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Embark with me on an intimate passage through time as we explore the Last Supper's transformative impact on Passover's story. During this episode, we'll share how Jesus, in one of history's most tender and subversive acts, washed his disciples' feet, redefining servitude with humility and love. Feel the tension of that upper room in Jerusalem, as I recount personal reflections from my visit, bringing to life the cultural and traditional nuances of the time. We'll witness Jesus' establishment of a new covenant with the poignant symbols of bread and wine, forever altering our approach to communion and the promise of ultimate victory.

As we navigate the layers of meaning woven into this sacred narrative, we unravel the role of John the Baptist, the significance of the tribes of Israel, and the resonating power of the "Who Knows One?" liturgy. Together, we'll contemplate the deep symbolism inherent in the Passover tradition and how it points to a new covenant accessible to all, through Jesus Christ. The profound anticipation of a victory yet to come is epitomized by Jesus' abstinence from the final cup, leaving us with a sense of eternal hope. Join me for a moving journey that not only enriches our faith but also connects us more deeply with the enduring hope found in Christ's message.

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to our Ancient Future Story, navigating
Scripture Through the Eyes ofFamily, where I share with you
biblical stories like a familymember would share a story
around the dinner table.
As children of God, we are apart of God's family and his
family story has a lot ofhistory.
Each week we will take onestory and talk about it the
cultural, historical,geographical and sociological

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impacts.
We will be looking at the storyfrom the perspective of our
ancestors, through the lens andancient times, in hopes of
learning more about our family.
This is our Ancient FuturesStory.
Welcome back to our AncientFutures Story.

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I'm Vic and I am so excited toshare with you how Jesus flipped
the script of Passover.
We learned last time thatPassover is a celebration and
remembrance of the mighty actsof Yahweh in Egypt, but as
Christ followers, we can alsolook back at Passover and
remember the Last Supper and themighty works of Jesus on the
cross.
In today's episode, I want toshow you how Jesus flipped the

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script at the Last Supper withhis disciples and what it means
for us as we take communion.
So grab your cup of coffee orsomething to drink and let's get
ready to dive into the story ofthe Last Supper with Jesus.

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Our story today opens with thedisciples asking Jesus where
should we prepare the Passover?
And Jesus sent two of hisdisciples into town, ie
Jerusalem, and told them a mancarrying a jug would meet them
and they were to follow him,enter the house he enters and
tell the master of that house.
Rabbi wants to know if we canuse your guest room to prepare

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for Passover with his disciples,and the master of the house
will show you the large upperroom that is fully furnished and
ready.
So the disciples did what Jesustold them and they found the
man and the house exactly as hehad told them.
And they prepared the Passover.
And when evening came, theygathered together in the upper
room and were reclining at thetable.

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They lit the candles and sangthe blessing.
They then talked about thepatriarchs and the matriarchs
and all those who came beforethem as they put themselves in
the mindset of being enslaved inEgypt.
They then blessed and poured thefirst cup.
They may have even read orrecited Psalms 23 to remind them
of their cup being overflown.

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Historical fun fact the phrasecup overflows is a Jewish idiom
to mean never runs out.
If you were to have a meal witha Jewish person.
Every time you took a sip ofyour drink, they would refill it
and they would not let it godown until the meal was winding
down.
This is what my cup overflowsmeans.

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So when they are recitingDavid's psalm to remind them
that God is constantly refillingthem, then they would have
washed their hands.
But this is the first placewhere Jesus changes the script.
Instead of going around thetable and having each person
dipping their hands into butthis is the first place where
Jesus changes the script.
Instead of going around thetable and having each person
dipping their hands into thewater basin, jesus stands up,
takes off his outer garment,wraps a towel around his waist,

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he pours the water into a basinand began to wash the disciples'
feet and dry them with thetowel that was around his waist.
He came to Peter and Peter saidMaster, do not wash my feet.
But Jesus said I have to orelse you will have no part of me
.
Then Peter said Well, thendon't just wash my feet, but my
whole body also.

