Finishing God’s Sentences – part 2

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:17 (KJV)

Unleavened bread – So let’s look at this sentence again. We know that the words “the feast of” were added, so where are we at? Is God telling us to observe the feast of unleavened bread, or just observe the unleavened bread? The Feast of Unleavened Bread is one of His holy days and He does require we observe it, but is that what God is doing here? At first we might think, yes, it makes sense here. But there’s some beautiful wordplay going on that we completely miss when adding “the feast of” to this verse. Continue reading “Finishing God’s Sentences – part 2”

Finishing God’s Sentences – part 1

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:17 (KJV)

The feast of – I’ve been married for over a decade now and just the other day I caught myself finishing my wife’s sentence for her. Of course I didn’t interject the word she was looking for even though I thought it was close enough. But because I wasn’t quite right on, she continued to ponder on that word until she finally got it and then repeated her sentence to me. How funny is that? Continue reading “Finishing God’s Sentences – part 1”