Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Chapter 27
God Gives His Law on Mount Sinai
This chapter is based on Exodus 19 to 24.
Soon after setting up camp at Sinai, Moses was called up into
the mountain to meet with God. Israel was now to be taken into a
close and special relationship to the Most High--to be organized as a
church and a nation under the government of God. "You have seen
what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings
and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey
My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special
treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you
shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."
Moses returned to the camp, and he repeated the divine
message to the elders of Israel. Their answer was, "All that the Lord
has spoken we will do." In this way they entered into a solemn
covenant with God, pledging themselves to accept Him as their
ruler, becoming in a special sense the subjects of His authority.
God intended to make the event of speaking His law a scene of
awe-inspiring grandeur. Everything connected with the service of
God must be thought of with the greatest reverence. The Lord said
to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. ... For on the third day
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