LORD SUPPER PART III

The Passover was a kind of a sacrament, uniting the nation of Israel to God. Reminding them of the past affliction, symbolizing the new life; cleansed from the old ways of the Egyptians.

Ex12:6 (The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening).
The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian all was morning or afternoon; after that, was afternoon or evening. Their first evening began just after twelve o’clock, and continued till sunset; between twelve o’clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the Passover lamb was killed. So they slayed the Passover lamb, shortly after the time of their daily sacrifice, about 3 o’clock (9th hour) in the afternoon.

Luke 23:44 (And there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour).
Matt.27:35 (And they crucified Him). Mark15:33-34 (The sixth hour was com, darkness until the ninth hour). The detail of the Crucifixion of Christ following His trail by the Jewish and Roman authorities: He was led forth for Crucifixion; Preparatory to the actual ordeal itself. He was scourged. The prisoner was bent over, tied to a post, while the Roman victor applied blow upon blow upon His bare back with a lash intertwined with pieces of bone or steel. The trail went on all night and throughout the early morning. They Crucified Him at a place called Calvary. The darkness began at the sixth hour, about our twelve o’clock; noon, and lasted till the ninth hour, which answered to our three o’clock in the afternoon, when he gave up the ghost (died).

Luke 22:14-20 (I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer).
Matt.26:19-20 (Now when even was come (after sunset) He sat down with the twelve). Mark14:25 (I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God). Christ ate the Passover the preceding even, which was the beginning of the same fourth day, Wednesday. The Jews begin their day at sunset, we at midnight. Thus Christ ate the Passover on the same day as the Jews. Christ kept this Passover at the beginning of the fourteenth day, the precise day and hour in which the Jews had eaten their first Passover in Egypt.

And in the same part of the same day in which the Hews has sacrificed their first paschal lamb, about the ninth hour, or three o’clock, Jesus Christ our Passover, was Sacrificed for us. For it was at this hour that He yielded up His last breath; and then after the Sacrifice being completed, Jesus said, “It is finished.” He was laid in the tomb about Sunset on that Wednesday, and arose about Sunset “at the end of the Sabbath (Saturday) Matt.28:1. He fulfilled His own prophesy by being in the heart of the earth Three Full Days and Three Full Nights (Matt.12:39-40).

Matt.28:19-20 (Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you). John 6:45 (And they shall be all taught of God).
Men are ignorant of Divine things and must be taught. Only those who can be considered as proper teachers of the ignorant and are thoroughly instructed in whatsoever Christ has Commanded, and who are entrusted with the public ministry of the Word should take care that they teach not human creed and confession of faith in place of the Sacred Writings.

Matt.26:26-28 (He took bread, and gave thanks, and break it; take eat, this is my body). Luke 22:20 (He took the cup, and gave thanks, drink ye all of it).
This is the first institution of what is termed the Lord’s Supper. “Jesus took bread,” unleavened bread and gave thanks, and gave it to the disciples. Bread, as a symbol of the body of Christ, suggests the staff of life, the very basis of life itself. The breaking of the bread suggests the breaking of Christ’s body in redemptive sacrifice. Wine (grape juice), as a symbol of the blood of Christ, suggests the pressing out of Christ’s life, the bruising by Divine wrath. Together they symbolize the Sacrifice of the very Life of Christ.