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But would a God of love cause all those Egyptian horses to suffer? Probably the same question could be asked about the millions of animals that were sacrificed for about fifteen hundred years. Frequently, the animal sacrifices were burned; but God never had them burned alive, which minimized their suffering. And it’s even possible that God did some kind of miracle, to reduce or eliminate the suffering of the drowning horses.Believe it or not, the Bible actually talks about this very subject. “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen [helped] shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.” (Isaiah 31:3).Animals have “flesh”, but they do not have moral intelligence like God or even mankind. Therefore, animals can’t learn to have faith in God and be tested on their faith, etc. God knows this, and He also knows that all suffering is the result of sin—which is not His fault. So God may at times allow animals to suffer, in order to help bring man to his senses, and help save mankind (see Matthew 10:29-31; Luke 12:6,7). If the Egyptian army had not been drowned, there would be little scientific proof today that the Red Sea crossing actually occurred. Those horses died to help save mankind, especially those of us living at the end of the world—let us therefore take heed to the warning, and not allow those horses to have died in vain!
The main purpose of this Sign #3—as the title indicates—is to show the parallel and importance of God’s voice at Mt. Sinai, and God’s voice at the end of the world. Both of which, by the way, are directly related to the ark of the covenant! At Sinai God spoke the Ten Commandments, and the ark was built shortly afterward to contain the Decalogue. At the beginning of the seventh vial, which marks the end of Armageddon, God will speak once again. His voice will come “from the throne” in heaven (Revelation 16:17; see Joel 3:16; Amos 1:2); and as we learned in Sign #1, the ark of the covenant is God’s throne.Revelation 11:19, “And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ARK of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.”Revelation 16:16-21, “And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the THRONE, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail …” (see 6:12-17).
