Exodus 3: 11 – 12: And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Whilst reading his opening scripture from Exodus 3 in the message “Third exodus” (June 30, 1963), the prophet noticed that as the prophet Moses was given an everlasting sign of a mountain, so he had been given by God an everlasting sign in the form of a mountain range near the Montana-Idaho border. The prophet recounts his experience of being shown the mountain range in the message “Standing in the gap” (June 23, 1963).
As the prophet and his son Billy Paul were driving in their truck one day, the Lord said to him that he would be given an everlasting sign. When the prophet questioned what the everlasting sign would be, the Lord then told him to look westward from where he was at. As he turned his head, the prophet saw a mountain range with white caps on it.
With his eyes fastened on the mountain range before him, the prophet could not see an everlasting sign in it, but the Lord spoke again and said that the prophet’s name was written all over it. The prophet then pulled his truck to a stop on the side of the road and set his gaze again upon the seven-hilled mountain range that ran from east to west. The seven peaks were representative of the seven letters that made up the prophet’s full name: W-I-L-L-I-A-M, M-A-R-R-I-O-N, B-R-A-N-H-A-M, and the three outstanding peaks of the mountain range represented the three pulls of the prophet’s ministry. These and other details of the prophet’s life were all described in the mountainous contour that stretched out in front of him. The Lord lastly told the prophet that if there was ever a doubt in his mind about his ministry, that he should remember this place and revisit here.
This particular region in Montana where the prophet was given an everlasting sign is filled with countless mountain peaks and ranges that stretch for hundreds of miles in every direction. But the Lord stopped the prophet at a precise spot where the view of these particular mountain peaks so perfectly reflected the prophet’s ministry. As the prophet had to turn the photograph of the Cloud to the right in order to see the face of Christ, so the prophet had to be standing in the exact spot to see his life mapped out in a particular set of mountain ranges.