Dear Joyce,
Thanks for your kind letter. Getting encouragement means more than you could ever know. See Pro. 25: 25 and Matthew 25: 34-35. You asked me a lot of questions about what it is like being in prison so I think I will use this opportunity to give a looong answer to your short questions : )
After being locked up just under 3 years I am sure no expert, but I have been in 5 different facilities and can tell you what has happened to me. The way world events are shaping up I think it would be wise for everyone to be prepared to come here. I pray the rapture comes before that, but persecution is already happening to believers all over the world. See www.persecution.com or www.christianpost.com for examples.
A few minutes after the jury pronounced me guilty, the marshals handcuffed me and led me out to a holding cell in the court house. In a short time I was taken to the county jail in handcuffs and went to the intake room where they take away your belt, shoestrings and anything in your pockets. They asked me a series of questions like, “are you suicidal?” I later discovered that if I had said yes, they would strip me down and lock me in a special cell for as long as they like. The intake area was freezing (to keep down on germs), so it is wise to wear warm clothes if you think you may be arrested.
After intake – about 4 hours! – I was taken to the county jail intake cells. It was a room about 100 feet by 60 feet with a TV area, 3 open showers, tables, and upper and lower rows of cells. Each cell was for 2 men, but due to overcrowding, there were three in most with one man sleeping on a mat on the floor. These cells were about 7×10 feet and had a small stainless steel toilet and sink. They were locked at night. It is a claustrophobic feeling to hear the huge door slam shut and lock! The sleeping bunks are steel and about 78” x 30”. The mat is a really old bag of lumpy cotton that takes a long time to get used to – if ever. All types of prisoners were mixed together in this intake cell from drunks to murderers. We were out free in the larger room during the day for showers and meals and TV or cards.
After 2 weeks there, I was taken to the regular jail cells. I was in G20 which means green tower, 2nd floor, orange door. This one had the typical steel bars on one side and three concrete block walls on the other three sides. The room was trapezoid shaped, had 16 beds with a 4 foot high “wall” of steel to separate them into “rooms”. Each man got his own 7 x 6 room with a small steel desk and bed. Same mattresses. There were two open showers and two open stainless steel toilets. Due to overcrowding there were also 6 extra men in the room on bunk beds. We were free to roam around the room at all times except when they count everyone at 4pm and 12 mid. I would guess the room was 60’ x 35’. I was there for 4 ½ months and led Bible studies at the steel lunch table 3 or 4 times each day and saw great revival! Some of this is covered in my early Dear God letters on CSEBLOGS.COM. Men would come and go, but about 18 were saved while I was there. God was good! We were supposed to get out 1 hour each day for recreation, but they seemed to have a long list of reasons to cancel it – cold, rain, not enough staff, etc. Mail call was the highlight of everyone’s day! Get a list of prisoner’s names and sign them up to get anything! Church bulletins, newsletters, tracts, Bible studies, etc. Some are locked up for years and get no mail ever! See Ps. 142:4!
During the 4 ½ months I was there, I only saw one fight between inmates. I felt safe all the time. When there was a problem or argument, the staff would take the men to the “tank,” which was a holding cell downstairs with nothing but a toilet, sink, and steel benches. They would be left there for 8 hrs. or more till they “cooled down.” Everyone wears jump suits and very thin blue tennis shoes that are sort of like house slippers. The food was pretty bad. I lost 20 pounds in the county jail. Men pass messages between units by tying strings to a bar of soap and sliding them across the hall to the next unit. The gap under the door was about an inch so any magazines, food, books, etc. that could fit was pulled back and forth under the doors. The one guard on duty was normally at his desk playing on the computer, reading, or sleeping, so it was no problem doing this.
Visits at the county were twice a week for 1 hour. You talked through a screen and could make no contact. Medical was pretty much a joke as I have discovered it is at nearly all prisons. Serious problems were treated, but minor stuff was ignored. Several of the men had staph infections for weeks. One man in here broke his collar bone playing baseball. It was over lapped 3 inches and his shoulder pulled in. They gave him a sling and 9 months later x rayed it! By then it had healed wrong, had to be rebroken and reset.
The emotional roller-coaster in prison is hard to describe or deal with. Sometimes the various emotions of despair, loneliness, and discouragement come in waves and seem to overwhelm you. Singing hymns and prayer take on totally new depths of meaning while here. I pity those who do not have scriptures or godly songs memorized to fall back on during times of despair.
One of the biggest hopes men have is the hope that appeals will be granted or that laws will be passed to lessen the time. The prison system is a giant money making business and has very little to do with the actual corrections. Please get a copy of “The Kennel” from Denis Thomas 160 Indian Ridge Dr. N. Augusta, SC 29860; 803-613-1527; dthomas@usa.com. The book is only $6.50 including shipping and exposes many of the injustices in the prison system. Just as “Animal Farm” exposed communism using pigs taking over the farm, The Kennel uses dogs. Everyone who has read it loves it!
After 4 ½ months in county I was transferred to the Prison Camp in Pensacola. To transfer, they take you to the tank for a few hours till they gather up all the ones being transferred that day. Then they put handcuffs and leg shackles on you to move you into a car or van where you are locked in the back.
