The Golden Calf Generation E-Book

Solomon Aggrey

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• Sprache: Englisch

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In the time of Abram, the gene pool of the earth was polluted and corrupted. In order to bring forth the Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ, there had to be birthed a new and pure seed; the perfect DNA of the Lord. After the seed of Christ was sown in Abram, there came among the descendants of Abram, a golden calf generation in the wilderness when Moses, their Redeemer, was still on Mount Sinai with God. It was a generation of idolatry and immorality. So, before the second coming of the Lord comes another golden calf generation.

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Introduction

Then God said, ‘Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the seas, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ (Gen 1.26). So man, also the generic name for mankind, was made to be like God and to have His attributes in order to reveal His nature and His glory to all creation. The Psalmist says that man was made a little lower than God Himself and given dominion over all creation (Psa 8).

However, man disobeyed God and fell from his position. His constitution changed and he lost the special relationship he had with God. Man was no longer the image and the likeness of God but retained a poor impression of who he was before his fall. The devil, who himself had fallen away from God, was in charge of the world. But God, in His love for mankind, promised to restore man again. Speaking to the serpent, God said, ‘And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.’

After his fall, mankind became more corrupted. The gene pool of mankind became mixed up with others, especially with that of fallen angels, called the sons of God. The ‘sons of God’ birthed a hybrid race, the Nephilim, with earthly women, and they introduced more evil, wickedness, idolatry, violence and bloodshed. They corrupted the whole earth. So God destroyed the earth and every living thing on earth by flood, but Noah was found to be perfect and found grace in the sight of God (Gen 6.9, Gen 6.12). It means Noah was not corrupted by the Nephilim genes. As a result, God saved Noah and his household; Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. (1Pet 3.20, 2Pet 2.5). However, the Bible does not say anything about the righteousness of Noah’s wife, his sons, and their wives.

The post-flood earth was repopulated by the descendants of the three sons of Noah; Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham dishonoured his father, so Noah prophetically cursed Ham. ‘Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren … Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servants. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servants.’ (Gen 9.25-27). As the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth were going to repopulate the earth, the curses and the blessings of Noah were also going to influence the whole course of human history, right to the end of time. Each of the sons had varying degrees of genetic contamination, but the greatest genetic contamination was found among the descendants of Ham.

It did not take very long, and the post-flood era became corrupt again. The Nephilim came back, especially among descendants of Ham, and the earth was once again filled with evil, wickedness, violence, idolatry, and bloodshed. Man drifted further and further away from God. God created man in His image and likeness to represent Him on the earth, in His power, in His glory and in His dominion. When Adam fell and changed his constitution, God updated the plan. Man would have to be transformed by faith into God’s image and likeness through His Word. That was why the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ was the last revelation of God on the earth. He came to the earth to give mankind the grace to be transformed once again in the image and the likeness of God through Him (Rom 8.29-30).

God chose a descendant of Shem called Abram and put into him the seed of Christ (the promise of salvation). Through Abram, all the families of the earth were to be blessed (Gen 12.3). God cut a covenant with Abram, that his descendants would be like the stars in heaven and the sand on the seashore. They would become strangers in a foreign land and serve them for four hundred years; after that He would free them and judge that nation (Gen 15.13-14). Abram gave birth to Isaac. Isaac gave birth to Jacob and Jacob gave birth to the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Yes, the children of Israel went to live in Egypt during a severe famine in the time of Joseph. After four hundred years, God set them free through the hand of Moses. Moses, by God’s instruction, took the children of Israel to meet with Him on Mount Sinai before going to possess the Promised Land. After fifty days, through the Red Sea and the wilderness, the children of Israel stood before God on Mount Sinai. God made a covenant with the children of Israel to be their God and the children of Israel to be His people. He called Moses to the top of Mount Sinai and Moses was there forty days and forty nights to receive more revelation concerning the covenant.

Before Moses returned from the top of Mount Sinai to the camp, the children of Israel moulded a golden calf and worshipped it, right before the presence of the glory of God. The golden calf was a symbol of Baal, the male fertility god of the Canaanites. The children of Israel started out from Egypt as a nation without leaven (sin), now they were filled with leaven. They committed a great sin by breaking the covenant which God had cut with them. God was very angry with them but through the intercession of Moses, the children of Israel were allowed to continue their journey to the Promised Land. Baal worship never left the hearts of the children of Israel.

