<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 But Sarah went to the tent. And when she did, these Men came up and Abraham looked at Them. They seemed to be rather strange looking Men. And One of Them seemed to be the Spokesman. And when He set down and begin to talk with Abraham, Abraham said, "Be seated here, and I'll go fetch a little water, and I'll wash Your feet. And I'll knead a little bread, and we'll get ready, and You can eat a morsel of meat. And then You can go on."
And when he run out into the herd and found a fatted calf and killed it, told Sarah to knead a little bread and to make some cakes, and he talked to the Man. I believe that somehow or other Abraham knew Who that was. And the Man that was the Speaker, had His back turned to the tent. He was the Messenger of that day. And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to visit you, according to the promise. Twenty-five years before I made you a promise, and I'm going to stay with it." Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord.

L-18 God made a promise, in the last days He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and He will stay with it. Jesus made a promise and said, "The things that I do, shall you do also" and He will stay with it, for He's just.
And Abraham looked at Him. And He said, "Just about this time next month, according to life, that was with Sarah, I'm going to visit you, and Sarah's going to bring a baby that I've promised."

L-19 Now, Abraham was a hundred years old and Sarah was ninety. And Sarah, behind the Angel, inside the tent, went [Brother Branham demonstrates--Ed.], laughed. And the Angel with His back turned, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" That was the Messenger. Oh, do you know what I'm speaking about? What kind of a mental telepathy was that? With His back turned to the tent, and her inside, and she smiled, and He said, "Why did she laugh?" He knew it. And that was the last message before Sodom and Gomorrah burned. Brother, if you hear it tonight, it's now the last message before this world will burn.
See the nature of the Angel? Who was that Angel? It was God. Remember, Abraham called Him, "Lord." And the translation there is Elohim, the great mighty Jehovah. It was Jesus Christ reincarnated.

L-20 Someone said, "Do you mean to say that was... How'd He get that body?" Why He just called them two Angels and breathed a little breath like that, and the atoms, and calcium, and potash come together, and Gabriel stepped in one and another Angel in the other. And He made one for Himself. Blessed be His Holy Name. I am so glad tonight, to know that that same Almighty God, Who could make Himself a body to live in, my trust is in Him that someday He will raise this one up, as He has promised to do.
And He's in our midst of doing the very same thing that He done there (Oh, praise His glorious Name.), giving us warning, speaking to us, telling us to make ready. Of course, He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." What a hour that we're living in.

L-21 Notice, the Angel that brought fire, was the One Who performed that miracle. And we all know that the world's going to be destroyed the next time by fire. And the Angel that was sent to Sodom and Gomorrah... Look what Jesus said. Oh, it just thrills my soul to get to that. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man." What did the Angel do? He had the Spirit of discernment, and He said, "As is was then, so will it be when the Son of man is being revealed from heaven." Do you see it?
Just think, that in our midst now, stands that same Angel of God, which is none other but the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost. It's in our midst. And that day... And He was God, and that was His Message, just before the destruction came.


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