The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread 2025

The journey began three thousand years ago — the Exodus from Egypt and Pharaoh. The blood of the lamb marked the Passover doors. Eagles' wings bore them to shore. Pharaoh pursued with his chariots and men to capture and enslave the people again. Freedom came at the Sea of Reeds, and God split the water and set them free.

*Exodus to all the earth, from Egypt, from bondage, to liberty. Lord, set the captives free.*

At Sinai, a marriage was formed between God and the people with Torah. The people sinned with a golden calf. Moses ascended on their behalf. After forty days he made his descent with new tablets, and the sin was forgiven. The tabernacle was built in the desert sand. Forty years later, they entered the promised land.

*Exodus to all the earth, from Sinai, from bondage to liberty. Lord, set the captives free.*

Once in the land, rebellion occurred against the Lord, breaking Torah. The city was burned and the people were taken into captivity in Babylon. After seventy years, the decree was ordained for the people to return to the promised land. The temple was built and the wall was restored. God's promise was kept and the faith was restored.

*Exodus to all the earth, from Babylon to Zion, to freedom.*

After the valley of rebellion again — rejecting the atonement for sin — Jesus prophesied destruction their way. Forty years later the Romans sealed their fate. The city was burned and the people were exiled throughout the earth. Yet in their trials, the nation was born again in 1948. Aliyah occurred at a tremendous pace.

*Exodus to all the earth, from the four corners to Zion, from bondage to freedom.*

A day is coming for the final exile, to fulfill transgressions and bring eternal life. A beast will rise with a covenant of death, deceiving the people — even the elect. The Lion of Judah will roar from on high, saving the people again. The King's victory march will be the last, placing his feet on the Mount of Olives.

*From Sinai, from bondage to liberty. Lord, set the captives free.*

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We worship him day and night. Blessed is the Lord, the name of the Lord.

*Exodus to all the earth, from the four corners to Jerusalem, forever in the promised land. One new body and one new man. Jesus set the captives free.*

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Shalom, everybody. My name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you very much for joining us tonight as we celebrate the feast — the divine appointment — of Passover. Tonight we discover not only God's calendar and the feast days, but also the fulfillments found in the gospel accounts of what our Messiah did on this exact day, Nissan 14: the fulfillment of the feast of Passover as the crucified Passover Lamb for all of our sins and for eternal life. What an amazing day — what an amazing divine appointment — as we begin with the very first feast of the entire year on the Lord's calendar.

This is a remarkable time to be a part of these things as they correlate to the scriptures and bring us into alignment with him throughout the calendar season. If you're not familiar with it, we're going to go through the calendar and the feast days. We'll also go through Exodus 12, which is the foreshadow of Yeshua's fulfillment, as well as the remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt. Then we'll move into the fulfillment of Yeshua on this day — to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony.

This is totally remarkable. He had to do this as the Jewish Messiah. He had to fulfill the scriptures to every jot and tittle, just as he said in Matthew 5 — and he did it on the feast of Passover, on the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony. This is the reason we honor him by celebrating on this day the holy crucifixion he accomplished for all of us, so that we could have forgiveness of sins, everlasting life, and be sealed with the Holy Spirit as we go forward into these beautiful feast days of the Lord.

We're going to tie all of these things together. If you haven't taken communion today — the bread and the wine — we'll go through that as well. So if you have your elements ready, wine or grape juice and unleavened bread, we'll go through the commandment and the instruction to "do this in remembrance of him," and we will take the bread and the wine together as a community online for whoever wants to participate. I'll let a few more people get online before we do that, as we go through the introduction of the Passover. Then we'll take the bread and the wine, and after that we'll go forward with the teaching on the calendar, the feast days, Exodus 12, the Exodus from Egypt, and how it all ties in as the fulfillment of what he did as described in Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12.

Again, just as I said, Matthew 5 says he has to fulfill every jot and tittle of the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms. This is why we need to be a part of these things — to understand them, to be in alignment with him and in cohesion with him — so that we can read the Holy Bible consistently and smoothly, without replacement theology and without replacement eschatology, as we approach the end of the age.

Welcome, everybody. Shabbat shalom to those who are still in the Sabbath. And now we have another Sabbath beginning — it's called the feast of unleavened bread. I'll explain that while more people come online, before we go forward with the wine and the bread.

