EATING OF CHRIST AND SHARING HIM

 EVAGELISM:

The apostles saw the hungry multitude and wondered how they could all be fed, so their idea was to dismiss all the others and for them alone to dine with Jesus.

Jesus would be their teacher; He would show them divine mathematics.

Remember in the beginning, God had said to Adam and his woman, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Gen 1:28). Well, He was about to show the apostles multiplication as He dispensed and multiplied with fruits of the earth.

 

(Jesus) took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them , and brake, and gave to the disciples (5000; verse 14) to set before the multitude, and they did eat, and were all filled and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets. (Luke 9:16-17)

 

Jesus revealed to the masses that He was God for He took smaller amounts of things and made more things of the same substances.

In science, making articles from particles is called quantum “matter creation” and of course the quantum came from the Power of God in Yeshua (ישוע).  Technically Yeshua is not only “Jesus” in the English (“Ya saves”) but the letters themselves have intrinsic value:

 

·         י the first spark of measurable reality like a capacitor or a jump start.

·         ש synthesis.

·         ו quantum entanglement of in theology, binding forces.

·         ע observable reality.

 

Those four Hebrew letters not only describe the Person of God but the increase in bread and fish. Jesus was revealing the Power of God in Himself. He increased bread and fish from His self-contained Power “El Shaday” just as in the beginning.

Throughout the entire Old Testament the M.O. of God was to increase in numbers; as an example God said:

 

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. (Deut 30:16)

 

For instance, God took Adam and increased his numbers, God graced Noah with great numbers, God increased Jacob called “Israel” and increased his numbers, and so it goes with Jesus and The Great Commission:

 

Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth; go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…” (Mat 28:18-19)

 

What Jesus did not say:

 

1.      I am powerless.

2.      Stay comfortable and forget My Power of increase.

3.      Stay put and I will do all the multiplication.

4.      Keep your faith to yourselves for it might be offensive to others.

5.      Baptize them in the things of the world like rules, regulations, and even rituals. (Baptism is in the name of God, Yeshua — the vessel for the Power of God (Elohim) in one Person having Eloha, a “fragment” of Elohim.)

 

The Power of increase is really the Power of God in you. You must be in Christ, meaning to have a particle of Christ in you, as with Adam, God saying, “Let us (Elohim) make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion (“to crumble off” a particle from Elohim —  Eloha) over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth” (Gen 1:26).

The Hebrew word translated “dominion” is רָדָה radah.

 

·         ר emergence of order.

·         ד entry into space/time and matter.

·         ה expansion, inflation, or simply increase.

 

When God increased the bread and fish, in the Hebrew that would have been radah. Jesus indeed took of Himself as God and made an increase when a two fish and five loaves of bread; increased enough for the multitude and had more fragments left over than existed in the beginning. Jesus was revealing the Power He had over the world.

The fragments that remained after radah were not there in the beginning. Jesus, as God, had created the increase, and with the Power of God in you, you too can increase.

Jesus took twelve Jewish men and by now there exists in the world these amounts:

 

Global Religious Populations (2025–2026 Estimates)

Below is a table of the largest world religions by estimated number of adherents, based on 2025–2026 global data Statistics and Data+2.

Religion / Sect	Estimated Population	% of World Population
Sunni Islam	1,579,268,274	~30.0%
Roman Catholic	1,268,004,246	~26.7%
Hinduism	1,075,098,000	~15.0%
Protestant Christianity	625,452,306	~11.0%
Eastern Orthodox Christianity	294,957,346	~4.0%
Mahayana Buddhism	341,318,714	~4.1%
Theravada Buddhism	187,979,425	~2.0%
Shinto	122,667,219	~1.3%
Anglican Christianity	75,844,450	~0.8%
Shia Islam	221,790,956	~2.8% (within Islam)
Vaishnavism (Hinduism)	399,526,000	~3.3% (within Hinduism)
Shaivism (Hinduism)	385,423,000	~3.2% (within Hinduism)
Oriental Orthodox Christianity	72,000,000	~0.7%
Mormonism (LDS)	17,200,000	~0.2%
Judaism	14,800,000	~0.1%
Bahāʾī	9,150,000	~0.1%
Zoroastrianism	205,000	~0.002%
Agnosticism / Atheism	~744–147 million	~8–15% (varies by source)

