Continueing on with our thought:
There is of necessity three
cups the two of the meal and then the cup in the garden. The cup of
the New Covenant which signifies the end of the now Old
and the bringing of the New which replaces the broken Old Covenants,
the Law, Psalms and the Prophets in their proper place of fulfillment or completion in consummation in Jesus. This is the cup of the meal. Then
the cup which conceals that which it contains, as a bag conceals what
is in it, such as a cloth bag or an old wine skin so conceals from
sight that which is hidden or had been so hidden from literal veiw. This is what the custom or practice of
the Passover and the Lord's Marriage Feast concealed in its meaning in the elements and the double purpose or application as a Marriage
Feast and a death of an old nature (as passed to all sons of Adam) and the New Life promised mankind
at Genesis 3:15 and 21. The Life restored through the now New nature in the second Adam. A
re-birthing from above becoming spiritually alive or to wake up as
from the dead. As a seed buried and which is dead then comes to life
we know not how (John 12:24). Paul spends four chapters in Romans
dealing with sin and its death and the exchange of these two natures
which took place during the Lord's Last Supper on through His
ascension and we might add the giving of the Holy Spirit on
Pentecost. When we so receive Him we're in the process of entering into righteousness wherein our spirit begins to feed on the figurative language of God's Living Word. In the Epistle to the Hebrews the writer relates to the
Lord's own words in the eating of His flesh and the drinking of His
blood both being a shadow in type of the promised New Covenant that
came about through the office of His death and the shedding of His
Blood. He consummated the first (The Old) to inaugurate the second,
the New. This He could only do because they both have to do with Him
being their centers.
“Christ was given all
power”-Psalm 2: 6-8; Matthew 11: 27, 28:18; John 1: 29, 10:17-18,
24, 17: 2.
“I am the resurrection and
the Life”-Exodus 3:14; Ecclesiastes 12:1; John 11: 25.
"Behold the blood of the
covenant, which the Lord has made with you."-Genesis 3:15, 21; Exodus 24: 8; Mark 14:24;
Hebrews 9: 20.
"This cup is the new
covenant in My blood."-Genesis 14: 18; 1 Corinthians 11: 25;
Matthew 26: 28.
"The blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified."- Hebrews 10: 29.
"The blood of the
everlasting covenant. "-Genesis 14:18; Hebrews 13: 21.
" I give thee for a
covenant of the people."-Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 42: 6, 49: 8; Matthew 26: 28;
Romans 3: 25-26.
“The Lord shall suddenly
come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom ye
delight in.” -Genesis 2:7; Malachi 3:1; Haggai 2: 7-9; Luke 2: 11, 21-32, 38,
46; Acts 7: 38.
“The prayer of
Faith”-Matthew 21:21-22, Mark 11:22-24; Luke 11:8-10, John 14:13, 1
John 5:14-15.
" Jesus was made Surety
of a better covenant. "-Genesis 3:15, 21; Hebrews 7: 22.
"The Mediator of the
Better Covenant, established upon better promises . . . . The
Mediator of the New Covenant . . . . We are come to Jesus, the
Mediator of the New Covenant." -Hebrews 8: 6, 9: 15, 12: 24.
“He is our need and the
supply for that need”-Exodus 3:11-12, 14-15, 4:10-14; Deuteronomy
8:3-4; Philippians 4:19, 1 Corinthians 1:4, 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2
Timothy 2:1, John 1:14, 17.
“Through
the blood of the Everlasting Covenant, Make
you perfect in every good work to do His Will, working in you that
which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be
glory for ever and ever. Amen. -Hebrews 13: 20-21.
“The principle of the
promised Newness of Life in two parts, the first as the propitiation
which is the completion or consummation of all that had gone before,
sin and death, then of His ontological essence which was in the
original Adam in Genesis 1:27, 2:7 as the corporate or federal head of
His Body. Since Genesis He has been symbolized by the appointed
images, instruments, figures, and utilities in Jewish symbols of
worship. Now done away with as the bread and then the second the
inauguration of Newness of Life in the cup in which there was wine a
symbol of His Blood as the New Covenant sealed by His Spirit of Life,
in His blood in all righteousness. This is to be a memorial once practiced but now not so
for us, for while He in His ontological essence, His likeness and,
His character is being increased within us, again as we become a
second Adam.”-Jeremiah 31:30-36; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 8:6-13, 9:15
“Christ is the principle of
Life through Light, Love, Grace in Truth and Spirit. For we now
worship the Father is Spirit and in Truth as a son of God by faith.”-John 4:23-24, 14:16-18, 16:13
Then in 1
Corinthians Paul covers it in similar fashion from chapter 5 through
15 mostly in figurative language under the direction of the Holy
Spirit. Allow me to turn to 1 Corinthians 5:7 where we find:
1Corinthians 5:7-8
“Purge out therefore
the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For
even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep
the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and
wickedness; but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.”
As
the body or flesh of Christ was of the old leaven, just as ours is
but it is said that He had no
malice, guile of bitterness in Him (1 Peter 2:22). We
could place several words in such places as “the old leaven” or
sin, lawlessness, iniquity, wickedness...etc., and “a new lump”
with spiritually awakened, sanctified, and righteousness. All
through the idea of opening up to public view the Truth, the exposing
of the mysteries or secret things hid by God from Israel's and all
unredeemed mans understanding. These things are also hid from plan
view from those who have entered the first estate in redemption until
the Holy Spirit has properly prepared them as the ground is prepared
to receive the seed, in Love. For true Faith works through or in Love, not mans philio love of weakness and niggardliness but God's Agape Love restored.
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