MEMORIAL DATE After Sundown Thursday, April 2 Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom.​—Luke 12:32.

[Áine]

MEMORIAL DATE
After Sundown
Thursday, April 2

Have no fear, little flock, for your Father has approved of giving you the Kingdom.—Luke 12:32.

 

During the Lord’s Evening Meal, Jesus offered unleavened bread to his apostles and told them that it represented his body. Then he gave them the wine and said that it stood for the “blood of the covenant.” (Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:24) The new covenant is made with “the house of [spiritual] Israel”—who will be “in the Kingdom of God.” (Heb. 8:6, 10; 9:15) During the Lord’s Evening Meal, Jesus focused on the “little flock.” That small group started with his faithful apostles who were physically present with him in the room. They are the ones who will receive a place in heaven with Jesus. w24.12 11 ¶9-10

 

Memorial Bible reading: (Daytime events: Nisan 13) Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16;Luke 22:7-13 (Events after sunset: Nisan 14)John 13:1-5; 14:1-3

[Brad Smith]