<TITLE>07. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Now, I want to ask the church a question at this time. How could He, the Son of Man which is standing on the earth, be in heaven right then and yet be on earth right then? "Which is the Son of Man, which is in heaven..." and here He is standing on earth.
Someone asked me one time, said, "Brother Branham, if you think that God was in Christ, reconcile the world to Himself," said, "if God dwelt in Christ, then Who was He praying to in the garden of Eden?"
I asked the lady this question: "Then tell me how He was in heaven and standing here talking to Nicodemus at the same time." See, see? He don't only make prayer but He answers prayer. He... See, He is the One Who answers His own prayer. See? Now:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up... that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish... but have eternal life.
If that isn't the most beautiful thing:
As Moses lifted the brass serpent in the wilderness, ... so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

L-18 It's not yet revealed to me just what it will be after we die. I don't believe it's been given to the sons of men till this day to know just what kind of a fate that we receive after death. Many people has thought that when we die, we remain spirit until the returning of the body from the resurrection. But it isn't quite so, because the Scripture says that if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting. See? There's some type of body that we go to, not spirit, but our spirit goes to a body.
Now, being types and a typologist, we believe this: that God is perfected in threes, like Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The law, and Christian dispensation, the Holy Spirit dispensation, all threes gather and make one Being in a triune personality.

L-19 Now, then there is three comings of the Lord. The Lord Jesus came first to redeem His bride. He comes second to receive His bride. He comes third with His bride. See? See, we... Do--He don't come to the earth on the next coming; we're just caught up to meet Him in the air. See, the beautiful story of Rebekah and how that she got on the camel and went to meet Isaac with Eliezer, and--and Isaac, being the type of the--of Christ, the Son of God, which He was the son of Abraham who fell heir to all of Abraham's goods and all he had. He was out in the field in the evening time, wandering around out in the field when he saw the beautiful Rebekah coming on the camel. Oh, my, that just makes chills go through me.
The beautiful Rebekah, he'd never seen her; he never knew who she was; but Eliezer was hunting her up. And he found her by witness of the Holy Spirit. Told... He prayed and said, "God, give me favor today, that I may find a wife for my master." And then when Rebekah come to water the camels, which was the sign that she was willing to go, got on the camel and went to meet. And he was out in the field, half way, away from the father's house.


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