What instructions did Jesus give for the future at the Last Supper?
hese instructions have an important purpose: “As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes” (1 Cor. 11:26, NKJV). In other words, when we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we proclaim our faith in God’s power against Satan a power based on His redemptive activity through Jesus’ death. Jesus established the Lord’s Supper within the historic framework of the Passover (Exodus 12), which recalls Satan’s bondage of the Jews, human helplessness, and God’s grace as the only hope for anyone to be free from that bondage. Just as Israel’s freedom was rooted in history by God’s redeeming act, so our freedom from sin is grounded in the historic event of the Cross. Jesus is our “Passover” Lamb, “sacrificed for us” (1 Cor. 5:7, NKJV). Because of that sacrifice, we share Christ’s victory in the great controversy. Jesus’ claim that His broken body and shed blood establish a new covenant (Matt. 26:28; 1 Cor. 11:25) confronts the core issue of the great contr
