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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 8:25.
Exodus 8:25-27
Excerpted from: Abraham (Part Five)I mentioned just a little bit earlier that principle in regard to Lot and Abraham, and also in regard to Egypt and Abraham, is that righteousness and evil do not mix. The world and God’s way do not mix and that if there is not a going out as God shows here in type, then there will be an expulsion because the two do not agree with one another. The two ways, the two principles, the two spirits are diametrically opposed to one another. They are an abomination to each other.
That is why Moses, when he was told by Pharaoh that they could sacrifice to their God in the land of Egypt, refused because he knew that what they would be doing, what they would be practicing as part in their worship of God would be such an abomination to the Egyptians that something bad was going to happen. There would be a lot of bloodshed, there would be expulsion, there would be a lot of hard and difficult things to endure. Moses understood this principle. The church and the world are so opposed to one another, that they are an abomination to one another.
Now again back in Exodus 8. What was the particular abomination that was in question here? Israel sacrificed a bull and a lamb, and it was the command of God and they looked upon it that way. It did not in anyway affect their conscience, their sensibilities, their sense of right and wrong to do it that way. However, the Egyptians worshipped the bull and they cannot understand killing it and it is an abomination to them. Now in these simple pictures or terminologies God is showing that the carnal minds just does not see things the same way that the mind of God sees them. It does not see them in the correct intent.
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