<TITLE>17. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 You say, "Where about's, Brother Branham?" All right, I'll give it to you in one Scripture right now in closing. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Is that right?
Let's take Sodom, see what He did. In Sodom Lot had separated himself, a lukewarm believer, and had went down into Sodom, and had built him up a nice reputation down there. But Abraham stayed out of Sodom and lived according to the promise that God had given him.
Now, always there's three classes of people; every meeting has them; every city has them; every church has them: That is unbelievers, make-believers, and believers. That's exactly right. It's always been that way; it is yet today. Every congregation, every assembling together, even when the sons of God came up before God, there he was.

L-51 So we find out here that in the type of the Sodom... Now, watch how close He said this, how He said it, how He worded it. See? And Sodom was just before the fire fell. See? And that's what's fixing to fall now: Fire. We know that. This is a doomed world. We know it. She's--she's without hope God, without God; she's lost, just a little remnant of people ready for the rapture. This week, God willing, I'll prove that word by word.
Notice, we're a doomed people, or the world is; the church is not. Thank God there's a remnant.
Notice, but now notice the last sign that Sodom received. He had been with Abraham all along, but one day, just before the burning of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, we find out that they got a lot of perverts down there. Look at the nations today. See? Every thought on a man's heart was evil, till they were perverting themselves in sexual affairs, so forth.

L-52 Notice. There were Three that came up to meet Abraham, looked like Men, dust on Their clothes, and professed They were strangers. And two of Them went down to preach to Sodom, trying to find ten people. Remember, went down to Sodom, the lukewarm church, a modern Billy Graham and so forth, down in Sodom, preaching the Gospel, blinding the people by the Gospel. That's what the evangelist Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts and many of those great men of God has did: Shook the people. This nation has been shook. The world knows about it, by the great ministry of these God-given men shook the nation with their ministry. But remember, the word "church" means, "called out." Abraham had separated himself from all that stuff.
So the One that stayed behind and talked to Abraham, which Abraham called Him, "Lord," that was God. I know you might disagree with that, but look what the Script... Abraham was the one talking to Him, called Him, capital, "L-O-R-D", Elohim, "Lord God."
What was He doing? Abraham fed Him the meat of a calf, milk of a cow, butter, and cakes. And He eat it. And He was Elohim. What does Jesus refer to it? Now, watch.

L-53 A few days before that, God had changed the name of Abraham, or Abram, to Abraham. S-a-r-r-i, to S-a-r-a-h, Sarah, princess. Abraham, given Him part of His Name, Elohim, Abraham, as a father of nations. And watch this One Who set and talked to him: a Man, dressed in clothes, dust on Him, eating meat just like any other human being.
He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Watch the Scripture.
Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
He said, "I'm going to visit you." That proved what He was, "I'm going to visit you according to My promise I give you. I'm going to visit you, and you're going to have this baby, that you've waiting twenty-five years on. She's ninety and you're a hundred now. So I'm going to give you that baby."
And Sarah laughed in her heart to herself, said the Bible. And the Angel with His back turned to the tent, and said, "Me, an old woman, have pleasure with my lord out there, and him being old, also?"
And the Angel with His back turned, God manifested in flesh, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying within herself..."


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