"And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses." 2 Chronicles 34:14.
"'Seek ye out of the book of the law, and read.' . . . These words outline our work. This scripture is to be received by our people as a message for to-day." RH June 23, 1904.
"The book of Deuteronomy should be carefully studied by those living on the earth today." 1BC 1117.
"We do not make enough of Deuteronomy and Exodus." 1BC 1117.
"Let those who believe the word of the Lord read the instruction contained in Leviticus and Deuteronomy." 6T 273.
"We are to become familiar with the Levitical law in all its bearings; for it contains rules that must be obeyed." 1BC 1110.
"And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them." Ezekiel 20:11.
"He did not stop with giving them the precepts of the Decalogue. The people had shown themselves so easily led astray that He would leave no door of temptation unguarded. Moses was commanded to write, as God should bid him, judgments and laws giving minute instruction as to what was required. These directions relating to the duty of the people to God, to one another, and to the stranger were only the principles of the Ten Commandments amplified and given in a specific manner, that none need err. They were designed to guard the sacredness of the ten precepts engraved on the tables of stone." PP 364.
"Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern the everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the ten commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon man in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law." RH May 6, 1875; 1 BC 1104.
"There are many who try to blend these two systems [the moral and the ceremonial laws] . . . but this is a perversion of the Scriptures. The distinction between the two systems is broad and clear. The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God. . . . Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ ‘took . . . out of the way, nailing it to His cross.' Colossians 2:14." PP 365.
"Concerning the law proclaimed from Sinai, Nehemiah says, ‘Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes, and commandments.' Nehemiah 9:13. And Paul . . . declares, ‘The Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.' Romans 7:12." PP 365.
"Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" Deuteronomy 4:5-8.
"The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart." Psalm 19:8.
"The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." Psalm 19:9.
"The regulations observed in the encampment of the Israelites are an example to us. It was Christ who gave those special instructions to Israel, and He intended them for us also, upon whom the ends of the world are come. We should study carefully the specifications of God's word and practice these directions as the will of God." 6T 34, 35.
"In Leviticus 19 are recorded words given by Christ to Moses to speak to the children of Israel. Read what the people of God in ancient times were commanded to do and what not to do; for these are the principles contained in the royal law." RH December 1, 1896.
"God has not changed. He is as particular and exact in His requirements now as He was in the days of Moses." 1BC 1111.
"The instructions given to Moses for ancient Israel, with their sharp, rigid outlines, are to be studied and obeyed by the people of God today." 1BC 1103.
"The statutes concerning marriage, inheritance, and strict justice in deal with one another, were peculiar and contrary to the customs and manners of other nations, and were designed of God to keep His people separate from other nations. The necessity of this to preserve the people of God from becoming like the nations who had not the love and fear of God, is the same in this corrupt age, when the transgression of God's law prevails and idolatry exists to a fearful extent. If ancient Israel needed such security, we need it more, to keep us from being utterly confounded with the transgressors of God's law." RH May 6, 1875.
"Moses of himself framed no law. Christ . . . gave to Moses statutes and requirements necessary to a living religion and to govern the people of God. Christians commit a terrible mistake in calling this law severe . . . and then contrasting it with the gospel . . . of Christ . . . as though He were in opposition to the just precepts which they call the law of Moses." Ibid.
"Christ, to enforce the will of his Father, became the author of the statutes and precepts given through Moses to the people of God. Christians who extol Christ, but array themselves against the law governing the Jewish church, array Christ against Christ." Ibid.
"Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes." Psalm 119:155.
"Ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you." Ezekiel 11:12.
"Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." Genesis 26:5.
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. . . . And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." Ezekiel 36:26, 27.
"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Malachi 4:4, 5.
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