12/21/2023 0 Comments Mosaic covenant![]() It is notĭiscussing freedom from the 'ceremonial laws.' If this passage is reduced to refer to merely ceremonial laws, then our blessed Lord shed his blood just so his people could eat bacon with eggsĪnd be free from all the Jewish ceremonial feasts. This passage's context is salvation through the atonement of Christ. Us." Removal of 'the ceremonial law' is not the ground of forgiveness and acceptance with God. The so-called ceremonial law could not be called "the handwriting of ordinances that was against That testimony must be righteously silenced before anyone can approach God. They are called tables of testimony because, as the terms of the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments written on the tables, they testify against sin and rebellion. The "handwriting of ordinances" in these verses can only be a description of the tables of the testimony (Exod. Paul makes this clear in Colossians 2:14-17. Sabbath-year law shows that all of the sabbaths were just as holy as the seventh-day sabbath. The fact that the judgment that consisted of the captivity for seventy years was for breaking the That its importance lay solely in the fact that it was the sign of the covenant. We may conclude from these texs that the most serious of the Ten Commandents, as far as it involved judgment, was the fourth, and ![]() Israel's Babylonian captivity was measured in terms of how many years they had refused to observe the sabbath-year law Would appear to be the worst possible sin that an Israelite could commit. Again, this shows that breaking the sign of the covenant is equivalent to despising the whole covenant. They 'profaned the sabbbath' that they went into captivity. Israel committed many grievous sins, but it was not until ![]() Notice the word 'then' in verse 13 and its connection to verses 16 and 20. Judgments, and do them and hallow my SABBATHS and they shallīe a SIGN between me and you, that ye may now that I am the LORD Idols: I am the LORD your God walk in my statutes, and keep my Unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of yourįathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their Them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying Not in my statutes, but polluted my SABBATHS: for their heart wentĪfter their idols. Glory of all lands Because they despised my judgments, and walked Land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the Hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them in to the Heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the Pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. In them and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: THEN I said, I would Rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes,Īnd they desposed my judgments, which is a man do, he shall even live Know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. My sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might Which if a man DO, he shall live in them. (Exod. 31:12-18, NKJV, emphases added by author).Īnd I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, Testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God Made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in sixĭays the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he The sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe Six days may work be done īut in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoeverĭoeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one that defileth it shall May know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that ye The children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto
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