At the camp, I was released to the intake officer who did a strip search and issued new clothes. Then I was free to wander the huge open camp till the 4pm count and after that till 10pm. It was the first time in 4 ½ months that I had felt a blade of grass, a tree, worn normal clothes, had tie shoes, got really good hot food, been able to run, lift weights, play basketball, pool, ping pong, piano, get a real haircut, feel the sunshine, be able to walk away from the TV blaring “You are NOT the father!” and sleep on a real mattress! I got real, full contact visits every Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday every week. I got to hold my new grandson for the first time! The visiting area was great. They had lots of books, games, a sand box, an outdoor play area that included a walking track, small soccer field, squirrels, birds, and a great selection of food items in the vending machines. The dorm was a converted military base from WW II. Each room was originally designed for 6 men on 3 bunks but we had 12 men on 6 bunks. They had private toilets and showers with a door! Food was MUCH better than county jail.
Everyone went to several days of orientation when they first arrived then they were assigned a job at the camp or in the neighboring military bases. I worked in the kitchen for a few weeks then was moved to work at the Eglin Air Force Base 60 miles away. I worked in the dog kennel where abandoned dogs were kept to be adopted. Next I was put in the tool room to check out tools to all the maintenance people every day. I learned many very valuable things in each position and thank God for the experience and training.
Then, one day at work, they came and got me and said, “You are being transferred. Come with us.” I said, “What for?” They said, “You are a separatee and cannot be at this camp.” I said, “Who am I to be separated from? I get along with everyone. What is the problem?” They said, “We cannot tell you.” And, just like that I was put in shackles again, and put on a bus to Marianna, FL, for 8 days. My wife was in the women’s camp at Marianna, but they also have a medium security prison next door. The prison bus used to transport us was just like the one used in the Chris Tucker movie, “Money Talks”. We had a chain around our waist and the handcuffs were attached to the chain. This makes it very difficult to eat or drink or go to the bathroom. At Marianna we were strip searched again and given jump suits. They told me they were overcrowded (What’s new?) and the only bed they had open was the suicide watch cell. For the next 8 days I was alone with God. The room was 7x 10 with a small steel toilet and sink. In the middle of the floor was an oval shaped concrete platform for a bed. There were steel rings all around it to chain down people who were suicidal. The mat was a foam pad about 2 inches thick when new but had compressed to about an inch by the time I got it. I sang every song I knew and wrote several Dear God letters. My Family did not know where I was or what had happened to me. After 8 days I was taken by bus back to Pensacola to pick up more men, then back to Tallahassee to a pretty new transfer center prison. There we were locked in two man rooms from 10pm till 6am but were out the rest of the day in a large clean area like the atrium in a shopping mall. We had about 80 men in the area, lots of books, good food, outside recreation for 1hr. each day and freedom to play games, write, read, etc.
After 8 days there, I was taken by prison bus to the old Atlanta prison. This place is the armpit of the prison system! I was in a room 24hours each day except for 5 minutes to go get food and bring it back to the room 3 times each day plus 1hr. free to shower, use the phone, exchange laundry and get new books. The prison is old and has rats and roaches everywhere. Many rooms had 3 men with one sleeping on the floor.
After 8 days there, I was taken out at 4:30am to ride the bus to Edgefield, SC. I had never heard of this town, but it has quite a wild and wicked history! We were processed in at the medium security prison next door where 1600+ men are locked up. After the usual strip search, filling out the same forms for the 7th time and getting my picture taken for the 10th time we were brought to the camp about ½ mile away.
The camp is about 12 years old, was designed to house 256 men but had well over 500 when I arrived. Most camps do not have a fence but this one has a 10 foot high fence topped with razor wire. I would guess about 10 acres are enclosed. We have a nice ball field, 4 handball courts, basketball court, Bacci ball, 1/3 mile walking track, several treadmills and exercise bikes, 8 guitars, two way-out-of-tune pianos, a well-equipped law library, copy machine, small regular library, video room with 3 TV’s and several hundred religious videos and DVD’s. Each dorm (there are 4) houses up to 130 men. Each dorm has 6 TV’s. Each works the sound through a radio channel so you must have a radio to listen. There is a large open pavilion outside with tables for men to play cards and talk.
Many men read, walk, play games, watch TV or work out all day. It’s like a really long extended vacation. About 90% are here for drug related crimes. If America simply decriminalized drugs, these men would be home with their families. Prison punishes children and wives MUCH more than the men who come here! Each dorm is about 60’ x 220’ and is divided up into 64 two-man cubes by 5 ft. high block walls. Each 8 x10 cube has two beds (some have 3), a desk, and two lockers 36”h x 24”w x 18”d where we keep all our stuff. Some camps have bigger lockers and better beds. Each dorm has 16 nice showers (w/doors) and about 20 sinks and toilets. Everything is kept very safe and clean here. Each dorm also has 3 washers and driers, a card room, mop room, counselor’s office, and 4 telephones. We get 300mins/month or about 10mins/day to call.
At about 7:30 each morning, M-F, about 60 men leave to work outside in one of the warehouses, in a town nearby or at UNICOR. The other men have jobs in the camp that usually take less than an hour each day. I go out 2x each day to clean the parking lot for about 30min. each time. It is a blessing to feel free outside the fence! Our beds here are 78”x 30” w/thin foam pads designed for temporary use by people less than 140 lbs. Since the law does not define “temporary,” they are used for years. Most are now about 1” thick in the center.
