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Opening Brass Doors
Opening Brass Doors discusses many of the most important themes in the Bible: Creationism, Evolutionism, Israel’s history and future in prophecy, The Age of Grace and the Gospel, The rapture of the Church, and the final fulfillments of prophecy, the Jews, Armageddon, and the Nations.
Michael Ketler Graye
Introduction to Opening Brass Doors
This book is the result of many years spent considering themes which are fundamental to understanding the origin and purpose of human life, as well as what is essentially wrong with humanity, and what constitutes humanity’s hope.
This necessitates addressing the issues of death, sin, salvation and grace, eternal life, and the soul of man. However, no one can begin to address these ideas without holding a theistic view of life.
This book will come as a revelation to those who want to understand why a theistic world view is absolutely valid in the face of vast materialistic assertions based on science, falsely so-called.
Read on, dear reader, and after perusing this short book you will find that you have the perfect right and freedom to come into a relationship with the living God, without the fear of being branded as “religious” or “unscientific” or ignorant, by the dark forces of atheistic materialism masquerading as science.
Every person has a right to know if there is any purpose in life other than to live and to die and to be reabsorbed into the universe without ever having known the provision for the deep cry of the heart for meaning and ultimate reality. This book will help to open those formidable “Brass Doors” of atheistic evolution, which attempt to prevent us all from entering into hope, eternal life, and into God.
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Chapter 1
FAITH
In the dark prairie night, I am startled by the wild sounds of my laying hens being terrorized by what I do not know. Their panic and fear are evident in the sudden distressing sounds emanating from the coop, which is deep in the wooded area of my property. I run with all haste to the black darkness of the coop. I have no flashlight, and when I have groped my way through the tiny door, I stand upright in the jet blackness. There is a silence so deep that I am suddenly aware of a presence in the darkness. As I stand in that ominous silence, something flies violently into my face. Instinctively, I reach out and grasp the wildly flapping wing of this large and powerful creature. Holding the wings at a safe distance from my face, I stumble back to the yard light near my house, and I discover that I am struggling with a very large owl with a wingspan of about five feet. I push the owl into the trunk of my car, drive a few miles, and then release the owl again into the night.
The next morning, I see by the light of day that three hens have been slain. Their necks have been torn open. I tell my family that an owl entered the coop, killed the hens, but did not carry any away, as it was startled by my entrance into the coop.
Now, the fact is that I cannot prove that the owl did, in fact, kill the hens. The evidence is circumstantial. I did not see the event. I only believe that the owl was the culprit. However, the evidence is most compelling, and I have no problem believing the owl to be the cause of the death of the hens. I rest my belief upon what seems the most rational explanation of the scene. If I were to say that, perhaps an ostrich stumbled into the coop and trampled the hens to death, it would be difficult for anyone to believe that on any rational basis. One could believe that, if he or she preferred, but their faith would be founded upon something other than circumstantial evidence. Perhaps it would be based upon a dream that someone had of ostriches running freely in the yard. The belief would be based upon imagination or fantasy. That kind of faith would be considered irrational because it would not be consistent with the available visible evidence. Ostriches have never been seen running around the property; they do not kill chickens, and if they did, it would not be by tearing open the necks in a predatory fashion. If a person were to insist that an ostrich was the culprit, many secondary explanations would have to be made in order for the faith, or belief, to fit the evidence.
Michael shares thoughts and more biblical info through his blogs. He welcomes feedback and sharing with others.
Thoughts about Evolution
Evolution is the holy mountain, not to be trodden upon, and is to be accepted, with deference and reverence, from a world which must not question the “fact” of evolution. It is an immense deception that renders meaningless the ideas of ultimate truth, integrity, continuing personality, honesty, goodness, beauty, truth, and reality.
Humans and dinosaurs were contemporaneous. It is only the imaginary evolutionary time frame that places them into a remote past of millions of years ago and millions of years before humans. There is simply no evidence - just speculation!
