Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Communion

The Passover feast was (and is to this day) one of the most sacred and important feasts on the Jewish calendar. On this important day, Jewish families would gather together, slaughter a lamb, roast its meat over a fire, prepare bitter herbs and bread made without yeast, and share this meal in remembrance of the events from Exodus 12.
In that passage we find that before the body of the sacrificial lamb could be eaten, its blood was placed on the sides and the tops of the door-frames to the people’s houses. On the night that God was going to pass through Egypt and pronounce judgment on the land where His people were being held captive to slavery, He would see the blood and it would be a sign to Him. Because of the blood of the lamb, God would pass over His people and they would not die on that day of judgment.
Many centuries later in Luke 22:19 we read that during the Passover feast, Jesus asks His disciples to “do this in remembrance of me.” Since this time, Christians have been breaking the bread and drinking the wine in remembrance of how the blood of the Lamb of God allows us to be “passed over” on the day of final judgment.

Read Luke 22:16. What do you think it means for the Passover to “find fulfillment in the kingdom of God”?

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