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Deuteronomy 27:2,\u20094,\u20098, Set up great stones.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>On Mount Ebal on whole, un-cut stones, the Israelites were to write the Torah-law and then coat these stones with lime plaster. Elohim also told them to build an altar there where they were to make burnt and peace offerings.<\/p>\n

Why was Torah written on stones on Mount Ebal\u2014the mountain of the curses? Why not on Mount Gerizim, the mountain of blessing? Certainly this cannot mean that the Torah is a curse, for Paul calls it kadosh <\/em>(holy), just and good in Romans 7:12.<\/p>\n

What could the stones represent? Who<\/em> is the Chief Cornerstone, the Stone the builders rejected (Ps 118:22; Matt 21:42; Acts 4:11; Eph 2:20), and the stone cut without hands (Dan 2:34)? What was the purpose of these offerings and to whom do the burnt and peace offerings point?<\/p>\n

Could lime plaster represent robes of righteousness? Who is clothed in robes of righteousness once sins have been atoned for? (Read Rev 19:7\u20138 cp. 3:5,18; Isa 61:10.) Who was wounded for our \u00adtransgressions and bruised for our iniquities, had laid on him the iniquities of us all, and was made an offering for sin (Isa 53:5,\u20096,\u200910)? Who was the Living Torah, the Word of Elohim made flesh (John 1:1,14)?<\/p>\n

Who redeemed us from the curses of the law (Gal 3:13), which came upon us as a result of our sinning (sin is the violation of YHVH\u2019s law, 1\u2009John 3:4), and thus bringing a death penalty upon us (the wages of sin is death, Rom 6:23)?<\/p>\n

Does it now make sense why the Torah and the altar were placed on Mount Ebal? This is another one of the many prophetic shadow pictures in the Torah pointing to the redemptive work of Yeshua at the cross.<\/p>\n

Does this strengthen your faith that Yeshua is indeed the Messiah, the Lamb of Elohim slain from the foundation of the earth? Who else could have fulfilled these prophecies?<\/p>\n

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