13:4,5
They were to keep this festival when they had entered the land of Canaan as a reminder of how they had got there. Immediately when we are rescued by the Lord in some way we are grateful, but when life gets comfortable it is so easy for us to forget. The land flowing with milk and honey was currently occupied by various godless nations. The salvation of God’s people is a matter of conquest. Now we do not fight with the weapons of this world, military conquest is not part of the gospel! But we are to conquer. It is so easy for us to adopt a purely defensive approach. We need to recognise the victory we have in Christ.
13:6-10
We now get the details of the feast. It was to last for seven days, they were to eat unleavened bread, and leaven was to be banished from the house. Their children would wonder why they carried out this strange custom, and they were to tell them how the Lord had brought them out of slavery. This practice was to help the law of the Lord to be in their mouth, i.e. to be an integral part of their lives. They were to keep this festival, and it was a reminder that the strong hand of the Lord had rescued them. Our God is a God of power, and we must never forget that. If we do forget it then our theology will quickly go awry. It is also worth noting that these outward actions of the feasts were part of the process of their “internalising” the truth of the Lord.
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