<TITLE>17. Par 131-140</TITLE>L-131 The shepherd knows his sheep better than anyone else. There's no one knows a sheep like a shepherd, he's trained to it. Also knew what kind of food they would eat. They... he knew what the sheep would eat, and he knows his sheep by what they eat. The... you'd see a sheep go out to a slop-pen and start eating slop, you'd say, "Get that scavenger away." See? So God knew where to send them.

L-132   Now let us call one of Jehovah's great shepherd-prophets, to confirm that God was in these prophets under the sheepskin. Watch now. We will call, first, Moses. Let's look at him. His ministry will show us Jehovah in His shepherd-prophet. Now, we'll just take maybe one, if we have time, for about the next ten minutes. We'll take two of them, but maybe this one will be all right.

L-133 Moses; Jehovah displays Himself here, in this shepherd-prophet. He was given three gifts to vindicate his ministry and calling to the elders of Israel, and to Pharaoh. Notice this shepherd-prophet, now. He give, always, His prophets, the supernatural sign, to vindicate that it was God in them; for there cannot be the presence of God without supernatural things happening. Never did Jehovah ever appear without the supernatural following Him. It has to be. So He always a-vindicated Himself that He was with these prophets, by confirming what they were prophesying of, if it was according to His Word.

L-134   Now, the first--the first sign He gave to the... this prophet-shepherd (look), turned his rod to a serpent.

L-135 Second, his hand turned to leprosy.

L-136 Third, to take water out of the Nile River in Egypt, and turn it to blood.

L-137 Now, He give him three signs to vindicate to Egypt, and also to Israel, that he was God's spoken Word.

L-138 Now, remember, Moses called into creation! That's right. Picked up sand and throwed it up in the air, and said, "Let fleas come," and fleas came. Said, "Let flies come," and flies come. "Let frogs come," and frogs come. He brought into creation! Now, a man cannot create, but it wasn't man to begin with. It was Jehovah in His prophet-shepherd! Amen!

L-139   Watch! The third sign He give him was not related to his occupation, nor either was it related to his person; his third sign. Notice, the first two signs related to him, hisself and his occupation. And they was the only two signs that the Bible says that "had a voice." The other sign didn't have a voice. But the two signs that was given from his own person, and to his people, had voices. But the third sign, now notice, it was given... the sign, the third sign, was the sign of death: water turning to blood. If your--if your--if your blood would turn to water, then you would die. And where there's blood, shed blood, is a sign of death; so it was to Pharaoh. The third was to turn the Nile water into blood, was to show--to show his Message to Pharaoh that our God is God over the Nile, over the god of the Nile. He's God over everything, and He's going to bring death to that nation. And that's what the sign of blood was. Oh, my! Direct sign of death: blood!

L-140   But the other two had voices of prophecy. (I--I--I hope you're reading now, between lines, what I'm saying.) But the other two signs had voices of prophecy to Israel concerning their future. (Now to you that was up on the mountain not long ago, when the rock was threw up.)


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