The Great Controversy Between God and Man; Its Origin, Progress, and End - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1151447781 ISBN 13: 9781151447784

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1861. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Chapter in. With such an awful manifestation of divine power and justice as was afforded by the overthrow of Pharaoh and his host, we might easily infer that the world, when made acquainted with the facts pertaining to his destruction, would yield at once to the superior claims of God, and cease for ever to interpose themselves as obstacles to the performance of his purposes. Such an inference, however, is unwarranted by analogy and unsustained by fact. Instead of this, those very people who were thus delivered from Egyptian tyranny, were some of them forgetful of the God of their salvation, and rebellious against the rock of their strength. The carcasses that filled the graves of lust, or that rotted in the wilderness during Israel's lengthy sojourn there, are but another indication of the downward proclivity of man, and of his deep-rooted unwillingness to yield appropriate obedience to the God of heaven and earth. But, leaving Israel for the present, we follow the report of Pharaoh's overthrow, and mark its moral influence upon the inhabitants of adjacent countries. A judgment so terrible as that inflicted upon Pharaoh could not long remain unknown. The tidings of a deliverance like that vouchsafed to Israel could not be kept secret. The knowledge that this emancipated host were destined to inhabit Canaan, was by no means withheld from the parties interested. It was no secret that Canaan was promised to Israel, or that they were coming to possess it. Long before, Abraham had been informed that when the iniquity of the Amorites was full, his children should return from Egypt and dwell in Palestine.* " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance--when he separated the sons of Adam--be set the bounds of the people according to the number of the ch...

Su questa edizione

• ISBN 10: 1151447781
• ISBN 13: 9781151447784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile