<TITLE>17. Par 78-82</TITLE>L-78 What happened? There was three classes of people in that day, and there's three classes of people today. First, there was the Sodomites: the world; there was Lot and his people: the church, formal intellectual type; and there was Abraham and his group: Abraham and his group setting up there, the elected and called out church. Remember.
Now, there was three groups: the Sodomites: sinful, wicked, world like today; there was the church member: lukewarm, cold, Lot, his group; there was Abraham: the called out of it and was setting out here in the desert, taking the hard things. That's right. And the Lord came down in a form of a Man, the Speaker of these three Angels that stood.

L-79 Now, someone asked me, said, "Brother Branham, you don't believe that was God?"
I said, "It was God, because... Now, listen. Abraham called Him capital L-o-r-d, and any scholar knows that capital L-o-r-d is Elohim, which is God."
He said, "Well, how would He ever?" I said... He said, "God, eating?"
I said, "Sure." I said, "God just reached over and got a handful of--of cosmic light, and whatevermore He had to get together, and some petroleum, and cosmic light, and--and some calcium, and potash, and said, 'Whew. Step in that, Gabriel. Whew. Step in that, Michael,' and stepped into it Himself."

L-80 He's God. You fail to see Who He is. He's the unchanging God. I'm glad I got faith in Him tonight that someday when my life, my body with its sixteen elements will be back in the dust of the earth. But He will say, "William Branham." and I'll come forth. He will breathe the breath of life into it and say, "There you are." He will bypass the birth--birth of (See?), my mother and so forth.
Like Jesus on his first miracle, He turned water into wine. Eventually it would've been wine, but He bypassed all that procedure, and said, "Turn the water to wine." At the resurrection, He will not say, "Mr. and Mrs. Branham get married again and bring forth William." He will speak, and I'll come forth. Amen. That's Him. He's God.

L-81 Sure, He did. Walked down there before Abraham. Now, watch what He did now. Remember, they was going down... Two of the angels went down and preached in Sodom. Is that right? They had a meeting down there. But what did they... They didn't perform too many miracles, but what did they do? They smote them Sodomites blind. And now, we've got them same angels preaching to the church formal today: a Billy Graham, and so forth. And what does blind the world? Is the Word. And preaching the Word is--blinds the unbeliever.

L-82 But watch this elected, called out church, this Angel that spoke there to Abraham. He's... Now remember, his name had been Abram till just a few days before. And his wife's name had been Sarai, S-a-r-r-a. But He... God had met Abraham in a Spirit form, and had changed his name from Abram to Abraham, from Sarai to Sarah. And now, watch this Angel, dust on His clothes, and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
I wonder... Abraham must've said, "My leading was right. I just felt something; that Fellow was different." He said, "She's in the tent that's behind You there."
How did He know he had a wife? How did He know that his name had been changed? How did He know that she... these conditions... Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." How did He even know Abraham was married? "Where is thy wife, Sarah?" He said (now watch), "I (that personal pronoun there), I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." You see Who it was. See? You see Who it was. And He--He said...


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