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Chapter Two Miracles It is said that the proof of a thing is in the testing. We see miracles around us every day. All of God’s creation is a miracle. The beauty of sunrise greets us every day. The mountains covered in a mantle of trees. The gift of life is in a child’s cry. These are all miracles. Unfortunately, we take too many of these miracles for granted. We take grapes, a gift from God, and make wine. We taste the work of human hands and find it pleasing and gratifying. These are the miracles of being. We all share in them. God provides both to the good and the evil alike. These are natural events in all of our lives.
There is another kind of event. These are spiritual events. They are called Miracles. Miracles appear to violate the natural or historical laws of nature. God is the supreme source of miracles. The best documentation of God’s Power and His miracles is the Bible. You may be asking, “How many miracles are documented in the Bible?” Using computers we were able to find approximate answers. We searched for the word, its roots, synonyms, and phrases. Our estimates indicate that there are 115 miracles recorded in the Bible. The average Bible is approximately 1,380 pages in length. The Old Testament is about 1,040 pages long and contains 29 miracles. The New Testament is about 340 pages long and contains 86 miracles. The New Testament is a collection of miracles that prove the existence of God, the presence of the Messiah and the Power of the Holy Spirit. Christ came to teach us about miracles. He gave us the Holy Spirit to access the power of miracles.
Most people live their entire lives and never experience a cognitive miracle. This is a miracle that has taken place without their knowledge.
There is a song and a poem about two sets of footprints in the sand. One set of foot prints are our own. The other set are Christ’s. When we look back over our path we see one set of foot prints in the sand and we ask Christ, “Where were you when I needed you? I can only see one set of foot prints in the sand.” Christ responds, “I was carrying you!” Most people do not see the miracles that are happening in their lives.
Christ said, “Seek and you shall find.” If we do not seek miracles, we will never find miracles. It is seeking and praying that counts. For some people, miracles are a way of life. This is a special gift that God gives to us! We seek. We pray. We receive the answer. Sometimes the miracles just happen. As I was preparing this paragraph a thought jumped into my mind that was totally out of context. It was: find The Lost Books of the Bible. I wrote it down on a piece of paper. My wife walked into the room and I handed her the paper. I said, “Please do your best to find something about this.” She left and was back in less than a minute. She held a book in her hands bearing the title, The Lost Books of the Bible word for word! Neither of us remember buying or receiving this book. She said that she had seen it the day before, when she was cleaning our library! That was the only reason she remembered it! What are the natural odds for this occurrence? Perhaps it was just a circumstance of a random event. At the time I could not understand its significance. That is another story. We will come back to it later. Gifts From God The Lord has many gifts. He gives freely, to those who will accept them. Some are born with these gifts; others are not. I had mentioned that when I was five years old I prayed for a miracle. It was a miracle in the eyes of a child. It was actually putting God to the foolish test. A child of five could hardly understand the difference. In the early days of television there were very few shows. All I can remember is Howdy Doody and Buck Rogers. I loved Buck Rogers. My whole week was centered on that show. Then it happened. The show was canceled. I was angry. I mourned. I made my parents miserable. I was a brat! I had the same understanding and beliefs of most children my age. It was minuscule. One day I was sitting in front of the TV. I said “I bet God two dollars that Buck Rogers will NOT be the next show on TV.” It was! What I felt was incomprehensible! It was a miracle! To this day I remember exactly how I felt.
Now, I owed God two dollars. My parents did not give me an allowance. All I ever got was a nickel or a dime for a phone call. They gave me everything else. I did not know how to pay God back. I was deeply repentant. I could not find the strength to tell my parents what I had done. No matter how hard I tried. I could not come up with the two dollars.
I lived for six years with this rolling around in my head. One day I was playing with some friends. I was holding a glass door shut so they could not get into a hallway. Suddenly, the glass shattered. My wrist was cut on a diagonal. This is called the “suicide cut.” Blood was squirting everywhere. Streams of blood three to five feet long came shooting out of my wrist. A woman put a tourniquet on my arm and a compress on my wrist. I was rushed to the nearest medical facility. My blood pressure was very low and they were pumping whole blood and plasma into me at the same time. I said to myself, “This is God’s punishment for my failure to keep my promise with Him.” I prayed, “Lord if You will forgive me and allow me to live, I will make things right. I will not only keep my promise to You. I will confess my sin to my mother.” I lived. I confessed.
