THE BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS – PASSOVER OR COVENANT MEAL?

The good Lord by His Oracle, the Holy Spirit has revealed to me that the Passover meal is quite different from what I call the “covenant meal” (of His body and blood), commonly referred to as the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion.
The Passover meal is a tradition passed down to generations of Israelites. The tradition is a command from God (Exodus 12:1-29). Israelites cherish and revere so much their God commanded traditions till today.
Jesus needed the Passover meal setting to drive home His point and the import of what He was about to handover to them, that is, His disciples (Luke 22:14-16). It was the final most important event with His disciples before His journey to the cross of affliction and humiliation nay the cross of deliverance and redemption (Mathew 26:1-2).
So when it was time for the Passover meal, a national event in Israel; Jesus instructed His disciples to prepare the meal (Mark 14:12-17) – A meal of roasted lamb or goat, bitter herbs (vegetables) and bread. Just as they reclined, eating the Passover meal (Mark 14:18a), Jesus brought out or took bread and wine (prior to this, He never informed His disciples of His intentions (Mark 14:22-23), He blessed the bread, broke it and handed to them, saying “take, eat it, this is my body broken for you, do this in remembrance of me.” Then He took the wine, shared it and said “take, drink it, this is my blood of a new COVENANT for the remission of sins of many.” (Luke 22:17-20, Matthew 26:26-29).
At that moment Jesus cut and enacted a covenant – for a new beginning, a new era. The participation of His disciples was the ratification of the new treaty or covenant (I Corinthians 10:16-18). Symbolically it was bread and wine; spiritually it had deeper connotation - it was a participation in the body and blood of Jesus.
It was a “covenant” meal, greater and far more important than the Passover meal they knew and had just taken.
The Passover meal was a covenant from God through His servant Moses but the ‘’covenant’’ meal was a covenant through the only begotten Son of God – Jesus, the Christ.
The ‘’covenant’’ meal upturned and abolished the Passover meal and the covenant it represented.
The Passover meal brings to recall judgment and destruction, the “covenant” meal brings to mind mercy and redemption.
The Passover meal was a prerequisite for deliverance at a national scale and for the breaking of “limited” dark powers for and over Israel but the “covenant meal” was a worldwide deliverance – for all humanity and the final annihilation of the supreme conglomerate of dark Satanic powers over human kind.
The Passover meal is parochial, the ‘’covenant’’ meal is universal.
The Passover meal was limited to Jews; the “covenant” meal is for all races and tongues.
The Passover meal was taken on a particular date or time in Israel. The “covenant” meal is to be ‘’done in remembrance of Jesus” and as “often as you do take this meal you proclaim the Lord’s death” as revealed to our brother Apostle Paul (I Corinthians 11:23-26). In other words the “covenant” meal can, if possible be taken several times solemnly in a day and thus at the same time invoking the powers and blessings in the covenant.
When the body of Jesus was lacerated and torn with those spiked whips and the crown of thorns forced on His head and those six inches nails driven into His hands and legs – ‘’His body was broken for you’’. When the spear was thrust into the side of His ribcage causing blood and water to gush out “it was the blood of His new covenant poured out for the remission of sins of many’’.
By His pains and mourning on the way to Golgotha and on the cursed tree, He bore your grieves and sorrows. By the stripes and crown of thorns that broke His body you were healed. By his chastisement you received the peace that surpassed all understanding. By His ‘’poured out’’ blood which carried His very life (Leviticus 17:11, Deuteronomy 12:23-24) your sins, no matter how grievous were all forgiven, blotted out and remembered no more (Isaiah 53).
The Passover meal is not the same as the “covenant” meal (of His body and blood). The “covenant” meal is and was an enactment or promulgation of the “New Covenant” promised by God in Jeremiah 31:31-34.
The Israel ‘‘of flesh’’ still keeps their traditions including the Passover meal. Bu the Israel ‘‘of God’’ still daily re-enact the new covenant by taking the “covenant” meal. The Spirit says the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Let the wise hear and obey what the Spirit is saying.

Bro. Yusuf Rufa’i,
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