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have to offer an able and active Christian worker a lucrative position as manager of a
big concern to draw him out of the testimony of Christ, but it is not long till the man
and his family have become the slaves of the present cosmic order, and in many cases

he loses the job that lured him away from the full-time service of the Savior.

Ah, poor Israel! Out of the land of their inheritance and lying under the heel of
Pharaoh! In this battle of the age-long warfare, the seed of the serpent won a signal

victory. God‟s testimony was completely submerged and engulfed in the death,
darkness, wickedness, and oppression of Egypt.

Beloved is there really any freedom in the environs and service of the adversary?

He would have the people of the world think so, and he and his puppets prate of
“liberty, equality, and fraternity,” but there has never been any such thing! The blessed
Savior enunciated the only formula for freedom when He said, “If ye continue in my
word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall

make you free,” and again, “If the Son therefore shall make you free,” and again, “If
the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed!”

Broken in spirit after four hundred years of penal servitude, cowering under the

lash of cruel taskmasters (for indeed “the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel”),
sullen, despairing, the multitudes of his descendants were paying dearly for the
temporary surcease from famine and the reunion with his son sought by father Jacob.
Had they any testimony for God? We trow not. They had even lost their own vision of

Him.

Let us note what Moses said when he was commissioned by Jehovah from Mount
Horeb to go down and lead the people out of Egypt. “Behold when I come unto the

children of Israel and shall say unto them. The God of your fathers hath sent me unto
you: and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?” They
had even lost their knowledge of the very name and identity of Jehovah! The idea was
not to stay and try to restore God‟s testimony in Egypt but that they should come up

out of Egypt. “And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto
the land…”

The subsequent contests between Moses and Pharaoh were supernatural. It was a
holy war with Moses on the one hand, representing the living God and His Christ, and
Pharaoh on the other hand, representing the serpent himself. We should only see
Moses and Pharaoh as the earthly instrument of the great spiritual forces of heaven
and hell. The hard-hearted stubbornness of Pharaoh cannot be explained on the plane

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