Sunday 9 November 2014

No Provisional Ways of Keeping Moses' Law Today

Daniel probably did oblation at evening. But that didn't mean he was keeping Moses' Law as a whole. Keeping Moses' Law as a whole was impossible in Babylon.

Just because oblation was done didn't mean Moses' complete system of Law was being kept. People did sacrifice and oblation even before the Law was given. Daniel did it in the same sense that the patriarchs did it before the Law was given.

Daniel did so with respect to Moses' Law, even though he knew he couldn't keep the whole Law. All of that was reasonable, since Christ's sacrifice hadn't come yet.

But to find ways to do sacrifice and oblation with respect to Moses' Law today, isn't as appropriate as it was in Daniel's day, because we have a New Covenant.

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