<TITLE>20. Par 207-220</TITLE>L-207 Right at the end of the Jew and the Samaritan, this manifestation of the Word of God, knowing the thoughts that's in the heart, He showed that to them before they were taken away. And the veil over their face (that I was going to preach about tonight) had--had blinded them. See? They didn't see It. Now, if He--if He done that before, on them two races of people... Which, I say there's three: Ham, Shem, and Japheth. If He did that, and He lets this church here go in on intellectual conceptions, then He did wrong. But He's the same yesterday, to Ham, Shem; Japheth, the same; yesterday, today, and forever. And He promised to do it. So He's no respecter of person.

L-208   And watch how Abraham come up through his signs and things. And the last sign that he saw done by God, was God Himself. He saw Him in Lights and everything else; but God Himself was manifested in a human Being that eat and drink.

L-209 Some man said to me one time, a minister, Brother Foss. He said, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me, you think that One that eat was, that that Man stood there eating that calf, and eating cornbread, and the milk, do you think that that was God?"

L-210 I said, "Certainly. Abraham said it was. He was the one talked to Him. He ought to know. He said He was Elohim." I said, "You..."

L-211 See, He come down to make an investigation, as He is now in the investigation judgment, see who is believers. We been hollering so much about it. Just investigate, see who really is believers. See? And He made Hisself manifest.

L-212 He sent the little wheat type down in there, like in the modern messages we hear in Babylon.

L-213   But watch what He done there to that church elect. He give it a chance, too. See? See what I mean? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And he's bought... My God, what did He do? You know, we're made out of sixteen different elements of the earth; potash, and--and petroleum, and cosmic light, and whatmore. He just reached over and got a handful of atoms, and cosmic light, petroleum, said, "Whew! Step into it, Gabriel." And made one to step into it, Himself. That's our God.

L-214 And when He give His message to Abraham, He vanished and turned right back to God again. All them atoms and things just broke up. Like a fire breaks up the acids and--and chemicals in the wood or coal, or whatever you're burning, turned back to the unseen. I'm so glad my Father is like that.

L-215 See, I know, after this body has become nothing, but you can't see no more, just the chemicals where it was; someday He'll call, and I'll answer Him. Yes, sir.

L-216   My wife said, here not long ago. I was combing these two or three hairs I got left. And she said, "Billy, you know what? You're getting completely baldheaded."
I said, "I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Pray, tell me where they're at."

L-217 I said, "All right, sweetheart, I will, when you do this: tell me where they was before I got them; I'll agree with you. See? Wherever they was before I got them, they're there waiting for me to come to them." Amen. Hallelujah!

L-218 That's my God. That's our God. Sure. If we're Abraham's children, we believe it. Yes, sir. He is our God.
I got to hurry.

L-219   The Pillar of Fire is identified scientifically, and by the reaction, by Its character and everything else, just the same. As It was when It was dwelling in the body of God's only begotten Son, so does It dwell in the Body of His adopted sons for the last day.

L-220   Now, I know, brethren, we've had a lot of this impersonation. But the Bible said it would happen, you know that, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses." See? It's just got to happen. But don't let that--don't let that blind you. When You see a bogus dollar, remember it was made off of a real one. See? If it isn't, it's the--it's the original.


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