Read: Ezekiel 14:12-16:42; Hebrews 7:18:28; Psalm 1061-12; Proverbs 27:4-6
God said that if the nation rebelled against him and he judged the people, only the righteous would be saved. Everyone would be judged according to their own lives, not the lives of their fathers. He used Noah, Daniel, and Job as the examples of righteous people. Each of them lived righteously in a very unrighteous time in history.
God explained to the people that he had chosen to serve other gods symbolizing having an Amorite father and a Hittite mother. God had made a covenant with Abraham to be his God and his seed would be his children. God had blessed his descendants and made them multiply. Instead of being grateful and loving him back, they had chosen to wear their beauty as an ornament to entice lovers of other gods instead of being an example of God’s people. They had prostituted themselves and paid other nations to teach them their idolatrous ways. They had run after sin so God was going to hand them over to their lovers to strip them of their pride and put a stop to their prostitution. When they were humbled, God would not be angry any more.
Hebrews explained that the law never made anyone sinless. Jesus came with a new covenant where he would be their high priest forever. He would be a perfect high priest who was sinless not like the high priests they had had before. He would be able to intercede for us because he walked the earth and was tempted in every way we are tempted so he is compassionate and worthy to intercede for our weaknesses before God.
He would not have to offer sacrifices for his own sins like the priests did before, but His blood would be suffice for our sins past, present and future.
Jesus, thank you for your blood that covers our sin and your priesthood that intercedes for our sin.
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