Communion and the Table
I Corinthians 11:23 - Communion represents a meal that is actually 4000 years of old. People have been doing this for thousands of years. This meal didn’t just begin when Jesus had the Last Supper. This meal started when God had had enough of his people being enslaved in Egypt, and wanted to bring them into freedom and into the Promised Land that he has for them. God was showing mercy to his people, who had become slaves based on their own sin and unwillingness to follow God. God sent the Angel of Death to kill the first born in every household without lamb’s blood over their door. The blood was a signal for the angel to pass over that house - a sign of deliverance. The blood from the lamb painted across the land was a sign that the sacrifice would cover that house and that death couldn’t touch that house. This began the process of God delivering his people. Communion and the meal it represents dates back to this event - the beginning of the Passover feast. The Last Supper, the night before Jesus went to the Cross, also occurred at the beginning of the Passover festival. God ordained it to happen that way. The timing of God is always perfect. He always arranges things according to a perfect plan.
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