<TITLE>18. Par 165-172</TITLE>L-165   God's first appearing, to Moses, in the burning bush, veil. Before the people, God veiled again and vindicated Moses, by the veil, by veiling Himself with the same Fire, same Pillar of Fire came down. From--from then... From them, so they could only hear God's Word. You get it? Just the Word, they heard His Voice. For, Moses was, to them, the living Word. Moses! See, God had so proven that Word by Moses! See, Moses said... God said to Moses, "Go down there. I'll be with you. He's... Not nothing going to stand before you. I AM THAT I AM."

L-166 Moses come down, and said, "You might not believe this, maybe, but God appeared to me in the Pillar of Fire and He told me these things."

L-167 "Oh, we have all kind of things like going on." Pharaoh said, "Why!" Pastor Pharaoh said, "Well, you got a cheap magician trick. Why, I got magicians here that can turn a serpent into... a stick--a stick into a serpent. Come here, magicians." And they come over there and done the same thing.

L-168   Moses knowed. No nothing bothered him. How many impersonators they had, didn't make a bit of difference. Moses just stood still. The first thing you know, they crawled around a while, and, directly, Moses' snake just eat the rest of them up. See? Why? Like them apostles, they couldn't explain It. Moses didn't know how God was going to do it, but He was going to do it.

L-169 Remember, He said Jambres and Jannes will return in the last days, see, impersonations. "And would deceive the very Elect if possible," Matthew 24:24. See? Just exactly the same things, do the same kind of miracles and everything. Watch that Word! Watch that Word! The man says he does a miracle and still wants to believe there is three Gods, and there is all these kind; you get away from that kind. We know that's--that's wrong, see, no such thing. See? The Word, every Word, every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God! Genesis, one Word! Over here, said, "Don't take or add one word." See, It's got to be that same Word. See?

L-170   Notice, the people seen something that had happened. Moses had been veiled as a... He was a prophet, and God had vindicated His Word now, went down there. And he seen signs and wonders. And then, all right, this people got separated unto themselves, a church. See, church means "called out." See? After they was called out of the world and became a people, see, then God let Hisself be known that He was that Pillar of Fire. He proved Moses' message. See? He was the Pillar of Fire. They might have took the picture of It, I guess, if they'd a-had cameras, 'cause it was all on Fire. But they--they proved that, God proving that the Message was right. The Message was at hand, everything was, they was going to be exodused then. Veiled His prophet to this exodus people.

L-171   The people, think, seen something had happened to him. He was now different from the rest of the Israelites. He was a different, his message was different, he was different from the priests, he was different from anything. See, he was a different person. The people seen something had happened. God had veiled Himself in His prophet, to speak His Words to them. That's what He had done. Moses was that living Word to the people, veiled by the Pillar of Fire, speaking what was to be veiled later behind badger skins. See?

L-172   The Word had to come from Moses, first. See? Moses had the Word. They were written by God, nobody could interpret Them, Moses had to interpret Them, first. That's the reason he veiled his face, 'cause he... Do you see It? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See?
Here It is. [Brother Branham picks up his Bible--Ed.] We could pick It, pack It up, and everything else there, but It's got to be revealed. In order to reveal, Moses had to become God to the people.
You say, "That's nonsense."


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