Five billion years is an unfathomable span. It is beyond the human imagination, and, therefore, a very dark abyss where anything, even evolution, supposedly could have taken place. A deep, dark magic occurring in a deep, dark abyss.
The amazing assumptions made by evolutionary atheists are similar to the assumption that a person tying a bright red bow around the neck of a Persian cat had just finished making the cat in the kitchen, and was now just adding the finishing touch.
Each “kind” of animal or plant is preserved by its genetic code. If it were not so, the plant or animal could not survive and continue breeding. The genetic code conserves kinds, it does not invent them.
Just how a walrus could possibly be related to a hummingbird or a nightingale, is anyone’s guess, because the simple fact is they are not.
The entire evolutionary scenario has no basis in the real world. The genetic code maintains us, and we are glad of it. We resist change. The real evidence points to optimum organization in the past and to the process of decay against which we struggle our entire lives. We can see the truth of this.
If anyone has an objection to the belief that everything was made by a personal being, according to a blueprint, or plan, and placed within an ecological framework, then they do not object on scientific grounds. They object on their own religious grounds because scientific inquiry leads us face to face with a creator. It is not at all unreasonable to believe in a personal Being capable of creative application of unlimited
A Materialist looks at the 23rd Psalm
The world is my shepherd, I will have no lack.
It makes me secure in gold bullion, it leads me to lucrative pastures.
It assures my soul. It leads me in the paths of unrighteousness for its name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of poverty, I will fear no evil: for mammon is with me: my stocks and my bonds they comfort me.
It prepares a table before me in the presence of the hungry. It lines my pockets with gold, my bank notes run over.
Surely riches and pleasures shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the damned forever.
Dream
In this blog I would like to share a dream which I believe motivated my book “Opening Brass Doors.”
Not many years after I had become a born-again Christian, I had a dream. My wife, I, and our children attended a large Baptist church in the city of Victoria, BC, Canada. Every Sunday morning after the service, there would be tea and coffee served in the foyer. It was spring, and you could see through the large windows of the foyer, people outside having their coffee and fellowshipping on the lawn surrounded by daffodils.
In the dream, I was in this church after the service, and before me was a long hallway with rooms on either side. In one room, people were praying; in another room, they were having a Bible study. My brother-in-law was taking part in the Bible study. As I continued walking down the hallway, the rooms became increasingly unoccupied. I looked back down the hallway at the people in the foyer and knew they didn’t want to walk down the hallway.
At the end of the hallway were two large double brass doors. I went to them and pushed on them. They were very heavy and it took a lot of my strength. The creaked as they opened. I stepped into a room where hundreds of people lay in rows covered in white sheets up to their necks. Across the room were two double wooden doors with a crossbar. I was astonished at what I saw, and I asked one of them.”
“Why are you lying here like this?”
They answered: “Because no one will come and open the doors and let in the light.”
I stepped over the people and opened the wooden doors. They opened into a meadow of beautiful flowers, and the most dazzling bright white sunlight filled the room.
In the dream, I knew that now the people would get up and go out into the light.
An Answer to Those Who Wish to Contact their Dead Loved Ones.
"In my book I take the first nine chapters to debunk the myth of evolution, and to show the very real existence of evil spirits.
So it is with Pneumatology – the study of spirits, good, bad, and the Holy Spirit. One must start there with the dark lie of Evolution. We live in a spiritual world, and we cannot draw conclusions in regard to it with our natural mind.
So in point form:
1 We are susceptible to being deceived, judging from the fact that the world swallows hook line and sinker the false religion of evolution. Evolution is the world's religion.
2 The father of Spirits is Christ and without Him we cannot have light to understand spirits.
3 Evil spirits are arrayed against Christ and humans.
4 Evil spirits deceive us and hate Christ.
5 Without Christ, we are helpless to deal with spirits.
6 We are unable with our natural reason to understand.
7 Only the Spirit of God can help us to deal with the spiritual world.
8 Evil spirits can masquerade often as dead relatives. We believe them because we are no match for unseen entities without Christ.
