The Prophet to Come

Many prophecies in the Bible are dual. In many cases, there's something that has happened, and in the Bible gives an analogy or a point, and it says... and that specific point has a future fulfillment as a type of things to come. We know that. That's so important. It's so important. The Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread, we went through some of those things that... it's just the same. It's a type of events which are fulfilled or will be fulfilled by Christ at His Second Coming or are fulfilled at His First Coming, but sometimes there are analogies that are not just dual, but they triple, or more than that. And then there's an application or a lesson to us individually.

We obviously, for instance, understand that the Passover Lamb was a type of Christ, the Lamb of God. But brethren, that's only the beginning. It's only scratching the very surface of the depth of meaning of the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread and all the meanings that go with it.

And so there are analogies and types that today I want to investigate, but in one specific area. And there He is. I want to focus on Moses and Christ.

And so what? So that we may consider how those different analogies affect us, particularly now before the Lamb of Bread. And obviously when I mean Lamb of Bread, I mean Passover as well. So what I'm really saying, in other words, is many of the events surrounding the Exodus are applicable in the future.

Not only were they applicable, but are applicable still in the future. As you know, three months after the Exodus, Israelites went to Mount Sinai, we believe it was during the period of Pentecost, and God commanded, and God the Father commanded, and He spoke through the Word. The Word was the Spokesman, spoke through the Word, who was God, we know John 1.1, was God. He was in the form of God and an arthritic, and robbery to be equal to God, you know that, Philippians 2, verse 6, 7, and 8. And so God, through the Word, spoke and gave the Ten Commandments to these Relights. But if we just turn to Deuteronomy 5 very briefly, look at verse 4, and there it is, then they say, now we don't want to hear any more from God. Remember, they said, no, no, no, no, we don't hear God talking to us directly. Look at Deuteronomy 5, verse 4, and it says, and the Lord talked with you face to face in the mountain from midst of the fire, so the Lord spoke to Moses, and then to the Israelites, He spoke. But look a little bit lighter in verse 23, it says, and it was when you heard a voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came here to Me, and then later on we see, no, don't speak to us, speak to us through an mediator. Don't talk to us directly. They did not want to hear God. They were afraid, and they asked that Moses would be the mediator. So Moses would hear God's words, obviously, through the word, which the one that spoke used the word, it was God, and he was in the form of God. And Moses would hear God's words and tell them to the people, in a sense like Christ, when he was on earth, he said, I speak what the fathers told me to say.

Christ spoke only at God the Father's command and what he heard. Look at John 12, verse 49.

John 12, verse 49.

For I have not spoken on my own authority, said Christ, but the Father who sent me gave me a command, so the Father is commanded. It's the instructions that originally come from the Father.

But it says, but what I should say and what I should speak.

And so the word, which was Christ, he would speak only what the Father told him to say.

And you know, Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So what Christ says here in verse 49, obviously he's applying to Christ, but he is the same yesterday, he's the same being that was the word, and that is his, let's call, his attitude, his way of respect and submitting to the Father. It's always like that, the same today and forever. That's Hebrews 13.8. What is application to you and I? To you and I is that what we need to be. We cannot add or take away from God's word, as we heard on the sermonate. A very good point. I sometimes say words that I shouldn't say because they're not in the Bible. It's just, we have been, in a sense, we all, I think we all say sometimes things that we shouldn't say because they're not literally in the Bible. But it's just because we heard and sometimes it slips. And we've got to really look at that very carefully. We cannot add or take away from God's words. And when somebody points to us, it's, yeah, you're right. We acknowledge it. But sometimes we don't even notice. We say it. So we've got to be careful. But the interesting point is, yeah, in Deuteronomy 18, verse 15, that I want you to look at. Deuteronomy 18, verse 15.

Deuteronomy 18, verse 15.

And the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me.

