CHAPTER IX
Establishing a National Worship Under Theocracy ALL the nations of this world carry on forms of worship . The nations of Christendom today claim to worship and sacrifice to God . But the proof will show they are no exception to what the apostle Paul said : "The things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God." (1 Corinthians 10 :20, NW; AS) Ancient Egypt with its many gods, a prototype of this world, worshiped and sacrificed to demon gods . When the true God Jehovah sent Moses back to Egypt and made himself known to the suffering Israelites and also to the Egyptians, the Israelites renewed their worship of him as the God of their forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom the promises concerning the Seed had been made . Not only that, but at the demonstration of Jehovah's power over the demon gods of Egypt, many Egyptians showed honesty, turned to the God of Israel and associated themselves with the Israelites . They formed a "mixed multitude", a great crowd of many strangers . (Exodus i . (a) As typified by Egypt, to whom do this world of nations sacrifice? (b) What now bound the Israelites together, and others to them? 120