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WHAT HAS RELIGION DONE FOR MANKIND?
the flood in Noah's day Jehovah God had proved his universal sovereignty in the sight of the Devil's first world power of Egypt . He had exalted himself as the great Liberator of his people, at the expense of the oppressive enemies . As he later said to them : "I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour ; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead . Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee ; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life ." So let all opposers of Jehovah's people in this world today beware . What he executed upon ancient Egypt foreshadowed what he will do now to all religious opposers .-Exodus 12 :29-41, LXX; Numbers 33 :3, 4, AS; Isaiah 43:3, 4, AS. 6 God commanded the Israelites to celebrate a memorial of the passover every year afterward on the same date . This was because of what the passover symbolized . Egypt pictured this world filled with demon religion and which enslaves all mankind and tries to keep sincere worshipers from obeying and serving Jehovah God . Pharaoh of Egypt pictured Satan the Devil, who Jesus Christ said was the "ruler of this world" . (Revelation 11 :8; John 12 :31, NW; 14 :30) Pharaoh was worshiped as god by the Egyptians, and the apostle Paul says that Satan the Devil is the "god of this system of things" and is the "spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience" . (2 Corinthians 4 :4 and Ephesians 2 :2, NW) As for Moses, this 6. Whom did the actors in that ancient passover drama picture?