This camp has a very nice, clean chapel area that seats about 65. There are 5 Christian services, 3 yoga classes, 1 Catholic, 1 Jewish, and 3 Muslim services each week. When it is empty I go in to pray or play the piano.
Several classes are offered for those who want to take them. VoTech offers Pest control, forklift, safety and floor care. Education offers GED, HVAC, Spanish, ESL, typing, and several other self-taught classes via audio. About 90 men are in the drug program, which lasts 9 months, but gives them up to a year off their sentence.
If a person breaks one of the hundreds of prison rules, they might be issued an “incident report,” which can have a variety of punishments from losing phone use for 6 months, no visits, no commissary, going to “the hole” or being transferred. I was called into the office on my birthday 1-15-08 and asked if I had written a song on the internet abut the warden. It was a homosexual song to the tune of Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues. They had a black suit body with my head on top and had signed my name at the bottom. I read a few lines and said, “I don’t even think this way, and I would never talk this way. Plus, how could I put a song on the internet? I’m in here!” They decided they must do an “investigation,” so they put me in “the hole” for 20 days! While there I wrote a book and many Dear God letters. The hole is a cell 7’x 14’ where you and another inmate stay 23hrs./day. There is a shower, toilet, sink, and bunk beds. They feed you through a slot in the door. The food is not bad, lots of books to read, and plenty of time to pray and write! More about this in “The Kennel.”
Evangelism is easy here! Many men are broken and eager to talk. About 100 of the current 450 claim to be Christian and attend at least one of the Christian services. We also have “movie nite” Sunday where we show a Christian, or at least non-heathen, movie. The guys donate drinks and snacks. They are showing the “Christy” series this month. The guys love it! I would guess I have led about 25 to the Lord here.
I have tried to use my time to glorify God. I have read about 350 books, over ½ of the encyclopedia set, and have written 20 books and booklets on various subjects. The 200+ Dear God Knee Mails will be coming out as a series of 5 books as funding is available. The first of the 3-book series “Help! I’m a Public School Student and they are Teaching Me Evolution!” is available now on www.drdino.com and the other two coming soon. I have also written over 100 stories for my grandkids. The first of the 7-book series “The Adventures of Danny the Dinosaur” is available and book two coming soon. Once this legal battle is over, we hope to accelerate the production of my prison writings.
The staff here varies wildly. Some are very kind and helpful while others typify Prov. 30:22. They really should not have a badge! They are meant to flip hamburgers! I often ask them, “Are we here AS punishment or FOR punishment?” Their answer speaks volumes!
One very frustrating thing about prison is the way they can always hide behind “policy.” They will say, “It is our “policy” that inmates within 500 miles as the crow flies cannot be transferred closer to home.” They have scores of these policies and can always make more in 5 minutes if need be. Anyone who causes them problems or embarrassment can disappear into “diesel therapy” where you are moved every few days to new prisons or jails for months at a time. Your mail, visits and phone calls will probably never catch up with where you are. Neither will your property or records.
Over all, to answer your question, prison life is easy on the inmates, hard on the families and is one of the dumbest ways to treat crime ever invented! About 95% of the men in here should be home with their families. They are no threat to anyone. This costs society a fortune and does no good except to provide good paying jobs to some people that are probably otherwise unemployable. When I rule and reign with Christ (Rom. 8:17), we will shut them all down and go to a biblical system. God’s perfect law (Ps. 19:7) calls for beatings, fines, and even execution for some crimes, but NEVER prison where families are split up like this.
In our current system, where they have a 98% conviction rate and brag that they can indict and lock up a ham sandwich, it is very easy to come here and hard to get out. Don’t be surprised if you or some innocent person you know ends up here. Hitler and Stalin had 100% conviction rates in their courts. Guilt or innocence doesn’t matter. If they want you, you will be here! Praise God for His promise that He will be the final judge and set everything straight (Heb. 9:227)!
I hope this answers your question. Keep serving the Lord! He is coming to set up His Kingdom! Even so COME!
In Christ,
Kent Hovind
Dr. Kent E. Hovind is currently at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Please send postcards and letters to:
Kent E. Hovind #06452-017
FPC Edgefield D-2
P.O. BOX 725
Edgefield, SC 29824
Feel free to send Dr. Hovind a letter or postcard. Please understand he is not able to answer every letter he receives, but he certainly appreciates any support and encouragement. He can also receive new books, but only directly from bookstores. And no hardcover books are allowed. No DVDs, CDs, or anything hard or sharp such as staples, etc (no tracts with staples in them). Do not send more than one tract at a time, as all gifts containing more than one tract will not be allowed. Do not put “Dr.” on his name, or it may be discarded by the guards. They do not always return postal items that are not delivered to inmates, so you may want to save a copy before mailing, so that you might try again in the event that he was recently moved for example.
Please write with the understanding that whatever you write could be subject to monitoring by the guards. Please do not write politically-charged or tax-related comments, etc. In the event that Dr. Hovind is moved to another facility, one can always check for his current address by using the Inmate Locator on the Bureau of Prisons website:
http://www.bop.gov/
Encouraging comments on this blog are greatly appreciated, and Dr. Hovind does read all approved comments.
