<TITLE>17. Par 158-167</TITLE>L-158 Down there, there wasn't no miracles, just smote them blind when they come to get in. And preaching the Gospel does smite the unbeliever blind. That's what the Bible says. And remember, a modern Billy Graham and a--an intellectuals down there preaching, "Come out. Come out. Come out." See?
But remember, the One that stayed back with Abraham, done something else with the elected Church; He was setting with His back turned to the tent. Now remember, he had been "Abram" till just a day or two before that, and Sarah had been "S-a-r-r-a." But now she's S-a-r-a-h, and he's A-b-e-r-h-a-m: "father of nations," and "princess." See? Now, how did this Stranger know, when He set down with His back to the tent? And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" How'd He know he was married? How'd He know her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
Now, watch. "I (personal pronoun), I am going to visit you." What had He done? Set there and had eat a calf that Abraham killed, eat bread that Sarah had baked, and drank milk from the cow.

L-161 Someone said to me not long ago, said, "Who was that, Brother Branham?"
I said, "It was God."
Abraham ought to know; he talked to Him. Ask any minister. He called Him Elohim, the--the self-existing One; capital L-O-R-D, "LORD," the self-existing One.
Now, watch; you won't miss it. "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent, behind You."
He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life," what He promised him twenty-five years before that. Abraham was a hundred and Sarah was ninety. "I'm going to visit you according to life."

L-165 Now remember, Sarah, an old woman, it had ceased to be with her as a wife. No woman ninety years old... Maybe twenty or thirty years, maybe, since she'd been a wife to Abraham. They were old. And she laughed in herself; you know, what we call, "laugh up our sleeve." Said, "Me, an old woman like I am; and my lord, Abraham, out there, old too; and me have pleasure like a bride again with Abraham?" And she laughed about it.
And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying that these things can't be?" What kind of a telepathy was that?

L-167 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." There the church nominal has their messengers. And the Messenger of the Holy Spirit is with the Church elected, doing the same thing, which makes Him, Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Who is the Messenger of this hour? No man. The Holy Ghost is the Messenger of this hour. What is it? God, dwelling in human flesh. Glory. I feel religious. Amen. God in human flesh, dwelling among you.
Jesus said, "Lo, a little while and the world seeth Me no more (That's the unbeliever); yet ye shall see Me (the Church), for I (personal pronoun again), I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age, the end of the world," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Our God is not dead. He is a-living forevermore. He's living at the end time when the sun is setting.


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