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Congregation of God 70all foreigners, and stood and con- thou wast angry with me, thinefessed their sins, and the iniq- anger is turned away, and thouuities of their fathers ." comfortest me ."Isa . 12 :1 "And in that daythou shalt say, I will give thanks See "Apostolic Succession", "Jeuntothee, 0 Jehovah ; for though hovah ." "Sin ."Congregation of GodDEFINITION(Gr ., ek .kle.si'a-"assembly," " congregation") An assembly of personscalled out from this world to the service of Almighty God . TheChristian congregation, the "holy nation", is comprised of JesusChrist, the Head, and 144,000 members of his body . The term alsoapplies collectively to all those of the anointed spiritual class onearth at any particular time, or to the local assembly in any place .(Ek .kle.si'a is often translated "church" .)Nation of Israel the FirstCongregation of GodActs 7 :38 "This is he that cameto be among the congregation inthe wilderness with the angelthat spoke to him on Mount Sinaiand with our forefathers, andhe received living sacred pronouncementsto give you ."Called Out from Egyptat Passover TimeEx. 12 :2, 5, 6, 41 "This month[Abib or Nisan] shall be untoyou the beginning of months : itshall be the first month of theyear to you . Your lamb shall bewithout blemish, a male a yearold : ye shall take it from thesheep, or from the goats : and yeshall keep it until the fourteenthday of the same month ; and thewhole assembly of the congregationof Israel shall kill it ateven ."Ex . 12 :7, 22-24 "And they shalltake of the blood, and put it onthe two side-posts and on thelintel, upon the houses whereinthey shall eat it. And ye shalltake a bunch of hyssop, and dipit in the blood that is in thebasin, and strike the lintel andthe two side-posts with the bloodthat is in the basin ; and noneof you shall go out of the door ofhis house until the morning . ForJehovah will pass through tosmite the Egyptians ; and whenhe seeth the blood upon the lintel,and on the two side-posts,Jehovah will pass over the door,and will not suffer the destroyerto come in unto your houses tosmite you . And ye shall observethis thing for an ordinance tothee and to thy sons for ever ."Officially Organized at Mount Sinai,1513 B .C .-Jewish "Systemsof Things"Ex. 19 :1 "In the third monthafter the children of Israel weregone forth out of the land ofEgypt, the same day came theyinto the wilderness of Sinai ."Heb. 9 :18-20 "Consequently neitherwas the former covenantinaugurated without blood . Forwhen every commandment accordingto the Law had beenspoken by Moses to all the people,he took the blood of the youngbulls and of the goats with waterand scarlet wool and hyssop andsprinkled the book itself and allthe people, saying : `This is theblood of the covenant which Godhas laid as a charge upon you .' "