The Adon's Supper

 Christian fellowships and Hebrew roots fellowships gather on a particular day and have formulated a doctrine of a breaking of bread and drinking of wine from the cup to remember the death and resurrection of Yahusha ha Mashiyach in a fleshly appeasement trapment! The doctrines are formulated based on milking on a few scriptures from the basharah, Acts and Shaul’s address to the Corinthian assembly. I have listed the key ones below and will share the ruach understanding which is lacking among people to understand the true meaning of breaking of bread and drinking from the cup and its significance. Trust the truth will set you free!

The basharah account:

Luke22:15 And He said to them, “I have deeply longed to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.”

Luke22:16 “For I say to you, “I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of the Elohim.”

Luke22:17 He took the cup giving thanks and said, “Take it and distribute it.”

Luke22:18 “For I say to you, “I shall surely not drink of the fruit of the vine from now until the kingdom of the Elohim comes.

Luke22:19 He took the bread, giving thanks, and He broke. He gave it to them and said, “This is My body which is given on your behalf. Do this in My remembrance.”

Luke22:20 He did likewise also the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out on your behalf.

Luke 24:30 When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

Luke 24:35 They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

The Acts account:

Acts2:42 They were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayer.

Acts2:46 Day by day they were keeping watch to be with one heart in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,

Acts2:47 they ate their food with gladness and with simplicity of heart, praising the Elohim and finding favor in the presence of all the people.

The Corinthian assembly account:

1 Corin 10:16-17 Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Messiah? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Messiah? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

1Cor11:23 Therefore I received from the Adon, and I delivered to you that the Adon `Yahusha in the night of which He was delivered up took bread,

1Cor11:24 and having given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat, this is My body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

1Cor11:25 In like manner also the cup after the supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this in remembrance of Me at all time that you drink it.

1Cor11:26 For at all time that you eat this bread and drink this cup, remind the remembrance of the death of our Adon until He comes.

1Cor11:27 Therefore he who eats from this bread or drinks from the cup of the Adon unworthily shall be guilty of the body of our Adon and of His blood.

1Cor11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1Cor11:29 For the one who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, by not discerning the body of the Adon.

1Cor11:30 Because this word, there are many among you sick and weak, and there is much asleep to death.

1Cor11:31 For if we were examining ourselves, we should not be judged.

1Cor11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Adon, so that we shall not be condemned with the world.

If you notice the basharah account, Yahusha chose to eat a meal with his 12 disciples minus the Passover lamb because He Himself was the Passover lamb. Hence, the remembrance is related to the Passover lamb, for the killing of the Pesach lamb required supervision of the Levites and while Yahusha stayed hung on the stake the lambs were being slayed in the temple. Yahusha presided over His own sacrifice as the Malchitsedeq priest, and He was the Lamb who was without blemish and didn’t need the supervision of a carnal priesthood.

John 19:31 The Yahudim said, the corpses should not remain on the crucifixion on the day of Shabbat, since it was the Preparation Day, and that day of Shabbat was a high day. So, they requested for Pilatos to break their legs and to take them down.

From the Jewish perspective they wanted to remain ceremonially clean, so they didn’t enter the Praetorium. 

John 18:28 And it came to pass as early in the morning, they led Yahusha from the house of Qayapha to the Praetorium (house of justice). But they did not enter there so that they would not become impure but could eat the Passover.

Luke 22:15 And He said to them, “I have deeply longed to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.”

Shaul confirms this fulfillment to the Corinthian assembly.

1Cor5:7 Purge out the old leaven so that you are a new lump and the unleavened bread. For our Passover is sacrificed also for us, for He is the Mashiyach with us.

1Cor5:8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Shaul gives us the ruach understanding of Passover by asking us to purge out the old leaven i.e. referring to the old covenant so that you are a new lump i.e. referring to the new covenant in the new creation order. He goes on to say ‘Let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven (related to instruction of literal removing of leaven from houses in old covenant), nor with leaven of malice and wickedness (the behavior that remained in those who followed a carnal command), but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (related to the body of Mashiyach in which we become unleavened with a new covenant behavior). Hence, the celebration of the feast is in OUR CHANGED BEHAVIOUR by becoming unleavened in Messiah Yahusha).

In the basharah account Yahusha when He broke bread said Luke22:16 “For I say to you, “I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of the Elohim.”

And when He drank from the cup said Luke22:18 “For I say to you, “I shall surely not drink of the fruit of the vine from now until the kingdom of the Elohim comes.

Hence, He was not going to eat of the bread or drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of Alahym comes. This is the Covenant meal He was referring to which will be the consummation of the New Covenant, also known as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!

Rev 19:9 And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These, they, are true words of Elohim.

