Because of His great desire to Save all who want to be Saved, God decided to renew the Eternal Covenant which re-echoed God’s Saving message down the ages all the way back from the gates of the Garden of Eden. God decided to teach the children of Israel the mysteries of Redemption – through the law and the elaborate Sanctuary services. He renewed the information on the sacrifices. He taught them the lessons of Salvation through symbols and shadows of the good things to come. He pointed out that the obedience is the test, and if willingly given – will be generously rewarded. He used illustrations and representations, which in figure pointed forward to God’s solution to the sin problem. He spared no effort and time to give them as much as they could absorb of the Saving Mysteries. Even today, some 3500 years later, we stand in astonishment and awe before the primitive Tabernacle Sanctuary, built in the wilderness, built exactly according to the pattern of heavenly things, with its furnishings, its rites, it’s services. Amazing and invaluable. Extremely helpful.
The Ten Commandments were the central part of that Covenant.
“And the Lord spoke to you from the heart of the fire. You heard the sound of his words but didn’t see his form; there was only a voice. He proclaimed his covenant—the Ten Commandments—which he commanded you to keep, and which he wrote on two stone tablets.”
Deuteronomy 4:12-13 NLT
“Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.”
Exodus 19:5 NLT
“If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the Lord.”
Leviticus 18:5 NLT
The Ten Commandments are called “the Righteous Requirements of the Law”. That is because they describe the righteousness which comes from God. In its abbreviated form as they are, short and to the point, they represent the essence of God’s character. They are a small snippet of God’s righteousness. They stand in symbol and in token for the full measure of the righteousness of Christ which will be given as a gift to those who believe in Jesus.
“The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,””
Psalms 105:9-11 NKJV
The Everlasting Covenant continues. God’s pledge to Save all those who desire to be Saved will never diminish until this pledge is made good. Until His children are safely brought home to their Father who loves them so.