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TWO PROPHETS
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pantheon of Christendom. If we are
to believe John, Paul, Stephen, Pe–
ter, Luke, Moses, lsaiah, Jeremiah,
Daniel, etc. , etc. were tellers of
truth, then we must conclude that
Jesus not only preexisted, but was
indeed the God ofthe entire Bible, the
Spokesman for the God fami ly, the
Word ofthe Lord. the Almighty God
E!ohim
wbo spoke and there was
light! This is not intended to be an
establishment or defense of this truth
- we have literature you can write for
that does that - but merely an over–
view resume so you will unders tand
the personal relationship the holy
men of old had with the Son of God
whom we worship.
So when Jesus told the critics of
His day, "Before Abraham was 1
am"! He was being neither gram–
ma tically nor factually incorrect.
When Jesus trod this earth as the
physical son of man. He was not
only filled with compassion for the
multitudes ofHis generation, but re–
membered intimately and with
godly depth offondness all the spirits
of just men made perfect in the many
generations that had preceded His
presence at Bethlehem. Adam, Noah ,
Abraham, Moses were not just pro–
pheticalJy hoping about the coming
of the Messiah in sorne future genera–
tion ; they were dircct recipients of
personal promises from the One who
became our Savior. They were not
just empty, historical names Jesus
had to learn about as a boy in Naza–
reth - to Him they were all old
fami liar friends to whom He had
personally made eterna] promises!
Old Familiar Friends
Besides the power of the Holy
Spirit, the memories Jesus held of
these men and women of the Bible
who had all died in faith, believing
in Him, must have sustained and
inspired Him to fulfi ll His commis–
sion perfectly. Jesus anxiously
looked forward to that day - yet to
come - when He will call them
from their graves to glory in His
Kingdom. They may seem distant,
almost un-human characters to us,
but to Jesus they were all old famil–
iar friends, all of whom He loved
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enough to die for! And He did!
Jesus is the same yesterday, today
and forever - Hebrews 13:8 - so
Jesus, by any other name, is j ust the
same! And He had MANY names!
Moses knew Him - better than you
know your closest friend - as the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
He knew Him as the
Elohim-God
who told Moses all the necessary
details of those seven days of cre–
ation. Moses knew Him as
El
Shaddai
-
God Almighty - who
sustained with His great power the
forefathers of Moses. Moses knew
Him as the God of the Covenants –
YHVH,
or
Jehovah
as sorne call
Him - who made covenants with
Adam, Noah and Abraham before
He made His "Old Covenant" with
Israel. Moses foreknew Him as
Christ, his Savior, the Son of God -
and he believed, and died in faith in
Him! J esus was no s tranger to
Moses- He was his Friend !
Moses the Octogenarlan
After forty years of sheep tending
on Sinai, being eighty years of age,
Moses was at last ready to perform
the commission for which he had
been born. A commission that
would take him yet another forty
years to perform. The epic of the
Exodus, the giving of the Law, the
building of the nation Israel. the
writing of the beginnings of the
Bible, the establishment of the Levi–
tical priesthood and the Tabernacle–
cum-Temple services in the wilder–
ness all th is and so much more lay
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the seventh angel blows the last
trumpet! Then it continues on into
the message of the TWO WITNESSES
- also referred to and perhaps iden–
tified in Haggai and Zechariah. And
THEY SHALL PREACH A LAST WARN–
ING TO THE WHOLE WORLD FOR
3Y2
YEARS!
And it is not until after ALL THIS
that the time element picks back up
with the sounding of the seventh
trumpet in chapter 11:15.
yet before Moses, the .octogenaria n.
For Moses, life began at eighty!
But Moses didn't volunteer for
the job. In fact, he was quite ada–
mant in refusing it. He so pursued
his reluctance to serve in the capac–
ity that means "Moses" to most of
us that he argued with God to the
point of making Him angry! Moses
brought up every excuse to avoid
the commission God had for him.
He reasoned , he begged , he
squirmed, he suggested alternates,
he told God He'd picked the wrong
man - all to no avai l as you and
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well know. But what a tale that is!
Be sure to read it in the next issue
of
The Plain Truth.
We all know
Moses did the job - but the story of
how it all happened will make you
love that man Moses and that God
Jesus so much more, you can' t af–
ford to miss it!
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(To Be Continued)
RECOMMENDED READING
David Jon Hill has served in the ministry
for twenty years. He holds a master's
degree in theology and is Senior Editor
of this magazine-
The Plain Truth.
He
has also written severa! booklets.
Among them are two specitically about
the " Book that nobody knows' '-the
Holy Bible. The reader is invited to write
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Therefore, MY CONCLUSION?
Could it be possible, after pro–
claiming the Gospel of THE KING–
DOM OF GoD, as well as Ezekiel's
warning to the people of IsraeL that,
beginning January 1972, when my
PR.ESENT CAMPAIGN of walking
through the doors God said He
would open (Rev. 3:8) to KINGS and
many NATIONS of DIFFERENT LAN–
GUAGES was at last getting under
way, that it is the FULFILLMENT OF
THIS PROPHECY OF REVELATION 10?
To me it comes as a STARTLJNG,
AMAZING, EYE-OPENING NEW LIGHT
DIRECT FROM ÜOD!
THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
PHASE OF GOD'S WORK TODAY!
And TH E JOB IS GETTING
DONE!
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