<TITLE>05. Par 43-48</TITLE>L-43 Now, listen close as we read Joshua 1. After the death of Moses, that's where we left it last night. Is that right? Moses, where'd we leave Moses? Standing on the hill, waving good-bye to his people. And he was going to die, laying there. And he looked, and here stood the Rock standing by him. He just stepped over on the Rock, and the Angels come, packed him away. All right.
... after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,...
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore rise, and go over this Jordan, thou, and all the people, into the land which I will give unto them, even to the children of Israel.
Every place... the soles of Your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said to Moses.
From the wilderness and to this Lebanon even to the great... river Euphrates, all the lands of the Hittites, even to the great sea towards the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
There shall not be any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I'll not leave thee nor fail thee--fail thee, or forsake thee.
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people thou shall divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Only be... strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do... all the law, which my Moses servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper wherever thou goest.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,... then thou shall have good success.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be... dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee wheresoever thou goest.

L-45 Now, we'll drop back now into the Book of Numbers and pick up where we left off last evening.
Now, I want your undivided attention just for a few minutes, because you're crowded, and many standing, and so forth; and we're sorry about this, but we can't help it; Tabernacle's no bigger. Now, we left Moses...
The children of Israel had come up out of Egypt. They got into the wilderness, begin to murmur. God sent fiery serpents among them and bit them; they were dying by the thousands. And then He made an atonement, a brass serpent. Oh, how beautiful. That brass serpent, speaking of judgment, "Divine judgment, and sin already judged." Genesis 3:14, God had already judged the serpent. And then in Exodus 17, we find that brass speaks of Divine judgment, the brazen altar. Then also in the days of Elijah we found out that the skies were brass. Brass always is a symbol of Divine judgment.

L-47 Tonight, the nations are becoming brassy: symbol, judgment near at hand. I believe we're living in the closing out of the world's history. I believe that Divine judgment's upon, the nations, and God has permitted these things. Because we neglected Christ, that's the reason Communism swept the lands. We've taken thousands of hogs and killed them, and burned them up out here on the prairies. We couldn't walk the straight, narrow path. We brought back whiskey and beer. We've burnt up the wheat, turned it under. Throwed over cotton; and hundreds of little children has froze to death, nearly, in the year. All right, we got it now; Communism swept right in and took it off the feet.

L-48 No wonder Christianity can't even lift up a standard; it's because, not because Christ is not able, but because that people won't do it. The message is ready, the power of God is sufficient. Men and women are scared to break out yonder into those spheres before God, and dare to trust Him, take His Word.


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