Adventistische Schriften über: "What does it profoundly mean that Abraham passed between the animals when making the covenant?"

The walking through between the divided sacrificial animals meant, according to the customs of the time, entering a binding obligation, whereby Abraham reverently made a solemn vow of continual obedience to God. At the same time this act symbolized the holiest of all covenants—a blood covenant—through which the Lord entered into a deep blood brotherhood with Abraham and humanity, pointing to the plan of redemption through Christ.

A solemn vow of enduring obedience

»The Lord descended to make a covenant with His servant, employing forms that were customary among people to confirm a solemn commitment. According to divine instruction, Abraham offered a three‑year‑old heifer, a three‑year‑old goat, and a three‑year‑old ram, cut their bodies and placed the pieces at a short distance from each other. He also added a turtle dove and a young pigeon, which were not cut. When this was done, he reverently walked between the pieces of the sacrifice and made before God a solemn vow of enduring obedience.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, Patriarchs and Prophets (PP 137.1)

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The blood covenant and the blood brotherhood with God

»For when God sealed His eternal covenant with Abraham, the sacrificial animals were cut in two, and He walked with Abraham between the pieces. By this act the Lord entered the "most solemn covenant known to the Orientals" or to humanity—the blood covenant—and thus became Abraham's blood brother, "a relationship that stands above any other relationship in life." This great truth of Christ's blood kinship with humanity is further taught in the Gospel in the third book of Moses.«

2 - Alonzo Trevier Jones, The Consecrated Way to Christian Perfection (CWCP 24.1)

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