The amazing thing about Passover is that it occurs at twilight. Nissan 14 at twilight — from sundown until dark — is Passover. Right after that it transitions into unleavened bread. It's like a bookend that begins the festival season. We have just entered the seven feast days of the Lord that span the year. Passover is that first bookend, lasting about thirty minutes to an hour. We eat the Passover meal, and then we're in Nissan 15 — unleavened bread. Unleavened bread is an annual Sabbath, as we'll go through tonight.

So today we have the weekly Sabbath — Shabbat — and then beginning at sundown, Nissan 15, we have the feast of unleavened bread as an annual Sabbath as well. Our King, our Master, was laid in the tomb on this day. His body was resting. He had descended into Sheol. What did King David say in Psalm 16:10? "You will not leave my soul in Sheol." We understand what happened with Abraham's bosom and all of these things during the three days and three nights, but physically his body was resting in the tomb. This is why we rest on the Sabbath of unleavened bread — on its first day and also on its seventh day, which will be a double Sabbath, both a weekly and an annual Shabbat. This coming Shabbat will be the last day of unleavened bread, Nissan 21, which also falls on the weekly Sabbath. What a great time to be a part of these things with the Lord — these double anointings and these great understandings.

So right now, on Eastern Standard Time, it is dark, which means we are in Nissan 15 — the feast of unleavened bread — and it is an annual Sabbath. Congratulations: you have another Sabbath today to enjoy. And as we all know, the days begin from the evening and continue into the daytime. So tomorrow, from evening to evening, is Nissan 15, the first of seven days of the feast of unleavened bread.

It's really important to understand why this feast is called the feast of unleavened bread. He was unleavened — he was without sin. Leaven means sin; unleavened means without sin. It is the feast of unleavened bread for our Messiah Yeshua, and this is why we eat only unleavened bread for seven days — because of the commandment and because he was unleavened. They crucified him, the sinless one, and so we need to be in trajectory with him.

Then Tuesday night brings the feast of firstfruits — the three days and three nights, the resurrection — and from there we embark on a beautiful 50-day journey, a divine appointment that he wants to share with you, a journey he has designed from Passover all the way to the feast of Pentecost, Shavuot. It's very important to be in alignment with him. That is the trajectory we're about to be on over the next 53 days, from Passover to Pentecost. Fifty-three days — remarkable, isn't it? Isaiah 53.

It is an amazing time to be alive and to go on the trajectory he wants us on. Here is why there is no fixed calendar date for Shavuot: Nissan 14 is Passover, Nissan 15 is unleavened bread, firstfruits falls on Nissan 17 or 18, and then you go on a 50-day journey with him. There is no set date for Shavuot — Pentecost — because he wants you to count with him. Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, and onward. It is a spiritual purification journey that will absolutely light you up into his presence if you walk it with him. He will highlight you and draw near to you in intimacy if you go on this journey with him.

It is a commandment, yes — but beyond that, it shouldn't even need to be a commandment. It should be something we want: we want to go on this journey with you, just as you led the children of Israel after they left Egypt. We want to walk that purification journey as well, to get whatever remains of Egypt out of us during this season. And then next year the same thing, and the year after the same thing. That is why there is no fixed date on the feast of Shavuot — because every year he wants us to count with him, every single day.

Some people might say, "Well, we can do that every day." Yes, you can — and please do that every day of your life. However, these are his divine appointments, designed on his calendar for us to be involved with him fifty days in a row: a divine appointment, seven weeks of purity, seven weeks of spiritual purification. My friends, if you have never experienced that, I pray and I hope to provoke you in a loving way to go on this beautiful journey with him, from Passover forward. It is a beautiful journey through the spring feast days, and then we get a little summer break before we go through the fall feast days with him as well. The months in between are also very important to observe.

This is called the season of your liberation. This is what the children of Israel went through, and this is what he wants all of us to go through — so that we can make sure we have no bondage left over from the Egypt we were in before he sanctified us, cleansed us, redeemed us, and restored us to where we are today.

Thank you very much, everybody. That is an overall summary of where we are. I think we've got enough people online now, so if you have your Passover elements — the bread and the wine — we'll go through this together and partake as a community. If you haven't had the opportunity to observe the Passover meal or ceremony today, that's okay.