
Alton Sr High School
Class Of 1960
Gary Anderson


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Residing In: | Butler, MO USA |
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Spouse/Partner: | Annette |
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Occupation: | Aerospace Mechanical Engineer Retired |
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Children: | 5 sons, 1 daughter, and 11 grand-kids |
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Greetings to you,
May I encourage you to read the following message that you may be encouraged by what is ahead for us in these days in which we are blessed to be a part of. I have attached a copy of this message which I encourage you to download and share with those whom you love and want to encouage as well.
The Vision of What Is Yet to Come: “Sequence of End Time Events”
Prophecy of Israel being dispersed into the world was fulfilled in AD 70.
Prophecy of Israel becoming a nation fulfilled in 1948.
Prophecy that the generation that sees the rebirth of the nation Israel. shall not pass away until these end time signs are fulfilled, God defines an end time generation is 70 years. 80 years for the strong. Therefore, the year of 1948 plus 80 years equals the year 2028, just 3 and ½ years from 2024.
Prophecy of all Jews to return to their homeland is yet to be fulfilled. However, with the current rise in anti-Semitism, could there become a similar motivation for Jews to leave their current homes and returned to Israel due to the same local persecution as it was to those jews in the 1930s in Germany?
With the aggressive actions of the Iran proxy nations that surround Israel, and now the nation of Iran, directly attacking Israel with 300 missiles, this gives a strong indication that an attack against Israel. with the use of ground troops and armament. is forthcoming.
With the current rise in worldwide anti-Semitism and the reluctance of the USA to continue to supply needed arms and weapons to Israel in their defense against an attack of the aggressor nations, Israel may find it necessary to resort to a nuclear weapon to deter these attacks, principally in the city of Damascus. The destruction of Damascus, never to be lived in again, is prophesied and yet to be fulfilled. And with Israel resorting to the use of a nuclear weapon, this will cause a worldwide stir against further use of those weapons and will provoke the world's governments to require Israel and the surrounding nations to sign a peace treaty of seven years. One condition Israel will require before signing such a treaty is that they be allowed to rebuild their temple on the temple mount in Jerusalem.
Immediately upon Israel signing this peace treaty, God will provide two witnesses who will be in downtown Jerusalem and their message will be proclaimed for the next 3 1/2 years. And they will proclaim that Jesus is the final sacrifice, and the true temple of God is the body of believers in Jesus Christ, and not the rebuilt third temple nor the sacrifice of red heifers. This will not be well received by the Jewish people in Israel or in the rest of the world.
Accordingly, while the whole world watches, by television and personal cell phones, as these two prophets speak against the rebuilding of the temple, the whole world will be impressed that no one is able to kill these two prophets. And further that whoever attempts to kill these two prophets, they are killed by these two prophets by fire coming from them towards their attacker.
To this point the world will only be amused by watching these events taking place in Jerusalem. However, with the sounding of the first six trumpets spoken of in revelation in sequence, these two prophets will then cause the rest of the world to become very concerned by these two prophets being able to cause the rain in various parts of the world to stop and thus creating drought and famine. They will also cause sickness to spread worldwide, creating pandemics. And they will cause pollution to occur by changing the waters into blood. All three of these same perils were caused by Moses, in the presence of the pharaoh, prior to the release of the Israeli people that were held as slaves in Egypt, before being released into the promised land.
It is during this time that true believing Christians in Jesus Christ must choose to either defend these actions of the two prophets, in the name of Jesus and according to God's word the Bible, and in the face of persecutions be willing to share the good news of Jesus Christ to all those who are asking, “What is going on”. Or will Christians in name only, choose to remain silent in order to avoid persecution. Jesus said, “They persecuted Me. They will persecute you also”. Could it be that the Word of God saying, “The harvest is ripe and ready. Pray that the Lord of the harvest will send forth his laborers into the harvest, that the harvest may be reaped”? Also, could it be as Jesus said, “Those who follow Me will be either hot or cold and not lukewarm. for they will choose to believe the truth or to believe a lie, but they will believe”?
Then after the first 3 and 1/2 years, there will arrive a man, who is called “Antichrist”, who will kill these two prophets. And with the bodies of these two prophets laying slain in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days, this Antichrist will then be emboldened to go into the rebuilt Jewish temple and proclaim that he is God. And with the death of these two prophets and supposed end of these worldwide droughts, pollution, and pestilences, many in the world will be celebrating and exchanging gifts and rejoicing over their death. But at the end of those 3 and 1/2 days, the whole world will watch in astonishment as these two dead prophets come back to life, and stand up, and are taken up into the heavens in the same way Jesus was taken up when He ascended into the heavens.
