Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures. Kenneth B. Alexander
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Название: Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures
Автор: Kenneth B. Alexander
Издательство: Ingram
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isbn: 9781456618124
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Three months after Israel had left Egypt they came into the wilderness of Sinai and camped in front of the mountain, Mt. Sinai. Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, reaffirming His promises to them saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. ‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. This was in a few words the Old Covenant between God and Israel. Again all God wanted from His people was their love and obedience. The Lord told Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. Moses told the people to consecrate themselves in 3 days because the Lord was going to do something big. He also set bounds around the mountain saying “whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death”. So it came about on the morning of the third day there were loud sounds, thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. The people stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder. The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. Then the Lord said to him, “Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or He will break forth upon them” (Ex 19:3-25).
The Ten Commandments
These are the 10 commandments which the Lord gave to Moses while he was on Mt. Sinai in their original form. “Then God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself an idol, [graven image] or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments”. All of the surrounding nations had idols and false gods which they worshipped and served. The truth is that the idols had Satanic origin because Satan wanted to be worshipped (Matt 4:8-10). This monotheistic idea was new to the earth as all surrounding nations had many idols relating to things on the earth; the same earth God had cursed in Genesis. .
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you”. This is the only commandment with a promise the promise of prolonged life.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Ex 20:1-17).
These are the first Laws given by God to the people. In all there would be 624 laws given. They would cover everything from criminal law, health laws, food, social laws, laws concerning the poor, laws concerning wealth and equality, ownership of land, worship and sacrifice, forgiveness of sins, obedience, fairness and more. God was creating a family and these laws were to govern interactions among the family of God and individual families. One cannot argue that if these spiritual laws were followed today, they would eliminate nearly every problem that faces humanity today. More than Laws these were promises of God that would be fulfilled spiritually under the New Covenant of Christ. Under the new Covenant Christ said: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people” (Hebrews 8:10). Christ Himself would fulfill these laws because man was unable. Jesus promised: “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Mt 5:18).
Under this New Covenant the Laws would be imparted to the human heart until that heart had become the Law. They would no longer sin because it would no longer be in man’s nature to do so. Paul said: “But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our TUTOR to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:23-29). Therefore the Law was expanded to include not only Jews but all other peoples also. It was always God’s intention to include peoples of all races in His Kingdom so long as they walked by faith. Our failure to do the Law led us to Christ who fulfilled the Law for us and will assure that we too become enabled to fulfill the Law as He did. As he said: “For God so loved the world, [not Jews only] that He gave His only begotten [unique, one of a kind] Son, that WHOEVER believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16).
Exodus 20-31 covered some of the Laws that would govern the new nation, the family of God, which we will cover later. In Exodus 32 the fickleness of the people, who had received so much from God, was revealed in dramatic fashion. “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, [he was there 40 days] the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him”. It is difficult to comprehend why the people made this decision and Aaron went along with it. Probably Aaron was pressured by the insecurity, distrust and unbelief of the people to do what he did. It is the nature of humans to have something, a concrete form, to allay their fears. So Aaron took gold from the people СКАЧАТЬ