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The Bedside Watchman
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February 10th -- Exodus 20
ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS
NO other nation besides Israel has received a law "ordained in the hands of a mediator". The constitutions and laws of the nations have been given to them by evil men who have subdued them; or by men no holier, whom they may have chosen to rule over them. Hence their organizations are evil, and the spirit which actuates them, satanic. The supreme power is one, and the people is another, and there is no mediator -- "no daysman betwixt them that might lay his hand upon them both". Their laws and institutions being human, purely so, they have no intercourse with God; for if they spoke to Him and He should answer, seeing that they have no mediator, they would be as terror-stricken as Israel of old, and cry out, "Let not God speak with us, lest we die!" Never did a people before hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire and live; nor besides Israel has any nation heard Him speak at all. Jehovah [Yahweh] speaks only to Israel, in Israel, and through them; and if the nations are addressed, it is through the mediation of the tribes; for what Moses was to them, so are they to the world at large.
JOHN THOMAS, The Faith in the Last Days, page 105