This book reveals the hidden code in the golden calf episode in the wilderness. The golden calf episode points to the generation before the return of Jesus Christ. That generation, the golden calf generation, will again worship and serve Baal. Many people today would not see themselves as Baal worshippers because our civilisation is different from the civilisation of the Canaanites. But our actions and behaviour indicate that we are worshipping and serving the same ancient gods of Baal, Ashtoreth and Molech.

Foreword

The episode of the golden calf in the Bible, chapter thirty-two, is one of the Biblical episodes many Christians know about. In this episode the children of Israel sinned against God by moulding and worshipping a golden calf while Moses was at the top of Mount Sinai with Jehovah God. God had spoken audibly to the children of Israel from the top of Mount Sinai about forty days prior to the incidence: ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For, I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…’ (Exo 20.1-5). It was the beginning and the heart of the covenant which God ratified with the children of Israel.

The children of Israel trembled and drew back in fear at the sight of the glory of God and chose Moses as their mediator. The Bible says, ‘The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.’ Moses went up the mountain for forty days and forty nights, so he left deputies to take care of the needs of the children of Israel. On the thirty ninth day, just a day before Moses was supposed to come down from Mount Sinai, the children of Israel called to Aaron to make a god to go before them. Aaron moulded a golden calf, and they bowed down to it and served it. They disobeyed Jehovah God and broke the covenant they had cut with Him.

At the time the children of Israel made the golden calf, the glory of God could still be seen on the top of Mount Sinai, and it would have been very unusual and unnatural for the children of Israel to have ignored it altogether. But they did. It was as if Jehovah God was not present, or they had never known Him or never cut a covenant with Him. The fear of God which His divine and glorious presence was to instil in them was completely absent.

God was so provoked by the episode of the golden calf that He decided to destroy the children of Israel and raise another nation through Moses. But Moses pleaded with Him, and God in His great mercy changed His mind (Exo 32.11-14, Neh 9.18-21). On the fortieth day Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the first set of the tablets of the Ten Commandments written by God Himself. The Ten Commandments in the hands of Moses represented the image and likeness of God. The children of Israel were to live under the shadow of God’s image and likeness so that they would be transformed and reflect Him on the earth. However, the children of Israel, just before Moses came down from Mount Sinai, chose the god they wanted to worship and serve. They chose the god whose image they would like to represent on the earth.

When Moses came down the mountain and saw what the children of Israel were doing, his own anger became so hot that he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. The children of Israel really did not need the tablets, since they had already chosen another god to worship and serve. Moses took the golden calf, burnt it, ground it to powder, scattered it on water and made the children of Israel drink it.

The golden calf was the symbol of Baal, the Canaanite fertility god. When Joshua led the children of Israel across river Jordan into the Promised Land, he commanded the children of Israel, ‘Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt. Serve the Lord.’ (Jos 24.14). In the Promised Land the children of Israel continued to worship and serve Baal. ‘They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths,’ (Jud 2.13).

About 500 years after the golden calf episode at the foot of Mount Sinai, the first king of Samaria, Jeroboam, made two calves of gold and said to his people, ‘It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ (1Kin 12.28). He set up one calf in Bethel and the other in Dan. Jeroboam appointed feast days and priests and the people worshipped and served those calves. His intention was to prevent the people of his kingdom from going to Jerusalem to worship Jehovah God in the temple. The motive of Jeroboam exposed the purpose of the golden calf: to turn people away from following the true and living God.

In the Old Testament, God dealt with the types, the copies, the patterns, and the shadows of events which would take place in the New Testament. Apostle Paul says, ‘So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come but the substance is of Christ.’ (Col 2.16-17). Jesus Christ was the final revelation of God, whose shadows and types appeared in the Old Testament.

Many of the things that happened to the children of Israel, especially in the wilderness, were foreshadowing of the things more fully revealed in the New Testament. ‘Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.’ (1Cor 10.11).

Moses was a type or the picture of the Redeemer, Jesus, the anointed. The children of Israel were a type of the Church. They were chosen as the priests of the world (Exo 19.5-6). Whatever happens to Israel eventually has a great effect on the whole world. Israel is like God’s timing clock. The golden calf episode on Mount Sinai was a picture or a type of what would happen in the time of the end just before the return of Jesus Christ.

