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His people, a people of worshipers in spirit and in truth   shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain
 (John 4:23)...                            until the same day that you have brought an offering to
                                           your  God; it  shall  be a  statute  forever  throughout  your
 3.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread/ „Hag HaMatsot:   generations in all your dwellings. »


 The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a 7 days festival that
 begins with the Passover of The Everlasting. Leviticus

 23:6-7 (yc) tells us: "6 And on the fifteenth day of the
 same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread ('hag
 hamatsot) to the Everlasting; seven days you must eat
 unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a
 holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on
 it.


 Thus,  for  7  days,  the  children  of  Israel  couldn‘t  eat
 bread with leaven. Having understood the importance of
 this  Feast,  all  Jews  teach  their  children  every  year  to

 bring  out  of  the  house  everything  that  is  made  with
 leaven:  bread,  rusks,  brioches,  pasta,  etc...  In  fact,
 parents learn to their children to hunt all that is bad not   Painting ONU Valeria - Victoria
 only of their house but also and especially, to drive out
 of  their  heart  what  is  bad  according  to  the  Scriptures.
 Indeed,  as  Polos  (Paul)  tells  to  believers  of  the  city  of   4.   The Feast of Firstfruits/ „Hag haBikurim or the
 Corinth: leaven is the symbol of malice and wickedness   Feast of the Resurrection:   Painting ONU Valeria - Victoria
 (1Corinthians 5:7-8).   The Feast of Firstfruits is a Feast of The Everlasting who
    announces  the  New  Israel  gathered  around  Christ,  the   In the year of his death, Yeshua celebrated the Passover

 Polos (Paul) then encourages the believers of Corinth   Messiah of Israel. This feast prefigures the new creation   meal with his disciples on a Tuesday night as the Qumran
 and  also  believers  from  the  nations  to  celebrate  the   of  The  Everlasting,  our  God  for  his  glory  and  the  One   believers did at the time.
 Passover  of  The  Everlasting  without  malice  or   whom  he  has  sent.  Let‘s  examine  a  little  bit  what  is
 wickedness during the 7 days of the Feast ...   written  in  Leviticus  23:10-14  (yc):  «10  Speak  to  the   That  year,  the  Pharisees  and  Sadducees  traditional
    children  of  Israel,  and  say  to  them: „When  you  come   Jewish  Passover,  was  held  on  a  Thursday  and  their
 It‘s,  in  fact,  like  a  "practical  internship"  to  better   into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest,   Passover meal was to be held on Wednesday evening, a
 understand the spiritual issues and learn to bear better   then  you  shall  bring  a  sheaf  of the  firstfruits  of  your   day later. The lambs were to be offered as a sacrifice to

 fruits.  Our  reference  is  Christ  Yeshua  Himself.  In  his   harvest  to  the  priest. 11 He  shall wave  the  sheaf   the  Temple  in  the  afternoon  of  that  Wednesday  before
 image, we must learn to walk on the earth as He walked.   before The Everlasting, to be accepted on your behalf;   the Feast began at nightfall. The sacrifices began around
 We  will  notice  that  according  to  the  will  of  The   on  the  day  after  the  Shabbat  the  priest  shall  wave   4pm.  That‘s  why,  on  that  day,  Yeshua  was  the  first
 Everlasting  the  first  and  the  seventh  day  of  this  Feast   it. 12 And  you  shall  offer  on  that  day,  when  you  wave   Lamb offered to The Everlasting: He died at 3pm tells us
 must be holidays dedicated to The Everlasting...   the Scriptures (Luke 23:44).
 the  sheaf,  a  male  lamb  of  the  first  year,  without
 blemish,  as  a  burnt  offering  to  The Everlasting. 13 Its
 grain  offering shall  betwo-tenths of  an  ephah of  fine   It‘s  indeed,  the  only  configuration  of  the  week  that
 flour  mixed  with  oil,  an  offering  made  by  fire  to   allows  us  to  confirm  all  the  verses  that  speak  of  the

 The Everlasting,  for  a sweet  aroma;  and  its  drink   death  and  resurrection  of  Yeshua.  Yeshua  did  indeed
 offering shall  be of  wine,  one-fourth  of  a  hin. 14 You   spend three nights and three days in the earth (Matthew
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