Wed.’s Devo - Unleavened Bread

Read: Exodus 12:14-13:16; Matthew 20:29-21:22; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 6:12-15
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a week of bread without leaven. Leaven is the picture of sin. Jesus told his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. The leaven represented their sin; they preached one doctrine and lived another. The seven days of unleavened bread represents the span of our lives. Once we are saved we are to be the righteousness of Christ on the earth. We start out as a green ear of corn where our seed is immature. But we ripen into a mature ear of corn that eventually spreads it seed all over the ground. The month they were to do this was called Nisan or Abib which both mean “a green ear of corn”. This feast started the day after the passover lamb was slain and applied to their doorposts. Jesus died on Passover and was buried on the first day of Unleavened bread. He descended down to Sheol and led the ones who slept in faith out and up to heaven (Ephesians 4:8-9). He had to die and his seed had to go into the ground in order to produce a harvest.
Moses told them that this observance would be like a sign on their hand and a reminder on their forehead that the law of the Lord would be on their lips. It is the same for us. The blood of Jesus is a sign on our hand which means that we are to use our hands as a means of contact to impart the spirit of God. The blood of Jesus is to be a reminder on our head which means that God will speak to us through our minds to tell us what to do. It also means that we have to put the Word of God in our minds and hearts. The word of God was to be on our lips that we would proclaim what it says.
As Jesus was leaving to go to Jerusalem he met two blind men by the side of the road. They cried out to him as their Messiah and begged to see. Jesus opened their eyes to see which was what he wanted to do spiritually for Israel but they refused to see.
Jesus entered Jerusalem on the path that the temple lamb had just walked to be the lamb for the whole nation. The people were assembled to praise the lamb so many of them were still there when Jesus came. Their spirits couldn’t help but praise Jesus. Many of them believed that he was the Messiah.
Jesus had come for Israel, the fig tree, but it rejected Jesus as their Messiah. Israel withered, like the tree, and God poured out his Spirit on the Gentiles.