From: Kent Hovind
Sent: September 2, 2008
To: Sniper
Subject: Certification to Serve
KH: Lord…
GOD: Hold it, Son. I know what you are thinking and what you want to ask. Let’s go for a walk. I’d like you to meet a few people. Then you can ask your question…Go talk to the man hiding behind that bush.
KH: OK, Lord.
KH: Excuse me, sir. Why on earth are you covered in weeds, hiding behind a bush and with your face all painted funny?
Sniper: Shhh! Get down and keep quiet! You will give away my position!
KH: OK! OK! I’m down. I’ll whisper. What is going on here?
SN: I’m sneaking up on the jeep on the hill over there.
KH: The one with the soldiers and machine gun?
SN: Yes, but those aren’t regular soldiers. They are my teachers in sniper school along with the colonel who will determine if I pass or fail. I can’t be a certified sniper if they see me coming.
KH: How long have you been crawling on your belly in the weeds and mud like this?
SN: About seven hours now. I started by that big oak tree back there at five this morning.
KH: It took you seven hours to crawl one hundred yards?!
SN: Shhh! Yes. It took seven hours. There is not much cover out here. I camouflaged myself with the local plants for the first hour, then started crawling.
I’ve got about fifty yards to go before 6:00 p.m. If I can get within fifty yards of that jeep without being seen, then they will sign off and I will be a certified sniper. I’ve already passed all the other tests.
KH: What are all the red bumps on your hands and face?
SN: I crawled over a nest of yellow jackets a few hours ago. They stung me about thirty times.
KH: Didn’t that make you yell?
SN: Oh, I wanted to—that’s for sure—but that would have given away my position. I would have failed the test. So, I bit down on a stick and kept crawling.
KH: Wow! You must really want to get sniper certified. Why?
SN: Well, I love my country. I want to be prepared to serve my country any way that I can. I’ve worked toward this goal for two years now. When they call on me—I’ll be ready.
KH: Two year of training for what might be a one-time, one-shot job?
SN: Have you read about Noah’s working for years to build a boat he only used one time?
KH: Good point.
SN: Hey, I’ve got to get moving now.
KH: OK. I’ll see you later. I hope you make it.
GOD: Let’s go, Son…
KH: Where are we, Lord?
GOD: New Guinea, Son. Go talk to that man in the hut.
KH: OK, Lord…
KH: Excuse me, sir. What are you doing way out here in the jungle?
Missionary Johnson: Oh, hi. Wow! You speak English! That sounds like music to my ears. I’ve been here for three years now trying to learn this tribe’s language and culture. It’s been a while since I heard English spoken.
KH: What language do they speak?
MJ: There is no name for it yet. As far as anyone can tell no one has ever tried to learn it or reach these people for Christ. It is only a spoken dialect. They don’t have an alphabet even. I’m trying to learn to speak it so I can create an alphabet and written language for them. Then I will work to translate the Bible into their language.
KH: But they can’t read!
MJ: I know. That will be another major project. It is going to take years. These people have fifteen different words for wind and at least twenty-five different words for water that I’ve identified so far. Water in a river that moves is different than water in a pot that is still. Water on your skin has yet another name. They have no word for—or even concept of—book, paper, pen, and a thousand other simple things like that. It’s a challenge!
KH: Wow! Are you here alone?
MJ: I am now. My wife and son both died of a jungle fever the first year that we were here.
KH: I’m so sorry to hear that. Did you go back to the states?
MJ: No. We don’t have any family left. I buried them over there by that big tree. I sold my business to fund this mission effort. I did well in business and I’ve got enough to supply my needs for about twelve more years. I should have a written language, a New Testament, and some converts by then. Maybe even a church started.
KH: It sounds like it will take years of preparation to reach these people.
MJ: Yes, sir. It has already cost me a lot. It might even take a lifetime.
KH: Why are you doing this?
MJ: Oh now, Kent, you know the answer to that question. I love the Lord. He saved my soul years ago. These people have never heard the Gospel story. God has called me to tell them. He prepared me for years first. I loved studying languages as a child. I grew up bilingual with English and Swedish in Minnesota. I took French in high school. God gave me the gift of languages for this task today. I had to be prepared to be used. It’s a great honor to serve my Lord in this jungle. God will reward me in Heaven (1 Corinthians 15:58).
These natives have watched me closely for three years now. They are learning to trust me. If I hadn’t gone through the testing and trials here I wouldn’t be qualified to reach them (2 Corinthians 1:3-11).
These people face disease and death every day. Losing my wife and son here and having God comfort me through this time prepared me to comfort them. Job knew about losing everything and being sick. That experience qualified him to reach hurting people for many years after that.
KH: It sure did. I hope you can figure out this language and reach these people.
MJ: Thanks.
GOD: Let’s go, Son. Two more stops…Go talk to that short man at the table. That’s Paul the Apostle.
KH: Hey, Paul. What are you doing?
PA: I’m writing another letter to the believers in the church I started at Corinth. Those poor people grew up in a really wicked city and have a lot of problems in their church.
KH: What problem are you dealing with now?
PA: One that has plagued mankind for centuries. Why does a good God allow bad things to happen?
KH: What are you telling them? I need to hear this!
PA: Ever since Adam and Eve plunged the human race into sin and suffering, God has used His children to comfort others as they suffer. I’ve had a lot of problems as I sought to serve the Lord (1 Corinthians 4:9-13; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27). Some people think that if problems or suffering come your way, that proves God is judging you for some sin. Job, Joseph, and Jesus all suffered yet did no wrong. That ought to put this unjust theory to rest. Our sufferings qualify us to reach more people (2 Corinthians 5:18-19). This is all just “light affliction” (Romans 8:18-39). It will pass.
