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Warnings and Reproofs
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both engaged in holding up his weary hands until the going down of
the sun. These men thus showed to Israel their duty to sustain Moses
in his arduous work while he should receive the word from God to
speak to them. This act was also to show Israel that God alone held
their destiny in His hands, that He was their acknowledged leader.
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book,
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.... For he said, Because
the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.” Remember what Amalek did unto thee by
the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by
the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble
behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot
out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not
forget it.”
As the angel of God presented these facts in the travels and
experience of the children of Israel, I was deeply impressed with the
especial regard of God for His people. Notwithstanding their errors,
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their disobedience, and their rebellion, they were still God’s chosen
people. He had especially honored them by coming down from His
holy habitation upon Mount Sinai and, in majesty and glory and
awful grandeur, speaking the Ten Commandments in the audience
of all the people and writing them with His own finger on the tables
of stone. The Lord says of His people Israel: “For thou art an holy
people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee
to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon
the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor
choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for
ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you,
and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your
fathers.”
I was shown that those who are trying to obey God and purify
their souls through obedience to the truth are God’s chosen people,
His modern Israel. God says of them, through Peter: “But ye are
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar