Questions & Answers
Questions 16 (COD Page 120)
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?
79 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, the sign of circumcision. And that was the covenant that God made, that every Jew should be circumcised. Is that right? Every man should be... That was a sign.
80 And are we circumcised today? With the Holy Spirit, not by flesh.
81 Now. Now, God gave this commandment, “And every male must be circumcised.” And God, when He called Moses to go down there and deliver the children of Israel, Moses hadn’t performed on his son the very delivering sign. See what I mean?
82 Would be like me saying, “All you church now, every one of you-you come in and been baptized here with water, and we put you on the church membership. We’re all going to glory
together.” Why, brother, that’s not Scripture. Unless you are borned again, circumcised of the Holy Spirit... You’ve got to be. I don’t care how good you are, what church you belong to, how good your parents was, except you as a individual has been borned again by the Holy Ghost, you’ll never go in the rapture. See? You can’t go. That’s the very delivering sign, the circumcision; and the circumcision is by the Holy Spirit. Now God...
83 The-the questioner asked this: “Does-does this Scripture mean that God aimed to kill Moses or his son? And why?” God was after Moses. And Zipporah was the only one that saved him there. For Zipporah got a sharp rock, and went, and cut the foreskin off of her baby, and threw it before Moses and said, “Thou art a bloody husband to me.” Is that right?
84 And God would’ve took Moses’ life, but perhaps an Angel was standing there, said, “Zipporah! Catch it quickly!” See?
85 And Zipporah went and circumcised the baby. Said, “Moses, you’re so-so concerned about everything else and about your journey, that your own boy hasn’t been circumcised.”
I just wonder a lot of times if... Sometimes I’ve met people that said, “Oh, glory to God. The Lord wants me to do a certain thing. He wants me to go to Africa, to India.”
86 I said, “Have you ever asked the milk man if he was saved? Have you ever asked the paper boy if he’d been borned again yet? How about your neighbor, are they saved?” See? Now, that’s the question. See? If it’s in your heart...
87 Here sometime ago a woman met me down here in Florida. And the little woman, I have no way... I’m not the judge. But there’s a little preacher had been right here and preached at this platform. And the little fellow in another country was married and had a wife, three or four children. And this woman was a widow woman. And they had come from Texas, together over here in a big Cadillac car. And the woman come in. And she has the right to dress anyway she wants to, didn’t make nothing to me; but as a Christian woman she didn’t dress just like it.
She was (oh, my!)-she was-had great big long-them ear bobs (ever what you call it) hanging down like this, and she had a real lot of-of stuff on her mouth; and-and-and her eyebrows had been cut off and she had other eyebrows, with a pencil, put on. And she said, “Brother Branham,” said, “the Lord’s calling me to a foreign country.”
I said, “He is?”
“Yes!” And she said, “I’m going over with this man.”
And I said, “Well, if the Lord’s calling you, well, all right.” (But by their fruit... Didn’t look very much to me like... See?)
And she said, “Don’t you believe the Lord... ?”
88 I said, “Now, don’t ask me. If the Lord’s told you, you do what the Lord told you to do. But for me, I don’t think so, for myself. I’ll just be honest with you.”
She said, “Well, why do you think so?”
I said, “The first thing, as you as a married woman with this married man don’t look very good, you staying down here in the city together. If anything brings reproach is that. See?”
And I said, “Now, the first thing... ”
89 Now, what had happened to that woman? The same thing would have... She had kept messing around without receiving the Holy Ghost, just like that woman over yonder today that called me and wanted to marry that man, and leave her own husband, and marry the man. She had come in such a place, maybe one time being in contact with God, but had been lusting after the things of the world. And
I asked her; I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost?”
She said, “Not yet, but I’m seeking It.”
90 I said, “You get the Holy Ghost first, and He’ll tell you what husband to have.” That’s right. See? You-you got... That’s what it is. If you don’t, you’ll die spiritually. God’s seeking a lot tonight, that He’s knocked [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit-Ed.] at their heart so many times. And one of these times He’s going to shut the door, and-and mercy’s gone. See?
91 Sure, God would’ve took his life. He said He sought him. Listen how the Scripture reads:
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. (Moses. Now, watch.)
Then Zipporah took a sharp rock-sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband thou art to me.
92 That’s right. Now, God wasn’t seeking the son. God... That poor little baby didn’t know what to do; it’s innocent. But what was the thing, was the father of the baby, that was taking the baby down there to deliver the children of Israel under the sign of circumcision; and yet his own son not even circumcised. See? And Zipporah cut it off with a rock, the foreskin, and cast it down, and said, “Thou art a bloody husband to me.”