Episode 205: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 171

Episode Summary:

O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. (Deuteronomy 3:24-27)

54 The reason that you hear me say sometimes, get the people say, “Believe me.” See? Now, the reason I say that is not believe me as Him. Certainly not, certainly. It’s to believe that I have told you the truth that He has sent me to do this. Now, see when that Angel met me, he said, “If you can get the people to believe you.” See? “If you get the people to…”

Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, said, “Look on us.” Is that right? And Elijah when the—all of them had come down there and got him kindly all stirred up, he said, “If it wasn’t I respected this righteous man, Jehoshaphat, I wouldn’t even look at you.” See?

55 How many knows that you can—you could send your soul to hell with a Divine gift? Sure, you can. You have to watch what you’re doing. How many believe Moses was God’s prophet? Say, “Amen.” He was God’s prophet, but do you know what he done? God told him to go down there and speak to the rock. The rock was already smitten. Is that right? Instead of Moses doing what God told him to do, he went down and smote the rock again. Is that right?

Well, that absolutely broke the entire Scripture right in two, right there. Christ wasn’t smitten twice. He was smitten once. We just speak to Him from now on. Is that right?

But when Moses smote the rock, that broke God’s complete program and it was—he had done exactly what God told him not to do. See? But he could do it anyhow, whether it was God’s will or not. That seems strange, doesn’t it? But it wasn’t God’s will, but he was a prophet. He could do whatever he wished and what his power would permit him to do.

But what did God do then? He dealt with Moses and kept him from going over in the promised land. Is that right? Took him upon a hill and said, “Here it is.” Let him look at the promised land, passed him out, let the Angels come take him away and bury him.

56 You have to… Look at Elijah. That young prophet was bald-headed, and them little children teasing him about being bald-headed. Said, “Thou bald head. Thou bald head. Why didn’t…”

You know what he said? That prophet turned around and put—cursed those children and said, “Cursed be,” I suppose in the Name of the Lord, and before those little children returned into the city, two she bears killed forty-two of them little innocent children. Is that Scripture? Poor little innocent children, but an angered prophet. Better be careful what you’re doing. See? That’s right.

So that’s the way it is here. I want to see what you’re doing before you put a curse a disease… What if God had put something on a person, or permitted Satan to do it, and you and I would come around with a Divine gift and take it off before God’s will was accomplished? Then God will deal with me. See? Have to be careful.

53-1130 – “Has The Lord Spoken Only To Moses?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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