“If we fear God, we have nothing else to fear.” That verse of scripture should infuse us with joy, boldness, and peace. But I’ve heard Christian pastors say they are like undercover agents going around surreptitiously evading contact with others who might blow their cover.
Timidity does no one any good. In fact, we hand the victory to the enemy every time we are afraid of anything.
3/12/2025
Today was my first day in Miami to minister to the Spring breakers on South Beach. The air was cold for South Florida at eight in the morning, 56 degrees to be exact. I hustled on down to the Dunkin Donuts for some hot coffee. As I pulled into the parking lot, two Emerald Green parrots flew overhead as a man whom the clerk referred to as “Paco” arrived on his motor scooter wearing a heavy jacket and gloves.
I ordered Cafe Con Leche, then set about making final preparations for my spiritual assault on Miami Beach. Afterward, I got a bag of ice for the bottled water I would be passing out to the overheated kids at the beach.
At about 10 A.M., it was beginning to warm up, so I headed to the most southern part of South Beach, where I could set up shop on a paved pathway under some trees, sit in a comfortable lawn chair along with the signs I made up the day before that read “Free, living water and drinking water too!” The little red Bibles I use have the Living Water found therein – Jesus and the salvation message.
I was only able to pass out about fifty of them and about a dozen bottles of water. Was I being too sedate? Tomorrow, I’ll be a little more open, as that is my natural state of being. I might even sing show tunes just to get people’s attention since they walked past me with arrogant ignorance of the End Times, their zombie-like lives hanging by a thread.
Last year, the Spring Breakers were rude and running riot on the beach. They were swilling beer and twerking on the top of police cars. This made me think of 2nd Timothy as I watched them.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power.
Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (vv 1-9).
3/26/2025
Today nothing seemed to be going right for me, but I’ve learned to wait on the Lord to work things out for me. So, I went about my business and went to my bank to straighten out some matters. A young woman and a young man in their tidy suits were seemingly awaiting me, which is not usually the case in this environment at 11 am. I walked up to them, glad not to have to wait my turn (take a number, please) as is always the case.
I asked, “I need someone to check and see if this notice on my laptop is legitimate.”
“Yes sir, we’re here to help you!” replied the young man eagerly.
“My laptop says your bank is going to eliminate my such and such services unless I respond immediately. I want to know if it’s a phishing scam to garner information on me?”
The young man said, “Step into my office; we have these complaints more and more each day,” as he led the way.
As we sat across from each other, I could see that the young man was quite young to be holding such a position.
The young man looked me over and asked about my ethnic heritage. “I’m a 10th-generation North American,” I replied. Then, I opened my laptop, and we proceeded to work. Looking at his nametag, I noticed he had an Arabic name. “Tell me about your name.” I inquired.
The clean-cut, friendly young man answered, “I’m Arabic, born in Columbia.”
“Is that to say you are Muslim?” I asked.
“No, I’m a Catholic and go to church every Sunday with my parents.”
Catholic? “I’m a writer and working on my second book about the end times.” What do you, as a Catholic, know about the end times?”
“I don’t know anything about those things.”
After telling him about my Christian website and all the things I had posted on it, he became very interested. I told him about the archeological finds I had on it, like the videos of what’s left of Sodom and Gomorrah and the sulfur balls (brimstone) found that rained down everywhere on that ash heap. I also told him about the video of the sand that melted into glass where the pillar of fire stood on the shore of the Red Sea before it opened to let the Israelites through to the other side. He grabbed a pen and paper and handed them to me. “Here, write your website down for me.”
I left him, knowing he had other work to do, and I didn’t want to get him in trouble for dilly-dallying. As I stood to leave, I finally asked him how old he was, and he replied – 19. Seeing the expression on my face, he added, “I’m a very smart kid!”
I will take him a Bible and get to know him better, maybe over lunch. I think I may have found someone to mentor.
YBIC
Jim Towers
You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com. You can also find me on my newly restructured website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com, which now features videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places, and Moses himself.
