Summary by Darrin Koehler
Continued from Epic 8…
Having received the full measure of the Law from God, Moses returned to the crowd and spoke it to them. To this, they responded, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” Moses then took the blood of the covenant and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
The blood that is spilled in this covenant is reminiscent of the blood that was shed when God substituted the sacrifice of Isaac with a ram that He provided, and the blood that was shed when God made garments of animal hide for Adam and Eve.
However, though the covenant that the people of Israel committed to was solemn, they still turned away and broke the commandments. While Moses was with God on the mountain top for 40 days, the people became impatient and said, “Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Because of their transgression, God instituted an entire set of sacrificial laws to demonstrate the holiness of God and the severity of their sin. God also had them make a tabernacle that would hold the Ark of the Covenant, where the high priest would enter on the Day of Atonement to sacrifice a spotless goat for the forgiveness of sins for one more year.
The New Testament book of Hebrews tells us, though, that the blood of animals cannot atone for sin. This means that each time that the high priest entered the holy of holies and shed the blood of a spotless goat, he was demonstrating in faith the coming atonement of Jesus Christ, whom Hebrews describes as being a sacrifice “once for all.”
Related Passages:
Exodus 24» Exodus 32»
To be continued in Epic 9…
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7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.” 8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” 9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up 10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself. 11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank. 12 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction.” 13 Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them.” 15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. 18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” 2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
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