LORD SUPPER PART II

Ex.12:14 (This day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it forever).
Deut.16:6 (There thou shall sacrifice the Passover at even, in the right season).
This Memorial is to be kept as a remembrance of the severity and goodness, or justice and mercy, of God.

Ye shall keep it a feast--it shall be annually observed, and shall be celebrated with solemn religious joy, throughout your generations--as long as ye continue to be a distinct people; an ordinance--a Divine appointment; an institution of God Himself, neither to be altered nor set aside by any human authority. Forever. An everlasting or endless statute, because representative of the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world; whose mediation, in result of His sacrifice, shall endure while time itself last, and to whose merits and efficacy the salvation of the soul shall be ascribable throughout eternity. This, therefore, is a Statute and Ordinance that can have no end, either in this world or in the world to come.

Lev.23:5 (In the 14th day of the month at even is the Lord’s Passover).
Num.28:16 (And in the 14th day of the first month of the Passover of the Lord).
Deut.16:1 (Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover unto the Lord thy God). The Passover Lamb, which was called the Paschal or Passover Lamb was the animal that was to be sacrificed on this occasion was the name of the institution itself. Paul copies the expression in 1Cor.5:7 “Christ our Passover” (that is, our Paschal Lamb) is sacrificed for us.” The month of Abib or Nisan is the approximation of March or April, and “thou shall therefore keep this Ordinance in his season from Year to Year” (Ex.13:10).

Lev.2:11 (No meat offering which ye bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven). (Lev.6:17 (It shall not be baken, with leaven, as it is a sin offering).
It was the custom of the Jews at Passover to roast the meat without leaven nor any honey. Unleavened bread or cakes were baked, having no leaven, Leaven ferments the dough and so produces corruption, and is therefore a symbol of mortal corruption (1Cor.5:8); therefore it is excluded from the Passover, as it is also to commemorate the haste of Israel’s departure from Egypt. Unleavened bread is the symbol of purity; bitter herbs are the symbols of affliction, which they endured in Egypt, and leaven symbolizes corruption.