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Jesus said the one who hasbathed does not need to be
washed, except for their feet,because they are clean.
You are clean, peter, but noteveryone is clean.
Then Jesus stood up, put back onhis outer garment and took his
seat back at the table.
And he then tells his discipleswhy he must wash their feet.
He tells them you call me rabbiand master, and rightly so,

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because I am.
But if I have taken the placeof a servant and washed your
feet, so should you wash eachother's feet?
I have given you the examplesso that you should go and do the
same.
After saying this, he blessedthe bitter herbs and dipped them
into the salt water to rememberthe tears and the bitterness of
Egypt.
But Jesus was troubled in thespirit and said one of you will

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betray me.
And the disciples looked aroundat one another and asked is I
lord?
Peter then motioned to john,who was reclining next to jesus,
to ask him who would betray him.
So john leans over and askedwho is it lord?
And jesus answered he who hasdipped his hand in the dish with
me will betray me.
Judas iscariot's hand was inthe dish with me will betray me.

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Judas Iscariot's hand was inthe dish with Jesus and he
looked at Jesus and asked is itI Rabbi?
Okay, pause.
Isn't it interesting that Peterand John and others sitting
around the table called JesusMaster or Lord, but Judas
Iscariot calls him Teacher orRabbi.

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Judas never made Jesus themaster of his life.
Jesus was only a good teacherto him.
Jesus tells Judas what you aregoing to do, go do it quickly
Now.
No one at the table knew why hehad said this to him.
Some thought Jesus had told himto get what they needed for the
feast, while others thought hewas going to give some money to
the poor.

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But we know that Judas got upand left the upper room to go
turn in Jesus to the priest for30 pieces of silver.
In the middle of the tablethere were three pieces of
unleavened bread called matzah,and after Judas left, jesus
pulled out the middle piece ofthe unleavened bread from the
stack and he held it up and heblessed it and he he broke it

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and he changed the script again.
He said this is my body whichis broken for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
And just as it was custom, heput half of the broken matzah
piece into the afikoman and hidit in the upper room.
Then the disciples asked thefour questions that usually
children ask at Passover toremember the story of the Exodus

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.
Why, on this night, do we onlyeat matzah?
Why, on this night, do we eatonly bitter herbs?
Why, on this night do we dipthem twice?
Why, on this night, do we eatonly reclining on pillows?
And then they read the Passoverstory from Exodus 12 together.
Then it's time to pour thesecond cup.
This cup is the cup of plagues.

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And as they pour this cup, theyremember the 10 plagues that
came on Egypt and how Yahwehtook down the Egyptian gods.
Then they sing the liturgyDeinu, which means it would have
been enough, and they rememberhow God protected them every
step of the way, from slavery tofreedom, from egypt to the
promised land.
And after each part of thestory they say day anew, it

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would have been enough.
Then they remembered thepassover lamb and the sacrifice
it gave to put the blood on thedoorpost and mark their homes so
that the angel of death wouldpass over them and they would
not lose the firstborns of theirhomes, so that the angel of
death would pass over them andthey would not lose the
firstborns of their house.
Then they partook for thesecond time in eating bitter
herbs, this time blessing it anddipping it in horseradish to

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remember the torment of Egypt.
And then they blessed anddipped the bitter herbs into the
cheriset, which is a sweetclay-like texture to remind them
of the clay bricks they wereforced to make in slavery.
Then they take the egg off theSeder plate and pause and mourn
the destruction of the temple.
It is a moment to remind themthat what is missing in the
world and from their spirituallives.

