Tonight, as we celebrated the Passover meal with The Gathering Place, I was prompted to remember how matzah bread symbolizes our Messiah Yeshua . It was a nice reminder, and I would like to share it...
The piercings in the matzah = Yeshua was pierced for our transgressions 5 times while on the cross. 1 time for each limb and then lastly with a spear to make sure He had died.
The rows (stripes) on the matzah = by His stripes we are healed. These stripes are from when the roman soldiers dug into His flesh using whips to beat Him.
The brown braised bumps on the matzah = He was bruised for our sin. Yeshua was beaten so badly that His blood pooled underneath the skin, leaving the outward brownish colored bruise marks.
The Unleavened feature = His body has no sin. During the Passover Feast, leaven represents sin in our lives. Just as a little yeast will leaven the whole lump, a little sin will get bigger and bigger until you can no longer control it.
Check out my wife's recipe for matzah bread, if you like!
Bible verse on my heart: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NASB)
"Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as your are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice or wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Bible verse on my heart: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NASB)
"Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as your are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice or wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Posted by: Jeremy Gipe
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