It wasn’t so much promoting as I am wanting answers.
The majority of Christiantiy has claimed for centuries that Jesus is the messiah. Part of that claim is that he was the passover lamb in the year of his crucifixion.
Jesus made his own claim that he fulfilled all things in the Laws of moses, prophets and psalms.
The Laws of Moses based on this guys study illustrates that the original passover lamb of exodus 12 was slain on a wednesday.
Why do Christians Claim Jesus died friday if he was said to fulfill the Laws of Moses regarding the Lamb? Is Jesus who the Christian world claims him to be if he did not die on a wednsday. There is the 3 days and 3 nights prophecy of Jesus that has been a concept of controversy for as long as I have been raised in religion.
If Jesus was Crucified on a wednesday. It would make sense that he fulfilled the laws of moses and the 3 days and 3 nights prophecy.
What Physical evidence do we have than any of this has any credibility whether catholic tradition or prophetic fulfillment?
What’s this guy’s credentials, other than a blog that has one post on it from May 2009?
The Passover meal was part of the covenant from God and men. It required an active participation. In reading Exodus 12:17, we see this was to be done perpetually, for ever. To reject the Last Supper as the adjustment to, or replacement of, or more specifically a fulfillment of, the covenant command of God, means we should still be celebrating the Passover meal as prescribed by God.
We know from Jeremiah 31:31, a new covenant was prophesied. This prophesy was brought to mind in the New Testament, in a letter from St. Paul to the Hebrews 8:7 – 12.
The prescription of the Passover meal was detailed and clear from the Lord, as written in Exodus 12.
A lamb without blemish was to be slaughtered at twilight, eaten with unleavened bread, the lamb’s blood was to be sprinkled on the doorposts with hyssop, none of the lamb’s bones were to be broken, and this ordinance was to be celebrated perpetually.
The Jewish Passover meal consisted of:
- The Festival Blessing – Drink from the 1st cup of wine.
- Passover Narrative and Little Hallel (Psalms 113) – Drink from 2nd cup of wine.
- Main Meal: roasted lamb, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs and spices – Drink from 3rd cup of wine.
- Great Hallel (Psalms 114 – 118) and the drinking of the 4th cup of wine, and closed when presiding priest or host says the phrase, “TEL TELESTI” which is interpreted as “It is finished” or “It is consummated”.
Now let’s look at the Lord’s Supper that occurred during the celebration of the Passover, or Seder, meal.
3 of the Gospel authors told us about the Lord’s Supper. Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote about it. All 3 say He gave the cup, of the new covenant, to the Apostles and told them to drink, but it does not tell us that Christ, the High Priest, drank of the cup. Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:25 and Luke 22:18, tells us that, during the Passover meal, Christ announced He would not drink fruit of the vine again, until he drank it in the Kingdom of God. After making this announcement, Matthew 26:30 and Mark 14:26 tell us, “Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.” After singing a hymn, the great Hallel, they went out to the garden, without the High Priest closing the celebration, not only not closing the celebration, but declaring He would not drink fruit of the vine again, until He drank it in the Kingdom of God. He did not say, “It is finished” or “It is consummated”.
In the garden, our Lord prayed to the father to let this cup be passed from Him, if it was the Father’s will. Matthew 22:44 tells us that Christ prayed this 3 times. What cup was Christ praying be passed from Him? I believe it was the 4th cup that closed the Passover meal, which was fulfilled with the Lord’s Supper.
When God made the covenant with Moses, Moses asked who to tell had told him of the covenant, Exodus 3:13 – 14. God told Moses, “I am, who I am.”
When Christ was arrested in the garden, He asked who they were looking for and they replied, “Jesus of Nazareth”. In John 18:5, Jesus told them, “I AM he”. When those arresting Him heard this, they went backward and fell to the ground (John 18:6).
Mark 15:22 – 24 told us that Christ was offered wine drugged with myrrh, but He did not drink it.
John 19:28 – 30 explains that Our Lord, aware that everything was now finished, in order that scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst”. Hearing this, they took a sponge and dipped it in common wine, sour wine, fruit of the vine, and held it up to His mouth with hyssop. After taking the wine, our Lord said, “It is finished”, bowed His head and gave up the spirit.
John 19:33 – 38 told us that our Lord’s legs were not broken, so that scripture might be fulfilled.
Mark 15:33 – 34 tells us the time the Lamb of God death, which was twilight, the same time Moses was instructed to slaughter the sacrificial lamb.
Christ came to fulfill the law, and it was fulfilled with the new covenant. A covenant of God and men, that requires participation of those being set free.
