<TITLE>06. Par 22-26</TITLE>L-22 I see him standing there, Adam with his big manly body that was a very picture of health. When I was in Greece here not long ago I seen a--a picture of some unconverted mind, a great artist who had painted a picture of Adam and Eve. It was a discredit to humanity. Eve looked like an animal instead of a lady: great hair hanging one side, and her mouth setting sideways, and one leg bigger than the other one, and oh, she looked horrible. That's what the conception of the unconverted mind.
Eve was the most beautiful woman that ever walked on the face of the earth. He made her. Her eyes was like the stars in the heavens.
And I see her standing there with an old bloody sheepskin around her. God was showing there at this conference what His plan was for the future salvation of the whole world. Watch Adam as he walks away, those old bloody sheepskins slapping against his big manly legs and against hers as they were departing from His Presence.

L-23 It was only a prefigure of a picture that we could turn our camera now to one morning down in Jerusalem. I can listen out the window and hear a noise. What is it? It's a priest saying, "Away with such a man."
I can hear a little woman run out in front of the crowd and say, "What has He done, but heal the sick, and raise the dead, and brought deliverance to those that were in captive?"
A big cruel hand would smack her in the mouth, say, "Would you listen to that woman instead of your priest?" A cruel Roman whip a beating Him...

L-24 It's kind of an awful picture, but let's raise up the shades and look. I hear something bumping down through the street, over the cobblestones. I look out the window, and I saw a little Man with a white robe wove throughout without seams laying across His shoulders, packing an old cross as it bumps going down the street. His shoulders they're rubbing raw, and as... I noticed on His little garment there's little spots all over it, and those spots as He goes up the hill gets bigger and bigger. After while they all run into one. Now, a great bloody splash against His legs. What was it? That second Adam, that Seed of the woman.

L-25 The bee of death humming around His head as He goes up the hill, knowing that soon the devil will certainly had the wool pulled over his eyes there. The devil said, "How could a man that claims to be God, how could he? I challenged him to do a stunt or one of his tricks in front of me to turn bread into--or rocks into bread. He failed to do it. How could he stand if he's a prophet and let a Roman soldier put a rag around his face and hit him on the head with a stick and said, 'Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you,' and set still. He is a faker. I'll come and sting him with my sting of death. I'll get him now."
Oh, how he failed. When they hung Him on the cross, and that bee was a humming around Him. If a bee or an insect that has a stinger ever stings and anchors that stinger deep, when he goes away he can never sting again. He leaves his stinger in the flesh. Death could sting a sinner and get by. but that time he left his stinger in Emmanuel's flesh, and he pulled the stinger out.

L-26 No wonder Saint Paul could say years after that when the bee of death was humming around him, "O death, where is your stinger? Grave where is your victory? But thanks be to God Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Death was conquered. The bee can hum around. The bee of death can buzz and saying, "I got you."
But we can point over yonder to an empty grave and say, "Thanks be to God that gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." He can make a noise, but he can't sting you. He ain't got no more stinger. When he anchored his stinger in the flesh of Emmanuel, God's flesh among us, it pulled the stinger out of death. That was God's idea at His first conference.


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