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PART 2 of Special Passover/Unleavens issue
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De-Leavening
During Unleavened Bread we are to have no leaven or leavened products in
our home (Exodus 12:15; 13:7). This is specifically to be sure that nobody
eats leaven accidentally. This includes any agent that produces fermentation
(bubbles)and causes dough to rise.
It was much easier in the ancient times to remove leaven as most bread was
baked fresh and a single starter culture of dough was the only other leaven
to put out. Today, leaven is hidden in many products and products are stored
for longer periods. Food items in your house such as cereals, crackers, breads,
cakes, pies, breaded meats and vegetables (chicken nuggets, etc.), tortillas
and such should be removed from your house and disgarded. [even Matzo crackers
may have leaven! READ THE LABEL!] It is best to use up your stock -- not
buying any new leavened products for a couple weeks prior to Passover. Also
check the ingredients list on products that you do buy for hidden leaven.
Although not specifically found in scripture but noted in Jewish literature,
some observers do an annual house-cleaning, vigorously removing crumbs from
couches, rigs, ovens, toasters, and vacuum bags. Although no one will be
tempted to eat these items and they cannot leaven new dough, many find
the event spiritually edifying and more precisely in obedience to the law.
Doing all this is symbolic of putting both the visible and hidden sins
out of our lives and it starts, prior to the Feast of ULB, at Passover.
1 Corinthians 11:26-32 For as often as ye eat this
bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine
himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he
that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh ****ation to himself,
not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among
you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not
be condemned with the world.
A believer must always be examing him/her self and discarding sin from
every crevice of their heart and body. Discern what the Lord did and is doing
by His sacrifice. Discern why He did it and what your willing obligation
should be. Submission and Obedience to Him and His holy laws - which
are just and good. Also when we examine ourselves, we do not compare ourselves
with those around us (2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves
of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but
they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among
themselves, are not wise.)
Instead, the holy Scriptures and the law of God are our "perfect mirror"
by which to measure ourselves. (James 1:18-27 Of
his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind
of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every
man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man
worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and
not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what
manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to
be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this
man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father
is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.)
We are to discard all carnal habits and walk in the spirit. Putting on
the mind of Christ (He is the Head of The Body) means conforming our
thoughts, values, and character to be like His. This is being unleavened
- without sin by the blood of Christ. Be ye submissive to His chastening
and obedient to His law.
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Leavening Agents
There are three common methods by which bread can be made to rise. These
are by the presence of steam during cooking, aeration, and the production
of carbon dioxide in the dough [Steam, Air, CO2 Agents or Chemicals]. All
of these methods involve incorporating and trapping gas in the substance
of the bread.
Many things can leaven breads but these can be grouped in three
standard categories. Air trapped in egg foams or while creaming butter and
sugar creates small pores which can expand. The air pockets that permeate
a dough or batter also provide space for the accumulation of carbon dioxide
gas and steam. Watch the viscosity of batter. Thick batters help trap air
during beating while thin batters let air escape during beating. The longer
the product sits before going in the oven, the more air is lost. Steam can
also cause things to get puffed up. Water expands 1600 times when it becomes
steam. Water in products becomes steam when heated. Low temperatures (<400
C) reduce steam's ability to to get leavening power. (Puff pastry,cream puffs,
popovers use steam as major leavening.) Chemical leavening occurs
when an acid and an alkali interact in the presence of liquid or heat. The
resulting carbon dioxide gas expands and causes the bread to rise. Chemicals
may be subcatorgoized into ingredient lists that you can look out for during
the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Chemical Leavening Acids
Coated anhydrous monocalcium phosphate
Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate
Dimagnesium Phosphate
Glucona-delta-lactone
Monocalcium Phosphate Monohydrate
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
Sodium Aluminium Phosphate (SALP)
Ammonium (Bi)Carbonate (harts-horn powder)
Potassium Carbonate (potash or pearlash)
Standard Leavening Agents
yeast (yeast extracts are okay - they are not the whole
yeast organism and cannot leaven. They are the proteins derived from inactivated
(killed) yeast. They are used as a flavor enhancer and will be listed on
labels as "yeast extract", "yeast autolysate" or "torula yeast." Autolyzed
Yeast Extract, Yeast hulls, Yeast Nutrients are also non-leavening items.