From the CSE team,
Thank you for your continued support.
Dear Dr. Dino,
I thank God for you and your family and your ministry. I’m praying for you and your wife.
These verses encouraged me and I wanted to share them with you:
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken;
cast down, but not destroyed; (2 Cor 4:8-9)
Praise God for giving us His Spirit and the peace that passes understanding.
Love in Christ,
Yetunde
Dear Kent Hovind,
I read all of your knee mails at cseblogs.com and I am touched by each one and I have read all the details online about the legal battle. I know God has you there for a purpose just as He had the Apostle Paul behind bars for a reason and he wrote so many letters there. There is so much God wants to teach you, I feel. There are so many purposes for your incarceration. One being the people you minister to. Already you’ve brought so many to Christ that probably never would have been reached. Others are being challenged and trained to fill the gap you left behind. Right now, instead of going all over the place to debate and staying busy all the time, you’re on vacation producing books, gaining knowledge, insight, wisdom that could never be duplicated without your experiences there. It’s so good to hear that you’re in good health and staying fit. I know that many are responsible for your being there, but I know that God has the final say no matter what. You’re there because God allowed it and for your good and the good of His Kingdom. Please stay strong as you have helped make my faith strong brother. I’ll continue to pray for you and your family.
In Christ and brotherly love,
Brian Galassini
Dear Dr. Hovind,
I am a student at Nyack College, which is a christian college, just outside of NYC. I am growing in the Lord there. I was introduced to Drdino.com by a friend a while back and my spiritual life took off from there. Since then I have read countless articles, read books, and studied through other mediums, the creation vs. evolution debate. You have influenced me. You have influenced me in a special way and I know God has used you. It’s funny, I’ve watched you in every seminar, debate, and interview I could find on the internet, so I feel like I know you. Thank you for allowing God to reach me, and many others, through you. Be steadfast, stay strong (1 Corinthians 16:13), and allow the Lord to do with you what He would during this time.
Thank you, Eric Lloyd
Dear Dr Hovind,
I just want you to know that your DVD series set my spiritual life on fire. Seven years ago i saw it for the first time and i was renewed as it set to rights the lies i had believed as a child about evolution and could not reconcile with my new faith. My husband and two sons have enjoyed watching your series also. The things i have learnt have been invaluable in witnessing for the Lord and it is amazing to see the lost come home when the antidote of truth deals with the disease of the enemy. I find it difficult to accept the level of injustice that you and your family have been victims of, but i also know that you are Victors not victims! It is impossible to accept what has happened to you and yours but i know that the Lord will make it right! I know He has a plan in every situation and it will Glorify His name and set the captives free! I guess i just really wanted you to know Dr Hovind that you are deeply loved by your christian sisters and brothers around the world including here in Australia. We look forward to the day that you and your family are reunited, until then i pray you feel uplifted on the prayers of the saints who are interceding for you daily.
Bless you
Michelle
Dear Bro. Hovind,
What a blessing it is to read the details of your imprisonment. I was struck by the fact that all the detailed afflictions you suffered, including the ones you could not put in writing, God experienced them with you. “In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.” Isaiah 63:9
In all your afflictions. God is afflicted, too. He is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” Hebrews 4:15
Another observation I made was that I felt like I could bear your afflictions, too, and in fact, wish I could (so long as it did not affect my wife). If it was just me, I would be glad to take your place. Perhaps I shall – who knows what tomorrow may bring?
My last observation is this: I don’t think anyone else in all the world could turn such a situation into as profitable an experience as you. By profitable, I mean for God’s glory and for personal improvement. I marvel at your ability to accomplish so much writing that takes so much concentration. I wish I could get as much done as you do! God certainly knows what He is doing!
Thank you for yielding your life to God in such an inspiring manner as you have. God will reward you greatly.
“And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.” Matthew 19:29
Pastor Coleman
Hi Kent. I know what you’re going thru is depressing. We all agonize for you. I want to tell you an unusual way you are helping people. We have two sons who really don’t seem to have much interest in the Lord. They accepted him as Savior as small children, then did nothing with it. That makes their salvation questionable. Our oldest son Karl is now deployed. He is very lonely and depressed. He says it feels like prison to him. I’ve told him in past conversastions Kent Hovind has it worse. In my most recent conversation, he sounded emotionally beat and said “I think about Kent Hovind. I know he has it worse.” He didn’t go on, but the fact that he said it means that you’re meaningful in his life. I suggested he write to you. I don’t know if he will, but he liked the idea.
My second son John is on his own and doesn’t have any interest in spiritual things either. But he has a friend who believed in evolution. Although John never brings your name up, he told his friend that evolution was dumb. His friend thought John was dumb (about this). John called me and asked for your tapes, which I gave him. John reported later that his friend listened, learned, changed his views, took it to his pastor, and I’m not sure of the outcome of that.
So we have had some stubbornness in our sons, and they didn’t comment too much when you were here with us, but I can’t think of anybody who has been more influential in their lives and they use you to fight their battles. And your time in prison somehow encourages others who are miserable. I guess they figure if you can endure that, they can endure too.
You are never forgotten in our home. You are part of us.
