The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of the Christ? ... You cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. —1 Cor. 10:16, 21, NW.

Christ’s body members do not share in providing the blood of the new covenant. Only Jesus does that. By his blood he mediates the new covenant in their behalf. So, in that sense they could not be “sharing in the blood of the Christ”. How, then, can Paul’s words above be true? Because this cup is the “cup of Jehovah” in still another sense. How so? In that it pictures the portion which Jehovah has poured. Jesus and his little flock of Kingdom joint heirs must drink it to prove their integrity to Him and their worthiness of the Kingdom. It symbolized God’s will for the drinker and drinking it spelled suffering and death on the torture stake for Jesus. But God’s will for Jesus did not end in his death. It also included Jesus’ resurrection from the dead to immortal life in heaven, and so a saving of him out of death. It was for him, therefore, a “cup of salvation” also. W 1/15