Sabbath Lessons By Elder Tom Schattke

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Dear Friends in Yahshua,

 

I noticed last night that the moon was almost full.
HalleluYAH !!
Passover is almost here!

 

This is one of the most exciting of all the appointed times.

 

Our salvation begins HERE!

 

Passover is surely a type of the sacrifice of Yahshua.

 

I believe this day has been the date of at least two other typical sacrifices.
The first could be the murder of righteous Able by his brother Cain.
I believe Abel was killed at 3:00 in the afternoon of Passover day.

 

The other sacrifice was when Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac.
We read in Genesis 22 that Abraham was stopped just in time
and that a ram was provided by Yahweh. 
I believe that ram was also killed at 3:00 in the afternoon of Passover day.

 

We can't prove these things but they do seem probable to me.

 

Yahweh does cause things to happen on special days.

 

He brought Yahshua to His hour of sacrifice at exactly the right time.
Yahshua also knew the right time and cooperated in making that happen.
It is a true blessing to have a Father who makes everything
work out exactly right for His children.

 

Father Yahweh we praise your love and your righteousness.

 

We pray that this day will be a special day for you and your family.

 

May Yahweh bless you and protect you.
May Yahweh cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious toward you.
May Yahweh lift up his countenance toward you and set shalom upon you.

 

May you be blessed in your Passover

 

Love and Shalom from Tom and Cathy Schattke     

 Brtom7@aol.com

 

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Sabbath Greetings   060415   Days of Unleavened Bread

 

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Dear Friends in Yahshua,

 

Unleavened bread is a symbol of haste and traveling.

 

In order to make bread without store-bought yeast such as we have today,
the process takes a few days.

 

First you have to have dough with gluten.
That means you have to use wheat because wheat has enough gluten.
Other grains do not have enough gluten to make soft bread.
The gluten is the stuff that makes wheat dough sticky.
It makes dough that can make bubbles in it.
When the yeast grows, it feeds on the sugar in the dough
and produces carbon dioxide gas as a by-product.
That gas is trapped in tiny bubbles in the dough,
and that makes the bread a little bit soft and fluffy.

 

The natural yeast in the air falls on the surface of the wet dough
and begins to grow there.

 

When the dough is kneaded, the yeast is mixed up in the dough.
To get the entire lump of dough leavened
you have to knead it several times
with growing time in between kneading.

 

All this is hard to do while you are traveling.

 

So the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a time to remember
that night when Yahweh's people had to move out in a hurry.

 

Pharaoh said they had to get out quickly.
Exodus 12:30-32  So Pharaoh rose in the night,
he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in Egypt,
for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
"Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel.
And go, serve Yahweh as you have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone;
and bless me also."

 

The Egyptians wanted them to get out quickly too:
Exodus 12:33-34  And the Egyptians urged the people,
that they might send them out of the land in haste.
For they said, "We shall all be dead."
34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened,
having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

 

Exodus 12:37-39  Then the children of Israel journeyed
from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
. . . . 39 And they baked unleavened cakes
of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt;
for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt
and could not wait [for the dough to rise],
nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

 

These next verses are very interesting:
Exodus 12:40-41  Now the sojourn of the children of Israel
who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years;
ON THAT VERY SAME DAY;
it came to pass that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

 

Same day as what?

 

Paul knew:
Galatians 3:17  And this I say, that
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later,
cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by Yahweh in the Messiah,
that it should make the promise of no effect.

 

Paul says there were 430 years between the covenant and the giving of the law.
That covenant promise is found in Genesis 15.

 

Genesis 15:13-14  Then He [Yahweh] said to Abram:
"Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs,
and will serve them, and they will afflict them
[until about] four hundred years [from now].
14 "And also the nation whom they serve I will judge;
afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

 

This 430 years includes the rest of the life of Abraham,
the lives of Isaac and Jacob and his twelve sons,
and their descendants who stayed in Egypt for about 215 years.

 

This promise was given on the day after the Passover celebration
which we read about in Genesis 14:
Genesis 14:18-19  Then Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine;
he was the priest of El Elyon [El Most High].
19 And he blessed him and said:
"Blessed be Abram of El Elyon, Possessor of heaven and earth.

