Passover

A woman from our small group brought matza ball soup and salad to accompany unleavened bread. She has just experienced a seder dinner that had been modernized by incorporating Christian scriptures to enhance the Jewish celebration of Passover (see Exodus 12). 

We ate the soup and salad along with some unleavened bread. Later, we read out of a Messianic Passover Haggadah booklet. 

We read in 1 Corinthians 11:26 that as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim Jesus' death until he comes again. 

The unleavened bread at the table had holes in it symbolizing the holes in Jesus' hands, feet, and side. The bread also had burn marks symbolizing that by his stripes we are healed. 

The bread is unleavened meaning it does not have yeast. Jesus warned us about having yeast mixed in and the effects. Yeast transforms the dough and makes it puffed up. We are not called to be puffed up and transformed by something other than the Father. 

What a beautiful tradition to celebrate one of God's monumental works in the Jewish history, our history. God protected those who obeyed him by sprinkling blood on their door posts. Those who obeyed were spared from death.