Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Chapter 42
God Teaches His Law to a New Generation
This chapter is based on Deuteronomy 3 to 6; 28.
The Lord announced to Moses that it was the time to possess
Canaan. As the old prophet stood upon the heights overlooking the
Promised Land, with deep earnestness he pleaded, "O Lord God,
You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your
mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do
anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me
cross over and see the good land beyond Jordan, those pleasant
mountains, and Lebanon."
The answer was, "Speak no more to Me of this matter. Go up to
the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the
south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross
over this Jordan."
Without a complaint Moses submitted God's decree. And now
his great concern was for Israel. From a full heart he poured out the
prayer, "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man
over the congregation, who may ... bring them in, that the
congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no
shepherd" (Numbers 27:16, 17).
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