I awakened to sweet music playing on my clock radio, as I always do, and I thanked God for the good and complete rest I had just had. Then I opened the blinds to a marvelous morning and asked our Father to direct me to others in need of salvation, prayer or help along life’s way.

With the Covid fiasco fading (and other more serious viral infections being perpetrated in other parts of the world), we here in South Florida are now able to get out and about without the government breathing down the back of our necks, and so I took off for my ministry station – the fishing pier. But before I headed there, I bought a can of sardines, crackers, and a coke at a nearby store to have for lunch while at the pier, at the little shelter about halfway to the far end.

As I pulled out of the store, there was a sorrowful-looking older woman standing nearby holding a sign made from a cardboard flap that had one word emblazoned across the front – hungry. I stopped and rolled down the window as she came over to the car. The first thing I asked before I handed her the ten-dollar bill was, “Do you need prayer?” She didn’t hesitate. “Do I ever!” and she proceeded to tell me the story of her present condition. I didn’t try to stop her since I know that people in her situation often need solace and someone to listen to their plight. I made the prayer short and sweet (no showboating- it was the right thing to do.) I gave her the money and left her with a smile on her face.

And so, I made my way down to my most favorite place in the world, but not without slight trepidation upon bumping into Bill again. Bill is a collector of knives and always has at least two on his person, especially on the pier. The extremely sharp one is to fillet fish with, and He is very deft with that razor-sharp implement. As a matter of fact, I filmed a short video of him a while back filleting a Mackerel with swift and deliberate strokes only a pro could execute.

In any case, the last time I talked to Bill, I had paid him a visit at his condo to share the good news of the Gospel with him, and my visit ended with him telling me that he wasn’t interested, as he was reading a treatise written by an atheist on the foolishness of being a believer in Christ. I figured that would be the last I would speak to him and that the next time he might even attack me with his fillet knife since atheists can be a little violent when provoked. But after thinking it over and since it was such a beautiful day, I decided to go to the pier anyway. So off I went.

After finishing my lunch, I got up to make my way toward the other end of the pier, looking down over the railing at the beautiful blue water as I made my way slowly, hoping to spot a fish or two. (I once saw a three-hundred-pound grouper come up and swallow a smaller fish whole. It was the biggest fish I ever saw.)

All at once, I heard a familiar voice call out, “HEY JIM, where have you been?” There was Bill, standing in front of me. “Come sit with me,” he implored. So, I sat with him on one of the many benches that dot the pier.

“Bill, how have you been?” I asked.

“The day after I saw you when you visited me, I was admitted into the hospital. I was there for days…. I thought I was dying. It’s so good to see you!”

I couldn’t help but believe God was trying to get his attention after our little visit.

We shared pleasantries and said our goodbyes, but just before he left, I asked if he would like me to pray for him. He responded with, “I may be an atheist, but I’ll take a prayer anytime.” (Actually, I think he’s an agnostic.)

That’s what I like about being a one-on-one evangelist – the challenge and resulting surprises.

Since I love the ministry of reaching out to others, I’ve made a determination that I will also focus on the Millennials after finding that they enjoy listening to me and my encouraging words. (People love talking about themselves, about their hopes and dreams, and I’m garnering younger people as acquaintances as well.)

With multitudes dying in their sins and with the upcoming generations having lost all sense of purpose and direction in life, we can only expect that full-blown apostasy will prevail in the days ahead.

According to a survey, Millennials are “far more likely” than other generations to:

• Define success in life as happiness, personal freedom, or productivity without oppression.
• Consider an abortion performed to reduce personal economic or emotional discomfort to be morally acceptable.
• Consider premarital sex with someone expected to be their future spouse to be morally acceptable.
• Deem reincarnation a real possibility.
• Be liberal regarding fiscal and social policies.
• Champion liberal theology.
• Be among the “Don’ts”—people who either do not know if God exists, do not believe that He exists, or do not care if He exists.

The nexus to this problem is that with such an attitude and mindset – truly the time of God’s wrath and tribulation period are close at hand. Albeit, we shouldn’t be surprised since so many so-called believers were worshiping idols of flesh and blood and paid little or no attention to the demonic indoctrination that was happening to our prodigy on all sides.

Young people cannot think for themselves; their brains aren’t yet fully developed, and they haven’t yet learned from experience the things they will be facing in the future. They need guidance and correction, and we foolishly only gave them encouragement to think for themselves and let them play video games endlessly while taking no thought for tomorrow.

