Lesson from a Seder

A couple years back, we enjoyed Murray Tilles, with Light of Messiah Ministries, presenting a traditional Jewish seder at our worship service. I had never heard such awesome insight into the foreshadowing of Christ in this Jewish tradition, and as he explained, many Jews unfortunately miss it too. (Check out this link for more details on how to have your own Seder). Anyway, this is the part I was thinking about this week. The significance of the symbolism of the hidden matzah bread is lost on those Jewish people who haven't yet had their eyes open to the picture of Christ in this part of the seder meal, but it's really powerful to me as a believer and Mr. Tilles explained how it overwhelmed him once he was saved. He mentioned many other examples of Jewish tradition that are actually clear signs of Christ, though many just haven't realized the Truth yet. I became burdened for those people who are God's chosen, but don't recognize Him as their Savior yet, and have enjoyed keeping up with this ministry since, and praying for their work. Anyway, I just wanted to share an explanation of this portion of the order of the seder meal because of how cool it was to me:

There are three pieces of matzah bread, two for the blessing and one ot be broken. There is a special cloth holder with three sections called matzah tash. The three pieces ofmatzah are inside, one in each compartment. The leader takes the middle sheet of matzah and lifts it for everyone to see. He then breaks the bread in two. This symbolizes Christ. Next, he takes one piece and places it back in the matzah tash. Then, he takes the other piece and wraps it in a linen cloth. This linen-wrapped matzah is called the Afikoman.The matzah tash forms a unity of one which speaks of the unity of God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The leader then hides the Afikoman. This is a picture of Yÿshua (Jesus), the middle part of the tri-unity, which was broken, wrapped up in cloth, buried and brought forth again (as bread brought forth from the earth.) Yÿshua (Jesus), the bread of life, was without sin (leaven), pierced, and striped just as the unleavened matzah. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb...(Matt. 27:59-60).