<TITLE>14. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 Let's go back for a minute. Noah was--come with a gift of God as a prophet, saying there was coming a storm that was going to cover the whole world with water. Now, it didn't meet with scientific ideas of that day. Remember, they were greater scientists then than we are now. They'd built the pyramids and Sphinx, and we couldn't build that now. They embalmed the body to make it look natural, even to this day, a mummy; we couldn't make it. They had coloring that we can't touch. They were greater scientists than we have today. And now, when--they probably could shoot radar to the moon too.
And Noah, this man standing out there after hearing from God, and preaching, prophesying that God was going to destroy the world with water... It's going to rain down out of the heavens. Why, I can hear the scientist to come up there, and said, "Look, we've got an instrument that we can shoot plumb to the moon." You know, it had never rained in them days. God watered the earth up from the springs, never been no rain in the skies. The earth, leaning back after the antediluvian destruction, causes the rains.
So Noah said that it's going to rain from above, and the people didn't believe it. Science says, "There's not one drop of rain up there, no water. How could it rain?"
Noah would say, "If God said it's going to rain, and rain's coming from up there, God's able to put rain up there." See? But the people didn't believe it. One day she rained. See? And that race, because they did not believe it, they were destroyed: the whole world.

L-48 Years later come a prophet named Moses, came down out of the wilderness, a Pillar of Fire over him. And he was bringing them the promise of God, telling them that God had promised by His Word to take them to a land that was flowing with milk and honey. And he had this Pillar of Fire over him, and God was working with him to prove to those Jews that he was a prophet.
He said, "Tomorrow get everything ready, because a certain-certain thing will take place." And it happened just exactly. He was a prophet.

L-49 Notice. I thought the other day how glorious that must've been for Israel when they heard that. They believed him. Notice, they were--they were slaves. They--they--they'd throw them out molded bread; they eat it or done without. If those Egyptians wanted to take their young daughters and ravish them, what could they do about it? Nothing. Go and take their young sons, and kill them, what could they do about it? Nothing. They were slaves, and yet they were God's people. Amen.
Notice. Now, here they were God's people in that kind of a shape, and down come this prophet with THUS SAITH THE LORD, according to the Scriptures. "God, our Father, met Abraham, and told him that his seed would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years, then He'd bring them out with a great promise and power. He would deliver them, and take them to a good land where Abraham sojourned. And it's--the time is at hand."

L-50 Any man could've said that, but this man had a Pillar of Fire over him. And he was a prophet. What he was saying was happening just exactly the way he said. Oh, my.
Israel believed it. What did they do? They marched out of Egypt under that Pillar of Fire on the road to a promised land that they had never seen or knowed nothing about. And none of them had ever been there, but they went because God's Word bid them to go. They were in the line of duty.
(I hope I'm not too loud. I've been used to preaching outdoors and things. Just a minute. Notice. I'll stand back a little.)
Notice, they followed that prophet through the wilderness, and God fed them in the wilderness. He supplied all their needs, rained bread out of the heavens of a nighttime and fed them, and took them up till they come to a place called Kadesh-barnea. Kadesh-barnea was one time the judgment seat of the world.


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