Obviously, no human can possibly reign with Christ in heaven just because Jesus made a covenant with them. First, in order to be sharers with Christ in divine nature the prospective Kingdom heirs must be born again. They must be born from the spirit and circumcised in heart. How does that happen? They are taken into the new covenant mediated by Christ.
For the record I am NOT of the anointed and feel fine at the place where I belong; the earth. That doesn't change the fact that I do have some questions, if you don't mind, without wanting to "offend" or embarrass anyone.
It is clear to me that the Lord's Supper should be commemorated once a year, whereby precisely 1 Cor. 11:27 indicates to me that this meal is a special one, especially considering what Paul says next in verse 34: 'If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it is not for judgment.'
But what I can think of with the other quoted texts with 'keep doing this as often as you eat it', that people realize that it is through Jesus that there is food at all on the table. But that aside.
'They are taken into the new covenant mediated by Christ.'
Question: But isn't that at the time they are being sealed?
Furthermore:
What strikes me now in the text Luke 22 verse 14: When at last the hour had come, he sat down at the table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them: “I have desired to eat this Passover with YOU before I suffer; for I say unto you, I will eat it no more until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God," that at this Passover meal
NO "
foreigners" were present, but only the apostles, and after Judas was sent away He made the new covenant with them. Still, I can imagine, since the sealing only happens when Jesus comes again, that the great crowd of anointed ones will/could also be called during (or just before) the sealing. So it could be possible that the symbols should also be used by the other sheep.
(Also remembering that 'we' have washed our 'robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.' Revelation 7:14; yes I know we are before the throne, so on earth).
Why? Because John 6 verses 53-56 says: “Most truly I say to YOU, Unless YOU eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, YOU have no
LIFE IN YOURSELVES. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has
ETERNAL LIFE and I will raise him [from the dead] on the last day; for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I in union with him.
In Greek, two different words are used for LIFE after using the symbols:
symbolen:
1. ζωὴν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς meaning ‘
life in themselves’
and
2. ζωὴν αἰώνιον meaning ‘
eternal life’
As far as I have learned from the WT teaching, the first is for the anointed and the second is for the other sheep. So could it be that the other sheep actually have to use from the symbols too?
(I now realize that this distinction could have been deliberately introduced by the 'first' Governing Body under the influence of the Free Masons for again more control, since there is seems no Biblical guideline to count or record the number? )