The Passover and the Eucharist

[livingproofGM]

I just finished an awsome book entitled "A Father Who Keeps His Promises," by Scott Hahn. This is about about a page of one of the last chapters that discusses Christ's "once for all" sacrifice on Calvary. I know I always talk about this, but my other thread was left up in the air, so I thought I'd try once more. Someone promised me they'd talk further about it, anyway.

1. The Synoptic Gospels clearly depict Jesus instituting the Euchatist within the context of the Jewish Passover.
2. The Jewish Passover was the covenant sacrifice that Jesus meant to fufill by His own self offering.
3. The Passover sacrifice should not be seperated from Jesus' sacrificial death on the Cross; Jesus didn't finish the Passover until Calvary, where he fulfilled it (It is finished Jn 19:30).
4. The Eucharist is also inseperabely united to Christ's death; for Calvary began with the Eucharist, while the Eucharist ended with Calvary. They are one in the same sacrifice.

The "it" that was finished in John 19:30 was the Passover that Jesus had begun-but interupted-in the Upper Room. His completion was marked by the sign of drinking the sour wine, the fourth cup of the ancient Jewish Passover. What was finished was finished was Jesus' fulfillment of the Passover of the Old Covenant, through His transformation of it into the New Covenant Passover. He is the first born son who was slain, the Lamb without blemish or broken bones (Jn 19:36), the one who is slaughtered-and whose body must therefore be eaten (John 6:53-56). We, too, must eat the Lamb. That is why Christ instituted the Eucharist.

Jesus is no longer bleeding, suffering, or dying (Heb 9:25-26). But if Jesus' offering has ceased, then there would be no basis for His ongoing priesthood, and we read in Scripture that His priesthood is permanent, and will "continue forever" (Heb 7:24). In the heavenly court Jesus appears as "a Lamb standing as if it had been slaughtered" (Rev. 5:6; cf. 13:8).

The "once for all" character of Jesus' sacrifice points to the perfection and perpetuity of His self offering. It can be represented upon our altars, in the Eucharist, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that "through Him, [we] continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God" (Heb 13:15).

 

[Iollain]

The sacrafice that was made when the high priest went into the Holy of Holies was not ate, it was burnt up.

 

[livingproofGM]

That's not what this thread is referring to. The Bible tells of the Old Testament covenant of the Passover. The Passover in Egypt (the unblemished lamb) had to be eaten in order for death to passover the Israelites. Christ's death on the Cross is the fulfilment of the Old Covenant, the unblemished Lamb, having to be eaten at the Last Supper among the Apostles, in order to obtain eternal life.

 

[Lynn73]

Actually the blood of the lamb had to be put on the doorposts and lintel in order for the death angel to pass over that house and not kill anyone.

 

[livingproofGM]

Exactly. They had to sacrifice a lamb so they may escape death. But the requirement was that they also eat the sacrifice (the Lamb) in the Old Testament. Christ is our Lamb, whose flesh we must eat in order to escape death.

 

[InnerPhyre]

Excellent points, livingproof.

 

[Iollain]

Yup it is true they had to eat the passover lamb. Later in the Tabernacle and Temple i think they did the same thing with the passover lamb in the Passover Sedar. There is no Temple now so they cannot have a sacrafice.

 

[livingproofGM]

Christ is our temple. He is the sacrifice.

 

[Iollain]

And we are Yeshua's temples

 

[livingproofGM]

Isn't that weird, how it works both ways?

 

[Iollain]

Yes that is

 

[livingproofGM]

Come on, lets pretend to debate so we can get some people in here . No one ever talks about this subject anymore. No I'm just kidding, a break from debating is a good thing!

 

[Iollain]

there is a good read on here , eh:

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/haggadah.html

 

[livingproofGM]

I am totally igorant to all the big words ...But can you tell me in english what the site is saying?

 

[Iollain]

Not right now i've got 2 preschoolers on the loose here and i'm running about cleaning and running to the puter now and then, you might ask them in the Messianic Forum..they could explain better than me.

Here is the Holy Day i was thinking about before, Yom Kippur:

http://www.beth-el-messianic.org/yomkippur.html

 

[livingproofGM]

Because Yeshua (Jesus) shed His blood, all who would have their names written in the Book of Life may have the assurance of their salvation. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. “These things are written that you may know that you have life.” God has provided remedy for sin; sin has been atoned for and because of Yeshua we have been granted eternal life!

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This is too true. And the Eucharist is a rememberance of this sacrifice. We eat and drink Christ's body and blood to remember exactly the price he had to pay for our sins; living flesh given up to provide eternal life. So, we must eat this flesh to remember what was done for our salvation.

 

[livingproofGM]

I'm gonna talk to myself until someone talks to me......

 

[livingproofGM]

Still talkin...come one, someone talk to me!

 

[Joykins]

Have you ever attended a Seder?

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

The sacrafice that was made when the high priest went into the Holy of Holies was not ate, it was burnt up.

Yes, but the Passover was not for the Holy of Holies. At the original Passover the lamb's blood was put on the door posts and the lamb was eaten.

The High Priest brought the blood into the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur not on Passover.

Just a thought,
Kenith