Deuteronomy 16:3-4

Another place where this is reinforced is Deuteronomy 16:3-4. You may remember from the sermon on the last Sabbath that these verses do not pertain to the Passover itself, the festival, but rather they apply to the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

If we are going to get anything valuable from this experience it is going to come because it has affected our memory of the spiritual things that are involved with this day, because if we do that then it is going to be a more vivid object lesson. That is what the putting out of leaven is for us, it is an object lesson for you and me, something that we are told to actively do in order to enforce the teaching that is there.

Deuteronomy 16:4

The term "first day" refers to the first day of Unleavened Bread, not Passover day. Calling this entire period "Passover," and especially calling the Passover "the first day of Unleavened Bread" is a practice of later traditional Judaism. It does not reflect God's Passover as given in Exodus 12, Numbers 9, Leviticus 23, or Leviticus 33. These two together make ten differences already.

Deuteronomy 16:4

We are talking about the first day of Unleavened Bread—not Passover.

When was this sacrifice made, brethren? At the beginning of the 15^th day, not at the beginning of the 14^th day—at ba erev. That makes it very certain that it was the first day of Unleavened Bread.