(ThyBlackMan.com) In Part 2, we explained what Passover was, and revealed the events which encircled the event, which occurred on the 14th day of the first month, the month of Aviv.
After sundown, which starts the fifteenth day of the month, is the appointed time called unleavened bread. Leaven is what we call yeast. In the Bible, it is typified as sin. The word unleavened is first mentioned in the Bible in the book of Genesis, chapter 19, when two arc-angels walked into Sodom and came into Lot’s house.
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Notice the unleavened bread, which might be thought of as “sinless 
bread”. The word unleavened is found 50 times in the bible. 41 times in the Old Covenant, and 9 times in the Renewed Covenant.
In Exodus chapter 12, the moadim, or appointed time, is defined by Yehovah. A few of the verses to read are:
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yehovah.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yehovah throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Bread that is unleavened, represents a life without sin.
The body of Yeshua was dead in the tomb for three days. Corruption would have set in on the fourth day, as it did with Lazarus. In Psalms 16:9-10
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Therefore the body of Jesus was in the grave an hour before the feast began on Wednesday, April 28th, 28 AD, and rose from the dead on the Sabbath, on May 1st,
an hour before sunset, like wheat that is planted, and waits to come forth as the bread of life.
From John chapter six, some more verses to read:
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
As it says in scripture, the appointed time of unleavened bread is seven days. It starts after the evening of the fourteenth, which is actually the beginning of the fifteenth day. Israel was to clean out their houses of all leaven before the day of Passover. When Yeshua was cleaning the Temple of the money changers, He was getting rid of the leaven the day before Passover. He did it twice, in 27 AD in John 2:14-22, and again in 28 AD, in Matt 21:12, Mark 11:15, and Luke 19:45.
Also, in like manner, Yeshua got rid of the “leaven” that was in the upper room, where He was eating the “Last Supper” before the day of Passover. If you read John chapter 13 and 14, you will see that Yeshua tells Judas “that which you do, do quickly”. After Judas left, Yeshua began to teach the other disciples “Now the Son of Man will be glorified, and Yehovah will be glorified in Him”. Also “he that has seen Me, has seen the Father”, and also “I am going to prepare a place for you”.
Before the beginning of 14th day (or evening), the “leavened disciple” was removed from the rest. When Passover ends, and the 15th day of the month begins at sundown, so does the moadim of Unleavened Bread begin, along with the eating of the roasted lambs.
The Unleavened Bread feast is a lead in to the feast of First Fruits, which we will discuss next in Part 4
Staff Writer; Herman Cummings
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