And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
A strange text, yet God does strange things in unusual ways. That's what makes Him God, because He's--He's supernatural. And everything that He does, He--He does it, He can do it in the supernatural, because He is supernatural.
Typed, God was bringing Israel, His people, out, a nation, a nation out of a nation. A Nation out of a nation, a beautiful type of today, that God is calling His Bride out of a church, Christian Bride out of a Christian church, a Bride Church out of a church, which is called, in the Bible, referred to.
Notice, now, the Word had to be manifested. And when the Word had to be manifested, of a promise, God always sends a prophet to manifest that promise, because the Word of the Lord comes to him.
When God has--has called a person for a job to do, there is no one can take its place. There is no one can take your place, your peculiarity.
There is no big people among us, no great people among us. We are all the same. We're children of God. There is only one great among us, and that's Christ. We must recognize Him. And if we seek honor, one from another, we can't have faith, because we're having faith in one another. We got to have faith in Christ. He is the One among us that we must have faith in, and then faith in what He is doing and has give to us.
Now, God always gives a messenger a sign, and a voice of that sign. And that sign identifies the man, if it's written in the Scripture.
God's way of doing anything is spoke in His Word. And this Word is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ, nothing to be added to It or taken away from It.
God's way of doing it! Ever true to His sent sign, He followed by His voice; every, since, that God sends a sign in the earth. "Now God never does nothing," the Bible said, "until first He shows it to His servants the prophets."
When you hear people desiring to be this, that, or the other, something, just watch, God never uses them. God had to hunt Moses down, to get him. He had to hunt Paul down, to get him. He... It's man that don't want to do it, they don't want things; then God takes that man, that he won't do it, so He can show His glory by it.
Now, the sign has a voice. And, now, every true God-sent sign has a voice, and that voice must speak according to the Word that's given for that day, just exactly.
God gives signs. What does He do it for? Always gives signs! He told them that's what they'd look for Him in, the signs. God gives signs to attract the attention of His people.
And the Word comes to His prophet. And the prophet is identified by the sign that he shows, and then he comes to the Word and the Word is made manifest. That settles it; don't need any interpretation. God has already interpreted it. See, it's just as perfect as it can be.
And so is it today, when we are trying to approach through school and education, in a scientific way, you'll miss God a million miles. Approach it like Moses, with his shoes off; humble, humility.
Gets the elected ready to hear the voice of God, that's what the prophetic sign is. Oh, if you follow these messages, get the per-... get the elected ready. Not the others, will never hear it. It's the elected that's called.
Judgment to the unbeliever! It's put out there for that purpose, to give light to the believer, and darkness to the unbeliever. Just as the Pillar of Fire was; It made light, to cross to the promised land, and darkness to those who did not believe. God's signs always does that, put out the eyes of the unbeliever, and gives sight and light of walking to the believer. That's what It's sent for.
Notice what we said now. The Scriptures will be just exactly, 'cause we have the Sodom sign, in the natural. When was there any more homosexuals, perversions and things, as there is now, "a wicked and adulterous generation," when you can't even turn your television on 'less there is some kind of dirty, filthy Hollywood stuff? And people, call themselves Christians, will stay home from prayer meeting to see such. It shows what spirit's in you. Right. And the women will dress just like those, and the men will let them lead them around like they do there. Are we going to make Hollywood our example, or are we going to believe God's Word about it?
There is the sign and the Voice.
Signs are usually accepted, but the Voice is not. They don't like the Voice, but they'll take the sign. Usually, they'll take it. They like the sign, 'cause they like to look at it, entertains them. But, the Voice, they don't want to--to do it. Remember now the Voice.
If you can believe the Sodom sign, of Luke, see, as He promised it; you believe the Sodom sign, then why can't you accept the Malachi Voice that follows the sign, to "return to the Word"?
The Bible says so, and you see it, then listen at the Voice of the sign.
Flee the wrath to come!