kept all the other sabbaths which were ordained in the law of Moses was by ceasing from His own works and doing the works of His Father instead:

Joh 5:13  And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
Joh 5:14  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Joh 5:15  The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
Joh 5:16  And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Joh 5:17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Joh 5:18  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Christ  had ‘ceased from His own works” and was doing only His Father’s works (vs 17). In so doing, “He… had broken the [outward] sabbath.”

The Truth of our salvation is that it is Christ who causes us to come out of Egypt and out of Babylon under duress. No one comes out of Babylon without first being brought to their wits’ end (Psa 107:27).

Exo 12:39  And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

It is the Lord Himself who performs what He has ordained for us, and it is He who completes the purging of sin from our lives:

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

The feast of unleavened bread immediately follows the Passover for the very purpose of admonishing us to immediately begin putting sin out of our own lives and out of our fellowship and replace that corrupting ‘leaven’ with the incorruptible “unleavened bread of sincerity and Truth.”

Christ’s sacrifice of His life was not to die in our stead, as the leavened bread of the false doctrine of “substitutionary atonement”, a false doctrine of the modern day Pharisees and the Sadducees of today teaches. Christ did not die in our stead, so we do not need to die to our old man. Rather, through His death He is given of His Father to take up His abode within us and live His life of “dying daily” (1Co 15:31) within us. If Christ had not died to His flesh, He would not have been able to live within His scattered ‘body’ all around the world:

Joh 16:7  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away [Physically die]: for if I go not away, the Comforter [G3875: ‘parakletos’, Christ, (1Jo 2:1)] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

1Jn 2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate [G3875: ‘parakletos’] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Yes, the personal pronoun ‘he’ is used to refer to “the holy spirit of God”, by whom Christ was conceived in Mary’s womb:

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Mat 1:18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

If Mary were pregnant “of the holy spirit” that makes the holy spirit His Father. Obviously Christ’s Father used His spirit to simply say the Word, and Mary was impregnated “of the holy spirit… of God… the Father… of Christ.” Here is Luke’s version of how Mary became pregnant by “the holy spirit of God”:

Luk 1:35  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of [the holy spirit of ] God [The Father of Christ].

By using the personal pronoun, ‘He’ to refer to “the holy spirit of God” (Eph 4:30), Christ is telling us very plainly that it is through His Father’s spirit, which the Father has now given to Him, that He, Christ, can now take up His abode within us.

Joh 16:14  He [the holy  spirit] shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Joh 16:15  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Christ claims the comforter, the ‘parakletos’, is His because His Father has given it to Him, and now He can give His Father’s spirit, the ‘parakletos’ to whomever He chooses:

Personifying His Father’s spirit to explain how He can come to us, does not make His Father’s spirit “a separate and co-equal part of the Godhead”, as the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees of today teaches. If that were the case, then ‘sin’ is therefore a separate and co-equal part of the great red dragon because Christ when talking to Cain personifies sin by using the personal pronouns, ‘him’ and ‘he’:

Gen 4:6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

The phrase “another comforter” does not insinuate another person. What “another comforter” means is that Christ’s disciples would no longer need to see Him in a body of flesh and blood. Rather it is He, Christ, who would not leave them comfortless. He would come to them through “the holy spirit of God.”

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he [Christ, through His Father’s spirit] may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you [Christ right there with them in the flesh], and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

So much of the leaven of the modern day Pharisees and Sadducees is founded upon the false doctrine which teaches that the “holy spirit of God” is a separate person in the Godhead. Without that false doctrine there could be no triune man with an unscriptural ‘immortal soul’ which will supposedly burn in literal flames of literal fire for all eternity simply because He used his fabled ‘free will’ to choose to go to hell for all eternity instead of choosing to be obedient to God.

No one reading all these words of our Lord speaking about how He will use the spirit of His Father, which His Father gave to Him, to come to His disciples after His crucifixion and live within them… No one without the false ‘trinity’ colored glasses would fail to understand that it is Christ who, through His Father’s spirit “will come to us… take up His abode within us and not leave us comfortless.”

Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

The false doctrine of a trinitarian God is the false foundation upon which the false doctrine of a triune man is founded. It is circular reasoning which proclaims that “the holy spirit of God” (Eph 4:30) is a separate and co-equal part of the Godhead. It is upon that lie that it is deduced that mankind, being in God’s image, must also be a triune being consisting of flesh and blood, an immortal soul, and a spirit. Never mind the fact that we are plainly told “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Eze 18:4, 20) and that the “wages of sin is death” not immortality, which ‘immortality’ is “put  on” only at the time of the resurrection of the dead. Mankind is not a triune being with an immortal soul which cannot die:

Eze 18:4  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die [no mention of eternal fire].

Eze 18:20  The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [Future tense],
1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality [“At the last trump”].
1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The false doctrines of a triune God, a triune man with an immortal soul which a supposed loving heavenly Father will torment in eternal flames of literal fire for all eternity are one and all but a few modern examples of “the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees” which must be purged out of our hearts and minds and replaced with the good news of a truly loving and patient and merciful heavenly Father “who will have all  men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the Truth”:

1Ti 2:4  Who will [Does this say that He merely desires? See Job below] have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job 23:14  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. [So much for both the leaven of the false doctrines of free will and an immortal soul in eternal hell fire]

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [Not exclusively] of those that believe.
1Ti 4:11  These things command and teach.

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

The apostle Paul agrees with Peter and John:

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Here we have, in very plain language, a sequence of events which reveals the fact that God will, in Christ, save for Himself “all in Adam.” We are told that it will be accomplished in a certain, God-ordained order which will culminate with God being “all in all.”

The Passover is the beginning of the fulfilling of that goal of God becoming “all in all.” The days of unleavened bread are the next step in that process:

Exo 12:17  And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exo 12:18  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Exo 12:19  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exo 12:20  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

“The first month” signifies the beginning of our calling. The fourteenth day of the first month demonstrates that the Lord prepares our hearts to acknowledge the work He is doing in us.

We do not begin eating unleavened bread on the very first day of our calling. Remember what we were told earlier in this 12^th chapter:

Exo 12:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exo 12:2  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exo 12:3  Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

Israel’s time in the wilderness signifies our own time in Babylon. Israel crossed the Jordan and prepared to conquer the giants in the land on the exact same day they were commanded to prepare the sacrificial lamb for the Passover forty years earlier:

Jos 4:19  And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

It was at Gilgal that all the Israelites who had been born during the forty years in the wilderness were circumcised. Circumcision, like the seven days of unleavened bread, is just another way of signifying putting sin out of our lives:

Col 2:10  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Col 2:11  In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Christ is both our seven days of unleavened bread, and He is our circumcision without hands. He is preparing us by each step we take to give up our lives in His service:

1Ch 29:18  O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

Psa 10:17  LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

The symbol of the next step in the Lord’s plan for mankind is the feast of Pentecost which we will consider in our next study:

Lev 23:15  And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Lev 23:16  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Lev 23:18  And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
Lev 23:19  Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Lev 23:20  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Lev 23:21  And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lev 23:22  And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

[The next section of this study series can be found here.