<TITLE>14. Par 51-55</TITLE>L-51 Now notice. And this... The coming of Jesus is three times. Did you know that? Jesus come the first time to redeem His Bride. He comes the next time; we're caught up in the air to meet him in the air. We caught up to meet Him. He comes to receive His Bride. The next time He comes, He comes as King and Queen to reign on the earth with His Bride: three comings. Right.
And the Church is in three stages: "Let him that's filthy, filthy still; let him that's holy--righteous, righteous still; him that's holy, holy still." Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." How many knows that Jesus said that, say, "Amen."? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
What was it? A day just like that day. Look at perversion, homosexuals. Picked up a paper last week when I was in Los Angeles, the Christian Businessmen's meeting where I was their speaker;, and homosexual is on the increase forty percent over last year. Boys, man living with one another, living in hotel rooms, Perversion. The natural course of life being perverted, because women has belittled themselves and becomes so common, it's perverted man, perverted minds: women living with women, man living with man. Just what God said would take place. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

L-52 Watch the order. There was Sodom, the ungodly. There was Lot and his bunch, the lukewarm church member. You admit that? He had a form of godliness, but went down into the world. Look where the church member went. There was Abraham, the elected and called out. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. I feel religious right now.
Them three classes of people are in the world today: the world--the ungodly, the lukewarm church member, and the elected and called. Watch when God got ready to destroy them. Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." Watch the perversion.

L-53 Now, Abraham was setting poor, in the minority, setting out under a oak. And he raised up his eyes and he saw three M-a-n coming. They looked like man; They had dust on their clothes. And They said they were strangers, and They were passing through.
But there was something in the heart of Abraham that he knowed They were more than men. He run out to Them; he said, "Come back and set under the oak just a little bit." Watch now, shadowing the coming of Jesus. He said, "Set down here just a minute. I'll fetch a little water and wash Your feet, and rest Yourself. And I will bring You a morsel of bread. Refresh Yourself; then go on about Your business. For this is why You come by."

L-54 Let's take Abraham. He run into the tent. Sarah was ninety years old; Abraham was a hundred. They were looking for a baby and believed God, holding on just certain that God was going to answer like I preached on tonight. Twenty-five years they held for that promise, giving God praise all the time for the baby, her getting older all the time, but they were certain of God. What happened? All of a sudden, Abraham run into the tent; he said, "Sarah, get out the flour. Knead a little of it." In other words, "Sift it right good. Make some hoe cakes down here." And he run out into the flock, and begin to feel around and got a little fat calf, killed it, took, dressed it, brought it out, and cooked it, and set down. And they eat it.

L-55 I can see Abraham get the fly bush, begin to... How many knows what a fly bush is? How many you all from Kentucky anyhow? See? All right, a fly bush. We never knowed what a screen door was till just recently. We had an old limb off of a tree, or mom make a fly bush; we'd have to stand... Them old cabins... And shoo the flies away from the table while we eat...
Abraham out there with a fly bush... I don't guess they had screens in those days. And while they were eating, Abraham's heart was beating. You know what the Bible said it was? It was Almighty God and two Angels (Hallelujah.) in the form of man.


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