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What is the right name for that celebration?..
Well, now, I'm not certain that there is an actual NAME for it, dear Sher'f (peace to you, dear friend!), but I ALWAYS hear "the Lamb's Passover meal." Then, again... I have learned, as I've just ponder your question... that indeed there is. Here is what I [just] received from my dear Lord, the HOLY One of Israel and HOLY Spirit, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJAH):
It is HIS... or, for us, "the Lamb's"... Passover.
This is MOST accurate, in contrast to:
1. (Just)
The Passover - Because that was "Moses'" meal, one facilitated by him (Moses) and using an animal and "eater of vegetation";
2.
The Memorial (of Christ's Death) - Because the WTBTS' celebration, while declaring Christ's death and, yes, "doing" the eating/drinking of bread/wine, only does the latter in very small part, thus shutting UP the kingdom of the heavens before men, verses memorializing the Way IN... through Christ... whose flesh are blood are how such can not only live... forever... be either be resurrected or transformed to DO so.
John 6:48-58; 11:25, 26: 14:6 3. The Lord's
Last Supper - Because this was NOT his last supper with his Apostles... or with those of his Body. While he did not partake of the "product of the vine" (wine) with them any more after that, he DID actually eat... SUP... with them again.
Literally... and symbolically, and still does.
Matthew 26:29; Mark 14:25; Luke 22:18; 24:28-30; 41-43; John 21:4-13; Revelation 3:204.
Holy Communion - Because this isn't quite accurate. True, one must partake of the body and blood of Christ to remain in union with him; however eating and drinking does not constitute or effectuate that union; receiving holy spirit does. Hence, it is by means of receiving that (holy) spirit that "one comes into union"... or communes... with Christ, and through him, God. These come to and live, abide, dwell in... or COMMUNE WITH... the one so in union. . That one eats and drinks, however, does not replace the requirement for the OUTPOURING of and ANOINTING with holy spirit. Millions of people partake... take communion. That doesn't mean they're in union with Christ ("Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things I say?"). If one has not received the spirit... breath, blood, and SEED... of God, then one is not joined TO God, having not been joined to CHRIST, the "husband" GIVEN by God. And thus, one does not "know" (as a woman knows a man with whom she lays - "yada")... or is one "known" (as a man knows a woman with whom he lays - "yada") BY Christ, and hence, by God ("Lord Lord, did we not do... in your name? I will say to them, 'Get AWAY from me, you workers of lawlessness - I do not KNOW you.") (
John 14:23; 15:5) These does not "know" one another by means of the FLESH, though, but by means of SPIRIT. But it is that kind of an intimate "
knowing".
John 17:3 Hence, Christ is called the "Bridegroom," and those of his Body, the "Bride." THAT... is the [holy] communion.
Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:20-235.
Eucharist - Because while the term means "grace," it is not the eating and drinking of the bread and wine that grant grace, but the MERCY of God and the One whose flesh and blood were given to ALLOW such mercy. It is the receipt of holy spirit that is the manifestation of God's mercy; not the partaking of the bread/wine. One partakes, of course, in RECOGNITION of that mercy, and the HOPE that such will be bestowed upon them (for the faith and thus OBEDIENCE), but Judas partook... and so, again, partaking in and of itself does not mean anything, per se. Indeed, it can be a condemnation, if the one doing so has not cleansed the inside of his/her cup and so eat/drink "unworthily."
So, for me, that leaves what I hear it referred to from the spirit realm and that is, "
the Lamb's Passover." This, because:
1. It is the
Lamb (who takes away the sins of the world... by MEANS of his flesh and his blood (
John 1:29) whose "meal" is being observed; his flesh that is being eaten and his blood being drank (
John 6:55, 56);
2. It is that Lamb's
Passover, in that:
(a) those who have
his blood "splashed" on the "doorposts" of their "houses" (vessels; bodies in which the spirit dwells -
1 John 1:7; Revelation 1:5; 7:14), who are "passed over" by Death (
Exodus 12:23; Hebrews 11:28); and
(b) it is a continuation of the ancient Passover (meal) facilitated by Moses, which ancient meal prefigured the TRUE "meal" that was to come later, with Christ as the Passover Lamb.
Matthew 26:2; 1 Corinthians 5:7; 1 Peter 1:19; Revelation 13:8I, SA, have shared these truths with all of you dear ones here, just as I received it from my dear Lord, the HOLY One of Israel and Holy Spirit, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJAH).
Now, some will say that it doesn't matter what one calls it. For me, beyond wanting to OBEY and do just as HE has told me, I would say that, just as with JAH and Christ's names, that may not be the case. Again, the whole "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord'... and do not do the things I say?" When speaking with others (not of the Body) and referring to, say, the WTBTS' "Memorial," however, that is what I would call it: "the Memorial." Because that is THEIR "celebration," what it is to THEM, what THEY call it. Likewise, when referring to, say, the RCC and other religions' definition, I would say, "Communion" or maybe even "Eucharist," because, again, that's what "they" call it among themselves, what those events mean to such one. I am not sure I can say, "Last Supper" any longer because, again, it was and is not, so that would be/feel like a lie. And calling it the "Evening Meal" doesn't sit right with me... because that is what I call the observance I do when my Lord knocks and comes in to sup with me (
Revelation 3:18), a meal shared between he and I, not me and others who are also present.
"The Lamb's Passover", however captures, for me at least,
exactly what this event is... and what it does. So, while I may refer to it as others do when speaking with them/about THEIR observance of it, I will call it what I have heard from my dear Lord...
his Passover... when and as often as the situation calls for it. And definitely anytime there is NOT some other "religious" connotation involved.
I hope that helps, my dear, dear friend... and thank you for asking.
May the undeserved kindness and mercy of my God and Father, the MOST HOLY One of Israel, JAH of Armies, and the love and peace of His Son and Christ, my dear Lord and King, the HOLY One of Israel and Holy Spirit, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJAH), be upon you, dear Sher'f, and upon your dear household... if you so wish it. May it be upon you ALL... and upon your household, if you so wish it.
YOUR servant, sister, friend, and perhaps fellow slave of Christ,
Shel