<TITLE>17. Par 143-153</TITLE>L-143 Notice Abraham and Sarah, they went back to about twenty-two or twenty-five years old.
Oh, you say, "Nonsense, Brother Branham." All right, now set still just a minute; let's just read between the lines once.
Immediately after those Angels left, and Sodom was burned, Abraham and Sarah took a long journey plumb down to Gerar. That's quite a journey for an old couple. Measure it on your map. They went down to Gerar. And here's Sarah now, grandma, ninety years old, a little sun-bonnet on, shaking, and Abraham with his long beard hanging down. The Bible said they were both well stricken in age. Don't try to say they lived longer. And the Bible said their bodies were both dead, stricken in age. And here they go down to Gerar.
And there's a young king down there named Abimelech, and he was looking for a sweetheart. And when he saw Sarah, he fell in love with her. Is that right? Grandma?

L-146 "Why, you're the most..." Abraham said, "You're fair to look upon." Amen. "I pray thee, tell him that you're my--my sister." Hallelujah. He's showing there what He was going to do for all of Abraham's Seed. Sarah was beautiful. Abraham was young. I can hear Abraham say, "Sarah, dear, you know what, the gray is going out of your hair."
"Abraham, the hump's going out of your back. You're straightening up." They returned back to young man and young woman. God, showing... Oh, my.

L-148 And Abimelech fell in love with her, and went and took her, and would've married her. I can see him take his bath, and lay down with his pajamas on, and stick his toes up, after he said his prayers, and said, "Tomorrow I marry that beautiful hundred-year-old... (Ridiculous.) That beautiful Hebrew girl, oh, her brother, that young fellow, and how beautiful she is!"
And God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
Said, "Lord, why is that?"
He said, "That's a man's wife."
He said, "You knowed the integrity of my heart, Lord. She said, 'That's my brother.' And he said, 'It's my sister.'"
He said, "Yes, I know the integrity of your heart; that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me." But listen. "But you are as good as dead, and your whole nation's gone. Her husband is My prophet. I don't care how holy you are, and how much you pray, I'll not hear your prayers. But her husband is a prophet. Go, and take his wife back and let him pray for you. If you don't, you'll die." Hallelujah.

L-152 What was it? God getting Sarah and Abraham ready to receive the promised son. Showing that the next thing after the manifestation of this Angel of God, the Holy Spirit showing His last sign, the next thing, this mortal takes on immortality and we're caught up in the air to meet the promised Son, Abraham's royal Seed. Glory to God. Hallelujah. "For we'll be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye and shall be caught up together to meet Him in the air. So shall we ever be with Him, the promised Son." Hallelujah.

L-153 Oh, I ain't going to get... I'll... Maybe tomorrow night I'll get 22nd chapter. See?
Oh, I love it, don't you? I'm so glad. All these things, the Bible's just full of these gracious nuggets. Just reach down and pick them out, roll the dirt off of them, and look at them. Every one of them represents Jesus Christ, every man, for in Him dwelt the Fulness of God. In Him, everything points to. Everything from the Old Testament pointed to the cross, and is in the New Testament, points back to the cross. That's right. It's all there. Oh.
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
How I love Him. How I want to see Him. How that I long and wait for this old beat up, bruised up, heartbroken, tore-down body to be changed one of these mornings. The trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ shall rise. We shall be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air.


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