<TITLE>20. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 One day while setting under his oak, there was three Men came up. They had on clothes like men, dust all over Them, and said They were Strangers. But they were more than strangers. Abraham, being a man full of God, believing God, as soon as he seen Them he knowed there was something strange about Them. "My sheep know My voice."
And so he ran out and met Them, and said, "Come in and set down under the oak, and I'll fetch You a little water, wash Your feet. And have a morsel of bread, and then go on about Your business."
He run into the tent, told Sarah, said, "Knead some flour, some meal, make some cakes on the hearth." And he run out and got a calf and killed it, give it to his servant, and said, "Dress it."
And when they dressed it, brought it out, and They set there and eat: men eating like men. And One kept looking down towards Sodom. Finally, Two of them went down to Sodom. And this One that stayed behind told Abraham, said, "I'll not keep it a secret from you what I'm going to do." He said, "I--I've heard about Sodom being in that condition. I've come down to investigate." Abraham knew that was God.

L-69 Now, a minister said to me not long ago when I made that remark, he said. "Do you mean that that Man was God?"
I said, "Abraham said He was. He was called Elohim. See if it isn't right: Elohim."
He said, "In a body of flesh?"
I said, "Absolutely. You don't know how great our God is." I said, "I can see Him walk out of heaven, reach out... We're made out of sixteen elements: petroleum, potash, and cosmic light, and petroleum. He just got a handful of that... [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] "Whew," said, "Step in here, Gabriel." Reached over, and got another one, and stepped into... another angel... Stepped into one Himself, and then stepped right back out of it again.
I'm so glad I know Him. Someday when I'm nothing but dust, He will call me and I'll answer Him. He can call you, you'll answer. He's Elohim, the self-existing One. Certainly.

L-70 Now, watch. Watch the sign He done to the believer, the called-out church. Now, there was a modern Billy Graham, and them, went on down and preached to them in Sodom. They didn't do no miracles, only blinded them. Well, the Gospel blinds the unbeliever anyhow. So they didn't do any miracles, but called Lot out of there, him and his wife and children out of Sodom.
But watch the One that come to the Elected church, the one in the minority... close... He had His back to the tent. Women in them days, not like they are now, have to run out and take their husband's place, and do all the talking. They stayed back in the tent where they belonged. So then He was... Wasn't brazen as they are. Oh, my. Well, I... That's your-all's business, brethren, straighten that out.
But anyhow, notice. This man set with His back to the tent, and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know his wife's name was Sarah?

L-71 Now, watch. The Bible said, Abraham said, "She is in the tent behind You."
And He said, "Abraham, I (that personal pronoun again), I'm going to visit you according to the promise I give you. (Sarah was ninety years old then.) I'm going to visit you according to the promise I give you. You're going to have that baby."
And Sarah in the tent laughed in herself, went... And the Angel with His back turned said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" What was that? Knowed her name was Sarah, give him the promise, and knowed she laughed at--in herself in the tent.
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." The Gentiles had two thousand years of theology, like the Samaritans and them did. Now, what was it? An Angel, God, to be working in human flesh. That's what it was. It was God in a human form.


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