Watching and Waiting

The Rapture could happen soon. How should we prepare?

What do you do when you’re preparing to leave? How should we act as we wait for the further fulfillment of Bible prophecy or even the Rapture? The Old Testament book of Exodus has one suggestion for us.

It has to do with yeast, or in biblical terms, leaven.

Back then, the Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt. God was preparing to rescue his people. Led by Moses, they were going to escape Egypt.

Based on God’s instructions, Moses gave a series of specific directions to the Israelites about the very first Passover. Among other things, he told them to get rid of all the leaven in their houses, before they celebrated that sacred meal.

“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. 16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you. 17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.”—Exodus 12:15-17

Moses told the people to get rid of the old leaven in their homes—every bit of it—in preparation for Passover, and in preparation for their journey. The people were about to set out for new lives in the Promised Land, and they needed to clean out their cupboards before they left.