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meal. The third cup of wine was a toast to the lamb whose blood had been shed that day for the covering of their sins.
    It was Passover week in the year a.d. 33 and Jesus was in the city of Jerusalem to celebrate the night the death angel passed over the children of Israel if they had sacrificed a lamb and put the lamb’s blood on their doorpost. On the night Jesus was going to be arrested, He reclined at a table in Jerusalem to eat the Passover meal with His 12 disciples.
    On the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “ This is my body , which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper [the third cup in the Passover feast], saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and you, sealed by the shedding of my blood ” (1 Cor. 11:23–26; NLT).
    By uttering these words, Jesus basically proclaimed, “Don’t toast the lambs that could merely cover sins. Toast Me, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”
    In one proclamation, Jesus shattered 15 centuries of tradition. No longer would a continual stream of animal blood be shed for the covering of sins; Jesus Christ would be sacrificed one time for the complete forgiveness of sins.
    This must have stunned the disciples. With one sentence, Jesus announced the fulfillment of the old covenant and the creation of a new covenant promised over six hundred years ago by the prophet Jeremiah.
    Not only must His announcement have flabbergasted the disciples, but it must have shocked and grieved them. Jesus made the fuzzy picture clear, the Old Testament lambs were mere types and shadows of Him. Jesus was going to willingly and knowingly sacrifice Himself to save sinners.
    Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, was murdered in fulfillment of God’s pre-arranged plan. While there is no intrinsic power in the actual blood of Jesus, His shed blood is enough to cleanse anyone who comes to Him in repentance and faith. The blood that was shed two thousand years ago has the same power today.
    Today
    Not only does the Bible tell us about the past, the Scriptures tell us what Jesus is doing right now. Surprise — the scarlet thread continues!
    So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that great, perfect sanctuary in heaven, not made by human hands and not part of this created world. Once for all time He took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took His own blood, and with it He secured our salvation forever.
    Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people’s bodies from ritual defilement.
    Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our hearts from deeds that lead to death so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins .
    That is why He is the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, so that all who are invited can receive the eternal inheritance that God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that fist covenant (Heb. 9:11–15).
    Right now, Jesus Christ is ensuring that people who repent and trust Him will have His good work credited to their accounts so they can be forgiven for their crimes against God and be spared from the wrath that is to come (Heb. 12:24).
    The blood that Jesus shed two thousand years ago is still efficacious. Jesus’ blood still has the power to forgive sinners and keep them forgiven.
    The Bible doesn’t stop there! The Bible progressively reveals what is going to happen in the future.
    Someday Soon
    The last book of the Bible is an apocalyptic vision of the Apostle John that tells us how God is