Topic: Israel's journey

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness foreshadow?

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Jesus said, “I can, if you believe.” Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won’t believe on...

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Why did God say He would give the land little by little instead of all at once?

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Now, look. God said, “I’m not going to give it to you all at one time. If I give it to you at one time, if I do, then you’ll…the whole land will swept bare, then the wild beasts will multiply against you, and will overcome you. I’m just going to give it to you little by little, as you’re able to pos...

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Why was Moses not allowed to enter the promised land?

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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 roc...

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What do the three stages of Israel's journey — Egypt, the journey, and Palestine — stand for?

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If I ever get a chance again, maybe over in the next little city, you’ll be over there anyhow. So you come over. I’m going to get a chance to talk on that over there: show you in the Bible, that’s the truth. Now, we’re going to talk about a journey, how that God brought His people out of Egypt into...

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Is the land of Canaan a type of heaven?

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Now, a lot of people apply Canaan, to being over in the promise land, to being the type of heaven. No, it couldn’t type heaven. It’s the stages of the journey of the Church. They had wars and everything over in Canaan. There’s no wars in heaven, you know. So they had dying, and murders, and everythi...

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What does the smitten Rock stand for, and what poured out of it?

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John 3:16 is a perfect type of this Church today, for us. That’s the smitten Rock, Christ, God’s judgments. We being worthy of death, worthy of all this condemnation, and the judgments of God smote the Rock, Christ; and out of Him poured out everlasting water, that a perishing people might not peris...

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Why was a portion of the manna kept in the holiest of holies?

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Now, Aaron as soon as the first manna fell, God told Aaron and Moses, “Go out there and pick up several omer’s full of it and put it back in the holiest of holies, that when your children children, all that come into the priesthood, will get a taste of the original manna.” Oh, what a privilege when...

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What does the brass serpent in the wilderness have to do with healing through Jesus Christ?

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Let’s read a little farther. Don’t bow down to them. Don’t serve them. Destroy their images. You shall serve the Lord your God. And He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness out of the midst of thee. (Hallelujah.) God said that. If God said that in the type of the journey, how...

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What was the manna laid up in the holiest of holies a type of?

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And now, watch, the manna kept falling. Now, Moses told Aaron, go out and take up several omer-fulls of it, and put it back in the holiest of holies around the ark, that after this, that every priest (Get it?), every priest coming into the priesthood could have a mouthful of the original manna that...

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What did the brass serpent Moses put on a pole represent?

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Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. M...

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Why was the brass serpent lifted up in the wilderness?

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God provided an ark for the saving of the household of Noah and his family. God prepared twelve stones by Elijah one time, for the preserving of the children of Israel. God’s always made a provided way. When they was in the wilderness, and the first thing you know, sin set in. Now, watch! Here’s one...

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Why did Moses lift up the brass serpent?

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But the serpent was raised up for a compound reason, that they might be forgiven and healed. So help us tonight, Lord. As Thou did say here on earth, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent,” the same way, be lifted up, the Son of man, same reason, forgiveness of sin, healing of the body. Then if the...

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What does the land of Canaan represent?

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Now, when He brought the children of Israel out of the wilderness, out into the wilderness, He led them by a Pillar of Fire. Is that right? The Bible said He did, and He went before them. That was the Anointing, the Holy Spirit, Christ, that went before the children of Israel. Well, if He’s the same...

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What did Balaam fail to see about Israel?

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But where Balaam failed, to see that Brazen Serpent and that smitten Rock going before Israel, making atonement. It was God’s calling, God’s election. They were God’s people. Hallelujah! God had called them and separated them, and put a Serpent before them (as an atonement) and a smitten Rock, and B...

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What did the smitten Rock in the wilderness represent?

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On up they come, into the smitten Rock. Notice when they come to the Rock, they had need. Now, Moses smote the Rock with the rod. That’s where we left last night. Smote the Rock with the rod, and the rod was God’s judgment rod. And he smote the Rock, and there was a cleft in the left side of the Roc...

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In the brass serpent, what did the serpent and the brass each represent?

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Brass, the serpent being made out of brass, meant “Divine judgment.” Now, the serpent was “sin already judged,” and the brass meant “Divine judgment.”

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When Elisha said to dig ditches in the desert, where did the water come from?

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They started to praying. And Elisha got in the Spirit and he saw a vision. Now, he said, when he saw the vision, he said, “Go out yonder in that desert, right where you’re at, and go to digging ditches. And the—dig them out. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’ll not hear any wind, any rain, but there’ll b...

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

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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 b...

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness cure?

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And in the days when the children of Israel were journeying through the wilderness, God had a message of a brass serpent on a pole, provided for a compound reason: for forgiveness of sin and healing of their body from a snakebite, which their medical aids would not touch. And Moses was learned in al...

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What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it?

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Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you migh...