This had so many lightbulbs going off in my brain! It was such a huge aha moment for me! The Old Testament is making sense to me more than ever before.
"Matthew 26: 27-28. It is Passover. Jesus and his 12 disciples have gathered to celebrate the ritual meal. Every Jew everywhere was required to gather and commemorate the miracles of The Exodus. To remember that great and terrible night when the blood of a spotless lamb marked, who would live and who would die, when the 10th plague." Passed over" the houses of the Israelites but struck down the first born of Egypt. It was during this" last supper" that Jesus instituted the communion meal. When he had taken a cup and given thanks, he gave it to them saying,' drank from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins." Do you hear the echo of Exodus 24? Moses said," this is the blood of the covenant"; Jesus said," this is my blood of the covenant." This echo is not coincidental, nor was it missed by its first century audience. Rather, on that Passover night, Jesus announced to his disciples that something greater than The Exodus was about to transpire. By means of oath and sacrifice. Another rabble of slaves was about to be transformed into God's covenant people. As Moses sprinkled the blood of the bulls upon the people of Israel in order to ratify the Sinai covenant, so Jesus distributed his own blood that night to ratify a New covenant. And this time the oaths were not sealed by." The blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer," but by the blood of God the son. Moreover, the slaves who were freed from their bondage by this New covenant were not delivered merely from Egypt, but from death itself. In this New covenant, the Lord of the cosmos has served as both suzerain and sacrifice."
The Epic of Eden by Sandra Richter
