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is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall
afflict them four hundred years. "-Gen. 15: 13.
20 This 430 years' sojourning included 215 years of
sojourning in Canaan before going down to Egypt.
This scripture does not say that the Israelites sojourned in Egypt 430 years, but that they who
"dwelt in Egypt" were sojourners for that length
of time. The entire drama shows that the people
whom God approves and blesses are sojourners and
aliens to the world under Satan's rule. The great mul·
titude, by coming out of Satan's organization and
seeking refuge and nourishment at the hand of the
Greater-than-Joseph, thereby publicly profess that
they too are merely sojourners and strangers in the
world, even as Joseph and Benjamin were, and all are
aliens and strangers to and in the midst of Satan's
organization, yet they are still doing their assigned
work while on the earth.
21 Jacob, together with all of his household, arrived
in Egypt, there to meet Joseph, and this company
brought the total number "which came out of his
[Jacob's] loins" to seventy persons. (Gen. 46: 8-27)
Jacob's four wives were not included in this number,
because they were dead; nor were two of his grandsons
by Judah, who also were dead; nor did the seventy
include the wives of any of the other sons of Jacob,
manifestly because they did not come "out of the
loins of Jacob". The number did include Joseph's
two sons; therefore it is written: "All the souls of
the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were
threescore and ten." Seventy is a multiple of seven
and ten and, being a doubly complete number, would
picture all those creatures on the side of Jehovah at
the passing away of the evil world; that is, the seven
pictures the remnant or spiritual class, and the ten
pictures those of the great multitude. All derive life
from the great Father, Jehovah, which life is ministered unto them by and through Christ Jesus.
22 By appointment Joseph met Jacob and his household in the land of Goshen and there identified himself
to Jacob and to all of his household aside from the
brethren whom he had previously seen and known in
Egypt. (Gen. 46: 28-31) This part of the prophetic
drama is another picture of the people of good will
not merely as bein~ foresh<ldowed by Jonadab, which
was revealed in 1932, but also as being those that make
up the great multitude, and which were identified for
'the first time in 1935. (Rev. 7: 9,10) This more extensive identification the Lord provided for his people
at the Washington convention on May 31, }93::1, whirh
identification was later set forth in 'l.'he Watchtower
of August 1935. Those who had the privilege of attending the Washington convention will recall the great
joy expressed by the multitude there assembled whw
the subject was expounded and when they saw that
some of the great multitude was even amongst tl1l'm
then. Those of the audience were then called upon to
identify themselves, and a great number of persolls

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rose in the convention declaring themselves to be of
the "great multitude" company. The Lord had gathered them there at that convention, and he made glad
their hearts; and the remnant and the" other sheep"
rejoiced together. Those of the "other sheep" there
showed great zeal for the Lord, and they continue to
show that intense zeal that impels them to go among
the people and bear to them the kingdom message showing the people who will hear God's provision for
giving them life everlasting.
23 The land of Goshen, which is on the eastern
borderland of Egypt and nearest to the promised land
of Palestine, was where Joseph met the household of
Jacob, and there Joseph arranged for them to sojourn
or dwell while in Egypt. (Gen. 46: 31-34) That di.sposition of his kinsfolk, separating them from the
other people of Egypt, clearly shows that Joseph
viewed himself and his kinsmen as no integral part
of Egypt and that all of them were merely there as
sojourners. Likewise Christ Jesus, the Greater-thanJoseph, expressly says of the members of his household that they are not of the world, "even as I am not
of the world."-John 17: 14.
2' The remnant on the earth have so arranged their
affairs and so deported themselves as to show that
they are not of this world. The same is true of the
great multitude, who have so arranged their affairs
and earthly circumstances, and who by their course
of conduct declare themselves to be separate and distinct from this world over which Satan now exercises
powcr and control. But the remnant and the great
multitude have their eyes and hearts set on the kingdom of God and are merely sojourners in the midst of
a wicked and perverse generation. They are migratory,
that is to say, having here in this world no permanent
abiding place, but they are waiting for the full establishment of the kingdom. The Israelites were a nomaJic
or migratory people, having no fixed home, and tended
their herds and flocks wherever they sojourned.
25 Joseph then instructed the Israelites as to what
they should say when asked concerning their occupation: "Ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been
about cattle from our youth even until now, both we,
and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land
of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto
the Egyptians." (Gen. 46: 34) The Egyptians kept
their herds and flocks also, both sheep and cattle (Gen.
47: 5,6; Ex. 9: 3, 6, 19, 25); but they were settled or
fixed in Bgypt and formed a part of it and participatrd
in its affairs, and therefore they had no respect for any
roving band of herdsmen. Not that sheep-raising itself
was an "abomination ", but the fact that the Israeli1 ('s
roved about with their herds, as gypsies rove about;
so they were an abomination in the eyes of the Egyptians. This shows that those on the side of Jehovah
God and his ldn~dom organization are an abomination
to the modern-day commercial and religious Egypt,
because they have no fixed and settled place or part in

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