9 Evil spirits give a completely dark and soul damning interpretation to everything.
10 Spirits of dead people do not wander about the universe, and they don't speak. Spirits of the dead are either in Hades or Heaven, not in between.
12 Psychic mediums are conduits of evil spirit agendas, whether or not they understand that themselves.
13The science of soul travel – Eckankar is a lie, sent to deceive.
14 It is a terrible thing to be born into the world subject to invisible spirits. The prince of fallen spirits – Satan, is called "the prince of the power of the air". He trades in the souls of men.
I hate to talk about Hell, but it is a grim reality that I accept. I have talked to spirits and they are real. There is a mediator between God and Man who reconciles souls to God. He is the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him alone is deliverance from death and judgment. He is the solution to this grim reality."
Michael shares thoughts and more biblical info through his blogs. He welcomes feedback and sharing with others.
Thoughts about Evolution
Evolution is the holy mountain, not to be trodden upon, and is to be accepted, with deference and reverence, from a world which must not question the “fact” of evolution. It is an immense deception that renders meaningless the ideas of ultimate truth, integrity, continuing personality, honesty, goodness, beauty, truth, and reality.
Humans and dinosaurs were contemporaneous. It is only the imaginary evolutionary time frame that places them into a remote past of millions of years ago and millions of years before humans. There is simply no evidence - just speculation!
Five billion years is an unfathomable span. It is beyond the human imagination, and, therefore, a very dark abyss where anything, even evolution, supposedly could have taken place. A deep, dark magic occurring in a deep, dark abyss.
The amazing assumptions made by evolutionary atheists are similar to the assumption that a person tying a bright red bow around the neck of a Persian cat had just finished making the cat in the kitchen, and was now just adding the finishing touch.
Each “kind” of animal or plant is preserved by its genetic code. If it were not so, the plant or animal could not survive and continue breeding. The genetic code conserves kinds, it does not invent them.
Just how a walrus could possibly be related to a hummingbird or a nightingale, is anyone’s guess, because the simple fact is they are not.
The entire evolutionary scenario has no basis in the real world. The genetic code maintains us, and we are glad of it. We resist change. The real evidence points to optimum organization in the past and to the process of decay against which we struggle our entire lives. We can see the truth of this.
If anyone has an objection to the belief that everything was made by a personal being, according to a blueprint, or plan, and placed within an ecological framework, then they do not object on scientific grounds. They object on their own religious grounds because scientific inquiry leads us face to face with a creator. It is not at all unreasonable to believe in a personal Being capable of creative application of unlimited
A Materialist looks at the 23rd Psalm
The world is my shepherd, I will have no lack.
It makes me secure in gold bullion, it leads me to lucrative pastures.
It assures my soul. It leads me in the paths of unrighteousness for its name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of poverty, I will fear no evil: for mammon is with me: my stocks and my bonds they comfort me.
It prepares a table before me in the presence of the poor folk. It lines my pockets with gold, my bank notes run over.
Surely riches and pleasures shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the damned forever.
Dream
In this blog I would like to share a dream which I believe motivated my book “Opening Brass Doors.”
Not many years after I had become a born-again Christian, I had a dream. My wife, I, and our children attended a large Baptist church in the city of Victoria, BC, Canada. Every Sunday morning after the service, there would be tea and coffee served in the foyer. It was spring, and you could see through the large windows of the foyer, people outside having their coffee and fellowshipping on the lawn surrounded by daffodils.
In the dream, I was in this church after the service, and before me was a long hallway with rooms on either side. In one room, people were praying; in another room, they were having a Bible study. My brother-in-law was taking part in the Bible study. As I continued walking down the hallway, the rooms became increasingly unoccupied. I looked back down the hallway at the people in the foyer and knew they didn’t want to walk down the hallway.
