Christ did indeed offer Himself on the cross. He indeed commanded to carry out the Lord's Supper "in memory" of Him until He comes.This is all prophesied in Malachi, where He foresees that a pure and perfect sacrifice will be offered from the rising of the sun to its setting, among the gentiles. I thank God I have seen this prophecy fulfilled.Christ gives no command to turn wine to blood, nor matzoh bread into His actual Body. Nor does He establish the Apostles (an actual office of the Church foundation) as "priests" (not an office of the Church). Hence, Priest is not "a" NT office of the Church; Priest is "the" NT office of the Church. And who does this priestly action? Jesus Christ Our Lord.
You are really stretching here MDO. It can only be because no verse establishes, nor recognizes "priest" as an office of the church.
Dear Mrs. Don-o... this prophecy has nothing to do with the Church or the Lord's Supper. It has to do with Judah and Jerusalem, a real Temple and the restoration of sacrifices. As such, you haven't seen the fulfillment yet.Here is a brief commentary on the passage to save me time.
3:1 The Lord’s response to the cynical Israelites was to point them to the future. He predicted the coming of His messenger (cf. Isa. 40:3–5). There is no question about who this was because Jesus identified him as John the Baptist (Matt. 11:10; cf. Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27). This future messenger would clear the way in preparation for Yahweh (cf. Isa. 40:3; John 1:23). Clearly Jesus Christ is Yahweh since John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus.Then the Lord, whom the Israelites were seeking, would suddenly come to His temple (cf. Ezek. 43:1–5; Zech. 8:3). Though Jesus entered the temple in Jerusalem many times during His earthly ministry, this sudden coming was not fulfilled then (cf. vv. 2–5). It will occur when He returns to set up His messianic kingdom. “The messenger of the covenant” is another name for the Lord who would come following the appearance of the first messenger promised in this verse. He would be the divine Messiah. “Messenger” means “angel,” and the Angel of the Lord is in view here. The “covenant” is the New Covenant that God promised to make with the Jews in the future (cf. Jer. 31:31–34; Ezek. 37:26). The Jews delighted in this Messenger because His coming had been a subject of messianic prophecy and an object of eager anticipation from early in Israel’s history (Gen. 3:15; pass.). Sovereign Yahweh promised His coming again here. The Jews had been expressing disbelief that God would intervene and establish justice in the world (2:17), but God promised He would.
3:2–3 When the Lord came suddenly to His temple, no one would be able to stand before Him. Elsewhere the prophets foretold that this time would be a day of judgment on the whole world marked by disaster and death (4:1; Isa. 2:12; Joel 3:11–16; Amos 5:18–21; Zech. 1:14–18).
Here Malachi said no one would be able to endure His coming because He would purify the priesthood, the people who stood closest to Him. As a fire He would burn up the impurities of the priests, and as a laundryman’s soap He would wash them clean (cf. Isa. 1:25; Jer. 6:29–30; Ezek. 22:17–22; Zech. 3:5). The Levitical priests would then be able to offer sacrifices to Yahweh in a righteous condition rather than as they were in Malachi’s day (cf. 1:6–2:9; Isa. 56:7; 66:20–23; Jer. 33:18; Ezek. 40:38–43; 43:13–27; 45:9–25; Zech. 14:16–21). The multiple figures of cleansing and the repetition of terms for cleansing stress the thoroughness of the change that the Lord’s Messenger would affect.
3:4 After this cleansing of the priests, Judah and Jerusalem (i.e., all Israel) would be able to offer sacrifices that would please the Lord, in contrast to the present ones that did not (cf. 1:13–14). They would be acceptable like the offerings the priests offered earlier in Israel’s history, before the priesthood had become corrupt. Constable, T. (2003). Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible (Mal 3:2–4).
When He said "This is my Body," and said "Do this," that indicates they too were to say "This is my Body" and it would be, in truth, His Body. They can't do it if they meant their own bodies (if "My" body meant "Fr. Strohmeyer's body") so it must be the offerer is not doing his own action, but participating mystically in the one action, the one sacrifice of Christ. It is Christ, only, who can say "This is My Body" and makes it so.
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Concerning Malachi: he speaks of a future time when, "from the rising of the sun to its setting" --- which means all around the world, east to west --- there would be a pure sacrifice among the Gentiles.
This refers neither to a sacrifice at Jerusalem, nor a sacrifice amongst the Jews. It specifically refers to everywhere in the world, and among the Gentiles.