<TITLE>19. Par 149-162</TITLE>L-149 You say, "That... What happened to them?" They're Eternally gone.

L-150 "All of them, Brother Branham?" Jesus said so.

L-151 They said, "Our fathers eat Manna in the wilderness, and they drank from the Rock."

L-152 And He... Jesus said, "And they are, every one, dead," Eternally separated, see, every one.

L-153   Notice they complained about God's provided way, was the reason they died. (Now, closely, don't miss these last few remarks.) They complained! What made them die in the wilderness, they complained about God's provided way: by a one-man Message, a prophet, a leadership of one man. Tell me when God ever used a group to lead. You won't find it in the Bible. One man, they... The Word came to Moses!

L-154 Korah; we all know that he--he got hisself together and complained about God not being just, to do a thing like that, to make one man with the Message. He said, "We're all holy. Why can't we have a denomination? And why can't we have... set up this, and do this, and do that?"

L-155 God told Moses, "Separate yourself from him, I've had enough of it." And remember, Jude speaks the same thing, in the last days. That's right, "They perished in the gainsaying of Korah." We also know what happened to Korah and the--and the rest that questioned God's Word and God's wisdom of that one-man leadership: every one of them perished.

L-156   Now, we will notice God in the shepherd-prophet, showing His future plans in the next sign voice. Now, watch. We see it there, now let's watch it in the next sign.

L-157 Now, notice, he was sent to his brethren in slavery, under bondage, with a Message of deliverance, with a God-given sign to prove His claims. Israel went for his Message, they believed It, every one of them, but in the evening time... They went for his miracles, but in the evening time when they... he gave his Message, "It was different." All that did not believe that Message, died. That's right. What was the Message? The Message was of the coming judgment. At the evening, at the evening time, God went out through the camp of Israel to find if the people had believed His shepherd-prophet's Message; and all had not believed It, perished.

L-158   Now notice, we're going to bring it over to the Great Shepherd just in a few moments. See? Notice the Great Shepherd-prophet's ministry. Of His miracles, every church opened and would receive Him. They wanted their sick healed. They wanted to do great things. His popularity was great. But when the evening time came, one day after He had turned water to wine, and had fed thousands, bread, and had performed miracles, He begin to set down and talk to them. And He said to them, "I and My Father are one. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Why sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'?"

L-159 "Oh, brother! This man making himself equal with God?" That was too much for their ecclesiastical thinking. But it was the Truth, He was! See? But when they did, many did not follow him.

L-160 Then He turned around and said, "Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."

L-161 Now, what do you think a smart, intellectual person would thought? I imagine the priests that had had Him in the temple was very--was very ashamed of--of them having Him there. "To think that a man would stand up and say a thing like that, 'Except you people eat My Flesh, and drink My Blood.'" Said, "This is a human vampire, see, 'Eat My Flesh and drink... ' Why, he's a cannibal. You good thinking people will... you'll get away from such a lunatic as that."

L-162 He never explained It, He just said It! He did it to stumble them, to separate His sheep from goats. He did it to throw them off. And then nobody wanted to cooperate with Him. They had no cooperation from then on. See?


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