That's why I don't understand why Churches would hold a seder...a seder
is a celebration of Jews being granted their freedom from Egypt, and the
beginning of the creation of the Jewish nation.
Well, nothing like a smart Jew to point out the obvious. Thank you.
Here's how it all works, according to actual Christianity.
The Passover Seder:
-
Remembers God's work in liberating the Hebrew slaves from Egypt.
- It
recalls specific events that occurred in history, for a specific people.
- The people of that liberated nation were commanded by God to annually hold a ritual meal for the
remembrance (
or bringing back to the present) of that mighty act of God.
The Christian Thanksgiving (eucharist):
- was instituted by Jesus, on the night He was betrayed. He showed that the Passover story was a symbol of what He was about to do for all mankind, not just the Jewish nation.
- The ritual of breaking bread, eating it, drinking wine (like the kiddish image within a Seder and weekly) was now to be done to
remember God's work in liberating mankind.
- The eating of bread and drinking of wine
recalls specific events that occurred in history, namely the death, burial, resurrection and future return of Jesus.
- Furthermore, the ritual meal like kiddish that Christian are commanded to observe is done for the
remembrance (
or bringing back to the present) of that mighty act of God.
In other words:
They are not the
same thing.
One remembers and recalls some events, one remembers and recalls other events.
They do not replace nor cancel out each other. They are for different purposes.
One prefigures the other.
Yes, Christians see Jesus in the Seder, in almost every portion. This is why they like to see demonstrations of it, because in doing so they see God's hand in liberating the Jews from slavery and Pharaoh as a sign and symbol that He would liberate all mankind from sin and oppression in the life, ministry, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. They see that God left hints and signs to those who would observe the Seder about His Messiah.
Sadly, there are many here on this forum who mix the two up and together. They see Jesus as kind of a "tack on" to the Seder. They don't observe the kiddish of Jesus. They recall and observe the Exodus from Egypt and tack Jesus at the end as a kind of afterthought. It's just not kosher.
