of interest:
both unleavened and leavened bread are required for a peace offering of thanksgiving -
Leviticus 7:11-14
This [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the LORD:
If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
Besides the cakes, [as] his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering. And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering [as] a heave offering to the LORD.
It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.
Yes brother that’s a physical pattern leaven isn’t really leaven Jesus spoke spiritual things the law is about physical
Pattern of those things
“And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of
the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.”
Mark 8:15
“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.”
1 Corinthians 5:8 KJV
remember the shewbread ? That is a physical pattern of the New Testament
“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.”
Hebrews 9:1-2 KJV
the New Testament uses those physical patterns to make spiritual points like this Moses received physical bread from heaven “manna “
jesus addresses this pattern like this to give us a spiritual understanding
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.”
John 6:32-33
See when israel needed food God rained
bread from heaven and they gathered it and ate and
lived.
And when they needed
water God caused
water to flow from a rock and they all drank and
lived
That’s a physical Pattern of Jesus he uses those patterns to express truths about himself the whole entire law is the same it’s a physical pattern given to Moses on the mountain of the true covenant of God and the things in heaven
those new things are revealed in the gospel that are the reality of those patterns like leavened bread and unleavened bread those have
spirituAl meaning in the New Testament
“who
serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to
make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou
make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.”
Hebrews 8:5 KJV
moses tabernacle he built was a copy of the one in heaven the law is a pattern in every way like that
“For
the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.”
Hebrews 10:1 KJV
“Let no man therefore judge you in
meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which
are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”
Colossians 2:16-17
leaven represents sinfulness in man wickedness wrath revenge anger malice ect this is nt leaven
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21 KJV
In summary we see this how it’s really not about bread or celebrating Passover with a lamb that was a pattern
“
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. ( we’re the bread in the example )
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.”
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 KJV
Leaven is in us and we need to prove it out and become a new lump of dough without that leaven of malice and wickedness
the ot is like this
“And
Moses made a serpent of brass, and
put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man,
when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”
Numbers 21:9 KJV
that’s only a physical pattern for this reality which was to come then but has come now
“And
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,( pattern given to Moses ) even
so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.( the reality)
For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:14-16 KJV
The serpents biting and killing everyone because of thier rebellion against God is a pattern they would have all died but they pleaded with God and he gave Moses a pattern of a brazen serpent on a high pole and anyone bitten could look at the serpent and they wouldn’t die but they would live because they looked to the serpent held up high
a that’s just a pattern for us now though to help us understand Jesus dying on the cross for our sins so we don’t perish but can live the whole ot law of Moses from genesis to Deuteronomy is like that to the nt it’s an earthly physical pattern of the eternal spiritual things in the nt