The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Chapter 13 — Tokens of Divine Guidance

“HATH God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.” ¹ GSAM 198.1

It was thus that the Lord wrought in taking a people from the midst of a heathen nation, that he might lead them out where he could speak his law to them, and where he could hand it down to them graven in tables of stone. These wonders were not performed to gratify their curiosity; but that they might know of a certainty that he who had “done great things in Egypt; wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea,” ² and had spoken to them from amid the fire and smoke of Sinai’s burning top, was none other than the living and true God, the Maker of all things. GSAM 198.2