<TITLE>08. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Jesus is, perhaps (I'd like to think it like this. I couldn't say.), already left glory, coming down among the stars and so forth, moving down to the earth. One of these days, maybe today yet, the church that He's never seen yet, only as the Holy Spirit bore witness to it... See?
And watch, when Rebekah saw Isaac, she veiled her face, and jumped off the camel, and run to meet him. It was love at the first sight. I don't know what He's going to look like. I... He may be a big Man; He may be a little Man; He may be a--brown, white, black. I don't know what color He'll be; what kind of hair He'll be; what color eyes He'll be; but I love Him. I don't care what He looks like; I love Him. Yes, sir. And the church will love Him.
And He's on His road now, I believe, left the ivory palaces, coming down through to receive His bride. Then we are caught up in the air to meet the Lord. Is that right? Then we go in for the wedding like Isaac did to Rebekah. And then, when they came out from the wedding ceremony he was possessor. And then when Jesus comes again with His bride, to reign on the throne of David, His Father, in the millennium, He will come with her then as King and queen.

L-21 Now, I think the same thing is in the--the body. We are given the first body which is a natural, mortal, a body made of sin. And the next body is a glorious body, some type of body the Christian goes into, the believer, when he dies. It is not exactly flesh. I wouldn't say it was tangible, but yet, it--it's real. And then that body turns back to take up the tabernacle of the clay at the end, at the resurrection. Then we're in His likeness forever. Oh, that's just wonderful.
Look. You say, "Brother Branham, it..." See, if it's spirit you couldn't see it. But it's not spirit.
Look. When the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, or--or Samuel, Saul recognized him. He was standing there with his prophet's robe on. And the witch got scared and fell on the ground, said, "I see gods raising up." And not only did he have on his prophet's robe, he was still a prophet. He said, "Why did you call me, seeing that you become an enemy of God?" He said, "Tomorrow, you'll be with me." Said, "You'd fall..." and how he would fall in battle, his son would fall, and just exactly. And they stood and recognized him.
Well, you say, "Brother Branham, I wouldn't be too sure of that." All right. How about when Jesus was on Mount Transfiguration, and here stood both Moses and Elijah, and Peter, and James, and John standing, looking at them. That's right. Yes, we're going to be something when we get out of here. That's right. We're going to be somebody and something. And oh, what type of people ought we to be today that know God through His grace that has a new body for the people.

L-22 I think of this little old frail tabernacle of our humiliation that's in here. Or what is it? Just a few vitims--vitamins and calories and so forth, throwed together here: just a little place for the soul to anchor at. That's all. But one of these glorious days it'll be changed, and this which is in there will go because again this couldn't come into that all at once. It just have to kinda gradually come into it. Even after dying going into that--that ty--type of body, we don't know what it'll be, 'cause it does not yet appear what we shall be at the end. But we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is. See, something like that, for we shall see Him as He is.


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