The Everlasting Covenant

The Law at Calvary the Same as at Sinai

That stream comes from the heart of Christ, in which the law was and is enshrined. Christ was the temple of God, and His heart was God’s dwelling-place. We know that the stream—living water for the people—came from Christ at Sinai, and that the blood and the water, which agree in one, came from His side at Calvary—a living stream for the life of the world. Yet although the cross of Calvary is the highest possible manifestation of the tender mercy and love of God for man, it is a fact that the terrors of Sinai—the terrors of God’s throne—were there. There was thick darkness and an earthquake, and the people were filled with an awful dread, because there God displayed the fearful consequences of violation of His law. The law in its terror to evildoers was at Calvary as well as at Sinai or in the midst of the throne of God. EVCO 319.2