At the end of the hallway were two large double brass doors. I went to them and pushed on them. They were very heavy and it took a lot of my strength. The creaked as they opened. I stepped into a room where hundreds of people lay in rows covered in white sheets up to their necks. Across the room were two double wooden doors with a crossbar. I was astonished at what I saw, and I asked one of them.”
“Why are you lying here like this?”
They answered: “Because no one will come and open the doors and let in the light.”
I stepped over the people and opened the wooden doors. They opened into a meadow of beautiful flowers, and the most dazzling bright white sunlight filled the room.
In the dream, I knew that now the people would get up and go out into the light.
An Answer to Those Who Wish to Contact their Dead Loved Ones.
"In my book I take the first nine chapters to debunk the myth of evolution, and to show the very real existence of evil spirits.
So it is with Pneumatology – the study of spirits, good, bad, and the Holy Spirit. One must start there with the dark lie of Evolution. We live in a spiritual world, and we cannot draw conclusions in regard to it with our natural mind.
So in point form:
1 We are susceptible to being deceived, judging from the fact that the world swallows hook line and sinker the false religion of evolution. Evolution is the world's religion.
2 The father of Spirits is Christ and without Him we cannot have light to understand spirits.
3 Evil spirits are arrayed against Christ and humans.
4 Evil spirits deceive us and hate Christ.
5 Without Christ, we are helpless to deal with spirits.
6 We are unable with our natural reason to understand.
7 Only the Spirit of God can help us to deal with the spiritual world.
8 Evil spirits can masquerade often as dead relatives. We believe them because we are no match for unseen entities without Christ.
9 Evil spirits give a completely dark and soul damning interpretation to everything.
10 Spirits of dead people do not wander about the universe, and they don't speak. Spirits of the dead are either in Hades or Heaven, not in between.
12 Psychic mediums are conduits of evil spirit agendas, whether or not they understand that themselves.
13The science of soul travel – Eckankar is a lie, sent to deceive.
14 It is a terrible thing to be born into the world subject to invisible spirits. The prince of fallen spirits – Satan, is called "the prince of the power of the air". He trades in the souls of men.
I hate to talk about Hell, but it is a grim reality that I accept. I have talked to spirits and they are real. There is a mediator between God and Man who reconciles souls to God. He is the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him alone is deliverance from death and judgment. He is the solution to this grim reality."
Michael shares thoughts and more biblical info through his blogs. He welcomes feedback and sharing with others.
Thoughts about Evolution
Evolution is the holy mountain, not to be trodden upon, and is to be accepted, with deference and reverence, from a world which must not question the “fact” of evolution. It is an immense deception that renders meaningless the ideas of ultimate truth, integrity, continuing personality, honesty, goodness, beauty, truth, and reality.
Humans and dinosaurs were contemporaneous. It is only the imaginary evolutionary time frame that places them into a remote past of millions of years ago and millions of years before humans. There is simply no evidence - just speculation!
Five billion years is an unfathomable span. It is beyond the human imagination, and, therefore, a very dark abyss where anything, even evolution, supposedly could have taken place. A deep, dark magic occurring in a deep, dark abyss.
The amazing assumptions made by evolutionary atheists are similar to the assumption that a person tying a bright red bow around the neck of a Persian cat had just finished making the cat in the kitchen, and was now just adding the finishing touch.
Each “kind” of animal or plant is preserved by its genetic code. If it were not so, the plant or animal could not survive and continue breeding. The genetic code conserves kinds, it does not invent them.
Just how a walrus could possibly be related to a hummingbird or a nightingale, is anyone’s guess, because the simple fact is they are not.
The entire evolutionary scenario has no basis in the real world. The genetic code maintains us, and we are glad of it. We resist change. The real evidence points to optimum organization in the past and to the process of decay against which we struggle our entire lives. We can see the truth of this.
