Marymog said
Maybe
@Acolyte and
@charity can help you out since they liked what you said.
I don't think he needs any help. He has explained himself.
When I like something someone says, I'm not saying I agree 100%. I find looking and listening great learning tools. Enjoy looking at things from a different view.
Personally, I do partake of the unlevened bread, and juice. And I have also been accused of worshipping satan because some see it as a symbol of cannabalism.
A quite terrifying accusation... but JESUS said do this in rememberance of me. So be it!
Hello
@Acolyte
I appreciate and respect the fact that you do not perhaps agree with all that you have read in certain posts, even though you have indicated that you have 'liked' what is said. I would like to comment on the Lord's words,
'do this in rememberance of me', that you refer to in your post.
During the period covered by the book of acts, as you know, the door was open for Israel to repent, and had they done so, the Lord would have returned, as God told them through Peter in Acts 3:19-21. The letters written during this period of approximately 40 years, indicate that the expectation of the Lord's imminent return was very much the expectation held by the believers of that day. That return depended on the repentance of Israel, which did not come. Finally the door was closed to the nation of Israel, at the end of the Acts period, when they continued to reject the witness of the Apostles as to the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ (see Acts 28). So, they and all the promises of God associated with them are in abeyance, awaiting fulfillment in a coming day.
During this intervening period, the Church which is the Body of Christ is being called out, and the hope and expectancy of this company is not Christ's coming, but His 'appearing' in glory, when they will appear with Him there (
Col. 3).
The epistles written following the laying aside of Israel in unbelief by the Apostle Paul (
Eph. Col. Phil. 1&2 Tim. Titus) have no mention of the Lord's supper, or of remembering the Lord's death until He come: for the Church of the Body of Christ, of which He alone is the Head, which is the subject of those epistles, is intimately identified with Christ, in His death, burial, quickening, resurrection, and ascension to God's right hand. It's members merely await His appearing in glory, for they will appear with Him there. It's hope is a heavenly hope, and the return of Christ to the earth is not what it's members look for. It is not affiliated with Israel as a nation, in it's blessings or it's hope, and it needs no symbols to remember Christ death, for it has died with Him, been buried, quickened and raised with Him, and now live in newness of life in Him,while looking for His blessed 'appearing'.
Praise His Holy Name!
In Christ Jesus
Chris