<TITLE>15. Par 143-161</TITLE>L-143 Come to find out, He said, "And another thing, Abraham, you've waited twenty-five years for this promise I give you. You done got all the birdeye up, the--the pins and everything, for this baby, twenty-five years ago. You still been waiting on Me. Now I'm going to visit you, just about the time of life, according, time of life, next month I'll be with you."

L-144 And Sarah, back in the tent. And this Man had His back turned to the tent, talking to Abraham, like this. And Sarah went, "Huh!"

L-145 He said, "What made Sarah laugh?" Ho-ho-ho! How about that? That was quite a telepathy, wasn't it? "What made Sarah laugh?"
Sarah said, "No. I never laughed."

L-146 Said, "Oh, yes, you did." She was scared. She was trembling. Who was That, to know what she was doing back in the tent? That's That same God that's with us today. Same One. He knows all about it. See? He just reveals it as you have need. See?

L-147 "What you laugh about?" See, His back turned to it. The Bible stated that, that, "His back was turned to the tent." But, He knew it. "What's she, back there, doing this, you see?"
So, He said, "I'm going to visit you."

L-148 Who is this strange Fellow? You know what happened? He walked right out there and vanished. And the Bible said that That was Almighty God, Jehovah, that great Fountain, that Theophany, that Logos.

L-149   Some preacher said to me, some time ago, said, "Brother Branham, you wouldn't actually think that was God, would you?"

L-150 I said, "The Bible said It was God, Elohim." Which, He was Almighty God, the El Shaddai, that's right, the Strength-Giver, the Satisfier. Amen.

L-151 Oh, I feel religious! Think of it, here, as He is now. I'm going to show you Who He is here, then you'll see Who the Son is. That was Jesus, before He had the human Name, "Jesus."

L-152 Stood there at the fountain that day. And they was all drinking, you know, and, "Having the waters was in the wilderness," and things like that. He said, "They was eating the manna." Said, he said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years."

L-153 He said, "And they're, every one, dead." Said, "I am the Bread of Life that come from God, out of Heaven. He that eats this Bread shall never die."

L-154 Said, "Well, our fathers drank from the Spirit, from a spiritual Rock that was in the wilderness, that followed them."

L-155 He said, "I am that Rock." Glory! Saint John, the 6th chapter.
"Why," they said, "what?"
"Yes. That's right."

L-156 "Why," he said, "You are... You're not even fifty years old." Course, His work made Him look a little old, but He was only thirty. Said, "You're a man not over fifty years old, and You say You seen Abraham, that's been dead for eight or nine hundred years? We know now that You're a devil."

L-157 He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." There He is. Who was the I AM? A perpetual Name for all generation. That was the... that Pillar of Fire in the burning bush, "I AM THAT I AM." There He was, that Theophany met here, called the Son of God, the I AM, the Jehovah.

L-158   Thomas said, "Lord, show us the Father. It'll satisfy us."

L-159 Said, "I been so long with you, you don't know Me?" Said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. Why say, 'Show us, Thou, the Father'? I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I'm just a tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me"

L-160 Now, standing back there, again, Moses seen Him, the hind part of Him, said, "Looked like the back of a man," the Logos that went from God.

L-161 Then what happened? This was God. And the reason He had become from Logos to flesh... What? How do you... What happened to that? Five minutes before that, He was a... He was the Logos. But what did He do? He just reached over...


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