In other words, God will raise up a prophet like Moses from your midst. So it'll be from your own people. It'll be in your life, from your brethren. And here you shall hear. You didn't want to listen to God. He spoke through the Word. He said, you know what's going to happen? The Word became man. And now you'll listen to me. And you better listen to me then. It's fascinating, isn't it? It really is. And so now we have a clear reference to Jesus Christ.

So how would he be like Moses? Well, because number one, he was sent like Moses was sent. He had responsibilities and duties like Moses. And he says, he knew, shall hear. And indeed, we have to hear the prophet, which is Christ.

Why did Moses say that? Look at verse 16. He says, yeah, according to all you desire of the Lord your God in Europe, in the day of the assembly, saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God.

See, they didn't want to hear God.

So the Word that was God became man, and now they better hear. That's what he's saying. They now better hear. It just shows God's mercy in all this and loving kindness.

Look at verse 17 and 18, and the Lord said to me, what they have spoken is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among the brethren, and will put my words in his mouth. And you will speak to them all that I command them. So the Word that spoke to these relights that was God, was in the form of God, that he came to earth as Christ. And now we better listen to him. And we also know that Moses was told, you will not speak your own words. Right? Look at Exodus chapter 4. Exodus chapter 4. Exodus chapter 4.

It was 10 and 12. He says, and then Moses said to the Lord, Oh, my Lord, I'm not eloquent neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I'm slow speech and I'm slow time. So the Lord said, Who's made your mouth? You can speak my words. And then a little bit later there in verse 15, he says, Now you shall speak to him. So it was Moses that will talk to Aaron and put the words in his mouth. But then he said, I will be with your mouth, Moses, and with his mouth, Aaron's. And I will teach you, Moses, what you shall do. So, Moses, just like Christ, would not speak his own words. Christ spoke what was commanded by the Father.

And that's why he says in the Deuteronomy 18, and let's go back to Deuteronomy 18, please. Sorry, we're doing a little bit of finger exercise here, Deuteronomy 18 verse 19. And says, And it shall be that whoever will not hear my words, will which he speaks in my name, I will require it of him. I will require it of him. Now, verse is quoted in Acts 2, I beg for it, Acts 3, 23, and it says, if he doesn't listen, it translates this in Acts 3 as, I will utterly destroy him.

Utterly destroy him if he don't listen to Christ's words, that prophet.

And look at Matthew 17 verse 5. Matthew 17 verse 5. Matthew 17 verse 5.

This is the section about the transfiguration on the Mount. And in verse 5, while he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice, so God the Father spoke through a voice that came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved son, he knew I'm well pleased. Hear him. Listen to what he is saying. Hear him.

Why do we need to hear Christ? Look at John 12. John 12. John 12.

Verse 47 through 50. John 12. 47 through 50, he says, If anyone hears my words and does not believe, in other words, does not keep them, remember, believe means obey them, keep them. Right? You see that in a margin day. Maybe your margin has a little thing that says, If you hear my words and do not believe, in other words, do not obey. I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. But he who rejects me and does not believe my words has that which judges him. Which judges him. The word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. For I am not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me gave me a command. What I should say and what I should speak. And I know that the Father's command, His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak. And that's what it is. Christ is the Word and He basically verbatim says what the Father told him to do. So why do we need to hear Christ? Because these words will judge us in the last day.

It will determine if we have eternal life or not. And so now, as we are before Unleavened Bread and Passover, how are we analyzing ourselves?

Are we really listening to the words? And you and I, as we pray and meditate and fast preparing for the Passover, are we taking to heart and making a change? Making a change? As we are in the sermon, God does not listen to sinners. Are we making a change? Or are we just sweeping it under the carpet? Now, so you have some analogies. Both Moses and Jesus Christ were saved. Both were given a message to deliver. Both spoke on authority that came from God the Father Himself. And likewise, God's ministry didn't appoint Himself. Now, we didn't appoint ourselves. We were sent by God. We were called. And we are ministers of Jesus Christ by His authority. We didn't choose to be ministers. And as we read in Isaiah 8, verse 20, to the law and to the testimony.

