The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 140

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. (Numbers 12:1-2) 71 But I want to bring another thing into your—into your remembrance. If God sent the messenger, and vindicated, by the signs, that he was the messenger sent from God, then it’s up to them to obey this messenger. Exactly. They must obey the messenger and have respects to that messenger. Look at Joshua and Caleb, they stayed right by his side. Yes, sir. Whatever Moses was in, they was in it, too. Whether Moses was right or wrong, they stayed right with him, anyhow, see, because they knowed that was God’s messenger. 72 And there, one day, we find out that even Miriam, a prophetess, and Aaron, the high priest, made fun of Moses’ wife because she was an Ethiopian, and thought, “Wasn’t there enough women of our own group, to marry, instead of going down there and marrying that woman?” That wasn’t Moses’ choice; that was God’s choice for Moses. And when they made fun of it, that angered God in such a way until He struck Miriam, the prophetess, full of leprosy, Moses’ own sister. What about that? Her, a prophetess, but what was she doing? She was making fun and an irreverence to God’s messenger, the messenger of the covenant of that day. And she was irreverent. And also Aaron, the high priest, the very mouthpiece of Moses, right, he was with her. 73 And Aaron then, when he saw his sister struck with leprosy, he went in and told Moses, “Would you let your own sister die?” 74 And Moses went into the tabernacle and fell before the Lord, and begin to weep and call out for God, mercy for his sister. And the Spirit of the Lord came down and said, “Call Aaron and Miriam to stand here before Me.” Oh, my! 75 God demands respects! God sends His Message, you listen to It and you reverence It. Don’t care if they call It a bunch of holy-rollers, or whatever they call It; let the world do what they want to. But you give respects! 76 So, there stood Miriam. God said, “Call Miriam and call Moses…or call Aaron here, your brother and sister, to stand before Me.” 77 And when they come in before God, God said, “Don’t you fear God?” Said that to the high priest and to Miriam the prophetess. Said, “If there be any, a man among you, who’s spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I’ll speak to him in visions and reveal Myself in dreams to him, and so forth, if he’s spiritual or a prophet.” But said, “My servant Moses, I speak lip to ear with him.” Said, “Don’t you fear God?” In other words, “You talk about Moses, you’re talking about Me. If you can’t respect Moses, you don’t respect Me.” Said, “Haven’t I proved among you that he’s My servant? And you have no reverence for him at all.” 78 What that would be a lesson for the people of this day, no respects, no honor! 79 Now He said, “And because you didn’t do that, that’s the reason you got leprosy. That’s the reason these things has went,” said, “because you ought to have knowed that this was My servant. You do know it, so when you say something against him you’re saying it against Me.” 80 So Moses prayed for her life to be spared, and God did spare her life. She didn’t live very long afterwards, she died. But she did get cleansed of her leprosy, and was out of the camp for seven days, you know, for her…for having it, for purification, getting herself cleaned again from her leprosy. God healed her. 81 But what He was trying to get to them, was this, “You’ve got to respect what I do.” 82 And if that was the attitude of God in that day, and God can’t change, God wants us to respect what He’s doing. He demands it. 61-1015e - "Respects" Rev. William Marrion Branham