Want God's Blessings? ---His Covenant Promise to make His People Priests under a Holy Order.--- Once slaves to false gods, then -redeemed to continue Abraham's seed, -fruitfully filling the Holy Land. Delivery from oppressors to be set apart in a Land to know God. God meets with Moses, dwells in tabernacle, signs, wonders, and revelations. Prophets echo the Law, foretelling of a restored Kingdom. New Covenant Concealed. Unfaithful Israel awaits Redemption; Foreshadowing Grace in The Messiah - Priest to Most High God - fulfilling prophecy and Law.

1. GCU
BIB-501
Travis Tenor
February 5, 2014

2.  INTRODUCTION
 BLESSINGS
 COVENANTS
 LAW
 COMMANDMENTS
 RITUAL OBSERVANCES
 DEUTERONOMY THEOLOGY
 PROPHETS AND LAW
 CONCLUSION

3.  God’s People are delivered and called to Holy (Leviticus 11:44-
45)
 By way of Covenant – Agree on terms (Deut 29)
 In wilderness given way to worship and way to live
 Prior to entry, given laws for land/community
 Exodus into Land under Promise shaped around Covenant
 Purity and Unity (Exod 34:12)
 Ways to remember God, give gratitude, honor Him (Psalm
103:18-19)

4.  God’s people are given Promise
 God wants to be One with His people (Jer. 31:33) – Dwell in Peace (1 Kings 8:56).
 God’s Good and Glorious (Isaiah 6:3)
 Standard is Holy (Lev 11:44) and Just (Psalm 25:8)
 God blessings for obedience (Prov. 10:22, Leviticus 26:1-13).
 His presence, His Provisions
 Offers protection, guidance (Ex 3:11-12)
 Land, descendants, great nation (Gen 12:1-7; 26;4)
 God’s Covenant
 Unconditionally to establish His throne over a great nation (Isaiah 14:24).
 Conditionally dependent on man’s obedience (Deut. 11,12).

5.  Agreement regarding relationships and obligations
 God gives ways for man to meet requirements
 Living standard
 Holy Communion
 Atonement
 Regular worship and sincere celebration
 Honor God and what He has done
 Commandments & Moral, Civil Law
 With Religious Observances
 Sacrifice
 Priestly rituals
 Feast Days
 Repudiation of false gods
Agree on what God has and
will do for His People.
Honor God’s Law
for conditional
requirements
met by man.
God Honors His
faithfulness.
as sovereign
Lord.

6. 10 Commandments
 Moral Law
 Law of Love
 Decalogue
“When he takes the throne of
his kingdom, he is to write for
himself on a scroll a copy of
this law, taken from that of the
Levitical priests”
(Deut 17:18, NIV).
 Mosaic Law/Ordinance
 Worship/offering
 Purification
 Priest/Rituals
 Sacrifice
 Holy Days /Feasts

7.  To set apart for Him
 Responsibility and privilege of loving and honoring God
 10 Commandments (Exodus 20; Deut. 5)
 Love and honor God / His Holy Day
 God Alone, worshipped, as He prescribed
 Major ethical concerns
 Commands practical living and worship
 Civil, moral, tabernacle
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength“
(Duet. 6:5, NIV) .

8.  Moral & Civic
 Observances for
 Personhood and property
 Holy Communion
 Justice
 Priest to meet with God
 Welfare
 Sacrifice
 Society
 Atonement
 Relations
 Community to worship God
 Praise offering
 Remembrance

9.  Laws relating to sacrifice
 Priestly Ritual
 Feast Days
 Repudiation of false gods

10.  Sacrifice significant to covenant
 Specific to Mosaic Law
 Sacrifices Voluntary Offered for Worship
 Sacrifices Demanded for Sin and Guilt (Lev 1, 4 & 5)
 Blood (Lev. 17)
 Purify and cleanse
 For reconciliation
 Directed by Priests (Lev 6-7)
 Requirements Strict: i.e. no defect, perfect sacrifices (Lev 22)

11.  God promised a kingdom of priests and holy nation (Exodus 19:6)
 Priest anointed position to face God (Deut. 31,32) as mediator (Lev 8)
 Consecrated (Lev 8-10) and ritually pure (Lev 11-15)
 Set Apart for Holy (Lev 17-26)
 Keep presence with people and atones sin (Lev 16)
 Priest Duties
 the teaching of the Law (Lev 10:11)
 offering the sacrifices (Lev 9)
 maintaining the Tabernacle and the Temple (Numbers 18:3)
 officiating in the Holy Place (Exodus 30:7-10)

12. Holy of Holies
Gold, Ark of Covenant
Veiled,
Most Sacred and Most Clean
Entered by High Priest Day of Atonement
Blood of sacrifice sprinkled on Mercy Seat
Holy Place
Table for Bread of Presence, golden
lampstand, altar of incense. Veiled.
Only Priests enter tabernacle chamber
closer to God. Daily incense. Bread eaten
on Sabbath by Priests for Prayer and
Worship
Encounter
Worship
Cleanse
Commoners Worship, Experience Presence, Fellowship
Court
Bronze alter and
basin. Fenced.
Feasts
Purification rituals with basin before entry
in to Holy Place
Sacrifice
Burnt offerings & sacrifices confess
Entry
All outside of court deemed unclean

13.  Appointed feasts of the Lord- Sacred Assembles (Lev 23:1)
 Weekly and annual
 Passover and Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12, Lev 23)
 First Fruits
 Feast of the Weeks
 Feast of the Trumpets
 Day of Atonement
 Feast of Tabernacles

14.  Remembers Delivery and Honor God for Exodus
 Remembers lamb sacrificed and life given
 Remembers the freedom from slavery
 Bread for when in wilderness / God provides
 Recall and hope for Promise
 Peace

15.  Celebrate being brought from slavery, out from wilderness
 Celebrate the provisions and abundant gift of life
 Turn attention to covenant
 Day of sacrifice and no feast

16.  Commandments
 One Place of Worship
 Destroy idols (Deuteronomy 12)
 Reject other gods, idols, practices (13,17)
 Remember what is Holy
 Loyal to His Laws

17.  10 Commandments – ratifies Covenant to Moses on Mt Sinai (Exodus 24:28)
 Civil and Moral Laws
 Mosaic Law  Ceremonial
 Of sacrificial system
 Use alter, offerings, for worship
 Tabernacle for Communion
 Priesthood for atonement rituals
 Feasts to commemorate
 Repudiation of false gods
“Then all the people answered
together and said, “All that the
Lord has spoken we will
do.” So Moses brought back the
words of the people to the Lord”.
(Exodus 19:8, NKLV)

18.  Aim and Scope of Deuteronomy.
 Laws, love, loyalty, life
 “Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the
LORD” (Lev 17:5, NIV).
 Compliance in Theology by Prophet

19.  Judging Prophets (Deuteronomy 18.15-22 )
 Isaiah, God’s Glory, Judgment and Salvation, Redemption; Obey, Better than Sacrifice
(1,2); Sin and Savior; False Gods; All Nations; God gives justice, understanding
 Jeremiah warming (34); God/His relationship to world; Levitical responsibilities.
 Daniel. Follows Laws to serve God, deny gods, seeks restoration

20. “The loving nature of
God and creator (whose
righteousness is
perfectly poised
between justice and
mercy, goodness and
severity
 Why covenant established
 Generally
 Significance and specifications
 Relationship
 between covenant and law
(see Exodus 33:18,19---34:5-7----Deuteronomy 5:9,10 )
ensures that His "mercy
rejoiceth against
judgement, (James
2:13”
 Law testifies to covenant
(Bible Education, 2005).

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