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gluten it is often baked as an unleavened bread. This is a parable, for bread represents
man's flesh and leaven represents sin.
The Last Supper was held during the Feast of Passover. During that meal, Christ took
an unleavened loaf of barley bread and said to His disciples, "This is My BODY, broken for
you." The bread had to be unleavened, for Christ was completely righteous, having never
sinned.

Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One
who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

The disciples partook of this meal during the days of unleavened bread prescribed by
Moses.

Exodus 12:15
"Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven
from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh
day, that person shall be cut off from Israel."

These days are called The Feast of Unleavened Bread, and they are part of the larger
Passover celebration. The Feast of Unleavened bread occurs at the time of the barley
harvest. The barley loaves represent not only Christ, but those overcomers in Christ who
buffet their bodies and keep them under subjection. These ones do not permit their flesh
to rise up in the presence of sin. They keep their bodies under the rule of the Spirit.

Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ Yahshua have crucified the flesh with its passions and
desires.

Wheat is harvested at Pentecost, and therefore corresponds to the second
resurrection. Wheat contains an abundance of gluten. At Pentecost Yahweh gave
instructions that the wheat presented to Him be baked as a leavened bread. Pentecost
occurs fifty days after Passover.

Leviticus 23:16-17
"You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a
new grain offering to Yahweh. You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of
bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour,
baked with leaven as first fruits to Yahweh."

It was not a random whim of God to instruct Israel to remove all leaven from their
homes during Passover and to bake the barley as unleavened bread, anymore than it is a
meaningless requirement that the bread at Pentecost must be baked WITH leaven. Yahweh
is showing forth truth through means of parables. Those who do not rule over the flesh with
its passions and desires, will be excluded from the honor of attaining to the first
resurrection.
Because many Christians sow to the flesh, rather than to the Spirit, they must wait
until a later resurrection to enter into their inheritance in Christ. God will not be mocked.
Whether a person is a Christian, or an unbeliever, they will reap what they sow. Those