Dear Swarming Bride,
Now God has always sent His guides, He’s always never been without a guide, all through the ages. God’s always had somebody that represented Him on this earth, in all ages.
God doesn’t want us to rely on our understanding or any man-made thoughts. That is why He sends His Bride a Guide; for he has understanding, how to go and what to do. God has NEVER CHANGED His program. He has never failed to send a Guide to His people, but you’ve got to accept that Guide.
You’ve got to believe every Word He says through His Guide. You’ve got to go the way His Guide says to go. If you get to listening and believing other voices as your guide, you’re simply going to come up lost.
St. John 16 says He had many things to tell us and reveal to us, thus He would send His Holy Spirit to Guide and tell us. He said the Holy Spirit is the prophet guide of every age. Thus, His prophets were sent to represent the Holy Spirit to guide His Bride.
The Holy Spirit is sent to lead the church, not some group of men. The Holy Spirit is all-wisdom. Men get starchy, indifferent.
It’s not the man, but the Holy Spirit IN that man. The man He chose to represent Himself and to be our earthly guide that is led by our Heavenly Guide. The Word tells us we’ve got to follow that Guide. No matter what we think, what sounds reasonable, or what some other man says, we’re not subjects to divide that, the guide is the only one.
God sends a Guide, and God wants you to remember that that’s His appointed Guide.
Our prophet guide has been appointed by God to speak His Word. His word IS GOD’S WORD. The prophet guide, and him alone, has the divine interpretation of the Word. God spoke His Word to him lip to ear. Thus, you can never dispute, change, or reason your Guide’s Word.
You must follow Him, and Him alone. If you don’t, you will come up lost. Remember, when you leave Him, God’s appointed Guide, you’re on your own, so we want to keep close to the guide He chose, and hear and obey every Word He says through him.
Our Guide has taught us that the old testament was a shadow of the new testament.
When Israel left Egypt for the promised land, in Exodus 13:21, God knowed that they had never traveled that way before. It was only forty miles, but yet they needed something to go with them. They’d lose their way. So He, God, sent them a Guide. Exodus 13:21, something like this, “I send My Angel before you, the Pillar of Fire, to keep you in the way,” to guide them to this promised land. And the children of Israel followed that Guide, the Pillar of Fire (night), Cloud by day. When It stopped, they stopped. When It journeyed, they journeyed. And when He got them close to the land, and they wasn’t fit to go over, He led them back into the wilderness again.
He said that is the church today. We would have already been gone if we had just corrected ourselves and set in order, but He has had to lead us around and around and around.
They were just to follow their guide as HE FOLLOWED and heard from the Pillar of Fire. He told them what God said and they were to obey every Word he said. He was the Voice of the Guide. But they questioned and disputed with God’s appointed guide, thus they wondered in the wilderness for 40 years.
There were many ministers in the days of Moses. God had appointed them to help the people, as Moses couldn’t do it all. But their duty was to point the people back to what Moses said. The Bible doesn’t say anything what them men said, it only says what Moses said to be the Word to guide the people.
When God took Moses off of the scene, Joshua was ordained to lead the people, which represents the Holy Spirit today. Joshua didn’t preach anything new, nor did he try to take Moses place, nor did he try to interpret what the guide said; he simply read what Moses said and told the people, “Stay with the Word. Stay with what Moses said”. He only read what Moses said.
What a perfect type of today. God vindicated Moses by a Pillar of Fire. Our prophet was vindicated by the same Pillar of Fire. The Words Moses spoke was the Word of God and placed in the Ark. God’s prophet spoke in our day and It was placed on tape.
When Moses was taken off the scene, Joshua was ordained to lead the people by keeping the Words Moses spoke before them. He told them to believe and stay with every Word God’s guide spoke.
Joshua always read what Moses wrote Word by Word from the scrolls. He placed the Word before them always. The Word for our day was not written, but It was recorded so the Holy Spirit could have His Bride hear Word by Word what He spoke, by Pressing Play.
God never changes His program. He is our Guide. His Voice is what is guiding and uniting His Bride today. We only want to hear the Voice of our Guide as It leads us by the Pillar of Fire. It is the invisible union of the Bride of Christ. We know His Voice.
When our guide comes to the pulpit, the Holy Spirit strikes him and It is no longer him, but our Guide. He sticks his head up in the air and screams, “Thus Saith the Lord, Thus Saith The Lord, Thus Saith The Lord!” And every member of the Bride of Christ around the world comes right to him. Why? WE KNOW OUR LEADER JUST THE WAY HE TALKS.
Our Guide = The Word
The Word = Comes to the prophet
The Prophet = God’s only divine interpreter; His earthly guide.
Stay behind the Word! Oh, yes, sir! Stay with that Guide. Stay right behind It. Don’t get in front of It, you stay behind It. Let It lead you, don’t you lead It. You let It go.
If you don’t want to be lost, come listen to our Guide as He speaks through His earthly appointed guide this Sunday at 12:00 P.M., Jeffersonville time.
Bro. Joseph Branham
Message:
62-1014E — A Guide
Scriptures:
St. Mark 16:15-18
St. John 1:1 / 16:7-15
Acts 2:38
Ephesians 4:11-13 / 4:30
Hebrews 4:12
2 Peter 1:21
Exodus 13:21