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Then they will eat the Passovermeal, the lamb with the bitter
herbs and the unleavened bread.
After the meal it is time tofind the afikomen.
When they find it, they blessit and eat it.
Then Jesus pours the third cup.
He blesses it and then hechanges the script again.
He said this is the blood of mycovenant which is poured out,

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for many Do this in remembranceof me.
The disciples then would haveturned their attention to the
empty place sitting at the table.
This place setting was for theprophet Elijah.
At this point one of thedisciples likely stood up and
opened the door to the upperroom for Elijah to enter in.
And remember the words ofMalachi that one day God would

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send Elijah the prophet, back toearth to make a way for the
Messiah.
One day God would send Elijah,the prophet, back to earth to
make a way for the Messiah.
But until then, jews waitexpectantly for Elijah to return
because they believe it wouldsignal the arrival of the
Messiah.
Okay, side note, as I'mrecording this, it's occurring
to me that at this point atleast, some of the disciples
have professed Jesus as theMessiah.

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So it's interesting to thinkabout them opening the door for,
and leaving a place setting forElijah when the Messiah is
already sitting among them.
I don't know if that issomething they did, but it is
interesting to think abouthaving the Messiah among them,
yet still opening the door forElijah.
Then they would recite who KnowsOne?
Which has a similar vibe to our12 Days of Christmas?

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But it tells their story.
They start at who Knows Onewhich has a similar vibe to our
12 Days of Christmas, but ittells their story.
They start at who Knows One andthey work their way up to who
Knows Twelve.
Who knows twelve?
I know twelve.
Twelve are the tribes of Israel.
Eleven are the stars ofJoseph's dream.
Ten are the commandments.
Nine are the months ofchildbirth.
Eight are the days ofcircumcision.
Seven are the days of the week.
Seven are the days of the week.

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Six are the sections of theMishnah.
Five are books of Torah, fourare the matriarchs.
Three are the patriarchs.
Two are the tablets of the law.
One is our God in heaven andearth.
Then they would bless and pourthe fourth cup, except Jesus
does not partake in this cup.
In fact, he says he will notdrink of this cup until we are

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with him in his Father's kingdom.
Then they sung the hymn fromPsalms 118.
O, give thanks to the Lord, forhe is good.
His steadfast love enduresforever.
And when they had finishedsinging the hymn, they got up
from the table and headed to theMount of Olives, to the place
called Gethsemane.
And that is where our storyends for today.
Jesus celebrating the Passoverwith his disciples, just like

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they had done at least twicebefore.
But all of them had done theirentire lives.
But this time Jesus made itpersonal.
He knew what was about tohappen to him in the coming
hours and he wanted to warn them, encourage them and inspire
them to hold on, because, justas he knew he would die for the
sins of the world, he knew hewould come back to life,

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offering freedom and love tothem and to us today.
If you grew up in church, youhave probably heard these
stories many, many times,because these stories are told
every time we take communion,and even if you didn't grow up

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in church, you probably heardthis story or part of this story
during Holy Week or on EasterSunday.
But I want to point out somethings that will help shape the
context of the story for us.
The first location things thatwill help shape the context of
the story for us.
The first location Our storytakes place in Jerusalem in
roughly 33 AD, in the upper roomor guest room of a man's house.

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Isn't it interesting that thereis no room for Jesus in the
guest room in Bethlehem thenight he is born, but there is
room for Jesus in the guest roomright before he dies.
Anyway, this room is stillaccessible in Jerusalem today
and is visited by Christians inremembrance of the Last Supper
and Pentecost.

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I have stood in this room and itis massive, solid stone walls
and incredibly high ceilings.
This room now has arches in it,but those would have been added
since the time of Jesus and hisdisciples.
But had we been there whenJesus was reclining at this
table, we would have seen aU-shaped table low to the ground
with pillows surrounding it andthe disciples leaning to the

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left.
Jesus would have been sittingat the end of the table in the
seat of the guest of honor,while Peter would have been
sitting across from him on theother end of the U-shape in the
seat of the servant, because hewas helping prepare and serve
the meal.
Now, this may be a peculiarsight, but it's important for us
to know that they were sittingon pillows because their

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ancestors were to partake inPassover in haste, as if they
were going to leave Egypt assoon as possible.
And they are reclining to theleft because the left side is
unclean.
In this culture, the left handwas used for unclean things,
like using the bathroom, whereasthe right hand was used for
clean things like eating.

