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Note 7. Page 366. That the One who spoke the law, who called
Moses into the mount and talked with him, was our Lord Jesus Christ,
is evident from the following considerations:
Christ is the One through whom God has at all times revealed
Himself to man. “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom
are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are
all things, and we by Him.”
1 Corinthians 8:6
. “This is he [Moses],
that was in the church in the wilderness with the Angel which spake to
him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively
oracles to give unto us.”
Acts 7:38
. This Angel was the Angel of God’s
presence (
Isaiah 63:9
), the Angel in whom was the name of the great
Jehovah (
Exodus 23:20-23
). The expression can refer to no other than
the Son of God.
Again: Christ is called the Word of God.
John 1:1-3
. He is so
called because God gave His revelations to man in all ages through
Christ. It was His Spirit that inspired the prophets.
1 Peter 1:10, 11
.
He was revealed to them as the Angel of Jehovah, the Captain of the
Lord’s host, Michael the Archangel.
Note 8. Page 603. The question has been raised, and is now much
agitated, if a theocracy was good in the time of Israel, why would not
a theocratical form of government be equally good for this time? The
answer is easy:
A theocracy is a government which derives its power immediately
from God. The government of Israel was a true theocracy. That was
really a government of God. At the burning bush, God commissioned
Moses to lead His people out of Egypt. By signs and wonders and
mighty miracles multiplied, God delivered Israel from Egypt and led
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them through the wilderness and finally into the Promised Land. There
He ruled them by judges “until Samuel the prophet,” to whom, when
he was a child, God spoke, and by whom He made known His will. In
the days of Samuel the people asked that they might have a king. This
was allowed, and God chose Saul, and Samuel anointed him king of
Israel. Saul failed to do the will of God; and as he rejected the word
of the Lord, the Lord rejected him from being king and sent Samuel
to anoint David king of Israel; and David’s throne God established
forevermore. When Solomon succeeded to the kingdom in the place of
David his father, the record is: “Then Solomon sat on the throne of the
Lord as king instead of David his father.”
1 Chronicles 29:23
. David’s