"And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed" (Gen.32:28). Compare with "He (Jacob) had power over the angel, and prevailed" (Hosea 12:3,4).
you see, Jesus always was with people from the very beginning. And
He always cared for those who honored God.
After the Flood God gave people laws for ďa sin will be made out by lawĒ, for them to understand, that any sin is punishable. A sin is death. God doesnít have compromises therefore laws were rigid. It wasnít easy to observe them
(the laws concerned not only moral and business issues, but medical preventive maintenance* as well), the Jews were always a united and multicrowded people. The laws given to the Jewish people were the reflection the main Godís laws, which concern the whole mankind. Everything that is created by God, lives according to His laws. Even those who turned away from God, can not leave Him: their body, mentality, emotions, consciousness Ė all this live under Godís laws. And when a person is far from God, all this is in disharmony and the degrade. Since even the people, selected by Him were the gathering of sins and constantly broke Godís laws, and consequently were becoming no sacred, but on the contrary: degraded spiritually, usual sacrifices which they made to God, did not saved them. The sacrifice adequate to volume of sins was necessary, otherwise all the people had to be punished by death.
became sinful, because the first sin was committed Ė the sin of Adam. Adam was
the only perfect man out of all people ever existed, who was created directly by
And his sin could be expiates only by death of a same perfect man. ęLife for lifeĽ.
Jesus Christ gave His own perfect life in order to expiate what Adam had
lost. No other man but Jesus could give expiation, because Jesus was the only
was equal to Adam, as the perfect
human son of God (1Cor.15:22).
was crucified on Passover. This holiday was established by God in memory of
that He relieved the Jews from 430-year Egyptian slavery (Ex. 12). For a long
time Egyptian Pharaoh refused to release the Jews, and for that God sent 9
misfortunes on Egypt . When it didnít help
God ordered through Moses to the people of
Israel to slaughter a lamb in every family and to mark with its
blood all the door posts. When the Lord was going through the lands of Pharaoh
and saw the blood of a lamb He didnít enter there but when there was no blood
He entered that place and killed
the firstborns from people to cattle. It was the 10-th trouble. People of Egypt
uttered a roar from grief but the Jews
were freed due to blood of a lamb.
to invention of a microscope in the XVIII-th century humanity did not know about
existence of microbes and bacteria. After his
visit to a sick person a doctor went to deliver somebody's child without having his hands
washed , and all relatives could not understand why a child who was born quite healthy died so
soon. A family said last goodbye to their relative, and all of them from
children up to old people came up to the dead child and kissed him in the
forehead and after that not a long time passed when another death came which was
treated by the family as someone's evil eye. The Bible (Lev.13,
14:37-48, 15, Num.19:14-16) taught to wash all the subjects touched by
sick man and to
wash oneself after having a visit to a sick and ctr.. He who touched a
dead body, could not see anybody for 7 days. You see it is the most real
quarantine! Observing these laws, the Jews were always a numerous people, even,
when the neighbor tribes died off because of