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So they lean to the left aroundthe table, so we get this
picture of them reclining.
The first thing Jesus does tochange the script was to get up
and take the place of a servantand wash his disciples' feet.
In this culture, it was customfor the servant of the house, or
the one who was serving themeal, to wash the feet of the
guests as they arrived.
Remember, in first centuryIsrael they walked everywhere,

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and Israel is full of dustyroads and muddy terrain and for
sanitary purposes and forhospitality purposes.
When a guest walked into ahouse, the servant of the master
would wash the feet of theguest.
On this night, peter was theone sitting in the servant's
chair and Jesus was sitting tothe seat of the guest of honor.
I think it is interesting thatPeter did not wash everyone's

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feet when they came into theupper room, as was custom.
So Jesus, the master, the guestof honor, stands up, takes off
his outer garments, wraps thetowel around his waist and
washes the disciples' feet.
And who is the one that refuseshim to wash his feet?
Peter, the very one whose jobit was to wash the feet of the

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disciples.
Peter knew that Jesus wastaking his place as the servant
and Peter was hesitant to letJesus wash his feet.
But Jesus told Peter he mustwash his feet or else Peter can
have no part in him.
Jesus tells all of his disciplesthe reason he did this was to
show them all how they aresupposed to live.

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They are supposed to beservants, even if they are the
most important or powerfulperson at the table.
They are to lead like servantsthrough inexplainable love.
And it is by this that theworld will know that you are his
disciple.
After this, jesus gets thematzah and he takes it out of

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the middle of the three-stackpile.
This pile is usually understoodto mean God, the Father, jesus,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
So when Jesus pulls out themiddle piece and says this is my
body, he is pulling himself outof the pile and then he breaks
it and then they hide it.
This is symbolic of the bodybeing beaten, bruised and buried

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.
Jesus then gives some to hisdisciples to eat and then, after
the meal, when they look forand find the afikomen, it is
symbolic of his body beingresurrected.
The next thing I want to talkabout is the cup of redemption.
This is the third cup and it isreceived after the Passover
meal.
The first thing we need to knowabout redemption is that it was

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originally a secular term andredemption in the secular world
meant to buy back.
This usually applied to land,but could also be a person.
But it was understood that toredeem something or someone, one
must put their own resources onthe line, their own life on the
line and claim it as their own.

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Even though this was a secularterm, it was adopted into a
religious term to explain howGod redeems humanity.
God puts his own resources onthe line, he gives his own life
for us and he claims us as hisown.
And I love what Sandra Richtersays in her series Epic of Eden

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Jesus will redeem us no matterwhere we find ourselves In
unfortunate circumstances,captured by the enemy or stuck
in our own stupid decisions.
So this is what the cup isabout Redeeming the people of
Israel out of Egypt.
But Jesus flips the script.
He says 8.

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When Moses seals the oldcovenant with blood, he
sprinkles some of the bloodagainst the altar and then he
throws the blood on the peoplestanding around it as a sign for
them to remember the covenantthey had made with Yahweh.
Then Moses said Behold theblood of the covenant that the
Lord has made with you.
In accordance with all of thesewords, the blood is what seals

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the covenant between God and manat Mount Sinai.
But here Jesus is saying thiscup, this covenant, this time
the blood will be mine that isspilled as a way to seal the new
covenant between God and man.
And every time you take of thiscup, it is a sign for you of

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the covenant we have made.
The second thing the discipleswould have thought about is the
marriage covenant.
Whenever a groom was to bemarried, at the time of his
engagement he would offer hisbride-to-be a cup of wine and
would say this is the blood ofmy covenant.
And if the bride-to-be agreesto marry him, she would drink
from the cup and it would sealthe covenant between them, the

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promise to be married.
So when Jesus says this is theblood of my covenant to his
disciples, when they drink fromthis cup, they are agreeing to
the covenant that he has madewith them.
Likewise, when we partake incommunion, we hear these words
and when we drink from the cup,we are agreeing to this covenant
between Yahweh and us.