YBIC

Jim Towers You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com and visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com or visit my website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com

In the Bible, the creation story is one of cosmic proportions. You might liken it to the movie Star Wars in that there was rebellion against God among His created celestial beings called angels. The rebellious angelic beings were led by a powerful one named Lucifer, whose name meant light. (Although being powerful, he was and is a created being just like us, and we should never lose sight of that fact. Far too many people put Satan on equal footing with God Almighty, the Creator of all things – and therefore live a fearful life or unfruitful life.)

According to the Bible and the writings of Enoch and others whom Jesus referenced often, the angelic beings who abandoned their domain for greener pastures were cast down to earth by Almighty God and allowed to live there temporarily after God had created it. Sometime later, God created man and woman. Satan saw this as an opportunity to foil God’s plan for mankind and enticed them to disobey their creator. He succeeded, and we can see the end result even today.

Today, with prophecy being fulfilled and Israel on the cusp of all-out war with their enemies, infants in America are being aborted, toddlers hacked to death and dragged to the middle of the street by an obviously demon-possessed person (probably in a fit of drug-fueled rage). God has His hands full, and some world leaders still feel they can control a world completely out of control. Good luck with that!

When I watch and hear men proclaim that we are going to turn things around, I know that they don’t know scripture; otherwise, they wouldn’t make such outrageous claims. You would think that people everywhere would be lying face to the ground in repentance, pleading with God for peace and civility, or even a semblance of rationale. God help us.

The Apostle Paul wrote this warning to Timothy as though it were written for the days in which we live.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

^“For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was” (2 Timothy 3:1-9).

“The law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).

Now, this may sound crazy, yet there is no other way to say it, but I’m feeling sorry for God; for a God who is loving, kind, benevolent, generous and forgiving. He made everything for our good pleasure; consider the countless varieties of fruit, veggies and other edibles God made for us to enjoy. He made beautiful, lush habitats, verdant green valleys, endless kinds of trees and flowers and plants for our use and amusement. For something else to admire, he created colorful birds of the air and butterflies. Parrots were abundant. Monkeys swung from limb to limb as sloths just hung upside down, crawling ever so slowly on a limb and munching on leaves as they went. The wonder of it all is just too much to comprehend, and he handed it all over to us with open hands saying, “Be fruitful and multiply.”

Things started out on the right foot, but our benevolent God became increasingly alarmed at the propensity man had for sin and disobedience. And so, He had to show mankind His vengeful power to get their attention – and did, but it seldom worked – and only temporarily. The Great Flood was a result as God decided that maybe making man wasn’t such a good idea after all. The Fallen angels mixed with humanity and had flaunted God’s commands, making the earth a cesspool of sin and confusion. Homosexuality was the norm, and debauchery and licentiousness ruled the day. God had to start to repopulate the earth all over again with a godly man named Noah and his immediate family.

Still, though, mankind once again began to make war with one another, to want things that weren’t theirs and to worship gods made by their own hands, things made of clay, wood and stone.

Finally, one man – a true seeker of God – Abraham (Abram) found God, and God began speaking to him.

God (the planner of all things) devised a plan to overturn this travesty into a wonderful victory for those who would receive His free gift of eternal life through Christ Jesus – His only begotten Son.

As time passed, Abraham’s prodigy became rebellious too, and since they had the godlike quality of freedom of choice, they saw fit to do things their way. They worshiped images carved in stone, wrought in clay or made of wood. These lifeless deities were ugly and fearsome, and the priests that served them told the followers how and what the manmade images demanded. They often demanded blood, but all demanded fealty. This was done by the father of lies, the murderer, the devil.

Time and again, mankind’s creator had to warn His creation of the folly in disobeying Him, even though His commandments were for their own good. Man, having been made free to pick and choose his own way, got it wrong more often than not. This happened due to leaning on their own understanding. But by now, chosen men of God were beginning to emerge from among the Jewish people. People like Ezekiel, Isaiah, Elijah, Elisha and Daniel began to stand up for God, and God gave them the privilege of viewing and discerning the future of mankind, and it wasn’t good.

And by this time, God realized that mankind truly had a mind of their own. It’s as if in the laboratory of God (Earth), mankind insisted on doing things their way. And God let it be so. Knowing this, He devised a plan to redeem mankind – God in the form of man – “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God….”

YBIC

Jim Towers Write me jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit www.propheticsignsandwonders.com and www.dropzonedelta.com.