Hi Kent,
Think about your situation all the time, praying for a release.
a brother,
Dear Kent
You have once again given us an interesting perspective on life. (The intelligent Christians perspective) this time about prison life. I have read much about Christian prisoners in history. most in different countries. What prison life is like today here in the U.S can only be gotten from mostly non-Christians testimonies. It’s very interesting coming from a Christian’s perspective like yours. You can be sure that some of your inmates see this life different then you do. I wonder if you have ever read the book “Tortured for Christ”. By Richard Wurmbrand. You can get this book free at http://www.persecution.com I encourage anyone to read it. Especially someone who is imprisoned. Richard Wurmbrand gives us the Christian perspective as optimistic as you may find. He was of course brutally treated and suffered much for Christ’s sake. None the less this book is very encouraging for anyone suffering for Christ’s sake.
I must say I agree with Brian Galassini in some instances. You have been placed in this prison for a reason that will probably only be clear some years later. I encourage you to take much time to meditate in God’s word. Maybe you have a great task in front of you once your out of prison. You have done extremely well in making the best of it so far. May God draw you closer and may you feel His peace. Keep looking heavenward.
I am from a Christian family with a back ground of being persecuted by governments of various countries. from the early 1500’s into the 1900’s. These governments were in part instigated to persecute Christians by the Catholic Church….. God will be the Judge.
Here are the lyrics to a song of good faith about Christians in chains. I really love it. I wish I could somehow share a mp3 track of this song with you. The song is written by; Frederick William Faber. 1814-1863
Faith of our Fathers.
1. Faith of our fathers, living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword,
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene’er we hear that glorious word!
Chorus: Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
2. Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
And blest would be their children’s fate,
If they, like them should die for thee:
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
3. Faith of our fathers, we will strive
To win all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
Mankind shall then indeed be free.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
4. Faith of our fathers, we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee, too, as love knows how
By kindly words and virtuous life.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
You can listen to the hymn at this link among other sites. Copy and past this link into your browser: of course I understand you might not have access to internet at all. So for anyone else who would like to hear it.
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh710.sht
When King David….before he was king. Was troubled and persecuted by his enemies he often fled to the Hills. God and his word are our spiritual hills that we can flee to in this day.
“I will lift mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord Which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved, he that keepeth thee will not slumber, Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber not sleep. The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, he shall preserve the soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.” Psalm 121:1-8
Dear brother Hovind.
I am from Ukraine, and i wrote to you one time in april this year. It is sad, that you wasn’t released, but I believe, God has something in mind for you. Just wanted to encourage you and tell you, that they are people even in Ukraine who are remembering about you and are praying. I believe, that in His due time, He will cast His judgement upon people, who despise Him and reject Him now. Keep serving and following God, wherever you are or will be. Also, sorry for any mistakes in my response. We’ll be praying for you.
With Christian love and greetings,
Yasha Dzuba, Ukraine, 16 yrs old.
brother Kent,
the refrain for Armistice Day/ Rememberance Day, in Australia and New Zealand at least, is “Lest We Forget”
It comes from a soulful dirge lament by Rudyard Kipling and was adopted as the sage wisdom to learn from History, lest mistakes made be tragically repeated.
What is to be remembered most, says this poem, is God – the Author, the Finisher, the Giver and Protector of Life: God Saviour.
Kipling’s advice was to remember from where all blessing, power and honour come.
Remember Him as Lord of Hosts, Judge of the Nations, The Merciful, The Protector, but also Him who brings calamity upon the proud, arrogant, haughty.
The “lawless” are they who know not the Word in name or deed, thus knowing neither honour nor respect; such as will bring their nation apart.
“Generation Z”, with the forerunner epithets, might have just been a cute marketing slogan/ exercise for selling merchandise but perhaps it speaks the simple truth: the last generation is born, is now.
Freedom wasn’t free, how easily it was squandered. “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” [1cor5.5] Strange as it may seem this implies Satan is an agency of salvation. Through the process the one who sins agains’t you might thus be saved. If it is the corporate decision of the body it is not the action or effect of individual prejudice or errant self righteousness, a safeguard is thus preserved.
thanks for listening in
Posted in a site I hope all who visit here will go to please…
I am not affiliated with CSE just a real big fan of Dr. Hovind and feel for his suffering.
If it were not for him (and Jesus), Truth would not have come to me the way it did.
I felt the urge from God to create a web site called “DANIEL” to warn of the wiles of the devil.
I am not a scholar, Dr. or in any wise a teacher, I’m a John, A Peter, “unlearned”, who just happens to be a good listener, (you can even ask my wife)
I’m driving her “Nuts” with all the time not with her doing this site… Obedience I tell her, I have to to do this…
Anyway … Please tell your friends about this site. I have nothing to sell. There nothing to buy. I suggest 3 dvd from a ministry that is not mine but like CSE, they have
pieces of a puzzle that make this “End time story” make sense.
God bless
“Daniel”
http://web.me.com/yocuzwaasup/Daniel_11_32/Welcome.html
This is a page I have honored Dr. Hovind on the site …
American Missionary fulfilling;
Daniel 11:32 & Matthew 24 in his own country … Our own American prison system!
I love my country, I love my freedom! But when one hurts … we ALL HURT!!!
