<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 You could take one Scripture, fix it around. I can say in the Scripture, "Judas hung himself. You go do likewise." But that wouldn't be rightly dividing the Scripture. See, that was pertaining to Judas and not to you.
And now, we're starting tonight on two or three nights, if the Lord permits on, "God Keeps His Word." He's got to keep His Word. In order to be God, He has to stand behind everything He said in His Word. And that's exactly where my faith rests, is upon the spoken Word of God.
Now, our text starts off tonight with a covenant people way down in Egypt. Yet they were in there waiting on the Word of God which had been spoken by, through Abraham that there his seed would sojourn in this strange land for four hundred years. But in such a long wait, the people had got away from the real meaning and wasn't looking for the day to come. And another thing we could say: they wasn't looking for it in the way that it did come. And that's what's the matter with us today. We got our minds set up on the way God's got to do things, just the way we think He's going to do it; and usually we're wrong.
God promised He would deliver them. And when a little baby boy was born down there in a poor peasant home, little could they ever think that that was the emancipator of Egypt--or of Israel. But it was. And when the time come for them to be delivered, Israel failed to recognize their leader to bring them out. What did it take? It taken forty years more before God could ever get the church in condition to take it out.

L-11 Now, I believe this. I could be wrong; I'm just a man as you are. But I believe the coming of the Lord is past due. I believe the reason that God can't come, is on the condition of His Church. It's all separated, and broke up, and everything that could be thought of is mixed into it. It's got to come a time for an old fashion shaking down, settling down for the Church of God.
Now, as we see this day, that was a perfect type then of this today. First thing they had, they had the ark, a prophet, an Angel: the Word, their prophet, their Angel, a sacred Light that followed them. And as they came out of Egypt, after Moses finally... God taken forty years to bring them into condition. And they were forty years passed, because of their differences, and not recognizing.

L-12 The Bible said that in the days of Noah, God was long-suffering. He wasn't willing that any should perish. And He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." I believe the coming of the Lord is past due then. For He had to wait long in Noah's time. He had to wait long in bringing out Israel. I believe He's waiting long, but I believe His patience is getting thin with us.
I just met Brother Hooper a few moments ago, first time I seen him for a long time, said, "Brother Branham, I want just a minute or two with you before you leave Arizona, for this may be our last time seeing each other." It seems like there's a great checking-up time somewhere, as I think of it.

L-13 Now, after forty years, finally God got them together, and they recognized this prophet Moses, who went down there with the Word. And on their road out, coming out of Egypt, following God... And they--they came to a place looked like a halt or a stand-still. And after they had done seen the glory of God down in Egypt, with signs and wonders that God had did, when they seen the pressing time come, when the Red Sea had them cut off, the deserts had them cut off, and Pharaoh's army just behind them... Oh, what an hour. But God seems to take pleasure in getting His children in such a position. It's strange how God leads His children.


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