Now, for those of you who might be less enlightened about what I mean by "unleavened bread" and think I am talking about the bread without yeast and that we eat with our mouth let me make a disclaimer here. The first person who read this page was a dear friend whom I had asked to read and give me her opinion. She thought I was talking about bread without yeast that we eat and when I told her that it was not about that kind of physical bread at all, but spiritual bread she suggested that I explain just what kind of unleavened bread I am talking about for those who may not know that Jesus Christ, the living Word, and the bible, the writen word, are the bread of life for all Christians. We must have both in our lives to be healthy Christians and to grow in Grace. Having Christ by getting saved, but not studying and understanding the writen word does not make for a healthy Christian. You might be saved and on your way to the pearly gates but you will not be a strong overcomer because you have not read the manufactor's handbook of instructions on how to live a Christian life and be successful while on this side of the great divide. As Christians we are supposed to eat, or rather study and learn, ingest into our spiritman, the unleavened writen word of God; but unfortunitely for us through the 2000 years since the living Word, Jesus Christ, returned to heaven to sit on the right hand of the Father as our redeemer King and mediator, leaven, or untruthes, have been added to the writen bread of life, the bible, by the very people that God and the Church, the Body of Christ, have entrusted to keep it unleavened and pure. I only believe in the inerrancy of the original manuscripts. What we are buying off of the shelves today are not inerrant and need to be rightly divided with the aide of the Holy Spirit. God is quite capable of preserving His word despite anything that man can do, but this is why we must "rightly divide the word of truth" from the fiction that has been added, both literally in writng and orally through some of the pulpits, or rather churches around the world. In 27 years of being saved I have studied the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation and the older I get and the more I learn the more I see the descrepancies between what the bible says and what is being taught in the local churches, denominations and nondenominations notwithstanding. Even when they are trying to discredit them as not being Christian or directly related to Christ, as with the case of Halloween, they still celebrate these three days to one degree or the other. I believe that Christians need to know that, thanks to people like Constantine, Christianity has been so engrained with the leaven of the Gnostic's beliefs in paganism that it has almost completely eliminated the sincere truth about the unleavened truth about God's Word and has accepted the leaven, like Easter and Christmas, in order to attract the masses. My intent for this web site is to help people to rightly divide the Word of truth and to teach the unleaven truth about what the bible says, not what the commentaries and man has taught since the death of the last apostle. I am not saying that everything in the commentaries is error, and not all of the churches mix the word with leaven, but we are at a crossroads and it is time to really search the scriptures for ourselves with the help of the Holy Spirit and allow and trust Him to teach us and to get and remain on the straight and narrow road. The bible says we should need no man to teach us. It says that the Holy Spirit would teach us. Yes, we do need the five fold ministry for they are God's gifts to the Church for the perfecting of the saints. So Pastors and teachers are of the utmost importance in the local church. For how can a man have faith unless he hears the word preached and how can he preach unless he is sent by God? Though we do have some who just went and were not sent by anyone who just start their own church. But we do need to be taught. So I am in no way advocating leaving the church and teaching yourself. Please don't misunderstand me. We need to hear the word preached as well as study for ourselves to show ourselves approved unto God. And this is where so many of us fall short. We do not study the bible for ourselves. We trust the interpretation of the bible to the trusted man or woman in the pulpit. I think this is why so many are deceived. The bible says that God said that His people are destroyed but for the lack of knowledge, and this is oh so sadly true. Many well meaning devout Christians just do not know the truth. Some don't want to know because they love tradition so much more and therefore cannot handle the truth. For example, who does not know that you cannot get 3 days out of Friday to Sunday? Please do the math. Friday to Saturday is one day and Saturday to Sunday is two days. But if we were to go to the scriptures to find the answer as to when Christ was crucified and when He arose we will learn the unleavened, or pure, truth. Please go with me to Leviticus 23:5 to find out when the passover lamb was to be sacrificed. Since Jesus Christ is our passover lamb then He would have been sacrificed according to the Jewish custom, on the same day and in the same month as all of the other passover lambs. Leviticus 23:5 "In the fourteeth day of the first month at evening is the Lord's passover." Read the whole chapter for context and understanding. The first month of the Hebrew calendar is the month Nisan, which in our calendar here in the West, the Gregorian Calendar, and the Julian calendar, coincides with the month from March to April. That means Christ would have had to have been crucified on the 13th of the month Nisan, before the passover began, and removed from the cross before 6pm, the beginning of the 14th and the passover. He was found to be dead at the ninth hour, 3pm, according to Hebrew time, not Roman, on the 13th of Nisan. He was removed from the cross before 6pm, the beginning of the passover, which was the 14th. There is no way of knowing what days of the week the 13th and 14th of Nisan fell on in the year that Christ died except according to the calibration of comparing the Hebrew Calendar date with the Gregorain Calendar. (I had to come back and explain this a little better because of what I have since learned about the differences between the two calendars and why the actual day of the week the Lord died is lost to us, or is it? We only know the month and the day, not the actual day of the week, except if we compare scripture with scripture.) The calendar calibration process is not exact and therefore not reliable, but even with our best estimates, and with no record of days of the week for the Hebrew Calendar of that era, Jesus did not die on "good Friday," and He did not arise on "Easter Sunday." For Christ to have arisen on the day before Sunday, Saturday, He had to have died on a Wednesday, if we backtrack 3 days from Saturday. This is really our best way of knowing the exact day of the week, according to the scriptures. By the time the two Marys and Salome went to anoint His body, "at the dawn of the first day of the week," He had already arisen, but the angel at the tomb does not say how long He had been gone from the tomb. If He was crucified on the preparation day for the passsover, Tuesday, and arisen 3 days later then He would have arisen on a Friday, and not Saturday. There are a lot of assumptions made surrounding this event. They arrived at the tomb at the "dawn of the first day of the week," which many assume to mean at sunrise, Sunday morning, but Christ did not arise at sunrise on the first day of the week. He had already arisen. To remain in the tomb until Sunday He would have been buried for four or five days, depending on whether He arose on Friday or Saturday, instead of the three that He said He would be buried. See what I mean now? His body was removed from the cross before the passover began. He was not crucified on the passover day. His crucifixtion took place on the preparation day for the passover, the day before the passover. To leave His body on the cross until the passover would have gone against Hebrew law. So this is why I believe He was crucified on the 13th of the month Nisan, the day before the passover, the preparation day for the upcoming passover. Jesus is our Passover Lamb.
