This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words

Exodus 24:1-18

When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will do.” Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said.

Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. 

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

The people's assent to the covenant is formally sealed by a special sacrifice, and by the covenant, meal eaten by their representatives in the presence of God. The blood sprinkled on the people and on the altar unites the two parties to the agreement. In effect, each is swearing to keep it on pain of death.

Why?

This covenant is set between God and the Israelites, this is said people of Israelite will obey the word of the Lord.

God is holy and his feet like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. For they could not look the Lord directly, they can see the feet of the Lord only.

Moses alone went up on the mountain of God to get the tablet of God's word.

People stayed in the desert and look at the mountain and the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. God is consuming fire people should fear the Lord.

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神向以色列人請講了十誡的原則，20-23講施行細節。24節講立約的原則，分成三部份，最近的是摩西，其次是3人，再外是70長老，最後是百姓。摩西是神特許的，神有特別的保護。

神沒讓百姓讓百姓看到神的寶座，一般人不能見到神。今天我們可以來到神面前，是神提升我們的身份地位為神的兒子，如機關首長才能見到總統。

燔祭： 全然委身，平安祭：彼此友好，撒血：全百姓和神都有關，全部人立約。血：用生命來立約。神以他永不改變的神性來立約。人違約就要付代價，違約金就是生命的代價。人替人付了生命的代價。又吃飯又喝：在嚴肅中，也有輕鬆的一面。吃飯表示雙方沒有隔閡。神在吃飯時立約，如同耶穌最後的晚餐，我們只有享受，神還有什麼好處不給屬神的人。我們是否預備好了嗎？

神與人立約慎重要不僅僅說，而且還寫在石版上。

會幕：是到神面前的一條路，神願意住在我們中間。

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How?

Fear the Lord for God is peace with us when we go with the Lord, but God is fire when we against the Lord.