<TITLE>12. Par 90-103</TITLE>L-90 "This I've promised." Said, "Moses, take off your shoes." In other words, honor It. "Now throw down your staff." And a--a dry stick off the desert became a serpent, and Moses caught it, and went back to its condition again. See? He knew that was God, because God said, the Word of God, the Word that he was speaking, said, "Throw down the stick in your hand." That's God's Word. Don't try to do the same thing, that ain't God's Word to you, that's God's Word to Moses. Here's God's Word to you! "Throw down the stick." It turned to a serpent. Said, "Now are you afraid of it? Pick it up by the tail," and back it went again. God's Word to him. What did He do? God vindicated His Word.

L-91   I had a call here a few months ago, about, been, oh, it's been about a year, over a year ago. A little lady on the end of a telephone connection, with a Baptist preacher and a Pentecostal preacher. She said, "Brother Branham, the Lord has made me a prophetess."
Said, "Fine."

L-92 Said, "You know, I'm told that you said that you--you bore record that my ministry was of God."

L-93 Now, I couldn't do that, it's contrary to the Word. So I said, "Lady, that's an error. I don't even know you."

L-94 And the Baptist preacher, I heard him, I heard the Pentecostal preacher. She said, "Well, I'm having a meeting here." And said, "The Lord is doing great things."

L-95 I said, "I'm grateful for that." She said... I said, "Has He ever told you anything yet?"
Said, "Yes, I've got a great program in hand."

L-96 I said, "Wonderful." I said, "Now, what's your program?" I said, "What did the Lord tell you?"

L-97 "He said, 'Go to Phoenix, Arizona, on a certain-certain date, and then I'm going to give you the lost Dutchman Gold Mine, and you're going to take this gold that's found in there and you're going to sponsor missionaries around the world.'" When we all know that the lost Dutchman Mine is a legend. "So He said."

L-98 I said, "Well, I'll tell you how to find out whether it's God or not." I said, "You be there on that day. And if it's you find the lost Dutchman Mine, then it's God. If you don't find the lost Dutchman Mine, then repent and get that lying spirit off of you." That's how to find out whether it's God or not.

L-99   God said, "Moses, throw down the stick, and it'll turn to a serpent." He did it. He said, "Pick it up and it'll be a stick again." He did it.

L-100 When God makes a promise of a ministry in this last days, He'll confirm it just exactly the way He said He would do it. Then you know you got the right Voice. You're listening to the right Thing, because it's the Word being confirmed. See? Oh, how... I'm sorry, I... All right.

L-101   Moses acted different. Look what a--a funny thing Moses done. Now, always when you're following the Voice of God, you're crazy, to the world. The next day, found Moses, with his wife setting on a mule, and a young'n on her hip, or that's southern, "child" on her hip, and there they was. This old man with beard hanging down like this, and his bald head shining, a stick in his hand, leading a little donkey, going right down towards Egypt just as hard as he could go. Somebody said, "Moses, where you going?"

L-102 "Going down to Egypt, to take the thing over." Wherewith he had failed as a young man, he had failed as a military man, but here he was going down to take over. And he did it. Why? He had heard the Voice of God and seen It vindicated for his day, for the things that was to be in his day. He saw it.

L-103   Paul, a self-styled Pharisee, just as full of theology as he could be, but one day he heard the Voice of God. He saw a Pillar of Fire, and he knowed there was something different. It changed his life. No matter how many Pharisees, how many Gamaliels or anything else could cry out to Paul, "you're wrong, you're wrong," Paul, when he heard the Voice of God, he knowed It was the Truth.


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