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Seventh Day - Feast of Unleavened Breads

 

This day is a Holy Day – to be observed like a Sabbath. It is an appointment with God: a sacred rehearsal must be included – a public worship service to rehearse historic past and prophetic future events. It is the last of seven days wherein no leaven is allowed, and unleavened breads are required eating. It is an ordinance – one of the three kinds of Torah commandments (judgments, ordinances, and statutes): ordinances are physical performances to show spiritual truths.

 

Yahweh’s (moedim) appointed times which you shall proclaim as sacred rehearsals -- My appointed times are these:” - Leviticus 23:2

 

When both (silver trumpets) are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of (moed) appointment” – Numbers 10:3.

 

Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall have a sacred rehearsal, and another (miqra-qodesh) sacred rehearsal on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 You shall also observe the (Hag haMatzot) Feast of Unleavened Breads, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent (huqqah) ordinance” – Exodus 12:14-17.

 

The theme of the Day is: after God delivers His people, the wicked try to take them back, but then God destroys the wicked. This happened at the Passover in Egypt, and it will happen in this world’s last day.

 

On this date the Israelites came to the Red Sea, and the Egyptian army caught up to them. The people greatly feared, but Moses said, “Stand still and see Yeshua Yahweh” (the Salvation of Yahweh).

 

But Moses said to the people, ‘Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of Yahweh which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever’ ” – Exodus 14:13.

 

On this Seventh Day, Israel entered the Red Sea miqvah – baptismal water (on dry ground), and came up the other side, but the Egyptian army was drowned.

 

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” Corinthians 10:1-2.

 

This day is known as "The Day of Faith." The Talmud teaches that, at the Red Sea, some had faith to jump off the banks before the waters parted and landed on dried seabed, while others entered after seeing the parted waters. All had greater faith after crossing and seeing the Egyptians killed (Exodus 14:31).

 

Three kinds of faith are distinguished in the Hebrew Bible:

·         Emunah b'moach - Intellectual faith (belief in a fact or historical event - such as Yeshua's crucifixion).

·         Emunah b'lev - Faith of the heart (trusting one's safety or security to something - such as salvation by Yeshua's work).

·         Emunah b'evarim - Faith that encompasses one's entire being (the controlling factor of one's thoughts and activities).

 

The final deliverance: Yeshua will reign on this earth, with those whom He has delivered, for a thousand years.

 

Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Yeshua and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years” – Revelation 20:4.

 

At the end of the Sabbath Millennium, the armies of the world will gather for “the final solution” – to destroy the Holy City, but fire from heaven will destroy them.

 

When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. 9 And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them” – Revelation 20:7-9.

 

A seventh-day purification, indicated by rising from a miqvah, is required for many matters relating to death and renewed life. Examples are: after touching a dead body, or touching a tomb.

 

'anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days. . . 19b and on the seventh day he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening” – Numbers 19:16 & 19.

 

As coming out of the waters of the miqvah represents a birth - being born through the waters of Eden, so by the physical we picture the spiritual - being born through the Spirit of Messiah.

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This year (AM 5765 / AD 2005), for the Seventh-Day seder, the Sabbath order prevails; extra readings pertaining to the Seventh Day of the Feast are added. No leaven may be present.

 

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(Followers of the Messiah)