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"THIS MEANS
EVERLASTING LIFE"
CHAPTER I
LIFE was at stake-the life of mankind in a
righteous new world! By next afternoon the
question must be decided in favor of their
enjoying that precious privilege eternally. The
feast this night in Jerusalem gave promise that
it would be . This was a memorial night, the anniversary
of the 14th of Nisan more than fifteen
centuries previous when with one irresistible push
death invaded the home of every Egyptian family .
It was not by any bacteriological warfare, nor by
any dreaded atomic or hydrogen bombs dropping
from Egypt's clear skies that such widespread destruction
of human lives was caused . No! But the
destroying angel of the God of the oppressed Hebrews
sped through that land of the Nile and, with
unerring aim, struck every first-born one of man
and beast with sudden midnight death . Miraculously
the homes of the Hebrews in the district of
Goshen at the Nile's delta were passed over . Heeding
the warning of their God by his prophet
Moses, the Hebrews had killed the passover lamb,
sprinkled its blood on the two doorposts and lintels
of their houses, retired indoors and eaten the lamb
roasted, along with unleavened bread and bitter
1 . What question was immediately to be decided? Why
favorably?
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