Passover And The Days Of Unleavened Bread

The First High Sabbath Day on the annual timeline is The Passover. It is calculated as the 15th day from the new moon that is CLOSEST to the Spring (or vernal) equinox. Thus, it will always occur in our March or April. Holy Days, as with Saturday Sabbaths, begin at sunset on the evening before and go through to the next sunset. This Passover for 2009 will begin at sunset on Thursday April 10th.

The first of the dual fullfillments of Passover occurred in 1221 B.C. when the Israelites were brought out of Egypt under Moses' leadership. The second fullfillment occurred in 30 A.D. with Jesus/ Yashua as the Passover Lamb sacrificed on the afternoon of The Preparation Day, the day just before the High Day.

The next day after The High Day of Passover begins the 6 Days of Unleavened Bread. All Israel is not to eat leavened bread. The only bread eaten is unleavened and some MUST be consumed each day. In fact, Israelites were to get ALL leavening, even crumbs, out of their houses before the week was to begin. The symbolism here is obvious: leavening depicts sin and getting it out of our lives ( or at least trying to ) is the idea here.

I have not yet seen any writing that makes a tie that seems obvious to me: this week of getting sin out of our lives leads directly into the next 2 High Days. These are both resurrection days and will be discussed next.

--RPC, Friday February 6, 2009