The Restoration of Sarah between the Appearing and the Coming Pt.2
GENESIS 18:11-15
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. (At 89 years old her monthly fertility cycle had long ceased)
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? (Abraham and Sarah had also ceased family relations, so this was a double problem – yet the promise was that in around a year from this time, 90 year old Sarah would give birth to a son by the seed of her husband Abraham – So look at the faith of Abraham at this humanly impossible prophecy, and this is the faith that we are to also have in the promise of God for the resurrection and a body change and a rapture in this hour)
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life (This term “At the time appointed I will return unto thee” refers to the time of about a year from the time he spoke this promise to the birth of Isaac, because let’s say it takes her around 3 months to become pregnant and then another 9 months for the child to grow in the womb and be born – many translations refer to this as being about a year from the time of this first visitation “in about a year she will have a son”), and Sarah shall have a son. (She is 89 years old and within 3 months she is going to be pregnant by her husband Abraham even though Sarah had failed to conceive all through their young and fertile years together)
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Brother Branham said that God would've killed her on the spot if it hadn’t been for the promise and that Abraham was her husband.
When people tried to lie to the Holy Spirit in the prayer line – things didn’t end well for them.
The Restoration of Sarah between the Appearing and the Coming Pt.2
Genesis 18 was the visitation of God to Abraham and Sarah in the form of a human body that revealed the secrets of Sarah’s heart just as we have seen Christ reveal himself through the human body and ministry of William Branham also telling the secrets of the heart in this hour – so we know that this is the same visitation and the last sign before Sodom is destroyed and Sarah and Abraham are turned back young.
So in Genesis 18 Sarah is 89 years old and even when she had been a young woman she had never been able to conceived seed of Abraham, and in a year from this visitation she would be 90, and that was when the message of this angel had promised her that she would give birth to her first born son, and so Sarah found that amusing in that it was hard for the human mind to accept, especially when she was well past even the natural cycle of fertility of woman besides the fact that their family relations had ceased.
***So what is the point of all this of what God is trying to show us here, it is because that there is a mystery that was seal up in this story that would not be known fully until a prophet of this generation open it up to us and told us how that God turned them both back young again immediately after this visitation.
JEHOVAH.JIREH_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA THURSDAY_ 55-1117
E-50 …He showed in Abraham and Sarah what He's going to do to you and your wife, some of these days: turn you back, young again. Now, if that ain't a blessed hope, I don't know what is, brother. When He appeared there, got Hisself--self a handful of material that makes human beings and just spoke it into existence, said, "Come here," with another handful, and put two Angels in the side, and walked down and talked to Abraham and turned him back too, to a young man and proved what He was going to do. Hallelujah. We're the seed of Abraham on our road to the promise.
JEHOVAH.JIREH_ OAKLAND.CA TUESDAY_ 57-0326
E-65 Notice. Look at Abraham. Now, I can see him old with his staff in his hand, whiskers hanging way down, a hundred years old, one morning woke up and Sarah said, "Dad, the hump's going out of your back." He sure... He took God at His promise. "Your hair is turning back black again."
Why, he said, "Sarah, your eyes are beginning to look lovely, like the dove again."
And you know what God did, He turned them both back to a young man and a woman.
JEHOVAH.JIREH.2_ GRASS.VALLEY.CA JJ 73-106 FRIDAY_ 62-0706
129 Now, reading the Bible, It's a love Story that God wrote to His Church. It's God. God is love. Do you believe that? And the Bible is written so that the educated and smart can never understand It. You have to be in love with God to understand It. You have to have God in you. He interprets Himself to you.
Now, it's just like I got a wife. Oh, how I love her. I love her with all my heart. And I'll be overseas somewhere and she'll... After she gets the kiddies to sleep, she'll write me a letter, and say, "Dear Billy, I'm setting here tonight, I'm thinking of you. I'm writing." See, I know what she's writing on the paper. But I know her and love her so much till I just know her nature; I know what she means, so I can read between the lines. See?
And God wants His Church to read between the lines, not read anything out of It now You have to read between the lines to see what It's meaning. Now, watch and see, find out if It doesn't.
Now, what God done with Abraham and Sarah, He's showing them, example of His Church. He did for them; He turned them both back to be a young man and woman. Sure, He did: put them back young again, just like He's going to do to every Seed of Abraham. No matter how old and broke down you are, there's a day coming when you'll be young and beautiful again (That's right.), the splendour of life.
***We want to notice something very important here about Sarah in Genesis 18, and that is that she is an old woman at the time of this visitation of God in a human form that is revealing the secrets of her heart, and so this is showing us the Pentecostal Church at the end of their age when a prophet is on the scene revealing the secrets of the peoples hearts under the second pull of his ministry, remember that they hadn’t received the seed of the message that would bring the promised son Isaac on the scene because that would take a young woman to do that, so in the next scene after this visitation when we see Sarah in Genesis 20 she is now a young woman which is a type of the bride of this hour after the second pull ministry of the revealing of the secrets of the heart – so in Genesis 20 the Old woman Sarah is off the scene and now we are dealing with a young woman again who is about to receive seed and bring forth the promise. This story is placed here right at the beginning of the Old Testament in the book of Genesis.
