The Restoration of Sarah between the Appearing and the Coming
GENESIS 17:19-21
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac (Isaac had not been born yet – if Isaac is not born by Sarah, then the future seed of the elect of God would not have come forth): and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. (The seed here is not just speaking of the Jewish nation, but also of the faith seed of all who would have the capacity to believe the word of God for the season that they lived in – that was the faith that Abraham had, he believed God for the age that he lived in)
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. (If anyone becomes great it is because God makes him to be that)
21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. (Sarah is 89 years old when God spoke this concerning her, and so the promise of God must come specifically through this woman and no other woman, but here we see that the problem with this is to do with conception because of Sarah’s age, so that is the obvious problem because this promise of God goes against the reasoning of the human mind and science and even the laws of nature that God has established. If Sarah has been say 45, then that would not have been too hard to believe that she could have conceived, but not at 89)
GENESIS 21:1-2
1 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. (There is a great mystery sealed here under this one verse because we know that a prophet of God in this generation told us that Sarah’s body was turned back young again after the LORD visited her, and we also know that we have had that same visitation of the LORD in this day – this was the shadow of the real thing that is to take place in this age of the same ones that have received this same visitation)
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Mary of the New Testament also conceived by a conception that was also beyond human reason – that is why the people in this day struggle with the way this end time bride is foretold that she would conceive in this hour – the conception of the bride of this hour is produced by the visitation and the promise of an angel’s message)
The Restoration of Sarah between the Appearing and the Coming
Genesis Chapter 18 is the appearing of the LORD to Abraham in the form of a man that came to him in human flesh, and we know that Genesis 18 is also Revelation 10, because Revelation 10:1 (who was the LORD himself) vailed himself in the flesh of Revelation 10:7 (the seventh angel messenger to this age). “The Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout” (Revelation 10:1) – and we know that the shout was the message sounding forth from the seventh angel – so the message of the hour was the coming of the Lord in word form to reveal Himself to his end time bride by the unveiling of himself by the opening of the mysteries of the word through the voice of an end time gentile prophet.
So God did not appear to Abraham in a theophany or Glorified body, he could have come in that way, but when he came to Abraham he came in an ordinary human body that he created and stepped into and Abraham call this man “the Judge of all the earth”, this was the Lord himself appearing to Abraham.
**And so we notice that it was in this form that he reveals the secret of Sarah’s heart with his back turned to the tent which we know was the last sign that he did before Sodom was burnt with fire, and in this same form of a man he goes on to reveal to Abraham what he is about to do in his judgement with Sodom and Gomorrah.
GENESIS 18:17
17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
After the revealing of the secrets of the hearts under the second pull, he goes on to reveal the mysteries to Abraham under his 3rd pull ministry – he is still doing this work among us today.
***And so we who are familiar with the message teaching of this hour know that we have seen the exact repeat of these events of Genesis 18 in this end time day because as it was in the days of Lot so shall it be when the Son of man (which is referring to Jesus Christ) would be revealed to an end time people who would receive Him and the truth that he would reveal concerning his promise for Sarah and also the judgment of Sodom.
***So in this generation, Abraham’s faith seed group through the seed of Isaac has also been visited by the coming of the Lord through the form of a human body of a man, and just as Abraham recognised the coming of the Lord in that form in his day, so will Abraham’s faith seed recognise it in this day – that is why the evidence is those who can receive the word of this day and the channel that God sends that word through because that is what Abraham the father of faith did in his day.
***So we know that the body of William Branham was certainly not the corporal body of Jesus - but it is the promised son Isaac that comes through the womb of Sarah that represents the coming of the corporal body of Christ that we go to meet in the air, but before that promised son can come on the scene, we know that Sarah must first receive a body change from old to young again in order for her to receive that promised son. This is message teaching.
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94 But the One that stayed and talked to Abraham, that Abraham called, "Elohim, the Almighty." Genesis 1, "God! In the beginning, God," Elohim, the--the all-sufficient One, the self-existing One. Abraham called Him, "Elohim." And He set down and eat with Abraham; He drank; He was in human flesh. And watch the sign that He gave Abraham.
