Unleavened Bread

During the week leading up to the Passover, the children of Israel were instructed to eat only unleavened bread. I know this is the "bread of affliction" and symbolizes how during the first passover everyone had to be ready to leave and wouldn't have had time to allow their bread to rise. But I was thinking about some additional layers of symbolism that could be applied to the unleavened bread. The Passover is a symbolic representation of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. It is about Christ dying for our sins. Christ is the Bread of Life. Christ was killed during the week of Passover, when all of the country was eating only unleavened bread. But after the passover, Christ, the Bread of Life, rose again, just as all over the country their bread began to rise again as they added leaven once more to their dough. Just as the Passover is a representation of Christ dying for our sins, Easter is a celebration of Christ's resurrection, and I don't think it's trivial that in many Easter dinners all over the world, dinner rolls and other kinds of leavened bread are eaten as a symbol of the Bread of Life rising once more. It is important to remember that Christ died for us, but it is perhaps even more important to remember that Christ lives for us.

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