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The next thing in the Seder mealis to open the door for Elijah.
Now, this may seem weird to us,but it is actually the very
hope of a Jewish person thatYahweh would finally send the
Messiah, and they believe thefirst sign of the Messiah will
be the return of Elijah.
So who is Elijah?

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Elijah is a prophet who livedduring the time of King Ahab.
He is famous because he did notdie.
Instead, he was brought toheaven in a chariot of fire.
2 Kings 2, 11-12 says and asthey, elijah and his assistant
Elisha went on and talked.
Behold, chariots of fire andhorses of fire separated the two

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of them and Elijah went up by awhirlwind into heaven.
And Elisha saw it and he criedmy father, my father, the
chariots of Israel and itshorsemen.
And they saw him no more.
Then we flip over to Malachi 4and read the last words of a
writing prophet.
This is believed to be the lastwords of Yahweh ever spoken to

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his people.
That was ever written down.
So for a Jewish person theseare the last words of Yahweh, so
it's important and sacred toremember.
And Malachi 4.5 says Behold, Iwill send you Elijah the prophet
, before the great and awesomeday of the Lord comes.
So Jewish people believe thatElijah will mark the time of the

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Messiah's arrival.
So they leave a place settingfor him and they open the door
for him because they are waitingexpectantly for him to arrive.
But Jesus also flips the scripton this, because in Matthew 11,
10 through 11, and then 13 of 14, jesus tells his disciples this
is he of whom it is written inMalachi 3, behold, I will send a
messenger before your face whowill prepare the way before you.

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Truly, I say to you, amongthose born of a woman, there has
arisen, no one greater thanJohn the Baptist, for all the
prophets and the law prophesieduntil John, and if you are
willing to accept it, he isElijah who is to come.
Jesus claims John the Baptistto be Elijah they are waiting
for, and John himself proclaimsthat he is paving the way for

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the Messiah.
The next thing they would havedone is the who knows one
liturgy, and again, this isanother way to reiterate their
story.
But I think it's important forus to go through them and
acknowledge the value andimportance of each of these.
So we'll start at 12 and movedown to one.
So who knows 12?
12 is the tribes of Israel.

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The tribes of Israel are Reuben, simeon, levi, judah, dan,
neptali, gad, asher, issachar,zebulun, joseph, whose two sons
were Ephraim and Manasseh, andBenjamin.
These are the sons ofIsraelrael.
Who knows 11?
11 are the stars of joseph'sdream in genesis 37 9.

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Joseph, the son of jacob, whogot the coat of many colors.
His brothers hated him, partlybecause he was the favorite, but
also because he was havingthese dreams of his brothers
bowing down to him.
The 11 stars were reflective ofhis 11 brothers who had bowed
down to him while he was secondin command in Egypt?
Who knows ten?
Ten are the commandments thatwould be the ten commandments of

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God that gives the people ofIsrael in the wilderness.
You shall have no other godsbefore me.
You shall have no idols.
You shall not take the name ofYahweh in vain.
You shall keep the Sabbath day.
You shall not take the name ofYahweh in vain.
You shall keep the Sabbath day.
You shall honor your father andmother.
You shall not murder, you shallnot commit adultery, you shall
not steal, you shall not bearfalse witness and you shall not

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covet.
Who knows nine?
Nine are the months ofchildbirth.
This one we know.
Who knows eight?
Eight are the days ofcircumcision.
They would circumcise on theeighth day because we now know
from modern medicine that on theeighth day after a child is
born blood begins to clot.
So they circumcise on theeighth day to avoid hemorrhaging

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.
Who knows seven?
Seven are the days of the week.
We also know this one.
It's part of the Sabbath Workfor six days, rest for the
seventh day.
Who knows six?
Six are the sections of theMishnah.
The Mishnah was a collection ofancient Jewish commentary
written by rabbis whose writingswere considered sacred text,

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similar to the way Christiansuphold the epistles as sacred
text.
Who knows five?
Five are the books of Torah.
This is the holy law of Israel.
It is the first five books ofour Bible Genesis, exodus,
leviticus, numbers andDeuteronomy.
Who knows four?
Four are the matriarchs.

