Did the Sinai assembly have pastors and deacons?
No. The Sinai assembly was a called-out assembly (Ecclesia) but not a church as understood today. It had no deacons, no bishops, and no pastors. Israel was under the law and under Moses, a completely different setting from anything pertaining to the church.
Les explains that the church did not begin at Sinai; that gathering was not a church as we understand the church. It was a called-out assembly, which is also the word Ecclesia. Israel was a called-out assembly because God called them and led them out of Egypt and camped them at Sinai. But it was not a church. They had no deacons, no bishops, and no pastors. They were under the law and under Moses, a whole different setting than what pertains to the church. Yet it is the same word, a called-out assembly.