By breaking the covenant, Adam and Eve experienced death, not only physically years later when their once-perfect bodies aged and failed them, but spiritually as well. ... The covenant was made with Israel, the descendants of Abraham, through Moses, mediator between the great I Am and His people. ... Although the law was validated by the people and Moses, confirmed with the sacrificial blood, and sealed with the Covenant Meal, it only served as a yardstick and could not offer anything more that a temporary dispensation from the wages of sin. ...

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