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These are the wives of thepatriarchs, the founders of
Israel Sarah, rebecca, racheland Leah.
Who knows three?
Three are the patriarchs.
These are the founders ofIsrael Abraham, isaac and Jacob.
Who knows two?
Two are the tablets of the law.
This was the contract betweenYahweh and Israel.

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It wasn't like we see in VBSand Sunday schools where there
are five commandments on oneside of the tablets and five
commandments on the other.
No, it was a contract with twocopies.
So one side had all the lawwritten on it and the other had
all the law written on it.
One belonged to Israel and theother belonged to Yahweh.

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They were kept together in theArk of the Covenant because that
is where Yahweh dwelled, but itwas also in the midst of Israel
and they would take it outperiodically and read it before
the people.
Who knows one?
One is our God of heaven andearth.
There is only one, yahweh.

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He is the triune God, thecreator of all things, which
brings us to the last cup, thecup of praise.
This was the victory shout ofhow Yahweh had rescued them out
of Egypt.
After they blessed this cup,they would sing the hymn of
Psalm 118, which was often sungafter victory in battle.

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Jesus doesn't drink this cup,though In fact he promises not
to drink it until we are withhim in the kingdom, and I think
that is interesting, that herefused to drink the cup of
victory before victory was fullyfound.
He had not yet died for thesins of the world, victory had

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not yet been won.
And yet when victory is won andwe are all with him in paradise
at the banquet of the Lamb, hewill drink again the cup of
praise.
This is our hope that we willget to spend eternity with God
in heaven.
So how does all of this pointto Yahweh?

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Each time we gather together, wewill talk about how the story
points to Yahweh.
In today's story, yahweh isfulfilling the Passover feast by
setting up his next greatestrescue, but this time it's not
just for the Israelites, but forall mankind.
Through this meal, jesus istelling his disciples what he is
going to do and how this newcovenant will be for both Jews

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and Gentiles.
All are welcome to the table ofYahweh and we wait expectantly
for Christ's return and oureternity in heaven with him.
So as we close our timetogether, I want to spend some
time reading the scriptures,from which our story comes from
today, from across the gospels.
I hope that as we read thistogether in light of everything

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we have learned, that this storywill be illuminated for you.
Let's read Now.
On the first day of the Feast ofUnleavened Bread, the disciples
came to Jesus saying when willyou have us prepare for you to
eat the Passover?
He said Go into the city to acertain man and say to him the
teacher says my time is at hand.
I will keep the Passover atyour house with my disciples.

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And the disciples did as Jesushad directed them and they
prepared the Passover.
When it was evening, hereclined at the table with the
twelve During supper, when thedevil had already put into the
heart of Judas Iscariot, simon'sson, to betray him.
Jesus, knowing that the Fatherhad given all things into his
hands and that he had come fromGod and was going back to God,

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rose from the table.
He laid aside his outergarments and, taking a towel,
tied it around his waist.
And then he poured water intothe basin and began to wash the
disciples' feet and to wipe themwith the towel that was wrapped
around him.
He came to Simon Peter, who saidto him Lord, do not wash my
feet.
Jesus answered him what I amdoing you do not understand now,

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but afterward you willunderstand.
Peter said to him you shallnever wash my feet.
Jesus answered him.
What I am doing you do notunderstand now, but afterward
you will understand.
Peter said to him you shallnever wash my feet.
Jesus answered him If I do notwash you, you have no share in
me.
Simon Peter said Lord, not justmy feet, but also my hands and
head.
Jesus said to him the one whohas bathed does not need to be
washed, except for his feet, butis completely clean.

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You are clean, but not everyone of you, for he knew that who
was going to betray him?
That is why he said not all ofyou are clean.
When he had washed their feetand put on his outer garments
and resumed his place, he saidto them do you understand what I
have done for you?
You call me teacher and Lord,and you are right, for so I am.