If they speak not according to this word, there is no light in them. To the law, to the instruction, to the command from the Father and the witness, the testimony of Christ. The witness, what He spoke and the testimony of the apostles. That's what we're going to turn to. So that prophet, that prophet received His message directly from the Father. That prophet is Christ. If we don't listen to Him, it says we will be actively destroyed. It will be required of us. Understand that He was the Father. You just need to read sections in John 17. He says, I was the Father, restore me to the glory I had with you. That I had with you. So, Moses was a type of Jesus Christ, in a way, at His, at Christ's first coming. And indeed, there are two different ways or tracks or time frames to look at this duality. One is Jesus Christ's first coming, and the other one is Jesus Christ's second coming. So, when I say, well, we look at the Passover and we look at the land and we need to do, and that is correct, there is so much more meat in there. I want to just touch a few extra points very briefly. But you may want to take some notes and really study a little bit more.

For instance, regarding Christ's first coming. Pharaoh was going to kill the male children, wasn't he? He was just reading Exodus, writing chapter 1, he says, the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives, remember? And he says, if it's a son, you'll kill him. If it's a daughter, she'll live. Now, to be frank, it doesn't make sense, does it? I mean, if they were slaves, it was the man that was going to do the hard labor, right? Why kill the man? You see, but Satan doesn't think rationally when he's angry. So Pharaoh doesn't think rationally, yeah?

But he had given a command to kill all the male boys.

But you see, Satan knew that a deliverer would come through Israel. And so, if he stopped that line, it would stop the coming of that deliverer, which you and I know is Christ. And so Satan has tried to kill Christ. He tried to kill Christ there at the time of Pharaoh, which you and I know very well at the time of Herod. He tried to kill Christ. He inquired diligently from the wise man.

And then he said, all the children, two years old and younger, wiped them out, they come from this town of Bethlehem. Satan has tried to subvert God's plan through the ages. Sometimes here people say, well, you know, maybe God should give Satan just a chance. Forget it! Forget it! He has tried to subvert the plan of God throughout the ages. He attempted to destroy Israel through whom the Messiah would come. And he attempted to destroy the Messiah himself. Not only there, but later.

You read about, you know, after he was, you know, he was baptized, you know, for forty days and forty nights. He tried to destroy him there. But what's the lesson to you and I? You see, so he has another angle to it. The lesson to you and I is, Satan wants to destroy you and me. And the excuse that he can, whatever angle, whatever angle that is going to pull you down, to discourage you, whatever he is. And for you might be this thing, for somebody else might be that thing, for me might be something else. Why?

Because we all have different weaknesses and he's going to own in on that gap. And bam! He's going to... Sorry, I shouldn't have done that. I know in Brazil that has different connotations of, please forgive me, the need to make any hand signs that could be rude, so please, I don't mean... But what he is... Satan is going to try and zap us. He's eliminated us to destroy us. So, he tried to kill the male children. Look at another analogy.

There was a promise. Wasn't there a promise? Let's look at that in Acts 7. Acts 7. We're going to look at a few things here in Acts 7, so you might want to put a little marker there in Acts 7 because we'll be in an announcement idea. Or maybe I'll just refer to the others and try and stay in Acts 7.

But starting in verse 17. And when the time of the promise drew near, which God has sworn to Abram, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt. There's a promise to Abram. I don't have to go into details. You can go and look in Genesis. And it says the promise was to Abram to you and to your feet. And it says you will be a stranger in the land. If you look in Genesis 15, for instance, it says you'll be a stranger in the land for 400 years. Your descendants will be a stranger in the land for 100 years. You're descendants. So, God predicted what would happen to Israel. They would be a stranger in the land and then later on, they would actually become slaves.

