<TITLE>04. Par 16-23</TITLE>L-16 Now, Lord, we feel that we haven't got much longer. The time is coming in, and we can feel the fog from the outer space as it moves in. We know that the judgment and wrath of God is ready to fall. We can feel the effects of it already. And we pray, Lord, that You will help us.
And now help me, Lord, on this little message this morning, of about thirty minutes, called "Countdown." Help us, Lord, to understand right where we're at.
And sanctify us now, Lord, taking away our sins and trespasses. And may there not be one person here this morning lost, may everyone be ready, be in that great circle when we meet at the other side. When the roll is called, may I hear the name after name, "present." That's what we're looking for, Lord. And the old will be young there forever, transformed in a moment of time, immortal, shall stand in His likeness, the sun and the stars to outshine, as Daniel said, "Those who have turned many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever." But we hear what You said to the prophet, "Go thy way, Daniel, for thou shall rest in thy lot, but in that day you will stand."
O God, let us be counted worthy through the Blood of Jesus; no merits of our own do we claim; but through His merits may we be worthy to stand at that day as we confess our wrong and desire to stand in His righteousness, with the great prophet Daniel and all those who will stand when the rewards are given. Until then, Lord, make us instruments in Your hand. Make our ears instruments this morning of hearing the Word. Make my lips instruments to speak It. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, and may our understanding understand the will of God. Amen.

L-20 It's so hard to get started. It looks like there's so much you could say and--and want to say, and seems like there's such little time to say it. Maybe before I--I leave. I said last night, we might get a chance to--to maybe run one of the books of the Bible, this fall or winter, before leaving. Going, I want to go overseas, the Lord willing, right after Christmas sometime.

L-21 Now, I wish you to turn this morning for the readings to Hebrews the 11th chapter. And now, listen real close to the reading. I want to--to emphasize on the 3rd verse.
Now faith is the substance of things that's hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Now, that's kind of an odd text for a background for the text that I--I want to use. Things were not made of things which do appear. Now, I want to use this subject this morning, "Countdown," because I want to make a--a parallel in the way of prophetic. Last night I wanted to teach a little on the Scripture; this morning a prophetic message; and tonight an evangelistic message.

L-23 Now, things that were made of things that do not appear. Now, I have learned through all these years that all things that are natural are types of spiritual things, everything that's in the natural. And now, just remember that when you see anything in the natural, it is typifying a spiritual thing. See? All things are made after things which do not appear. See, the natural then has reflected the spiritual.
Now, as I was studying a few days ago, and I believe I mentioned it last night, slightly, that I was reading where... or hearing on the radio, coming in from Canada, of where that a doctor here in the United States had--had made a statement that man was fourteen million years of evolution. They dug up a bone over in Italy, in 1800, somewhere in the 1800's, that this bone was supposed to be a human bone that was been--might by the... How they do it to tell how old it was, and this doctor as an old man and has put all of his life on studying on this bone. And he says, "This bone is the bone of a man that's fourteen millions years old."


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