<TITLE>08. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Little old Stephen was dying. Jesus had been glorified, setting up there at the right hand of the Majesty. And they begin to beat him with stones and his head was being mashed in with stones. Stephen looked steadfast towards heaven. Jesus, after He finished His work, had set down at the right hand of God.
But Stephen, he saw heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. I guess the Saviour must've stood up from His throne and gave the martyr a welcome in. Yes, he saw the everlasting dominion of God above. God's promise is true. Look at him.
Now, we take Jacob; he lays down; God shuts him off, gives him into a coma of a vision; and he looked up and he saw a ladder fastened up in heaven to God's throne and reached all the way to the earth, and Angels ascending and descending on the ladder, up and down.

L-31 Now, all through the years we find out that this was a beautiful promise here, that God had promised a way of escape, a ladder to climb on, a sure foundation. God had promised it. But it was hooked in glory to the throne of God. But where could He find a place on earth to hook it to? He tried to hook it one time upon the Jewish nation. He found out that He couldn't do it. He knew what He was going to do all the time, 'cause He'd promised the seed and the seed was in Jacob then. But He couldn't hook it on Jacob, the supplanter, neither could He hook it on Abraham. Little fellow setting out there, backslid, little shyster, lying, treating his wife the way he was, He couldn't hook it on that. He couldn't hook it on many of these other things. He couldn't hook it on the temple. Jesus said, "There'd be a time when there won't be one stone left on another." He tried it on the patriarch David, and he took Bathsheba for a wife. Uriah, had him killed. See? Everything that He tried to hook it to, it wouldn't anchor.

L-32 Oh, hallelujah. But the prophet said, "There'll be a stone laid in Zion, a precious stone, a tried stone." That'll be the anchor. Yes, a wonderful stone... And then God, being God in heaven, with the ladder hooked into His own Throne, He hooked it also in none other but the Son of man, Jesus Christ, the Chief Cornerstone. God don't want His ladder slipping around. He tried to hook it to a covenant with--with Adam; he broke it. He hooked it to a covenant with... broke it.
But God made the covenant unconditionally, and He hooked it into Christ Jesus. There it's anchored; there's no slipping and sliding; there's no way of getting away. What is it? It's hooked by God above and by the Son of God beneath. And what is it? It's a pathway; it's a travelers way from earth to glory. And you can't fail. Look, there's great companies of Angels up-and-down here, ascending and descending, picking up the weary and the sick, healing their bodies and showing visions and mighty signs and wonders. Can't fail. It can't slip; it can't slide. You're safe. God said so; that settles it forever.

L-33 It's hooked around the heart of God of heaven, hooked around the Son of God down here, and we're brought into it. Through the Son of God we ascend to Him. Amen. Oh, my. Then what you scared about? Our promise is hooked between God and Christ, and we're in between them, with Angels... He said, "He will give His Angels charge over thee." And the Angels of God are encamped about those who fear Him.
And all up-and-down when we're making this foundation, climbing each day higher and higher, each day brings me one round higher, higher, as I move up, up, up. Anything happens, if I fall along the road or something happens to me, there's a great host of Angels standing there to pick me up. "Come on, we're marching on up towards Zion, on to that beautiful city above."


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