From: Kent
Sent: January 5, 2008
To: GOD
Subject: Hope
GOD: Good morning, Son! I love you!
kh: Good morning, Lord. I love You, too! I’m sure excited about having even a glimmer of hope that I may get to go home on Monday. They have to rule on my motion for release by then. I know not to get too excited. I’ve seen this evil system dash hopes many times, but it is still fun to keep hope alive in my heart.
GOD: That’s good, Son. Keep hope alive. Today I want you to look at the men around you and learn something about hope. You are filled with hope and are excited about getting out because you have a lot waiting for you on the outside. Many men in there don’t have much waiting for them, Son. Look at Kenny.
kh: Wow, Lord! You are right. I see it now. I have hope of walking out the door. Kenny doesn’t have that hope, Lord. He’s been paralyzed for years and has no hope of walking anywhere.
GOD: That’s right, Son. Now look at Dave.
kh: Oh, Lord, thank you for my wife! She is waiting for me and loves me. Dave doesn’t have that. When he was locked up, his wife moved a boyfriend into the very house that Dave was paying for! His marriage is ruined, Lord. I’ve prayed and cried with him about it. He has no hope of returning to a happy marriage like I do. My wife loves me. Thanks, Lord!
GOD: Son, as a teen you asked me thousands of times to provide you with the right wife, didn’t you?
kh: Yes, Lord, and You really answered those prayers! Thanks, Lord! You are awesome!
GOD: You are welcome, Son. Now look at Tim.
kh: Wow, Lord, I never thought about that. I have a house to go to when I get out. His was seized by the government. He doesn’t know where he will sleep his first night out of prison. I bet that weighs heavy on him!
GOD: It does, Son. You don’t bear that burden do you?
kh: No, Lord. Thanks and…I’m sorry for complaining.
GOD: Apology accepted, Son. Now look at Mark.
kh: Oh, Lord, he gets out in three weeks and doesn’t have a job waiting. He doesn’t have hope of being able to provide for his family. Because of his white-collar crime, he can’t go back to his old line of work in finances. He’s nearly fifty years old, Lord. He has to start all over! I have hope of going back to work in the ministry. I even have hope of preaching…if any churches will have me after all the bad press this case generated.
GOD: You will be surprised, Son. Having no hope of a job at his age puts a real financial strain on a man who naturally wants to provide for his family. You don’t bear that burden do you, Son?
kh: No, Lord. The ministry finances are real tight, but You have supplied and I have a job waiting for me the first day I’m out.
GOD: Not the first day, Son. Your wife has a l-o-o-o-n-g honey-do list that will take a while.
kh: Sorry, Lord. I forgot.
GOD: Now look at Pat.
kh: Yes, Lord, I remember. He won’t have a car when he gets out! His were seized when he was arrested. It’s real hard on a man’s ego to have to walk or ride a bike to work at his age. I have the ministry van and moped waiting for me. The van has over 140,000 miles on it, but it runs great and I really, really love driving that scooter! It’s awesome!
GOD: Ah…Son, you may have a little problem there. While you have been locked up, your son has been “keeping the dust off the moped” as he says. He has really grown attached to it as well.
kh: Come on, Lord! That’s my son. I’ll be able to get it away from him. I can handle the boys any day.
GOD: Son, he’s twenty-nine now and you are almost fifty-five. I hate to be the one to break the news, but…you are not as young as you used to be. You may not be quite fast enough or strong enough this time.
kh: I see Your point, Lord. Can You just provide another one just like it for me? What about a year newer?
GOD: I’ll work on that, Son. Now look at Mac.
kh: Oh, Father! I have a daughter waiting for me when I get out. His daughter was killed in a drive-by shooting a few months ago. She was only fifteen! I prayed and cried with him, Lord, but I never thought about not having my daughter to greet me with hugs and kisses. That would be awful! Thanks, Lord. I’m real spoiled, aren’t I?
GOD: Yes, Son, real spoiled. Do you see those four men sitting over there?
kh: Yes, Lord, I know them well.
GOD: Did you know that Brown has not gotten any mail in seven years and David has had not money for commissary for over a year since his family stopped supporting him and Anthony has not had a visit in three years?
kh: I think I knew it, but it never registered, Lord. I get visits every week and more mail than any of the other five hundred thirty men here. I get scores of letters that encourage me. Many don’t get that at all; do they, Lord?
GOD: No, Son, many have been forgotten. Now look at Harold.
kh: Oh, Lord, he doesn’t have a dream! He’s been locked up for eleven years and has six more to go all because of those ridiculous conspiracy laws and mandatory minimum-sentencing requirements. He will be over seventy when he gets out and can’t even dream about a future. I have more dreams than I can ever accomplish. I want to make lots more videos, books, and tracts on creation, as well as start more Dinosaur-Adventure-Land-type ministries all over the world. Every major city needs a creation ministry. I have dreams and visions (Proverbs 29:18) that will take me five hundred years to finish. I’m pumped about the future! Harold’s future is a burden to him. Thanks, Lord, I never saw how blessed I am to have a dream.