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If, then, your Lord and teacherhave washed your feet, so shall
you ought to wash the feet ofothers, for I have given you an
example that you also should do,just as I have done for you.
Truly, truly, I say to you aservant is not greater than his
master, nor is a messengergreater than the one who sent
him.
And as they were eating, hesaid truly, I say to you one of

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you will betray me.
And they were very sorrowfuland begin to say to him one
after another is it I, lord, isit I?
He answered he who has dippedhis hand in the dish with me
will betray me.
The son of man goes as it iswritten of him.
But woe to that man by whom theson of man is betrayed.
It would have been better forthat man if he had not been born

(28:32):
.
Judas, who would betray him,answered Is it I Rabbi?
He said to him you have said so.
Now go and do what you aregoing to do quickly.
So Judas, iscariot got up andleft.
Now, as they were eating, jesustook bread and after blessing it
, he broke it and gave it to hisdisciples and said Take, eat,

(28:53):
this is my body.
And he took a cup.
And when he had given thanks,he gave it to them, saying Drink
of it all of you, for this ismy blood of the covenant, which
is poured out for many for theforgiveness of sins.
I tell you I will not drinkagain of this fruit of the vine
until that day when I drink itwith you in my father's kingdom.
Then they sang the hymn oh,give thanks to the Lord, for he

(29:16):
is good, for his steadfast loveendures forever.
Let Israel say his steadfastlove endures forever.
Let the house of Aaron say hissteadfast love endures forever.
Let the house of Aaron say hissteadfast love endures forever.
Let those who fear the Lord sayhis steadfast love endures
forever.
Out of my distress, I call onthe Lord.
The Lord answered me and set mefree.

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The Lord is on my side.
I will not fear, for what canman do to me?
The Lord is on my side as myhelper.
I shall look in the triumph onthose who hate me.
It is better to take refuge inthe Lord than to trust in man.
It is better to take refuge inthe Lord than to trust in
princes.
All nations surround me.
In the name of the Lord, I cutthem off.

(29:59):
They surround me, surround meon every side.
In the name of the Lord, I cutthem off.
They surrounded me like bees.
They went out like a fire amongthorns.
In the name of the Lord, I cutthem off.
They surrounded me like bees.
They went out like a fire amongthorns.
In the name of the Lord, I cutthem off.
I was pushed hard so that I wasfalling, but the Lord helped me
.
The Lord is my strength and mysong.
He has become my salvation.
Glad songs of salvation are inthe tents of the righteous.

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The right hand of the Lord doesvaliantly.
The right hand of the Lordexalts.
The right hand of the righteous.
The right hand of the Lord doesvaliantly.
The right hand of the Lordexalts.
The right hand of the Lord doesvaliantly.
I shall not die, but I shalllive and recount the deeds of
the Lord.
The Lord has disciplined meseverely, but he has not given
me over to death.
Open to me the gates ofrighteousness that I may enter

(30:43):
through them and give thanks tothe Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord.
The righteous shall enterthrough it.
I thank you that you haveanswered me and have become my
salvation.
The stone that the buildersrejected has become the
cornerstone.
This is the Lord's doing.
It is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day that the Lordhas made.

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Let us rejoice and be glad init.
Save us.
We pray, o Lord.
O Lord, we pray.
Give us success.
Blessed is he who comes in thename of the Lord.
We bless you from the house ofthe Lord.
The Lord is good and he hasmade his light to shine upon us.
Bind the festal sacrifices withcords up to the horns of the
altar.
You are my God and I will givethanks to you.

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You are my God.
I will exalt you.
Oh, give thanks to the Lord,for he is good.
His steadfast love enduresforever.
And when they had finished thehymn, they went out to the Mount
of Olives.
Thank you for listening totoday's episode of our Ancient
Future Story.
I hope that you really enjoyedit.

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This episode was written andproduced by me.
Vic Harmon Music is embarkingon an adventure by Evan McDonald
.
Please support the show bysubscribing and rating us, and
if you would like to know moreor grow deeper, check out our
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