It is at this time that the Antichrist will then issue his decree that no one may buy or sell except they acknowledge him to be God and in so doing to receive a Mark of the Beast on their wrist or on their forehead related to the number “666”. It is my personal belief that it is at that moment that the last of the seven trumpets, the 7th trumpet, will be sounded and God will then deliver His Church of true believing Christians from this decree of the Antichrist by calling them to be taken up into the clouds in the air, in the twinkling of an eye, to meet Jesus in the clouds. This is referred to as the Rapture of the Church.
And with the church now taken out of the earth, then God will pour out each of the 7 Bowls of Wrath, spoken of in revelation, upon the whole earth and the Great Tribulation will begin for the remaining 3 and 1/2 years. And during this remaining 3 1/2 years, every person on earth will be given the option to either refuse to receive the mark of the beast and to believe the truth of Jesus Christ and accept Him as their personal Savior and Lord, and thus suffer death by persecution or other physical means, or choose to receive the mark of the beast, and in so doing he or she well turn against those who have refused to take the mark. .
When this proclamation is issued by the Antichrist, God will then place a hook in the jaw of the ruler of Gog, the ruler of Russia, to send his army to invade the land of Israel and seize control of their oil and natural gas reserves and to control their crop productions of the many fruits which are used to make the wine and alcohol that is so much consumed in Russia and to thus assert control over the whole world by controlling these resources which are crucial to the energy and food needed by the rest of the world.
However, with this threat now becoming real to the nation of Israel and with the nations of the world, and in particular the USA. not being willing or able to defend them, in desperation the people of Israel will turn to the God of Abraham and to the Jesus Christ, who those now departed Christians prayed to, that He would save them from this impending peril. And to their amazement, God will answer their prayer and will send down hail and fire and brimstone to destroy 5/6 ths of the invading Russian army. And with this new revelation, nearly 1/3 rd of the Jewish people will accept Jesus Christ as their true Messiah and become born again. And It is after this major event happening in Israel that there will arise 144,000 single male disciples of Jesus, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, who will be anointed and sent into all of the world to proclaim Jesus to be the true Messiah sent by God, the Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And in so doing, they will be supernaturally supported and protected by God, as the two prophets were protected before them. And they will begin their 3 and ½ year mission of proclaiming the true Gospel of Jesus Christ to the whole world and warning all against taking the ordered Mark of the Beast with the numbers 666 on their forehead or on their wrist.
And during this time, as God will continue to pour out His 7 bowls of wrath upon all the whole earth. And the people yet remaining upon the earth will then have the option of choosing to receive Jesus as their Messiah and Savior not fearing the threats of the Anti-Christ, even to the point of being physically put to death, or they will choose to accept the mark of the beast, and in so doing will be judged at the final judgement and be thrown into the Lake of fire, eternally separated from God.
At the conclusion of this second 3 and 1/2 year period, Jesus will then come back to the earth along with all true believers who have made the choice to accept Him as their Lord and Savior, and He well cleanse the earth of everyone remaining who have accepted the mark of the beast on their wrist or their forehead. Jesus will then reign on this earth for another 1000 years, along with all the true believers who have chosen to make Him their Lord and Savior. And during those one thousand years, the devil, Satan, and all his demons, will be cast into a pit, and there will be no sickness and no disease anymore. And during this time Jesus will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords in the city of Jerusalem, and from there He will rule over His kingdom with a rod of Iron, as will the kings who He will appoint. And it is His goal that we will each one learn how to love one another and how to be submissive to God's authority while being overseen by Jesus and those kings that He will appoint.
At the end of that thousand-year period, God will then let Satan and his demons out of the pit that they were held captive in, that they may go around this earth for a short time, attempting to deceive all those on the earth to turn against God as he did to a third of the angels in heaven before creation of man. This will be the final test of the true faith of every person who is living on the earth at that time.
And then God the Father will cast Satan and his demons to be cast into the Lake of Fire and He will cause every man and woman who has ever lived to be resurrected and to appear before the great throne of judgment and there every act and thought of each person will be presented as it was recorded. And if that person's name is not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, due to his personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, that person will then be cast into the lake of fire along with Satan and his demons and will be eternally separated from God.
