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The Beginning of the End
The disease that came on the Egyptians’ cattle and animals afflicted
their sacred animals.
Exodus 9:3
.
The ninth plague assailed one of their greatest gods, the sun god
Ra.
Exodus 10:21
. The tenth plague (
Exodus 12:29
) was directed
against Pharaoh as a god, who was considered to be Horus, the son
of Osiris.
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Note 3, page 154:
When the Israelites worshiped the golden calf,
they professed to be worshiping God. But it was like the Egyptians’
worship of Osiris—by means of an image. The Egyptians’ worship
of Apis was immoral, and the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf
apparently was the same. Moses wrote that the Israelites “sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
Exodus 32:6
. The Hebrew word
for “play” denotes singing and dancing, which among the Egyptians
was sensual and indecent. The Hebrew word for “corrupted” in verse
7 is the same as that in
Genesis 6:11, 12
, which refers to the people
before the Flood corrupting themselves. This explains the terrible
nature of this apostasy.
Note 4, page 160:
The Ten Commandments were the basis of
the covenant the Lord made with His people. But the covenant itself
was the Lord’s promise to write the law in their hearts (see
Jeremiah
31:31-34
), so that it would be their joy to obey.
Note 5, page 172:
There were two ways in which the sin (or
the record of its forgiveness) was transferred to the sanctuary from
the sinner: by some of the blood of the sin offering being sprinkled
before the veil behind which was the ark, or by the flesh being eaten
by the priest. See
Leviticus 4:1-21
;
6:24-26
;
10:17, 18
.
Note 6, page 178:
The Ten Commandments were given by
Christ. See
1 Corinthians 8:6
;
Acts 7:38
;
Isaiah 63:9
;
Exodus
23:20-23
;
John 1:1-3, 14
;
1 Peter 1:10, 11
.
Note 7, page 304:
The government of Israel was a theocracy,
that is, government by God directly. When Israel and Judah re-
peatedly violated God’s law and rejected His rulership, the Lord
finally withdrew from them His direct government and left them to
what they desired—subjection to man. Thus they came under the
successive dominion of Babylon, Media-Persia, the Greek Empire,
and finally Rome.
Since then, there has been no government anywhere to which
God has delegated the authority that He gave to the king of Israel in