<TITLE>17. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Well, could you imagine Moab standing up there looking down on Israel, his brother? After all, it was. Did you know that false prophet up there offered the same kind of a--a theological terms that Moses was offering down there in the other camp? That's right. Here come Balaam (Bishop Balaam), come out there in that great big organized land of Moab. Daughter of Lot, that's where it come from. Not another God; the same God. Come up there and put seven altars. What did Jehovah require? Perfect number. Jehovah, seven sacrifices, clean sacrifices, just exactly what Jehovah...
That's what Moses had down here, exactly the same. Seven rams speaking of the coming of the Son of God--seven rams. Yes, sir. But oh, brother, he failed to see that smitten rock and that brass serpent. That's what he failed to see, and that's the same thing today. They fail to see that Holy Spirit moving in the Word and promise of God, bringing forth the signs and wonders that He promised. They didn't believe it, that's the reason.

L-72 Now. Let's take just a few just for a moment now, a few more minutes. Noah and his God-given signs... You believe he had a God-given sign? Sure, he did. He was sent of God, a prophet of God that prophesied, and showed great signs and wonders, that there'd be a great sign in heaven. Clouds would come up, rain would fall. It never rained till that day--his God-given sign. He stood right in his door of the ark and preached a hundred and twenty years, and they laughed and made fun of him.

L-73 You know Jesus referred to that, Matthew, 24th chapter again, about days of Noah? In the days of Noah... He said, "As it was in the days of Noah..." They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. He said the same thing in Matthew 24 here. That's exactly right. Said they'd do the same thing. And did you notice right below that He said also and there will be fearful sights in the heavens, signs in the heavens and in the earth. Is that right? Now, what did--what did Jeremiah say here? "Be not dismayed at signs in heaven."
Look here. You say, "Sign in heaven?" Why, they've wondered, even the Pentagon. You seen it not long ago, all this here flying saucer stuff. They wondered what it was all about. They can't make it out yet. It's an invisible force almost that comes down there, and yet it's--it's--it's intelligent, it'll... Now, I'm not a flying saucer man. All this here nonsense has been told about that. That's nothing to that. Don't you believe that. But they're signs. Exactly. Why is it they hang right over the Pentagon? Why is it they're right over Washington, where they're seen all the time, constantly, even yet. We'll come to that after while, see if He didn't say, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." That's right.

L-74 Moses and his sign, God-given sign, Scriptural sign... Do you believe Moses' sign was Scriptural? How did Moses know? How did Moses know it was God? When he went down there he understood, being born to be a prophet, he had the Word of the Lord he knowed. So he goes down there to deliver Israel, and he found out he was out of date. The people didn't want him. A prophet can never deliver his message unless the people wants to hear it. So God just called His prophet in the wilderness. Sure. Took him out there and let the people suffer a little longer till they was ready. Moses was ready; God was ready; but the people wasn't. They stayed forty years longer because they wasn't ready. That's exactly right.


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