Passover and the 7 Day Feast of Unleavened Bread are coming up soon. They start on the evening of Saturday, March 27th.
Passover and Unleavened Bread are a very powerful 1-2 punch that is like communion x 10.
In our program the Abundant Life Blueprint we talk often about the power of taking communion. We take communion every night at dinner in our house. Communion has the power to change the trajectory of our lives. I was talking with my daughter this morning about the similarities of communion and Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread and she said, " Oh, I get it. It's like communion x 10." It is a powerful 1-2 punch.
Before we get into the feasts, remember that these feasts are not something we have to do in order to be right with God or earn anything with him. They are a tremendous gift he has given us to teach us more about Jesus and his timing.
Jesus instituted communion on Passover, which is a reminder that Jesus is our Passover lamb. He is the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. Passover is a reminder that we have been released from the darkness and transferred into the light. Colossians 1:13 says that we should be giving thanks or expressing gratitude that we have been released from the darkness and transferred into the kingdom of God's dear son. Passover is an annual reminder to be doing this regularly. Passover is a reminder to stop focusing on the darkness in life and instead to change our focus and ramp up our gratitude that we have been transferred into the light where God is with us. We have a New Covenant in the body and blood of Jesus in which God is now working continually for our good, but our job is to keep our focus on him, rather than the darkness.
The typical Passover dinner includes lamb, grape juice or red wine, matzo crackers, bitter vegetables, and usually a small bowl of salt water. The lamb is a reminder of Jesus as the lamb, and the juice and cracker are the same symbols we use in communion. The bitter vegetables and salt water is to remember the bitterness of life and tears before we had God in our lives. There is so much symbolism in the Passover meal. It is truly like a 10x version of communion.
In Hebrew the word Passover is Pesach, which means talking mouth. It is a reminder to be talking about and expressing gratitude for what God has done in our lives. In the Old Testament the people were told that when they celebrated the Passover it would give them an opportunity to tell their children about what God had done for them.
The evening of Passover also starts the 7 Day Feast of Unleavened Bread. Prior to this feast the people were to be cleaning out all of the leaven and yeast out of their houses. This is a reminder that we are to be cleaning out our old ways and learning to embrace God's ways of doing things. Passover is the reminder that we have been released from darkness and brought into God's kingdom, and Unleavened Bread reminds us to let go of our old ways and embrace God's ways of doing things.
Unleavened Bread lasts for 7 days. During these 7 days no leaven or yeast was to be eaten. The way I do this is that for 7 days at every meal I replace all starches with matzo crackers. The matzo cracker is a reminder of the body of Jesus, just like the cracker in communion. The matzo cracker has piercings and stripes on it. This is to remember that Jesus was crushed, bruised, smitten, pierced, and by his stripes we have been healed.
Jesus is the bread that came down from heaven and he is our righteousness, which means we have peace with God. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus we have peace with God and he is now continually working for our good. He has freely given us access into his grace and everything he has. We have access in Christ to God's kingdom, wisdom, love, power, righteousness, peace, joy, energy, purpose, health, time, finances, and so much more.
Passover and Unleavened Bread are a powerful 1-2 punch that reminds us we have been released from darkness and transferred into the light, where we now have access to everything God has and it is unlimited and inexhaustible. These feasts are not something we have to do. It is something we get to do in order to stir up our minds and memories of this. I truly believe something very powerful happens when we take these spiritual principles and stir them into our mind and imagination along with something practical we actually do. It unites our entire spirit, soul, and body.
In God's yearly cycle here are the main feast days with their numbering...
When we come back around to Passover we are back at one. But if you go through the whole cycle and come back to Passover you are not starting back at 1... You are now at 10.
I think that every time we go through God's yearly cycle and we coordinate with God's timing and use the yearly cycle as a set of guardrails to keep us on God's path through the year it multiplies our lives 10x. The first year we go through at the 1s level, then the next year at the 10x level, then the 100s level, then the 1,000s level, then the 10,000s level, then the 100,000s level.
This 1-2 punch of Passover and Unleavened Bread is one of the most powerful times of the year that can truly 10x our results.
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