<TITLE>20. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Saint John 1. Is that right?
Hebrews the 4th chapter said, "The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, discerning even the thoughts and the intents of the heart."
And when the Word--when God's Word, not half of It, part of It, mixed up with some man-made creed... "Ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be done."
But when the true Word becomes manifested in you, It's a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. And men call it mind reading, mental telepathy. No wonder they called Jesus Beelzebub. And He said, "I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come and does it, one word against It will never be forgiven."

L-72 Then you see why we got our name on a missile hanging out yonder somewhere. You see where judgment stands. Notice. Sure we're doomed. There's the Billy Graham group down there, preaching to that "Lot come out of Sodom. Get out of Sodom. Get out of Sodom." Maybe the boy don't know it for all I know, or the man. I think he's about thirty-seven years old, or forty, no, about forty-four or some, forty-five. I don't know how Billy... Said, well, he's getting up somewhere in his forties.
But anyhow, how the men, maybe, don't realize what it is. See? There he is. He's the messenger of the day to that church, not realizing he had to be called like that. How he's... Everything... You say, "how'd did that name have to do with it?" Why did He change Jacob's name? Why did He change all the rest of the names when they come to Him?

L-73 "Your name is called Simon; hereafter you'd be called Peter. You was Saul, but you'd called Paul from now on." How about all these names, if they don't mean something?
"Oh," you say, "that's numerology." The devil's got one (that's right), and God's got one. Everything the devil's got, he's patterned it off of God. Exactly right. Changed his name...
After Jesus overcome He received a new Name Himself. Every overcomer... The church when it's completely overcome, the revelation of it begins to be real to them... Why was He called that? Why is He a Messenger today, than when the man is... Just like it was in Eden, he destroyed himself by his own knowledge. And today, he's doing the same thing: destroying himself with his own knowledge. Watch now. Just a few minutes before we close. We got... Really got thirty minutes, but we won't have to take it. Look. I want to ask you something.
Now, he went down and preached, them Angels did. This other One stayed behind: Messenger.

L-74 Some minister ask me one time, "Brother Branham, did you say that was God?" That was God. Abraham called Him, "Elohim." If you want to argue with Abraham, the Bible, that's all right. But he said It was Elohim, stood there and He eat flesh, with ordinary clothes on, eat flesh, drank the milk of the cow, eat bread, vanished out of Abraham's sight. He was Elohim. Proving what? When Jesus referred to it, that "Elohim come back into the seed of Abraham at the last days."
"And as it was in the days of Sodom (to the elected church), so shall it be."


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