<TITLE>13. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 That's exactly what He finds today: Finds His preacher going away to some big school to learn some theology, to be tested by a psychiatrist to see if he's got enough intelligence to be a missionary or get somebody saved. That's where He finds him, out in that fix. Oh, what the church needs tonight is another conference, God-called conference! Yes.
So He found him. He looked all out through the desert, searching around. I could see that Light going down in every little crevice, and every little fig pond, and everywhere; going around to find out where this fellow was. And after while He found him leisurely walking around under Mount Horeb, oh, having a good time, maybe playing with his children and having a fine time. And had a lovely little wife, and he was living at ease. And He found him in that condition.
So He said, "I've got to call a conference; I've got to get this runaway prophet back to the calling again."
I hope He does a lot of that on this ground. Oh, first thing you know, He selected...
He said, "I'll see where I can find Me a bush at. I got to attract his attention some way." So He climbed up on top of a bush and set there. Oh, when Moses seen that bush, the top of it with the big Pillar of Fire laying up there burning, and the bush didn't burn down... He called a conference. I'm telling you, when you ever walk on them sacred sands, on one of God's conferences, you come away a different person. Whenever you once...

L-36 Adam went away a different man; Moses went away a different man. Certainly. He was equipped then to go. Oh, sometimes it makes you do things real silly to the outside world. It'll make you do things that you think you would not do. But remember, you been in the Presence of God.
And let me say this right here: There is no preacher, by God, has never been ordained to stand behind the sacred desk until first he's had a conference with God, and come upon those sacred sands where him and God alone stand. You have no right to do it; you have no right. I don't care how much doctor's degree you have; that don't mean that much to God [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.], not a thing. You've got to have a conference. They had to have it there, Moses did, to meet God; he had to receive his orders from God; and there's where it was.

L-37 And now, there's so many different doctrines and things today, slick tongued serpents, until they can explain all the things out of the Bible, put it off in some other day. Serpents, I don't apologize for it a bit. That's exactly what it was. Greasy backed, go along shiny, polished up with waved hair and a tuxedo suit on; that's the way the devil looks. He ain't an old John Barleycorn, whiskey pouring out of his mouth; he's a polished up devil in these days, I'm telling you. The Bible said that "He was so slick he would deceive the very elected if it was possible." That's right.
Oh, he's a Bible student, a scholar. When he met Jesus, he quoted Scripture to Him just one right after the other. Jesus said, "But it's also written..." Amen? He was some fellow.


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