I told Mom about everything, especially about the guilt, remorse and repentance. That Sunday my mother gave me four dollars. Two were to honor my word with God. The other two were the first allowance I had ever received. I was relieved and happy. I became an Acolyte, an altar boy. I served every Sunday for seven years. I learned much. Perhaps this was also a course of random events. I lived a wonderful life during those years. I read the Bible and prayed every day.
All miracles are not the same. There are many different kinds of miracles. One of these miracles is the called the “Gift of Prophecy.” Another is the “Gift of Healing.” God has blessed me with both. Some Miracles of the Advocate Why was this book written? What is its source? I have experienced hundreds of miracles. I have been blessed by the Lord since I was a child. It has taken forty-five more years of life and twenty years of a devastating illness to humble me; to help me see how and why the Lord has blessed me; to help me understand my Discipleship; to convince me that I am indeed His ADVOCATE.
The Prophecy of Death When I was eighteen my mother became very ill. She had an obstruction in her bowels. The doctors also found a gall bladder problem. They wanted to perform surgery on both problems at the same time. She went into the hospital. I came to visit her. I immediately experienced a chilling in my bones. Something inside me told me if I did not get my mother out of that hospital she would die there. No matter how hard I tried to convince my mother, my father and the doctors, they would not listen. My father became enraged. He said, “All of this talk is not good for your mother.” He prohibited me from seeing her until the operations were completed. I cried. I could do nothing to protect my mother. I loved her very much; she was special. Shortly after the surgery my mother came down with jaundice. It was do to a mistake in the gall bladder surgery. They operated on the gall bladder again. They then determined that there was no improvement in the bowel surgery. They had to perform surgery on her bowel again. She was losing ground fast. Then they said she had hepatitis. Mom was dead thirty-one days after the prophecy. The death certificate read like an index to an encyclopedia of medicine. I know you can understand my pain. I had tried to save her, but no one listened. This was not the end of my pain. There was more to come. My father felt it was my fault. I jinxed her or put negative thoughts into her mind that killed her!
The Prophecy of the Unnecessary Surgery I went into the Military. I was married. My wife had been having severe headaches. The Air Force doctors said she had a thyroid gland problem. They ran some tests and felt that medication would not be enough. They diagnosed that the entire thyroid gland needed to be removed. The night before the surgery was scheduled I had a dream. An Angel appeared in my dream. I was told SHE DID NOT NEED THE SURGERY. I WAS TO CANCEL IT AND THE TRUTH WOULD BE REVEALED TO ME. I WAS TOLD TO HAVE FAITH.
I told her to cancel it. She did. Several days later, for no particular reason, I read the contradictions on her birth control pills. I had NEVER done this before. Severe headaches were one possible side effect. She stopped taking the pills and several days later the headaches went away. I do not know if the doctors had taken a proper case history or if they consulted her on any medications she was taking. Somewhere deep inside me, I knew it was an honest mistake. Birth control pills had just come out on the market. Like anything else, it takes time to learn about something new.
We told the doctor what had happened. He was glad and thankful for my wife. He was quite taken back that we were not angry. You understand his feelings. He was also thankful for the information on the birth control pills.
A Prophecy of Healing and the Miracle About twenty years ago I worked with a young man. He was a good person and a fellow Christian. He went to work and was suddenly blinded by a spray of caustic chemicals. The doctors said he would never see again. I touched him and knew his sight would be returned. I asked him if he had ever done an examination of his conscience. He did not understand what I meant. I explained. Then I told him about confession and repentance. I told him to ask God for forgiveness. I asked him to forgive anyone who had sinned, trespassed, transgressed, and bore grudges against him. I also told him to seek out those which he may have hurt and ask them for forgiveness. We prayed together for his healing. He did as I had said. He made a mental list of his sins that night. The following day he could see bright light. Working on the other aspects took longer. His eye sight was returned within two weeks. He went back to his doctor. His eyesight had been restored. This was not the only shock the doctor would receive. This young man wore glasses before the accident. He vision was twenty-twenty. When I saw him for the first time after the restoration of his sight, he cried. His tears were unbearably hot when he hugged me.
