unleavened bread without the Passover. Leaven
is always the type of evil, corruption and sin. An unleavened
condition means the opposite, it means holiness. God redeems unto
holiness. What He redeems is destined to share His own holy character.
This feast of unleavened bread was to be kept for seven days. In
Corinthians (1 Cor. v:7-8), where we read of Christ our Passover, the
unleavened bread is likewise mentioned. "Christ our Passover is
sacrificed for us; wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." And before this it is
written "Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened." Redemption delivers from the power of indwelling sin.
Redeemed by blood, and saved by grace, our calling is unto holiness.
Spiritually to keep the feast of unleavened bread means to live in the
energy of the new nature, walking in the Spirit. And ultimately His
redeemed people will be wholly sanctified delivered from the very
presence of sin. He will present the church to Himself, "a glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish" (Eph. v:27). That will be when we
shall be with Him in glory. Then the gracious work of redemption is
completed and crowned.

+Jehovah-Rophekah+, "the Lord thy Healer," He calls Himself in Exod.
xv:26. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits;
who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, who
redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving
kindness and tender mercies" (Psalm ciii:2-4). We look forward to the
day when in the kingdom to come "the inhabitant shall not say, I am
sick" (Isa. xxxiii:24), when His redeemed, blood-washed people shall be
glorified and then wholly sanctified as to body, soul and spirit. When
our body of humiliation is changed that it may be fashioned like unto
His glorious body (Phil. iii:21), then shall we know all the gracious
power of Jehovah-Rophekah.

+III. The Feast of First-fruits+. The third feast is the Feast of
First-fruits (Lev. xxiii:9-14). While the Passover typifies the death
of Christ, the waving of the sheaf of the first fruits is the blessed
type of the physical resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the
third feast; the