THE VOICE OF THE THIRD SIGN. (5) Another sign was to be given, the Lord clearly intimating that it would be necessary, and that all of his true people would not hear or heed the “voice” of the first two testimonies. To natural Israel the third sign was the taking of the water from the river, and pouring it upon the earth, where it became blood. They saw merely the sign, the miracle; they read not its meaning, as the spiritual…
THE VOICE OF THE SECOND SIGN. (4) The second sign to be given to the Israelites was that of the leprous hand. Hidden in the bosom, when revealed it was leprous; but when hidden again, and revealed a second time, it was whole. Again, we say that the natural Israelite discerned nothing but the natural sign, but it was intended of God that the spiritual Israelite should discern a much grander lesson, and that a testimony through this grander lesson would…
THE VOICE OF THE FIRST SIGN. (2) At Moses’ second presentation to Israel, he did not address them personally and directly, as at the first, God having said to him, “Aaron shall be thy prophet or mouthpiece, and thou shalt be a god unto Aaron.” This item of the type would seem to imply just what we see to be the fact of the case now, viz., that the Lord Jesus does not address himself to the true Israelites in person…
“When preparing the lessons relating to Moses and his two presentations of himself to the Israelites, as their deliverer from Egyptian bondage (as shown in our previous two blog post), we noted the fact that “these things were written aforetime for our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages are come.” (1 Cor 10:11.) And, considering the matter from this standpoint, we perceived, as we had never done before, that the three signs by which the Israelites were convinced that God’s…