Then we also see that at the beginning of the New Testament that there is also an account of an old woman and a young woman - the old woman Elizabeth, and the young woman Mary, So this is the same story because Mary also conceived by what was a humanly impossible way of conception by not knowing the seed of a of man. Both of these young woman (Mary and the young Sarah of Genesis 20) are showing us a different view of the same promised event concerning us who have been promised this same thing in this hour because each woman in the bible shows a portion of the mystery of the bride of this hour – we spoke briefly of that last week.
***Remember that the whole nation of Israel was sealed up in Isaac, and he had to come through Sarah’s womb, and there was no other way he was going to come. This is showing us in this hour that the whole of the seven church age bride that was in Christ has to come though the womb of this end time gentile woman – the young woman just like Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ of whom the entire bride of 7 church ages was in him in seed form then – these are deep truths that we are studying here.
***Isaac had the entire nation of Israel in him in seed form, but he had to come though this woman Sarah. Jesus had the entire bride sealed up in him, but he had to come through this young woman Mary. Christ has the entire 7 church ages of sleeping saints sealed up in him in this hour, but he has to come through the womb of a young woman call the end time bride – but this barren bride has to first receive strength to conceive by the right seed.
No Isaac born through the womb of Sarah – no Israel nation. No Christ born through the womb of the bride – no Gentile bride nation. That is why Sarah and Mary’s wombs were very important wombs in the bible.
HEBREWS 11:11-12
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed (This word “strength” in the Greek is the word “Dunamis” = strength by the power of God), and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. Notice – like a resurrection from the dead came forth a multitude as the stars showing us that there is also a great resurrection from the dead promised in this day.
**So Genesis 20 is something that takes place in between chapter 18 which is the appearing of the Lord, and chapter 21 which is the coming of Isaac.
So between the ministry of Brother Branham and when we meet the Lord in the air, we see this event of Genesis 20 is placed right between these two events. And it is to do with Sarah being threatened with the seed of another man that was not her husband’s seed, because if anything was to interfere with Sarah, then the whole plan and promise of God would have failed right there, and so God himself as the enforcer of the promise is showing us here how that he had never left them after the visitation of the corporal Body had left the scene, but that he was still right there on the scene in another form to deal with this issue in a very direct and powerful way irrespective to the failing of Abraham and Sarah – God was determined that Abraham and Sarah’s failure was not going to stop His promise from coming to pass.
GENESIS 20:1-7
1 ¶ And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3 ¶ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? (Right here Abimelech would have destroyed the future nation of Israel that would have come through Isaac if he had taken Sarah for his wife and lived with her)
5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. (Notice how Abimelech thought it was his own restraint and integrity that he hadn’t touched Sarah up to that point, but it was actually the Lord that had put a boundary on Sarah that withheld him)
7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. (Notice how this is to do with restoring this woman to her rightful husband – “I will restore saith the Lord” – that is what this message of Malachi 4 was commission to do in this hour, to restore all things.
This poor king had no real choice in the matter – restore her or you and your nation will die. God was enforcing the restoration of Sarah to Abraham regardless of their failures and of them being outside of their rightful positions)
GENESIS 20:8-18
8 ¶ Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. (And they had every reason to be afraid, because the Judge of all the earth was in the land to enforce the promise that he had sworn to Abraham and Sarah, so this is also showing what he is doing in this hour to enforce the promise of Abraham’s faith seed of the same ones who have seen him reveal the secrets of the hearts in this day and who are between the coming of the Lord in human flesh just before the destruction of Sodom and the coming of the promised so Isaac – He is enforcing the RESTORATION of SARAH in order for her to conceive seed of the right channel of her true husband)
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
14 ¶ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and women servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
He can open a womb to seed, and he can close a womb to seed - If you have received the seed of the word for this hour, it is only because he has opened your womb and no other reason.
THE.SIGNS.OF.HIS.COMING_ CLEVELAND.TN SATURDAY_ 62-0407
E-114 The Bible said that Abraham's body was as good as dead. That's right. And Sarah's womb was dead. "But he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong giving praise to God," knowed that what He promised He will do. That's the way we got to... And his seed does the same thing, his promised promised seed, royal seed, believes the same thing.
Now, look. Just then He said... And she laughed. He said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" There's His sign. There's the sign to the church, the called-out church. A man, a man, human flesh, eating veal chops, corn bread, and drinking milk. Did He do it? Was it God? See if it isn't. Look in your Bible and see if it don't show "Elohim," Elohim, the self-existing One, Elohim in human flesh. What's it a sign of? Elohim back in the Bride, human flesh again in the last days doing the same thing. Where's it at? There's your sign for the last days.
The Restoration of Sarah between the Appearing and the Coming Pt.2