<TITLE>19. Par 60-64</TITLE>L-60 Now, one more quotation. It's a little long, but you forgive me for just a minute longer. This is church; I suppose they don't have to close at no certain time. I want you to get this one more quotation, then we'll close.
Now, did you notice, that sign never was performed before a Gentile. They wasn't looking for Him. It was gone... It was a sign to the Jew and to the Samaritan. But the Gospel never even come to the Gentiles until Peter went up and preached to them, Acts 10:49 there. See? They were heathen.
So He didn't come to unbelievers. He came and showed His Messiah sign to the believers. Now, listen close. And you outside audience, put on spiritual thinking now, because you're going to have to read between the line here, then I'll close.

L-61 Now, when He was on earth here, they asked Him what would be the sign of the coming of the end of the world. And He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom..." First He said, "Of Noah," the rain. And when He said about Noah, He went ahead and give what happened in the days of Noah: about the morals of the people, how immoral they would be, about they were eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage. Then He comes to Sodom. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Now, listen close.
Now, notice, Abraham represented the elected and called out people. There's always three classes of people. Keep them in mind. Lot represented the lukewarm, formal church. The Sodomites was the world. And Abraham had separated himself from all that unbelief and had come out.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the elect church. Now, remember, in the three Angels that came to meet Abraham... They were three Men, and They were three Angels of God. One of them was God Himself.

L-62 Some minister said to me not long ago, "You don't mean to say that was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was God. Abraham called Him Lord; capital L-o-r-d, Elohim. He ought to know. He was the one talking to Him."
He said, "Well, that was just a theophany."
I said, "A theophany don't eat a calf and drink buttermilk." That's right. He was God. The Bible said He was. He was God, brethren. These three Angels... He said, "Why, do you mean they were Angels?"
I said, "Sure."
"In dusty clothes and eating?"
I said, "Sure. You just don't know how great our God is. He wanted to come down to investigate the situation down in Sodom. So I can imagine..."

L-63 What is our bodies made out of? Sixteen elements: potash, and calcium, and petroleum, cosmic light. He just reached over and got sixteen elements, and went, "Whew," [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] blowed it together and said. "Come here, Gabriel. Step in here." Sure. Blowed one over there for Michael, blowed another one for Himself. He just stepped in and come down.
Oh, I'm so glad I know Him. One of these days when my body's just dust blowing on the earth, He will, "Whew, [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] come back."
I'm so glad to know the God of that type: just blow it together, that's all. "Come on, now. I promised you. You was faithful over a few things, I make you ruler over many." See, heir of all things through Christ... He just don't realize Who He is, how great He is.

L-64 And He come down. And I want you to notice, two of those Angels (a modern Billy Graham, and so forth) went out and preached to the Sodomites. Is that right? And there was only one miracle they performed: smiting them blind. And the preaching of the Gospel smites blind them who doesn't believe. But He showed that sign to them down there, the Gospel being preached, to "come out."
He didn't call Abraham out. He was already out. Oh, I'm so glad. Abraham represented the elected church, the called out church. But One stayed behind with Abraham, and He done a sign. I want you to see what kind of a sign He done to the elected church.
Now, you see, they had the Gospel preached to come out of that place down there.


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