Satan has deceived professing Christendom into paying homage to the heathen goddess of fertility–Easter–instead of celebrating God’s Passover, Feast and Days of Unleavened Bread. He has also convinced the professing church to acknowledge Christ’s resurrection, which the Lord does not tell us to do. Instead, He commands His people to celebrate Christ’s death, which a future posting will prove.

Note that the Days of Unleavened Bread consist of a period of time involving two Sabbaths. This law was established while Israel was still in Egypt, long before the sacrificial law of Moses was given. What a law does not establish, the eradication of that law cannot abolish. The law of Moses did not establish the Passover observance, so the law’s eradication by Jesus Christ does not eliminate it from the lives of God’s people. In Exodus 12:14-20 the Lord commands His people to observe the seven Days of Unleavened Bread. In verses 17 and 24 He commands them to observe it FOREVER. The following is of utmost importance to the Truth-seeker for it refutes and eliminates a basic tenant of professing Christendom.

What most in professing Christendom do not realize is that the Passover pictures the death of Christ for the removal of PAST SINS ONLY (Rom. 3:25). The acceptance of His blood does not remove and forgive sins the believer may commit in the future. Contrary to church opinion, HIS BLOOD DOES NOT GIVE THE BELIEVER A LICENSE TO SIN. Therefore, when we accept Christ’s blood for the removal of sins, it removes only PAST SINS. The observance of His blood during the Passover Feast is merely the first step on the path to God’s Kingdom. Next comes the seven Days of Unleavened Bread, symbolizing the total removal of sin from the believer’s life. Biblically, seven is the number of perfection. The Feast, with the partaking of bread and wine, symbolize the removal of our PAST sins by the blood of Jesus–the sacrificial “Lamb”; the following seven days symbolize the total eradication of sin from our future lives. Leaven is symbolic of sin (1 Cor. 5:8). Egypt is symbolic of slavery to sin. Christ’s blood allows us to leave Egypt (Satan’s grasp) cleansed of sin. The Days of Unleavened Bread empowers us to remain cleansed of sin  throughout the remainder of our lives. Shall we allow God to remove our past sins, then continue to sin, thereby returning to Satan’s control? Shall we partake of the Passover Feast and Communion, then “crucify Christ afresh and put Him to an open shame” by continuing to sin (Heb. 6:6)? Shall we keep Him hanging on the cross by allowing sin back into our lives. Those who believe that the Ten Commandment Law has been done away with proclaim a resounding “YES.” First John 3:4 refutes this notion in no uncertain terms: “To transgress (break) the Law is sin; for SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW.” The Law defines both sin and righteousness–to break it is to sin; to obey it is to be righteous. The seven Days of Unleavened Bread picture the elimination of sin from our lives by keeping the Ten Commandments as written in stone by Jesus Christ Himself. In the first commandment we are told to love God. To love Him means to obey Him. The command to “write” God’s commands on our forehead and on our right hand symbolize what we are to do relative to our intellect (forehead-mind) and our work (hand). We are 1) to think about and accept the Truth of His Words and 2) to do no work on the two Sabbaths that take place during the Days of Unleavened Bread. This year these Sabbaths fall on April 22 and 29 respectively.  (Exo.31:12-17). To be continued. L.J.