I like to dedicate a page to a “GODLY MAN”. “Warrior, Fearless, Obedient”.
There are some that would say he and his wife “Broke the law” but, placing my reputation, (More so, “TRUST”) … “In watching his teachings and SEEING his FAITH through his teachings, visiting his accomplishments, [Dinosaur Adventure Land] {The Compound … as some corrupt Americans and blind to God plans, would call it}, READING the Court documents … and knowing what I know about Scripture, People, christians and government … I am under the conviction, this Faithful Husband & Wife team are fulfilling what, “The Prophets” and “The Lord Himself” said would happen to SOME … “in the last days”.
Though this site is called Daniel, I like to quote Isaiah 1:9. “Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Without TEACHERS LIKE DR. KENT HOVIND and the crew at (Dinosaur Adventure Land), America and other nations would not have had the liberty of finding out, the “Agenda” of “The New World Order”. They sacrificed their freedoms for our … “SOULS”!
Had not this “TRUE AMERICAN’S” information become PUBLIC … this, “Toe Stepping” WHISTLE BLOWING TEACHER … (The real reason why this American Patriot is in jail) … would have been forgotten by time. What a DISGRACE, that this is happening in our country … AMERICA as you read this!
What a SLAP in the FACE to ALL GOVERNMENT SERVANTS . My family swore to protect this Country, I presently serve the people of my City, and in all intents, this Country. Many “christians”, have left this, “Constitutional Follower” … “HIGH and DRY through fear of, “Intimidation”. BY THE WAY … Those in the ministry who worry, “Issues”, because it would place you in the crosshairs of the IRS and your tax exempt status.
QUESTION? … Is this a cross-road? A “WILE” of the Devil?
Matthew 6:24 (King James Version)
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.?
Mammon (noun)
Wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion
Wile (noun)
Devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants
Was this 501-c-3, A trick? As the imprisoned tried to tell other followers … the dangers of this, “Noose around our necks” to shut us up … This is between you and God, but I suspect one day a choice is going to have to me made between Government provision and God’s provision. Both start with, “G” but, ONLY ONE can do this …
Matthew 10:28 (King James Version)
… Fear not them which kill the body, (The Government) but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (GOD)
Nuff Said…
Beliver … you need to read the charge of John in Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Judeo-Christians. Pray you don’t fall on that side of the fence.
Hear this Christian! If One “frightens, menace, terrify, scare, terrorize, cow, dragoon, subdue; threaten, browbeat, bully, pressure, harass, harry, hassle, hound, torment, tyrannize, persecute; lean on, push around, bulldoze, railroad, twist someone’s arm, or strong-arms” YOU, you can charge that offender with, “TERRORISTIC THREAT”.
It is sad that my own government has become “GOON LIKE” to intimidate its citizens into submission. This is why we have the “Constitution” and “Bill of Rights”. We have to stand, and enforce our Constitutional rights, and be there when another Rights are Walked ON. This is why “Daniel” was published. To, “DO EXPLOITS” !
If Hitler’s Devilish, EVIL, agenda for Europe (then World) had it not been “Exposed” … “What would my future and families future been? If you think Hitler’s “Crimes Against Humanity” were the hight of, “Evilness” in this Century … Daniel 12:1 gives one more “HINT” to a future “EVENT” that will end all debates.
Jesus, Dr. Hovind, as well as many others “Judeo-Christians” want you to be on the “Right side” before this “EVENT” (or Death) happens. Jesus … (the promise of Deuteronomy 18:18) the missing piece (The splinter in your mind) IS … the answer we ALL have been looking for. What happen to Dr. Hovind was done by the same deceiving spirit that placed “In the minds of men”, the thought to hang Jesus on the cross. Today he is selling, his “Global” New World Order” S.P.P Plan to a different generation of leaders.
These next 2 Bible passages, may show truly what we all, “Who hold to the name of Jesus” may expect in the near future.
Daniel 11
32And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 34Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. 36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done …
Matthew 24
1And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple. 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. 10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25Behold, I have told you before. 26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
As I stated before, “Many “christians”, have left this, “Constitutional Follower” … “HIGH and DRY through fear of, “Intimidation. One of these parties whom I will not name made this statement: “Dr. Hovind mistake was … “He trusted in the Laws he thought were going to protect him”.
The problem is not, “The laws”, It’s, “Those who are entrusted to uphold them”.
Here are 3 links to Dr. Hovind and Jo’s work.
God bless you Eric for being faithful to your parents work.
http://www.drdino.com/beginnings.php?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_content=399972960&utm_campaign=10-08-09+Beginnings+_+kukrjd&utm_term=Introducing+Beginnings
If you like “FaceBook”:
http://www.facebook.com/cseministry
and to “Hear the heart” or write Dr. Hovind a “Hang in there” in Prison
http://www.cseblogs.com/
God bless you
Kent,
I feel what has happened to you is evil. However, I can never agree with your position that drugs should be legal.
Never.
I work ER. Alcohol alone kills many thousands a year, including my brother and sister who were hit by a drunk driver. There is your legal drug. Imagine the result of legalization of Marijauna, Cocaine, crystal meth? Do you think those families will do better with their non-working Father at home dealing or high on drugs? Do you think the children and wives benefit? No.
