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Overview
For too long, God's people have clung to a false conception of "communion." God is not seeking a communion ritual with unleavened bread, but rather a true spiritual communion with every believer, a spiritual feast. The groundbreaking winner of a gold 2014 IPPY award, The Messianic Feast solves the long-held controversy of whether the Last Supper was the Passover or if Christ was crucified on the exact day of Passover (in Jewish law, both cannot be true).
But this is just the start, as this truth then opens the door to a much larger one that reveals how the Church came to practice an unleavened-bread ritual communion instead of the true spiritual communion that God desires.
This important book also directs attention to other issues intrinsic to our understanding of the Messiah's teachings:
Using logic supported by historical and scriptural forensics, Tennent connects the chronological dots to reveal amazing new truths that have not previously been seen-and raises a scripture-based challenge to many deeply held traditions. For those who love God and wish to be part of His plan, The Messianic Feast is a keystone to truly understanding God's plan in these last days.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780989765602 |
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Publisher: | Messianic Publishing LLC |
Publication date: | 01/07/2014 |
Pages: | 604 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvi
Note to Readers xxii
Part 1 Setting the Table & The Twelve Courses
Setting the Table for the Last Supper
Setting the Table 1 The Jewish Disconnect and the Fourteenthers 3
The Beginnings of the Dispute 5
The Fourteenthers Lay Out Their Case to Rome 7
The Fourteenthers Knew the Crucifixion Day Was the Fourteenth 10
Roman Emperor Constantine Imposes His Will on the Fourteenthers 14
Setting the Table 2 Words and Concepts Changed 22
Did the Jews Before Paul Share in "Communion" or Partake in the "Eucharist"? 23
Did the First-Century Jews Really Go to "Church"? 23
Did the Early Jews Who Believed in the Messiah Become "Christians"? 27
Was the Name of the Messiah Really "Jesus?" 29
Will the Real "Lion of the Tribe of Judah" Please Stand Up? 31
Were the Early Jewish Believers, Like Paul, Really Called "Saints"? 32
What about the Word "Trinity"? 33
What about the Word "Apostle"? 37
Setting the Table 3 The Messiah Would Speak in Parables 40
Parables in the Jewish Tradition 41
Parables at the Time of the Last Supper 43
Bizarre Statements Point to Parables 44
Why the Messiah Spoke in Parables at the Last Supper 46
What Jesus Said or What He Meant 46
Setting the Table 4 The Jewish Idiom of Natural to Spiritual 50
The Jewish Prophets 50
Jesus Continues Using This Natural-to-Spiritual Idiom 51
Spiritual Eating and Drinking 53
List of Natural-to-Spiritual Examples 57
The Twelve Courses on the Last Supper
Course 1 Last Supper Ritual or Parable? The Messiah Held One Leavened Bread 71
Uncontested Ritual 71
Additional Punishment for Leaven at Passover 74
Some Find It "Dangerous" to Even Question the Ritual 75
Jesus Held One Bread, Not Multiple Breads 76
The English Translations Can Cause Contusion 78
Bread Is Bread? 80
New Ritual or Spiritual Truth in Parables? 81
Last Supper Prophecy, Betrayed with Bread 81
Course 2 The Body of Christ Did Not Mean a Ritual 86
"This Is My Body," But What Is This? 87
No, This Is Not the Flesh of the Messiah 88
What the Apostles Taught about Us Being the Spiritual Body 90
The Spiritual Body, the Spirit of God Dwells within Us 93
"This Do," but Do What-a New Ritual? 96
We Remember the Messiah and the Price That He Paid 97
The Body of Christ as Anointed Tabernacle 100
Course 3 The Jewish Idiom of Breaking Bread Among the Early Believers 104
Washing of the Hands before Eating Bread 106
Twelve Sacred Breads Carried Forward in Jewish Daily Life 107
Breaking Bread on Different Occasions 108
Breaking Bread Spiritually 110
Did "Breaking Bread" Mean Either Common Meals or a Ritual of Communion? 113
They Weren't Just Sharing Common "Meals" 119
They Weren't Partaking in a New Roman Catholic/Christian/Protestant Ritual 125
Course 4 Breaking Bread Spiritually-The Progression 130
