The law prohibits the eating of flesh and blood from what is dead.
Jesus Christ is not dead, Jesus is alive so this removes the false notion of canabilsm.
The old covenant deals with flesh, the new and everlasting covenant fulfills the old covenant raising it to an eternal covenant of God made real in the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
In the old covenant they are required to sacrifice a lamb, spread its blood upon their dwelling, then consume the lamb. God made this law perpetual never ending.
In the new covenant when it is “the spirit that gives life while the flesh is of no avail” John 6:63. Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, becomes the sacrificial lamb eternally done “once and for all”. But in order to keep the perpetual law which God commanded from the Old Covenant to be kept. Jesus says “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” in order to have eternal life.
What is eternal cannot be repeated, thus the Eucharist remains perpetual in the “do this in memory of me”, which fulfills the perpetual law of the old covenant in consuming the Lamb of God.
What this body and blood of the lamb does, is what the first sacrificial lamb did; It delivered all the first born from certain death. How? they had to consume it.
When we consume the lamb’s flesh and the lamb’s blood in the Eucharist, we enter into the mysteries of God, (we consume the lamb, who covers our dwelling (souls) with His blood, that gives us eternal life from eternal death ) when in eternal reality it is Jesus who consumes us to himself in order to give us eternal life. For example; We know no one can go before the Father except through Jesus. When we consume the Eucharist which is the body, blood, soul an divinity of Jesus Christ, our flesh cannot go before God lest we will surely die. Jesus consumes our souls with His own body and blood, by us consuming His Eucharist from our flesh, so that we are made son’s of God “in Him, with Him and through Him”, when we become “partakers of His divine nature” to go before God and offer our “Thanksgiving = Eucharist” and worship to the Father.
Jesus is the Old covenant show bread fulfilled, when God’s presence is made known to His people. Jesus fulfills the Kingly priesthood according the order of Melchisedeck, by offering His sacrificial body and blood from the form of bread and wine. And when ever there is a new high Priestly King, there is a change of law. When Jesus fulfills the Old Covenant law of the flesh conforming it to His body and blood which is the New eternal everlasting covenant in the Spirit, when it is the Spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail.
Transubstantiation? reveals that a change of the substance of bread and wine have transubstantiated into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. What this change confirms from trans. is that to our flesh, we see, taste, smell bread and wine, but eternally to our soul they are truly and substantially the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. Thus again Jesus Words are revealed in Truth when it is the Spirit that gives life, while to our flesh is of no avail.
The Lamb supper is the fulfillment of when the elders of Israel went up to the mountain “consuming bread and wine in the presence of God”. So now we do so consuming the true bread from heaven in the presence of God.
Remember it is revealed from scripture that man does not live on bread alone, but on every Word spoken from the mouth of God. “And the Word became flesh” So Jesus promises His followers that if we “eat his flesh, and drink His blood (every Word of God) I will give you eternal life”. Those who do not eat my flesh and drink my blood do not have life, but remain in the flesh which is destined to die the death.
One thing to remember is that the mystery of the Eucharist can never be exhausted from carnal knowledge and understanding. The Eucharist is not for unbelievers, baptism is required here, once in the Spirit these can consume the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ.
Thus Paul writes this;
1Corinthians 2: 1 When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God,…
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
7 Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,
9 But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,”
10** this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. **
11 Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
12 **We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms. 14 Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. 15 The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?” But we have the mind of Christ. **
