#146A is there any connection there with the first miracle and his lord supper?

#146A

the mentioned reply i have understood when i read the three subjects-

my question is,

is there any connection there with the first miracle and his lord supper----LORD says my hour has to come-- so he is talking about the suffering in the cross rite--- from the first miracle its self does he prepared and inform others about his model of lords supper- wine.....and the blood he is going to shed which cleans the sin of the world... i just asking is i felt there must be some connection, so asked how other saints understood.. these incidents while they go through......just want to know i am rite or wrongly understood

Answer:

Sorry, that I did not understand your original question.

You are right in your question.

The important points to note at that first miracle are:

1-    The wedding has no wine. First century Judaism is pictured as being separated from God and no longer receiving God’s blessings and favor. The wine has run out. The Jewish nation is spiritually barren.

2-    Second, Jesus eliminated the purification jars. The people could no longer ceremonially wash themselves because the jars which previously contained water now contain wine. The time for ritual cleansing is over. Jesus brings purification. Cleansing comes through Jesus. Purification is found in the Lamb of God, not in these washings.

3-    Third, Jesus has brought the blessings of God. The wine has run out. The Jewish nation is spiritually barren, pictured as separated from God. Jesus restores the blessings to the nation. Jesus is the fountain of wine flowing to the people.

4-    Fourth, Jesus brings wine that is better than what the people had before. This is superior wine. The blessings that have come with Jesus are greater and better than the blessings ever experienced before. What Jesus offers is better than what the people ever had.

5-      Fifth, Jesus brings the wine in abundance. Everyone points out the staggering amount of wine that was produced, 120-180 gallons, which is far too much for a wedding feast, even that lasted a week. Jesus offers abundant, overflowing grace of the kingdom, more than ever was before. “From his fullness we have all received grace upon grace” (1:16).

Through Moses, God proves that He is Lord by turning the waters of the Nile into blood.

Blood is symbolic for life, yet this miracle results in the contamination of all water supplies in Egypt, making it unusable, unable to sustain life.

Four chapters later(John 6), Jesus is talking about how His blood becomes real drink.

Taking these comments by Jesus, as related by the writer John, and reading the Last Supper discourse, we see Jesus fulfilling His comments by the institution of the Lord’s communion.

In John 6, it is interesting to point out that Jesus mentions of manna, a physical reality, sent by God to sustain the Jews. Jesus trumps the manna.

Moses: Water -> Blood
Manna -> Food

Jesus: Water -> Wine -> Blood
Body -> Food

Moses turning the water into blood was a curse upon Egypt!

Jesus' blood is the exact opposite, it's supposed to give life!

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; _he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

There is certainly the connection we see the purpose of making water into wine as His first miracle among the Jews.

Their medium of cleansing was water. Which is now the command to remember His death in Lord’s supper every First day of the week (Sunday).

Lord’s blood shed cleansed the sin.

Grape juice (un-alcoholic wine) resembles his blood.

Thanks for this question.

Eddy Joel