If anyone has an objection to the belief that everything was made by a personal being, according to a blueprint, or plan, and placed within an ecological framework, then they do not object on scientific grounds. They object on their own religious grounds because scientific inquiry leads us face to face with a creator. It is not at all unreasonable to believe in a personal Being capable of creative application of unlimited
A Materialist looks at the 23rd Psalm
The world is my shepherd, I will have no lack.
It makes me secure in gold bullion, it leads me to lucrative pastures.
It assures my soul. It leads me in the paths of unrighteousness for its name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of poverty, I will fear no evil: for mammon is with me: my stocks and my bonds they comfort me.
It prepares a table before me in the presence of the poor folk. It lines my pockets with gold, my bank notes run over.
Surely riches and pleasures shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the damned forever.
Dream
In this blog I would like to share a dream which I believe motivated my book “Opening Brass Doors.”
Not many years after I had become a born-again Christian, I had a dream. My wife, I, and our children attended a large Baptist church in the city of Victoria, BC, Canada. Every Sunday morning after the service, there would be tea and coffee served in the foyer. It was spring, and you could see through the large windows of the foyer, people outside having their coffee and fellowshipping on the lawn surrounded by daffodils.
In the dream, I was in this church after the service, and before me was a long hallway with rooms on either side. In one room, people were praying; in another room, they were having a Bible study. My brother-in-law was taking part in the Bible study. As I continued walking down the hallway, the rooms became increasingly unoccupied. I looked back down the hallway at the people in the foyer and knew they didn’t want to walk down the hallway.
At the end of the hallway were two large double brass doors. I went to them and pushed on them. They were very heavy and it took a lot of my strength. The creaked as they opened. I stepped into a room where hundreds of people lay in rows covered in white sheets up to their necks. Across the room were two double wooden doors with a crossbar. I was astonished at what I saw, and I asked one of them.”
“Why are you lying here like this?”
They answered: “Because no one will come and open the doors and let in the light.”
I stepped over the people and opened the wooden doors. They opened into a meadow of beautiful flowers, and the most dazzling bright white sunlight filled the room.
In the dream, I knew that now the people would get up and go out into the light.
An Answer to Those Who Wish to Contact their Dead Loved Ones.
"In my book I take the first nine chapters to debunk the myth of evolution, and to show the very real existence of evil spirits.
So it is with Pneumatology – the study of spirits, good, bad, and the Holy Spirit. One must start there with the dark lie of Evolution. We live in a spiritual world, and we cannot draw conclusions in regard to it with our natural mind.
So in point form:
1 We are susceptible to being deceived, judging from the fact that the world swallows hook line and sinker the false religion of evolution. Evolution is the world's religion.
2 The father of Spirits is Christ and without Him we cannot have light to understand spirits.
3 Evil spirits are arrayed against Christ and humans.
4 Evil spirits deceive us and hate Christ.
5 Without Christ, we are helpless to deal with spirits.
6 We are unable with our natural reason to understand.
7 Only the Spirit of God can help us to deal with the spiritual world.
8 Evil spirits can masquerade often as dead relatives. We believe them because we are no match for unseen entities without Christ.
9 Evil spirits give a completely dark and soul damning interpretation to everything.
10 Spirits of dead people do not wander about the universe, and they don't speak. Spirits of the dead are either in Hades or Heaven, not in between.
12 Psychic mediums are conduits of evil spirit agendas, whether or not they understand that themselves.
13The science of soul travel – Eckankar is a lie, sent to deceive.
14 It is a terrible thing to be born into the world subject to invisible spirits. The prince of fallen spirits – Satan, is called "the prince of the power of the air". He trades in the souls of men.
I hate to talk about Hell, but it is a grim reality that I accept. I have talked to spirits and they are real. There is a mediator between God and Man who reconciles souls to God. He is the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him alone is deliverance from death and judgment. He is the solution to this grim reality."
