<TITLE>13. Par 627-636</TITLE>L-627   The Forerunner, He tells us, "There's a place just beyond, yonder, where you'll never get old." Where there'll be no wrinkles, where you won't have to use Max Factors to make you look nice to your husband. The Forerunner has went on. There's never a place where you get old and weary and shaky. There's a place where you'll never get sick. Where the baby will never have a colic. Where you'll never shed a false... or a tooth, to get a false one. Hallelujah! O blessed be His Name! He entered in, and immortal we'll stand in His likeness, someday yonder. The stars and the sun they'll outshine. Certainly. The Forerunner has gone before us.
... the forerunner is gone, has for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

L-628   This great Forerunner has gone before us, making a way. He become from spirit, the great fountains of the rainbow of God, who had no beginning or no end. He was, forever, God.
This ray of Light went forth. It was a ray of love, that's the main one, red. The next color follows, which was blue; blue, the trueness. Next, followed after that was other colors, through the seven perfect colors, which is the seven spirits of God, that went from that great Fountain or that great Diamond that Jesus spoke of. That great Diamond was chipped, to reflect these colors. God was made flesh and dwelt among us, that He might reflect His goodness and mercy among us, by gifts and signs and wonders.
That whole big rainbow had become in a theophany, of made in the image like man. Yet, He wasn't a man; He didn't have flesh, yet. He was a theophany.

L-629   Moses said, "I'd like to see You." God hid him in the rock.

L-630 And when He passed by, He turned His back. Moses said, "It looked like the back of a man."

L-631 Then what come to pass? One day down there, when Abraham was setting in his tent. We'll get to it, tonight. When Abraham was setting in his tent, God came up to him, in a body of flesh.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, he was..."

L-632 We'll find Him out here meeting Abraham before that, in the order of Melchisedec, a body of flesh, which was God. Sure, it was. He was God in flesh.

L-633 You say, "Then, Brother Branham, why would He have to come back and be born?"

L-634   He wasn't born then. He was just created, a body that He dwelt in. Melchisedec was the King of Salem, which is the King of Jerusalem, which is the King of peace; which had neither father nor mother, beginning of days or ending of life.
Jesus had both father and mother, and a beginning of days and ending of life. But He was made "after the order" of Melchisedec, which had no beginning of days or ending of life.

L-635 Melchisedec was God Himself. Melchisedec was Jehovah God, the same One that met Abraham, years later, in front of his tent. Had His back turned to him; He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" That's right. He was the One who stood there, looking over towards Sodom. Abraham recognized Him, because inside of his veil was an anchor holding that promise. Not because he had some sensation, but God made him the promise. And when he come into contact with that great magnet, he knew It was in that flesh.

L-636   Walked out with Abraham, out there a little piece. He told Abraham. Said, "Seeing that, I'll keep these things from Abraham, to see that he's the heir of the world? I just won't do it." So, "Abraham, I'll tell you what I'm on My road to do," we pick it up tonight, "down there in Sodom," and what they all was going to do. And as soon as He had blessed Abraham, He went back into space again. A man that stood there and had dust on His clothes, a man. And not only that, but He eat the flesh of a calf that Abraham killed, and drinking the milk from the cow, and eat some hoe cakes (some corn bread), and had butter on it. That's exactly right. And then turned back to a theophany again.


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