GOD: Go watch Frank walk around the track, Son.
kh: Oh, Lord, what a burden! He can’t read, Lord. I have a huge pile of books I hope to read. You gave me a great mom and teachers that taught me to read and to love learning. Not being able to read would be an awful burden! I don’t know if I could bear that one. I offered to help him learn, Lord, and we had one lesson, but he shows no interest in learning to read. He will have a hard future, won’t he Lord?
GOD: Yes, Son, real hard. Now look at Glen.
kh: Oh, Lord, I don’t know if I can handle many more. The burden is too great! I worked with Glen for a month, Lord. He loves You and is saved, but he’s in for ten years with four small children at home. He has no appeal and no hope of getting less time. At least I have the hope of my case being overturned. He won’t get to watch his kids grow, watch their ball games or their graduations. He can’t teach them or protect them. What an awful burden to bear! I don’t know if I could carry that one. Help him, Lord.
GOD: I will, Son, but You can help bear his burden also (Galatians 6:2). Pray with him and be a friend. Tell others about helping prisoners and their families (Matthew 25:35-45).
kh: Oh, I will, Lord! I’ve seen this prison thing from a whole new perspective. I was fooled into believing “tough on crime”—meaning long prison terms—was a good thing. I’m sorry I never sought Your face on this issue, Lord (II Chronicles 7:14).
GOD: Now look at Brad, Son.
kh: Lord, I don’t think I can stand any more.
GOD: Just two more, Son. Look at Brad.
kh: Oh, Lord, what will he do? He spent his life in the woods of Tennessee hunting. Now, as a felon, he can’t have a gun. At least I have hope of getting my charges overturned. He has no hope. He is really hurting, isn’t he?
GOD: Yes, Son, he is. Now look at Paul.
kh: Lord…I really can’t carry that burden! He’s going to hell, isn’t he, Lord (Psalm 9:17; Matthew 10:28; Revelation 21:8)?
GOD: Yes, Son, unless he gets saved soon.
kh: I’ve witnessed to him six times now, Lord. He had lots of evolutionary teaching on his way to becoming a doctor and it has blinded his mind to the gospel (John 12:40; Romans 1:18-25; II Corinthians 4:4). I’ll try again tomorrow, Lord.
GOD: Thank you for caring for his soul, Son (Psalm 142:4). I’m not willing that any perish (II Peter 3:9).
kh: Lord, there are lots of men in here like him. They have no hope (Ephesians 2:12). Thanks for giving me so much. Can I go back out preaching, Lord?
GOD: You are preaching, Son.
kh: Well, Lord, since this story is about “hope” I was hoping this could be my last letter from prison and the “E-mail Book” could be finished. I really think some of these letters will help people, give them hope, and draw people into Your kingdom. You really shouldn’t delay this book’s coming out. I think it’s time for me to go home.
GOD: Good try, Son. You can write the book from there.
kh: I can’t fool You; can I, Lord?
GOD: No, Son. Keep trusting Me. I’ve got your back.
EKKMAN
My guess was pretty close. My oldest ones are 34 & 36 years old. I might explain that one later.
I am not discussing with you the Names of God or the KJV issue. If you want to continue to write reams & reams of information, go ahead. That’s what your specialty seems to be. You have no idea who’s reading this blog. Maybe there’s somebody out there who is into those issues, & your information would be extremely valuable to them. I’m just the wrong person for that.
If you want to talk to me about anything else, if I perceive it to be with a spirit of anger, I’m not responding. My family does not practice anger under our roof, & neither am I going to mess around with it on this blog.
Mom.
FOR JESUS’ NAME: PHILLIP-GEORGE ‘74
Your brainwaves never cease to fuel the fires for a merry heart!
Those are some really thought provoking questions! I am still chewing on the Maimonides 10 dimensions thing. I haven’t quite comprehended it yet. I did comprehend Chuck Missler’s illustration of Mr & Mrs Flat.That would be the dimension my brain waves function from!
The Bible says Heaven is God’s throne & earth is His footstool. That has to be a different dimension.
When Moses was told to build the Tabernacle in the wilderness, he was told that the furnishings were copies of the real items in Heaven. Is that the part of Heaven where God sits? Apparently so, because otherwise we wouldn’t have access to God.
How big is God? Even the highest Heavens cannot contain Him. His Spirit was hovering completely around the whole mass of water that both the earth & the heavens were made out of. And if He sits on the heavens, that makes Him outside of the Heavens too! {Does He poke His head up out of it and see beyond???????
