THE EXIT FROM THE OLD ORDER TO THE NEW is symbolized in the story of the deliverance of the children of Israel from their Egyptian bondage. We read that when they were led out from their bondage they were led into the desert where there was no means of support, where there was nothing on which they could depend but God, whose voice they followed. Then they were led to the foot of Sinai where God entered into covenant relations with them. Preparatory to that covenant, God sent the following message to them through Moses:
“Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine, and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.” (Exodus 19:4-6)
When Moses gave this Message to the children of Israel they answered, “All that Yahveh hath spoken we will do.” Then Moses was told to “go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments. … And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day; come not near a woman.”
After this injunction was obeyed then they were given the Everlasting Covenant – the Ten Commandments. That the Ten Commandments were designated as the Everlasting Covenant will be seen in the many references in the Old Testament to the word “Covenant.” The fact that the great name of God has been lost for all the centuries past, has obscured the covenant relations that the Ten Commandments bear to God and to man. This covenant begins with the words, as translated in King James Version, “I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage”, but when translated in the light of the meaning of the divine name these words read thus, “I will be your power like I have been in bringing you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servitude.”
Now the children of Israel were a numerous people held in slavery, in bondage, to one of the greatest nations then upon the earth; and God by his spirit – through signs and wonders, demonstrated by the hand of Moses – forced upon the king of Egypt obedience to the divine mandate, to let the people go. Then he led them through the Red Sea; he went before them as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; he led them into the great desert where there was neither food nor drink; there he fed them with bread from heaven; and Moses, the man of God, was enabled to bring water out of the flinty rock, so that they were provided with all the necessities. Through the Divine Power their shoes were preserved upon their feet, so that they did not wear out, neither did their clothes get old.
Thus truly as God said, “I bare you on eagle’s wings and brought you to myself.” Again, “As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, that fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bare them on his pinions. Yahveh alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.” (Deuteronomy 32:11-12). This is a symbol of the conditions that are now before us, or of the conditions that are to obtain with all mature souls; that is, these mature souls are a great and mighty people, who have been held in bondage by the strongest Power on earth – Generation – now they are passing through the desert where none but God can succor.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 