I treat prisoners in the ER also. Considering their care is at the public expense, they do fairly well. Remember many of these never had insurance in the first place, and also keep in mind that you reap what you sow. If you chose to be strung out on drugs is it the responsibility of the public to support you in prison?
I admire and thank God for your service to the Lord Kent. You have had a huge impact on my life, but here we part ways. I believe you are blind in this area, but we all have our blind spots.
And I am Joyce, but perhaps not the Joyce you wrote this to?
I pray your sentence is shortened and you are sent home soon, as always. Blessings to you.
Br. Kent,
Gen 12.17
And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
Gen 20.3
Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken….
Gen 20.4
Lord, will You slay a nation…….?
Mark 10
Jesus answered and said unto them…….
….no more twain, but one flesh….
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder
Brother Kent, I believe God takes His own words seriously. Would there be some public outcry if the “Department of Justice” started performing amputations as a form of punishment? Lets say cutting off both of a man’s legs for a Jaywalking offense? Despite the general apathy there might be some slight disquiet observed.
You have been forcibly separated from your wife some three years now? In some ways I don’t think the nation has fared so well since then.
I see absolutely no Reason Why Maker of Heaven and Earth shall not destroy the “Man” “his house” and a “nation” because of it?
It’s remembrance day this week. It be worth noting that Poppies grew furiously well at Flanders while Death’s chasm widened its yawning grasp on humanity’s vain tumult. The sun and rain continued for those humble seeds unabated at sight of those rivulets of blood.
If the speech poured forth by the sun moon and stars would mean nothing to man then perhaps Satan would rise in their cognition.
God is never Mocked.
Dear Brother Hovind,
Thank you for the awesome post. I’ve printed off 6 copies so far. Ironically, today November 9th, marks the 71st year since the Holocaust began in Germany, called ‘Kristallnacht’- ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ Seventy-one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. These came to be known as Kristallnacht (now commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”), a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Encouraged by the Nazi regime, the rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. Kristallnacht was a turning point in history. The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews See http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht [Did you know that the word ‘holocaust’ is a Hebrew word that means ‘burnt offerings’?] I am constantly reminded about what you said concerning Hitler being convinced of the theory of Evolution & that being the reason for him murdering 6 million Jews. A staggering amount of Christians were also murdered at the same time.
I am also reminded that you said that we need to support our local pastors, Sunday school teachers, etc by showing up when they are teaching the word. Oye veh! Some weeks have so much going on, it’s hard to know which end is up by the time the end of the week arrives. In our neck of the woods, we’ve been packing shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. [In the North West there’s at least 2 Messianic Jewish Believers who head up the project in their respective churches. Why? Besides the joy of seeing kids put their trust in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus!) , we are suppose to be a light to all nations through Messiah, and… when kids & their families put their trust in Messiah, they turn away from acts of terrorism… Something to think about!] Anyway, back to what I was saying: this happened to be one of those weeks that had way too much going on & when I got to Shabbat, I contemplated staying at home instead of going to service due to exhaustion, but then I was reminded of what you said, so I asked the LORD to give me strength & went to be an encouragement……
Messianic Jewish Believers often have ‘double trouble’. When they put their trust in Yeshua (Jesus) as God’s Lamb who paid their sin debt, past, present, & future, not only are they rejected by the Jewish community at large, but sometimes they are also viewed with suspicion among some Christians. There is also an inherited fear of being betrayed & persecuted in the future, because of what went on during the Second World War. (We have the attitude of ‘sooner or later we’re gonna get clobbered’ mentality.) And part of the reason why the Jewish Community rejects them is because of the persecution that the Jewish community has experienced for the past 2000 years from people who claimed to be Christians. Jewish Believers are viewed by non-Messianic Jews as traitors.
Well, during this past Shabbat the most amazing thing happened to our little Messianic Group of Believers. During the Shabbat Service the president of the Missoula Ministerial association surprised us by coming & presenting a gift to our congregation to help us provide a cupboard (called an ‘Ark’) & a light for our newly acquired Torah Scroll. That took us totally by surprise! Apparently the group of Pastors involved in the Missoula association decided to get together the gift as an act of reconciliation concerning Kristallnacht. (The leader of our Messianic congregation has been attending the Missoula Ministerial Association for many years in order to make them aware of the Messianic Jewish Outreach.) In Jewish thinking, 70 years has spiritual significance. This is the 71st year.
[By the grace of God we were able to purchase a ‘new to us’ 150 year old Torah Scroll this past spring for our congregation. It came from Poland. We’re not sure how or when it arrived in the USA. We use it during our worship service. There’s pictures of it at http://www.w-rocs.org/homeschool_material/WHAT_IS_A_TORAH_SCROLL.pdf About a month ago we started back in Genesis chapter one & I got to read the Torah Scroll & translate it during the worship service. (I think I went through to about verse 5.) That part of the scroll is very brittle because of the scroll being 150 years old. That section has to be pried open while it is being read!
Jewish people desperately need to be taught Creation Science!! They also are taught the theory of evolution from the time they are little bitty kids, & consequently, they also doubt the truth of scripture. For those who believe in evolution, then the story of Adam & Eve is just a story in their minds. So then, the story of sin entering into the world because of Adam becomes impotent, & that leads to the reasoning that there is no purpose in the sacrificial system; so then the comprehension is lost as to why we need God’s LAMB as the Atonement for our sins.
