<TITLE>13. Par 98-104</TITLE>L-98 Remember Moses also, that great leader. God should've killed him when he went down there to glorify himself by smiting that Rock and said, "You see what I can do?" in other words. "You rebels, must we fetch you water from this Rock?" And he smote It, and the waters didn't come; he smote It again. What did he do? He testified of the weakness of the--of Christ, 'cause Christ was that Rock. That's the Headstone. Instead of smiting it, or speaking to it... It was smitten once.
Remember, God told Moses over in Exodus, "Go out and I'll stand before--before you upon the Rock, and smite the Rock." And he smote the Rock, and It brought forth waters. God said, "The next time, go speak to the Rock and It'll bring forth Its waters."
But Moses wanted to show he had a little authority, a little power, so he said, "I'll bring you water out of this Rock." God should've killed him for it. God should've separated him there; he broke God's law right there, 'cause he spoke of the weakness of Christ; He has to be smitten the second time. Christ was only smitten once. Now, we speak to the Rock and It brings forth Its waters.
But what was it? Let's look at the old man; he's a hundred and twenty.

L-102 Someone said to me not long ago, said, "God is an unjust God," said, "because He let Moses down. After he toiled with them Hebrews for forty years in that wilderness out there, He let him down and then wouldn't even let him go in the promised land."
I said, "Oh, nonsense." No, He didn't let Moses down. He went to the promised land. About seven hundred years later, he was saw up on top of Mount Transfiguration, as live as he ever was, standing, talking to Jesus before He went to Calvary, him and Elijah, standing together, talking to... Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus, Peter, James, and John on Mount Transfiguration. He was not dead. He was alive. God didn't let him down. He was in Palestine.

L-104 Now, look, before he died, he climbed up Mount Nebo that morning when he knew he was going. He done stripped Aaron, put his clothes upon another, took his own robe and put it upon Joshua, commanded him to stay with them precepts. And when he climbed up to the top of Mount Nebo, went through the valley of the plains, knowing he was going up there to die, climbed up on Mount Nebo, and up to Pisgah. While he was standing up there, God said, "Look over in the land. I want you to see it. Moses, you could've went over there. But you know what you did down there at the Rock that day? You glorified yourself." I think that's what's going to be the great trouble with a lot of us people today. "Go down there at the Rock, and you glorified yourself." But notice when he got ready to die, there stood the Rock. He must've just stepped over on the Rock there at Pisgah, and God buried him. Be he must've rose again somewhere, because he was alive. He was a type of Christ. There he was standing there on Mount Transfiguration, hundreds of years later, over in Palestine, See, the grace of God provided the Rock. Oh, my.


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