THE HOLY EUCHARIST
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(1) The Sacrifice & Priesthood of Melchizedek
Gen 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth Bread and Wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Ps 110:4 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. [The Priesthood of the Messiah is not in the Order of Levites and the Order of Aaron but according to the Order of Melchizedek – Heb 5:6/6:20/7:17,21]
Zech 6:13 The Messiah = King and Priest
When did Jesus perform His priesthood according to the Order of Melchizedek?
* During the Last Supper when he offered and blessed the Bread and the Wine!
* When He commanded the Apostles to ‘DO’ the same action, He consecrated them as priests of the Order of Melchizedek.
(2) The Showbread
Ex 25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me always.
Ex 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the showbread. [Ex 39:36]
Num 4:7 Upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue.
1 Sam 21:5 The showbread was sanctified in the vessel
1 Sam 21:4,6 The showbread is holy [It is hallowed bread]. This bread is reserved for priests. David was given it only during emergency case [Mt 12:4/Mk 2:26/Lk 6:4]
1 Chron 9:32 The showbread is prepared every Sabbath
1 Chron 23:29 …for the showbread, for fine flour... for unleavened cakes
2 Chron 2:4 Continual showbread for the Lord is an ordinance forever
2 Chron 13:11 Showbread set on the ‘pure table’ [2 Chron 29:18]
Neh 10:33 Ordinances for the Showbread
Heb 9:2 The Tabernacle made of candelabra, the table, the showbread – this is called The Sanctuary.
(3) The Feast of Passover Sacrifice
Ex 12:11 …It is the Lord’s Passover. [Lev 23:5/Num 9:2-5]
Ex 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial [zikkaron]; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. [The Passover Sacrifice is a perpetual feast]
The Last Supper is the Feast of Passover Sacrifice
[Mt 26:1-2,19/Mk 14:1,12/Lk 22:1,7]
1 Cor 5:7 Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
(4) The Feast of Unleavened Bread
The Last Supper is the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Mk 14:1 After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread… [Lk 22:1]
Mk 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto Him, Where wilt Thou that we go and prepare that Thou mayest eat the Passover? [Lk 22:7]
(5) The Unblemished Lamb of Sacrifice
Ex 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats. [Lev 22: 19-21]
1 Pt 1:18-19 You have been redeemed… with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot. [Heb 9:14/ Acts 20:28]
John 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
(6) The Manna from Heaven
Ps 78:24-25 Manna as Food of Angels [‘The Eucharist is the real FOOD OF ANGELS’] Jn 6:48-51
(7) The Cup of Salvation
(8) The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving (Eucharistic Sacrifice)
(9) The Pure & Universal Offerings (Sacrifice)
(10) The Perpetual Nature of the Sacrificial Rite
(11) The Right Sacrifice to be Offered
Ps 4:5 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the Lord. [NIV/NRSV]
(12) The Bread and Wine in the House of Wisdom
Prov 9:1,5 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars… Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
(13) The House of Bread
(14) The Fine Flour & Wine of the Temple
Lev 24:5-8 Fine Flour for the Memorial Bread, to be set on ‘pure table’ to be eaten in the holy place for it is most holy to the Lord among the offerings. It is a perpetual statute of an everlasting Covenant.
1 Chron 9:29 Fine Flour and Wine in the House of God
1 Chron 23:29 Fine Flour for Unleavened Cakes
(15) The Bread for Priestly Ordination
Lev 8:31 …there eat it & the BREAD that is in the basket of ORDINATION OFFERINGS, as I commanded…[RSV-CE] (‘Basket of Consecration’ – KJV)
Lev 21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him [priest], for he offereth the BREAD OF THY GOD: he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
Jesus Distributing the Sacred Bread
B. THE FULFILLMENT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
1. THE LAST SUPPER NARRATIVES: Mt 26:26-28/ Mk 14;1-24/ Lk 22:1-20/ 1 Cor 11:17-29 The Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist during His Last Supper.
Mt 26:28 [NLT] …It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive sins.
Mk 14:24 [NLT] …It is poured out as a sacrifice for many.
Lk 22:20 [NLT] …which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
3. The Emmaus Experience
4. The Miracle of Multiplication of Loaves
Jn 6:4,11-14 - on the eve of the Passover, Jesus performs The Miracle of Multiplying the Loaves. This was prophesied in the Old Testament (e.g., 2 Kgs 4:43), and foreshadows The Bread of Life.
Mt 14:19, 15:36; Mk 6:41, 8:6; Lk 9:16 - The Miracles of Multiplication of the Bread
Mt 16:12 - Jesus explains His metaphorical use of the term "bread." In Jn 6, He eliminates any metaphorical possibilities.
5. The Breaking of the Bread in Apostolic Church
Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week [Sunday], when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them…
6. THE BREAD OF LIFE DISCOURSE
Jn 6:4 - Jesus is in Capernaum on the eve of Passover, and the lambs are gathered to be slaughtered and eaten. Look what He says.
Jn 6:35,41,48,51 - Jesus says four times "I AM the bread from heaven." It is He, Himself, the eternal bread from heaven.
