<TITLE>18. Par 75-79</TITLE>L-75 But when Moses seen this burning bush... He'd seen a lot of fire, I guess, but when this voice come from that bush... Maybe might've heard a lot of voices, but when this voice come from the bush, you know what it said? It quoted to him the Scripture. And then it was a Scriptural sign, because God told Abraham that His people would be stranger in a strange land for four hundred years, then He would deliver them out with a hand of power and might. Oh, He said, "I'm ready to fulfill that, Moses. I'm sending you down. Amen. Going to make the Scriptures... I'm going to give the Scriptures to you. Take this old stick you got in your hand now and take off to Egypt as hard as you can go." See? for He was going to make His Word come to pass.

L-76 You know what they did down there? Was the Egyptians said, "Moses, oh, the great prophet of the Lord." They laughed at him, and they were dismayed by the signs that he performed. Is that right?
Why, even Israel was dismayed with him, the signs that he was performing. "Why, you--you make us work in rigor. Why, looky here, our hands. We have to make stubbles, and so forth," and Moses performing the very God-given signs, and they still couldn't understand it. That's just exactly. See? Moses give them a sign, discouraged Egypt, discouraged with the signs of God, with the prophesied signs.
God told Abraham, the father of the promise, that his seed, Israel, would sojourn in a strange land. And He would show His hand of power by delivering them. And here was the man according to the Scriptures, here was the man with the signs that was promised, and they didn't believe it. They perished. Certainly.

L-77 Could you think of Ezekiel, another prophet? Why, Ezekiel, that man, God told him, "I'm going to..." Just before the judgment came... God sent Moses before the judgment, sent Noah before the judgment. He sent Noah and got all the people... I mean, Moses, and got the people over in--in the land where they--and where they would not be bothered with the plagues. And He sent Noah, and took all the believers in the ark, and destroyed the unbelievers of it--of Noah's sign (building an ark, preparing, prophesying what was going to happen). All that went in the ark was saved. All that went into Goshen was saved.

L-78 And here come Ezekiel just before God carried them down into Babylon. He said, "Go lay on your left side for three-hundred and ninety days." Said, "I put the burden upon you." And could you imagine this old gray-headed prophet laying on his side at the gates of, or of Jerusalem in Israel? And all the people come by and say, "Look at that fanatic, laying up there," with an old pottage of seed up there of--of--of beans and things, and they'd been soured for weeks.
And there he was laying there, and laid on his left side for three hundred and ninety days. Then God said, "Turn over on your right side and lay forty more." Why, it was a disgrace.

L-79 Oh, Israel had got real pomp, you know. Boy, they'd associate with the rest of the country. They wanted to get rid of such things as prophets. But they forgot that the Word of God came to the prophets. They wanted to take their gods; they wanted to take their--the way they wanted to believe it.
But God had sent them a prophet for a sign, and he did the sign. And they ignored the sign, and they went into judgment. How long? For four hundred and thirty years. He allowed a day for a year for them. When they laughed at him, every day they laughed meant another year in captivity. And He gave them a sign. They wouldn't believe it, no. But He carried them away down in Babylon in judgment. Oh, my.


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