MATZAH - THE BREAD OF AFFLICTION

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In certain places in Scripture Jesus is called the bread that came down out of Heaven. He came as the sinless one, correlating to the unleavened bread eaten during the feast of the same name. Lets not forget that the feast of the over-comers was eaten during the feast of unleavened bread, therefore they would be eating the bread of affliction. 


Isaiah 53:3-5Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

 People despised and avoided him,
a man of pains, well acquainted with illness.
Like someone from whom people turn their faces,
he was despised; we did not value him.
 In fact, it was our diseases he bore,
our pains from which he suffered;
yet we regarded him as punished,
stricken and afflicted by God.
 

But he was wounded because of our crimes,
(he was) crushed because of our sins;
the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, 
and by his bruises* we are healed. 
When we were looking at the Feast of the Overcomers a month or so ago, one might ask what were they overcoming? The ultimate answer is of course, death. The wages of sin is death, whether it is Adam's original sin, the sins of our fathers and our own personal sins and failure to live up to the covenant. 

Jesus' resurrection, His rising victorious over death, fulfilled the Feast of the Wave sheaf. The unleavened bread (Matzah) was considered the bread of affliction or was made from Barley, barley was the bread of the poor.

Jesus, left glory and became both poor and afflicted so He could make us over-comers in Him. Jesus was the unleavened bread made from the barley grain, He was bread for the afflicted and for the poor. 

This is the passage widely used for communion 
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took (unleavened) bread:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.  1 Corinthians 11:23-24

 His body was the bread of affliction, and it was broken,  it was the bread of poverty 

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