Wanna Get Away?
- Posted on AprpmSun, 24 Apr 2016 21:16:58 -05002016-04-24T21:16:58-05:0009 17, 2016
- in Bible, God, Hebrew, Messiah, Pesach, Study, Torah, Yeshua
- by Hallelujah Girl
Looking to get away? Interested in leaving behind the things in life that bring you down or hold you captive. Seem to have trouble with staying away from old ways or habits? Welcome to your escape plan! The Holy One has given us a time to come to Him, an appointed time known as Pesach (Passover). All of G-d’s Festivals are shadows of Our Messiah. His master plan of redemption flow through His seasons and festivals. This season of Pesach (Passover) is one of these appointed times. A time to search out the negative traits within ourselves and emerge new.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the L-rd. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory. You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the L-rd did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the L-rd may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the L-rd has brought you out of Egypt. You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year. – Exodus 13:6-10
Unleavened bread is known in the Hebrew text as matstsah, מצץ, (pronounced mats-tsaw), meaning bread, unleavened bread or cake. It’s verb root means to drain out, to suck–milk in the sense of a greedily devouring for sweetness. Isaiah 66:11 uses this root word speaking of the birth of a Nation, Jerusalem, “..so that you will drink deeply, and shall delight yourselves in her overflowing esteem.”
The word leavened is known as chamets, חמץ, pronounced khaw-mates. First use of chamets is in Exodus 12:34, “And the people took their dough before it was leavened (chamets), having their kneading-bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders.” Chamets is defined also as cruel man, dyed, be grieved, be soured, or embittered. Psalm 73:21 states, “For my heart was in a ferment (chamets)…“, speaking before the Holy One delivers a person to be set apart. And Psalm 71:4 says, “Rescue me, O my Elohim, out of the hand of the wrong, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel.
Preparing for Pesach means the removal of leaven from our homes. This commandment is for all generations. For seven days, during the appointed time of Pesach, we are to avoid leaven. According to Exodus 12:15, “For seven days you are to eat matstah, but on the first day you must remove chamets from your houses, for whoever eats chamets from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel.” The agent that is known as leaven is se-or, pronounced seh-ore’. It’s root word is sha’ar (shaw-ar), שאר, meaning left, to remain, be left, to swell up, be redundant, let, reserve, and the rest.
Every year the Holy One wants to meet with His people during this time of Pesach. Technically we should approach this Passover season as if we are the ones leaving our own Egypt. Look at this as a time of “Spring cleaning” or more importantly a time of “Spiritual Inventory”. Cleaning “house” can be hard to do sometimes, especially when we face our own pride. Seeking out every crumb of arrogance, pride, negativity, and even bad habits is the way we become new. Leaven can be found not only in our dwellings, but in our choice of entertainment, music, vices, acquaintances, social circles, and in our hearts. The portal to release these (chamets) happens during Passover.
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, “Get rid of the old chamets, so you may be a new batch, just as you are unleavened—for Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old chamets, the chamets of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread—the matstah of sincerity and truth.”
Looking at Exodus 13:8 the Holy One says, “You are to tell your son on that day saying, ‘It is because of what The Holy One did for me when I came out of Egypt.” This verse comes from The Tree of Life Version (TLV). In the Hebrew text “of what” has been translated from the word zeh, זה, meaning “this“. Yeshua, Our Messiah officiated the seder in the upper room with His disciples at which He stated, “Do this in rememberence of Me.”
Egypt is a spiritual state and is still very much alive today. It is what constricts you, what is squeezing or holding on to you. Pesach is the time to get honest about what you need release from, what it is that calls you to cry out to The Holy One. Even when we officially leave our personal Egypt, our inclination may be to long for what we left behind. This is why Our Father in Heaven gives us Passover to remember and celebrate each year. To take inventory and “get away” from the ties that bind. Cleansing our hearts and minds to the promise of a “land flowing with milk and honey”.
Chag Pesach Sameach,
~Hallelujah Girl
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