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(3) PILLAR OF FIRE GOD'S.WAY.MADE.FOR.US_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-3 52-0900 18 Then He went right up to the wilderness into the spring of Marah,
"bitter" water. Isn't it strange that God would lead His
children through bitter waters? But them all goes along the road. But
when He was there, the remedy for the bitter waters was standing on the
bank. Moses cut down a tree and throwed it in the water, and turned
sweet again. Some through the waters, some through the flood, Some through deep trials, but all through the Blood. That's the way God leads His children: God's path, God's provided
way. If the children of Israel would have to try to by-pass, and go
around, down this way, they'd have got in trouble. They had to
follow the Cloud of Fire, the Pillar of Fire that led them. They
followed That. And if the Church tonight, will only follow the Pillar of
Fire, the Holy Spirit, you'll make Canaan as sure as anything. God
has a way, a provided way. MY.ANGEL.SHALL.GO.BEFORE.THEE_ TALLAHASSEE.FL FRIDAY_ 53-0213 E-4
And God always has had someone He could put His hands on.
Now, Moses was borned a proper child. And God ordained that he should
bring the--Israel out under his leadership. And before he went down into
Egypt after he was called when he was on the desert that morning herding
Jethro's sheep, his father-in-law, he saw a bush a burning. Now, I
believe that was the first appearance of the Angel of the Lord. He was
in this burning bush. And then when He commissioned Moses and told him
what he was to do, He went before Him down into Egypt. And when they
came out, He was in a form of a Fire again, a Pillar of Fire. And
this Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel, which was the same Angel
that was in the burning bush; that was the same Pillar of Fire that was
in that burning bush. MY.ANGEL.SHALL.GO.BEFORE.THEE_ TALLAHASSEE.FL FRIDAY_ 53-0213 , E-5
And that Pillar of Fire, or the Angel, was the Angel was the
covenant. I believe all ministers would agree with that, that
that was the Angel of the covenant. If it was the Angel of the
covenant, then it was the Lord Jesus; It was God the Holy Spirit.
For Moses chose to--to suffer the reproach of Christ, and counted it
greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. You see? Of Christ... That
was Christ the Logos, the Angel of the covenant that led the children of
Israel out of Egypt to the promised land which was just a foreshadow. As
He did in the natural then, He does in the spiritual today. Now, He promised to supply all their needs. When they needed water,
they got it from the rock. When they needed food, God rained it
down out of heaven, blowed it in by the wind. And
when the waters was bitter, they made it sweet. And He provided
everything they had need of. ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.1_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326 68 I'm still banking the same thing tonight: what God told Abraham,
"I'll save you and your Seed." I believe it. "Someday you're going out of here," and they believed it.
And one day old Joseph's bones... Moses started out, the Holy Spirit spoke to him, said, "You're
forgetting something, Moses. Go down and get the--the bones of
Joseph." Moses wrapped them up, and here he come, the Pillar
of Fire leading him on to the promised land, and buried
them by the side of Isaac and Jacob. Why? They knowed there was coming
the firstfruits of them that slept. They knowed there was coming a
resurrection one of them days. They knowed that Just One, that Job said,
"I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last day He stand upon the
earth." And they knowed that Job had an idea where He was going to
stand, so he said, "Bury me here." They wanted to be with
Joseph, or with Job, and they buried right around there in Palestine,
because that was the promised land. And they knowed the resurrection
wasn't going to be in Egypt; it wasn't going to be in Europe; it wasn't
going to be somewhere else. It was going to be in Palestine, so they
buried them there. ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.1_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326 166 "I've come down to deliver them. I'm declaring My Name.
Tell them that'll be a memorial through all generations, that I AM
THE I AM. Not the 'I was' or 'I will be.' I AM." The same God was there that night is here tonight. "Now, I'm going before you. I'm going to send My Angel,
and He's going to be in a Pillar of Fire. And I'm going to send Him
before you now, as a Pillar of Fire, and He will lead you." A
Pillar of Fire, so big, like a pillar. "A Pillar of Fire shall go
before you, to lead you. The I AM will be in that Pillar of Fire." ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.1_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326 168 Now, to the Branham Tabernacle, and to you who are associated
and know these truths. Did you know that same Pillar of Fire is
with us tonight? You remember having His picture taken down
yonder, and how It's swept across the world now, the same Pillar of Fire
that followed Moses back there in the burning bush. What is it? Any
scholar here daresn't... If I have been slopping along here with these
words and things, I do know where I'm standing. I got my head screwed on
right, I believe, by the Holy Spirit. Let me tell you, any scholar here
knows that that Angel Who followed the children of Israel through the
wilderness was the Angel of the Covenant. And the Angel of the
Covenant was Jesus Christ. Moses esteemed the riches of Christ
greater treasures than all of Egypt. Is that right? Sure, the Angel of
the Covenant. Then what is It here with us? They may say we got, lost
our mind, we're this, that, or the other, a bunch of holy-rollers, or
something. Maybe they might say it. But God Himself has
a-vindicated Himself in the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of
Israel, is leading us right on today. Hallelujah. Glory to God.
The same One was with Jesus Christ back yonder when He stood and He said
to them Pharisees, they was standing there, told the woman at the well
where her secret sins was, and so forth. It's operating in our
midst now. "He that Was, Which Is, and Will Come."
