Emphasis Preaching Journal
In the twenty-first century...
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In the twenty-first century, we don't have much use for dictators. We want to vote. And throughout the Bible, people felt the same way. When Moses had gotten the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and on their way to the Promised Land, the people took a vote. And their vote was that they had had enough of the sand and the heat, and they wanted to go back. But God ignored their election results and led them on.