The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-17
III. Gods Demands Through the General
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III. Gods Demands Through the General
l. On His people. Israel Exodus 3:16-1S:
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together and
say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers. the
God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared
unto me- saying, [ have surely visited you and
seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
And have said will bring you up out of the
aflicton of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites
and the Hittites, and the Amortes, and the Peril
zites, and the Invites, and the Jebustes, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey.
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou
shalt come thou and the elders of Israel, unto the
king of Egypt and We shall say unto him, The Lord
God of the Hebrews hath met with and let
go, beseech thee, three days Journey into
the wilderness, that may sacrifice to the Lord
God.
2. On Egypt the world Exodus 81, 3:
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and
told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel
Let My people go, that they may hold feast unto
Me in the wilderness.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath
met with us: let us go, we pray thee three davs'
journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord
our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or
with the sword.
3. God, through Moses, would take His
people clear out of Egypt. Note Pharaoh s de-
fance Of God Exodus so:
obey His voice to let Israel go? I know not the
Lord, neither will | let Israel go.
Note how Pharaoh tried to compromise with
Moses - Exodus 8:25-2:
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and
said, Go We, sacrifice to your God in the land
And Moses said 1t is not meet so to do; for we
shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to
the LORD our God TO- shall we sacrifice the abomina-
ton of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will
they not stone us?
We will go three days journey into the wilder
ness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He shall
command
This shows how Moses refused the first com
promise. The second compromise was also re-
fused = Exodus s 80 80:
And Pharaoh said I will let you go, that We may
sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness;
only We shall not go very far away: intreat for me-
And Moses said, Behold, go out from thee, and
l VIII 1ntreat the Lord that the of flies may
depart from Pharaoh, from his servants and from
his people, tomorrow: but let not Pharaoh deal de-
celtfuly any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to the Lord.
10:8-11:
And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto
Pharaoh and he said unto them Co serve the
Lord your God: but who are they that shall go?
And Moses said, We will go with our young and
with our old, with our sons and with daughters
we must hold feast unto the Lord
And he said unto them Let the Lord be so with
you, as will let you go, and your little ones look
to it. for evil is before you.
Not so: go now we that are men, and serve the
Lord for that We did desire. And they were driven
out from Pharaoh's presence.
The fourth compromise refused - Exodus
10:24-27:
And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said Go We
serve the Lord; only let focks and your herds
be stayed: let your little ones also go with you
And Moses said Thou must give us also sacri-
ices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto
the Lord our God.
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not
an moor be left behind for thereof must we take to
serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what
But the Lord hardened Pharaohs heart and he
would not let them 60 -
". Under God, Moses Leads Israel, Gods
People, Out of Bondage
1. Moses enforced in Israel and before all
Egypt. religion or a SALVATION OF
BLOOD : Exodus 1913, 5-8, lib:
Speak We unto all the congregation of Israel
saying, In the tenth day of this month they shah
take TO them every man lamb, according to the
house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Your lamb shall be without blemish male of
the first We shall take it out from the sheen
or from the goats
And We shall Keep it up until the fourteenth
day OF the same month: and the whole assembly