11:25 represents; the third cup of the Passover Seder is purely symbolic. The text itself explains its purpose, to be in remembrance of Yeshua and to proclaim His death. The purpose of other symbolic food at the Passover Seder was to symbolize things not present. The Charoset is a parable of the mortar used by the Israelites. Therefore, we say of the Charoset, "this is mortar", which is a metaphor. What we mean is that it looks like mortar, and we say "this is mortar" to use the food to remind ourselves of the history. We say of the parsley on the Seder plate, "This is the hyssop"; We say of the salt water, "These are tears"; And we say of the after dinner piece of unleavened bread, "This is Yeshua's body". In every case, the saying is a metaphor. If the matzah is poked full of holes and looks striped, we also say, "These are his piercings," and "these are his lashings".
In better times, and before the Church's speculative perversion of the Passover came on the scene, it would be o.k. to translate "is" for the cup of redemption and the after dinner unleavened bread that represents His body. However, the Church has since been led astray by doctrines of demons into idolatry and useless speculation, and in the minds of most people has managed to redefine the word "is" so that it means that somehow the Almighty is specially "present" in the symbol. If we apply this logic to the parsley, then we should say that the spirit of the hyssop is mystically present in the parsley, or of the Charoset, should we say that the spirits of the Israelites who died laying bricks are now mystically present in the Charoset? Such thinking is the epitome of superstition and ignorance.
Now the Greek language, and Hebrew also, did use the verb "to be" to predicate parabolic metaphors that are merely symbolic. The BDAG Greek Lexicon, 3rd edition explains, "ειμι...in explanations:—α: to show how someth[ing] is to be understood is a representation of,...Esp[ecially] in interpr[etation] of the parables ... the field means the world Mt 13:38;" Take note of these statements:
:these are the sons of the kingdom [the good seed]
:the tares are the sons of the evil one
:the enemy ... is the devil
:the harvest ... is the end of the age
:the reapers are angels
It is perfectly obvious to us that no one would come up with the Church's speculative interpretations of the cup and bread based on what is said in the text, and a basic knowledge of how to celebrate a Passover Seder. The Church's came up with things like "consubstantiation" and "Transubstantiation" in the wake of apostasy away from observing the biblical feast days, and then it enshrined these doctrines in tradition, whose only appeal is the numerous "learned" men who promote them with an aura of spirituality. But it is a false spirituality and a deceiving light.
My advice to new Messianic believers, if you have not come to this on your own, is to avoid completely all communion services, and all Eucharistic ceremonies. The third cup belongs in the Passover Seder, to be drunk in the night following the day part of the 14th of Aviv. And if anyone instructing says to you even in a Passover Seder that Yeshua is REALLY present in the cup or that the cup is really his blood, then do not participate, because they are trying to corrupt the Passover anew.
If anyone wants to be dogmatic about the necessity of having a quarterly "communion" or Eucharist outside one time a year during the Passover Seder, then tell them that there is no biblical commandment to do so, and that the natural interpretation of Yeshua's words, are that they apply to the annual Passover Seder, and further that the communion the way the Church observes it is always associated with false teaching. And if no other false teaching, then teaching by example that the solemnity is somehow pleasing to the Almighty, and somehow sanctified, when he nowhere sanctified it. To participate is to validate the tradition.
I can't remember the last time I took some Church communion. It was sometime prior to 1982, and only the Baptist version. By the time I was 20, I realized that it was an unbiblical tradition. Now I know a lady, who was a Seventh Day Adventist. But prior to this she was a Catholic, and was so offended by the Catholic Mass, that after discovering the truth, she never took anything to in the least resembled it again. We sat in the back pew of a Seventh Day Baptist Church, and passed up the plate. And strangely enough, wherever we have passed it up, the elders never gave us a hard time, but then again, now that we are much more zealous for the truth, who knows?
11:27 guilty of the body and blood; from the context, it is clear that the guilt incurred is in connection with the commandment to remember Yeshua when eating the symbolic bread and juice. The Corinthian Seder appeared to be a group feast with no teacher, where every family did it there own way. Some got drunk and did not obey the commandment to let the symbols remind them of Yeshua's death for our sins.
15:20 the first fruits; Messiah was the first fruits of the resurrection, raised on the Sabbath toward the end of night (about 4-5 a.m.). The first fruits day that year overlapped the resurrection Sabbath in the night portion of the day. See the chart below.
Yeshua was crucified on Aviv 14, "the preparation of the Passover", and raised on Aviv 16 according to sunrise reckoning (cf. Lev. 7:15; Genesis 1:5) for peace offerings. Aviv 16 was the day of the first fruits offerings, which was offered in the morning after sunrise on Aviv 16. Yeshua was only raised within the same calendar day, not at the exact time of the first fruits offering, because he was raised "while it was still dark" (John 20:1). The following chart summarizes the chronology: How Messiah was raised on the Sabbath.
For the Sabbath Resurrection see John 20:1. Yeshua was raised on "the first of the Sabbaths" after the Passover. This was the first of seven Sabbaths that were counted after the Passover.
For reasons why the resurrection does not have to be at the exact time of the first fruits offering see: John 20:17. Within the same calendar day is sufficient for the typological connection. And since the resurrection was before sunrise, and the first fruits offering after it, not even those who suppose that the first fruits day followed the resurrection can place the resurrection at the exact time of the offering.
The first fruits were offered on Aviv/Nisan 16, the "in the day after the Rest day", which Rest day was Nisan 15, the annual Passover Sabbath. The word "Sabbath" means "Rest". The oldest perversion of biblical chronology is that of the Sunday Pentecost, advocated by the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection of the dead, and then later by the Karaites, and also picked up by the apostate Church to support their Sunday resurrection theory. So what began as the first false teaching on Shavuot has mushroomed into the largest heresy of all time, rejecting the Sabbath resurrection of Yeshua, and using the Sunday Pentecost theory of the first fruits to try to support it.