At age 27 through His Divine mercy, God convicted me of my sin, His righteousness and judgment to come. I knew nothing about this Biblical language I am now using at that time, but I knew that something had happened in my life.
During my previous years, I had walked in darkness and knew it not. As the old familiar hymn relates: “Years I spent in vanity and pride, caring not my Lord was crucified, knowing not it was for me He died at Calvary.” The words to this song tell my personal story in brief yet in full!
Although I had been raised by good parents in a moral home environment,
there had been no reality of God connected to our lives.
Oh yes, we generally said a “table grace” before meals. Yes, we did attend a Sunday morning service some of the time.
However! There was no reality of God, Christ or a church fellowship
in our family structure.
I became a rebellious teen-ager and rebelled even at this moral family structure. I began to run with a pretty wild group of kids. Soon, I began to learn how to, smoke, drink, and speak the filthy language of my piers. I soon became a “full fledged” sinner. (Although I knew not that term then)
Someone has said...
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go,
and keep you longer than you want to stay.”
Surely whoever penned that bit of wisdom had, “been there done that.”
I lived in the fast lane enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season. I went from one theme of life to another, always seeking a thrill, happiness or satisfaction in my pursuits. Nothing I tried seem to fulfill my expectations for life. I had run the gauntlet of all sin had to offer from age fifteen to twenty seven.
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Twelve years of vanity, self-seeking pleasures and marriage ended in a feeling of complete void within! At the end of all my useless searching, a loving and living God entered into my life! Praise His name! He lifted me up from the deep miry clay and settled my feet in His straight narrow way. What Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see. This is my personal song.
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What a miracle God performed in my life that fateful Sunday morning
as I sat in my living room watching a Billy Graham crusade on television from Madison Square Garden in 1957.
Can you imagine never hearing of Billy Graham? Can you imagine anyone never even realizing there was a God or a Bible? Well, that was me! I have since then come to find out, there are many others just like I was in this world today!
As God’s Spirit of conviction for sin came upon my heart that day, I could do no other than fall to my knees in tears of repentance! As my knees touched the floor that morning, God touched my heart and I was born again!
Yes! Knowing nothing, God revealed Himself to me in mercy and love and saved me for Jesus sake.
I knew not the scripture that said, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, Behold, old things are passed away and all things become new.”
However! I did experience God's transforming grace immediately in my heart!
I had finally found what I had been searching for all those wasted years.
My new life began in Christ. I had never even looked at a Bible and didn’t even know Matthew, Mark and Luke were men.
Now, I began to read and study the Bible. I rejoiced in the wonderful promises of God to me as one of His children.
I wanted to hear only His music now, and listen to the preaching of His Word.
I began to go to church. I wanted Christian fellowship.
As I listened to what few Christian radio broadcasts there were, I began to notice that each minister had a different “view” on the scriptures. Naturally, I wondered WHY!
As I began to witness to others about my salvation experience, I also ran into some controversial things with those that I talked to.
Snares I Didn't ExpectI soon learned that many Christians were at odds with each other concerning doctrinal issues.
I learned that each denomination seemed to have their own particular belief system which separated them one from another.
I wondered "WHY" that was! I reasoned in my mind...If there is only one true God and one Bible, why are there so many divisions and disagreements among those who profess to be believers in the same God and in the same Bible? 
This situation really troubled me. I remember thinking…Now that I know I had an eternal soul and that there was a Heaven and a Hell,
I surely want to know WHO was right in this situation.
I saw this “big mountain” before me that I had to move! I couldn’t get over it.
I couldn’t get under it! I couldn’t get around it!
I had to “tunnel” through it to find the answer. This was a very serious matter to me personally! This now became a burden to be carried to the Lord in prayer.
I had to find the answer for my dilemma.
Fortunately, God had already placed me where He knew I should be in order to receive the answer for my hearts need.
He had placed me within a movement of church of God people whom He had already revealed these very things to.
I soon learned that God had revealed the answer concerning this “church dilemma” through the Revelation prophecy.
I soon found out that this was the very reason for this movement’s existence. I learned that this movement of people proclaimed their freedom from the “Denominational systems” of traditional religions.
They preached a “Restoration” message of
Biblical Christianity.
Through the hearing of this vital prophetic message, I began to understand how and why the various churches came into existence.
God’s great illumination of Light refreshed my mind as I heard and understood the prophetic message. Yes! The Revelation prophecy…if…understood in its proper context of symbolism does give the only true understanding to the church dilemma that has developed throughout the ages.
After twelve years of extensive study in the Revelation prophecy,
God called me into the ministry.
God raised up an Autonomous church of God congregation, which I Pastured for twenty years in the mid-west.
During that period of time I was also active in Radio and Television ministry.
God has now called me into the full time prophetic ministry. I minister through the Internet and with the two full length books I have written, along with 15 booklets on Christian doctrine.
“Hear what the Word and the Spirit
saith to the churches.”.
My two full length books may be ordered from my www.comRevelation Scrolls web site. They are titled The 7 Sealed Scrolls and Mystery Babylon.
My booklets on various Christian doctrine may be found on this present web site in the index under "study booklets."
I have painted my Revelation charts which I am pictured with.
If you will "click" on my picture it will take you to my
Revelation Scrolls Web Site.
I have received many questions concerning "WHAT" the true church is from those who have reviewed my previous Web Site of the "Revelation Scrolls" prophecy.
These inquiries prompted a need for this present study of "Biblical Christianity."
I believe that this present study will bring satisfactory answers
to those inquiries that I have received.
I sincerely trust our God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
through His Holy Spirit to accomplish His eternal purpose through the understanding of His Eternal Word.
I am thrilled with this new endeavor that God has called me into on the Internet! |
