<TITLE>08. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 If we'd believe the Bible to be a history, it's also a prophetic book that tells that that same God shall rise in the last days. And it's time for Him to come on scene. That's what Amram knowed, that Moses had prophesied, or--not Moses, pardon me--Abraham had been given a promise by this God of history Who hadn't answered a prayer in four hundred years, as far as we have record. But He made a promise that He would bring them out.
And it's seemingly, we've had a silent God for a long time. But the hour has come where He's going to rise on the scene.
One night when Amram would prayed, maybe for several years, and his hair, now, was turning gray, and no deliverance, but just getting worse, one night he got right down to business.
That's how we have to do it. Get right down to business. He said, "God, You promised this, and we've looked forward to it, and we seen the signs all year, and the time is at hand. It's time for You to do something about it."
While he was in deep concentrated prayer, praying with all of his heart, he looked, standing in the corner. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There stood an angel with a sword drawn. He said, "Deliverance is coming. And you're going to bring a son into the world, and he's going to be the one to deliver them." See? God always answers prayer, doesn't He? if we just hold on.

L-31 Moses, when he had led the children of Israel safely into the wilderness, and he came to the Red Sea, and the mountains on one side, and the desert's on the other, and Pharaoh's army, this a-way, and the Red Sea in ahead of them, and they were trapped in a little net. Seemed like that even nature would cry out. What's going to happen? They're finished; Pharaoh's army, by the tens of thousands to ride them down. But what did the people begin to murmur and complain. "Oh, it'd been better if we'd stayed back in our place where we were at."
But there was one among those people, who had the flame of God's faith burning in his heart, who believed that a historical God could rise on the scene in any kind of a difficult. Moses stood with his hands up to God and prayed, until a God of history rose on the scene to be a God in present day. And He opened up the way, and Israel went through the waters on dry land.

L-32 Oh, it was not long after that until Joshua had led the same group, or their children, to the Jordan. And it was in the month of April, when the whole streams were swelling, and the Jordan was five times it's size. Looked like any good military leader would've brought them there different from that. And it was at that very time, when there wasn't a possibility to cross it, but Joshua'd remember, there was a God of history, forty years before, that opened the Red Sea. And He called on that God, and that God came down in great power, and become a God in present crisis, and opened the Jordan, and crossed them over.


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