An Overview of the Progression 131
Phase 1 Jesus Miraculously "Breaks Bread" Twice to Feed the Multitudes 131
Phase 2 Jesus "Breaks Bread" at the Last Supper in a Parable 132
Phase 3 Jesus Becomes Invisible Just as He "Breaks Bread" Right after His Resurrection 132
Phase 4 Jesus Reappears and Is Recognized "in the Breaking of the Bread" 132
Phase 5 "The Disciples Go Forth in God's Spirit "Breaking Bread" Spiritually 132
The Bread That We Break 133
What, Regular Bread during the Festival? 141
The First-Fruits Offering Before Eating the Bread in the Promised Land 143
The Lost Tribes of the Diaspora 144
The Promise of the Messiah Was to Recover Those Who Were Scattered 149
Course 5 Paul, I Corinthians, and the Last Supper 153
1 Corinthians Chapter 10: Eating and Drinking Spiritually 154
1 Corinthians Chapter 11: What Paul Received from the Lord 156
1 Corinthians Chapter 12: We Are the Body of Christ 157
Figurative Use of "Eating" and "Drinking" 159
Paul's Intended Meaning in 1 Corinthians Chapter 11 162
Spiritual Communion and Reciprocal Communal Meals 167
Eating Unworthily 173
Growing into the Perfected Bride 177
Course 6 The True Jewish Communion and the Messianic Feast 183
The First Bread-and-Wine "Communal" Meal 183
The Three Annual Festivals as Communal Meals 185
Communal Meals and Communal Sacrifices 187
Common Bond for the Communal Meals 189
Natural Communion to Spiritual Communion 190
Jewish Groups Emulate the Showbread 193
The Last Supper and the Messianic Feast/Banquet 199
The Bread and Wine of the High Priest Melchizedek 203
Feasts of God's Love 207
Was the Fruit of the Vine Partaken of with the Showbread? 209
Wine and God's Love 215
Course 7 The Showbread: Who they Represent, were they Unleavened, and Why it Matters 217
The Twelve Breads in the Natural Sense 218
The Twelve Breads Are Symbolic of the Twelve Tribes 220
Why It Matters Whether These Twelve Breads Were Leavened or Not 223
Pharisaic Tradition That the "Breads" Are to Be Unleavened 225
God Commanded Certain Breads to Be Made with Leaven 230
God Also Clearly Commanded When Unleavened Was Required 232
Twelve Breads Show Forth Aspects of God's Plan for His People 233
If the Twelve Breads Were Unleavened 236
Figurative Uses of Bread 237
"Bread of Affliction" Used Figuratively in Deuteronomy 16:3 239
"Bread of God" Is Used Figuratively 241
Other Figurative Uses of Bread 243
Course 8 God's Overall Plan and Pattern for Mankind 248
God's Plan from the Beginning 248
The Pattern Given 10 Noah in Type 250
The Pattern and Plan Shown to Moses for the Dwelling Place of God 253
The Plan and Pattern Given to David for the Dwelling Place of God 256
Stephen Gives the Progression of Gods Plan in Acts, but His Message and Life Were Cut Short 260
The Logos of God Shows This Plan and Pattern 262
What the Logos Came to Mean in Rome 262
Logos to the First-Century Messianic Jews 263
God Speaks Through the Logos 270
The Logos Is the Plan, the Messiah Is the Expression and Pattern 271
Course 9 God's Plan as Seen in the Showbread 275
Names Used for These Breads Reveal Spiritual Truths 276
We Who Abide in God's Presence Are to Be Made into Spiritual Presence Breads 278
The Making of the Twelve Breads Shows God's Process to Make Us into His Image and Likeness 280
God's Part in the Process 281
The rain from God must come for the wheat crops to grow 281
The sunlight from God is needed to grow the crops 283
Man's Part in the Process 284
The Israelite needed to till the ground 284
The wise man planted the seed that came from God 284
The Israelite needed to harvest and then winnow the wheat 285
God also takes pan in the spiritual winnowing 286
The Priest's Part in the Process 287
The priest would then add water and mix it with the flour 289
The priests would oversee the baking of the Showbread 291
The priests were to place the breads on the golden table in God's presence 292
The priest from Aaron must partake of the breads 292
Bread Is Instruction from God 293
Reciprocal Giving and Receiving in the House of God 296
Twelve Breads, Now One Spiritual Bread 298
Course 10 The Symbolic "Cup" and the Promised New Covenant 300
Spiritual Truth and Not a New Ritual 302
The Promised New Covenant 303