A Prophecy and a Miracle On another occasion, the daughter of a close friend and business associate was thought to have cancer. They had no money and were panic-stricken. They were unable to help her. I prayed. A voice came to me:
I told my friend not to worry. I told him what she had and that I would find a hospital and the doctors. The local hospital agreed to waive all costs. I was able to get her into the hospital the following day. I paid for nothing, nor did they. When the surgeon came out, this young couple were both holding their breath. Diagnosis? Cat Scratch Fever! She went home that day. Her parents rejoiced in the Lord.
The Miracle of the Angel: The First Death I was in a horrible car accident. My car hit a freeway dividing wall. The car flipped three times and went over the dividing wall to the opposite side of the highway. I WAS NOT WEARING MY SEAT BELTS! My body destroyed the entire interior of the car. It ripped out the dashboard, steering wheel, both front seats, the rear window, the rear seats, and the floor shift console. Then I was thrown through a locked door by bending it. The engine pierced the fire wall and the rear axle was turned around sideways. I was thrown about fifty yards into the middle of traffic. I scrambled to the side of the road like a dying animal.
I knew I was dying. I prayed to the Father. When the paramedics came, they said, “This guy is dead.” Another man came to me. He took my hand. I saw my body lying on the ground and turned around to see a bright light, like the sun. It was as brilliant as gold. It was golden and turning. I was drawn to the spiral of light. The man said, “Don’t look into the light. Your time has not yet come. Listen to me. Don’t look into the light.” The paramedics came to pick up my dead body. Someone said, “This man is not dead!” After checking me over they called in a report to the hospital. Their report was that I had a probable broken neck, back and left shoulder. I could hear the crunching of my bones. The pain was unbearable. When I was lying in the ambulance, I left my body. I could see the blood on my shirt. I was being attracted to the bright light. The person holding my hand kept saying, “Don’t look into the light. Your time has not yet come. Listen to me, turn around and come back from the light. I am with you!” He held my hand all the way to the hospital.
We arrived at the emergency room and he stood beside me, still holding my hand. I passed out. The next thing I remember was someone telling the doctors that I had a probable broken neck, back and left shoulder. I heard one doctor say, “There isn’t much chance this one is going to make it.” I became angry. I thought this was a most unprofessional thing to say in the presence of a patient. I heard the monitor flat line.
I was scared. I looked for the man who held my hand. I wanted to thank him before I died. It happened again. I could see the light and the man. He had a fair complexion and white blonde hair. Unmistakable! He told me, “Do not be deceived by appearances. You are out of your body. Turn back from the light. You will see your flesh. Unite with it--your time is not yet come.” In a flash I was back. I lifted my head to look for the man. He was not there. I asked everyone where he was. No one had seen him. The ambulance team said they did not know such a person. THEY SAID HE WAS NOT IN THE AMBULANCE! I thought someone in the Emergency Room must have seen him. They had not. Somehow, he left without anyone seeing him. They seemed disturbed by the fact that I was more concerned about the man than I was my injuries.
Then I broke out in prayer! I prayed to the Father out loud; again and again I prayed to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. My voice was loud. The doctors were shocked! Apparently this was a NEW experience for them. Suddenly, a tremendous change came over me. I was on fire! I said, “Let me get up.” Against all protests, I was allowed to do so. To everyone’s amazement, no bones were broken.
All of the cuts and scratches had been healed. They could not locate the wound sights to account for the blood on my clothing. They wanted me to stay that evening for clinical observation. I refused and signed a release. All I wanted was to go home. I wanted to tell this story and begin witnessing to the world. I HAD SEEN, TALKED WITH AND BEEN TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL OF THE LORD. NOT ONLY HAD I STARTED TO PASS OVER INTO THE NEXT WORLD, BUT I HAD ALSO EXPERIENCED THE MIRACLE OF SPONTANEOUS HEALING!
I have an immune system dysfunction, which started in 1976. It has become progressively worse over time. I was taking twelve drugs, four of the drugs where highly addictive, especially codeine. This combination of drugs became toxic. I had to stop taking all of my medication. Rather than a slow reduction in the drugs, it was decided I should go off everything all at once. I was not told that this could result in going into shock and dying. It happened. This time I was floating over my bed and could feel myself in God’s hands. My wife was by my side. I saw the light. I went deeper and closer to the light. There was no turning back. All the pain was gone. It was replaced with ecstasy. This ecstasy is so incomprehensible that I cannot explain it with words. I instantly understood Christ’s answer when the Sadducees tried to trap Jesus on the Resurrection. They asked him if a person remarried after the DEATH of seven spouses, which spouse would the person be with in Heaven? He responded,
Then the voice of the Lord called out to me.
