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Welcome to Through the Bible, where today, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to tell us about the prophet Zefaniah's desperate and final call to prayer and repentance for the people of Judah.

I'm your host Steve Schwetz, and I'm glad that you've made time to be in God's word.

But first, we've got a bit more of Dr. McGee's discussion on the Old Testament covenants.

Let's listen.

Now, we come today to look at the conclusion of this covenant that God made,

and that covenant, God made it very clear it was a covenant. He says in Exodus 19, verse 5,

now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,

then ye shall be a peculiar treasure.

Now, the children of Israel accepted that condition.

They agreed to keep it. And, of course, they failed miserably to keep the covenant that they

had made with God, that they would keep it. Now, what is the Mosaic covenant? Well, it's what we call

a Mosaic law. It opens in chapter 20 of Exodus with the ten commandments that are given there. And then there follows a great many

commandments that have to do with living, a home, business, in fact, every department of

everyday life. And in that, there is given also instructions for making a tabernacle and a brazen altar where

offerings can be made for sin because, you see, they were not going to keep the law.

They were going to break it, and they were not able to keep it.

And therefore, they need a sacrifice for sin because all of these laws, all of the commandments, the breaking of them, the sentence was death. And death was given to those that broke the law. Therefore, these people were not able to keep it, and God would have to condemn them,

but they brought the sacrifice, and that sacrifice in every detail of that tabernacle

pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ when he came, he fulfilled all of that.

Now, the law was something they did not keep. And I would like to turn to the New

Testament where we are told that they did not keep the law. Peter, at that great council of the church,

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