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of the natural. A mere human, trying to serve his own interests, would have
surrendered long before under the repeated buffetings of divine judgment. The
reaction of the mere natural men, who were not principals in the conflict, was voiced

by Pharaoh‟s servants well before the end when they said, “How long shall this man
be a snare unto us? Let the men go that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest
thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?”

Pharaoh tried four compromise plans to keep Israel in Egypt, to which Moses as
the real servant of God would not consent. It was finally through the power of blood
that the release was accomplished. Blood remains the perpetual symbol of God‟s
redemption from and victory over the works of the devil. The victory was made

complete in this campaign, when through Divine power the people of the Seed were
enabled to put the Red Sea between themselves and Egypt, and Pharaoh and his hosts
were drowned by the engulfing waters of judgment.

Time would fail us to trace in every detail the war between the seeds, but for the
student of Holy Scripture to read the Old Testament with this idea in mind that at
every point, the Serpent through his seed is attempting to destroy or dilute the
testimony of God in this world, he will find an illumination that he has never

experienced before.

Using enemies from without and the natural evil heart of man within, he contested
Israel‟s progress back to the land. By intimidation from his own cohorts within the

land gendering to faithlessness on the part of the spies he managed to postpone the
entry of the people into the land for four decades.

Sometimes the warfare remained in the spiritual realm but again it flamed forth in

open physical combat between the protagonists of God‟s testimony and the armies of
the serpent.

Joshua‟s campaign of conquest in the land was really a divinely ordered crusade.

All the commands given by Jehovah to Joshua must be viewed in the light of God‟s
eternal purposes and for the temporary preservation of His witness. He had long ago
promised the land to Abraham so the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, the

Hittites, and the Amorites were really intruders and, according to the divine counsels,
had no right there. The Lord Jehovah does not stop to explain all of His acts for the
satisfaction of finite minds but we know that the commands thoroughly to eliminate
the people from the land, deemed by many unspiritual minds to be cruel, were indeed
necessary measures for the preservation of His truth. And it was exactly in-so-far as

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