Exodus (Program #18) – God’s Demand and Pharaoh’s Resistance (4)
God’s desire is that His people will build Him a dwelling place on the earth. This was His intention for the children of Israel even as they were held in bondage under Pharaoh in the book of Exodus and it’s His intention for us today. In Exodus, a struggle ensued between God and Pharaoh whereby He manifested not only judgment upon the Egyptian world but also the real nature and issue of the life of the world – the life that usurps God’s people. If we receive mercy, we’ll take this warning given to all God’s people about the usurping worldly system.
It has been a tremendous journey thus far, as we just get into the book of Exodus. We come to that portion in the last few days, we have been reviewing the conflict between God and Pharaoh. It is a fairly well-known story to most Christians and believers. But Witness Lee has been pointing out that we are going to see very directly today that these 10 plagues and these 10 encounters, actually a dozen encounters that took place over all between God and Pharaoh were not just God’s judgement on Pharaoh and on Egypt but are really intended as an exposure and a kind of education for God’s people as well, to realize the real situation that Egypt represents. Why do we know that this is a picture to expose but not just a matter of God’s judgement on Egypt and Pharaoh?
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