<TITLE>20. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Now, I can see him go in, say, "Sarah, (way back in the tent)," and said, "knead a little flour. Get the sifter, and sifter out a little meal here, or something, and make some cakes on the hearth." And went out and found a little fat calf, and killed it, and give it to the servant, said, "Dress it."
And he fixed it all up, and brought it out before Him, set down. Now, watch.
As it was in Sodom, it's going to be this way, because this is the burning time. You believe that? You better believe it, when hydrogen, and atomic bombs, and sputniks, and everything else's flying around you. You better be believing it, because it's coming.

L-72 Notice now, what taken place? Here's what took place. The Angels sat there a little bit--three of Them. They kept looking over towards Sodom. After while... Now, remember, two of them went down to Sodom. How many knows that? Two of Them went down to Sodom, and They preached. Oh, a modern Billy Graham (See?), went down to Sodom, because there was... Lot was down there, which represented the lukewarm believer, the borderline believer, the denominational brother. He was down there in Sodom with the rest of the world. His congregation was all worldly and everything else. But he was down there.
And they sent a modern Billy Graham down and preached to them, no miracles, only smote them blind; and preaching of the Gospel does smite the unbeliever blind. We know that. Not--not--not Lot was smotten blind, but--smitten blind, rather; but the others was smitten blind.
Now. But now, we see what kind of sign they done: preached the Gospel in such a way that blinded the real unbeliever and called Lot out before the fire fell. Is that right?

L-73 Watch this fellow that stayed behind, what sign He give the church: His own. The One that stayed behind was not an Angel. It was God. The Bible said it was God. Abraham called Him "Elohim," the self-existing One, capital L-o-r-d. He ought to know. He was the one talking to Him. God...
A minister said to me one time...?..., he said, "Do you mean that was Jehovah God?"
I said, "That was Jehovah God. Oh," I said, "you just fail to find out how great He is."
What are we made out of? Sixteen elements: calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light. He just got a handful of it, and went "Whew! [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] Come here, Gabriel. Step in this," See? "Whew," blowed one over here for another Angel. "Whew," blowed one for Hisself. Come right down and eat the flesh of a calf, drank the milk from the cow, eat the corn bread, and disappeared right before Abraham. See?
Well, that's the God that owns us. I might not be a spoonful of ashes, or neither will you, but He can speak (Hallelujah.), I'll come forth. He will call me. I'm glad that He knows me, and I'm glad that I know Him. He's Jehovah. There He was. What was He representing? What He would be in the last days, dwelling in flesh.

L-74 Now, watch close. Now, we find out that it's... Let's see what kind of a sign He give to His own. The same as He did when He come on the earth: God made flesh in Christ. Now, notice, He had His back turned. And He said, "Abraham (How did He know he was Abraham?), where is your wife, Sarah?" What? Knowed his name was Abraham, knowed that he was married, and had a wife, and her name was Sarah.
Abraham was astonished. Said in the Bible, specifically says, Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
Women didn't act then like they do now: run out, and have to take their husband's place, and tend to all the business, and vote in politics, and put guys in like they just put in, and things like that. No. They didn't do it then. No. They knowed more about God. Sarah called Abraham her "lord."
Now, said, "She's in the tent behind You." (In the tent behind You.)
He said, "Abraham (Listen!), I (Oh, mercy. 'I,' that personal pronoun again), I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, as I made you that promise in the beginning, twenty-five years ago."


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