But after His resurrection didn’t He break bread with the 2 disciples who were on the road to Emmaus?

Luke24:30 And it came to pass when He reclined with them, He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and He gave it to them.

Luke24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, but He turned aside and He vanished from their eyes!

If you notice that He broke bread & gave it to the 2 disciples to open their eyes of what He spoke and when they recognized Him, He vanished from their eyes. He broke bread and gave to them, He himself didn’t eat as per His words at the Pesach table.

But didn’t He say “Do this in My remembrance” when He broke the bread and gave the cup at the Pesach Table?

I have touch based this before and this has to be understood in the Covenant Hebrew mindset. The word ‘my remembrance’ is Zakary זכרי and while translators would point you to Greek translation, a comparison to the same word in the Shabbath command Exo 20:8 “Remember/zakor זכןר  the Sabbath alaph tau  אתDay to set it apart” will help us understand that the same word zakar זכר/zakor זכןר is also translated as ‘male child’ H2138.

Hence, the remembrance was of the transition of the ‘male child’ who came from the womb to take the path to an adult glorified body in Mashiyach. It's all about the Tent of His body which was not made with hands and is heavenly and saw the transition in suffering & glorification, and hence, we are identified in His death and resurrection, in His suffering and glorification. The bread and wine were just elements depicting His death and resurrection, His suffering and glorification and when He said “Do this in My Remembrance” we must decode what He meant.

The Apostles doctrine:

Acts of the apostles was a transition period as the teaching of the apostles came afresh in the new covenant with an exposition of the Torah of sin and death which held the ruach in the letter. The Transition was not overnight but a gradual experience for the apostles themselves as the Ruach enabled them the understanding.  They broke bread from house to house as a covenant meal confirming the newer understanding which came from the apostles when houses turned to Yahusha. Hence, we can’t formulate a doctrine from the beginnings of the transition period.

Acts 2:42 They were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayer.

Acts 2:46 Day by day they were keeping watch to be with one heart in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house,

Acts 2:47 they ate their food with gladness and with simplicity of heart, praising the Elohim and finding favor in the presence of all the people.

The Corinthian assembly:

The Corinthian assembly was known for its congregation filled with carnal understanding and divisions as some said they belonged to Apollos, some said they belong to Shaul, some said they belonged to Kepha  and some said they belonged to Messiah (1 Corin 1), there was dishonoring the body of Messiah in a covenant meal which had become a norm (1 Corin 11), there was a problem of understanding of the gifts, the gibberish tongue had crept in (1 Corin 14), they were carnal babes (1 Corin 3:1) fed with milk, they allowed sexual immorality in the assembly (1 Cor 5), they brought lawsuits against brethren & were occupied in eating things sacrificed to idols (1 Corin 6 & 1 Corn 8), their women didn’t regard order in assembly by being under the authority of their husband's headship (1 Corin 11) etc etc. And all of the 1^st letter to them was to bring order in the assembly.

Acts 18 records Shaul in his transition journey had established this assembly and remained there a year and six months teaching the Word of Alahym among them having moved on to Ephesos.

Acts18:11 And he remained there a year and six months, teaching the Word of the Elohim among them.

The entire synagogue there had turned to Yahusha ha Mashiyach and the leaders of the synagogue Crispus and Sosthenes led the assembly post Shaul leaving them in an onward journey, and it was difficult to cope up with the assembly transition as there were Greeks with the Greco Roman mindset and the Jews who also were having the two mindsets of Greco Roman and Hebrew legalistic mindset which led most of them into an incorrect behavior. Hence, Shaul had to write to them 2 letters out of which the first one was to set order in the assembly.

1Cor1:1 Polos (Shaul) is called as an apostle of `Yahusha’ the Mashiyach by the will of Elohim, and Sosthenes our brother,

Acts18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue and he believed in the Adon (Master) and all his household. And also, many of the Qorinetim heard and believed.

Acts18:17 And all the Yawanim (Greeks) took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallion showed no concern to these things too.

Now coming to the passages of the covenant meal observance in the Corinthian assembly: 

1Cor 11:20 And now, when you gather together, it is not to eat the supper of the Adon.

1Cor 11:21 For when you eat, each one takes his supper in the time of eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk.

1Cor 11:22 Do you have no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the assembly of Elohim and you shall be ashamed of those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I shall not praise you?

