Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-22
Golden Text: Jehovah is my
strength and song; and He is become
my salvation" Elk. 1872.

strength ana song, anu NE Is UeCOIle
my salvation" Elk. 1872.
When Moses reached Egypt on the
mission of God, he presented his
credentials to the elders of Israel,
and was accepted by the peoples
representatives. Then he secured an
audience with Pharaoh and pre-
scented Gods demand to him that
he let the people go and keep a
feast in the wilderness. Not only
did Pharaoh refuse, but he made
the peoples task harder, requiring
them to make the same number of
bricks per day, and get the straw
for them too. Moses was thus put
in bad repute not only with Pharaoh
but also with the people; but God
treasured him, answered all of his
objections and sent him back to
Pharaoh with another demand that
he let the people go.
When this demand was refused,
God brought upon the land of Egypt
those terrible judgments which we
know of as the plaques; after .eacn
one making a new demand, and
Asach time being refused.
There are three things in this part
of the story that are worthy of note:
The judgments of God on Egypt; the
fact that the first two of these were
initiated by the Egyptians magicians;
4 and finally Pharaoh's four PROPOSE
tions. The plaques are well known
to us all. The fact that the
Egyptian magicians initiated the
first two plaques is not so we'll
known. They turned their rods into
serpents as Moses had done; then
! they turned water into blood; and
made frogs come up upon the land
of Egypt. Of course their ability to
initiate Moses made Pharaoh harden
his heart. Gods judgments would
have had the tendency to soften him.
but when his magicians, James and
Jambres paul gives us their names
and sim, initiated them it had the
tendency to make him think lightly
of Moses and his God. The devil
often illustrates Gods work by imi-
tation- counterfeit Christian is
his masterpiece. He is today using
\, orthodox phrases to express his own
false teaching, and initiating with
forms the reality of spiritual truth
His ministers are occupying some
pulpits.
When they came to the third
plague they tried to initiate 1t but
they failed, and then they said to
Pharaoh, This is the finger of
God" But Pharaoh's heart was al
ready hardened.
PharOah's Four Propositions
After the fourth plague, Pharoah
sent for Moses and Aaron and made
them a proposition: Go We. sacrifice
to your God in the land. But Moses
refus I'd. They would go three days
away or not sacrifice at all. Then
Pharaoh modified it and said, al
right, but don't go very far away.
But Moses stood firm.
After the seventh plague, Pharoah
made anpther proposition; They
might go, that is, the men; but
leave the children behind. To this
Moses would not agree. Then after
the 9th plague he made still anoth-
er; They might go but leave their
cattle behind. No said Moses, not a
hoof shall be left, Pharaoh was yield
ing inch by inch. Moses was insist
: ing on absolute separation.
Finally, God said, I will bring one
plague more. He had tried to spare
the people of Egypt this terrible
scourge of the death of the first
born, but the Pharaoh would not
heed, and there was nothing left
for God to do but visit it upon this
rebellious people. But before doing
it He made ample provision to save
His own people who woul dtrust
and obey Him.
The Passover
A lamb without blemish, one for
each family, a male, one year old,
was to be taken on the tenth day of
the month and kept until the four
teenth day. On that evening it was
to be killed and it's blood sprinkled
on the side posts and Intel OF the
door of each house. The children of
Israel must be in the house with the
blood-sprinlled door. The flesh of
the lamb was to be roasted with fire
and eaten with bitter herbs and I'M
leavened bread. They must be ready
to march at moments notice.
That night the angel of the Lord
passed through and passed over hte
houses with the blood-stained door.
And in every house which was not
under the blood the first-born was
q dead. but not one dead in houses
blood-sprinkled.
iC pCOblS III Inc MUSE COulQ not
~see the blood on the door; it was
when God saw the blood that He
passed over. They were safe on the
inside because of blood on the door.
they were saved because another had
given its life. Christ, our passover
is sacrificed for u.s." without
shedding of blood there Is no remis.
sion of sins" No one ever yet was
saved by Christ's example or by His
life; we are saved by His death. And
while His blood was shed for every
man and Is sufficient for the whole
world, only those will be saved who
get under the blood. who appropriate
1t as the Israelites did by getting in
side the house and trusting God to
do what He had said He would do.
Thrust Out and Chased
This last plague was too much for