Today is the Last Day of Passover Week and Unleavened Bread (Transcript)

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Well, today is the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It’s day number seven and like day number one, day number seven is a holy day, a special holy sabbath day to be observed by the Church of God. Today I would like to explain the holidays better, more specifically this holy day a bit better, and what it all means for you, your family, and what you should be doing.

God gave us a set of religious holy days, like holidays which comes from the word holy days, by the way, and it all started in the first book of Genesis. This is where we ended up with Creation Week and when God, after making man, rested on the seventh day, which we call Saturday, and told or made an order that it was a holy day and everyone should follow his example. Jesus Christ, in the New Testament, said that he was Lord of the Sabbath. He didn’t say he changed it to Sunday, by the way.

He said he was Lord of the Sabbath. In fact, in his great Olivet prophecy, where he warns his disciples what the world would be like right before his coming and the trials and tribulations that were to come, he gave a special warning on, which I think had to do with nuclear radiation, about pregnant women and nursing babies. He also said, pray that the tribulation that day does not happen on a Sabbath day. Why is that the case? Because you’re not supposed to be working or running away on the Sabbath day, and you think a minute, why didn’t he say a Sunday? Oh, did he mean the Sabbath day had become Sunday? Well, nobody there would have understood that because he was still talking to people observing the true Sabbath, which we would call Saturday, and he was observing the true Sabbath. So when he said that, and you read that in Matthew 24, you can easily see that he was talking about the Sabbath day as they knew it and as we should know it today. But God, in the Old Testament, also gave us other days to observe.

It wasn’t just the Sabbath day, it wasn’t just the first day of the year, which is the equinox, it wasn’t the Passover alone, and then the first day and the seventh day, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. There are interpretations, by the way, in the Bible, and I read it again several times before I came on right now, and depending on what version you read, and the King James Version tends to be the most word-for-word accurate, even though there’s some mistakes there as well. But it looks like God really intended all seven days of the Unleavened Feast, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, following the Passover, he intended that no one was to work that entire week, that the first day and the seventh day you were to hold a holy convocation, which means a church service, is really just what it means, and that you should do no regular work during those days, is how the King James puts it, so it makes it like God wanted his people to take a one-week vacation. I remember a long time ago, I was studying the Bible when I was quite new into it, and I realized that God wanted us to have three weeks’ vacation a year, because Passover evidently is seven full days that you are not to work. Pentecost, many people believe, is a seven-day holiday as well, and even though it doesn’t say so in the Bible, but people assumed that it was a pilgrimage-type holiday, holy day, and so it would take about a week. And then, of course, the Feast of Tabernacles is eight days long.

There are no 2 ways about it. By the way, Passover is eight days long when you consider tomorrow is going to be the first Feast of Firstfruits, which in my opinion, not biblical here, but in my opinion, is the day Jesus actually rose to heaven first to gain his kingship and his rulership crowned from God the Father. Then he returned that weekend on a Sunday night to appear to his disciples again. Notice then he could let everybody touch him and paw all over him, but when he had first risen from the dead, he had told Mary, don’t cling on to me because I have not yet ascended to my Father.

So something happened between then and eight days, nine days later, I guess it would be nine days later when he appeared to all his disciples and let Thomas put his hands in his wounds and everything else. So anyway, that’s the Sabbath day.

But the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, the Day of Atonement, and before that the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the final Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Tents or the Feast of Temporary Booths than the last great day God had as holidays and vacation days at the same time. So if you really were to follow all of God’s holidays, you had 52 Saturdays off a year, you had three weeks’ vacation off a year, plus you had some other days off in between, you know, like new moons and some other days in between the actual holidays. So it is possible that when you think about it, that was unheard of in the time that that God gave these orders to Moses and maybe to people before Moses. I believe that the holidays really started in the Old Testament with Abraham, but I may be wrong. It may be before. I do believe that the story of Lot and Sodom and the angels going into destroying the city and the fact that they had unleavened bread, Abraham and the angels and Sarah the night before symbolized that that destruction of Lot was symbolizing a Passover type event and Lot and his family was passed over when everyone else was killed. So that’s just my opinion. 

Getting back to today being the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we talked last week on the first day of the Feast that the important idea as to why unleavened bread symbolizes Christ…it is because of the leavening…which is another word for yeast. You put yeast in bread and you have to wait for it to rise and wait two or three hours and it will actually grow bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger into a loaf and then you bake it. You can’t bake it without the yeast unless you’re going to make quick bread where you don’t put yeast in it, and that’s what the matzo is.

But what does the yeast represent? 