Hallelujah. I'm looking for Him, are you? Glory to God. Hallelujah. All
the guessing is gone. Oh, my.heaping up with that Pillar of Fire
to lead them, ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.1_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326 171 Thirty thousand people, critics standing there, I said, "I
don't claim to be a healer. You know I don't. I only speak of the truth.
When I was born in a little Kentucky cabin up there, the Angel of
the Lord come in the window and stood there. There was a Pillar of
Fire." And I said, "God has proved that. And if I tell the
truth, God will a-vindicate the truth. And if I'm a liar, God
will have nothing to do with me." And about that time, she went
"Whoosh," here He come. The American Photographer Association,
all them there, "Look," "Life," "Times,"
"Collier," and all of them. The American Photographer
Association shot the picture of It. Said, "I believe it's
psychology. We've seen It before, but I believe..." And they took
it home. And there the Light struck the lens. They took it to George J.
Lacy. They put it under everything they could. And now it hangs in
Washington, D.C., in the hall of fame. Hallelujah. What is it? Jesus
Christ with that bunch that they call holy-rollers. God bless your
heart. ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327 137 Here they go, moving down there. One of the writers said that
God was in that Pillar of Fire, "And He looked down through
with angry eyes." And said, "When He did, the Red Sea got
scared and begin to move back, and Israel passed through on dry
land." Never even got their feet muddy. ISRAEL.AT.THE.RED.SEA.2_ JEFF.IN IC 65-96 FRIDAY_ 53-0327 214 Our heavenly Father, that beautiful church moving on in full
armor, and their clothes never got threadbare, their shoes never come
off of their feet. Forty years in the wilderness, and there wasn't a
feeble one among them: no doctor, earthly doctors; just the Great
Physician. No millineries, no nothing to make clothes with; but the
great Creator was there who kept their clothes from getting threadbare. They
had to go through deep waters and burning sand, pushed through briar
patches and thick mountains. Everything was in the way, but that
great Pillar of Fire was leading the way. ISRAEL.IN.THE.HOMELAND_ JEFF.IN IC 129-147 SUNDAY_ 53-0329 40 Now, and there you mark that in your Bible. He has never told me
anything, never since I was a baby. And that Pillar of Fire...
And my own mother setting back there now, that fifteen years old when I
was born, she opened up the little window, and the Angel of the
Lord come in and stood there. That, from that time, since I can
remember, He's never told me one thing that's wrong. And
here I am in the city right where I was born and raised. Some of you
all, strangers, seek around through the city, and ask any persons if
ever one thing was told in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass
just exactly like It said. So I know It's all right (See?); It's God. ISRAEL.IN.THE.HOMELAND_ JEFF.IN IC 129-147 SUNDAY_ 53-0329 76 Look in the old days back there, they, they put up their tents.
There was a Pillar of Fire that led them. And every time that
Pillar of Fire would move, they'd move with It. It stayed over the tents.
And if it was ten o'clock at night, two o'clock in the afternoon, there
was a thousand trumpets blasted at once; every Israelite took down his
tent, pulled up his stakes, and wound up everything, and they
followed the Pillar of Fire. Oh, that would be a good thing today. They followed the Pillar of
Fire. And then where the Pillar of Fire stopped, they built under. That
become lost to the church. ISRAEL.IN.THE.HOMELAND_ JEFF.IN IC 129-147 SUNDAY_ 53-0329 78 And in the days of Martin Luther, after five--fifteen hundred
years of dark ages, Martin Luther saw the Pillar of Fire move, and
he come out of the Catholic church, and he followed the Pillar of Fire
and brought tens of thousands of them out. And then Martin Luther built under the Pillar of Fire. And when he
got down there, the first thing you know, he made a great organization
called the Lutheran church. But one day the Pillar of Fire begin to move
again, but Martin Luther couldn't move because he was organized. He had
to stay there. That's right. And a little fellow over in England, by the name of John Wesley,
saw It. (And Martin Luther said, "The just shall live by
faith.") And now, and John Wesley said that, "Jesus suffered
without the gates, that He might sanctify the people with His Own
Blood." He seen sanctification. The Pillar of Fire moved on,
but Luther couldn't move, because he was organized. ISRAEL.IN.THE.HOMELAND_ JEFF.IN IC 129-147 SUNDAY_ 53-0329 82 Then they couldn't move, so John Wesley saw the Pillar of
Fire and he moved after It. And he pulled a great... He saved
the nations. About three or four nations was in moral decay, and John
Wesley saw the Pillar of Fire and started the Wesley revival that swept
around the world, and come over here, him and Asbury and them, and saved
the day. That's right. And then the first thing you know, John Wesley organized so
tight, the Pillar of Fire begin to move again. Wesley couldn't
move because he was organized. And the Pentecostal people saw It, and
away they went. That's right, left Wesley setting in the shade; God laid
him up on the shelf with Luther. All right. Now, the first thing you
know, they had a great revival, a Pentecostal revival, restoration of
the gifts and so forth. And now, the first thing you know, the Pillar of Fire has
begin to move again. But Pentecost is so organized, it can't
go...?... when pure...?... It was so organized, crystallized until it
can't go. That's right. That's true. But the Pillar of Fire is
moving out, brother, and there's people that's going with It.
Hallelujah. We're bound for the promised land. Yes, sir. |