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| − | I could make myself perfect and live.’? The operation
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| − | of the law covenant is absolute proof that the theory
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| − | of evolution is from the Devil, and that those who
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| − | advocate it are the instruments of the evil one, wheth-
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| − | er they know it or not. The so-called ‘‘conscientious’’
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| − | preachers will never be permitted to hide behind a
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| − | conscience which has been trained contrary to God’s
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| − | Word of truth.
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| − | Paul declares that the law foreshadowed good things
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| − | to come. (Heb. 10:1) While the law covenant was
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| − | made primarily because of the transgression, God
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| − | employed it also to make shadows or pictures of his
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| − | purpose for the reconciliation of man to himself. The
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| − | apostle further states: ‘‘Then verily the first covenant
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| − | had also ordinances [ceremonies] of divine service,
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| − | and a worldly {orderly arranged] sanctuary.’’ (Ifeb.
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| − | 9:1) What were these ceremonies and orderly ar-
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| − | rangements of divine service? At the time of making
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| − | the covenant in Egypt a lamb without blemish, a
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| − | male of the flock, was slain and its blood sprinkled
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| − | upon the doorposts, which served as a means of sal-
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| − | vation to the Jews on the passover night. That lamb
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| − | was eaten, together with unleavened bread. (Ex. 12: 8)
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| − | That eeremony must be repeated or performed once
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| − | each year thereafter on the fourteenth day of Nisan.
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| − | The lamb represented the sacrifice of Jesus, the
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| − | beloved Son of God, who would redeem all mankind
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| − | from sin. Ife was ‘‘the Lamb slain from the founda-
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| − | tion of the world’’, (Rev. 18: 8) ‘‘As of a lamb with-
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| − | out blemish and without spot.’’ (1 Pet. 1:19) By this
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| − | ceremony the ransom sacrifice was foreshadowed. God
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| − | made promise that he would ransom man from death
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| − | and the grave. (Ifos. 18:14) This ceremony would
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| − | teach the Jews and others thereafter that the Lamb
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| − | of God would take away the sin of the world, and
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| − | it was so announced by John at the beginning of the
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| − | ministry of Jesus—John 1: 29.
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| − | After the confirmation of the covenant at Sinai,
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| − | Moses, under God’s instruction, erected the tabernaele.
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| − | In the holy place thereof Gud showed his presence
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| − | by the cloud and the livht. (Iix. 40:34) Onee each
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| − | year there was a special divine service in connection
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| − | with the tabernacle. On a day certain a bull and guat
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| − | were slain and the blood thereof carricd by a priest
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| − | into the Most Holy and sprinkled upon the merey
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| − | seat to make atonement. (Lev. 16; Heb. 9: 6-8) That
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| − | tabernacle service foreshadowed something better to
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| − | eome and showed that the sacrifice of the reality would
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| − | make atonement for the sin of man and make it pos-
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| − | sible for man to be reconciled to God as he had prom-
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| − | ised. The sacrifice of these animals was done by a
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| − | priest, for which the law made provision. These cere-
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| − | monies were to teach lessons to the Jews and others
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| − | thereafter. The sacrifice of the paschal lamb referred
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| − | to the saerifice of Jesus Christ, and pictured the
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| − | Transom; and the sacrifice of bulls and goats and the
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| − | sprinkling of the blood in the Most Holy represented
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| − | the offering of the blood of Christ Jesus in heaven
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| − | She WATCHTOWER.
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| − | itself as a sin-offering for man. Furthermore, they
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| − | taught that Christ, as the great High Priest appointed
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| − | by Jehovah, would offer the sacrifice and make atone-
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| − | ment for sin——Heb, 9: 10-14, 24.
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| − | The law covenant therefore shows absolutely the
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| − | necessity for the great ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ
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| − | and for a sin-offering to be made by him first in be-
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| − | half of the members of the ‘‘seed’’ and then in behalf
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| − | of mankind in-general. Also, that covenant fore-
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| − | shadowed a new and better covenant thereafter to be
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| − | made; and the ceremonies in connection therewith
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| − | bore testimony to the fact that there would be a long
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| − | period of time elapsing between the making of that
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| − | new covenant and the time of its confirmation or
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| − | inauguration,
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| − | Suppose the Jews had put forth their best efforts
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| − | to keep the law covenant, would any special benefit
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| − | have resnited to them? Yes. They would have shown
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| − | their faith and confidence in God and in his promises,
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| − | and their allegiance to him rather than to the Devil.
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| − | The Jewish elergy who were Jeaders of Israel did not
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| − | try to keep the spirit of the law covenant. They kept
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| − | it in form, with their mouths, and outward show,
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| − | while their hearts were far removed from Jehovah.
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| − | (Isa. 29: 13) They were frauds and hypoerites, mak-
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| − | ing an outward show for a selfish reason. (Matt. 23:
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| − | 13-35) They claimed to be children of Abraham, but
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| − | Jesus told them plainly they were liars and children
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| − | of the Devil because they would do Satan’s will and
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| − | not the will of God. (John 8: 39-44) The fact that
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| − | they were sons of the Devil shows that they had no
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| − | faith in the Jaw covenant and were not trying to keep
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| − | it. Their exact counterpart is found today in the
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| − | so-called ‘Christian elergy’’ who ‘having a form of
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| − | godliness, deny the power thereof’; and from such
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| − | the people are warned to “‘turn away’’.—~2 Tim. 3: 5,
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| − | But some of the Jews did try to keep the law cove-
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| − | nant. They had faith in God, and they did their’ best
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| − | to obey him. When Jesus eame he found some of these
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| − | who were looking for the eoming of the Messiah, and
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| − | they aecepted him. The leaders, looking to the letter
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| − | of the law, expected the coming of the Messiah; but
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| − | they were “looking for hin entirely from a_ selfish
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| − | motive. They practiced fraad and deceit. When ‘‘Je-
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| − | sus saw Nathanacl coming to him, [Jesus] saith of
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| − | him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”’
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| − | (John 1:47) Nathanael then and there aceepted him
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| − | as the Son of God and the King of Israel. ‘‘Nathanael
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| − | answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the
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| − | Son of God; thou art the Ning of Isracl.’’ (John 1: 49)
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| − | He had no deceit or subterfuge about him, such as
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| − | did the Pharisees. Nathanael and other honest Jews
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| − | kept the spirit of the law because of their faith in
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| − | God and in the promised ‘‘seed’’. They were pleasing
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| − | to God and accepted by him, not because of the law
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| − | which they attempted to keep perfectly, but by reason
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| − | of faith in Christ. Upon this point Paul says: ‘‘ Know-
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| − | ing that a man is not justified by the works of the
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