30 Therefore
there was a law given them, yea, a law of performances and of ordinances, a law
which they were to observe strictly from day to day, to keep them in
remembrance of God and their duty towards him.
31 But
behold, I say unto you, that all these things were types of things to come.
(Mosiah 13:30-31)
Abinadi asserts that the daily
performances and ordinances of the Law of Moses were all types meant to
prophesy of the future, and I suspect of Christ. (I wonder if anyone has studied how those things typified
Christ?)
In a way, the daily performances
(separate from their symbolism) were a type of Christ and anticipated how He
would be perfectly faithful. If the people made mistakes as they lived the Law,
it was to remind them of their need for a Savior and lead them to repentance.
We could also say that the Law of Moses
daily performances were a kind of all-encompassing sacrament, and just as the
sacrament today instructs us to always remember Christ and keep His
commandments, everything in the Law of Moses was supposed to remind the people
of Christ. I suppose the Lord
wanted the people to imagine a day when they would keep the commandments
constantly on their own and always remember Christ and His sacrifice.
Today, let’s think about every duty we
do in terms of how it might remind us of Christ and His sacrifice.
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