<TITLE>08. Par 80-94</TITLE>L-80   Now here the burning bush was the sign to attract the prophet, trying, because the prophet had run away from God, and God gave the burning bush for a sign. And he saw this strange sign; he said, "I'll turn aside to see what this strange sign is, that a--a bush is on fire and is not consumed." Now God was attracting the attention of His runaway prophet. He could have got another one, but he ordained Moses for the job and nobody else will take his place.

L-81 In the journey, some other fellows tried to do it, you know. Dathan raised up and wanted to make an organization out of it. God told Moses, "Separate yourself. I'll just swallow them up." See?

L-82 God deals with an individual. See? Now notice this, He was trying to attract the prophet's attention, to get the prophet in his right place, see, and He gave the burning-bush sign.

L-83 And, watch, the voice that followed the sign was a Scriptural voice. "I have heard the cries of My people, and their groanings, because of the taskmasters, and I remember My promise." Amen. That settles it. "I remember the promise." That was a Scriptural voice. "And I'm sending you down. I have come down to deliver them, and I'm sending you."

L-84   Remember, God does nothing outside of man. You know that? That's what stumbles the people. See?

L-85 That's what stumbled them about Jesus. They said, "You're a Man, making yourself God." He was God, but they couldn't understand it. "Well, You, just being a Man."

L-86 He said, "Well, you call the prophets, 'gods,' and your law recognized it. And if you call them 'gods,' who the Word of God come to, how can you condemn Me when I say I'm the Son of God?"

L-87 See, signs, to attract attention. And, remember, if the attention is attracted, it's the same old line, it isn't God.

L-88 But God is trying to attract the prophet now, and He gives him a sign, and the voice that followed the sign was a Scriptural voice. "I have seen the people. I have heard of their crying. I remember My promise."

L-89   Now God is going to speak by His promised Word. He must send His prophet, for the Word comes to the prophet. The Bible said, God said, Himself, that, "He does nothing until He reveals it to His servants the prophets first." See? And then the sign is given. And the Scripture is identified, that's the Voice of the sign.

L-90 See the Voice of the sign, of Moses? First, the sign was the burning bush; the Voice was the Scripture.

L-91 Moses took that as His sign, and went down to Egypt and done the sign God told him; and the sign had a voice to it, and the people believed and out they come. And as long as they marched, they did fine; but when they begin to murmur against the voice, then they stopped.

L-92   Remember, Israel journeyed. Did you know all the farther they come? They would have been... They was only forty miles, and about forty years doing it. Why? Is because that they begin to murmur against the voice that had produced the sign. How little did they know, when they were shouting down there on the banks, and dancing in the Spirit, and Moses singing in the Spirit, they was only just a few days off. But they begin to murmur, and wanted to do something different; and they stayed forty years in the wilderness, and perished over it, that's right, because they didn't believe. God said, "They're not talking against you, Moses. They're talking against Me." That was God's voice, not Moses.

L-93   Now watch, Jehovah is going to speak by His promised Word, so He must send His prophets. That, if you want to see that, that's in Genesis 15:16. We find out that God told Abraham, "Your seed will sojourn in this strange land, and I'll bring them out by a mighty hand. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet fulfilled." All of His promises that He give, here He is attracting the prophet, by a burning bush.

L-94 Now if the burning bush would have said, "Moses, God is God."
"Yeah, I believe that."


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