Closer To Heaven
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20 October 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: Just how fallible are prophets? Ellen White cautioned us not to be duped, yet she took two of her sons to a phrenologist for readings of their skulls. And despite her counsel on family dynamics, she and her husband were separated and there is evidence that there was […] Source: https://atoday.org/since-ellen-white-was-a-prophet-aunty-was-she-infallible/
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 21st of October 2025
During their long sojourn in Egypt, the Israelites have forgotten the true God of their ancestors. As many episodes of their travels through the wilderness demonstrated, their knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob faded, and they had mixed pagan elements into their religious practices (compare with Exodus 32:1-4). Under the oppression of the Egyptians, they cried to the Lord (Exodus 2:23-25), and at the right time, the Lord intervened on their behalf.
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However, the conflict described in the first 12 chapters of Exodus was greater than a simple power struggle between Moses and the pharaoh. According to ancient Near Eastern war ideology, conflicts between peoples were ultimately considered as being conflicts between the respective gods. Exodus 12:12 declares that the Lord inflicted judgment, not only on the pharaoh but also on the gods of Egypt, those powerful demons (Leviticus 17:7, Deuteronomy 32:17) that stood behind the oppressive power and unjust social system of Egypt.
Ultimately, God is at war with sin and will not tolerate this conflict forever (Psalms 24:8; Revelation 19:11; Revelation 20:1-4,14). All the fallen angels, as well as the human beings who have definitely and irrecoverably identified themselves with sin, will be destroyed. In light of this, the battles against the inhabitants of the land have to be perceived as an earlier stage of this conflict, which will reach its apex on the cross and its consummation at the final judgment, when God’s justice and character of love will be vindicated.
The concept of the total destruction of the Canaanites must be understood on the basis of the biblical worldview, in which God is involved in a cosmic conflict with the exponents of evil in the universe. Ultimately, God’s reputation and His character are at stake (Romans 3:4, Revelation 15:3).
Since sin has entered human existence, nobody can stand on neutral ground. One must be either on God’s side or on the side of evil. Hence, with this background in mind, the eradication of the Canaanites should be viewed as a preview of the final judgment.
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