Laws Given Through the Spirit

The constant revelations and continual instruction received through the prophetic gift enabled Moses to meet triumphantly the stupendous difficulties that arose at every stage of the Exodus and of the journeyings that followed.AGP 53.4

Through the prophetic gift there was given to Israel the ceremonial law, which clearly and impressively typified the atoning death of Christ for a lost world, and His subsequent ministry as the sinner’s great high priest in the heavenly sanctuary, together with the final disposition of the sin problem. It was through the instruction given to Moses by means of the prophetic gift that the ancient church of God was organized and built up with marvelous perfection and efficiency.AGP 53.5

Through his intercourse with God, this great prophet received and delivered to the world the immortal Decalogue, the principlesAGP 53.6

of which to this day constitute the foundation of the laws of all civilized nations as well as the charter of the church. “The Decalogue is a moral miracle in ancient legislation, and retains its power in this day in all Christian lands.”AGP 54.1

Through this means of communication with God, Moses was directed to give to Israel civil laws and sanitary and health regulations equal to any that have ever been enacted in any succeeding legislation.AGP 54.2

“In government as well as in religion, Moses is still mighty after three thousand years. The laws of the Christian world are traced to his lips, and millions who recognize no religious fealty to him or his God are still influenced in their legal loyalties, tremendously and inescapably, by his ancient pronouncements in the shadow of Sinai.” “The Story of Religion,” Charles Francis Potter, p. 33. Garden City, New York: Garden Publishing Company, Inc., 1929.AGP 54.3