<TITLE>17. Par 185-195</TITLE>L-185   Notice when the Angel disappeared and left, Abraham called Him, "Elohim." Any scholar knows that wherever you see capital L-o-r-d, is translated in the Greek, Elohim, "the all-sufficient One, the almighty One," Who is Jehovah God. Glory!

L-186 A man said to me, "Do you mean to tell me, you believe that that was God?"

L-187 I said, "Abraham talked to Him, and he called Him 'God.' He ought to know." Oh, I am so glad that I know a God like that!

L-188   What did He do? What I think He done was... You know, we are made out of sixteen different elements of the earth, you know: petroleum, and cosmic light, and potash, and calcium. I believe He just said, "I have heard about them sins. I'll come, go down and look at it. Come here, Gabriel," gathered up a handful of cosmic light, and [Brother Branham blows--Ed.], "step in that. And come here, Woodworm," and [blows] "step in that." Then got Hisself one. Why? He is God.

L-189 I'm so glad to know. That, someday I may not be nothing but back to cosmic light. I might not be nothing in it you could find. These bones may rot away, but He knows my name. Someday He will call me; I'll come forth in His likeness.
That's our God. Abraham called Him "Elohim."

L-190   Notice, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." The messengers will be in Sodom; and the called-out Church will receive a sign, of what? God manifested in human flesh. Glory! Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's a sign to the Gentile Church. Now it's our time. It's us to see it, God's promise. We could stand here for an hour, back and forth, through the Scripture, and weave that together and prove that that's right. And this is the hour. Here is the last sign to be showed. We're at the end time.

L-191 The Book of Revelations, in the Church Ages, the Laodicean Church Age, the seventh angel was supposed... In the sounding of the days of that, "the mystery of God should be finished." And we are in the Laodicean Age; lazy, soft, no good, lukewarm, and that's the condition our Pentecostal church has got in. God has shook every gift that He could before it.

L-192   It reminds me, like a little lady in Louisville, here not long ago. She had a little boy, walking around, trying to shake little toys, and the little kid just sat and stared. And the people watched her. And she started screaming. She went up, some of the women, and asked her what was wrong. Said, "My little boy has taken a spell upon him." And said, "He won't notice things like children should notice, his age." And said, "I took him to the doctor, and the doctor said he was better, but," said, "he is not." Said, "I shake this little toy, any little kid... And he just sits and stares. Any kid ought to recognize that as a toy, and reach for it, but he just stares."

L-193 That's something like the Pentecostal church. God has sent an Oral Roberts, and everything else, around, shaking all kinds of gifts and things, to the church. He has poured out His Spirit. You've spoke in tongues, interpreted, had gifts of prophecy, and everything else.

L-194 And it's come to the time for Jesus Christ to identify Himself among the people, the same yesterday, today, and forever, which will be the last sign that will be shook before the people. Remember, a little while after that manifestation of God in a human form, in a flesh, fire fell and consumed the Gentiles. "And as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

L-195   He identified Himself as the Messiah, to the Jews, by perceiving the thoughts that was in their heart, by speaking to them their names and different things. They knowed that was the prophet that the Lord God promised to raise up. Those real, true ones who was predestined to that, saw it.


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