This year Passover was quiet and small. We are still behind closed doors like the Hebrews were for the original Passover in Egypt. However it felt special and we made it as festive as possible. My friend Melissa set her first Passover table for her faimily and it was just beautiful.
This year for me, there was no big table for 10-12 people. I did a small table in front of the TV so we could join the virtual celebration presented by Congregation Beth Messiah in Houston. Just 4 people who really wanted to experience God’s Appointed Time of Passover – the crown jewel of all Holy Days.
The Resurrection of Yeshua/Jesus is the foundation of our faith. To know that Yeshua/Jesus celebrated Passover before going to the cross and that during that Passover Seder meal HE established the New Covenant in His blood, on this same day, made it even more special for me.
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Around the world on this special night believers are expressing their love and obedience to the scriptures during a special time when God opens up the windows of heaven and pours out a blessing that we cannot contain.
For the next 7 days following Passover, we will experience the Feast of Unleavened Bread which celebrates the journey of the children of Israel through the wilderness during their exodus from Egypt, they ate unleavened bread for thirty days. Their quick departure from Egypt did not give them time to wait for their bread to rise.
In scripture, leaven is symbolic for the sin that can rise up in our lives . GOD has commanded us not to eat anything with leaven or yeast in it for this 7 days .
Exodus 12:14-16 from the Complete Jewish Bible
14 “‘This will be a day for you to remember and celebrate as a festival to Adonai; from generation to generation you are to celebrate it by a perpetual regulation. 15 “‘For seven days you are to eat matzah — on the first day remove the leaven from your houses. For whoever eats hametz [leavened bread] from the first to the seventh day is to be cut off from Isra’el. 16 On the first and seventh days, you are to have an assembly set aside for God. On these days no work is to be done, except what each must do to prepare his food; you may do only that.