Then God will wipe away every tear for those who remain, and God will destroy the present earth and heavens by fire, and He will then make a new Heaven and a New Earth, and we will dwell with the Father on the New Earth for eternity. And we will be His son's and His daughters and God will be our Father, living with us on the new earth for eternity. No more will there be kings as Jesus will give his throne to the Father and we will become a family that has learned to love one another.
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. 3 For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes of the righteousness that is based on the Law, that the person who performs them will live by them. 6 But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), 7 or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; 13 for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 1:1-13 KJV)
In conclusion, during the first part, the first 3 and ½ years of the tribulation, does it make sense that God would rapture His church out of this world before the 70th week of Daniel begins and that He would leave only His two witnesses in Jerusalem to share the good news of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world of unbelievers? I invite you to listen to a series of 30-minute audio teachings on Discipleship Training, along with associated downloadable files that will enable you to prepare printable handouts, at the website listed below, and to send me your comments at my email address.
Gary Anderson,
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Website: https://gwmkc.org/sample-page/discipleship-training-package/
Greetings fellow classmates,
May I encourage you to pray for our nation? And in so doing may I also encourage you to watch the recent movie put out by Johnathan Cane, "The Harbinger of Things to Come". The movie may now be watched online from several sources.
The Harbingers of Things to Come (2022) - IMDb.
After watching that movie completely, then read what God has to say about His dealing with Mystery Babylon in the book of Revelation chapters 17 and 18.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+17-18&version=KJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/Rev.17 (Audio reading)
After watching the movie and reading these two chapters, then go the following link and watch the presentation "2023 End Times Prophesy" (Copy and paste it into the top window of your web browser).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2p06bgyKg
Then consider this question, "Is the trump of God now being sounded for the people of God to go into the harvest?"
Sincerely,
Gary Anderson
PS You may also be interested in reading the attached list of End Times Prophecy in Sequence, the sequence of end time events prophesied in the Bible that are about to take place in the immediate future in these times in which we are now living.
End Times Prophecy in Sequence
by Gary Anderson (sonriseministry@yahoo.com)
1. No sign given to this generation except that of Jonah. (Matthew 24:37-40 KJV)
2. Israel is protected from invasion by the “eagle’s wings” which is the USA. (Rev 12-14)
3. The fall of Mystery Babylon as a world power which is the USA. (Rev 18)
4. Nations surrounding Israel will attempt to invade it from the North through the land of Syria. (Psalms 83)
5. The city of Damascus becomes a ruinous heap from a nuclear bomb by Israel. (Isaiah 17:1).
6. A seven-year peace treaty will be enacted between Israel and the surrounding nations. (Dan 9:27)
7. A condition of Israel signing that peace treaty is to be allowed to rebuild their temple. (Dan 9:27)
8. As Israel rebuilds their temple, two witnesses prophesy in Jerusalem for 3 ½ years. (Rev 11:1-6).
9. The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached unto all of the world by true believers in Jesus. (Matt 24:4-14)
10. Then the Anti-Christ kills the two prophets and proclaims himself to be God. (Rev` 11:7-10).
11. After the two prophets lay dead in the streets they are raised from the dead and ascend into heaven with the whole world watching. (Rev 11:11-14)
12. It is at this same moment that God will also take up His worldwide church in the twinkling of the eye to meet Jesus in the clouds, the rapture of the true believers in Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 15:51-58)
13. Gog and Magog will attempt to invade Israel from the land of the North, which is Russia. But when the people of Israel realize that there is no hope for them against their attacker, they will repent and turn to the Lord Jesus for their deliverance. (Eze 38-39)
14. When God then destroys the invading army, the Jewish people will then realize that indeed Jesus is their Messiah and will anoint 144,000 of their sons to go into all the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus to all nations. (Rev 7)
15. Then God will release His wrath upon all of the world to reap the harvest of those who will not accept themark of the beast and put to death those who do accept the mark of the beast and chose to persecute those who did not accept the mark. (Rev 14-19)
16. All nations will fall, including the USA. (Daniel 2:40-44).
17. After completion of the remaining 3 and ½ years of the seven-year tribulation, Jesus will return to the earth to cleanse it of all of those who will not receive Him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will also cast Satan and the demons into a pit while He and His body of true believers, who He has raised from the dead shall reign on this earth for another 1,000 years. (Rev 20).