KH: Thanks, Paul. I love your books!
GOD: One more stop, Son. Do you see that young man in there with all those prisoners?
KH: Yes, Lord. Who is that?
GOD: That’s Ezekiel, Son. Go talk with him (Ezekiel 1:1; 3:15).
KH: Hey, Zeke! What is going on?
Zeke: Oh, about ten thousand of us were taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24:8-17) a few months ago. Our King Jehoiachin is over by that tree crying. He was only eighteen when he became king and he was wicked (2 Kings 24:9). His granddad Josiah was a good king, but his sons and grandsons didn’t learn. Now we all have to suffer. It’s awful to watch a whole nation suffer because of wicked leaders. We have been walking for weeks to get to this river. The people are very discouraged. It’s demoralizing to be taken captive and ripped away from home and family and security.
KH: Boy, I know what you mean!
Zeke: I’m only twenty-five and my life is all torn up. I had plans of marriage and family like every young man my age. Now, I don’t know what the future holds. I’ll sure be able to understand and sympathize with people who are captives now. I’ve been through it! Do you realize how many people around the world have had this same thing happen to them?
KH: Probably millions.
Zeke: That’s right! It’s awful to go through, but now I’m better qualified to reach them for the Lord. I know God is calling me to be a prophet. His word comes to me all the time (Ezekiel 1:3 and sixty times in the book of Ezekiel). This captivity must be part of His training for me to prepare me to minister to hurting people.
KH: Thanks, Zeke. God bless you.
GOD: Let’s go home, Son…How many people have you preached to, Son?
KH: I have no idea, Lord. I don’t keep count, but the last seven or eight years, the average crowds were about a thousand each week. Probably less than a million in nineteen years. We’ve made over a million tapes and DVDs as well.
GOD: There are thirty million people just in America who have done time in prison, Son. Now you understand not only how prisoners feel, but you also see the suffering of the wives, children, and grandchildren. They number in the millions as well. You are certified to minister to them in a whole new way. Have I comforted and provided for you throughout this ordeal (2 Corinthians 1:3-11)?
KH: Yes, Lord, You have. The pain, loneliness, and depression still come in waves, Lord. Can You still calm the waves?
GOD: That’s my specialty, Son (Matthew 8:23; Mark 4:39; Luke 8:24). Did you still have a question from earlier?
KH: Well…no, Lord. Those guys answered it for me.
GOD: Go get supper, Son. Relax. It will all work out fine (Romans 8:28). I’ve got your back.
8:28). I’ve got your back.
Dr. Kent E. Hovind is currently at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Please send postcards and letters to:
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From the CSE team,
Thank you for your continued support.
Very good, Our pain becomes our power. It is our pain that gives makes us who we are. Those gates maybe blindness, bondage, hunger, pain, slavery, sickness or betrayal.
I can’t imagine what your ministry capability will be after this certification process, taking into consideration how awesome it was before. I wouldn’t have used the first analogy you used – that of a state killer (Ex. 20:13; Prov. 3:30), but your point was well made, and I praise God for your testimony through it all. God bless you!
Praying for you and Jo and thinking of you both often.
Dear brother Hovind,
I’ve always a burden in my heart for you, your wife and famiy, over the injustice that you all face daily.
Many thousands of people would not know the Lord, Nor know about scientific creation if not for you.
Thats why you are targeted by the enemy.
I truly believe the time has just about come for us to be handed over, arrested, harassed.
The spirit of antichrist has been at work since the beginning.
His plans for a one world government, nearly complete.
They will succeed. If only for a short time as scripture has prophesied.
Rev 13:7
“It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authourity was given him over every tribe, tounge, and nation.”
I believe you are of the first, of these spoken of.
Do not be discouraged! Your Heavenly Father IS IN CONTROL!!! With great rewards in His hands. Fall into His comforting arms. Rest your weary spirit in His gentile hands.
He has not forsaken, nor forgotten you.
You’ve made much difference in many lives.
May the God of peace be with you and give you strength to carry out His will.
For He surely has a plan even where you are.
May the Lords will be complete, and your family restored very, very soon.
With all love, and my heart pleading for your immediate restoration.
Jason
Another beautiful story Mr Hovind…… May God continue to use you in ways that none of us can imagine.
Bro. Hovind,
We continue to pray for you regularly, trusting the Lord to do what is right, yet making our requests, which include: deliverance for you and Mrs. Hovind; vindication of your right to operate a ministry according to Biblical principles and not IRS, banking or government regulations; judgment for those who violated the rights of both you and Mrs. Hovind; the destruction of the Federal Reserve system; and end of the abuses of the IRS; the perfection of what God is using this experience to work in your lives; and the increase of the impact and influence of your ministry.
A Pastor from the West
Dear Dr. Hovind, what an encouragement this article is to me. My husband and I, with our six children, are missionaries (church planters) in New Brunswick, Canada. I have been fervently praying for you, your wife and family, and your ministry. We recently purchased your creation science dvd (we had an old copy as well) as well as the cs ASL dvd’s. My husband has spent hours copying them and putting beautiful labels on them, with your information as well as our church contact info, then distributing them for free to as many people who will take them. Our thoughts and prayers will continue with you and yours! God bless! Living by Faith, Mrs. Robert L. Smith
Kent
On this one…I am reminded that time is short. The political world reminds me of that daily. I pray that I am prepared for whatever I face, suffering, pain…that I face it with the grace that you have shown. I know you suffer depression and lonliness…I know you don’t feel strong.
But His grace certainly have proven to be sufficient for you now. You are a living example of the power of God to sustain.
In this world and esp in this country that will become more and more important to his Body of believers here.
Blessings to you
Blessings my friend until your release
Joy