Living in the Resurrection: The Feast of Unleavened Bread - David Mitts

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20)

Today is a special day with a very powerful anointing present that can forever transform our lives if we enter into the realm of the Spirit of God.  We are living in very important times and we were born for this hour.  Our actions are critical to our testimony in this prophetic hour.  

One of the prophetic signs is the tetrad blood moons.  This Passover, Succoth and next Passover and Succoth the moon will be blood red.  Joel prophesied this:

And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls. (Joe 2:29-32)

We see a connection between these sign and outpouring of His Spirit, times for activations.  We also see that these are times for salvations and a period of deliverance for Israel for His called remnant.  These moons are not necessarily an indicator of any one thing but they definitely are a prophetic sign for an outpouring, salvation and deliverance.  Their occurring at the Feasts is especially important.

To enter in, we need to grasp the timing and the anointing that is specific to that timing.  Looking at Joel’s prophecy, we see:

Salvation

Deliverance

Judgment/Death

Outpouring of the Spirit.

 What I want to do is place this in the context of the cross, the death of Yeshua, and the Resurrection.

A few weeks ago, we looked at holiness through the cross.  We spoke about a holiness of intimacy versus one based purely on separation.  We spoke of a change of state from one being prepared for covenant to one of living inside of covenant.

Today, I want to look at another aspect of what happened at the cross. Let’s turn to Luke 23:33-34

And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots. Luke 23:33-34).

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Yeshua, knowing He was going to die for the sins of the people, asks the Father to forgive.  He makes a profound statement , “FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO”.  Now, on the surface He is speaking about the crucifixion.  But, we need to remember what that is.  The crucifixion is external expression of the shame brought on man by sin.   Whenever we are confronted by our failures, the shame of that brings about a violence.  Just look at how tense we become over even the possibility of failure, when offered opportunity.

This shame is what crucified Yeshua. Shame, the feeling ok being somehow defective and needing to control our reality is what killed Love Himself!  An outward expression of an inward reality.  Now, why is this important?  because at its root ALL sin results in shame and death, death of relationship, cutting off of life.

So, Yeshua declares that we need forgiveness for the root of our sin, and He declares that the root is “not knowing”.  Now remember that in the Bible "knowing" is intimacy.  "NOT knowing" then is isolation, separation, lack of trust, fear based reality.  All ignorance is rooted in part-ial knowing and trying to prove our perspective which leads to violence and death of love.

So, Yeshua is telling us that when we hurt one another it is because we are disconnected and have lost the unity of love.  This is “not knowing”.  This ignorance based reality is what needs forgiveness.  If we really knew God and knew each other, we would such a heart of oneness and love that we would never hurt one another.

At the cross Yeshua is making this declaration.  Then He dies as the Passover lamb to make what He has just asked for possible.

Forgiveness requires a death to be possible.  We have to die to the need for fairness for forgiveness to happen.

You see when we sin, when we hurt one another we incur a debt.  Because our sin has caused death, death of relationship or death of trust, it incurs a death debt.  Look with me at Colossians 2:11-14 to see this dynamic:

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. (Col 2:11-14)

In the covenant at the cross, the new covenant, the holiness brought about by His death, there is a death to us and to Him.  This death wipes out the debt incurred by our ignorance, our “not knowing” God and each other and therefore hurting God and each other through actions that are rooted in “not knowing” and fear.  This is the root of all evil.  We have to not “know” someone to be evil to them.  This creates a debt of death, which He takes from us through His forgiveness and His death which He invites to receive by faith.  Now, we are free from debt!! Hallelujah!

- In this place a new reality is possible, the reality of resurrection life!  Resurrection life of what?  Knowing.  Look at John 17:1-3

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (Joh 17:1-3)

When we embrace the Passover sacrifice, we come into a place of knowing.  This is only possible through being forgiven for “not knowing”.

What also is possible is a resurrection, a knowing of one another in a new way, called being “one”.  Look down the page at John 17:21-23

"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (Joh 17:20-23)

Now, this is unleavened bread.  Oneness with one another means that we have to pass through the veil, the separation that is based in “Not knowing”.  How do we do this?  Well, we have to release others from their hurts against us, realizing that they are operating in “not knowing” or if you prefer hardness of heart.  You see the root of all suffering is “Not knowing”.  This is why it had to be forgiven by Yeshua before the cross.  In order for us to operate in the fullness of the favor of the cross in our lives we have to return people to the state of forgiveness, and declare them as having “not known”.  I am NOT saying they didn’t willfully hurt, but rather that their actions are rooted in “not knowing”.

How do I do that when it hurts so bad?  You have to die.  You don't think Judas hurt?  You don't think Peter hurt?  It had to hurt.  Yeshua was the most compassionate man to walk the earth ever.  You don’t get that way without feeling pain.  Look at the death of Lazarus. He wept.

So, we have to release people, through the grace of us seeing them as being those who operate in the place of “Not knowing” what they do.  Offense implies responsibility.  We blame them because they hurt us consciously.  What we don’t see because we look with human eyes that they were operating in the realm of being disconnected, lost in self with fear as the guideposts and shame as the identity.  They are in the realm of the “not knowing” and so Yeshua forgives them and so should we.  We need to die to the debt.  Then when the debt is released a new reality called reconciliation can happen, not as before in the realm of the not knowing but in the realm of oneness.  Then we can love our brother who we see.  Then we can love our enemy, because enemies only exist in the “not knowing”.  The we can truly be ambassadors for Messiah, reconciling the world to Him and to each other!

This is unleavened bread, because it is leaven that is the symbol of pride.  Look at Luke 12:

In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. (Luke 12:1-2)

The hidden is the real motives of the heart that are being covered by the veil.  The veil is torn at the cross.  We operate in pride when we have shame, when we are “not knowing”.  This is leaven, ruining our relationships.  The power of this feast is to bring transparency through forgiveness.

One final scripture and then we activate. 1Cor 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1Co 5:8)

Malice and wickedness come from “not knowing” one another. Sincerity means without a mask, without a veil, transparent and truth is truth.  We need to keep or activate this feast at the blood moons by forgiving and sealing our forgiveness with Matzo.