LIFE AND MINISTRY MEETING WORKBOOK | April 2018

[The Librarian]

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[JW Insider]

I don't understand the very first line of the CLAM workbook:

• Although the Passover did not foreshadow the Memorial, certain features of the Passover have meaning for us.

It must be some nuance that I'm missing:

*** nwtsty John Study Notes—Chapter 1 ***
1:29

• the Lamb of God: After Jesus got baptized and returned from being tempted by the Devil, John the Baptist introduced him as “the Lamb of God.” This expression occurs only here and at Joh 1:36. (See App. A7.) Comparing Jesus to a lamb is fitting. Throughout the Bible, sheep were offered in recognition of sin and to gain approach to God. This foreshadowed the sacrifice that Jesus would make when he surrendered his perfect human life in behalf of mankind. The expression “the Lamb of God” could reflect a number of passages in the inspired Scriptures. In view of John the Baptist’s familiarity with the Hebrew Scriptures, his words may have alluded to one or more of the following: the male sheep that Abraham offered up instead of his own son Isaac (Ge 22:13), the Passover lamb that was slaughtered in Egypt for the deliverance of the enslaved Israelites (Ex 12:1-13), or the male lamb that was offered up on God’s altar in Jerusalem each morning and evening (Ex 29:38-42). John may also have had in mind Isaiah’s prophecy, where the one whom Jehovah calls “my servant” is said to be “brought like a sheep to the slaughter.” (Isa 52:13; 53:5, 7, 11) When the apostle Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians, he referred to Jesus as “our Passover lamb.” (1Co 5:7) The apostle Peter spoke of Christ’s “precious blood, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.” (1Pe 1:19) And more than 25 times in the book of Revelation, the glorified Jesus is spoken of figuratively as “the Lamb.”—Some examples are: Re 5:8; 6:1; 7:9; 12:11; 13:8; 14:1; 15:3; 17:14; 19:7; 21:9; 22:1.

*** w07 1/1 pp. 20-21 par. 4 “You Must Become Nothing but Joyful” ***

• Jesus died on Nisan 14, 33 C.E. In Israel, Nisan 14 was the joyous day of the Passover celebration. Each year on that day, families shared a meal that included a young, unblemished lamb. In this way, they remembered the role that the blood of a lamb played in the deliverance of the Israelite firstborn when the angel of death slew the firstborn of the Egyptians on Nisan 14, 1513 B.C.E. (Exodus 12:1-14) The Passover lamb foreshadowed Jesus, of whom the apostle Paul said: “Christ our passover has been sacrificed.” (1 Corinthians 5:7) Like the blood of the Passover lamb, Jesus’ shed blood provides salvation for many.—John 3:16, 36.

*** w06 4/15 p. 19 Melito of Sardis—Defender of Bible Truths? ***

• After making comments on Exodus chapter 12 and having showed that the Passover foreshadowed Christ’s sacrifice . . .

*** w81 4/1 p. 11 Celebrating the Death of the Greatest Man Ever on Earth ***

1. These are very happy to get the invitation to attend the celebration of the Lord’s Evening Meal as celebrated by the remnant of spiritual Israelites, who are in the new covenant and also in the Kingdom covenant. . . .  These were foreshadowed by the vast mixed multitude of non-Israelites that left demon-controlled Egypt on that first Passover night, throwing in their lot with the departing Israelites and taking up the worship of Jehovah God. (Ex. 12:38)

*** w77 5/15 pp. 304-305 par. 18 The “Tree” Whose Fall Shocks the World ***

• “in a spiritual sense” Jesus Christ was sacrificed as “the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” (Matt. 2:13-21; John 1:29, 36) Not by mere chance was the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed as the Lamb of God on Passover Day of 33 C.E. Why not? Because he had been foreshadowed by the lamb that was sacrificed by the Israelites on that first Passover Day of the year 1513 B.C.E. down in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians who did not sacrifice a Passover lamb and sprinkle its blood upon their doorways lost their firstborn ones of man and beast. This led to Pharaoh’s releasing the Israelites from slavery that they might go out a free, liberated people.

So what am I missing? (Hint, it's explained in a 2013 Watchtower)

 

 

 

[Anna]

1 hour ago, JW Insider said:

Although the Passover did not foreshadow the Memorial, certain features of the Passover have meaning for us

!!!!! It looks like I've missed the new light too.

w13 12/15 p. 21

"There are, however, differences between the Passover and the Lord’s Evening Meal. These show that the Passover that the Jews were to memorialize was not to foreshadow what Christ told his followers to do in memory of his death. Back in Egypt, the Israelites partook of the lamb’s flesh but not of its blood. That differs from what Jesus directed his disciples to do. He said that those who would reign “in the kingdom of God” should partake of both the bread and the wine as symbols of his flesh and his blood......"

However I do have an objection to this understanding. Blood was also involved at the Passover, in a big way. If it had not been splashed on the doorposts the inhabitants of that house would have been killed.

Saying that the difference is only in the drinking, in both cases, well Christ's blood wasn't drank either was it. Couldn't the symbolism of splashing and "drinking" be applied to mean a similar thing?

Aaah, I just realized the wording of this could mean that, yes, the lamb eaten at the Passover foreshadowed Jesus as the sacrificial lamb (both were killed and blood spilled) however, the actual memorial  (the activity) was not being foreshadowed. Does that make sense?