Bread

Meaning to Jews

• Breaking bread at the beginning of a meal is a part of tradition.
• Bread was a basic food and was called the “staff of life”
• Jesus called himself the “bread of life”
• Manna - the bread from heaven, was placed inside the Ark of the Witness, Covenant
• Covenants amd Peace were made by sharing bread together.
• A consequence of Adam eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was having to sweat in order to obtain bread.
• Men live by breach and by the Word of God.
• Bread was used to symbolize several things:
  • In OT relationship between God and Israel, his love and care for them
  • In NT relationship between Jesus and those who follow him.
  • Acceptance of wisdom
  • In Tabernacle Elohim’s presence
  • An enemy being totally defeated

Notes

Passover with Jesus

They all knew what the bread meant, it meant the cleansing of sin. Cleaning out the leaven from the households. Getting rid of sin.

Incidentally, not understanding the Feast of Unleavened bread, we wouldn’t understand what Jesus had done earlier in the week. Flashback to the story of Jesus turning over the tables. When Jesus was overturning the tables in His Father’s house, the Jews were cleaning the leaven out of their houses. Ponder that one for a moment or two.