Where All the Promises Lay
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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Introduction.
Introduction.
It was about three o’clock in the morning, I suppose. I had gotten up, and I looked where, in front of me, and I was coming down to the Jordan.
Looked like I was standing on the map of Palestine, and I was coming down to the Jordan. And seemed like I could hear the song, I’m Going Down To The Jordan, someone was singing it.
And as I drew near the river, I looked back and seen which a way I had come, and I was two thirds of the way there, to the Jordan.
And I looked across Jordan, and I said, “Oh, praise God, just on the other side is where all the promises lay! Every promise lays in the promised Land.” 61-1210 - Paradox
The Jews knew where this was, just across the Jordan. Where is our land, where the Promises Lay?
[A brother says, “Pray for me, Brother Branham, to have the Holy Ghost. I want to receive the Holy Ghost. I have to. I have a desire. I have to receive the Holy Ghost.”]
You have a desire to receive It. You want to come into the Land where all the promises is. [“Yes.”]
And now, Lord, this boy is just across the river, camped on the other side, and Jordan is swelling. And there’s no way for him to cross except You make a way like You did for Joshua and for Israel.
And, Father, I am asking You, as Your servant, let our precious brother, O God, let him enter into this promised Land, this promise.
That, on the other side, as I was carried the other night, may I have the privilege of grabbing him and throwing my arms around him, in that other Land, saying, “My precious Brother.”
Grant it, Lord. May he receive the promise of God, the Holy Ghost. Amen. 60-0515E - Adoption #1
(In that Holy Ghost land are all the promises of God)
But the hour has come, when I’m tired staying on this mountain. I want to go up to Jordan. I want to enter into the full promises.
I want to get faith within myself, not looking to a sign, not looking to something God has revealed, or some kind of a signpost.
I want to look towards Calvary, say, “By faith I come, Lord God. I’m coming in the Name of the Lord Jesus.” 60-0911M - As I Was With Moses, So I Will Be With Thee
I want to get to a place where the Promise is not in the future, but it’s all around me.
When Israel came to Kadesh Barnea they had only been in the wilderness for a short time.
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
It’s yours, go take it.
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us.
Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Let’s pick up the story in more detail.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
(This is the same amount of time from Jesus resurrection to His ascending.)
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
These ten spies thought they were following Moses orders. they thought they were preaching a balanced Message.
These men were not fanatics, they were handpicked by Moses to do the job.
They preached problems with the promises.
Yes, the land is good BUT it’s a late hour, and there’s going to be a squeeze. Many folks don’t live right, and no one really follows the Message but me. So let’s just wait here and be careful. If God wants us in the promised land He’ll do it Himself.
I’m tired of being careful, let’s go take the land.
Bro. Branham typed Micaiah, when he would not go up to the council of churches. My type is Caleb.
We’re not going up to a denominational headquarters, we’re going to the promised land. We’re not lead by an Ahab, we’re following Joshua, the Message of the Hour. We’re not going to Baal-Peor, we’re going to Bethlehem.
Remember Israel, the borderlines, when God gave them a promise, over in the Holy Land, it was good, of milk and honey,
and when Moses sent out Caleb and Joshua, and the spies, to go over, spy out the land, and brought back the vindicated evidence, the ten of them said,
“We cannot do it, we’re unable, look at the difficult there, we’ll be fanatics, we got these little bitty things to fight with, look what they got, we can’t do it, we’re not able to do it.”
Joshua and Caleb said, “We are more than able to do it, God made the promise.” 65-0911 - God's Power To Transform
When they come to the borderland, Kadesh-barnea, the great mistake they made, when they got to the land and looked over into the promised land, they said, “We can’t take it.”
What was the other ten? They looked at the circumstances, the prestige they would lose. “We are grasshoppers, to the side of them.”
But Joshua and Caleb checked up. They went back to the Word, and the Lord said, “I give you this land! It’s a good land, flowing with milk and honey.”
They didn’t count what it looked like, what this was, and what this evidence was. God’s Word said, “I give it to you! Go get it!” And they were the only ones that went in.
(signs are for unbelievers)
Oh, let us check the promises of God for today. That’s right. Remember, we’re in another exodus, a time; an exodus, this time,
not into a promised land of the earth, but into the promised Land of Glory, where there is no return no more. 64-0126 - What Shall We Do With This Jesus Called Christ?
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Two different testimonies. Why couldn’t the others see it?
Here was an intellectual Rameses standing there, that was against; a very religious man, and against the Spirit of the living God.
And the natural mind could only see Rameses. But the spiritual mind seen the promise, and seen it coming to pass.
Well, if Joshua and Caleb could call those Amalekites, and Hivites, and Jebusities, as though they wasn’t there, yet twice, or three or four times their size.
And the natural mind, at Kadesh-barnea, when the spies went over, said, “Ah, we can’t do it. We…They’re too much. Well, we’re like grasshoppers, side of them.”
But Caleb and Joshua seen God’s promise, said, “We’re more than able to do it.” Why? They were looking, “God said, ‘I give you the land.’” See? The carnal mind don’t get it. The spiritual mind picks it up.
And why? Want to ask you something. Why didn’t the Egyptians see these things? Because they was not elected. God told Abraham before it happened.
Get it, you sleeping church! God told Abraham before it happened, “Your seed will sojourn in Egypt, for four hundred years, and I’ll bring them out.”
That’s the reason they seen it, because they were elected to see it. They’re the election. Israel was elected to see the sign of God, and they went out of Egypt where the unbelievers perished.
And, today, God is calling His Elected, the spiritual Seed of Abraham, by the faith that he had in the Word of God. Don’t you see the spiritual Seed, today?
That don’t see the intellectual church. It sees the Word. And It’s being called from those big denominations, into the Presence of Jesus Christ. Amen.
And, remember, this election, is coming now, is just not going to another nation, it’s going to Glory, where their names are wrote on the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Not under the natural, little animal lamb that brought Israel out, that they could backslide from there and go back.
But, this can’t. This is under the Blood of the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundation of the world. And their names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
And they’re in there, elected. And when that Light flashes over them, like that, them denominational walls drop away from them, and here they come. 63-0630M - The Third Exodus
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
We are not of them who turn back. We are not spying out the problems, but the promises. Let us go in, across the Jordan into the land of the Holy Ghost, where all the promises lay.