95 Now, they were looking for a coming son, a promised son, Isaac. Twenty-five years, on a long journey, they had looked for it, but they were at the end of the journey. God had appeared in many forms, as He has through the church ages, in Lights, and so forth, as He spoke to Abraham, and by voices. But just before the coming son arrived... Now we've been through it, and you know I'm just rehearsing, to get this to you. That, He changed the body of Abraham and Sarah, immediately after this, so they could receive the son.
96 Notice, the last sign that they got, before the son arrived, was Jehovah talking to them in the form of a man.
So this story in Genesis is showing us a mystery of this end time age of what we are also promised in this day that would happen to Abraham’s royal seed.
*So Genesis 18 is the visitation of God to Abraham in the form of a human body as we have seen Christ revealing himself through the ministry of William Branham because that was the fulfilment of God again in human flesh in this day revealing himself the same yesterday, today, and forever. So this was the appearing of the LORD to us in this age – a son of a man revealing THEE SON of MAN.
***This was the secret of the coming of the Lord to Abraham, and this is also the secret of the coming of the Lord to Abraham’s faith seed. But we know that this story doesn’t stop in Genesis 18, it continues on into chapters 19 and 20, until the son appears in the corporal body in the form of Isaac in chapter 21 of Genesis.
So these chapters are showing us in detail what is also to take place in this hour between the appearing of the Lord in human flesh to Abraham in Genesis 18, and the coming of Isaac in chapter 21.
GENESIS 18:1-14
1 ¶ And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: (Notice – not my Lords, but one Lord)
4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. (Like in the book of Ruth we see here that Abraham begins with service - before rest is service, “labour to enter into rest”)
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. (If you run nowadays it somehow proves that your not “cool”, but notice how Abraham made hast to do service to the Lord, he didn’t slouch around and miss Church and only turn up when Church lunches were arrange and others would serve him. Look at his conduct at the time of this visitation)
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. (Notice how that up to this stage of the story that nothing of the reason concerning the purpose of this visitation has been spoken by the Lord, remember he had already spoken to Abraham before, but never in this form of Human flesh – and so we notice in this next verse he comes straight to the purpose that He has come for)
9 ¶ And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. (Their visit was to do specifically with Sarah, because there can be no coming of Isaac until Sarah is first dealt with in a certain way in order for the promise to be fulfilled by her first conceiving seed, because that was the whole problem – she was 90 years old and well past the age of conception)
10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life (after he had left them in the form of human flesh he would return to them again to perform the promise because both Abraham and Sarah both needed to be turn back young again in order for this promised of the coming of Isaac to be realised); and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. (She is hearing and listening carefully to every word of what Abraham is hearing also – I trust that we are hearing and listening carefully to every word of what is being spoken through the human body of the prophetic channel that has visited us in this hour)
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
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, and Sarah shall have a son.
***The promise must come through this woman who saw the secrets of the heart revealed by this one – there is no other woman that can fulfil this promise – this promise is directly connected to this woman Sarah, and so Sarah shows the mystery of the Body change before the appearing of the promised son Isaac.
***Each woman in the bible shows a portion of the mystery of the bride of this hour.
Ruth shows the 4 stages of the end time gentile bride of this hour by her deciding, and then serving, and then resting, and then rewarded. Ruth also shows the mystery of the marriage at the harvest time and the redemptive work of the kinsman redeemer in the bride age.
Rahab shows how she received the message of the two spies and the salvation of her loved ones under the token of the message of that hour at the time of pending judgement.
Esther shows the authority of the King and how she comes into that same authority where her word becomes the same authority as the king’s word; Esher also shows us the resurrection of her people under Moriches’s message.
Abigale shows us the Laodicean age of how she was married to a rich but foolish man, and then how by her service and wisdom she became the wife of David who is a type of Christ in this hour.
All these woman in the bible are showing us portions of the one picture of what this end time bride will be in this hour.
Rebeca shows us the evening time Eliezer call and how she was willing to follow him to meet her unseen bridegroom of a man she had never seen before .
Mary shows us how the word was formed in her after the visitation of the Angel.
And so Sarah in chapter 20 of Genesis is showing us something that is also pertaining to how God is dealing in order to protect us in this hour and to bring us to the change of Body in order for the promised son to come on the scene.
**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 this was to happen 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 is right on the scene 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 the promise of God.
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?
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.
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)