Building on the Foundation

  In Exodus 12:15, as it reads in most Bible versions, we find a puzzling statement. God commanded His people, “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel” (NKJV). “On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses.” This wording makes it sound as if we should deleaven our houses on the First Day of Unleavened Bread, a Holy Day! And yet, a few verses later, we discover, “For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land” (Ex. 12:19). If no leaven is to be found in our houses for seven days, then obviously it cannot be found in our houses on the First Day, either! It must already be gone by then. So what’s the meaning of v. 15? It becomes a little...

Last edited: February , 2026 Edits: Accuracy in Greek usage. Clarification.  A significant controversy exists in Christianity regarding the length of time Jesus was in the tomb, and the timing of the resurrection is actually quite important for many reasons. One side opts for a literal 3 days and 3 nights; the other opts for parts of 3 days and 2 nights to align His death and resurrection with Good Friday and Easter .  Since we are once again approaching the season of Passover and the memorial of His death and resurrection, today, we are going to take a look at exactly this topic.  God did not leave us without the exact information we need to pin down the timing of His death and resurrection, almost to the very hour. We are told enough information in the Bible to pin down the exact day of the week on which He died and the almost exact hour of His resurrection.  As a side note, this post represents a crash course (mostly for myself) in the Greek language, so bear wit...