Jn 6:27,31,49 - There is a parallel between the manna in the desert which was physically consumed, and this "new" bread which must be consumed. Jn 6:51-52- Jesus says that the bread He is referring to is His flesh. The Jews take Him literally and immediately question ‘how can this man give us His flesh to eat?’
Jn 6:53-58 - Jesus does not correct their literal interpretation. Instead, he eliminates any metaphorical interpretations. In fact, Jesus says 4x we must eat His flesh and drink His blood. Catholics thus believe that Jesus makes present His body and blood in the sacrifice of the Mass. Protestants can only argue that Jesus was speaking symbolically.
Jn 6:23-53 - A symbolic interpretation is not plausible. The Greek text uses the word "phago" 9x. "Phago" literally means "to eat" or "physically consume." Like the Protestants of our day, the disciples take issue with Jesus' literal usage of "eat." So Jesus does what?
Jn 6:54, 56, 57, 58 - He uses an even more literal verb "trogo," (to gnaw or chew or crunch). He stresses the literal meaning. The word “trogo” is only used two other times in the New Testament (in Mt 24:38 and Jn 13:18) and it always means to literally gnaw or chew meat. While “phago” might also have a spiritual application, "trogo" is never used metaphorically in Greek. So Protestants cannot find one verse in Scripture where "trogo" is used symbolically. The Jews already knew Jesus was speaking literally even before Jesus used “trogo” when they said “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” (Jn 6:52).
Jn 6:55 - to clarify further, Jesus says "For My Flesh is food indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed." This phrase can only be understood as being responsive to those who do not believe that Jesus' flesh is food indeed, and His blood is drink indeed. Further, Jesus uses the word "sarx." "Sarx" means flesh (not "soma" which means body). See, for example, Jn 1:13,14; 3:6; 8:15; 17:2; Mt 16:17; 19:5; 24:22; 26:41; Mk 10:8; 13:20; 14:38; and Lk 3:6; 24:39 which provides other examples in Scripture where "sarx" means flesh. It is always literal.
Jn 6:55 - further, the phrases "real" food and "real" drink use the word "alethes." "Alethes" means "really" or "truly," and would only be used if there were doubts concerning the reality of Jesus' flesh and blood as being food and drink. Thus, Jesus is emphasizing the miracle of His body and blood being actual food and drink.
Jn 6:60 - as are many anti-Catholics today, Jesus' disciples are scandalized by these words. They even ask, "Who can 'listen' to it (much less understand it)?" To the unillumined mind, it seems grotesque.
Jn 6:61-63 - Jesus acknowledges their disgust. Jesus' use of the phrase "the spirit gives life" means the disciples need supernatural faith, not logic, to understand His words.
Jn 3:6 - Jesus often used the comparison of "spirit vs. flesh" to teach about the necessity of possessing supernatural faith versus a natural understanding. In Mk 14:38 Jesus also uses the "spirit/flesh" comparison. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. We must go beyond the natural to understand the supernatural. In 1 Cor. 2:14, 3:3; Rom 8:5; and Gal 5:17, Paul also uses the "spirit/flesh" comparison to teach that unspiritual people are not receiving the gift of faith. They are still "in the flesh." Jn 6:63 - Protestants often argue that Jesus' use of the phrase "the spirit gives life" shows that Jesus was only speaking symbolically. However, Protestants must explain why there is not one place in Scripture where "spirit" means "symbolic." As we have seen, the use of "spirit" relates to supernatural faith. What words are spirit and life? The words that we must eat Jesus' flesh and drink His blood, or we have no life in us.
Jn 6:66 - Many disciples leave Jesus, rejecting this literal interpretation that we must eat His flesh and drink His blood. At this point, these disciples really thought Jesus had lost His mind. If they were wrong about the literal interpretation, why wouldn't Jesus, the Great Teacher, have corrected them? Why didn't Jesus say, "Hey, come back here, I was only speaking symbolically!"? because they understood correctly. THE NUMBER OF THE DEVIL FITS THE CHAPTER AND VERSE OF THE PASSAGE REFERRING TO THOSE WHO REJECT THE HOLY EUCHARISTS [Cf. Rev 13:18]
Jn 6:37 - Jesus says He would not drive those away from Him. They understood Him correctly but would not believe.
Jn 3:5,11; Mt 16:11-12 - Some examples of Jesus correcting wrong impressions of His teaching.
Jn 6:64,70 - Jesus ties the disbelief in the Real Presence of His Body and Blood in the Eucharist to Judas' betrayal. Those who don't believe in this miracle betray Him.
Ps 27:2; Is 9:20; 49:26; Mic 3:3; 2 Sam 23:17; Rev 16:6; 17:6, 16 - to further dispense with the Protestant claim that Jesus was only speaking symbolically, these verses demonstrate that symbolically eating body and blood is always used in a negative context of a physical assault. It always means “destroying an enemy,” not becoming intimately close with him. Thus, if Jesus were speaking symbolically in Jn 6:51-58, He would be saying to us, "He who reviles or assaults me has eternal life." This is absurd.
