Unleavened Bread

In reading through Exodus 12-15 this morning I came upon the words “unleavened bread” and this occurs all through the Bible. This means bread without yeast and I thought: “Why would God repeatedly mention bread without yeast?”

And then this came to me: leaven (yeast) makes things something that they not which is just like salvation because we receive Christ’s righteousness which makes us something that we are not.

So to say: “Do not eat leavened bread” was an initial way of pointing us towards Christ and reminding us that nothing but Christ will work”.