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I understand the symbolism regarding the passover, (initiated by God) - of the Israelites who were commanded, by God, to eat the lamb and the unleavened bread, for it was the bread of affliction, to be eaten in haste due to their hurried exodus out of Egypt, the land of slavery, and therefore they had no time to leaven their dough. At first they were obliged through necessity to eat unleavened bread, but afterwards, only by the command of God - in remembrance of the Lord’s passover, symbolically recalling the haste in which they departed from slavery.
What I don’t understand is why Jesus, at His passover, at which point He initiated a new and everlasting covenant, in His Blood, would command His Apostles to symbolically eat unleavened bread in remembrance of Him, and command them to continue to do as He did, that very night, for His church, only in symbolic remembrance of Him? I don’t understand the symbolism of the bread, regarding the remembrance of the last supper passover of Jesus and His apostles, as I do the symbolism of the bread regarding the remembrance of the Israelite passover, again, recalling their hasty departure from Egypt?
A little help from those Christians who view the Eucharist as only a symbolic meal??? Thanks…
“Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste–so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.” Deuteronomy
“Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household…The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect… when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast…This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.” Exodus
"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast…Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt… In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast…For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses… Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread…When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Exodus
What I don’t understand is why Jesus, at His passover, at which point He initiated a new and everlasting covenant, in His Blood, would command His Apostles to symbolically eat unleavened bread in remembrance of Him, and command them to continue to do as He did, that very night, for His church, only in symbolic remembrance of Him? I don’t understand the symbolism of the bread, regarding the remembrance of the last supper passover of Jesus and His apostles, as I do the symbolism of the bread regarding the remembrance of the Israelite passover, again, recalling their hasty departure from Egypt?
A little help from those Christians who view the Eucharist as only a symbolic meal??? Thanks…
“Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste–so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.” Deuteronomy
“Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household…The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect… when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast…This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.” Exodus
"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast…Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt… In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast…For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses… Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread…When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Exodus