That's part of that part where they were strangers. They were strangers, they roamed throughout the land and then they went to Egypt. The strangers, they saw there was a long period there. But He also said that He will deliver them. So, God gave a promise that He would deliver them and bring them to a promised land. And you see, they were expecting that time. At that time, the Israelites were expecting. And they said, God, deliver us! And you know, the analogy to us, we are strangers in this land.

Well, you may say, no, I'm a false citizen of the country. No, that's good enough. But you and I, as true Christians, are strangers in this world. This is not our world. I have emphasized it a number of times, and I emphasize it again, brethren, please, please, please do not, do not get involved in the politics of this world.

Because it's not the kingdom of God. It's this world. And our kingdom is the kingdom of God. Even though it's the government of God, that's our kingdom. And Christ said, if this was my kingdom, my angels would fight for me. And I'll say in the legion of angels, don't be involved. Our promised land, as true Christians, is the wonderful world tomorrow. And beyond that, actually, is the kingdom of God. Even that wonderful world tomorrow is only a shadow of the real promised land, which is the kingdom of God.

So there's the promise, the promise. There's another analogy that you can deepen. Are we in Acts 7? Look at verse 20. At this time, Moses was born and was well pleasing to God, and he was brought up in his father's house for three months. Do you know what that means? He was chosen right at that time already from his mother's womb to be that man that God would work through.

Perhaps he was chosen even before that. God had chosen him to deliver his people from slavery. Yes, they were slave people, and God chose Moses.

But you know, in Revelation 13, verse 8 says, Jesus Christ was preordained to be the Lamb of God from the foundation of the world as our Savior. Can you see the analogy?

What about ourselves?

We don't know about ourselves, but the longer you and I are in the Church, I think the longer we can see that God's been working with us and what we think.

I think that is true.

You see, he's the master potter. And when you... You as a potter, and we've got somebody out of the works of jewelry, and you've got something... Before it's actually the jewel, you already got in mind what you're going to do out of it. And you're going to work with it. So you already decide what you're going to do with it long before the master potter is only clay. Long before he starts shaping it, he knows what outcome he wants for. The Father has called us forever, and I'm sure the Father has had us in mind long before he calls. And you don't know. So that's another bit of an analogy to think about. As we approach the dice of a lemon bread, what a blessing that is, and an honor. But we don't want to get the God down. We want to do our part. We want to analyze ourselves. Then there were slaves, right? There were slaves... You know, a slave... If they're not rescued from slavery, they will die.

They were in need of rescue. And you know, you and I know they were rescued. But look at Romans 6. Look at Romans 6. Keep Acts there, because we're going to come back to it. Romans 6.

Verse 16 and 17.

He says, Do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to abide, you are that one slave whom you abide, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? But thank, but God, we thank that through you, that thou abbey, for though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

Brethren, we have been slaves to sin. It's incumbent upon us to end, to free ourselves from slavery. And you and I cannot do it. We need God's help. We need God's Holy Spirit. This is the slavery of the cruelest kind.

For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We are freed by Jesus Christ. Look at Romans chapter 7 verse 24 and 25. It says, oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death? You know what's from the slavery? Who will deliver me? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. That's all deliverance. So then, with the mind, I myself serve the Lord God, but it was the flesh the Lord sent. I'm not saying that he was sinning, but he had these temptations and things that he was, striving and realizing, I have to get it out. So, there's another analogy, you know, that you look at Egypt and slavery and how it applies to Christ, but it applies to us as well.

Look at another case, yeah, about an aptitude of humility and meaning. You know, about the story when Miriam and Dan tried to rebel against Moses, Miriam and Aaron against Moses, because they said, well, he married an Ethiopian woman. Remember the story? That's in Numbers 12. And then it says, now the man Moses was very meek or very humble, depends which version you read. The meek is teachable, it's humble plus being teachable. Humble is submissive. So, the man Moses was very meek above all men, which were upon the face of the earth. But you know what? He wasn't always that.

Look at Acts 7 verse 22.

Acts 7 verse 22, so on. And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and deeds.

