Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

so likely to forget, but wrote them on tablets of stone. And He did
not stop with giving them the Ten Commandments. He commanded
Moses to write judgments and laws giving detailed instruction about
what He required. These directions only amplified the principles of
the Ten Commandments in a specific manner, designed to guard
their sacredness.
If Abraham's descendants had kept the covenant, of which
circumcision was a sign, there would have been no need for God's
law to be proclaimed from Mt. Sinai or engraved on tablets of stone.
The sacrificial system was also perverted. Through long
contacts with idolaters, Israel had mixed in many heathen customs
with their worship, so the Lord gave them specific instructions
concerning the sacrificial service. The ceremonial law was given to
Moses, and he wrote it in a book. But the law of Ten
Commandments had been written by God Himself on tablets of
stone and preserved in the ark.
Two Laws: Moral and Ceremonial
Many try to blend these two systems, using the texts that speak
of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been
abolished, but this is a twisting of the Scriptures. The ceremonial
system consisted of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and
priesthood. The Hebrews were to perform this ritual law with its
sacrifices and ordinances until type met antitype--symbol met
fulfillment--in the death of Christ. Then all the sacrificial offerings
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