Topic: Moses

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Please explain Exodus the 24th…the 4th chapter and 24th verse. What does this Scripture mean—that God aimed to kill Moses or his son? And why?

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We know where that’s at, Exodus 4:24. That’s a good question. Now, here we’ll read it right here just a moment. Exodus 4 and 24: And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. How many remembers the story? Now, God gave Abraham, generations before Moses, th...

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What happened to Miriam after she and Aaron spoke against Moses?

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Now, we want to turn our attentions just a moment to the attitude of Miriam and Aaron. They thought that Moses had done wrong. They wanted to correct him. God was speaking to them, truly, but He said, “If there be one among you who’s a prophet, I’ll visit him in miracles or visions, and appear to hi...

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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 happened to Moses when he struck the rock instead of speaking to it?

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Do you realize that a—a gift of that type could send your soul to hell. How many believes Moses was a prophet? How many believes he disobeyed God? Certainly. God said, “Go down there and speak to the rock.” Don’t smite it no more; it’s already been smitten once. That was Christ. Is that right? And M...

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Did anyone besides Jesus ever talk with God face to face?

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Now, in the 23rd chapter of Exodus, and beginning with the 20th verse. I wish to begin to read just a few verses. Now, this is Moses and God talking face-to-face. Now, there never was a man in all the earth, outside of Jesus Christ, that ever talked face-to- face with God but Moses. “If there be one...

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What two signs did God give Moses to prove He had sent him?

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People, you ought to believe. When the prophet, Moses, went down, he didn’t have to go down and show his sign. God told him He’d give him two signs to prove that He had sent him. That was, Divine healing, was one, and another one, was to perform a miracle. Is that right?

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In the type of Moses and Joshua, what does each one represent?

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Looky here. The organized church was Moses, the law-giver. And the law-giver, Moses, glorified himself in the stead of God, and wasn’t permitted to take the children over Jordan. And the church today is glorifying themselves: “I belong to the Assemblies”; “I belong to the Church of God”; “I belong t...

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Who was the Angel of the Lord in the bush where Moses took off his shoes?

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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 sa...

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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 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...

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Why do we now speak to the Rock instead of smiting it?

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And the rod that Moses had in his hand, it was not the rod of Moses, it was the rod of God: God’s judgment rod. Moses held it out over Egypt and flies came up. He held it out and fleas came up. Wherever he dumped this rod, it was a judgment rod. It brought judgment upon a disobedient people. And the...

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Why was Moses told to speak to the rock instead of striking it a second time?

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Now, remember, Divine gifts can easily get a person into trouble. That God, if He finds someone that He figures that He can entrust a Divine gift with, we should reverence with all of our hearts… Now, you remember, how many believes Moses was a Divine gifted prophet of God? He was. Everyone believes...

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What does the account of Jannes and Jambres withstanding Moses show about true and false signs?

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Moses, upon his signs…He went and performed them one time before Israel, and they went a forty year journey following him. Is that right? Yes, sir. Performed it one time…Healed his hand of leprosy, made stick—cane he had, walking stick become a serpent, and back to a stick. They believed. And when t...

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Who performed the miracles when Moses delivered Israel?

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This Word that we have just read, was God sending Moses. Moses was born an odd, peculiar birth. It was just time for the prophetic wheel of God, to cause then it to move up and to have something to come to pass that He’d promised Abraham to take His people out, and He did. God always moves just in t...

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Who performed the miracles in Moses' ministry?

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And we, without a leader, are helpless. And Christ is our Leader. And God was Moses’ Leader, though He sent a—an Angel to lead him. “I send My Angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I have promised.” The Angel was to be his leader. The Angel performed the mir...

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How could Moses smite the rock the second time if it was against God's will?

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[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…house is given for the glory of God. Now, as I say, this being our last night together maybe for some time, you heard me make this statement, that from anything…I see nothing left that I did not do if he stayed there, unless I knew that the person was going to die, I would...

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Why did God send His Angel through Moses instead of having the Angel come alone?

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Now, notice. Then at the time of the promise drew nigh, there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and they put burdens upon the people. And the people were so burdened that they could not make the—the bricks and things that they were supposed to. And then, would you think that God would pla...

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Why did the people fail to recognize Moses as the deliverer God sent them?

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That’s true. Was it God or Moses that delivered the people? It was God in Moses. See? They cried for the deliverer. And when God sent the deliverer to them, they failed to see it, because it was by a man, but it wasn’t the man, it was God in the man. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]