Jn 10:7 - Protestants point out that Jesus did speak metaphorically about Himself in other places in Scripture. For example, here Jesus says, "I am the door." But in this case, no one asked Jesus if He was literally made of wood. They understood him metaphorically.
Jn 15:1,5 – When Jesus says, "I am the vine." Again, no one asked Jesus if He was literally a vine. In Jn 6, Jesus' disciples did ask about His literal speech (that this bread was His flesh which must be eaten). He confirmed the Transubstantiation.
Mt 26:29; Mk 14:25; Lk 22:18 – Jesus says He will not drink of the “fruit of the vine” until He drinks it new in the kingdom. Some Protestants try to use this verse (because Jesus said “fruit of the vine”) to prove the wine cannot be His blood. But the Greek word for fruit is “genneema” which literally means “that which is generated from the vine.” In Jn 15:1,5 Jesus says “I am the vine.” So “fruit of the vine” can also mean Jesus’ blood. In 1 Cor 11:26-27, Paul also used “bread” and “the body of the Lord” interchangeably in the same sentence. Also, see Mt 3:7;12:34;23:33 for examples were “genneema” means “birth” or “generation.”
Rom 14:14-18; 1 Cor 8:1-13; 1 Tim 4:3 – Protestants often argue that drinking blood and eating certain sacrificed meats were prohibited in the New Testament, so Jesus would have never commanded us to consume His body and blood. But these verses prove them wrong, showing that Paul taught all foods, even meat offered to idols, strangled, or with blood, could be consumed by the Christian if it didn’t bother the brother’s conscience and were consumed with thanksgiving to God.
John 6 ‘Bread of Life Discourse’ A METAPHOR?
The big problem with the "metaphor explanation" is that those putting it forth forget that to "eat the body" and "drink the blood" were already figures of speech in Jesus’ culture. It meant to revile, or harm/attack:
Ps 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. (KJV)
Dan 3:8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. (KJV) [Strong’s definition: accuse, devour, eat; of word: to eat the morsels of any one, to chew him up]
Dan 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel (KJV) [see note above]
Mic 3:2-3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (KJV)
Rev 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (KJV)
The crowd took Jesus literally, because using this language in this culture, it couldn’t have been a metaphor. Because in their language, interpreting it as a metaphor (harm/attack) makes no sense. It would change the meaning of Jn 6:53 to something like "Verily, verily I say unto you, except you attack the Son of man and harm him, ye have no life in you. Whoso reviles me and curses me hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day".
If He was trying to introduce some new metaphor that was different from the one currently used by the Jews of the time without telling them, then it is suggesting our Lord was being deceptive. By "forcing" this new metaphor on Jesus’ words, you are therefore suggesting that He let the crowd leave Him and go off to eternal damnation (Mt 10:33) over a misunderstanding.
You'll also have to explain why Jesus becomes more graphic with the term, "Eat My Flesh". Here is a breakdown of the verbs used in the discourse: -trogo = chew, gnaw, as and animal eats. –phago = to eat, consume food.
V. 49 “Your fathers ate [ephagon] manna in the desert and they died”
V. 50 “… that a person may eat [phage] it and not die”
V. 51 “Anyone who eats [phagon] this bread will live for ever…”
V. 52 “How can this man give us his flesh to eat [phagein]?”
V. 53 “If you do not eat [phagethe] the flesh of the Son of man…”
V. 54 “Anyone who does eat [trogon] my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life…”
V. 56 “Whoever eats [trogon] my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me…”
V. 57 “whoever eats [trogon] me will also draw life from me..”
V. 58 “...it is not like the bread our ancestors ate [ephagon]…”
“but anyone who eats [trogon] this bread will live forever.”
THE TESTIMONY OF ST. PAUL:
The Eucharist is THE LORD’S SUPPER
1 Cor 11:20 ‘When you meet together, it is not the Lord’s Supper that you eat’ [St. Paul castigating the Christians of Corinth for profaning the Lord’s Supper and this is what the Born Again are doing. They are eating Biscuits and Juices then after the gathering they discard them.]
The Cup of Blessing & ‘COMMUNION’
1 Cor 10:16 ‘The Cup of Blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ? The Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ?’
Ecclesial Unity through the Eucharistic Bread
1 Cor 10:17 ‘For we being many are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that ONE BREAD.’
The CUP of the Lord & The TABLE of the Lord
1 Cor 10:21 Ye cannot drink the CUP OF THE LORD, and the cup of the devils; ye cannot be partakers of the LORD’S TABLE, and of the table of the devils.
This Cup & Table of the Lord is part of the Sacrifice that must be offered to God! 1 Cor 10:18-20 ‘Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the SACRIFICES partakers of the ALTAR?...the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God…’
Eucharist as Apostolic Tradition
1 Cor 11:23 ‘For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you…’
The Sin of Profanity against the Eucharist
Communion by a Single Species [Bread Or Wine]
1 Cor 11:27 ‘Whoever eats the bread OR drinks the cup of the Lord…’
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