<TITLE>16. Par 64-67</TITLE>L-64 You know what? God would've took her life right then (That's right.) for disbelieving Him, but He couldn't do it. Why? She was part of Abraham. He'd have to take Abraham with her. Oh, that's where grace comes in. All the mistakes and our errors, God holds us because we're part of Christ: the grace of God holding us.  Oh, amazing grace! How sweet the sound.
He could not take Sarah, because if He did He'd have to strike Abraham with it. He cannot take the church. In all of its mistakes, it's still His church. That's right. He can't take it because He'd take Christ. She's part of Christ. She becomes flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. All of our ins-and-outs, and unbeliefs, and so forth, and scruples: as long as she's into that body, and her ups-and-downs, the grace of God still holds her.
And there she was. She said... As she laughed, He said, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent? What made Sarah laugh?" What kind of telepathy is that? Behind Him, the Angel telling Abraham out here what Sarah was doing back behind Him in the tent. Now, when that Angel left, Abraham called him "God." Right.

L-65 Someone said to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you don't believe that that was actually God standing there eating a calf?"
I said, "I sure do." Abraham called Him "Elohim." That's right. Anyone knows that's capitol L-o-r-d, which is translated in the Greek, "Elohim," which means "the self-existing One." What was it...?... showing there?
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." What is it? Elohim, God appearing in human flesh, His church (Hallelujah.) showing Christ. Jesus said in St. John 14:12, "The wor--He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." That's right.
Now, the church has come from the great reformation of the Lutheran age, and then down through the Wesley age, and into the Pentecostal age. And now it's shaping up like the headstone in the--the pyramid.
Now, don't think I'm talking pyramid doctrine, but I'm just showing example, and how that has to fit so perfect in there because it's not cemented; it's just dropped in there. And how that...

L-66 There's a different word used. The appearing of Christ and the coming of Christ (See?), it's two different words altogether. See? Now, Christ is appearing in these last days in His church, bringing His church together in unity, and faith, and power in the Word, all together; that when He returns He will find the same church. What the palmerworm left the caterpillar eaten; what the caterpillar left the locust eaten; on down to the cankerworm. But God said... "I will restore," saith God.
Romanism, and so forth, eat that beautiful bride tree of Christ down till it become a stump. But God brought right back out of that stump, right up through the Lutheran age, right up through the Wesley age, through the Pentecostal age. And now it's in the evening Light. "I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that the cankerworm, caterpillar... I will restore again that church in her beauty, that church in her power."

L-67 And we see it's evening Lights coming, the Holy Spirit coming in so strong in upon His church, till the ministry of Jesus Christ in knowing amongst all of His people... They set there with faith bringing Him down, powers and gifts working among them: speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and signs and wonders, and miracles. What is it? Christ among His church, getting ready to take her.


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