Genesis 14:18-24 Abram (aka Abraham) knew who was blessing him. He gave a tenth as a tithe to God. This Melchizedek blessed Abram and God Most High, which signifies that He (Melchizedek) was the pre-incarnate Christ—soon to be named Jesus.
Bread: H3899 food (for man or beast).
Wine: H3196 by implication intoxication. –banqueting, wine.
Exodus 16:1-36 (vs. 4) I will rain bread from heaven…
Ex 16:31 And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Literally What? Ex 16:15
Abram received bread and wine, signifying the first and second covenant combined, which was of faith. In contrast, the Children of Israel received only the first covenant, which was of the law.
The Exodus account was only bread, no wine involved.
John 2:1-12 Jesus turns water into wine—this is the beginning of signs (vs. 11).
The John 2 account is the wine with no mention of bread.
Luke 22:14-20 Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper by invoking both the bread and the wine and insists that his disciples consume them by eating the bread and drinking the wine from the cup of their Lord. Just the same Abram would have eaten the bread and drank the wine.
Note: (vs. 14), Luke states, “When the hour had come.” This contrasts with John 2:4, when Jesus said, “My hour has not yet come.” This is an example of waiting on the LORD for His timing; not to be confused with laziness, which is unfruitful—Proverbs 13:4. At first, I listed laziness as a sin but changed it to unfruitful because it was not listed in Galatians 5:19-21; however, unfruitfulness can lead to sin. Let us be diligent in our walk of faith with Jesus.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Paul delivers the Lord’s Supper, stating (vs. 26): For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
Again, the Corinthian’s account has both the bread and the wine and a remembrance of the Lord’s death till he returns.
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,
Revelation 14:20 And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 19:13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
The passages from Revelation signify first that Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins in His blood. Second, the enemies of God who rejected the saving blood of Christ are trampled outside the city, and it is their blood that is shed. And last, our Savior, Jesus Christ, is once again covered in blood, but this time, it is the blood of His enemies, and we know that Jesus is called the Word of God. This account in Revelation has both the bread and the wine: the bread is represented as Jesus, and the wine is represented as the blood of his enemies.
When Abram received the bread and the wine, he received the person of Jesus (The Man of God). When the enemies of Christ reject Him, they receive the wrath of God. When Jesus died on the cross, He shed His blood for the remission of sins (Matt 26:28). Then, about the ninth hour, while hanging from the cross, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? (Matt 27:46). It is in this context that we receive remission of sin through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; however, if we reject the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that same forsakenness that was poured out on Jesus on the cross will be poured out by God the Father in absolute eternal wrath for rejecting the blood of the Lamb. It is the Lamb of God who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11). All persons who reject the Lord Jesus Christ will suffer the consequences of the second death, which is eternal damnation in the lake of fire witnessed by Jesus Christ and the holy angels for all eternity (Rev 14:10).
Further, remember the prayer in the garden when Jesus said in Matt 26:39, … “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
Therefore, it is the will of the Father that all persons come under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, … not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). Therefore, let all men repent and turn to God so that they may escape the snare of the devil and turn from the darkness of the world to the light of Christ (Acts 26:18).
To conclude, the bread and the wine represent the life-saving gift of Jesus, the son of God. Receive it with joy as it is given in longsuffering (Romans 2:4). May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and save you and bring you into the family of His God and Father through the graciousness of the Holy Spirit as our Lord did for Abram/Abraham by the bread and the wine (the old and new covenant). Amen.
The Cabin 