<TITLE>09. Par 77-86</TITLE>L-77 The spiritual astronaut got in Christ and is listening to the countdown of the Word. Amen. Now you Lutheran ought to shout, and you Baptists and Presbyterian. Watch the countdown, of the Word. Oh, my! Countdown, of the Word! And they're headed for Heaven, not to the moon. They'll pass the moon so fast they won't even see it. Oh, my! Waiting for the countdown! Yes, sir. Waiting for the countdown is right.

L-78 What are they doing? They are wrapped in Christ, in rapturing grace. Nothing they did, themselves. Christ took the uneducated, the foolish things of the world, wrapped His astronauts in it, and empowered them with the Holy Ghost, to take off. This world is going to be left alone. That's right, taking off!

L-79   Notice, the natural man even counts backwards. I said he did things backwards. He counts backwards. Watch his count, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero!" See, he goes back, and starts counting. See? He's all... Ten is a bad number. That's right. To start with ten, it's a bad number.

L-80 They had ten tribes of Israel, and them was just all carnal. And He had to take Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, the prophet's children, and bless them. And, when he did, his hands crossed. And he said, "Father, not so, you've put your hands on Ephraim, it should be on Manasseh."

L-81 He said, "God crossed my hands." From the... Taking it from the older son, the law, and putting it up over on Christ. And through that, come, through the cross came the change of the birthright, amen, to the younger son. Oh, my! How wonderful! If we had time to go into that; will some other time. All right.

L-82   Now, ten is a bad number. But man always counts backwards, starts at ten. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero."

L-83 What does God do? He starts with His number, seven. That's God's number. Watch Him, seven. Oh, He counts ahead, starting with one. He starts with His first church age. That's what His symbols was on earth. There is seven church ages. He made the world in seven days; seventh day He rested. That's His last number in His creation. He rested.

L-84 Notice, He counts straight ahead, not backwards. He goes forward. He starts from His first church age, which begin at A.D. 33, and He started the countdown. He counted His church ages. That was the birth of the Church, on the Day of Pentecost. What did... He starts counting. He starts counting the church ages. "First one, was Ephesus, number one; two, Smyrna; three, Pergamos; four, Thyatira; five, Sardis; six, Philadelphia; seven, Laodicea." It's later than you think. It's later than you think. The counting is over. The next thing is "zero," let's go. Everything is ready. The counting is over.

L-85   When John Glenn, our astronaut, got into that big tube, to take off, the nation stood speechless. They didn't know, that morning that he took off. When he did, he got in the tube, and everybody was crying, and waiting, and watching what was going to happen. The nation stood spellbound. You seen the... All the televisions blaring, and everything, so everybody could see it. There natural eye couldn't see it, because they put it on television. You remember it.

L-86 Then when he got placed up in the tube just right, and when he did, they started, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero," off he went. What happened? When the big lever pull, the atomics begin to catch fire, begin to break, fire begin to fly, smoke begin to roll, and the great big tube took off for the air, into the unknown, out yonder somewhere. He took off in the man's achievement, the greatest he's ever had. But let me tell you, that's just a very small thing.


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