The people of Israel are expecting their Messiah for the first time and the Christians are expecting the return of their Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ. The Israelites moulded the golden calf on the 39thday of Moses’ ascension to the top of Mount Sinai, just a day before he came down. A day, prophetically, can be a period of time or a season. So, the period or the season before Jesus Christ returns, there will be an emergence of a golden calf generation.

In this period or season, many will fall away from worshipping the true and the living God and turn to Baal worship (including the worship of Molech and Ashtoreth). The worship of these ancient gods will drive the world’s agenda and bring in a new unholy culture. Many world leaders will follow the sins of Aaron and Jeroboam, reject God’s commandments, and cause people to follow other gods. They will institute ungodly laws to control the people who elected them and turn them away from the true God to worship man-made gods or national gods. Some of these leaders will persecute the church. Apostasy, idolatry and licentiousness will increase and multiply in the world.

What is happening around the world is not by accident. The rise of apostasy, idolatry, and the occult, the rise of the decriminalisation of abortion, the rise of homosexuality and legalisation of same-sex marriage can be linked to the ancient gods of Baal, Molech and Ashtoreth. It gives a prophetic indication that we are much closer to the return of our Jesus Christ than ever before. God said, ‘Behold, I will send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers.’ (Mal 4.5-6). Prophet Elijah came headlong against the worship of Baal and Jezebel (Ashtoreth) in his day in order to turn many back to the true God. As Moses came down from Mount Sinai and destroyed the golden calf, so will the return of Jesus Christ bring judgement, destruction of idolatry, sin, and ungodliness and usher in a millennium age of rest and righteousness.

Chapter 1 – The Seed Of Promise

The sin of Adam and Eve in the Bible altered the nature and the constitution of mankind and affected the whole earth. Apostle Paul says, ‘Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned… For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.’ (Rom 5.12, Rom 3.23). Since the fall, violence, wickedness, corruption, and bloodshed have never left the earth. The aim for which God made man in His image and likeness was being defeated. God made man in His image, according to His likeness to represent Him and reveal His nature to all creation in such a way that His glory would be seen on earth (Gen 1.26, Psa 8.5-6).

The human race needed to be redeemed, but this redemption could not be achieved through its fallen Adamic nature. The only way was for man to be transformed by faith into the image of God’s Son through the Word. ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.’ (Joh 1.14). ‘Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.’ (Heb 2.17). The Saviour of the world, the Redeemer, the Christ, had to be like man in order to save the human race.

Jehovah God therefore needed someone on earth to carry the seed of Christ, the promised seed of salvation. The gene pool of the whole world was corrupted. The hearts of humanity were filled with violence, evil, wickedness, apostasy, and idolatry. God sovereignly reached down in love and mercy and chose one of the descendants of Shem, called Abram, to carry the seed of Christ (1Chr 1.24-28, Gen 11.10-26, Gal 3.16). Abram had a fallen Adamic nature, like any human being, and was also an idol worshipper at that time (Jos 24.2-3). However, God chose him to begin a completely new godly generation, through whom the divine promise, the seed of the woman, who would bless all the families of the earth would come.

Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ (Gen 12.1-3).

Stephen, one of the early disciples of Jesus, reminded the Sanhedrin before whom he stood indicted that God first called out Abram when he was in the Ur of the Chaldees. God told Abram to forsake his country, his relatives and his father’s house to a land He would show him, and He would bless him, make his name great and a blessing. (Acts 7.2-4). Abram received the call of God and told his father, Terah. Terah had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran died in the Ur of the Chaldees and left a son called Lot. Terah, as the head of the family, took Abram, their wives and Lot and moved first to dwell in Haran. Abram’s wife, Sarai, who travelled with him, was barren and could not bring forth a son in the Ur of the Chaldees.

In Haran Abram received another call to leave, and he left with his wife, Sarai, and Lot, his nephew, when he was seventy-five years old. God led them over about 1500 miles to the land of Canaan, the Promised Land, which at that time was inhabited by the Canaanites. After a while both Abram and Lot became rich with flocks and herds, so there was constant strife between their herdsmen. Abram told Lot to choose any land he wanted and separate himself. Lot lifted his eyes and saw the plains of Jordan, and they were well watered and fruitful. So, he chose the plains of Jordan and journeyed east. But in the plains of Jordan were the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Ziboiim, which God destroyed with brimstone and fire (Deu 29.23). When Lot separated himself from Abram, God reiterated to Abram the promise in more details.

