<TITLE>13. Par 65-70</TITLE>L-65 Notice. Look at Abraham. Now, I can see him old with his staff in his hand, whiskers hanging way down, a hundred years old, one morning woke up and Sarah said, "Dad, the hump's going out of your back." He sure... He took God at His promise. "Your hair is turning back black again."
Why, he said, "Sarah, your eyes are beginning to look lovely, like the dove again."
And you know what God did, He turned them both back to a young man and a woman.

L-66 Now, you say, "Now, Brother Branham, you're met..." No, He did too. Watch to see what He did.
Now, they took a journey from where they was (Mark it on your map.) down to the Philistine land, to Gerar, which is about three hundred miles. Quite a trip for an old grandma hundred years old. And the strange thing when she got there, Abimelech the--the king was hunting him a sweetheart.
And all those pretty Philistine girls around there, when he saw this old, hundred year old grandma come, he said, "That's the one I've waited for." Little grandma with a shawl over her shoulder, little dust cap, and all them pretty girls there, and here she comes down. And Abimelech said, "That's the one I've waited for. I want her."

L-67 Abraham said, "Now, you tell her--you tell him that I--I'm your brother." What would he have to do that for an old grandma hundred years old? See, God had turned her back to a young woman. That's what He's going to do to every one of the seed of Abraham one of these days. He's only showing what He was going to do.
There God turned her back to a young woman, and made her well, and a beautiful young woman, when they said she was the most beautiful woman in the land. That's what He's going to do for every woman and man that's here, that's a seed of Abraham, that's been borned again. Someday this old body will be changed. Certainly. You'll go back again. God was showing what He was going to do.

L-68 Sarah become a mother. She brought forth this little boy, Isaac. When he was about twelve years old... (Now, we'll close in a moment; we just had to hit the high spots.) Now, he's about twelve years old, pretty little curly-headed Jewish boy, about like that. I imagine he was a darling, looked about like his mama. And I can see his brown eyes and his little dark face and his little curls hanging around his head.

L-69 And now remember, Sarah then was about a hundred and, oh, maybe a hundred and twenty, fifteen, twenty years old. And Abraham was about a hundred and, well, maybe thirty, thirty-five years old. Think of it. And there they was they had this young child. Now, notice what happened.
One day, God said, "Abraham, there's going to be some meetings down in about 1956 and '57. I want to prove to the people what I'm going to do. Now, I told you I was going to make you a father of nation. When you was an old man I give you this child. Now, I want you to take this thy only..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-70 But an ordinary man, even today when we got gasoline feet, only walk twenty, twenty-five miles a day. Well now, he went--he went three day's journey from civilization. That would be about seventy-five miles back into the desert. And then he saw the mountain far off. Now, watch him when he comes to it.
Gets right up close to the mountain, and he stops the little mule. And I can hear him as he begins to take the wood off of the mule, fix his little fire in his hand, lays the wood up on Isaac's back. And he said to the servant; he said, "You stay here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I will return." Oh, my. How's he going to do it? It's not his question to ask. It's what it is, is to believe God made the promise. He said, "I received him as one from the dead; God's able to raise him up from the dead." There you are. Oh, I love that, "The lad and I will return," Genesis 22.


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