Moses, another great, smart man that had been raised up, borned in the world for a certain achievement of God. And he tried to meet this goal by his scientific acts. We are taught and told by history that he was a great military leader, and his only way of doing anything, was, killing off. He was so smart that he could teach the smart Egyptians, wisdom. In all of his wisdom and all that he knew, yet he failed, miserably failed, to achieve what God had in mind for him to do. And in finding his failure, by slaying the Egyptian and hiding him in the sand, and hearing the rebuke from his brother, or the question, “Will you slay us as you did the Egyptian?” Upon this, Moses ran into the wilderness, a runaway prophet.
After forty years in the wilderness, that God had uneducating him from the things of the world, unto the mind of God; taking all of his doctor’s degree, and everything, away from him, till He could work into his heart.
When He had the material about ready, one day while he was herding sheep on the backside of the desert, an old familiar path, he found a tree on fire.
Moses, being a scientist, he never approached it in the way of a scientist. If you’ll notice, if he had been a scientist, he’d a-said, “Now I’m going to take some of the leaves from that tree, and take them down to the laboratory and find out what they were sprayed with, the reason they burn and don’t burn up.” If he would have done that, then he wasn’t ready yet.
But what he did, he approached It and took off his shoes, knelt upon his knees and begin to talk to It, because he knowed It was supernatural. From there came the Word of the Lord, saying, “I have heard the groans of My people, and I remember My Word. I’m sending you down to deliver them.”
Now sometimes, in the path of duty, God calls His man to do things that’s absolutely ridiculous to the natural mind. He causes them to do something that’s altogether becomes a laughingstock. For instance, what if Moses had have failed, as a young man of forty years old, a military man; and the throne, his foot upon it, all the armies of Egypt under his control? And to fail doing that, and here he goes down to Egypt, the next morning, after meeting this Angel in the bush, with nothing in his hand but an old crooked stick from off the desert, with his wife sitting on a mule, and Gershom on her hip, the white beard hanging way down on his waistline, perhaps. He was eighty years old. His bald head shining to the sun, and a stick in his hand, his eyes set towards the sky, and a smile across his lips.
Somebody might have said, “Moses, where you going?”
Said, “I’m going down to Egypt, to take over.”
When he couldn’t do it with an army, how is he going to do it with a crooked stick? “Oh, man, you’ve lost your mind. You’re out of your head.”
It was a one-man invasion. But the thing of it was, he did it, because that it was a Word of the Lord. And Moses was determined, no matter what his odds was. God was with him, and He is worth more than all the odds.
If men and women could only think that tonight, that the Word of the Lord is Truth! There is nothing else. All Eternity hinges on the Word. “Not one Word,” Jesus said, “will fail. Heavens and earth will, but It won’t.”
Moses went down. And he was very persistent when he threw down his rod, and it turned into a serpent.
Then he found impersonators. That still lingers along the path of God, someone to try to impersonate something. And the impersonators come up to make a show out of it, threw down their rods.
Moses knowed Who he had talked to. He knowed Who he had believed, and he was persuaded that He was able to keep that which he committed to Him against the hour. Moses stood still. Then the serpent of Moses eat up the serpent of the magicians.

William Branham, sermon «Perseverant»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/64-0305