God Showed That the Messiah Would Make a Firm Covenant, yet Be Cut Off 307
God Said He Would Draw the Israelite People Back into a Relationship with Him 311
The New Covenant Is Not Like the One under Moses 315
Last Supper Parables Were Shocking in the Natural Sense so They Would Be Remembered, Discussed, and Understood Later 317
The Messiah and the Ritual Purification 318
The Apostles Grew in New Covenant Understandings After Receiving the Holy Spirit 322
Course 11 Jacob, Moses, and the Fruit of the Vine 314
Israel's Historic Connection to the Grapevine 324
John Gives the Spiritual Fulfillment of Jacobs Washing of Robes in Wine 326
Whosoever Ingests Any Blood Is to Be Cut Off 327
The Messiah and the Spiritual Lifeblood of the New Covenant 328
The Blood of the Two Covenants Compared 329
Old Covenant Blood Applied Without; New Covenant Blood Applied Spiritually Within 332
God's Spirit to Indwell the Believer 333
Christ Is the Grapevine-His Shed Blood Is the Spiritual Life Flow to the Branches 336
Abide in Him and Stay Connected to the Spiritual Flow 338
Our Fellowship Is with the Father, Christ, and One Another 340
We Inherit the Lifeblood from Christ and Grow into His Likeness 341
Course 12 The Messianic Feast, the Bride, and the Beast 344
The Soon-Coming Seventh Head of the Beast 346
The Bride Keeps Her Focus on God's Leading 355
The Lord Provides an Open Door 358
Part 2 Proofs the Last Supper was Not the Passover
The Template Challenge 165
The Challenge 365
The Early Roman Catholic Option 367
The Double Passover Option 369
The Saturday Resurrection Option 373
The True Scriptural Option 376
The 13th-Day Question 377
The l4th-Day True Passover 383
The 15th-Day Sabbath 389
Sunday the Third Day Since 394
The Three Major Greek Keys that Unlock the Gospels 397
Key 1 The Subjunctive Mood 398
Subjunctive Mood Used by Jesus in Reference to Eating the Passover 400
Indicative Mood Used to "Perform" the Passover 402
Double Negative Adds Extra Emphasis 403
Key 2 The Dative of Reference 405
How the Dative of Reference Unlocked the Door 407
More Dative-of-Reference Examples 411
What Were the Disciples Really Asking? 412
The Gospels Do Not Contradict Each Other 413
Key 3 The Aorist Tense 417
The Aorist Tense in Luke 22:7 421
One Additional Possibility for Luke 22:7 423
More Greek Grammar and Hermeneutics as Applied to Luke 22:7 424
50 Reasons the Last Supper was Not the Passover 428
Bread Is Good, But Not During the Passover! 428
Commentators Attempt to Shoehorn the Passover into the Last Supper 431
Too Much Illegal Activity for This to Be the 15th-Day Sabbath 433
Jesus Was Not to Be Arrested in or during the Seven-Day Feast-the Festival Called Passover 437
The Hypothetical Last-Supper-Passover Story 440
The 15th-Day Great Sabbath Was the Day after the Crucifixion 441
The Gospels All Agree 443
The Third Day Since 446
Additional Scriptural Proofs 447
Extra-Credit Reasons 449
Between the Evenings-The Legal Time to Slay the Passover 451
What the Talmud Says 454
What Other Jewish Sources Say 460
The New Testament Agrees 463
What Does John Mean by the Sixth Hour? 468
The Ritual-Why Didn't the Jewish Disciples Teach It? 471
Setting the Stage 472
The "Great Commission" 473
The Apostles: Did They Teach or Even Mention a Ritual? 475
Did John the Beloved Teach This Doctrine? 475
Surely Peter the Apostle Taught This Ritual? 475
Let's Check James-Surely He Will Follow the Lord's Commandment, as He Also Writes to the Scattered Jews 477
What about the Other Gospels? 477
Surely Matthew Obeyed the Lord's Injunction and Taught This Ritual? 477
How about Mark-Will He Teach It? 478
What about Paul's Letter to the Romans and Others? 478
Have We Missed Anyone? 479
"Do This" but Do What? 479
The Azymites Shed Light on the Protestant Ritual 482
Why Make This Late Change to Unleavened Bread? 485
A Few More Points from the First-Century Jewish Idioms 486
Since the Ritual Was Not Taught, How Then Did It Begin and Gain Its Foothold? 487
Early Picture of the Roman Ritual Coming In 489
Not All Quotes Ate What They Appear on the Surface 490
The True Communion Is Spiritual 494
Appendix A Proper Authority 497
Appendix B Recommended Bible Study Tools 508
Glossary 512
Bibliography and Resources 542
Permissions 548
Index 549