Episode 90: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 56

Episode Summary:

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. (Exodus 3:2-5)

6 There’s probably a many a man setting here tonight, that if he’d just done what God told him to a long time ago, he’d be preaching the Gospel somewhere. Do something. Don’t just stand still. Get out…?… If you’re not a preacher, testify, do something somewhere. Don’t stand still. If you’re washing the dishes, why, testify to the neighbor. Get out and pass tracts; do something. Don’t stand still. What is in your hand? Get doing something. And whatever is at your hand, use it.

And I can see Moses as he was going along, herding some sheep, one morning, probably thinking about the days. He was about eighty years then.

7 Some people say, “Well, I’m too old.” Moses wasn’t when he was eighty. So he’d been forty years, God child-trained him back there on the backside of the desert, and then, getting him ready, preparing him for the service of the Lord.

And then there was a burning bush. And Moses stepped up to the burning bush to look at it. I don’t believe to criticize it. It was a lot of fire, and burning, and carrying on. So they… He thought, he’d just walk aside to see why it wasn’t consumed. And while he was walking up close to it, the Lord said, “Take off your shoes; you’re on holy ground.”

8 And what if Moses said, “I will just take off my hat, Lord, that’ll be just as good.” But God didn’t tell him his hat, He said, his shoes. I believe we must do just what the Scripture says do, no matter how hard it seems, and how indifferent from our teaching, we’ve got to do what God said do. He said, shoes, He meant shoes.

Moses slipped off his shoes, and started walking up in the… That was the—the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, setting in that bush, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And any teacher knows that the—the Angel of the covenant was Jesus Christ. He was the Rock that was in the wilderness. He was in the brass serpent. He was in all the patriarchs. He was in David. He was down through the New Testament. And He’s in His Church tonight. Just the same Jesus the yesterday, today, and forever: changes not.

53-0508 – “God Commissioning Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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