In 1986 I was crying out to God for understanding of the Book of Revelation and true eschatology, while longing to return to the original faith of the first-century Hebrew-Jewish Notzerim. That night Yeshua Himself appeared in a dream, teaching us as His close disciples. We came to a beautiful tree with one massive, low-hanging branch that looked perfectly healthy and strong—like a tree in itself. As I ran to jump on it, Yeshua spoke with stern authority: “Do not touch that branch, for it is rotten to the core and ready to fall.” He repeated the warning and began explaining how the branch represented Judas Iscariot who hung himself on it. The entire discourse was given, yet every word after the warning was immediately blocked from my memory. Then He cried out three times: “Danger! Danger! Danger!” I woke up shaking violently, knowing the dream was Heaven’s direct answer to my prayer about the last days and the pure original faith.
Nearly forty years later I now understand what Yeshua was showing me.
The physical Feast of Unleavened Bread is a prophetic picture of the suspended 70th week of Daniel 9. After the 69th week, Messiah was “cut off” (Daniel 9:26) when the leaders rejected Yeshua. The Davidic kingdom timeline was suspended between the 69th and 70th week, creating this present “unleavened dispensation” of nearly 2,000 years. During this gap we are commanded to purge every trace of the old leaven so the kingdom loaf that rises in the 70th week will be pure.
Paul, a Torah-observant Notzerim, wrote: “For Messiah, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Corinthians 5:7-8)
The early Notzerim understood the unleavened bread as the Torah itself walked out in its pure, sincere form—the instructions of Yehovah. Yet the Torah is not the final leavening of the kingdom; it is the pointer and instructor preparing us for the true rising that comes by the Spirit.
The same leaven that blinded Judas is still at work today. Yeshua did not eat a Passover meal with the disciples—the Greek text shows they ate artos (regular leavened bread) at the Kiddush covenant meal before Passover. Judas had eaten the very last of the old leavened bread and expected an immediate Davidic kingdom. He betrayed Yeshua not from pure evil but because he wanted the overthrow of the corrupt priesthood, Sanhedrin, and Rome—right then. Leaven = timing. He distorted the two comings of Messiah and missed the suspension of the 70th week entirely.
Judas prophetically represents all forms of religious bias, especially in eschatology. From the pure Notzerim root, denominations branched off, each carrying its own doctrinal leaven and presumption. Today every branch of Western Christianity is proudly puffed up in what it calls “truth.” This is not faith—it is presumption rooted in man’s own desires. It is exposed by our refusal to remove the inherited teachings that throw off the timing of Yehovah alone—especially the calendar, the Aviv barley, and the new-moon reckoning.
Yeshua warned: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees” (Matthew 16:6, 12). Paul echoes: purge the old leaven (1 Corinthians 5:6-7). Jeremiah foretold this very age of a greater exodus under the unleavened banner (Jeremiah 16:14-15; 23:7-8).
The rotten branch in my 1986 dream was exactly that: every system and teaching that looks strong and inviting yet is rotten at the core with mistimed presumption. Yeshua’s triple “Danger!” still rings.
This Passover, I am obeying the dream and the Scripture. I am searching every corner of heart and doctrine, removing every inherited falsehood that distorts Yehovah’s timing, and walking in the unleavened sincerity and truth of the original Notzerim faith.
“Purge out the old leaven… for you really are unleavened.” (1 Corinthians 5:7) The Lamb has been slain. The danger has been warned. Now—let us keep the Feast.
