Good morning. They couldn’t refute what Stephen was saying so they did what people do today when they have no good response to the truth – they secretly induced men to say, we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God. If you have no answer against the truth, you bring in a great lie to oppose it. And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they came up to Stephen and dragged him away and brought him before the council. They put forth false witnesses who said, this man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us. And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the council saw his face like the face of an angel. The high priest said, are these things so? He was probably expecting a simple yes or no; but what he got was an earful. He begins with Abraham when he was first called by God to go to the promised land. He continues until he gets to the point where the children of Israel are in Egypt in bondage. But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph. It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive. It was at this time that Moses was born. This is part of the reason I don’t believe that the children of Israel were in slavery for hundred years, as everyone says. Exodus says that they left Egypt 430 years to the day after they arrived. You don’t talk about the time of the promise approaching, if there is 400 years of slavery left to go. The part about another king arising is in the very beginning of Exodus, as is the part about Moses being born. We will continue this another time. Father help the reader and his/her family to have a great day. Meet all of their needs.

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