<TITLE>11. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 Now, here she is. And the first thing you know, Lot got down in Sodom and got all mixed up again. And after God had made that promise to Abraham that He was El Shaddai, the strong One, then he pitched his tent out into the plains under an oak tree.
And one day... It was right in the heat of the day, about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I suppose, when the Western sun was shining down hot there in Canaan. And the direct rays of that heat can raise blisters quickly. And he was setting out there in the tent door with his head down, perhaps studying, or thinking about God. And he raised up his eyes, and he seen three Men coming. And somehow, Abraham wanted to be friendly. So he thought them Fellows walked kinda strange, yet dusty from the road, and ordinarily dressed, and they come walking up. And Abraham went out and invited Them.

L-49 In other wise, something like this. "Sirs, You're tired. Your feet must be weary. Now, I have a nice shade tree here. Won't You come in and set down here under the shade tree, and--and I'll fetch a little water, and I'll wash your feet for you. It'll refresh you. Get you a good cold drink, then you can go on your journey."
They said, "Go ahead, Abraham. Go ahead, sir. Whatever you've said, why, let it be that way."

L-50 I can imagine seeing Abraham run down through the little tents, you know, like that, and got to the big tent. He said, "Sarah, pour out three buckets of meal right quick, kneed it, get all the lumps out of it, and get--make some cakes on the fire. Somebody's out there. There's just something about them Fellows that seems strange to me. They're not ordinary preachers."
So he run out to the back of the tent, and there's a little corral out there where they had the calves, and he felt till he got the fattest one, and give it to his servants, said, "Go, dress it right quick." And he went back out, and Sarah baked the cakes and give them to Abraham. And he come out and give Them the cakes, and they set down to eat.

L-51 Now, think of it. They were eating veal chops, drinking milk, and having corn cakes and butter: pretty good diet. So he had them all out there eating. And I can imagine Abraham getting a fly bush (I don't guess you all ever know what a fly bush was.) and shoo the flies off, you know.
How many knows what a fly bush is? Well, look at the Kentuckians here. We never had a screen door till just a few years ago. We always had an old fly bush. And I guess, it was my time there on Sunday dinner to stand and fly--and shoo the flies. A little old log cabin, no--no windows in it, and just door you pushed together. And the flies would come in, so you'd have to keep them shooed out all the time.

L-52 So, I can see Abraham standing there with a fly bush, a shooing. He kept looking down to Them, he said, "Now, these are strange Fellows. They're dusty, traveled far." And after while, when They got through eating, why...
Strange that them Men were eating; They were dressed in ordinary clothes, dust on Their clothes, eating meat, drinking milk, and One of them was God Himself. That's what the Scripture says. Abraham called Him LORD, capital L-O-R-D, Elohim, the great Jehovah God.


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