The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-04-26

SldlWdIl IODuSI General OVeTSeeT, are Qe-
termined by Gods grace that the city, estate,
institutions, and all shall be completely re-
deemed and wholly dedicated to, and used
by God
5. The writer and many others, came unto
the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church and
to the City of Zion, and came with all we
had, also with our wives and little ones, be-
cause we desired to serve our God, and
bring up our families in the best possible
environment or surroundings it was possible
to obtain on this earth, in Satan's present
Age or World.
Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Methodists,
Baptists etc, wanted us to stay where we
were and continue to be a part of the
DeViPS MIXTURE
They prosecuted us grievously, putting us
to hard bondage in the Iron Furnace, some
times heated seven times hotter than its
usual wont-all for Our especial benefit, and
bitterly cursed us because we could not
make the usual tale of brick with no straw.
Persecution, ridicule, enslavement not de-
terring nor discouraging us, they began to
beg and plead with us to stay in the Egyp-
tian world and its Sodomic city of destruc-
ton.
But when we were still determined to
heed Genesis 1917 and Hebrews 13:12-14,
they then began to propose various compro-
misses, as the did with Israel in Egypt =
exactly duplicating the situation today.
Gods first demand and Egypt's defiance ::
"And afterwards Moses and Aaron went
in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Let Ny people go, that they
may hold feast unto Me in the wilderness.
"And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that
l should obey His voice to let Israel go?
| know not the Lord, neither will | let
Israel go.
"And they said, The God of the Hebrews
hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee,
three days journey into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest He
fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword" Exodus :1-3.
Gods again repeated demand and Egypt's
refusal:
"And Pharaoh said, I will let you go,
that We may sacrifice to the Lord your God
IN the Wilderness; only ye shall not 90 very
far d00ay; intreat for me.
"And Moses said, Behold, go out from
thee and / will intreat the Lord that the
SWarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people to-
morrow. But let not Pharaoh deal deceit
fully any more in not letting the people go
to sacrifice to the Lord. Exodus s rs, 49,
God still repeats the same demand, and
Egypt still dehes Him.
And Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them,
Go, 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 our daughters, with our focks and
with our herds will We CO. for we must
hold feast unto the Lord.
"And he said unto them, Let the Lord be
so with you, as I will let you go, and your
little ones:
Look to it, for evil is before YOU
mot SO: 90 nO1V We that are men, and
serve the Lord for that We did desire And
they were driven out from Pharaoh's pres
ence" EXODUS 1O:8-11.
Once more God repeated His demand up
on Egypt and once more she defied Him:
"And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and
said, Go We, serve the Lord; only let your
f0ckS and your herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you.
"And Moses said, Thou must give also
sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may
sacrifice unto the Lord our God
"Our cattle also shall go with us there
shall not an hOOf be left behind; for thereof
must we take to serve the Lord our God !;
and we know not with what we must serve
the Lord, until we come thither.
''But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,
and he 7VomId not let them gO."-Exodus
1O:24-27.
6. The compromisers all follow in the foot
steps of Satan, Pharaoh, and the Metho-
dists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Christian( p
Scientists (??, Mormons, etc. all of
whom have long since settled down in Egypt
Let Zion refuse one and all of them, and
have nothing to do with compromises and
compromisers.
Sooner or later all compromisers do ex-
actly as Judas, who betrayed the Christ
Simon Peter, who denied Him, Thomas,
who doubted Him, Herod, who, with his
men of war, set Him at naught ridiculed
and made sport of Him, and Pontius Plate,
who crucifed Him, after having said, Gle
is innocent; find no fault in Him, at all"
At first he refused to condemn and cru
city Him. The Jewish mob pressed and
howled upon Him, and cowardly, cringing,
politician, that he was, content only in saw
ing his own skin, and 7UiIling to do the JeqUs
favor, he said, Gentlemen, it would be an
awful crime to cruelty an innocent man.
Now I'll tell you what we will do. Let's
not cruelty Him; for He is innocent, but
let us chastise Him and let Him go"
He did cruelty and wickedly chastise
(scourge) Him IN Sho70ing the Je9VS his