And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.  

Unleavened Bread’s Foreshadow

The Shadow’s Shape / Its First Purpose

This feast in Hebrew is called Chag Hamatzot. It takes place on the day following Passover, Nisan the 15th and is kept for the next 7 days. For 7 days the Hebrew eat unleavened bread, bread with no rising, no yeast, in remembrance of their coming out of Egypt.

Numbers 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. When they came out it was only with matzah bread for the leaven had been cleaned from their houses. The flat bread was all they had for their journey.

The leaven or yeast represented the old ways of Egypt and idolatry; the unleavened bread represented the new life with God.

Unleavened Bread’s Fulfillment

The feast of unleavened bread shows us that we also are to have a new life thorugh the sinless life of Christ. It is a life lived apart from the power and influence of sin. This new life is not possible in ourselves but must be lived in the power of of Jesus Christ, who knew no sin but become sin for us.

John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing

We acknowledge the sinless life of Christ and our reliance on Him for eternal life and for a life under His control whenever we participate in the Lord’s supper and partake of the matzah bread today.