 

The promise was fulfilled 430 years later on the same exact day,
the day after Passover,
the high day of the First Day of Unleavened Bread.

 

I suppose a little haste is acceptable when Yahweh's schedule has to be met.
When He promises, then it must come to pass,
even to the exact day.
Even when it means moving 600,000 families in one day.

 

We pray that your Feast is a blessing and a release for you and your family.

 

Let us all bless Yahweh for His righteousness and His love.

 

We hope to send greetings next Sabbath but we may not be able.
We'll see.

 

Shabbat Shalom from Tom and Cathy Schattke     

 Brtom7@aol.com

 

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Sabbath Greetings   060422    Unleavened

 

Reading time 6 minutes

 

Dear Friends in Yahshua,

 

Last SG I wrote:
"Unleavened bread is a symbol of haste and traveling."

 

That statement was based partially on these scriptures:
Exodus 12:39  And they baked unleavened cakes
of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt;
for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt
and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.

 

Deuteronomy 16:3  "You shall eat no leavened bread with it;
seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it,
that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste),
that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt
all the days of your life.

 

Exodus 13:3  And Moses said to the people:
"Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage;
for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out of this place.
No leavened bread shall be eaten."

 

Two readers reminded me
that there is another symbolism associated with unleavened bread.

 

Yahshua uses leaven as a metaphor:
Matthew 16:6-12  Then Yahshua said to them,
"Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying,
"It is because we have taken no bread."
8 But Yahshua, being aware of it, said to them,
"O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves
because you have brought no bread?
9 Do you not yet understand,
or remember the five loaves of the five thousand
and how many baskets you took up?
10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand
and how many large baskets you took up?
11 How is it you do not understand
that I did not speak to you concerning bread?;
but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
12 Then they understood
that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

 

(Parrallel in Mark 8:15 and Luke 12:1)

 

Paul also mentions it:
1 Corinthians 5:6-8  Your glorying is not good.
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump,
since you truly are unleavened.
For indeed the Messiah, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
8 Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

And:
Galatians 5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

 

The search for leaven and casting it out
has been likened to the struggle to root sin out of our character.

 

But leaven IS NOT BAD.

 

Yahshua did use it as a metaphor of the Kingdom
Matthew 13:33  Another parable He spoke to them:
"The kingdom of heaven is like leaven,
which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal
till it was all leavened."

 

He meant that we can understand something about Yahweh's kingdom
by observing how leaven goes throughout the dough
and makes it all leavened.
I believe He intended us to understand that
characteristics such as love, joy and shalom
are contagious among Yahweh's people.
We each help our brethren to grow in these things.

 

We also see leaven in a positive light in Leviticus.

 

The general rule is:
Leviticus 2:11  'No grain offering which you bring to Yahweh
shall be made with leaven,
for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey
in any offering to Yahweh made by fire.

 

However the sacrifice at the Feast of Weeks includes leavened bread:
Leviticus 23:17  'You shall bring from your dwellings
two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah.
They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven.
They are the firstfruits to Yahweh.

 

A thank offering also includes leavened bread
Leviticus 7:12-13  'If he offers it for a thanksgiving,
then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
unleavened cakes mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers anointed with oil,
or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
13 'Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer
leavened bread
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.

 

We must be careful to rightly divide the word
so we understand which metaphor is appropriate for any verse.

 

The major image of unleavened bread is part of the Passover observance
and part of the New Covenant.

 

At the Passover meal Yahshua had unleavened bread (Exodus 12)
Luke 22:19  And He took bread,
gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
"This is My body which is given for you;
do this in remembrance of Me."

 

This unleavened bread is a spiritual symbol of the Messiah's body.
It is one of the keys to eternal life.

 

When we relate Yahshua's body and blood
to the body and blood of the Passover lamb
it is easy to see Yahshua as the fulfillment of the Passover sacrifice.

 

Let us all remember Yahshua's body as we observe the Passover
and let us remember to expel sin from our life
as we observe these unleavened days.

 

May Yahweh bless you and your family with righteousness
and with salvation which comes only from Yahshua's free gift of His body.

 

The New Moon should be observed in the USA the evening of 4-28-2006
making 4-29 the New Moon Day of the second month.

 

Shabbat Shalom from Tom and Cathy Schattke     

 Brtom7@aol.com

 

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