The Mosaic Covenant: Page 21

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22 Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; without the shedding of blood, there is no remission (of sin) (Hebrews 9:22).

 
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 
 
12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood (Leviticus 17:11-12).
 
Four hundred and thirty years after God had established the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant (Galatians 3:16-17), He added to this dispensation of promise a second covenant, the Mosaic Covenant, a conditional covenant. 
 
The Lord’s Sabbaths were a sign between the Lord and the children of Israel for them to know that the Lord did sanctify them (Exodus 31:13-17)
 
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God (Romans 3:19). 
 
19 Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound (Romans 5:20). 
 
20 This program of some 600 laws helped to clarify and magnify Israel’s sinful and rebellious nature and their need for redemption. 
 
In response, they could see or should have seen their need to turn to God and worship Him and bring others to know God (Deuteronomy 4:5-6). 
 
Any stranger (Ephesians 2:12) in their midst, not from the tribes of Israel, could become a proselyte of their faith and come to God through Israel, keeping their laws and sacrificial system (Exodus 12:48-49; Leviticus 17:10, 13, 20:2, 25:45-46).
 
8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 
 
9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there (Nehemiah 1:8-9).

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