Thus He brought the Israelites unto Himself, that they might dwell as under the shadow of the Most High. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. The Lord’s portion is His people Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. He would bring them to Himself and encircle them in His everlasting arms and in return for His goodness and mercy they were to exalt His name and make it glorious in the earth. He rescued them from their servile state, that He might bring them to a good land, a land which in His providence He had prepared for them as a refuge from their enemies. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: so He led them through the depths. They showed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent Moses His servant and Aaron whom He had chosen. With great power, and with a mighty hand, God brought His chosen people out of the land of Egypt. Thus the light of heaven was to shine out to a world enshrouded in darkness, and a voice was to be heard appealing to all peoples to turn from idolatry to serve the living God. He made them the depositaries of His law, and He purposed through them to preserve among men the knowledge of Himself. God separated them from the world, that He might commit to them a sacred trust. God’s law must be exalted, His authority maintained and to the house of Israel was given this great and noble work. He designed that the principles revealed through His people should be the means of restoring the moral image of God in man.
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He purposed to give them opportunity for becoming acquainted with Him through His church. Yet God in His mercy did not blot them out of existence. For the divine statutes, which are holy, and just, and good (Romans 7:12), men were endeavoring to substitute laws in harmony with the purposes of their own cruel, selfish hearts. Men had well-nigh lost the knowledge of the true God. It was a high honor to which Abraham was called-that of being the father of the people who for centuries were to be the guardians and preservers of the truth of God to the world, the people through whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed in the advent of the promised Messiah. I will make of thee a great nation, He said, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing.
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It was for the purpose of bringing the best gifts of Heaven to all the peoples of earth that God called Abraham out from his idolatrous kindred and bade him dwell in the land of Canaan.