We know that forgiveness was offered in the OT. We are told so in the Psalms and especially in Leviticus.
Lev. 4:31 ……………..as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN.
Lev. 17:11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.
The Mosaic Covenant offers blessing for law abidance, but I find no scripture that defines those blessings as including salvation, do you?
There are no changes in God, God is the same in what scripture calls alpha and omega, or beginning to end. Scripture states that it is only through the blood of Christ that salvation is given. The OT does not specify the blood given as Christ’s blood because those people would not know what the Lord was speaking of, but that mystery has been revealed to us. Christ fulfilled and completed that promise of the Lord. God knew of Christ for God is eternal and knows all of happenings that we are limited from knowing because of our kind of time. So, the blood offered was symbolic blood of Christ. Moses speaks of works of obedience but does not speak of forgiveness as is spoken of in Leviticus.
We can conclude that works bring blessings, but works do not bring salvation. Only the blood of Christ does that, and it has always been so.
Lev. 4:31 ……………..as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN.
Lev. 17:11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.
The Mosaic Covenant offers blessing for law abidance, but I find no scripture that defines those blessings as including salvation, do you?
There are no changes in God, God is the same in what scripture calls alpha and omega, or beginning to end. Scripture states that it is only through the blood of Christ that salvation is given. The OT does not specify the blood given as Christ’s blood because those people would not know what the Lord was speaking of, but that mystery has been revealed to us. Christ fulfilled and completed that promise of the Lord. God knew of Christ for God is eternal and knows all of happenings that we are limited from knowing because of our kind of time. So, the blood offered was symbolic blood of Christ. Moses speaks of works of obedience but does not speak of forgiveness as is spoken of in Leviticus.
We can conclude that works bring blessings, but works do not bring salvation. Only the blood of Christ does that, and it has always been so.