<TITLE>10. Par 76-83</TITLE>L-76 When people begin to pray. When Israel started praying for a prophet, God had the prophet. God had the prophet all the time, 'cause God's always a jump ahead of them. He had the man prepared, but He was waiting for the people to go to praying, the people to want it.
How typical I could say that is today. What we need today is not a revivalist; it's not another man to some great organization who can get all the groups to organize together. What we need today is a prophet sent from God with a Message that'll condemn the world. God may have the man if the people's just ready for it. You know what I'm speaking. He's perhaps got him somewhere in the world, but the people's got to want it. God just doesn't shove things down your throat. You have to want it. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled." That's right.

L-78 After Moses had been recognized--after the people, rather, knowed that they needed a leader, they begin to pray. They begin to pray for God to send them a leader or somebody to bring them out, and He sent them a man, a prophet. That was His sign. Now, if this man was not a prophet, if he'd have raised up and said, "I'm a military genius," the--Israel had a right to disbelieve that man, because God in every time without failure sends a prophet. Mention one time in the Bible there ever was. It's always a prophet that He sends with THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Even David himself, the greatest military genius that Israel ever had, and yet David was a prophet. Certainly he was. He was the prophet David.

L-80 He was waiting for the people to have a desire in their heart to hear this prophet that He was going to send. 'Course there's a bunch that said they did, that did not. It proved later that they wasn't right. They was just all worked up in emotion, and the Bible said a mixed multitude went with them. What did it do? Brought trouble out in the wilderness. And every time the phenomena is done... Oh, I wished I could make this sink in good. Every time that God sends something, there's some rude, carnal impersonation of it goes with it, every time, always something to "make belief" of it. And that sets in just good with the people. But a genuine prophet of God stays with THUS SAITH THE LORD. He'll never move from that Scripture if he's sent of God.
Moses stayed exactly on the Scripture. God said, "I will bring them out." He said to Moses, "I've sent you to do the job." Moses had an experience; he had met God. He had the Word of the Lord.
The reason that God sends prophets is because they have the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord comes to the prophets. And if he doesn't have the Word of the Lord, then he's not a prophet.

L-83 There's a lot of carnal impersonations trying to say they're prophets all down through the ages, but they always get away from the Word of the Lord. But a true prophet stays exactly on the Word. Now, don't forget that quotation. A true prophet stays with THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Jesus warned us in the last days what would happen. But a--a true servant, the true prophet, never fails to stay right with THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Moses stayed with the Lord. He was a sign. He was a sign to Israel that their day of deliverance was at hand, and he was a sign to Egypt that the day of their end was at hand, 'cause they drowned out there in the Dead Sea later, the whole army of Pharaoh. They were at the end of their military power. And a prophet was a sign of a national end.


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