For a memory of Jesus’ sacrificial propitiating death on the cross, there is a memorial to this taught by Jesus Himself for those who keep His teachings, believing that He is. The memorial is like the Jewish Passover, extending it, but now the blood is no longer that of a Passover sacrificed lamb but the blood of Jesus Himself and wine to symbolise it and remember is drunk, not painted on door posts like the original Israelite Passover in Egypt. There is the link back to the first time. In the Passover, the lamb eaten is a link back to the lambs of the first time whose meat was eaten and their blood painted on door posts to turn aside the wrath of angels of death. In the memorial to Jesus, there is a link back to the first time. The link is the wine drunk which resembles and commorates and symbolises the blood of Jesus when He gave His body to die on the cross. He died to shed His own blood and offer His own body. There is a second link which is the bread eaten symbolising the body broken on that cross. So these symbols extend to the partakers that body and blood of Jesus the Christ, a propitiation for all. Now the whole big important crux of it all is this. The body is eaten as bread and taken into the body of each disciple of Jesus who partakes, believing that Jesus truly is, now as back then, and forever, alive again having died that death, and alive forever to help deal with sin and come close to the Father, God, holding to Jesus’ teachings with Jesus’ anointing of the Holy Spirit dwelling within. The blood is taken in too, as wine drunk in thanksgiving. And therefore the disciple is, in accordance with Jesus’ own word, the word of God His Father, part of this. Part of Jesus Christ. In Christ. A new creature with new hopeful eternal prospects given by God when God raised Jesus from the dead. What great salvation. Thanks be to God. What a great eternal living Temple to the glory of God, for the glory of the Name of God the Father.