18. At the end of the 1,000 years, God will let Satan and His demons out of the pit that they may go into all the earth attempting to cause those who are now dwelling on the earth to rebel against Jesus Christ. But Jesus will cast them and the false prophet who joined with Satan into the Lake of Fire. (Rev 20)
19. Then will come the second resurrection and judgement of all who have refused to accept the death of Jesus for their sin, and they will also be cast into the lake of fire eternally. (Rev 20)
20. And then God will destroy the heavens and the earth with fire and make a new heaven and a new earth and He will come to the new earth to be a Father to His sons and daughters. (2 Pet 3:1-18 and Rev 21-22).
21. It is God’s desire to dwell with His family of true believers in His Son Jesus and tp dwell with His adopted sons and daughters who have chosen to love Him as their father and have indeed learned to love each other, even as He has loved us.
Well fellow classmates, we have completed our last earthly reunion, and what a blessing it was to have seen each of you there. As I looked at the numbers of those who have passed away before us until the year 1999 we lost an average of 1.3 classmates per year. Since then, our agerage of losses per year have been 5.7 classmates per year. And with the national average death rate in the US being age 83 for man and 86 for women, this means that for those of us still here, we will be loosing about 12 females and 23 man per year. Perhaps it may be time to make plans for what may be ahead in the very near future for each of us.
You know, even though there are no further reunions planned for our class here at this age in which we live, there is yet one more reunion we can look forward to. That reunion is the gathering together in the clouds to meet with our Lord Jesus. And then to join with Him and each other in the marriage feast of the Lamb with His bride, we who have chosen to be part of His church of true believers who believe in in His death for us, and in His resurrection and ascention to be with the Father in Heaven.
To be invited to that reunion what if needed for each of us to do the following: May God Bless you?
God’s Plan of Salvation
The Bible says there is only one way to Heaven
Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (John 14:6)
Good works cannot save you. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God- Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Trust Jesus Christ today! Here’s what you must do:
1. Admit you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” (Romans 3:23) “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12) “If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (1 John 1:10)
2. Be willing to turn from sin (repent). Jesus said: “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:5) “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.” (Acts 17:30)
3. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you, was buried, and rose from the dead. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) “That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
4. Through prayer, invite Jesus into your life to become your personal Saviour. “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:10) “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13)
What to pray:
"Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and died for my sin. I am willing to turn from sin. I now invite Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Saviour."
Hey Classmates
May I encourage you to go to the website "gwmkc.org" and click on "Discipleship Training" tab and listen to each of the 30 minute series of audios I have presented regarding "The Milk of the Word". You will be blessed and each one you share your testimony with will also be blessed also. May God bless you even more than you have already been blessed yet in the days we each have yet remaining in this lifetime and in that which is to come.
Be encouraged,
Gary
PS:The series of messages on "The Milk of the Word" are as listed in your bible in Hebrews 6:1-3. These six basic "Oracles of God" are the fundamental building blocks in our spiritual growth according to the words of both Peter (1 Peter 2:2) and Paul (1 Cor 3:1-3). I encourage you to share these messages with your family and loved ones. My email address is
May God bless you,
Gary
PS - May I also share with you this recent experience i had?
After graduation I met and married my beautiful wife and mother of our six children, Annette. I soon found out that she is an excellent cook and I gained an additional 125 pounds of extra weight since my slim 155 lb HS weight. I carried this weight for most of my adult life until our 50 year reunion when I joined the Weight Watcher (WW) program locally and dropped 60 of those extra pounds in six months.
I gained back 20 pounds after leaving the program in 2010 but re-entered WW last September. Since then I have lost another 40 pounds and am now down to 200 and reducing.
I would add that it was not only learning how to use the WW tools that helped me with this weight loss, but equally important then and now is my daily prayer to God asking Him for help to enable me to apply what I have learned from WW to my daily food choices, portions and exercise.
I must say that today I truly feel physically like I did back in HS when I really did not know what was ahead in my life regarding my eating and lack of exercise. WW is a worthy tool and may I encourage any of you who would like to trim down to give it a try. And don't forget the most important companion in that effort....Jesus Christ.
God bless
I remember some really great times with our class at AHS. There were the Marching Band practices in the old football field behind the Career Building, the noon lunches in the cafeteria, and the great feeling as I left the main building and walked down those long steps and viewed the parking lot full of student's cars.