Another consequence of the theory of evolution being taught to young people in Israel is that there are approximately 50,000 abortions in Israel annually.]
Brother Hovind, don’t ever give up!!!!!!!
Dr Hovind,
You are a true inspiration to me and several others I have introduced you to via your videos and
seminars. I am forever on you tube spending hours a day battling the other side in your defense.
I can not get enough of your videos and only wish you can soon make many more. I love your sense
of humor and your affection for those who need God in their lives, especially those who use and
spitefully abuse you.
My brother in Christ, Chuck Harris for the first time saw your debate with the three evolutionists
and was blown away, as I was, by your professionalism, preparedness and matters of fact. We both
also noticed the arrogance of the other three evolutionists who came without and books or slides
or anything even closely resembling a professional approach to defend there faith.
So confident that they were going to clean your clock, that they ended up tripping over their own words
and their own science and completely contradicting themselves constantly. They also wre much better at
condesending ad homs and attacks and insults then anything they could ever hope to be called debating
skills. I saw studder after studder and mistake after mistake after one man(you Dr Hovind) cleaned THEIR
clocks handily. I saw three men who think they were wise, end up looking like fools after you got done
with them.
I now consider myself a warrior in this battle with you and will do anything I can to back you up and
give you yet another growing number of life long commited partners to spread the truth that is in us
and a serious blow to the fairy tale of evolution and the Big Bang. I will pray for you daily, as wil
my brother in Christ Chuck Harris, to ask God to get you out of prison. You certainly do not belong
there by any stretch of the imagination.
I have no other interst any more but to learn more about the truth of God’s word and how to defeat the
lie’s in our students text books. God has given you a great ministry and I am confident as the apostle
Paul, that you will be soon set free. I know He has much more use for you. If only we could clone more
of you rapidly.
I am 47 years young and never married and single and at this point in life, unless God sends me a female
warrior with the same desire to combat the lies we are being fed, I do not plan to marry and get lost in
the world. Instead I will stay single and do my very best to offer myself up to God, not to replace you
but to compliment your efforts out here in the prison of Satan..the world and it’s wicked ways.
I pray the God keep you and protect you and keep giving you the increase as you plant the seeds of His
truth whereever you may be. May the Lord God almighty bless you and continue to use you for His great
purpose as I asl this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Jesus Christ, your brother and friend
Steven James John Scavone.
Dear Grandson, (adopted)
I have heard that Jo was to be moved Nov 1st. Please post her new address if this is so. Thank you. Just thought I’d let you know that “Grampa and I have not stopped praying for you. Keep spreading the Word as you have been. We love you in the Lord.
Gramma Carol and Grampa John
Thanks for the post, you have always been a blessing to me… It is my continued prayer that you be released… Is your wife still in or has she been released? Are you allowed visitors there in SC?
Dear brother Hovind ,
Greetings from Holland
I am praying for you on a regular basis, I guess the Lord tied you(and your house)on my heart.
let me tell you how i first got acquainted with your DVD’s .
There is a guy in Holland ,a carpenter, and somehow ,the Lord told him to built a replica of Noah’s ark , it really floats and it has a lenght of about 200 meter .
This ark travels on the dutch waters to different cities , where people come to visit it .
Inside the ark is prepared as an exhibition in favor of creationism .
It is there where I found your DVD’s .
By the way , this carpenter now started a new project , he is building Noa’h's ark real size now.
interested ? visit http://www.arkvannoach.com
Bless you and your house , greetings from br. Alex
I have been jailed as a Christian it is tough,but it was my fault and God used it to teach me.I had been struggling with drugs and booze and ask God to take them away,but wouldn’t let him.Ha ha he showed me…praise his Holy name!!Now even that i have let go i have child support that i can’t pay because i have no work due to economy!I know you need prayers,but i could surely use yours as well.I wish i could express how much my heart is burdened for you!Maybe someday i can can sit with you and you can teach me some things you are so brilliant….praise God for he has surely blessed you.Either way i will see you in heaven brother when Christ Jesus comes in all his glory!I can’t wait to shake your hand sir!!!!!GOD BLESS!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience. As my brother is in prison for a crime he didn’t do, I know in my conversations with people, they have no idea how things are for prisoners. It is encouraging to know that God’s word and mission is alive in prisons. My brother is also leading bible studies and is teaching classes with God inspired teachings. God Bless you and your family.
A Poem written by Rev. Moon at age 15
Crown of Glory
When I doubt people, I feel pain.
When I judge people, it is unbearable.
When I hate people, there is no value to my existence.
Yet if I believe, I am deceived.
If I love, I am betrayed.
Suffering and grieving tonight, my head in my hands
Am I wrong?
Yes, I am wrong.
Even though we are deceived, still believe.
Though we are betrayed, still forgive.
Love completely even those who hate you.
Wipe your tears away and welcome with a smile
Those who know nothing but deceit
And those who betray without regret.
Oh Master! The pain of loving!
Look at my hands.
Place your hand on my chest.
My heart is bursting, such agony!
But when I loved those who acted against me
I brought victory.
If you have done the same thing,
I will give you the crown of glory.
Sun Myung Moon