A
great book that I cannot recommend more highly, even though it was written over
30 years ago, is "Anointed for Burial" by
Todd and DeAnn Burke. It is the first hand
account of two missionaries in Cambodia
starting in the fall of 1973. They spent the next 20 months there until
they were forced to leave two weeks before the nation fell to the communist
Khmer Rouge.
There
are many eye-witness accounts that sound like something out of the book of Acts,
how they had to deal with evil, adversity, and even Church discipline.
And through it all Jesus prevailed.
Many
times we can get isolated from real world events and academically debate
subjects back and forth. However, when someone lives through those
same subjects, the answers are no longer academic. I've heard many people
who thought they knew everything about the right way to raise kids, until they
had kids of their own. Life has a habit of changing what we think is true
to what we find out is true.
Anyway. The title for the book,
"Anointed for Burial" comes from them anointing with
oil someone who had died, for burial, and then that person coming
back to life. Remember what happens FIRST at the Rapture?
For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump
of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: I
Thessalonians 4:16
Looking
Up!
(We
have been warned again recently on Five Doves of a planned fake appearance of a
Rapture where the Christians do not go up but visions of many others do go
up. Should this occur, we can hold fast to the promise that the elect,
those elected to go in the Rapture, shall not be able to be deceived.)
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect. Matthew 24:24
Shalom,
Ted
Porter