The Grace of God in the Old Testament
The Mercy Seat
Nowhere in the Old Testament is the grace of God more evident than in the Mercy Seat. The Mercy Seat was above the ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies, and above the Mercy Seat was the glory of God. The Mercy Seat was sprinkled with blood, which signified the forgiveness of sin. Animal blood did not forgive sin, but pointed to the sacrifice that was to come, which would be sufficient to forgive sin and cleanse guilt, the sacrifice of the Messiah. God gave man a way to be forgiven. Man didn’t deserve it.
God owed man nothing. We have been a grief to Him ever since Adam and Eve sinned. But He made us; loves us, and knows us. He knows we have a problem with sin, therefore He provided a way for us to be free from sin. The Old Testaments saints came to Him in the same way that we come to Him today – by faith alone.
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