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I'm an old and round man. I really like a good crusty bread. I like leavened bread most of the time, but I do eat unleavened crackers with chili.

The Israelites were given two feasts when they were to focus on bread. The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and the Passover. The Passover came first and was performed using unleavened bread, signifying the speed at which they had to leave Egypt, not even waiting for the yeast to raise the dough. The Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, is celebrated with LEAVENED bread, two loaves of leavened bread. The bread of Pentecost has a waiting period while the leaven brings the bread to proper form for baking.

I know you know these things, but the readers being pingponged back and forth may like to have a prefiguring of what God is doing, instead of the confusion of catholicism.

The Holy Spirit is the Leaven of God. The two loaves represent the Jews and the Gentiles.

That leaven came at Pentecost. Blood was not a part of the arrival of God's Life in the believers at Pentecost. Some might ask why? Why no blood involved at Pentecost since the Bible clearly says that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, no atonement? The Passover lamb's blood was spread upon the doorpost and lentils. No blood at Pentecost? They were eating the Passover remembrance, where bloos is spread on the doorpost and lintel, but never put in a cup for drinking. But Jesus passed a cup of wine, fruit of the vine, and then later poured out a cup of wine and told them the cup THE CUP of wine was for the new covenant where His blood would be shed, poured out, for them. So, no wine or blood at Pentecost?

The answer cannot be found in catholicism. They teach the sacrilege not the sacred. The blood of Atonement was ALWAYS spread upon the Mercy Set, not poured into cups for drinking.

That Blood of Christ which was shed at Calvary was spread upon the Mercy Seat, covering the laws of sin and death, so the believers at Peter's Church service needed no other blood for their Salvation and cleansing because Christ had already accomplished it. They received God's Life in them by believing in Him Whom God sent for their Salvation.

God's Leaven came into their doughy hearts because Christ had covered the law of sin and death that had been reigning in Judaism ever since the giving of the Law of Moses. God's LIFE is in the blood spread upon the Mercy Seat to cover the law of sin and death. To even pretend to drink His Blood is to perform a sacrilege instead of participating in the sacred remembrance.