_Make thee two trumpets of silver._ THE LAW OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS Revelation is to man as a trumpet-call from heaven; hence the prophets are often told to lift up their voices like a trumpet. The human race is a grand army of immortals. The journey of life is a series of marches intended by the C... [ Continue Reading ]
_Took their Journeys out of the wilderness._ ISRAEL’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AN EMBLEM OF THE CHRISTIAN’S STATE ON EARTH While we are in this world we are passing through a wilderness, and our removes in it are only from one wilderness to another. The men of this world will dislike the com... [ Continue Reading ]
_The standard of the camp._ THE DIVINE STANDARD TO BE MAINTAINED There are few things in which we are more prone to fail than in the maintenance of the Divine standard when human failure has set in. Like David, when the Lord made a breach upon Uzza, because of his failure in putting his hand to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moses said unto Hobab. .. Come thou with us._ A GENEROUS PROPOSAL I. First, then, what are the characteristics of a true church as it is pictured by Israel in the wilderness? We might prolong the answer to this question with many minute features, but it will be unnecessary to do more than give yo... [ Continue Reading ]
_When the ark set forward. .. and when it rested._ The march:_--_ I. This has been the watchword of the church of God in all ages. The people of God in the wilderness were the picture of God’s Church upon earth. We are strangers and foreigners upon the earth. Albeit that they had no habitation exce... [ Continue Reading ]