Well, it gets in and permeates through all the sugars in the flour and ingredients and it represents sin. Sin makes you grow fatter in sin, like the bread expands. Well, when you let sin enter into your body, little by little it grows and grows and becomes worse and worse and worse and you become, you know, a pretty sorry figure without Christ coming to save you from your sins. So the idea that the Feast of Unleavened Bread represents Jesus Christ is very easy to see the connection and it’s why when you follow these holidays, I mean you can follow Easter, you can follow Christmas, nobody seems to have a problem going to church on Christmas Eve or going to church on Easter morning and that’s as pagan as pagan can be. It’s not a modern ceremony, but nobody seems to have a problem with it. 

You know, the Apostle Paul says we have to get the leavening or the, you know, the matzo, the sin, the yeast out of our bodies. He said that in Corinthians, 1 Corinthians. And what else did he say? Let us therefore keep the feast. What? The Feast of Unleavened Bread. That’s a New Testament rendition of an Old Testament holiday that Paul says we are to keep.

Why should we keep it?

Because it keeps reminding us just what Christ is to us. He is the matzo that we consume during Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It’s that simple.

I’ll go sideways one second here, and maybe this will make it a little bit clearer. I used to ridicule back in the day about 35 years ago, when I read parts of the Bible where God ordered people to Mosaic Law. I didn’t want to believe this law applies for anyone right now and that I don’t see anything wrong with it as well. They were to take the Ten Commandments, really, and put it around their foreheads and put it on their arms and I used to think, you know, that’s kind of stupid, but Jews do it to this day. Really, religious, conservative, or Orthodox Jews do have these. There’s a special name for it. I’m not aware of what it is, but you can look it up and you can find it. You can buy them, and you can attach them to your garments. You can wear them around your wrist. I mean, I don’t have a problem with it. I see people wearing like the Ten Commandments as a bracelet. I think that’s very good. It’s kind of honoring God. But the point that was told to me one time, when I was kind of poo-pooing it by somebody, that I thought it was a pretty good answer, is, you know, it’s pretty hard to commit adultery when you’ve got the Ten Commandments hanging in front of your face and on your arm. You know, if you have anything, if you have any fear of God, if you have any respect for God, and you lose your mind because this person is so appealing to you, you can’t help yourself, but all of a sudden you pick up your arm and you see the Ten Commandments, Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, spelled out in front of you. That probably is going to motivate at least somebody who really believes in God to stop what they’re doing. So maybe there was a good reason why God wanted people to wear the law all around them, because these people didn’t listen to God at all, and maybe every little reminder was good. Now, I’m not saying that’s what we should do today, but that’s what we should do with these holidays.

These holidays are inspired by God, who wants us to keep these holidays for a very good reason. That every time you study the scripture on these holidays and about these holidays, you see these holidays pointing to Jesus Christ as the central figure of that holiday, representing what he’s done for you and your family and your loved ones and for everybody else who wants to have redemption and forgiveness of their sins, because Jesus is colorblind. He doesn’t care what color you are. He doesn’t care what country you came from. He doesn’t really care what you did, because there’s no sin he cannot forgive, and when you go to him, he is the person or now the God, your God, who takes your sin upon his body and his blood covers it. And so that’s the most important thing that’s ever going to happen in your physical life, because that determines if you’re going to have a future spiritual life or not, if you’re truly going to be born again, which means being resurrected from the dead into spirit, into God. And that is the simple, plain truth of why we are to be reminded, you know, what, 10 times a year, the plan of God.

Is that asking too much?

God doesn’t think so, and I don’t think so. I agree. It’s hard for working people, and I work very hard. My wife and I run a business. We work very hard. It’s hard taking these days off. And honestly, there are many years we did not take off the holidays when we knew we should have, and we just depended on Christ’s forgiveness and God’s forgiveness, because we were poor people trying to make ends meet, and it’s really hard to do all the things in a world that really doesn’t have patience with you trying to follow your holidays. It just doesn’t.

It has patience for you wanting to follow Christmas. It has patience for you wanting to follow Easter or Halloween or every other holidays, but for some reason, the world has very little tolerance to somebody who says, well, I got to take two days off today and tomorrow for the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the first day of First Fruits or the day of First Fruits. And most employers are going to look at you like, what are you, some lazy jockey? Maybe today it’s not as bad because there are a lot of lazy people around, but that is, it’s hard for poor people, and I understand that, and I think God understands that too. But if you try, if you at least, like I said last week with Passover, one of my greatest Passovers, I ate leavened bread. I didn’t know any better. I went and got an Italian loaf of bread and some re-kneaded wine, and I drank it and ate the bread at my grandmother’s house, and I was happy.

