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Exodus 24 What you think of this?? Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.?

7And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient. 8And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up: 10And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear. 11Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

Do you agree that Jesus fulfilled the unbloody Sacrifice in the NT when He Said:

Eat my body and drink my blood: covenant for the righteous and feasted in heaven and saw God.

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  • 2 years ago
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    The whole chapter is awesome, especially when it culminates in Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu plus 70 elders of Israel seeing the throne of God; under God's feet was a pavement like sapphire, clear as the sky.

    Prior to that, Moses and the people of Israel had agreed to enter into a special covenant relationship with God, their Redeemer (Job 19:25-27) and that covenant was ratified with the animal sacrifices you mention.

    When Jesus came as Redeemer, it was to fulfil that covenant and to usher in the New Covenant which the old one pointed towards. He redeemed by his own sacrificial blood, when He went silently, like a sheep to the slaughter, to be crucified. His was the only perfect sacrifice for sin there has ever been, for "the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin" (Hebrews 9:7-22 & 10:11-14).

    So, yes, the New Testament [Covenant] book of Hebrews explains how what Moses did prefigured what the Son of God would do a few thousand years later, and that is why Christians partake of the broken bread and wine that speak to us of the broken body and shed blood of Christ.

    However, I don't know what you mean by "covenant for the righteous". The Israelites in the Mosaic covenant were unrighteous, and all in Jesus' new covenant are unrighteous, in that they have no righteousness in and of themselves - see Romans 3:9-31 & Isaiah 64:7. Only God is righteous, and only by His righteousness being shown to the world at Golgotha can those receiving that provision be declared righteous, spiritually speaking.

  • BMCR
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Jesus has nothing to do with Exodus 24.

  • 2 years ago

    The covenant, the blood and the people. Compare to Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22 1 Corinthians 11 to get a grasp on the "type/anti-type" application of OT yielding to the NT.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Jesus and his life were prefigured in the Old Testament many times.

    But his sacrifice is more in keeping with the "Passover Lamb".

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Eating porridge is like eating Gods dandruff.

    And her loins smell worse than the rotting corpses of dogs Sandscrotum.

    She stinketh she stinketh

    O Mary groin of Rottingham.

    If man sow bountiful, so shall he reapeth.

    O Holy hollowgram of pseudo wizardry

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Just a description of sacrifice to dull the minds of the masses through horror.

  • 2 years ago

    That is like when Cedric predicted that Harry Potter would win the magical tournament, only in a more bloody setting.

  • 2 years ago

    Blood of wut??

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 years ago

    This was symbolic of the sacrifice Jesus made for humanity in the past but for them at that time it was a future thing.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    It's a cool story, but still ultimately just fiction.

    Jesus never existed.

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