Sabbath Bible Study-First Day of Unleavened Bread

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First Day of Unleavened Bread
April 11, 2017

The spring Holy Day season begins for Christians who observe the practices of the first century church. Today, April 11, 2017, is the First Day of Unleavened Bread, a feast observed by the Apostle Paul.

I Corinthians 5:6-8
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Even though Jesus was sacrificed for us as the Passover, we are to keep the feast with unleavened bread that symbolizes sincerity and truth. With Jesus as our Passover, we are not to use the feast as a license for malice and wickedness. Being evil and cruel while claiming to be a Christian is contradictory and is the antithesis of sincerity and truth. As we keep this feast, we are reminded of the need to not be puffed up, and instead need to be sincere and true. This feast, recorded in this epistle and in the book of Acts, shows that Paul and the early church kept the Days of Unleavened Bread.

Leviticus 23:4–8
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

The Days of Unleavened Bread that Paul and the early church observed were introduced during the Exodus. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is from the 15th day of the first month of God's calendar, Abib, to the 22nd day of that same first month. On the modern calendar, dates will vary from year to year. On these holy days no paid work is to be done because it is a time to come together with God, and this can be individually, in small groups, or church congregations. How you come together with God depends more on your faith and commitment; not where you might live.

Exodus 34:18
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

IPaul and the early church kept the Days of Unleavened Bread because they were commanded to do, and during this first century of the church, they saw no change in the requirement. So like Paul and the early church, during this feast, I also eat unleavened bread. This feast serves as a reminder of how the children of Israel came out of Egypt during this time. For Christians, it also serves as a reminder of how Jesus was our Passover, and how through his death we are able to come out of sin, and why as we observe this feast we focus on sincerity and truth as the main ingredients of unleavened bread and our Christian life.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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