<TITLE>21. Par 88-92</TITLE>L-88 Now, what's the next thing for the church then? If He... If that was the last sign He give Abraham before the fire fell and destroy the wickedness, then what will it be to His seed? Same thing. He did the same thing. What did He do? Called him, give him the covenant.
Who called you? Some people said, "I just sought God and sought God." You never did. No one else ever did. It's God seeking man, not man seeking God. No man seeks God. God seeks man, proved that in the garden of Eden, instead of confessing he was hiding. God was seeking him.
And another thing, did you notice, God never sent an Angel down to hunt up His lost child. He came Himself. That's the reason that Jesus was made, God flesh among us. God came Hisself to redeem His child. It was a man made--man size job, nobody could do it but Him. So He came to redeem His own child. That's the reason Jehovah was made flesh in His own Son to die to sin that was placed upon Him to redeem the sinner.

L-89 Now, closely, let's follow him a minute. Here's Abraham. You might disagree with this; that's all right. But I just want to tell you my own thoughts. See? Just the next thing has to take place... To receive this son that was promised, He had to do something to Abraham.
Now, we know that He had to make Sarah fertile. Is that right? Well, in--in them days women didn't smoke cigarettes, so they--they had to raise their baby on the breast. They couldn't raise him on cow's milk. They didn't have the health and hygiene bottles in them days. So they... The mother had to raise her baby. Well now, in order to do that, the milk veins in the woman's breast was dried up at a hundred years old. And then another thing, excuse me, mixed audience. You'd listen to a doctor; I'm your brother.

L-90 Listen. Another thing, how could a woman a hundred years old go in labor? Kill her. He'd have to make her over. Well, God don't... And look at Abraham as good as dead, a man a hundred years old being fertile? No, He changed them back to a young man and woman.
You say, "Can you prove it?" Yes, sir. They taken a trip from there and went plumb down to the Philistine country to Gerar, three hundred miles. That's quite a trip for great granny and grandpa with his shoulders all bent over, whiskers hanging down this, a hundred years old.
"Oh," you say, "they just lived longer." Wait a minute here, I'm looking right at the Scripture.
"And they were both well-stricken in age." That's right.

L-91 And when they got down there, you know what? Abimelech the king of Gerar, he was looking for a sweetheart. All them beautiful Philistine women around there, but when he seen great-great-great grandma with her little shawl and little hat he fell in love with her. "That's the one I've been waiting for."
See how ridiculous it seems? It is ridiculous. She had... And Abraham said, "I pray thee, say you're my sister, because you're fair to look upon."
What did He do? He turned them back to a young man and woman. What's He going to do to the... Why did He have to do that? So they could receive the promised son.

L-92 And that's the next thing in order for the church. We, which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are sleep, for we shall be changed in a moment to receive the promised Son.
Where's He going to come, down here on earth? No, up in the air. We don't meet Him here on earth, and we couldn't meet Him in these kind of bodies. We've got to be changed and meet Him in the air. Oh, I really feel religious. See? The body will be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye, and we shall be caught up together to meet the Lord. The next thing to the seed of Abraham, they're getting their last sign, a discernment just like it was Jesus' day. That's the last sign to the church.


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