I saw all my dreams and hopes of my life in an instant. It was one of the most beautiful experience of my life! Nothing could compare to it. It was breathtaking. I understood Christ when He said the hungry shall be full in Paradise. The banquet table, for the King, is set before all the Angels and Saints. GOD BE PRAISED, WORSHIPPED AND GLORIFIED BEFORE ALL NATIONS.
This was just a glimpse of Heaven. I DID NOT want to return to the living. Life on earth is hell by comparison. I was stopped again. The Lord said:
“It is not yet your time, My Children need you. Dedicate yourself to Me and pray that I might reveal My plan to you! Feed My sheep!”
The next thing I remember it is four days later. I HAD APPARENTLY GONE WITHOUT SLEEP. Hundreds of pages and scraps of paper were everywhere! Studies and papers written years before and presumed lost were in clear sight. I still did not know what God meant by “Pray that I might reveal My plan to you.” I can tell you that my illness would not let me out of bed for more than four hours. Going without sleep and working at a feverish pace for four days was a miracle in itself. Then I relapsed. I hit bottom, hard.
Every day I asked God what His plan was. Sometimes I prayed as much as six hours a day. I was starting to become discouraged. This is where my wife said we must pray together. We should pray with our lips what we felt in our hearts. We saw there was a significant difference in the way each of us prayed to God. This gave us a better understanding of each other. We thought we were praying to the same God. The difference in our prayers pointed to a completely different concept of God. Even though we were members of the same church and had been married for twenty-seven years, we did not know each other’s beliefs as well as we thought. They were very different.
The Holy Spirit would come over us with unbelievable force. When we were in the Spirit, hours seemed like minutes and days like hours. Then it happened. The Holy Spirit filled us. God spoke. “THE END TIME IS NEAR, NOT AS MAN CONCEIVES IT, BUT AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT.” Both of our minds shifted to Christ’s Sermon on the End of the World. Our lives were changed forever. Just as quickly as these thoughts entered our minds, the Spirit spoke to us. We looked at each other. We both grabbed for our Bibles and read Christ’s Sermon on the End of the World. This led to more reading. Finally we looked at one another and understood the true meaning of END TIME PROPHECY. All during this time the miracles have never stopped coming. I will share more later.
Christ
is not speaking about the END TIME PROPHECY contained in the Book
of Revelations. He is telling us a different story. Everyone lives his
own End Time. THERE WILL BE NO APOCALYPTIC END
TIME! The Apocalyptic prophecy is only burning in the
minds of men. It will not occur. Take a leap of faith. For the
faithful there is no doomsday! Christ’s Words are about
mankind’s individual preparedness for his own personal End Time.
The reward for
God through Jesus Christ came to live as a man, not only to save our spirit, but to establish His Church, not churches. Many would go to Hell, following false teaching and not obeying Christ’s Law. The churches are spending more time fighting one another than fighting Satan, man’s true enemy! Man has lost the power of the Apostles. It was given to us by Jesus Christ. Christ made a new covenant with man, The Third Covenant. Man has failed to understand Christ and His Covenant. He told us that His Church MUST BE IN THIS WORLD, but NOT OF THIS WORLD. There is a vast difference between IN AND NOT OF this world! We are blinded by the world. CHRIST’S TRUTH IS BASED ON DREAMS, HOPE, FAITH, BELIEF, TRUST, AND LOVE. IT IS NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE. We are in the Garden of Eden again. The enemy is the same. The Lord COMMANDED that I should bring Christ’s Third Covenant into the world. I was to bring it in His name. He did this so that all who would listen would know the truth. I was no longer afraid.
I made a covenant with God. I offered the balance of my life to Him. I would go where He wanted me to go and do what He told me to do. I love Him as the early Christians did. I WILL DIE FOR HIM A HUMBLE SERVANT. THIS IS PROPHECY! I HAVE SEEN MY OWN DEATH!
Are you ready to go where God wants you to go? Are you ready to do what God wants you to do? Do you love Him with all of your heart, soul and body?
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