There was more than a normal participation of breaking of bread and drinking of the cup in the assembly. Shaul rebukes them of a gathering which they termed as ‘supper of the Adon’ as a term for Passover meal but it’s not to eat the supper of the Adon, for he points them the flaws of observing a covenant meal which was actually done with the family at home (1 Cor 11:22) in the initial instruction. Shaul the apostle was not endorsing observing a covenant meal in the assembly or at home but was pointing out the severe failures of the Corinthian assembly trying to do it and tells them what he had delivered to them (indicating the delivery during the transition journey as did all the other apostles in their newer understanding of the new creation covenant by breaking bread house to house) & here he was comparing to what they were now doing. The scriptures should be understood in its proper context.

1Cor11:23 Therefore I received from the Adon, and I delivered to you that the Adon `Yahusha in the night of which He was delivered up took bread,

He then states what was delivered as Yahusha did on the night before He died and was to be in remembrance/zakar which they were not doing. So, he brings the ORDER IN THE ASSEMBLY

1Cor11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

1Cor11:29 For the one who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, by not discerning the body of the Adon.

Those who were doing it unworthily were doing it, not discerning the body of the Adon.

Our body should be in a sanctified state as we progress towards in our transition to receive the glorious body reserved which is our Adon’s body. The belly is the testing arena for all elect for Yahusha said “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of Alahym” and the word of Alahym defines for us what sanctification is all about as we imitate Yahusha and His behavior in obedience as we transition in Him (it’s all about His body which is the Tent from above not made with hands).

Php 3:19 Their end is destruction, their elohim is their belly, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

1Ti 4:4 Because every creature of Elohim is good, and none is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1Ti 4:5 for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.

 Every creature which is clean is defined by the word of Alahym and that’s why in verse 5 above Shaul the apostle says it’s sanctified by the Word of Alahym (the instruction) and prayer (our behavior).

The Corinthian assembly lost the essence of the command given in a transition and transitioned to a Greco Roman mindset of not discerning the body of the Adon because of which they were severely judged by the Adon.

1Cor 11:30 For this cause, there are many among you sick and weak, and many are asleep to death.

The order Shaul the apostle brings is asking them to judge themselves, for when we see where we are in the transition, it lies looking to the Tent from heaven i.e., discerning the body of Yahusha, we will not be condemned with the world, for everything we will do will be in sanctification of our bodies with the new creation behavior.

1Cor11:31 For if we were examining ourselves, we should not be judged.

1Cor11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Adon, so that we shall not be condemned with the world.

Correcting the behavior is always important in our sanctification by discerning the body of the Adon. We need to look at Him, his Torah of life to be in the transition. The emblems are mere carnal appeasements of the flesh and keeps one trapped in a goody goody feeling.

1Cor 11:33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry for one another.

Shaul is not asking them to come again together to eat for he is referring to the covenant meal they were coming to participate in the assembly which they should be doing at home as per the original command of the apostles as they broke bread house to house (Acts 2:46). The assembly was still in a milk feeding process and had not come to the fuller understanding of the new creation order and the behavior towards the instructions of a transition. This is understood when we understand 1Corn 11:34 ‘lest you shall come together for guilt’ and “And the rest of the matters I shall SET IN ORDER when I come”. When you see the Hebrew mindset in reading 1Corn 11:33 ‘tarry for one another’, the term ‘one another’ in Hebrew mindset is ‘zeh la zeh’ which is like pointing places ‘here for here’ and will not make sense unless we see the comparing points as ‘instruction and behavior’. It's like saying “If you are going to do it again read the instruction, its purpose, its transition and see where you stand.”

1Cor11:34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat in his house, lest you shall come together for guilt. And the rest of the matters I shall SET IN ORDER when I come.

Remember, its similar to the tablets of the covenant which Moses broke which had writing on it by the finger of Yahuah mizeh u mizeh which should be translated ‘here and here’ and it was plain and simple. Shaul with the similar Covenant Hebrew mindset is saying read and understand the instruction, its purpose, its transition and see where you stand”. This is the new creation order behavior we must have. We don’t discard the Old Testament just because we are in the New covenant, we read the commands, understand its shadows & purpose, yet we are not in the literal commands because the commands have transitioned to the spiritual royal laws, so have we spiritually transitioned and we now look and discern the body of the Adon to incorporate the new bride behavior, groaning to be clothed from the Tent from above. We are no longer in the milk of the word but solid meat with our sense exercised to discern between good and evil.

Heb 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is not acquainted in the Word of righteousness, for he is still an infant.

Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, that there is to them according to the experience of the senses that have been trained to discern between good and evil.

When the bride sees and understands what a Covenant meal is and that her bridegroom said he will not eat or drink of it until he drinks it new with us referring to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we see what He meant and tend to attain the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth behavior until we are in the glorified bodies with the transition completed. We don’t see any instruction to Gentiles in Acts 15 to break bread and drink of the cup and no other letter in the assembly records any such event expect for the disorderly covenant meal gathering in the Corinthian assembly. May the truth set you free!