Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was born to be a prophet. God foreordained that, when He told Abraham He’d bring His people out. I believe Moses was ordained then. He was born a proper child, and when he came out, what a marvelous boy. And he had his ups-and-downs, but in the wilderness God told Moses, “Go speak to the rock, and it’ll bring forth its water.” Instead of Moses speaking to the rock, he smote the rock. And that was one time that God’s complete program was broken. See? Christ was only smitten once; we don’t smite Him any more, we speak to Him. But Moses, after the rock had done been smitten, smote it again; it didn’t bring the waters; he smote it again. He was a prophet; he had the power and authority from God to do whatever he wanted to do in that manner. See? But he broke God’s commandment. God brought forth the water and answered His prophet, but then He dealt with Moses later about that. He wouldn’t let him go over in the promised land. You remember that?

At Thy Word, 1951-09-28, New York, NY, §6