‘Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.’ (Gen 13.14-17).

Lot could not have been part of Abram’s calling because Lot lived by sight, while Abraham lived by faith. In the process of time, the king of Sodom and four other Canaanite kings were joined together in a battle with Chedorlaomer, king of Elam (Persia) and his three allied kings. Chedorlaomer and his allied kings defeated the five Canaanite kings and took their goods and provisions and departed with Lot, who was living in Sodom.

When Abram was told of the capture of his nephew, he armed 318 trained servants who were born in his own house and went in pursuit of the four foreign kings (Gen 14.13-14). Abram went into the battle with courage and faith in his covenant God. He mounted a surprise attack and defeated the four kings and brought back his nephew, Lot, and all the other captives and their goods (Gen 14.16).

When Abram returned from his victory, he was met by two kings. The first was the defeated king of Sodom, called Bera. Bera means ‘gift’ or ‘son of evil’ according to Easton Dictionary. The second king who came to meet Abram was Melchizedek, the king of Salem.

‘Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.’ (Gen 14.18).

The Hebrew word ‘Melchizedek’ comes from melek, meaning king, and tsedeq meaning righteousness. The name Melchizedek might have been his title, the king of righteousness. In Heb 7.2, Melchizedek is also referred to as the king of Salem. Salem means peace. So Melchizedek was the king of righteousness, the king of peace, and the priest of God Most High.

Psalms 76.2 says, ‘In Salem also is His tabernacle and His dwelling place in Zion.’ Salem was the old name of Jerusalem. However, at that time, the earthly tabernacle of God had not been built yet and Zion (part of Jerusalem, referring to the governmental seat of God (Mic 4.2, Isa 2.3)) was also not established. So, I believe that Melchizedek was a heavenly king and priest. As a heavenly king, Melchizedek had divine authority in the areas of righteousness and peace and a seat in the government of God. His office might have been both heavenly and earthly in nature. As a priest he was the constant mediator and intercessor before God on behalf of Salem prior to the Aaronic priesthood.

God needed a perfect seed-line, but there was none on earth. In the pre-flood era, Noah was declared perfect; without genetic corruption before he and his household were saved from the flood judgment. In the post-flood era, no one was declared perfect. The whole earth was once again corrupt. Abram, whom God had chosen, was far from perfect. His DNA and bloodline were also corrupted through his lineage and through his idol worship (Jos 24.2-3). God took Abram from his family and country and led him to the Promised Land inhabited by the Canaanites who were also idol worshippers of the worse kind.

God had made promises to Abram that He would make him great and bless him, and that in him all the families of the earth would be blessed (Gen 12.1-3). If the DNA of Abram remained corrupted, then his seed would also be corrupted. The earth could not be blessed through him in that condition. Abram had to have a perfect, unpolluted, and uncorrupted DNA to bring forth a pure seed. But how? God already had an answer to that contingency. ‘Then Melchizedek, king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.’ Apostle Paul describes Melchizedek as ‘king of righteousness, king of peace, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.’ (Heb 7.2-3).

‘Without father, without mother and without genealogy,’ indicates that Melchizedek had no Adamic sin or generational sins to deal with; no genetic corruption or pollution. In order words, Melchizedek had a perfect DNA. His DNA was like Adam before his fall or like the last Adam, Jesus Christ. Melchizedek, ‘made like the Son of God,’ tells us that he was a representation of God, a type of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ was born of Virgin Mary. He was not born of an earthly father. Jesus Christ, like Melchizedek, didn’t have any Adamic sin, no generational sin, and no corrupted DNA. The angel Gabriel told Mary, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you; therefore, also that Holy One who is to be born will be called Son of God.’ (Luk 1.35). Jesus Christ was not conceived by insemination but conceived by overshadowing.

