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represented the shedding of the blood of Jesus, by which human beings
are cleansed from sin.
Once more the Lord has special words to speak to His people. In
the thirty-first chapter of Exodus we read:
“The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the
children of Israel, saying, Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it
is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that ye
may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.... Wherefore
the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign
between Me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and
was refreshed. And He gave unto Moses, when he had made an end
of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony,
tables of stone, written with the finger of God.”
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Many other scriptures on the sacredness of God’s law have been
presented before me. Scene after scene, reaching down to the present
time, passed before me. The word spoken by God to Israel was verified.
The people disobeyed, and only two of the adults who left Egypt
entered Canaan. The rest died in the wilderness. Will not the Lord
today vindicate His word if the leaders of His people depart from His
commandments?
I was referred to the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy. The whole of
this chapter is to be studied. Notice particularly the statement: “Know
therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is
God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, which
I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the
earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, forever.”
The eighth and eleventh chapters of Deuteronomy also mean much
to us. The lessons that they contain are of the greatest importance, and
are given to us as verily as to the Israelites. In the eleventh chapter
God says:
“Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing
if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command
you this day: and a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of