A very important interpretation of the Passover in the New Testament was published on March 18, 2024, on the Facebook site IMS SDA GC as the fourth part of the Q&A session under the title “Food in the Bible”: https://www.facebook.com/imssdarmgc/videos/789529282557311. Pastor Douglas Francis was the moderator of the event and Sister Raquel Orce-Sotomayor explained the true meaning of the Passover in the Old Testament and in the New Testament when Christ replaced the Passover of the Old Testament with the ritual of the Lord’s Supper two days before the date of the Passover according to the Old Testament, introducing the unleavened bread as symbol of His own sacrificed body and the unfermented wine as symbol of His shed blood, according to Matthew 26:26-29.
In addition, Sister Raquel Orce-Sotomayor underlined the meaningful fact that at the right moment for the sacrificing the symbolic lamb of the Passover, “the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom” (Matthew 27:51) and that’s why the priest was unable to perform the ritual, because the true Lamb of God, Christ, was sacrificed on the cross of Calvary. Furthermore, Sister Raquel Orce-Sotomayor emphasized the rule that the Passover from the Old Testament had to be celebrated in the city of Jerusalem only on a fixed date, while the ritual of the Lord’s Supper could be celebrated on every place, home or a house of prayer, and on every date.
Sister Raquel Orce-Sotomayor together with Pastor Parmenas Shririma during a missionary stay in Africa in 2014; a photo from the personal archive of Sister Raquel Orce-Sotomayor.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
