<TITLE>18. Par 205-214</TITLE>L-205 But watch what kind of a sign He done. Now look. He was setting with His back turned to the tent, and Sarah was in the tent, behind Him. He had never seen her, yet. And remember, just a day or two before that, his name was Abram; and, her, she was Sarai. Now she is Sarah, S-a-r-a-h. He's A-b-r-a-h-a-m. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" S-a-r-a-h.
Said, "She's in the tent, behind You."

L-206   He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." Now, he had looked for that child for twenty-five years. She is nearly a hundred now. He is a hundred. She's ninety. Said--said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, and you're going to have that son."

L-207 And Sarah, she kind of laughed, you know, to herself. She said, "Me, an old woman?" See? As... We're a mixed audience, but you know what I mean. As man and wife, family relation had been years, and years, and years, past, you see, 'cause he was a hundred and she was ninety, well stricken. Said, "Me have pleasure with my lord, Abraham, and him being old, too?" See?

L-208 And then this Man, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Abraham..." Or, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent, saying these things couldn't be?"

L-209   Abraham called Him, "Elohim." That was God. Elohim is the--is the "self-existing One," see, the all-sufficient, self-existing. "In the beginning God...." Take that word God, look at it back there, same, translated the same thing, "Elohim." Self-... There was Elohim manifested in flesh, that had eat the flesh of a calf, drinking the milk from the cow, and eat bread. And set, talking to Abraham. And Abraham knew that He could discern what was in Sarah's thoughts back there, and that's the reason he knowed that was Elohim.

L-210 Jesus said, notice, "In the days when the Son of man shall be revealed, being revealed in the last days, it'll be like it was in the days of Sodom." God manifested in His Church, the human beings, revealing Himself, see, in human flesh, like He was then. Now look.

L-211   I want to ask you something. In all of the ages, since the church first began, they have never had a messenger to them that his name ended with h-a-m, till now, G-r-a-h-a-m. Right. Down there, calling them out, Oral Roberts, and a Billy Graham, see, h-a-m. There's been Moody, Sankey, Finney, Wesley, Billy Sunday, all them, see, international church like that, world church!...?... There's never been one ending to h-a-m till right now, and that's Billy Graham. See? And that's six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m, six, meaning... Man was born, created on the sixth day. Six is man's number. There he is, to the church natural.

L-212 Abraham was A-b-r-a-h-a-m, seven letters. See? Look at the setting of today, and look what's taking place. Abraham had seen many signs and wonders, and everything that God had done. So has the Church. You've received the Holy Ghost, spoke in tongues, done all these signs and wonders. But you're promised, "As it was then, so shall it be again." "It shall be Light in the evening time." Jesus Christ, the same; same Son will appear again on the scene, in His Church, and will do the same thing that He did then, showing that He is the Word made manifest. See? Knowing the secret that's in the heart, revealing and doing the things that He is supposed to do. That's exactly the Word of God.

L-213 We're getting late. So let's bow our heads, just a moment, as we look to Him and ask Him to confirm His Word.

L-214   Heavenly Father, time would not permit; hours after hours, could we sit, telling, just from Genesis to Revelations, this is the hour. O Lord, our first visit here with these fine bunch of people here on the coast, which, we know that someday it'll go beneath the ocean, and there won't be a stone left upon another. There'll be... Oh, what a time is laying ahead!


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