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…
“It was at this time (during his time in the wilderness), when Moses was eighty years old, that the Lord sent him to deliver Israel. Perhaps it was not accidental that Moses’ career was thus divided into two equal periods – 40 years of Egyptian training, and rejected; then 40 years‘ absence followed by his successful deliverance of God’s people. Perhaps in this Moses was a type. So also, the period from the time Israel started as a nation (at…
Exod 3:1-12 Moses, at forty years of age, having been schooled in all the learning of the Egyptians, and recognized as mighty in word and in deed… determined to cast in his lot henceforth with the people of God. He renounced his relationship to the king’s family, “refusing to be any longer called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.” He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, and with them to have an inheritance in the promises made…
As seen by our previous post, Christ’s death became the offset and cancellation of the legal sentence against man, but it did not and was not intended to remove his degradation. Man’s sentence, recorded in the race, mentally, morally and physically, is still in evidence all about us, and will continue in evidence even after the Millennial reign has begun, and until the gradual processes of “blotting out” these sins shall, by the close of the Millennium, have completely obliterated…
If Christ’s death did not affect the cancellation of man’s sins, wherein lies the fault? Does it imply that the sacrifice was not sufficient to cancel the sins, or does it imply that God has not been just toward the sinners, but has accepted a payment from Jesus and is also requiring a payment directly from the individual sinner, as though he had not accepted Christ’s ransom sacrifice? Answer. – Neither of these is implied by the fact that the…
Would it be correct for us to say that our Lord Jesus by his death canceled the sins of the entire human family, so that there is now no condemnation to any? Answer. – No; this would not be a correct statement. The Scriptural declaration is, “There is now no condemnation to them that are IN Christ Jesus.” There is still condemnation upon all who have not yet come INTO Jesus through faith in the precious blood and through a reformation…
Mary Magdalene was honored in being the first to whom our Lord revealed himself. Scholars are generally coming to the opinion that it is a mistake to suppose that Mary Magdalene had ever been an unchaste woman – a mistake to identify her with the woman in Galilee in the house of the Pharisee, who washed our Lord’s feet with her tears and dried them with her hair, and of whom the account says, “She was a sinner.” The name…