You see, Josephus mentions that Moses was the general. And he knew that Israel lied to his brethren. I mean, just read the next few verses. Now, for years, and he went to visit his brethren, the children of Israel, and then he saw one of them suffer wrong and defended and avenged him, was oppressed and zapped, killed an Egyptian. Now, listen to this. For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand. He thought that his relights would understand that God was going to deliver them by Moses' hand. But they did not understand.

He thought, as a general, he was this big man, full of power, full of capability, and here, as the general of the Egyptian army, I'm going to deliver them. That was not humility. That was not humility.

He thought God would do it for me because of his background and training, and I am so capable and I've got all this skill. So, he did not have the attitude that God could use him.

What about us? Do we rely on ourselves?

Our training and our abilities... Well, if you think that because of my training and my abilities, I'm going to be a great minister and I'll...

Then God confuses.

And there you have in Acts 7, verses 26 through 30. Let's read that. And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile him, saying, Man and brethren, why do you wrong one another? But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, Who would you think you are? Who made your ruler a judge of yours? You want to kill me as you did the Egyptian? Then at the same, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midjim where he had two sons. And when forty years had passed, he had to be humble for forty years, living in the wilderness. Well, that was another training opportunity to live in the wilderness. Think about it. God is very smart. But he had to humble him. And all that great thing about the training he had as a general was nothing.

And look at verse 34. I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, the sis God speaking through the angel of the Lord, which believe it was Christ, and I heard a groaning and have come down to the river then, and now come. I will send you to Egypt, sis God, the word that was God, and sis I'll send you to Egypt.

You see, a transformation had to occur in Moses' life. He had to be humble, and now God could use him. Now he was me above all other men. What about us? Can God use us now? You see, Moses had to become humble like Christ was humble. You know, Philippians 2, he says, let's look at that.

Philippians 2, verse 5 through 8. Philippians 2, I will refer to it once or twice, but let's now look at it. Philippians 2, verse 5 through 8. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let this mentality, let this attitude, let this way of being, this spiritual attitude, which was also in Christ Jesus, let this be in us.

Because Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, he was in the form of God, did not consider robbery to be equal with God. There was no robbery to be equal with God. Verse 7, But he, Christ the Word, made himself of no reputation, in which nobody knew who he was, who he came to earth. Just another Jew, no reputation. Taking the form of a servant and in the likeness of man, he became a human being. And being found in appearance of the man, he humbled himself and became a beaker to the point of death, even the death on the cross.

Jesus Christ humbled himself. He was God. It was not robbery for him to be recognized as equal with God. He humbled himself. Nothing. And you know what? That requires faith. That requires faith. Faith in God. And you know, we are saved by the faith of Christ.

The Israelites, for instance, did not realize that God was going to destroy Egypt. Oh, they just said, well, we're going to be saved from slavery. He has another point. He was going to destroy Egypt. Before leading Israel out of slavery, God laid them through the Red Sea. And you know, that was not the logical path to go. There was a shorter path. But God had that purpose in his great mind that he were not aware of. What about us? We don't always see why God allows certain things in our lives.

Why do I go through this trial? We don't see God's overall direction. Why did Israelites said to go through that trial of slavery? God was bringing another lesson, destroying Egypt. Destroying Egypt? Destroying sin? Destroying Satan? Wow! Think about it. We walk by faith. Right? 2 Corinthians 5-7. We walk by faith. Then look at another example.

God gave the law through Moses. Right? Yes, he did. Look at Acts 7, verse 38. Acts 7, verse 38 says, Now this is he, Moses, who was in the congregation, in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai. So the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, that was the being that gave and spoke on Mount Sinai, and with the fathers, the one who received the living articles to give us.

