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Creator's Covenant is offering to pay
US$1000 to anyone who can show a direct or clear New
Testament connection indicating the 'Old Covenant' is the covenant between Israel and the Creator made at Mt. Sinai and described in Exodus 20-24.
Hebrews 9:18-21 is obviously talking of the confirmation of the 'Old covenant'. It indicates Moses spoke to the people, and sacrificed animals and sprinkled the blood on the people. The Sinai covenant confirmation is described in Exodus 24. It also mentions these same things. However it indicates that Moses sacrificed oxen or young bulls not calves and goats as is stated in the Hebrews account.
Exodus 24 also indicates that
Moses read from a book that apparently consisted of no more than Exodus 20-23. Many
fundamental principles of the law are missing from this section of scripture, e.g. offering
for sin, the function of the tribe of Levi and instruction on unclean foods. Hebrews claimed
that Moses spoke every precept of the law (vs:19). Certainly
those three things are fundamental precepts of the law. They are absent from what
Moses read at Sinai.
Hebrews says Moses sprinkled the Tabernacle and the utensils. These are not mentioned at all in the Exodus account because they didn't exist. Moses received the plans for the Tabernacle and furnishings after the confirmation of the Sinai covenant (See Ex. 25:8-9). It was not built until about nine months later.
So I think you can see that Hebrews 9:18-21 cannot be accepted as a 'direct or clear' connection between the 'Old covenant' and the Sinai covenant. Actually since the Tabernacle didn't exist at the confirming of the Sinai covenant, it really indicates the Sinai covenant was not the 'Old covenant'.
Example 2:
Hebrews 8:9 indicates that the 'Old covenant' was
made "when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt".
Doesn't that connect to the Sinai covenant? Actually this wording would indicate a covenant that
was made in Egypt since in order to take them "by the hand to lead them out" they had
to be IN Egypt. Exodus 16:1, which covers a time before the Sinai covenant was confirmed, clearly
says they were already out of Egypt.
Again there is an inconsistency in the connection
with the covenant made at Sinai. Traditional Christianity seems to be guessing. Shouldn't
we be sure about something that the Creator himself spoke and wrote down for us? What else was so
important that He wrote it down Himself?
The above reference is interesting in that there is no record of a covenant
actually being made in Egypt. Consider though, is our Creator more interested in our geographical
location or our state of mind? Israel was described as being mentally in Egypt long after they crossed
the Egyptian border (Num 11:18, 14:1-4, Acts 7:39). Actually they were not separated completely
from Egypt until they entered the Promised Land. "This day have I rolled away the reproach of
Egypt from off you."
(Joshua 5:9b) One could say that the whole time they were wondering in the wilderness they were
in Egypt. There were two covenants made with Israel in this
Egypt. Most people are unaware of this other covenant or why they are different.
Consider also that scripture says quite a bit about
how long His Covenant will last. A few
people will be confused about some other
traditional Christian teaching.