<TITLE>16. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 And Abraham standing there, and the servant brought forth the meat, and they set down and eat. Could you imagine Who that was eating? After a bit, the One that talked to Abraham, Abraham called him "Elohim"; that was Jehovah God, Elohim, God in the form of a man, setting there eating the meat of a calf, eating veal chops, drinking milk, eating corn bread. God Himself, the Creator...
Someone said to me not long ago, "Preacher, you don't mean to say that was God."
It was God! The Bible said it was. Abraham said it was; he should know; he was there. Think, our God is not that big? All He had to do is reach over and get a handful of calcium, and potash, and petroleum, and cosmic light, and [Brother Branham blows a puff of air--Ed.] phew, breathe in, and say, "Come here, Gabriel; step in here." Go and get another handful, and say, "Come on Woodworm, you step in this one." And stepped in one of Hisself. He's the Creator. Abraham called Him "Jehovah-jireh," "the Lord will provide whatever He has need of." He can provide a preacher; He can provide anything.

L-52 Now notice, two of them kept looking towards Sodom. Now, I say this reverently and with respect: Let's take a modern Jack Shuler or Billy Graham goes down into Sodom, the world, to the church nominal, and preach the Gospel, "Come out, for this place is going to burn."
And Lot, the backslider--slidden Christian, believer, lukewarm, tried to tell his people, but they laughed at him. "Oh, nonsense." That's just what you get.
But they didn't perform any miracles, only smote some men blind. And the preaching of the Gospel does smite blind to the unbeliever. But watch this One Who stayed with Abraham. (Now, close now--we're fixing to close in a minute.)

L-53 Watch Jesus, what He said would be in the last day. There's the church nominal getting their message. Why, Billy Graham and many of the great men have swept the earth with it. The Church spiritual has to get their message in the last days, 'cause Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so shall it be..." Watch this Angel, how He acts, or this Man. He had His back turned to the tent, and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Women was then wasn't like they are now: have to run out and take their husband's place, and butt in everything he's saying. They stayed back in the tent. She... He'd never seen.
He said, "Where is..." How did He know she--He had a wife, if He was just a man? How did He know that her name was Sarah?
"Oh," he said, "I... My wife, Sarah, is in the tent behind You." And Sarah was inside the tent.
He said, "Abraham, seeing that you are an heir of the world, I am not going to keep this a secret from you. I'm going to visit you according to the time of life."

L-54 We're a mixed audience, and you know what that was, with the woman. After it ceased with her for... Well, it was about forty or fifty years old that ceases to the--be the woman that way to... And so, she's going to be again according to the time of life.
And Sarah, in the tent behind Him, laughed in herself. She said, [Brother Branham snickers--Ed.] Said, "Me, an old woman like I am, and my lord out there, an old man, a hundred years old and me, ninety; and to think that we'd have pleasure together again as husband and wife." And she laughed.
And the Angel with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
Jesus said, "That same message will come just before the coming of the Son of God."
Sirs, we would see Jesus. He said, "The works that I do shall you also."


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