He received the living articles through the angel, the messenger, the word from the father. And therefore, Moses was the mediator of the law. But you know, Matthew 5-17 says, not a dot or a tickle or whatever, of the law will be done away. But he then goes on to amplify the law with the spiritual intent. So Christ came to give the law, but in a deeper spiritual intent. So you can see, like Moses, like Christ in that way. Now, do we, do you and I, look at the letter and the spiritual intent of the law, and to analyze it in our lives?

Kithri. Do we take careful consideration and the meditation as we prepare ourselves for the boss over and live and breathe? Another example. Moses was a ruler and a livery, wasn't he? Yeah, he was a ruler. But you know what? Look at the on Acts 7, verse 35. Look at 7, verse 35. And this Moses, whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge?

He's the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. Moses became the deliverer or savior between inverted commas, obviously under Christ, under the word, under God. God used being, in other words, to perform many times and wonders. The place of Egypt, the miracles of the Red Sea, the manna, the water in the wilderness, through Moses.

You see, Moses was a ruler. Christ is going to be a ruler on earth. And you and I ought to rule with Christ. God will use us, just like He used Moses to rescue these relights out of slavery. God will use us, through us, through our part in the criminal areas that God will delegate to us, He will use us to rescue mankind. The last verse in Obadiah says that, of all places, says, And saviors shall come on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

You see, Moses wants to be their ruler and they rejected Him. But you know what? Jesus Christ was rejected by His own. Look at John 1, verse 11. John 1, verse 11. He says, He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. You have the parable on Luke 19, and He says, on this parable, look at it in your own time, and He says, We won't have this man rule over us.

The Jews rejected Christ, and they went into captivity in 1780. Forty years from His death in 31, including 31 to 70, forty years. Like in the wilderness, forty years. The temple was destroyed, and they would fear like their forefathers did. Reverend, the work you and I do with God's help, the truth of God that we preach is rejected by mankind. We are there. It's like in the days of Noah. How many people believe Noah?

Zero. His family went to a theme, by God's mercy, but of the world and the people that he preached to, by what belief? You see, what is the problem here? What is the problem? Look at Acts 7, verse 51.

You stood naked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did. So do you. And so does mankind.

What's the problem? Mankind resists. So you've seen, or shown you, a number of analogies just from the first coming of Christ. Pointing to a number of things. Let me just show you a few from the second coming. Okay, we talked about a time of promise.

God will send Christ to restore all things. We read that in Acts 3, verse 19-21. Let's look at that. Acts 3, 19-21.

Repent, therefore, and deconvert that your sins may be blocked out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may stand Jesus Christ, that his second coming was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until his second coming, which is the times of restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Look at James 5.

Verse 7-11. Therefore, brethren, be patient, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until he receives it early and left to reign. You also be patient. Establish your heart, for the coming of the Lord is attending. Do not grumble against one another, brethren. Let you be condemned. Be all the judges standing at the top. My brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience. Indeed, we count them blessed to endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and seen the end intended by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. Brethren, since Christ's death, the Church has waited 1,987 years for the return of Jesus Christ. We have to be patient until that day comes. There's going to be a second Exodus, you know. There's prophecies about a second Exodus. Yes, Israel will be in slavery and captivity again in the future when Christ returns. But they need to hear this hope. It's the only hope they have. Because when they're going to be in this terrible time of the future, let's call it Holocaust. If they don't have a hope, what can they cling on to? What can they cling on to? That is our job to preach the Gospels of Witness to these people. And I know, sometimes it's hard. We just have a small grain of salt on the earth. But we've got to keep doing it and be patient. We've got to be patient. You see the parallel between Jesus Christ coming back to deliver Israel and the world from bondage to Moses delivering Israel is amazing.

Look at 2 Peter, chapter 3, verse 11. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and governance? All those in the end will go. The important thing about prophecy is, are we changing and becoming better people? That in the end is the purpose of prophecy. For there to be repentance and change. And so, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and being like God in your reminded idea? What manner of persons ought you and I to be in this analogy?

You see, we also talked about God destroying each of you.

