FESTIVAL OF UNLEAVENED BREAD

A Memorial Festival to יהושׁה [YAHUSHUAH]

 

Setting apart the day and bringing to remembrance all that YAHUAH has done concerning His people.

 

This set-apart season is eight days long.  The first two days and the last day are set-apart.

The first day is the Passover, and the next seven days are the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 

 

Revelations from YAH:

Passover is the celebration of our life being spared from death.  In the Exodus, the blood of a lamb was placed on the doorposts and lintel of the Hebrews’ homes. Then, at midnight, YAHUAH smote all the first-born of Mitsrayim, but passed over every place that had the blood of a lamb on the door.  Today, the blood still saves us from death, but the blood is spiritually placed upon us.  If we believe, then we will obey. We must believe that YAHUSHUAH is the true Passover Lamb; that He was sent by YAHUAH, was impaled, died for the sins of the world, and was resurrected on the third day.  Our belief causes the blood of the Lamb to be placed on our mind and heart (doorposts and lintel).  Today, when death comes, it will see the blood of YAHUSHUAH upon us and pass over us because YAHUSHUAH has already died for our sins.  He died once and for all. 

When YAHUAH passed through Mitsrayim, the people who made preparations lived!  We must first prepare our hearts and minds by cleansing ourselves and repenting from all past sins.

 

Preparation:  Prepare your hearts to follow the way of Messiah YAHUSHUAH and dedicate your life to live sin-free.  Repent from all of your sins.

Remove everything that would cause you to sin!

In preparation for the Festival, cleanse your home of all carved and molded images made in the likeness of any living thing from the sky above, earth beneath, or water under the earth.  Remove all idols!  Get rid of any object that draws admiration to itself.  If you feel you are not yet able to permanently depart with any of these items, then place them in a box and put them away for the seven days of the memorial.  Throw away all things that can cause you to sin: movies, books, magazines, games, etc.  Abstain from all activities that can lead to sin.  This is the same as removing the chametz (leaven) from our cupboards, for sin is the real leaven that we must eliminate from our possession.

 

Setting Apart the Passover:  Observe Passover as a set-apart day.  Refrain from work.  Prepare a special meal.  Read the prayers and follow the instructions in the Family of Messiah Passover Booklet.  Read The Scriptures.  Take of the Commemoration—the bread and the wine in remembrance of YAHUSHUAH.  Give praise and thanksgiving to YAHUAH.

 

Observe the Memorial Festival:

Because you believe in YAHUSHUAH and passed over from death to life, now complete the Memorial Festival unto Him for seven days.  The Passover is the first day of this memorial, and the seven days afterward are days of commemorating YAHUSHUAH’s sinless life to save our sinful life.  This is why we eat unleavened bread—without leaven and without sin.

As a memorial, we will break bread for seven days in remembrance of the sinless life YAHUSHUAH lived.  The Messiah had no sin (leaven), and He took our sins upon Himself.This seven-day memorial reminds us that we should not sin. 

• Set apart some matzah that will be used only for the memorial festival.  Lift the bread and recite the following blessings:

Blessed are You YAHUAH our Elohim, Sovereign of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth.

Blessed are You YAHUAH our Elohim, Sovereign of the universe, Who has given us our Messiah YAHUSHUAH, the perfect Pesach Lamb Who lived completely without sin and the Bread of Life from Heaven Who died that we may live.

• Each day of the Festival, take of the Bread of Messiah, as a memorial to Him.  Take a small piece of matzah, break it, and eat, for His body was broken for us.  This is not the Commemoration of Passover—it is a seven-day memorial to the sinless life ofYAHUSHUAH.  Take only the unleavened bread, not the wine.

** Do not confuse this Matzah with all the other matzah (unleavened bread) you may want to eat during this period.  The memorial matzah (explained above) is eaten once a day.  Use other matzah throughout the festival for meals.

• Read Yesh/Is. 53 and Matt. 26:26-28.  Read Psalms/Tehillim 113-118 (maybe read a psalm a day or all everyday).

Do this for six more days, and strive to remain without sin during this Memorial Festival unto YAHUSHUAH.

 

Give Elohim thanks for sending His only Son to suffer so that we may live.

 

When we keep this memorial and make certain that we commemorate seven days to the Messiah, we believe that He will keep us from sin the rest of the year.

Praise YAH!