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    God Approves Jethro’s Advice

    The Lord’s recognition of such a plan is thus recorded: “The Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the leaders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. And I will come down and talk with thee there: And I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.” Numbers 11:16, 17.COOD 65.1

    In Deuteronomy 1:9-18, we have a record of Moses’ choice of the captains and judges over the thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens; and that when he submitted the plan to the people they answered “and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.” So the people accepted Jethro’s advice, and the Lord specially recognized the order thus established.COOD 65.2

    In Gospel Workers (1892), 160, we see that the Lord is “as particular now as then. And he designs that we should learn lessons of order and organization from the perfect order instituted in the days of Moses, for the benefit of the children of Israel.”COOD 65.3

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