THE MOSAICAL DISPENSATION (1) This dispensation grew out of the promise made to Abraham in Gen. 12:2–3. The Law of Moses was an outgrowth of this promise and was given four hundred and thirty years afer the promise was made (Gal. 3:16–17). That this promise might be kept, God gave them a government, the law of Moses, which guided them religiously and politically. (2) Unlike the Patriarchal dispensation, dur ing the Mosaic dispensation, the Jews had their own written law. Abraham*s descen dants, in their exodus from Egypt, were led to the foot of Mt. Sinai, and God gave to them the ten commandments written upon two tables of stone (Ex. 19,20). He also gave them other laws for their good which Moses wrote by inspiration. (3) One purpose of the Mosaic dispensation was to keep Abraham*s descendants a sepa rate and distinct race until Christ, the promised seed, should come. The law of Moses served as a middle wall of partition (Eph. 2:14), for it separated the Jews from other nations. (4) One evident weakness of the Law of Moses was that there was no complete for giveness of sins provided by it. All of the many sacrifices offered by the Levitical priest hood upon the altar of God in the tabernacle and later in the temple resulted only in pay ing the interest on the debt of sin without completely removing the debt (Heb. 10:3–4). (5) God intended for the Mosaic dispensa tion to be temporary. Galatians 3:19 says, “Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.” Since the seed refers to Christ (Gal. 3:16), the law was to be abolished at the coming of Christ. Thus, this age was to last until the fulfillment of the Abrahamic promise in Christ.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 06:49:58 +0000
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