The Father of Jesus was God and Jesus Christ’s body and blood bore the record of God’s DNA on earth. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ (Joh 1.1). ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.’ (Joh 1.14). Jesus Christ was and is also a King. The wise men from the East said, ‘Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.’ (Mat 2.2, Zech 9.9). Jesus Christ Himself confirmed it before Pilate by saying, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ (Joh 18.36-37). Jesus Christ was the antitype of Melchizedek. He is not our Pastor as people think, but our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (Psa 110.4, Heb 7.21, Heb 4.14-15). Jesus Christ was and is a King Priest, just like Melchizedek.

The true meaning of the bread and wine Melchizedek brought to Abram was not revealed until Jesus Christ came about 3,000 years later. He said, ‘For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world … I am the bread which came down from heaven … This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die … Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in You. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.’ (Joh 6.33-56).

Many disciples of Jesus Christ did not understand and turned away from Him, but He explained it to them later. ‘It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.’ (Joh 6.63). At Jesus Christ’s last celebration of the Passover before He went to the cross, He took bread and broke it and said, ‘Take, eat, this is my body.’ He took the cup containing the wine and said, ‘Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant which is shed for the remission of sins.’ (Mat 26.26-28). His disciples were not supposed to eat the physical body of Jesus Christ and drink His physical blood, but to eat the bread and drink the wine by faith.

Apostle Paul also delivered to the church his revelation: ‘For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you; that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.’ In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.’ (1Cor 11.23-26). Jesus Christ instituted what we Christians usually call the Holy Communion.

To proclaim was to publicly announce, show forth, and exhibit Christ’s suffering and death and to identify and profess oneness with it by faith through eating the bread and drinking the wine. The institution of the Holy Communion happened after the partaking of the Passover meal, as seen in the gospel according to Luke (Luk 22.14-20). Therefore, Jesus Christ set up a completely new covenant, different from the Passover. This new covenant, the Holy Communion, completely replaced the feast of Passover and was supposed to continue till Jesus Christ returns. Jesus Christ was the last Passover Lamb, so Passover was no longer meant to be celebrated by Christians after the death of Jesus Christ.

Jehovah God promised the Israelites a new covenant. ‘‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah – not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt…’’ (Heb 8.8-9). Jesus Christ became the Mediator of this new covenant by means of His death. ‘And for this reason He is the Mediator of a new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.’ (Heb 9.15-17).

So, it was only after the death of Jesus Christ that the new covenant came into force. Apostle Paul says that the new covenant was better because it was made on better promises. ‘But now He obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is also a mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.’ (Heb 8.6). Jesus Christ fulfilled the feast of Passover and set up a new covenant by His death. Because of that, the feast of Passover became obsolete to Christians (Heb 8.12-13).

Passover, to the Jews, was an annual celebration, and the Holy Communion to the Christians was and is celebrated as often as possible. When we proclaim the Lord’s death by faith and become identified and one with it by eating the bread and drinking the wine, straight away we become also identified and one with the resurrection of Jesus Christ by faith. We have now entered into a completely different realm. Resurrection is life and He who gives life is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit already dwells in every true believer. ‘Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.’ In other words, he is not a Christian. ‘Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?’ (1Cor 6.19).

Remember Jesus Christ said, ‘It is the Spirit who gives life.’ When one takes the bread and the wine (Holy Communion) with the right intent, understanding and faith, the Holy Spirit begins to quicken the body. ‘But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.’ (Rom 8.11). ‘He redeemed us from the curse of the law, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.’ (Gal 3.13-14, Gal 3.29).

The Holy Spirit begins to gradually execute the promises of the new covenant. And the greatest benefit of the new covenant is to be transformed into the same image and likeness of Christ. ‘But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.’ (2Cor 3.18). You see, the Holy Communion, if properly taken, is able to initiate our transformation to become like Christ, without father, without mother, without genealogy. That is, it is able to change our corrupt and tainted DNA to that of Christ’s incorruptible body, making Holy Communion completely different from Passover.

Apostle Paul explains, ‘For we know that the whole creation groans and labours with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we are saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?’ (Rom 8.22-24). Every true believer can tell you that by grace we have been saved through faith (Eph 2.8). But Apostle Paul takes us a step further. He intimates that the purpose of our salvation by faith is the adoption and the redemption of our bodies through hope. Salvation by faith is instantaneous but the redemption of the body is through hope. It is a process and takes time.