<TITLE>08. Par 69-81</TITLE>L-69 And Sarah tried to deny it. But being that she was part of Abraham... Her unbelief would have condemned her, but God could not take her, 'cause she was part of Abraham. The Church would have been condemned long ago, but it's a part of Christ.

L-70   Notice the sign that He performed, telling what she was doing, with His back turned to her. Jesus said that would repeat, "in the days of the coming of the Son of man." We see the Billy Graham, we see the fire ready to fall, the church looking for a promised Son. And here we are, everything just exactly in line, waiting for that hour, the promised Son.

L-71 And remember the last sign that Abraham saw. And we who are borned of the Spirit of Christ, are Abraham's royal Seed. Jesus promised that the royal Seed of Abraham would see the same sign that their father Abraham seen, before the promised Son came. There wasn't one more sign. Abraham; right away Sarah became mother, and Isaac arrived. The last sign was God manifested in a man's flesh.

L-72   Now someone said to me, said, "Brother Branham, you don't believe that was God!"

L-73 Well, Abraham said It was. He called Him, "Elohim." And look and see if it isn't spelled with a capital L. See if in the original beginning, it isn't the same as it was, "In the beginning, God created..." Elohim, "the all-sufficient One."

L-74   God manifesting Himself in His Church, among His people. Jesus said... Here was God manifested in a Man, Jesus Christ, "the same yesterday, today, and forever." The Church has come through all kinds of signs. Well, then when God shakes the last sign before them, they stare into space. God have mercy upon us! How much more time of grace have we got? Maybe be later than we think. Remember my first quotation; people will go right on thinking they're being saved, same as Sodom.

L-75 What was He? What did those Greeks see in Him? What was He? Whatever they saw in Him then, whatever they looked for, they must have saw it.

L-76   Now look in Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, 15th to the 20th verse, Moses. God told Moses that. And Moses told the people, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me. It shall come to pass, that who will not hear Him, be cut off from amongst the people." God never changes His plan.

L-77 Now those Greeks were looking for a Prophet. Now, they had not had a prophet for four hundred years, since Malachi. But them Greeks knew that that promised Word for that day must be a Prophet, "The Lord your God shall raise a Prophet like me."

L-78   Cause, the Word only comes to the prophet, not to nothing else but the... How many understands that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? Look, it's so perfect that when John was the prophet standing in the waters, baptizing, and Jesus came to him in the water, the Word came to the prophet. He was the Word, and He came to John in the water. God never changes His system, He never changes His way. He is the unchangeable God. Now, the churches did not believe that, by no means, but that didn't stop the program of God. It went right on.

L-79   Now, Peter, his father was a Pharisee. No doubt, Andrew, being a follower of John, heard Him introduced.

L-80 Said, "There is the Messiah, I see a Light above Him, like a dove coming upon Him," bore record. Said, "He that told me in the wilderness, 'Go baptize with water,' said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit, that Light, like a dove coming down.'" Was perhaps the same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, coming upon Him, because that was the Anointed, the Logos. Came upon Him, and he said, "I bear record, this is the Messiah!"

L-81   So Peter came with Andrew, to the meeting.


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