The Passover meal that once marked Israel’s rescue from Egypt, purchased not with silver or gold but by the blood on the doorposts, finds its fulfillment in the Lord’s Supper. Paul reminds the church that on the night he was betrayed, Jesus took the bread and the cup and gave them a new meaning: whenever his people eat this bread and drink this cup, they proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
That death was no accident but Christ’s own bearing of our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, healed by his wounds. And it looks forward as much as it looks back: the supper does not simply recall Calvary but anticipates Christ’s return, moving the third part of this series into what that ‘until he comes’ means for how Christians read the end of the age.