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8 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 39



found in Proverbs 16:2 and Isaiah 26:7. 5. To get a clear understanding of Israel’s
3. What is “weighing” associated with in part in this vision, we need to go to the Book of
Job 31:6? Hosea -- notice! Hosea 8:8.
4. In Daniel 5:27 was Belshazzar’s COMMENT: Here we have a clear
integrity found wanting? prophecy of the characteristics of apostate Israel
COMMENT: In these instances the use during the time the gospel was going out to the
of a BALANCE has absolutely nothing to do world. As a nation it was to be “swallowed up”
with famine! among the Gentiles.
The concept of “weighing the heart” was 6. Continuing in Hosea, read 9:17.
an integral part of ancient Egyptian theology and COMMENT: As individuals the apos-
was the second part of the judgment process. tate Israelites were to be “wanderers among the
According to Egyptian belief the heart, which nations.”
was the only organ left in the body after death 7. What was Jacob (the Israelites) to
and embalmment, contained a record of all the become? Hosea 12:7.
COMMENT: This verse
says they would ADDICT
THEMSELVES TO THE
DECEITFUL MERCHAN-
DISING OF THE GOSPEL!
The passage last quoted
above matches the symbol of
the black horse rider so per-
fectly that we cannot doubt
that the former is given us to
UNLOCK the meaning of
the latter. The color black
symbolizes that which is
HIDDEN (DECEIT), as
Egyptian painting showing the “Weighing of the Heart” on a balance. white fitly represents that
which is TRUTHFUL and
person’s actions in life, and was WEIGHED OPEN. And the balances are plainly shown to
against the feather of the goddess Ma’at. represent THE MERCHANDISING OF THE
The feather was the symbol for TRUTH GOSPEL! The “heart” was heavier than the
and JUSTICE, and helped determine whether “feather” of TRUTH and justice!
the person had indeed led a virtuous life. The Here, then, is something great enough in
heart was placed on one side of a BALANCE its influence upon all mankind to be COM-
and in the other side was placed the Feather of PARED WITH THE GOSPEL ITSELF, though
Truth. The three great gods, Osiris, Anubis and of OPPOSITE character -- a thing that has
Thoth, decided the result of the weighing. followed the course of the gospel everywhere,
If the heart was found to be heavier than even as the black horse is shown following the
the feather, it was fed to Ammut, the white horse! It is a force that has POWER-
“Devourer,” and the soul was cast into darkness FULLY affected the very character of Christian
and re-absorbed back into Nature. If the civilization.
SCALES were balanced, the person had passed While the rider of the white horse
the test and was taken before Osiris in Yaru who symbolizes the going forth of the TRUE gospel
welcomed him into the afterlife. under the power of YEHOVAH’s spirit, the rider





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