<TITLE>12. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 It was the Hebrew children that had been faithful to the promise of God, that was laying down there in the fiery furnace, or in Babylon, rather, going to the fiery furnace, one step between them and death. How much that may be to man here tonight. There may be one day between you and eternal separation. You'll make your decision now. The way's provided for you, if you'll accept it.
"One step," said Jonathan to David when they shot the--the--the bow. "One step between me and death." One step between them and death, but just at that crucial moment, God provided a way of escape, and He sent into that fiery furnace the Lord Jesus Christ, and kept the fire off of them.

L-45 He was Enoch, who claimed that he walked with God for five hundred years, and had a testimony he pleased God. He had a faith that he wouldn't see death. How could God do it? There wasn't even a jet plane in those days to get him off his feet. But God provided a way, a translation, that took Enoch from earth to glory without receiving death.
It was Elijah who stepped across the oce--or the Jordan river that day, was divided from one side to the other. When Elijah was ready to go to heaven without dying, it was God provided a way for him, not a jet plane, but He sent a chariot of fire, trolled by horses of fire. God provided the way in the minute, a way of escape from death.

L-46 It was Moses, I believe, who followed the children of Israel, or who led them, following the Light, the Pillar of Fire through the wilderness. It was Moses who endured to the end. As Moses, a hundred and twenty years after eighty years of service for God, who stood upon the mount and looked over into the promised land with the tears rolling down his cheeks, of a old man of a hundred and twenty years old. He come through the briar patches; he'd waded the deep waters; he'd tasted the bitter cup of gall and sorrow. He'd been with the disobedient pe--people as their pastor. He had led them from place to place, and put up with their murmurings, and throwed hisself in the breach and said, "God, take me before You do them."
It was Moses who stood there as an old man, knowing that in every way he was a type of Christ, knowing somehow, some way, God surely would take him, 'cause He had to bring him up again as the type of Christ. He was born as a prophet, as Christ, not only a prophet, but leader and so forth. He was hid away in the bulrushes and so was Christ taken into Egypt. He was a law giver as Christ was to the Mount of Olives, laying from Sinai. Every way he was a type of Christ.

L-47 And when he was old and death staring him in the face, how would he ever bring forth the resurrection? But just as the crucial moment come, God provided a way. When the breath was leaving and gurgling in his neck, he looked, laying by his side, and there stood the Rock. God provided a Rock; the Rock was Christ Jesus who was in the wilderness. Moses endured to the Rock.
God give me grace to endure to the same thing. And when my last breath is being drawed from this body, let me see the Rock standing there. Stepped over on the Rock, and the Angels come and packed him away. Eight hundred years later he was standing in Palestine with Elijah, standing there talking to Jesus before the cross. God made a way of escape.


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