<TITLE>05. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Most time, when we try to bring this message, our words seem to the world as like just Lot's did to his kinfolks. It seems to me that we were mocking to them, or they're idle words. Their pastors either bypassed this great message of deliverance, or tried to explain it out into another generation to come. But the facts of it is, that the Angel of the Lord is present to confirm the Word and manifest the power of the Holy Ghost, and these signs follow.
They tried to mock, and they said to Lot... Why, they just made fun of Lot: his own kindred. And Lot was a just man. The Bible said that their sins vexed his righteous soul daily to see the perversion.
And this nation is loaded with it, the misusing of the human body. When it's on the rampage, alcoholics, dope fiends, teen-age, juvenile delinquency, just like it was then... And men mock at It. And when they see the supernatural signs of the Lord God, they try to say that we're mocking religion.

L-15 Someone said not long ago, wrote me a letter, some great doctor of divinity. And he said, "Mr. Branham, get next to yourself. You are trying to impersonate the Lord Jesus." Said, "You're only making a mock." How little this poor decrepit man knew, that it's not a man can do that. It's the sign of the end time, and He's fulfilling it.
But they mocked at Lot. "Oh, don't listen to him. The man's crazy. How could this great place be destroyed?"
How could Sodom and Gomorrah, the greatest city on the known earth, how could it be destroyed with fire and brimstone? They say today, "How could the world be burnt over? How could the world be destroyed?" My most beloved brother, the same Word of God that spoke it into existence, says she'll go out of existence by the same way it was spoke in: by the Word of the Lord. Amen. That is true. God be merciful to this poor, miserable, blind, wretched, and naked nation.
Did not the Bible say, that, "You say, I'm rich, and increased in goods; I have need of nothing. And know not that thou art miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and don't know it." What a pitiful condition.

L-16 I want you to notice something just for a moment, that comes to my mind. Before destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we find that God had a prophet up on top of the mountain by the name of Abraham. And He had given him a promise, and he was willing to take the hard way and preach the real true Word, than to live in sin. And it was just before this great destruction taken place, that the Angel of the Lord met him.
I want you to watch now. Noah's time it was water. Sodom and Gomorrah, it was fire. And we're taught by God's most holy Word, that this time it'll be fire.
And notice the Scripture speaking. Sarah, around a hundred years old, Abraham, ninety and nine years old... Then Sarah would be eighty-nine. So many years ago it ceased to be with her as it is with woman. But yet, Abraham held on, for he knew that God was able to keep His promise. He was faithful. He stayed by the Word, the Word, the Word that God had spoken to him.
That's how Angels appear to people, is when you stay by the Word, not by man-made theology, but by the Word, THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's when the Angels appear.

L-17 Abraham stayed by the Word. And while he was setting under the oak one day, he saw three Men coming up. And he was spiritual, for he knowed that God was still God. And as these Men begin to appear, Abraham run out to meet Them, and said, "Sirs, stop in just a moment, and let me fetch You just a little water to wash Your feet; and we'll make a little cake. And then You refresh Yourself, then You can be going. For this cause You have come." I wished I had time to go into those words, "For this cause You have come."
And so when the little meal was made ready, and Abraham stood, watching these Men eat, the Angel had His back turned to the tent. The Bible said His back was to the tent, and Sarah was on the inside of the tent.


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