I remember the great times on Friday night dances at the Masonic Lodge in Upper Alton and the afternoon walk from the High School to Kerrs drug store to have the daily vanilla coke and share the day's events with our fellow classmates. The half time shows at the football stadium and cheering the basketball team on to one more basket at West Jr. High basketball court were always good.
And then there was Mr. "WWW's" math class, especially Geometry that was important to me. He sat me next to one of the cute cheerleaders and I made up my mind that I was not going to let her think I was a dummy in math so I studied really hard and made my only "A" in math. The cheerleader was not impressed, but I went on to use what I had learned in that class to become a draftsman and later a mechanical design engineer.
Thanks Mr. WWW. And Thanks fellow classmates for a memorable AHS experience.
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Greetings to Fellow Classmates in Jesus Christ,
May I encouragte you to pray for our nation? And in so doing may I also encourage you to watch the recent movie put out by Johnathan Cane, "The Harbingers of Things to Come". The movie may now be watched on line from several sources.
After watching that movie completely, then read what God has to say about His dealing with Mystery Babylon in the book of Revelation chapters 17 and 18.
After watchng the movie and reading these two chapters, then go the the following link and watch the presentation "2023 End Times Prophesy" (Copy and paste it into the top window of your web browser).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2p06bgyKg
Then consider this question, "Is the trump of God now being sounded for the people of God to go into the harvest?"
Sincerely,
Gary Anderson
PS You may also be interested in reading the attached list of End Times Prophecy in Sequence, the sequece of endtime events prophesied in the Bible that are about to take place in the immediate future in these times in which we are now living.
End Times Prophecy in Sequence
by Gary Anderson (sonriseministry@yahoo.com)
1. No sign given to this generation except that of Jonah. (Matthew 24:37-40 KJV)
2. Israel is protected from invasion by the “eagle’s wings” which is the USA. (Rev 12-14)
3. The fall of Mystery Babylon as a world power which is the USA. (Rev 18)
4. Nations surrounding Israel will attempt to invade it from the North through the land of Syria. (Psalms 83)
5. The city of Damascus becomes a ruinous heap from a nuclear bomb by Israel. (Isaiah 17:1).
6. A seven-year peace treaty will be enacted between Israel and the surrounding nations. (Dan 9:27)
7. A condition of Israel signing that peace treaty is to be allowed to rebuild their temple. (Dan 9:27)
8. As Israel rebuilds their temple, two witnesses prophesy in Jerusalem for 3 ½ years. (Rev 11:1-6).
9. The Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached unto all of the world by true believers in Jesus. (Matt 24:4-14)
10. Then the Anti-Christ kills the two prophets and proclaims himself to be God. (Rev` 11:7-10).
11. After the two prophets lay dead in the streets they are raised from the dead and ascend up into heaven
with the whole world watching. (Rev 11:11-14)
12. It is at this same moment that God will also take up His worldwide church in the twinkling of the eye to
meet Jesus in the clouds, the rapture of the true believers in Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 15:51-58)
13. Gog and Magog will attempt to invade Israel from the land of the North, which is Russia. But when the
people of Israel realize that there is no hope for them against their attacker, they will repent and turn to
the Lord Jesus for their deliverance. (Eze 38-39)
14. When God then destroys the invading army, the Jewish people will then realize that indeed Jesus is their
Messiah and will anoint 144,000 of their sons to go into all the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus to all
nations. (Rev 7)
15. Then God will release His wrath upon all of the world to reap the harvest of those who will not accept the
mark of the beast and put to death those who do accept the mark of the beast and chose to persecute
those who did not accept the mark. (Rev 14-19)
16. All nations will fall, including the USA. (Daniel 2:40-44).
17. After completion of the remaining 3 and ½ years of the seven-year tribulation, Jesus will return to the
earth to cleanse it of all of those who will not receive Him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will
also cast Satan and the demons into a pit while He and His body of true believers, who He has raised
from the dead shall reign on this earth for another 1,000 years. (Rev 20).
18. At the end of the 1,000 years, God will let Satan and His demons out of the pit that they may go into all
the earth attempting to cause those who are now dwelling on the earth to rebel against Jesus Christ. But
Jesus will cast them and the false prophet who joined with Satan into the Lake of Fire. (Rev 20)
19. Then will come the second resurrection and judgement of all who have refused to accept the death of
Jesus for their sin, and they will also be cast into the lake of fire eternally. (Rev 20)
20. And then God will destroy the heavens and the earth with fire and make a new heaven and a new earth
and He will come to the new earth to be a Father to His sons and daughters. (2 Pet 3:1-18 and Rev 21-22).
