barry
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I have been doing research on the topic of the Memorial and the use of the emblems. To clarify I'm not of the anointed.
Since I grew up in the truth I know all the reasoning of the WT regarding the emblems that it is only for those in the new covenant and that those are only of the anointed.
It's been years now that I have been thinking about this and I would just like the share some scriptures that I found which would indicate different than what the WT teaches.
Order of Memorial events
Luke 22:14-30
Based on this account (vs 19, 20) there was the passing around of bread and wine (symbol of Jesus body and blood) and the indication that is means the new covenant.
After that the betrayer (Judas) was identified.
After these events (vs28-30) Jesus instituted a covenant for a kingdom with the apostles so they can sit on thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel.
This account would indicate the new covenant is not the same as the covenant for a kingdom.
Since I grew up in the truth I know all the reasoning of the WT regarding the emblems that it is only for those in the new covenant and that those are only of the anointed.
It's been years now that I have been thinking about this and I would just like the share some scriptures that I found which would indicate different than what the WT teaches.
Order of Memorial events
Luke 22:14-30
14 So when the hour came, he reclined at the table along with the apostles.+ 15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” 17 And accepting a cup, he gave thanks and said: “Take this and pass it from one to the other among yourselves, 18 for I tell you, from now on, I will not drink again from the product of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes.”+
19 Also, he took a loaf,+ gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying: “This means my body,+ which is to be given in your behalf.+ Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”+ 20 Also, he did the same with the cup after they had the evening meal, saying: “This cup means the new covenant+ by virtue of my blood,+ which is to be poured out in your behalf.+
21 “But look! the hand of my betrayer is with me at the table.+ 22 For, indeed, the Son of man is going his way according to what has been determined;+ all the same, woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”+ 23 So they began to discuss among themselves which one of them could really be about to do this.+
24 However, there also arose a heated dispute among them over which one of them was considered to be the greatest.+ 25 But he said to them: “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those having authority over them are called Benefactors.+ 26 You, though, are not to be that way.+ But let the one who is the greatest among you become as the youngest,+ and the one taking the lead as the one ministering.+ 27 For which one is greater, the one dining* or the one serving? Is it not the one dining?* But I am among you as the one serving.+
28 “However, you are the ones who have stuck with me+ in my trials;+ 29 and I make a covenant with you, just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom,+ 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom,+ and sit on thrones+ to judge the 12 tribes of Israel.+
Based on this account (vs 19, 20) there was the passing around of bread and wine (symbol of Jesus body and blood) and the indication that is means the new covenant.
After that the betrayer (Judas) was identified.
After these events (vs28-30) Jesus instituted a covenant for a kingdom with the apostles so they can sit on thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel.
This account would indicate the new covenant is not the same as the covenant for a kingdom.