There are two kinds of Brewer's Yeast. One is used to make beer and its bubbles
and consequently can leaven. The other is a deactivated yeast used as a
nutritional supplement. The latter is okay as it has no leavening properties.)
baking powder ( three types of BP: phosphate, anhydrous
phosphate, and sodium aluminum sulfatephosphate [household])
baking soda (only a leaven if used with an acid like
: sour milk or buttermilk, molasses, brown sugar, honey, corn syrup, maple
syrup, lemon juice, and vinegar, other acidic fruit juice or cream of tartar
or tartic acid) may also be called "saleratus"
potash or pearlash (potassium carbonate, pottasche,
pottasch, saleratus, pearl ash) a by-product of burned wood ash.
beaten egg whites or beaten whole eggs (beating them
traps air to facilitate leavening - un-beaten or carefully blended eggs will
not leaven)
sourdough (left over leavened dough from previous batch)
harts-horn powder (ammonium carbonate, carbonate of
ammonia, baking ammonia, bicarbonate of ammonia, ammonium bicarbonate, powdered
baking ammonia, triebsalz, hartshorn, salt of hartshorn, hirschhornsalz,
hjorthornssalt)
Carbonated Beverages such as soda-pop or beer will
leaven a baked product. A 7-Up in a cake used rather than baking powder will
result in a light, soft texture, due to carbon dioxide - it is a leavening
agent unless all the air/gas is depleted (flat).
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How to Observe ULB for Unequally Yoked Couples
Familiar dilemma: God has placed the husband as the head of the household
and yet the unbelieving husband persecutes the wife for observing the feasts
... a wife creates havoc over her husband throwing away the leavened bread
in the house "forcing" her to partake in his "weird" religion ... but God
says to keep the Feasts.
It is truly a divisive matter in a home. Jesus said He came to bring a sword
to a family but that does not give us reign to treat others poorly or lord
our beliefs over another. God has called you both to PEACE.
Above all, you must always reflect the Father's light of Love. Be a good
and loving spouse. Tell your spouse that you are sorry for the way you have
handled this disagreement in the past. Tell him/her these indeed are your
convictions and that you want to obey God, love your husband/wife and keep
(or establish) harmony in the home ... and maybe even ask him/her for his
help in obtaining this.
Wives with unbelieving husbands -Maybe the answer could be for you to designate
a room or 'set up a tabernacle' (tent)which you make YOUR dwelling for the
Feast of ULB. In this place YOU would have the 'headship' as far as keeping
it de-leavened but outside you are not responsible for but the 'Head' is
... of that which is your husband. That way your dwelling is clear of leaven
and you do not force the truth down your family's throats. You honor God.
You honor your husband. And teach your children a valuable lesson in how
to truly be a Christian.
Husbands with unbelieving wives: Remember that you cannot force submission
of your wife - true submission is a willing act not a coerced one.
1 Corinthians 7:12-16 But to the rest speak I,
not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased
to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an
husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her
not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the [believing]
wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the [believing] husband:
else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving
depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such
cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether
thou shalt save thy wife?
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ULB Scriptures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Exodus 12:15-16 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul
shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an
holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation
to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man
must eat, that only may be done of you.
Exodus 13:6-7 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and
in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. Unleavened bread shall be
eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither
shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
Leviticus 23:5-8 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the
LORD'S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast
of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the
feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth.
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1 John 3:4-7 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth
also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he
was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth
in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is
righteous, even as he is righteous.
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BE YE
UNLEAVENED
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"Sabbath Blessings To You"
Love to you all in Christ Jesus ~ Kenneth M. Hoeck
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