Notes:

• Percentages are approximate and vary by source; some totals (e.g., agnosticism/atheism) are not always included in religious affiliation counts.
• “Other religions” and smaller traditions (e.g., Shinto, Daoism, Jainism) are also present globally but have much smaller populations.
• Christianity as a whole (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Mormon, etc.) is estimated at over 2.5 billion adherents Britannica.
• Islam’s total (Sunni + Shia + other) is about 1.8–1.9 billion Britannica.

This table reflects the current global religious landscape, with Christianity and Islam dominating in sheer numbers, followed by Hinduism, Buddhism, and a wide range of smaller traditions. (AI Overview)

 

Jesus took 12 men and now there are 2.5 billion people who identify with Jesus of a total of 8.3 billion. Only 0.014 billion identify with Judaism. While Judaism has stagnated, Christianity has increased. (Of course, many claim to be Christians, but self-acclamation does not make anyone a Christian.)

The comparison is that Jesus increased Himself to twelve, then twelve to many, and many to 2.5 billion. The increase in loaves and fishes revealed the Power in Jesus as the Way to eternal life.

Since there are only 2.5 billion claiming to be in Christ and 6 billion not in Christ, reveals a golden opportunity for the 2.5 billion to increase.

Jesus was a great fisherman of men, catching twelve of the best in just a short time. Those twelve had soon grown to twelve or more churches, and by the first quarter of the third century, the Roman Empire was following Jesus at least in name.

What did Jesus do to provide an increase in numbers? He fed them fish and bread.

Fish in scripture represents evangelism: persuading others to become Christians. Evangelism is much more than gathering one fish at a time that God has trapped for you but going into the world to fish for men.

The Hebrew letter mem represents fish and fishing — making an increase in what God began.

Bread represents potentiality in theology for bread increases when just a lump of yeast makes the loaves rise.

The “bread” of life consists of the Spirit of God as the leavening agent, but there is also another leaven that spoils the loaf, “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace” (Gal 5:4).

The effect of Christ in you is the leavening agent of the Spirit. However, you as the “loaf” can be punched down by the wicked ones with the grace of God removed until your “loaf” falls. If you are not increasing, then the Spirit may not be active in you. You may be the loaf but remain flat without the leavening agent of God in you. With that, the yoke, albeit leavened, may fall.

Grace in the Hebrew is חֵחֵ chen.

 

·         חֵ separation in realms and separated unto God from the world.

·         חֵ sofit meaning eternal life as nun represents life and the fish the multitude that ate.

 

Note that Jesus fed them all but like a probability cloud, all were not engendered by God. In other words, all of them were potentiates, albeit only a fragment would have become candidates. That defies the Calvinistic doctrine of election for all there had received grace, but not all would have become Christians.

 

So, the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen… for many are called, but few are chosen. (Mat 20:16; 22:14)

 

They all ate of Jesus (the Bread of Life) and His movement (the fish), but there were fragments that went right back into the bread and dish baskets.

There was food for more, but perhaps some were not hungry enough to partake of the body of Christ which the bread represents, and not His Way as the fish represents.

One can surmise that the fragments of fish and bread were not wasted but would feed others, although some that day would not have eaten.

Sometimes Christians feel alone in the world, but there are six-billion opportunities in the world to whom we can feed the bread and fish — the Person of God and the Way of God.

Note that without one or the other, the mission is not accomplished; there must be both bread and fish — there must be Jesus and His Way.

Jesus created and shared the grace, but not all of it was eaten. Grace can be shared but never forcefully fed. Some grace (the fragments) were left over to share, but for Calvinists they have the bread but depend on God to share it.