<TITLE>22. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 When Abraham's body was changed, Sarah's body was changed, like it never had been changed before... Now, we all know that when Jesus comes we'll be caught up in a rapture. And we know our bodies will have to be changed first. And it'll... It won't have to be just go back to young men and women, but it'll have to be changed, because Abraham and Sarah's body had to be changed in a way that they could receive the promised son. That's Abraham. His body had to be changed to receive the promised son, after being justified, sanctified, filled with the Holy Spirit, called by election, manifested God of glory in the midst of him. And then his body was changed in order to receive the promised son.

L-80 Well, the church has come through justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, gifts manifested to It. And now what? The Spirit of God moving in the church, doing the same works that Jesus did before He left as a promise. And what's the next thing? The change. The next thing happened to Abraham was a changed body. He had to have it or he'd never got the son. And the next thing happens to the church is the rapture. We'll have to be changed and caught up in the air to meet Him. We can't meet Him on earth; we've got to go in the air to meet Him. It's the coming Son, the promised Son. Amen. We've looked for Him now for hundreds of years. He will come someday. But the next thing for the church is to be changed. We've had every sign: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, placing of a son, manifestation of the Spirit. Now, what? The changing of the body for the rapture.

L-81 Oh, my. How the church ought to be waving its hands in glory, thanking God, thanking God, any minute the change could come. For the Bible said it'd be universal. Jesus said, "There will be two in the mill, grinding, I'll take one and leave one; two in the field, I'll take one and leave one; two in the bed," showed it'd be on both sides of the earth, while it's night on one side, be day on the other, "I'll take one and leave one." The rapture will be universal, and their bodies will be changed.
Our bodies will have to be changed. We just can't turn back to young men and women; we've got to have a different kind of a body, so you can be caught in the air to receive the promised Son. That's what the church is waiting for now: the true church. Every manifestation, what He did to Abraham, He has done to his seed after him, leaving one thing out, that's the rapture of the church.

L-82 "And when you see these things begin to come to pass," Jesus said, "raise up your head." Look up! Your redemption's drawing nigh. When Jesus referred to it, He said, "As it was in Sodom..." When you see a modern Billy Graham go down into Sodom, when you see the signs begin to appear before the elected church, and the rest of it fighting against It, watch, the time of the rapture is at hand. The fig tree putting forth its buds over yonder... That generation will not pass away till all be fulfilled. And she's way into that generation, since the Jews have been returning to their homeland. We're at the end time.
Nations are breaking, Israel's awakening,
The signs that the prophet foretold;
The Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered;
"Return, O dispersed, to your own.


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