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nation became more and more highly ORGANIZED. Yes, SATAN is the
GREATEST ORGANIZER IN THE WORLD--and he had the world believing
in the principle of human-devised and man-ruled organization,--
even in the CHURCHES!
We come down to the time of ABRAHAM. Abram was living in
Babylon--in Ur of the Chaldees. He was born and raised in such a
society--even as you and I today. In the 12th chapter of Genesis
we read how God called Abram out of this life and environment, to
a life of SEPARATION in a land God would show him. He was led to
the promised land--PALESTINE. God made a COVENANT with him, which
after ABRAHAM'S test, was UNCONDITIONAL.
Some four hundred years later we find, recorded in the
early chapters of Exodus, God carrying out the first phase of His
promise to Abraham. The promised Birthright was handed down to
Isaac, to Jacob whose name was changed to ISRAEL, and to Ephraim-
Manasseh, sons of JOSEPH. The descendants of Abraham, thru the
twelve sons of Israel, had grown into a multitude of 600,000
men--probably two to six million people, counting women and
children. They were slaves in the land of Egypt. So God
prepared MOSES in a special way to lead these Israelites out of
the physical slavery and bondage of HIGHLY-ORGANIZED EGYPT--back
to the promised land.
And when they came, in their journey, to Mt. Sinai, God
made a proposition to these Israelites thru Moses. Here was the
whole world ORGANIZED UNDER Satan's competitive system started by
Nimrod--a pagan Babylonish civilization. In such a world no
nation could survive without organization. God now Himself
proposed to organize HIS people, Israel, according to a divine
plan of organization--different from the worldly system. The
people accepted God's proposition.
So God made a solemn COVENANT with these Israelites. It
was a MARRIAGE CONTRACT. It TIED these Israelites to God in a
husband-and-wife relationship. It bound them to Him as HIS
PECULIAR PEOPLE. Under this marriage Covenant the twelve tribes
were ORGANIZED--not after man's pattern--not a despotism,
dictatorship, autocracy, or monarchy---or yet even "democracy"--
but a THEOCRACY!
GOD'S GOVERNMENT---Under OLD Covenant
Under this MARRIAGE covenant, Israel was made utterly
DEPENDENT upon God--utterly obedient to Him, in a husband-and-
wife relationship. Under this OLD Covenant, the Israelites were
organized as a DUAL government---both STATE, and CHURCH. As a
STATE, or civil government, they were called "The KINGDOM of
Israel," or "The HOUSE of Israel." But as a Church they were
called "The CONGREGATION of Israel."
Their civil government was THEOCRACY. There was no human
king--no man to usurp authority to rule over his fellows! GOD
was their king. No man was to issue orders, decrees, directives,
regulations, or laws---nor were they to have any law-making body
of men. Their laws came direct from God--and all were based upon