I took an outstanding intensive class earlier this week taught by Dr. Daniel Brege on his book Eating God’s Sacrifice: The Lord’s Supper Portrayed in Old Testament Sacrifice. Over the next few days/weeks I’ll be posting some of the thoughts I gleaned from the class, in no particular order. The first one regards the association of Blood and Wine:

In the Jerusalem Temple, there were two channels at the base of the altar. Into one, the blood of the sacrifices was poured, along with the wine from the grain offerings. Into the other, water was poured (during the water ceremony of the Feast of Tabernacles). Both flowed to the Kidron. The significance to this is the mixture of the blood with the wine. When our Lord Jesus Christ took wine and said, “This is My blood,” the association of blood with wine was strongly connected to the sacrificial system of the Jerusalem Temple, and revealed that the sacrifice of Jesus was the culmination and fulfillment of that sacrificial system.