As we continue to look at the Passover Feast, we will contrast the negative command 6 with the positive command 7. Not only must the leavened bread be purged, but the unleavened bread must be consumed!
Let’s go back to Genesis 19:3 to look at the first reference to unleavened bread – an interestingly similar account of deliverance!
[1] And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:1-2
[2] And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
God had met with Abraham (a foreshadowing of Moses?) to discuss coming judgment on Sodom (Egypt?).
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom (“the LORD went his way” -Gen. 19:33) and Lot prepares them a meal:
And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Genesis 19:3
Why would Lot make unleavened bread? Probably for the same reason the Israelites did – they didn’t have time to prepare!
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Exodus 12:39
Lot recognized these visitors and hurriedly made a feast to entertain these Very Important Persons before the judgment fell on Sodom.
[12] And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Genesis 19:12-13
[13] For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
Just as God brought judgment on Egypt, He brought judgment on Sodom.
[29] And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharoah that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus 12:29
And yet the unleavened bread was a symbol that God would hastily snatch away His people before His judgment. Now we’ve read that Lot was a sorry figure, horrible parent, his married daughters were destroyed in the brimstone, his unmarried daughters committed drunken incest with him, but was He one of God’s people?
[7] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter 2:7-8
[8] (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
By ‘just’ Lot, even though it seems that he was the only one delivered, it means ‘just’ as in the sense of ‘righteous’ Lot. And if you were confused, the next verse clears up the confusion! A righteous soul vexed indeed! So even this vexed man Lot, was snatched out of Sodom. Why do I say ‘snatched’?
And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis 19:16
Roughly 600 years later, the Israelites would rush out of Egypt
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus 12:34
Some day soon, there will be another event that will be sudden
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:52
And will result in being snatched up
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
In Latin this reads:
deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (Vulgate)
We shall be caught up = rapiemur, more commonly known as the Rapture.
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