The nation
of Egypt typifies the kingdom of darkness, and Pharaoh typifies Satan, the
devil. How can God’s people be delivered out of the hand of such an evil power
and be rescued from the kingdom of darkness? Today this is done through the preaching
of the gospel. Do not think that
preaching the gospel to bring people to salvation is an easy task. To bring a
person out of Satan’s hand and out of the kingdom of darkness is a mighty work. For this
reason, the divine revelation in the New Testament places a very high value on
the preaching of the gospel. Paul says that the gospel is the power of God
(Rom. 1:16). (Life-study of Exodus, p. 62)
The purpose
of God’s calling...is not to give His people a little enjoyment of the animal
life and the vegetable life in Egypt; it
is to bring them into a spacious land flowing with milk and honey. Do you
have the assurance that in the church life today you are enjoying Christ as the
good land? I can testify that I daily
enjoy Christ as a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.
The land of Canaan is a type of Christ. However, this
type has not yet been fulfilled in the experience of the saints....If we consider the
good land and all its riches as being a full type of Christ, we shall realize
that we are lacking in the experience of Christ.
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