Deu 12: Notice that there was to be one, singular and unique,
"place" chosen by God -- there He would place His Holy Name, and there alone
would Israel go to worship Him (vv 5-8). This is in marked and intended contrast
to the many and varied places of "worship" of the false gods of the land: high
places, and sacred stones, and Asherah poles (vv 2,3) under every spreading tree
-- abominable sites, as well as abominable "sights": lewd and immoral!
So it has always been: only one way that leads to life, but a
hundred paths that meander here and there, winding through every confusing
backwater, and surveying every vice, until they all end at last in death (Mat
7:13,14).
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name
under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE: See Lesson, Blood. Cp Lev 3:17;
7:26,27; 17:11,14.
Deu 12:24
YOU MUST NOT EAT THE BLOOD; POUR IT OUT ON THE GROUND LIKE
WATER: If blood/life did not go to the altar (dedication), then it must
return to the dust (Gen 3:19).