<TITLE>28. Par -</TITLE>L-342-841 What do we do? Well, my dear sainted brother, my dear sainted sister, before the foundation of the world, when God created you in His image, or created the--the man in His image, and created the woman in the image of the man for the glory of the man, He made you a theophany just like Hisself, when He said, "let us" to the creatures that He had made, "let us make man in our own image, in our likeness..." a theophany. God had never become flesh yet; He was in a theophany.
And Moses saw Him. Moses cried, "Lord, let me see You."
He said, "Go yonder and hide in the rock, in the cleft. And Moses got back in that cleft; and when God passed by, the lightning and thunders... And as God passed by, He had His back turned like this. And Moses said It was the back of a Man. Hallelujah.
Who was It? The Melchisedec that come down, the King of Salem, with no father and mother, no beginning of days or ending of life. That's Him. And He come down; that's the One that talked to Abraham; that gathered Him up a little body of flesh like that, and [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] breathed into it, stepped into it, and come down and eat a calf, drank milk from a cow, and eat some butter and corn bread. And the two Angels...
And when He walked out there, and all of that stuff just [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] vanished and went away.

L-343-846 I never thought of that. Here sometime ago, loading a rifle shell, I had a .22 rifle; it's a .220 Swift. And you rifling brethren in here know. The little bullet, it's a forty-eight grain bullet, just about that long, regular .22 bullet. It's loaded almost on a chamber powder of .30-06. Now, I... The factory only loads that to about forty-four hundred feet per second. All right, but you can put enough... Load it yourself, and you can put it up to five thousand feet per second. And--and otherwise, if you was shooting... We was shooting the other day at two hundred yards, and the bullet would hit, and the dust would fly before the gun would ever echo. That's how fast it is.

L-343-847 Then you take a toothpick (you know, the flat part on a toothpick) and reach down in your powder and get that thing full of powder, just about four or five little grains, and lay it on top of there, and then put your bullet in there. Stand here, and you got a bullet in your hand in a second. And shoot it out there at the ground hog setting two hundred feet from you, and the ground hog never even moved. The bullet turns back to its original conditions, back to gases. Here's a bullet that's copper and lead mixed together, and one split second it's back till you'd never find it again. It went back like it was a hundred billion years ago, back to gases. Those gases have to form and come back into copper and into lead, and so forth, like that. Those gases has to settle.

L-344-848 Now, there you are. That's the way we are here. We come from a higher being. In the beginning we were in the image of God. The veil and the darkness keeps us from knowing it now. But Jesus told His disciples He was with them before the foundation of the world. See? We were. You can't know it now, but you was in the beginning. And if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting. Hallelujah. And then we move into this theophany, what we once lived, so we can eat and shake hands. And the souls under the altar cry, "How long, Lord?"

L-344-849 There's seven steps that goes to God, for the seven Spirits as--as It comes down. All right, as you go under the altar of God, they was crying, "Lord, how long? Can we go back?" They're down here.
God said, "Just for a little season, until your fellow men suffer the same thing that you've suffered." See?
And then the souls return back, and they become men and women again, and live forever when all the darkness and death and sickness and sorrow of the blackness has faded out; there's no more shadow; it's absolutely sunlight.


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