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2022 Observance of the Lord’s Evening Meal…Be on guard for those who seek to confuse you

Posted by Brother John Jones on December 31, 2021
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God’s Greatest Gift

Nisan 14, April 22 after sundown many will take time to show their love and their appreciation for all that both God the Father and Christ the Son have done.

The Bible informs us that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted his evening meal on Nisan 14 the first night of the Passover celebration. (See Luke Chapter 22)

After eating the same meal that everyone else gathered in Jerusalem did that night, he took his closest twelve disciples to a private chamber and shared this special observance with them.

These facts are clearly written and cannot be honestly disputed (Luke 22).

Yet, many have divined different ways of calculating, reaching other dates on which to observe the Lord’s evening meal that do not coincide with Nisan 14.

Nisan 14 begins today at sundown April 15, 2022.

According to well kept records by the only people who could possibly be an ‘authority’ (the Jewish people) this is the night that the Passover meal was eaten which Jesus celebrated as everyone else gathered in Jerusalem did. Then immediately after, instituted the Lord’s evening meal.

Did Jesus violate God’s commandment given in the Law? Some suggest that he did by teaching that Jesus ate the Passover meal on Preparation Day (Nisan 13). That would mean that Jesus violated the Law. Jesus did not violate the Law in any way: he fulfilled the Law. Had he violated the Law he would have disqualified himself for the purpose of the ransom sacrifice. He ate the meal appropriately on Passover day, Nisan 14.

Note Jesus’ own words found at Matthew 5:17-22:

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Again, the Lord did not violate God’s law.

Such people believe that they as non-Jews are better qualified to determine when Passover officially begins than people of Jewish heritage.

Some cannot discern that the Passover meal was prepared during the daylight hours, which would correspond to Nisan 13. But after sundown when they ate, it was a new day. It officially became Nisan 14 at sundown. So when some read of the Lord’s activities on Preparation Day, they fail to appreciate this fact.

If you fact-find by checking any Jewish calendar, you will observe that they all point to sundown today, April 15, 2022 at the start of Nisan 14.

God gave the Hebrew people the command to mark and celebrate this date perpetually after the actual Passover night in Egypt thousands of years ago. They have done so ever since year after year.

The date is important to know for Christian disciples in order to know when is the appropriate time for an annual celebration of what the Lord instituted on that night.

It is this day that Jesus instituted this special observance of remembrance of the value of his body and blood that were sacrificed for the redemption of mankind. He also founded his church of elect ones with those who ate from the loaf of bread and shared the cup of wine with him.

As stated earlier, after sundown many will take time to show their love and their appreciation for all that both God the Father and Christ the Son have done by sharing in celebrations of the Lord’s Evening Meal.

And of further importance, it was in this same twenty-four hour time period that Jesus was crucified providing that ransom sacrifice.

This means that when he instituted the meal, it was at the beginning of the 14th, and he was killed approximately 21 hours later, still on Nisan 14.

 “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:” Ephesians 1:10
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The Only Choice-Why Could Only Jesus Serve As The Ransom Sacrifice?

Posted by Brother John Jones on March 8, 2019
Posted in: Bible Standards, faith, God and Christ, Heaven, Jehovah, Jesus, Religion. Tagged: , , . Leave a comment

Students of the Bible understand that Jesus provided a ransom sacrifice spotless and unblemished as required by God to redeem mankind from the slavery to sin and death that Adam and Eve cursed all their descendants to.

1 John 2:1,2

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

It should not be overlooked that the chosen one to be offered, had to be a ‘firstborn’ of at least equal value as Adam the firstborn of humankind.

Adam’s sin caused mankind to fall out of grace with God. It became necessary for there to be a means of reconciliation.

God found it acceptable to devise an act of propitiation that would be sufficient that he would open a means to be put right with him.

Propitiation is an action meant to regain someone’s favor or make up for something you did wrong.

He provided His only begotten son to serve as a sacrifice for atonement.

The meaning of the word atonement is simply at-one-ment, He was sacrificed to make all things in Creation at one with God again.

No firstborn animal of a lesser life form would meet the requirements satisfactory to God to serve as the ransomed one.

There is only one other firstborn mentioned in the Scriptures that would possibly qualify. That was the firstborn of creation, the only begotten son of God.

Although he was of much higher stature and value than Adam, he was the only possibility. There were actually no other option; no one else to be considered.

God in his wisdom and foresight withheld immortality from his only begotten son until after his resurrection for this purpose.

Romans 6:9

We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

Had God not withheld immortality from His son, this ONLY choice would not have been able to serve as the sacrifice that offset (atoned) for Adam’s transgression. He would not have been able to give up his life because he would not have been able to die. There would have been no one else worthy.

This demonstrates that Almighty God, the Father, knows all thing and he knows the finale from the very beginning.

God’s superlative sacrifice is of sufficient value to cover all things in both Heaven and on Earth. More was being brought back to oneness with God than fallen man. His sacrifice covers things that occurred in the Heavens as well.

1 Corinthians 15:20-28

20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

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