21. It is God’s desire to dwell with His family of true believers in His Son Jesus and tp dwell with His adopted
sons and daughters who have chosen to love Him as their father and have indeed learned to love each
other, even as He has loved us. (John 3:16, Romans 10:8-13 and 2 Cor 6:14-18)
Greetings fellow classmates. As I was viewing the lists of our members who have departed this life I noticed an average loss of one classmate per year until 1995 (age 53). Since then the rate of loss has increased to an average of 5 deaths per year which has varied from a low 3 to 8 per year. If we consider an average life expectancy for men and women of 82 and 86 years respectively, then this would mean that those previously listed loss rates will soon begin to increase to an average of 4 to 5 times the rate until now. this means we will soon increase to losses of 20 to 25 of our classmates each year.
Why am I writing these numbers to each of us?
Whether we are given one more day, a month, a year or a decade of years, we must soon face the real test question of our life.....Where do I go from here and am I prepared for that change in my lifetime? I sincerely ask you to pick up your Bible and begin to read the words spoken to us by Jesus beginning in each of the first four books of the New Testament. And remember what our English Lit teachers told us in class, "As you read, ask yourself the questions, ' Why did the author write this and what is the message they are trying to give to me as I am reading their words?' ". If Jesus is the author of those words written in your Bible, then as the author, He is the one to ask these questions.
And as you ask of Him keep in mind the words of James 1:5-6, " if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind." And also the words in Hebrews 11:6, "... without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him." And finally these words from Romans 10:17 " So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ". May I invite you to click on my photo icon above to read of my own testimony about how I met this Jesus in my walk through this life. Certainly He is Lord of lords and King of kings.
May God bless you.
Sincerely,
Gary Anderson
In the early summer of 2015 I was diagnosed with Melanoma skin cancer on my ear by a skin cancer doctor at a clinic in Lee's Summit, MO. He urged me to go immediately to the KU Cancer Hospital where they would remove part of my ear and a lymph node and then begin reconstructive plastic surgery to my ear. I was also diagnosed with a second type of skin cancer on my face which the doctor said he could remove by skin graft in his office. Well, this was not at all what I was expecting to hear at this stage in my life. And as I pondered what my decision would be concerning the options I was being presented with, my daughter told me of a good friend of hers who was given the same diagnosis but chose not to have surgery and within ten months he was gone. Needless to say all of my family were very concerned that I should immediately have the surgery. However there was one other option I had to consider. And that option was to ask God to heal me of both of these cancers and grant me full life to every day that He has chosen to give that life to me. I chose God.
Soon I came in contact with a fellow Christian believer who has been gifted with a healing ministry. His name is Don Ware and his ministry is found on the Internet at "gwmkc.org". I went to visit with Don and asked him to pray for my body to be free of the skin cancers which he did. After thanking him I then made arrangements to travel to visit my three younger brothers, perhaps for the last time before I went home to be with the Lord. Although I did not tell them of the purpose of my visit I did leave each of them with a new bible laying on my guest bed after I left. For the next few months I must say it was like the testimony of the three friends of Daniel before being thrown into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:8-30). They had decided that " ...our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up. ".
When I returned to the doctor's office three months later and he examined me carefully, in his own words, "I do not see any sign of the melanoma on your ear, however I still see the skin cancer on your cheek". Well I praised God for the healing of the melanoma and believe that if God has healed me of the more aggressive cancer, then certainly He is going to heal me of the second cancer as well. After all, does God only perform half of a miracle and not finish the job? "No He does not!" I resolved within myself and I have continued in faith believing God for my complete healing.
Oh, and by the way, it was after that second visit to the doctor that I decided to join the Weight Watcher program and experience my second miracle. Read about it in the "Q & A" link above, you will be blessed.
If you would like to read more about the roll of the Holy Spirit of God in your bible, may I encourage you to click on the "Photo" icon in the upper right hand corner of this page. Then you will see a display of a card lists many of the scriptures in the bible that tell us about the Holy Spirit and how God has given Him to each of us who would choose to invite Him into our life.
Praise God and thank you Jesus and Don Ware for your promise fulfilled.
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