2007-11-15 07:40:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ironically, the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is unique in commemorating that Last Supper. It is sometimes called "the Memorial" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supercede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).
(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] 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 becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.
Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"
There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
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2007-11-15 07:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes, Jehovah's servants at that time were all anointed, heavenly class....so they would be partakers of the rememberance of Jesus' death for sins. So they would take the wine, unleavened bread as part of the covenant for being judges and rulers in heaven. Luke 22:28-30.
And anyone who was Jewish or a convert, could eat the passover meal....
So he would have invited them in.
Debbie
2007-11-15 07:50:04 · answer #2 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus wouldn't be hanging around a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses, because they are antichrist, they do not believe in the Deity of Jesus.
2007-11-15 08:34:29 · answer #3 · answered by BOC 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think He wouldn't have asked them to leave in the first place. He would have invited them in and offered them something to eat.
2007-11-15 07:47:18 · answer #4 · answered by bainaashanti 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Give them a word of love from God.
2007-11-15 07:48:21 · answer #5 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He would probably chastise them for their poor etiquette.
Or chase after them with a shoe until they got off his property. Oh wait... that's what my Dad used to do. Nevermind.
2007-11-15 07:46:14 · answer #6 · answered by LKeri 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
With Judas around????
They wouldn't dare.
2007-11-15 07:49:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You're not fit to wipe the boot of one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
And Jesus wouldn't "do" anything to them, they'd probably all sit down and join in the meal.
2007-11-15 07:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
I don't know but your question made me laugh, just to imagine that scene, no offence meant.
2007-11-15 07:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
He would start crying and whining and let himself be crucified.
2007-11-15 07:43:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