And the new Heavens & the New Earth have to be outside of the realm of the old Heavens & earth, where they can’t be contaminated by sin. Radio waves transmitted from the earth just keep traveling through space. Does the 2-waters beyond the universe block them from going any further?
My Hebrew teacher is fascinated with the spectrum of light. He says what we see of it is about the width of a hair in comparison to the whole width of the band.[& he explained the contrast to be far greater than that, but I don’t remember the details. Either ICR or AIG has a video on the subject. Maybe somebody else knows what the name of it is & can tell us.]
I don’t recall anything about Michelson-Morley research. Somewhere I may have heard their names & what they came up with, but it didn’t register, so please explain.
Stars: The Hebrew word for stars is totally different than the Hebrew word for sun. You would think that if they were of the same nature, that they would have similar names, but they don’t. The word for stars is ‘cok-kha-viyim’. [It sounds like something that would give you a hangover if you were a bit of a lush!] And then again, the Hebrew word for sun & moon is ‘big light’ & ‘little light’. [If you go back to the archives & go to Sept 4 ‘Letter from God to Urbane’, in the comments I put the Hebrew transliterate words of Genesis 1:1 -2:4 & English translations of the words underneath. There’s 9 entries, & one or two are repeats, so keep scrolling down till you get to the right one. It will give you a general idea of how the Hebrew text is structured. (My translation is pretty simple. My Hebrew teacher would have a lot more scientific tech in his wording. He’s into Creation Science big time. He owns just about every video & dvd that ICR & AIG have put out.) If you read the translation, read the whole thing as one piece, so that ideas about different things stay in context with the whole passage.]
Stars/cok-kha-viyim, what are they? From our perspective they give us an understanding about the nature of God. They are countless, & each point in the sky is myriads & myriads of stars, & yet God has a name for each one of them & none of them are missing! They also are formed in such a way that they make up dot-to-dot pictures that tell the whole world about the Salvation Story.[& where you live, you’ve got that beautiful Southern Cross nested in the legs of the half man-half horse picture of Messiah!] Nobody has seen a star up close. They have only seen the sun. Are they the same? We think they are, but we don’t know for sure, & God says they’re going to fall from the sky. When that happens, will it be like standing in front of a stage & watching something fall off from the stage & disappear behind the stage, or do they come crashing to the earth? If they are hanging on an invisible structure called the raqia/expanse/firmament , are they hanging by some kind of invisible magnetic forces? If God suddenly turns the magnetism off, do they all fall down? And where do they fall to?
You asked, “Does the spin axes of the universe pass through the center of the earth?” If it does, (& the wording of the Hebrew text give the indication that earth is somewhere in the middle of things), that doesn’t mean that the earth is motionless. Both can be happening at the same time.{What about your heart pumping inside of you, no matter what you are doing?} If you have night/liyahlah/twist happening & day/yom/to-be-hot, with the sun rising in the east & setting in the west, it means that the earth is spinning, and the spinning of the earth also affects the wind & the water currents. The stars don’t cause the wind & the water currents. The sun does not heat up the core of the earth. If the earth was stationary, we wouldn’t find heat as we traveled closer to the center of the earth.[& that part works whether you hold to the theory of Plate Tectonics or The Hydro plate theory]
Nothing is in ‘perfect rest’, until Messiah returns.
What is the raqia/expanse/firmament? Have you read ‘Starlight & Time’ or seen the DVD? Russell Humphreys has some really interesting thoughts on the subject. He proposes the idea that the raqia/expanse/firmament is some kind of invisible structure that the whole universe is attached to, & that it was stretched out. [In Hebrew, ‘raqia’ is 'an extended surface'. It comes from a word meaning something that is produced by hammering, stamping, or stretching'. When the Holy Spirit was causing the waters to vibrate, was this one of the things that He was forming? Did the vibration movement heat things up?]
Russell Humphreys is also one of the researchers in the R.A.T.E. project, & they are researching the idea that time is slowing down, & that on the first day of Creation, the speed of light was exceedingly faster. [The whole thing goes over my head for the most part!] Both he & Robert Gentry[the guy who did the research on polonium 218... haloes] seem to have a theory about ‘space’ being curved & not in a straight line.
You asked, “God gave the sun, moon and stars for signs and for seasons. ie. they add to our perception of time. If they were to stop turning would we live forever?” If they did, would we still have a perception of forever?
This is my first response and will be limited strictly to the “song” that is mentioned in some of the replies. I have not read or listened to the song, and from the general descriptions in the replies I don’t think I want to. However, the description of it as “sick” tells me that Kent Hovind had nothing to do with it. I don’t believe he has ever (at least since his conversion to Christ) been involved with or party to anything that is or was sick. If he is really in lockdown because of that song, the prison officials don’t know him very well. Perhaps any excuse to mistreat him is the order of the day. What they don’t seem to know is that God IS in control. Some day they will know.