{ I want to share with every Believer, a very Real Hero, whom just passed away recently, so that all
might know that he was a Real Christian...........who had a tremendous Testimony!
~
I presume that most of us were unaware of this story. I didn't know this,
but it's awesome! 42 years ago...guess what happened... many have not
heard of this before .
Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969 (This is an article by Eric
Metaxas) Forty-two years ago two human beings changed history
by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps
even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
"I'm talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the
surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about
it in Guideposts magazines <http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp>
And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him myself. I
asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I wrote
about in my book 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
God (But Were Afraid to Ask).
The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his
Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and
knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented
in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow,
and he asked his minister to help him. And so the minister
consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion
wine.
And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and
on to the surface of the moon. He and Armstrong had only been
on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the
following public statement: "This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this
opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever
they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of
the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." He
then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of
the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the
Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account
of what happened:
"In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which
contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice
our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the
wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then
I read the scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Who so
ever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.. Apart from me you can
do nothing.’
“I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but
finally at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA
was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare,
the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading
from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed
reluctantly. <http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp>;
“I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the
intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea
of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid
ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were
the communion elements.”
And of course, it's interesting to think that some of the first words
spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ, who made
the Earth and the moon - and Who, in the immortal words of
Dante, is Himself the "Love that moves the Sun and other stars."
How many of you knew this? Too bad this type news doesn't travel
as fast as the bad does...share it if you've felt God's Love.
*TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN, YET THE
YOUNGEST YOU'LL EVER BE, SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT
LASTS. "IN GOD WE TRUST"*
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