And we know the nations fear afterwards when they left and they were going into the Promised Land. They are the nations who were fearing, remember? When they first went to take over the first city and they had to surround all within the people who were in fear.

This is prophetic that when Jesus Christ returns to do what? To destroy those that destroy the earth. Revelation 11, verse 15, creating says, you come to destroy those that destroy the earth. You'll destroy the military. The military might that today with artificial intelligence and drones and I don't know what else and atomic bombs and they being in hands of people that are not rational. You and I live in difficult times like never before. But you know what? God will deliver His people like He delivered Israel. He will deliver the church and our children. You need not fear. Provided you're doing what you're supposed to do. Provided you're doing what you're supposed to do.

God protected them and delivered them. Yes, a few of the plagues at first affected them, but Laken did not. Yes, a few of the things that will happen to the world will affect us, but later will not. God's the same yesterday, today and forever.

And ultimately, you'll protect us from the second death.

So it is up to us. Are we analyzing ourselves as we now approach the days of lemon bread and possum? Oh, and there is a story you know about Pharaoh's heart was hardened, wasn't it? Oh, Pharaoh's heart was hardened! Did he repent? No! Are you reading Revelation right at the end? And he comes in plagues and they still did not repent. And the more plagues, they still did not repent. Just write down Revelation 9, 20 and 21. Revelation 16, 9 and 11. Revelation 17, 12 through 14. I'll read that again. 9, 20 and 21. 16, 9 and 11. 17, 12 through 14.

And they did not repent. Like Pharaoh did not repent. Can you see the analogy towards Christ's second coming? They got to the point that they will fight Christ! So did Pharaoh try and fight.

Are you and I overcoming or resisting? Are you and I overcoming or are we resisting?

He's over rejected most and turned back to Egypt, at least in their hearts.

The Jews in Christ, in Christ's day, rejected him as their Savior. The world will reject Christ at his second coming. What about us?

Are we using this time now or are we wasting it?

Are we neglecting our calling? Time is short, Brady. There's only a little bit of time. And as I said, the nations knew that God had delivered Israel. You read in Ezekiel 38 when it says, the nations, after all this happens, the nations, the whole world will know that God is the Lord. When there's a time of God, they may go and they fight Christ and it says, the nations will then know that God is the Lord. Brethren, I just touched, albeit very briefly and albeit very quickly, but I just gave you a feel of how many, so many analogies are there from the time of Moses to Christ, to his first coming and to his second coming. And you know what? There are more. I want to give a little bit of a project for us this afternoon. When we sit down to eat today, why don't we amongst ourselves come out of a few other analogies? Why are we eating today after services and come out with new analogies? You probably can think of a few more. I thought of a few, maybe you can think of a few. And you know what? I am shop and site and will benefit from it.

So, brethren, are there lessons we can learn today from all this? Yes. You so rejected Moses. The Jews rejected Christ. The world will resist and reject Christ. But Christ will deliver all mankind in his loving kindness. He will rule on the earth over all human beings. That is sure! Sure!

The kingdom of God will be established, which is the government of God on the earth initially for a thousand years and then for eternity.

But then it says in Hebrews, it says, don't harden your hearts.

In Hebrews 3, first sight says, don't harden your hearts. In fact, in Hebrews 3, although further on, read that section. Brethren, let's not harden our hearts. How we stubborn, stiff-necked, stubborn, like we read, you are stiff-necked, resisting the Holy Spirit! Are we like that? You and I have to look at our hearts and determine that. As we are now before the days of the living bread and Passover, are we analyzing ourselves with truth and sincerity and really taking that spiritual leaven out? Taking that spiritual leaven out. You see, a danger is to begin to doubt God. These things well may not be true. But remember, we stand today at the very edge of the wonderful world tomorrow.

Just a little bit more. Just a little bit more. Don't quit now. Don't become bitter now. Don't be stiff-necked now. Don't harden your hearts now.

He will return. God is with us. The power of the universe is behind us.