Our continuing study comparing the Old Blood Covenant with the New Blood Covenant has shown that the Old Blood Covenant started as an Unconditional Covenant with God making numerous promises to Abraham and his descendants that are all being fulfilled. Any kind of response by His people was not necessary. Then when God's people arrived at Mt. Sinai, God changed the covenant to a Conditional Covenant meaning God's people will have to obey the Ten Commandments and an additional 613 laws to keep the covenant.
The message this week will show whether God's people obeyed the requirements of the Conditional Covenant. Exodus 32:1-4 says, "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' Aaron answered them, 'take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing and bring them to me.' So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool."
It did not take very long for the people to break the Conditional Covenant and they broke it in the most offensive way before God. While Moses was still on Mt. Sinai with Jehovah God, Aaron and the people decided to set up a false god to worship in the form of a golden calf. They immediately broke the first commandent that says, "Thou shall have no other gods before me."
There are consequences to not obeying God and His Conditional Covenant. However, we learn that as part of the Conditional Covenant, when one of God's people sinned, then they could sacrifice an animal before receiving God's judgement. This is clearly explained in Leviticus 1:1-4. The animal sacrifice atones for the sin but is not "Forgiveness Of Sins."
Next week we will learn why there was a need for a New Blood Covenant. Please stay tuned!
May The Lord Bless You And Keep You This Day And Every Day,
Frank
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