Spring Feast Days
Spring is such a beautiful time of the year, isn't it? The grass starts growing and flowers spring to life. We know (or are learning) that Yahweh's year starts in the spring which makes an awful lot of sense since everything seems to be coming to life again. There are two special times in the spring: Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (which lasts for seven days). This special time involves getting all leaven out of your house--checking the closets, the frig, the freezer, the toaster - you can have a good time finding it all. Of course, the meaning of the leaven goes much deeper than that. Many families arrange special events and special foods for this time since we are asked not to have leaven in our homes for an entire week. We see a few verses covering them here:
Leviticus 23:5-8 (NKJV): On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is YAHWEH's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to YAHWEH; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.