I think another reason that people believe that Jesus died on a Friday is Mark 15:42 "And now when evening was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath." Because many Christians in the West believe there is only one sabbath, Saturday, that scripture almost seals the argument for Him having been crucified on a Friday. But if you would rightly divide the word of truth you would learn that there were many sabbaths. They didn't just fall on Saturday. There were many sabbitical preparation days. But that is another bible study. This one is getting longer than I anticipated. Please forgive the length. But I am only being obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit and writing as He leads. The "Only Saturday" sabbath is a Western belief. The Jews know that there were and are more than one sabbath. But as long as we try to interpret the bible with Western cultural biases instead of studying the history of Him and His people of that era when Jesus was alive we will come up with wrong answers everytime. Add in a cup of unleavened paganism and you have a new doctrine that was not taught by the apostles, the prophets, or Jesus Christ.
Matt 28:1 "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher." The end of the sabbath would have been at 6pm in the evening, not at sunrise the next morning. The "dawn" of the first day would have been 6:01 pm.
Food for thought: (If Jesus was crucified the day before the sabbath how could he have risen 3 days later and that day also be the sabbath? Remember now the women came to the tomb the day after the sabbath, the first day of the week, and Jesus had already arisen. Just a thought to ponder.) vs 5 and 6 "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was crucified". 6 "He is not here; for He is risen, as He said." Now I ask you, how could the Lord have risen on the first day of the week, Sunday, if He was already gone from the tomb at the "dawn" of the first day of the week? Please bear in mind that the dawn of the first day of the week would have been at or after 6pm Saturday. The Jewish calendar day began at 6pm and went until 6pm the next day, not as our culture's days go from morning to morning, but from evening to evening.
The "dawn of the first day of the week" means the beginning of the first day, not necessarily the morning or sunrise of the first day. "Dawn" in that scripture means "the beginning of a new day," not sunrise. Like the "dawn of a new age" means the beginning of a new age. I am afraid that this is one of the biggest misconceptions of the events of His death, burial, and resurrection which has served to cloud the understanding of the masses and paved the way for the religions of paganism, whom Constantine welcomed with opened arms into Christianity, to incorporate their goddess Estar into the Christian faith. Our Sunday at midnight, the beginning of the day, would coincide with the Jew's saturday evening at or about 6pm, not sometime Sunday morning at day break, as most assume. So no Sunrise service. I reiterate, that custom came in with the influx of the pagans with their worship of the Sun goddess Estar. They worshipped the rising of the Sun. The early Christians of the first century church, who included the apostles Peter, John, and Paul, who by the way wrote most of the New Testament, did not, and they, not the Gnostics, should be our example. The apostles never taught or wrote anything about having Sunrise service in honor of Jesus Christ's resurrection. But to bring in "lost souls," by any means necessary, many of our churches and their pastors, who might know the truth or might not, would rather accept the leaven and perpetuate the lie that Easter is all about the resurrection of Jesus Christ in order to get people in the doors of their churches than to stand up for the truth of God's word and let God bring people into the church in His timing according to His divine plan and purpose for their individual lives. In other words let God make the increase in the church population honestly.
If we would but pay closer attention to what the Holy Spirit says the bible says and not be so quick to accept what man has taught us for centuries and is still teaching us, He can, through the bible, clear up and answer any and all questions that any of us might have. I like to say that I do not have a problem that the bible cannot solve. I hope and pray that this information has helped someone and not offended anyone. My goal is to try to set the record straight and hopefully help to stop the madness concerning the love affair that Christian churches seem to have with paganism and it's holidays.
Unleavened Bread
