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The Abiding Gift of Prophecy

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    Section Two: The Mosaic Dispensation

    Chapter 4—Manifest From Egypt to Canaan

    In passing from the patriarchal to the Mosaic dispensation, there was no essential change or modification of the plan of redemption, only a greater revelation of its scope and fullness. The good news of human salvation remained the same. Neither was there any change in the divinely imparted gift of prophecy, save that it likewise was employed more fully. The Lord continued to communicate with His people in the same manner and by the same method followed through the long patriarchal age. In fact, it was very soon after the opening of the Mosaic dispensation that He made this important declaration: “Hear now My words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.” Numbers 12:6.AGP 49.1

    This statement makes clear the fact that the prophetic gift was to continue as God’s method of communicating with His people. There was a prophet among the people of Israel when this statement was made. That prophet was Moses, the first prophet of the Mosaic dispensation, and one of the greatest prophets of all time. “There arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,” is the testimony of the Sacred Record. Deuteronomy 34:10.AGP 49.2

    From the burning bush at the base of Mount Horeb, the Lord called unto Moses and said: “Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.” His response to the call, we gather from the incident: “Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let My people go.” Exodus 3:10; 5:1.AGP 49.3

    These events mark the end of the patriarchal dispensation and the beginning of the Mosaic dispensation, which continued to the first advent of our Lord—about fifteen hundred years.AGP 49.4

    While the great vital truths of these two dispensations are the same, their records, or histories, are very different. TheAGP 49.5

    account of the patriarchal dispensation, a period of two thousand five hundred years, is covered in one book of about forty-six pages in our English translation—a marvel of brevity, and yet composing a vast amount of information. On the other hand, the history of the Mosaic dispensation—but little more than half the length of the preceding period—fills thirty-eight books, seven hundred sixty-eight pages in my English Bible.AGP 50.1

    The history of the patriarchal age, was, of course, written after the people and events specified were all in the past, whereas the history of the Mosaic period was written while it was in the making—while the people were living and the events were taking place. Instructive details in large volume appear, therefore, in this record, whereas details of a similar character were left out of the account of the former dispensation.AGP 50.2

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