The Finished Mystery - Tapa blanda

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... EZEKIEL 29 THE EGYPTIANS A TYPE 29:1. In the tenth year, In the tenth month, In the twelfth day of the month, the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying.--Chapters 29 to 32 are directed against Egypt. its king and people, and against the surrounding peoples. Egypt was divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, and was known as Mizraim, which meant "Middle Country," and typed organized, entrenched and enthroned middle-course worldliness. The word Egypt means "that binds or oppresses," and signifies the bondage of the Lord's people to the oppressive, enslaving spirit of the world--the spirit that slew our Lord (Rev, 11:8), and has enslaved and slain millions of God's saints. Chapter 29:1-7 represents worldliness as a crocodile, the dragon of Revelation 12:3, etc. 29:2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt.-- This message is against Satan, the Devil, the king of this present evil world, and against all worldliness. 29:3. Speak, and say, Thus salth the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself -- Jehovah says, I am against thee, Satan (Pharaoh means the sun, the god of the sun worshipper, the Devil), the great wicked dragon, also called Pagan Rome (later Papal Rome), that dwells in the midst of the church denominations (rivers, channels of Truth), and says, "Phe church system is mine own, and I (not God) made it for my own purposes. 29:4. But I will put hooks In thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.--God will bind thy ...