Gathered Around the Fire

INCORRUPTIBLE BREAD Passover and the seven days that follow it are days in which all of God's people ate unleavened bread.  What's so special about Matzo bread?  Matzo bread does not spoil,  it does not mold. It is incorruptible. It can be sealed in a box for years and be taken out and used. Because all of the impurities that would feed bacteria have been "tested by fire" and removed. The unleavened bread signifies, the sinless God-man, Jesus, the second Adam, who was the incorruptible bread that came down out of heaven, This Bread (His body) did not see decay,  because there was no sin found in Him that could hold Him in the grave.  "The wages of Sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life." Every year God had Israel eat this Matzo bread to make the declaration that He had not forgotten His Promise in the Garden to redeem Adam's race back as HIs inheritance.  Although the Jews did not intend to validate Jesus as Messiah, the...

THE FOUR CUPS OF PASSOVER  FOR NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS  I found this article a few years ago.   I posted about it last August but I thought I should repost it now since we are fast approaching the dates for Passover this week. This article lays the context for the institution of the Lord's Supper.  It came out of the OLD Covenant even as it was proclaimed to be a New Covenant.  The 4 Cups of Passover-New Covenant If you want to see more content like this ... please bookmark this URL:    https://upsettingbroca.blogspot.com  Blogger no longer offers a subscribe by e-mail option.  Various writings from the past The Road Not Taken At Home In MN  

The crowd was huge, people lined the road between the Mount of Olives and Bethpage. They were standing shoulder to shoulder, sitting on their parent's shoulders. Everyone was hoping to catch a glimpse of the parade its pomp and circumstance. The media people were all in place vying to be the first to record any significant occurrence. The whole nation had gathered together over 1.2 million people crammed like sardines into Jerusalem. The shepherds would be leading their sacrificial lambs, to the ancient city and into the Sheep gate of the Temple on the north side. in that flock was the one lamb which would ultimately be chosen to cover the nation's sins, as the National Pesach Lamb. Quietly, undetected at first, they saw a man riding on the foal of a donkey, This had never happened before! Immediately they recognized the man as, the prophet, the teacher, Jesus of Nazareth!  The news spread like a wildfire in high winds igniting the crowd. People began to pick up the cloa...