Expert: Brenton Hepburn - 4/13/2006

Question
Why do "witnesses" pass the cup and not drink it when both Yeshua and Paul say to drink.  Paul addresses a wayward gentile Greek congregation in his letter to the Corinthians.  They are getting drunk and stuffing themselves with bread to the point that there is no bread left by the time some others arrive.  He simply tells them to examine themselves.  What for?  To make sure that they are eating and drinking worthily.  What is worthily?  Paul says that to do it unworthily is to do it focused on the stomach and getting drunk.  "Don't you have homes...?"  "eat at home..."  To do it worthily is to drink of this "cup of blessing" (according to chapter ten of the same letter) without recognizing the body and blood of Yeshua.  Without recognizing your passover sacrifice (since the letter was written in 57 AD during the 8 day passover zikor/memorial and Paul addresses passover elements throughout the letter which was not originally separated by chapter and verse--the entire letter has a them "cup of blessing", "leaven", "unleavened bread", "firstfruits", "Yeshua or passover/pesach lamb")  He was keeping passover and telling them how they should handle this element of Passover fulfillment.  A zikor is a memorial associated with a Jewish festival.  Yeshua says drink and eat in the gospels as a zikor/memorial associated with a feast day.  He says do it with this understanding going forward---his body his blood.  He also says that if you do not drink and eat--You have no life.  If you do drink and eat--you will have a place in the kingdom to come or the world to come--he does not mention heaven in the hebrew or greek.  Yet, witnesses are instructed to ignore Yeshua's teaching, ignore Paul's teaching, and that it is for a select group of People--although they see Paul instructing this wayward bunch in Corinth to eat and drink--and if they will not do it worthily--Paul says that he thinks it is better if they don't even meet.  Why does it automatically say "no" to posting on your message board.  Mind control

Answer
Hello Lorna,

Thank you for this question, and again I apologize for not answering you sooner.  I must make more of an effort to check this site to see if I have any questions to be answered in stead of waiting for the automatic e-mail that tells me I have a question.

AT this stage I do not fully understand what you are asking, so I am requesting some more details please

From what you have written I am assuming your references to . "Don't you have homes...?" "eat at home..." is from 1 Corinthians 11:22.  I am not really sure as to what you are saying above So,  I am making an assumption

I am assuming you are saying in Corinth, the congregation here were eating to excess at the "Passover Meal" .  So why do we not have such a meal (without the overindulgences) ..... Is this what you are inferring?  

You make this statement......

"Yeshua says drink and eat in the gospels as a zikor/memorial associated with a feast day."

Yes we agree with you that it is a memorial day.  A memorial is something that generally done once a year.  Are you saying that Jesus instructed his followers to keep the Passover memorial?


You also make this statement.....

"Why does it automatically say "no" to posting on your message board. Mind control"

Are you referring to my web site?

So that I can fully answer you, can you please let me know if I have understood you correctly.  

Brenton