John,

When I read your rapture riddle letter, I was totally astounded.

But, I was far more astounded, that your mind works at such a complex level, so rapidly, while you were casually dining with your wife!

What a mind the LORD has given you!

Your thought processes, that you described, appear to me, like the workings of a Sherlock Holmes.

Except he was fictional, whereas you are real.

This all seems to have happened while you were enjoying dinner, not in a laboratory, or deep into the code of a mathematical computer program.

Observing all minutia of details, calculating various numeric combinations and translations, remembering discreet scriptures, their distances in the Bible,

and all that was going on while you were conversing with your wife, enjoying the dinner, and taking care of your dog!!!!

Again, your mind appears to be working at a level that most of us cannot even conceive of, yet it must seem quite natural to you.

Thank you so much for sharing this picture of your thinking processes.

And I am thankful that for you, it all led to your excitement about Jesus' soon coming for us!

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Thanks for your kind words, Gino!
Actually a lot of details came together several days after the dinner!
John