Update, Prayers Needed

This past week my wife Paulette found out that her cancer in one of her lungs has returned. It is the same lung she had a cancer spot in twelve years ago and which was killed by radiation. On October 14 she will have a PET scan to obtain more needed information about the tumor and then decide what is next. I am hoping that it can be taken care of again by radiation and not surgery, for I don't think she is strong enough for such. We ask for your prayers. On September 14th she turned 73. She has had COPD (emphysema) for about eight or nine years, and has been on oxygen ever since. She has taken all this as a super trooper. If we both make it till October 25th, we will have been married for forty years. I thank God in my prayers each day that he gave her to me. 

If I live till October 5th, I will reach my 70th year. A milestone. When I was young I had it in my head that I would not make it to old age. I have my own health issues. I have a heart stent, put in when I had a heart attack about 4-5 years ago. I also was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis five years ago. My older brother Eddie died from it in June. He had it for twelve years. Most don't live that long. So, I know my time is short. 

I am hoping I can finish my series on Two Seedism. I am doing a lot of reading from old "Primitive" or "Old School" Baptists periodicals from the nineteenth century and taking notes. I also would like to finish some other series I have begun, or want to begin. I want to finish my writings on the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. I have written extensively on the white horse, red horse, and black horse. So I only have to write yet on the pale green horse. I also have some finishing chapters on my long series titled "God's Elect or World's Elite?" I also want to write a series on "prevenient grace." I also have hundreds of initial drafts on numerous subjects and biblical texts. 

I am thankful for brethren Kevin Fralick and Ken Mann for being contributing editors to this blog. I hope they will keep writing after I am gone to be with the Lord. I am thankful for our readers, the number of which grows each month, setting records. I have numerous blogs, many of which are for specific subjects. See the link list on this web page. We are on track to have a hundred thousand page views this month for all these blogs. 

Brothers and Sisters, I believe we are on the verge of the time of the Apocalypse and Great Tribulation which will "come upon all the world to try them which dwell upon the earth." (Rev. 3: 10) I have a separate blog to which I am moving all my writings on the second coming. I possibly will add to this in the coming months, the Lord willing. I am thrilled that we have seen evidences of a possible end time revival and ingathering, with many sinners turning to the Lord before it is too late. We saw preludes to this in the Asbury phenomenon. Brother Mann and I both wrote articles on this back in 2023. (See this page for a list of those articles - here) We see it now in the aftermath of the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, a warrior for the Lord. For years now I have been praying for an end time revival before the "time of the Gentiles is fulfilled" (Luke 21: 24). I have been praying for a restoration of the charismata, for the miraculous gifts. Paul said that we should "earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially to prophesy." (I Cor. 14: 1) If the rapture occurs towards the end of the great Tribulation, which I believe is the case, then end time believers will surely need these gifts in order to be kept safe. Since they will not be able to buy or sell when the Antichrist reigns, being able to turn stones to bread would be a great help. If saints will then be unable to pay for a doctor, gifts of healing will then be of great help. Etc. In the days of the Judges we read:

"Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” (Judges 6: 13 nkjv)

I don't think there will be any reason for the saints in the time of the great tribulation to say "where are all his miracles" because they will be occurring often as a way to "keep" the saints from the evils of that awful time.

Let us be ready for what is coming. Let us warn our neighbors and friends. Let us do all we can to win souls to Christ before it is too late.