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13621 From Eternity Past, p. 255.1 (Ellen Gould White)
If the descendants of Abraham had kept the covenant, of which circumcision was a sign, there would have been no necessity for God’s law to be proclaimed from Sinai or engraved upon tables of stone.
13622 From Eternity Past, p. 255.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… by God Himself on tables of stone and preserved in the ark.
13623 From Eternity Past, p. 255.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God’s law should hold as long as the heavens and the earth remain.
13624 From Eternity Past, p. 256.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God. All communion between heaven and the fallen race has been through Christ. It was the Son of God that gave to our first parents the promise of redemption …
13625 From Eternity Past, p. 257.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God; the bleeding victim on the altar testified of a Redeemer to come. Thus through darkness and apostasy, faith was kept alive in the hearts of men until …
13626 From Eternity Past, p. 257.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God for us” ( Hebrews 9:24 ), light has been streaming from the cross of Calvary and from the sanctuary above. The gospel of Christ gives significance to the ceremonial …
13627 From Eternity Past, p. 257.5 (Ellen Gould White)
God did not design that Israel should build up a wall of partition between themselves and their fellowmen. The heart of Infinite Love was reaching out toward …
13628 From Eternity Past, p. 258.1 (Ellen Gould White)
Abraham did not shut himself away from the people around him. He maintained friendly relations with the kings of the surrounding nations, and the God of heaven was revealed through His representative.
13629 From Eternity Past, p. 258.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… also God placed a light beside the throne of earth’s greatest kingdom that all might learn of the true and living God.
13630 From Eternity Past, p. 258.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God spread far and wide. Centuries after the exodus, the priests of the Philistines reminded their people of the plagues of Egypt and warned them against …
13631 From Eternity Past, p. 258 (Ellen Gould White)
Why God Worked With Israel
13632 From Eternity Past, p. 258.4 (Ellen Gould White)
God called Israel in order to reveal Himself through them to all the inhabitants of the earth. For this purpose He commanded them to keep themselves distinct from the idolatrous nations around them.
13633 From Eternity Past, p. 258.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… that God’s people be pure, “unspotted from the world.” But God did not intend that His people should shut themselves away from the world so that they could have …
13634 From Eternity Past, p. 258.6 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God for future obedience through faith in Christ. It also promised eternal life on condition of fidelity to God’s law. Thus the patriarchs received the …
13635 From Eternity Past, p. 259.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God’s law. The testimony of God was, “Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Genesis 26:5. Though this covenant …
13636 From Eternity Past, p. 259.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… between God and Israel at Sinai, and was then ratified by the blood of a sacrifice. The Abrahamic covenant, ratified by the blood of Christ, is called the “second …
13637 From Eternity Past, p. 259.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… Egypt, God sought to reveal His power and mercy, that they might be led to love and trust Him. He bound them to Himself as their deliverer from temporal bondage …
13638 From Eternity Past, p. 260.1 (Ellen Gould White)
But they had no true conception of the holiness of God, of the exceeding sinfulness of their own hearts, their utter inability, in themselves, to render obedience to God’s law, and their need of a Saviour.
13639 From Eternity Past, p. 260.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… keep God’s law. Feeling able to establish their own righteousness, they declared, “All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.” Exodus 24:7. They readily …
13640 From Eternity Past, p. 260.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God to renew the heart and bring it into harmony with God’s law. “This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith …