Indications of the second book of Moses called Exodus

Preface

In the " Indications of Exodus'^ the same general interpretative system is taken up and continued as that set forth in the " Review of the Holy Bible," and as given in the " Indications of Genesis" and of " Job." The text used is the Bible as issued by the American Bible Society, New York, 1860 (Brevier, 12mo).

Contents

CHAPTEE I.

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(5) The seventy souls of Jacob's household. How are they made up? The Messiah as the Seed of Jacob. (6, 7) The death of Joseph. Kemarkable prosperity, increase, and multiplication of the children of Israel. Who suffers the four hundred years' affliction ? The Messiah as the Seed of Abraham 25

Chapter II

(1-10) Moses born. Pertaining of Moses to time. The three past Ages of Man. (11, 12) Moses slays an Egyptian. The Euphratic age. (13, 14) " Who made thee a prince and a judge over us ?" The Hiddekelic and Gihonic ages. (15-22) Moses flees to the land of Midian. The seven daughters of the priest of Midian. The seven daughters as allegory. Moses marries Zipporah. Zipporah as an Ethiopian woman. (23-25) The bondage of the children of Israel. The three great races that existed before the Deluge of Noah. God's covenant that brings a blessing to all families of the earth is the Second Covenant ........... 27

Chapter III

(1) Mount Horeb as pertaining to the Gihonic or Third age. (2-6) The Angel of the Lord appears unto Moses in a burning bush. God is God of the living. The dwellers of the dark valley not dead. Who are the dwellers of the dark valley ? The people of the past ages of man as captives. Transmission of names, iniquity, blood, and char-

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acteristics by the Law of Iniquity. (7, 8) The deliverance of the Lord's people. The Lord's people are those of the Four Ages of Man. The land of Canaan as the earth in the Pisonic age. (10) Moses chosen as an instrumentality for bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. The Egypt of the past. (11, 12) Moses questions his own ability for the prescribed task. (13-15) Moses ignorant of the name of the God of those whom he is commanded to bring forth from Egypt. God's great name " I AM." "Who were the fathers ? (16-18) The three days' journey into the wilderness. The three ages of man under the veil. The Son in Egypt, — " Out of Egypt have I called my son." (19-22) The king of Egypt and the Egyptians shadow the Adversarial host. The Messiah shall possess the gate of his enemies 35

CHAPTERIV.

(10-17) Moses as shadowing the first three ages of man. Aaron as the mouth of Moses. (21-23) Israel as the Lord's first-born. The varied forms of creature life and existence. The first-born of every creature. The Son as the first-born among many brethren. The exodus of the children of Israel shadows the deliverance of the captive from the land of darkness and shadow of death . . 44

Chapter V

(1, 2) Pharaoh as shadowing Lucifer the angel Death. Lucifer's captives. Lucifer as united to the Adversarial host. Lucifer's captives not absolutely dead . . .50

CHAPTER YL

(1-8) The bondage of the children of Israel to the Egyptians as simple history. The bondage of the children of Israel the father of nations. God Almighty as the Fulfilling Power of the Infinite Majesty, the Third Person of the Trinity. God as Jehovah, or as the unity of the Assenting and Fulfilling Powers of the Infinite Majesty, the Second and Third Persons of the Trinity. The unity of Moses and Aaron 61

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(1-3) Moses clothed with more power than Pharaoh both in the allegorical and in the simple historical sense. Pharaoh as an instrumentality in the purpose of God. (4, 5) Pharaoh as a sign to the great Adversarial host. The judgments that came upon Pharaoh as signs to all beholders — earthly and heavenly — whereby to stamp the immutability of the most high God 52

Chapter IX

(13-16) Pharaoh raised up as a positive instrumentality through whom the power of the Lord will be shown and declared throughout the earth. The hardening of Pharaoh's heart. The first four plagues. The seven remaining plagues. The power of the Adversary . . .63