After years of denying God, I was happy that I was part of this whole thing, and I was going to go the right way, and it was my first Passover. The year was 1979, and I still think to this day, with all the mistakes I made, God liked that Passover as much as I did maybe more, because He wants a convert. He wants somebody who was never going to turn around.

Many times, in my travels, many times in my tribulations, I wanted to give up. But when you find the true God, for some reason, there’s a, there’s a, I think there’s a psalm or a proverb, and I didn’t study before this to look it up, but I know what it says. It says, you know, the tears, you cry tears into the night, you know, the night is so terrible, you don’t think you can live to tomorrow, but a sun always rises, and you have a new spirit the next day.

And I don’t know how many times in my life, especially in the bad times of my life in the past, when I was struggling, and I was literally fighting with God, that I would just go to bed in such despair. I didn’t know what the next day would bring, yet the sun woke me up, looking in my eyes, and I got up, and I was as strong as I was the day before, and I worked another day, even with all that depression in the background that didn’t reappear again until that night. Well, that’s, that’s not just you, you know. If you’re somebody out there who’s depressed, or somebody out there that thinks that you’re the only one going through what you’re going through, there are millions going through what you’re going through. It’s not funny, I’m sorry, I’m joking, but it is funny in a way, because like a little child, we think when something’s happening to us, it’s only us, and our whole world is only about us. A little child doesn’t know anything about him, and the mother, and his father, and, or her father, and we’re the same thing to God.

And God probably does chuckle, even in our tragic times, because God knows there’s, he’s going to bring you to another world. You can’t see it, but God sees it, and God knows it. That is why we follow these holidays. That is why eventually, if we can, we try to take them off. We try not to work. It’s very hard when you own a business to do that as well, but you try to follow, you try to do what you can do. And so, all I can say is I hope those who followed Passover last week, last Wednesday night, had a very blessed Passover, and I hope you did as best you could, the best you were able to, whatever it led you to be, and I think if you did, I think God likes it. I think God smiled. And if you followed the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and for a week you didn’t eat any leavening, I guess if you’re on an Atkins diet, that was easy to do, but if you eat a lot of bread, and a lot of things with yeast in it, then it was probably a hard week for you. But if you did it, again, I think God is happy with that. And tomorrow, I might just do a small show tomorrow, because it is a holiday. It’s the Feast of Firstfruits, and that represents Christ, again, being the first born from the dead.

Very important concept that He is the first human being to ever die three days in the grave but He didn’t rot, because God didn’t allow it, and then resurrected back to life and then into spiritual life, which made Him the first born-again person ever to exist, and to this day, the only still born-again person to this day that’s ever been born again. That means turn into Spirit, into Holy Spirit. And that is your destiny. That is my destiny. If we stay the course, and like I said, I understand people who are struggling and don’t think they can stay the course. But if you depend on God and you cry out to God and you pray to God, you can stay the course. God will make sure you don’t fail. Even when you think you have, something will happen down the road, you find out you did not. God doesn’t give up on you as easy as you give up on yourself. Again, that is from experience.

So, I hope you had a good one. The next one, like I said, tomorrow is First Fruits, and then we count down 50 days from tomorrow. And the 50th day will be May 29th. I know that date quite well, because it also happens to be my birthday. But on May 29th will be Pentecost, and Pentecost is the birthday of the Church, the born-again of the Church, is when the Church received the Holy Spirit. And, you know, in the Old Testament, 50 days after tomorrow, was when God gave, with his own finger wrote it on stone, the Ten Commandments to Moses for the first time. It was on what we call Pentecost, believe it or not. So the law was given on May 29th, and then the Holy Spirit replaced it on May 29th in AD 30, and then again, there will be a Pentecost when the Church is resurrected from the dead and becomes born again. Jesus was born again on the first FirstFruits, and the second Pentecost is the second First Fruits is Pentecost, and that’s when the Church on the Millennium, when Christ returns, will be resurrected from the dead in unison. Those alive will turn into spirit, and those who are dead will come out of their graves as spiritual beings. We will be literally the children of God. That is the blessing. It’s a wonderful message.

 It’s time that we as a people understand that God is calling all of us, but we have to choose. If we don’t choose, God’s not going to choose for us. It’s our decision to make. If we don’t make the right decision, or if our loved ones don’t make the right decision, most likely they will get another chance when the devil is removed from their life. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could make it around the first time and not have to go around a second time? That’s what’s being offered to you.

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So happy Feast of Passover. It’s over. Happy First Fruits tomorrow. And I’m going to try, I can’t promise this, but I’m going to try to do a short noon time one tomorrow on the Feast of First Fruits to explain it a little better of the born again, what it really means. Until then, Bob Barney saying God bless you all. And thank you.