Passover.......

For ever never ends, but the ceremony has become obsolete. We keep it in Christ--in the same way we keep all the Law in Him. Hebrews 8-10 deals with this concept in detail.

While the specific reference of the Passover to Israel was deliverance from Egypt to become a nation of God's chosen people, that is simply a type of our spiritual deliverance from the power of sin and Satan to become a new chosen people of God through our Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ.

No feast or ceremony of the old covenant was unaffected when the new covenant eclipsed the old. The spiritual reality in Christ replaces the old physical shadow observances. </font>[/QUOTE]Long last that I've read a post I so felt in sympathy with!

 

If indeed the Last Supper's Communion was initiated at the time of Passover meal, it seems only to reinforce the fulfillment aspect of what Christ instituted. Jesus said that the elements represented His sacrifice (as Passover Lamb), the body and blood of the New testament. The NT fulfills the shadows of the OT (as Hebrews teaches)--so this act by Christ was to indicate that a transition was taking place.

To continue to celebrate the Passover with the blood of lambs, rather than the blood of THE Lamb is to not fully recognize the fulfillment of that OT figure. I celebrate the Passover in Christ every time I take the Lord's Supper. Jews who recognize their Messiah will do the same--thus it will indeed be observed forever.

 

"The spiritual reality in Christ replaces the old physical shadow observances." If christ wanted to do away with passover as opposed to fulfillin it he could have had the last supper any night and he could have died at another date.