THE COMMEMORATION OF THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST (Part 1)

7 min readMar 22, 2020

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed”

(1 Corinthians 5: 7)

The biblical method for determining the date of the celebration of the memory of the death of Jesus Christ is the same as that of the Passover of the Bible. Nisan 14 (Biblical calendar month), the fourteenth day after the new moon (being the first day of the month of Nisan): “In the first month, on the 14th day of the month, in the evening, you are to eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the month, in the evening” (Exodus 12:18). The “evening” corresponds to the beginning of the day of nisan 14. In the Bible, the day begins after sunset, the “evening” (“And there was evening and there was morning, a first day” (Genesis 1: 5)). The problem is knowing, according to the Bible, what new moon it is. There are two definitions. Psalms 81:3 (of the Bible), allows us to understand what new moon it is: “Blow the horn on the new moon, On the full moon, for the day of our festival”.

The new moon represents its complete disappearance, in ambivalence (in this Psalm) to the appearance of the full moon. Therefore, given the biblical criteria of the determination of the new moon (total disappearance), it has been chosen for the determination of the date of the memory of the death of Christ. The site link http://pgj.pagesperso-orange.fr/calendar.htm (In French), allows you to check the exact lunar astronomical calendar (with the mention NL ( for New Moon)), to determine the first day of the month of Nisan (according to the biblical criteria). For the year 2020, the first day of Nisan, will be according to the lunar astronomical criteria (please click on the first photo of the slideshow): March 24, 2020 at 9:28 am (UTC). That is, the first biblical day of Nisan will begin after sunset on March 23, 2020 to continue on the day of March 24 until the next sunset (See Genesis 1:5). The date of the celebration of the memory of the death of Jesus Christ for the year 2020: Nisan 14 will begin Sunday, April 5, 2020, after sunset (according to biblical criteria).

- The Passover is the pattern of the divine requirements for the celebration of the memorial of the death of Christ: “Those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ” (Colossians 2:17). “For since the Law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the very substance of the things” (Hebrews 10: 1) (REALITY OF THE LAW).

- Only the circumcised could celebrate Passover: “If a foreigner resides with you and he wants to celebrate the Passover to Jehovah, every male of his must be circumcised. Then he may come near to celebrate it, and he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it” (Exodus 12:48).

- Christians are no longer under the obligation of physical circumcision. His circumcision becomes spiritual: “You must now cleanse your hearts and stop being so stubborn” (cleanse : circumcise the foreskin of) (Deuteronomy 10:16, Acts 15: 19,20,28,29 “Apostolic Decree”, Romans 10:4 “Christ is the end of the Law “).

- The spiritual circumcision of the heart means obedience to God and his son Jesus Christ: “Circumcision is, in fact, of benefit only if you practice law; but if you are a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. If, therefore, an uncircumcised person keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, his uncircumcision will be counted as circumcision, will it not? And the physically uncircumcised person will, by carrying out the Law, judge you who are a transgressor of law despite having its written code and circumcision. For he is not a Jew who is one on the outside, nor is circumcision something on the outside, on the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one on the inside, and his circumcision is that of the heart by spirit and not by a written code. That person’s praise comes from God, not from people” (Romans 2:25–29) (PRIMARY DOCTRINES OF THE BIBLE).

- The spiritual uncircumcision of heart represents disobedience to God and his son Jesus Christ: “Obstinate men and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the holy spirit; as your forefathers did, so you do. Which one of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, you who received the Law as transmitted by angels but have not kept it” (Acts 7: 51–53) (PRIMARY DOCTRINES OF THE BIBLE (Forbidden by the Bible)).

- The spiritual circumcision of the heart is required for the participation in the commemoration of the death of Christ (whatever the christian hope (heavenly or earthly)): “First let a man approve himself after scrutiny, and only then let him eat of the loaf and drink of the cup” (1 Corinthians 11:28).

- The Christian must make a self-examination of conscience before participating in the commemoration of the death of Christ. If he considers that he has a clean conscience before God, that he has the spiritual circumcision of heart, then he can participate in the commemoration of the death of Christ (whatever Christian hope (heavenly or earthly)) (1 Timothy 3:9 “clean conscience”) (Heavenly Resurrection; Earthly Resurrection; The Great Crowd).

- The requirement of Christ, to eat symbolically of his “flesh” and his “blood”, is to all faithful Christians, to eat “unleavened bread”, representing his “flesh” and to drink from the cup, representing his “blood”: “I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness and yet they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever; and for a fact, the bread that I will give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world.” Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will resurrect him on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I in union with him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It is not as when your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever” (John 6:48–58) (CHRIST THE ONLY PATH ; CHRIST THE MEMORIAL).

- Therefore, all faithful Christians, whatever their hope, heavenly or earthly, are required to eat part of the “unleavened bread” and to drink part of the cup from the commemoration of the death of Christ, it is a commandment: “So Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. (…) Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will live because of me” (John 6: 53,57 ).

- The commemoration of the death of Christ is to be celebrated only between faithful followers of Christ with the spiritual circumcision of heart: “Consequently, my brothers, when you come together to eat it, wait for one another” (see 1 Corinthians 11:33) (IN CONGREGATION).

- If you wish to participate in the “commemoration of the death of Christ” and are not Christians, you must be baptized, sincerely desiring to obey the commandments of Christ: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things” (Matthew 28: 19,20) (BAPTISM SAVES).

The commemoration of the death of Jesus Christ, please choose your preferred language below (in English):

THE COMMEMORATION OF THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST (Part 1)

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