Today we learned about how Passover is often considered synonymous with The Feast at of Unleavened Bread. For 8 days the Jews not only avoid leaven but seek out every opportunity to eat Unleavened Bread. The leaven in bread is symbolic of pride because leavening puffs up bread, and pride puffs us up. So not only do they not eat leaven for eight days, they completely rid their homes of it, Spring Cleaning for the Jews is literally done religiously every spring during Passover. They cleanse their house and look for the leavening to get rid of.
At the same times the Jews were cleaning their house of the leaven and sin, Christ was cleaning his Father's house of the sin. This is discussed in all 4 gospels: Matthew 21:12–15; Mark 11:15–17; Luke 19:45–46; John 2:13–16 and there is a video clip depicting this event. After our discussion of the cleansing of the temple, the basket was full of eggs, each egg had a different task and a small amount of money, (anywhere from fifty cents to a couple of dollars). Then the kids got to open the egg. They got to keep all the money, but to open another egg they had to complete the task in the egg. We had a whole bunch of deep cleaning items I had been hoping to get done for a while. The money was just enough to get the kids motivated to do their job quickly but thoroughly. We then discussed how it is easier to feel of the spirit when our house is clean and in order and free of things that are distracting to the spirit.
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