To Whom are We Proclaiming?

Moses records God's instructions describing a feast Israel was to repeat each year. Moses even recorded God's instructions concerning how Israel should eat it: "In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover."

 

Those instructions leave nothing to man's interpretation. But, Matthew describes Jesus and the disciples observing the Passover Meal more as a meal in a restaurant: "When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve." Do you suppose we are more concerned in the "how" than the "what?" Do you suppose we are more concerned with the "how" than Jesus was?

 

When Jesus "gave thanks" for what was he thanking God? When we say those two prayers for what are we thanking God?

 

Paul told the church in Corinth "…I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

 

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John do not record Jesus telling his disciples to eat and drink in "remembrance of Him." When we eat and drink alone to whom are we proclaiming the Lord's death until he comes?