I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He’s doing for us spiritually today. We’re all very familiar with this Scripture that I’ve just read. And we’re going to try to set forth tonight, God preparing for the—the journey, God setting His Church in order, then God’s exodus of the Church—taking it out, God’s journey with the people in the wilderness. And then the last call where Joshua takes the children of Israel over into the promised land. Oh, I trust that God will make Hisself visible to us, so real. I don’t know what more He could do. He’s never done hardly anything in the ages past any more than what He’s doing now. And to think that we have the privilege of being alive here tonight. Well, that thrills my heart beyond my words to utter, how I appreciate that what God is doing for us now in this present day. And to think that God has given me the privilege to share this blessing with His people, you, the purchase of His Blood. That I, by this that He has given, might be able to show Him to you, and to bring you to a closer fellowship with Him, that’s more than my heart can even comprehend.

The Angel of the Lord, 1951-05-02, Los Angeles, CA, §15