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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 book discusses the rapture of the Church, the final fulfillments of prophecy, and 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 worldview 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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FAITH Chapter One
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.
At different times in my life people have said that our family’s story should be told, because it is a story of severe trauma, tragedy, survival and healing. It is a story of the meaning that can be found in daily life, regardless of, and in the midst of strange, and horrendous circumstances.
So I began writing a biography which I called; “Fleeing Into Joy”. My purpose and hope in writing it, is not just as therapy for me and my family, but also in the hope that it might help, inspire, and be a comfort to others.
I was conscious that the book, could end up being nothing but a downward trail of misery and woe; and no one needs, or wants to read such a book. I struggled to think of how to write the book so that it would deal with the truth, as horrible as it was, but also serve to lighten, and lift the spirit of the book for the reader. The stories included here are also included in the biography, but the sad and traumatizing events, I have left for “Fleeing Into Joy” alone,
Some stories are written using fictional characters, and some are written in the first person, Not all are strange and potentially dangerous, but all are based on true events and happenings. “I would like to stress the fact, as I have done in the biography, that no matter how difficult, how hopeless, how insane things are and appear to be, there is always hope, always sanity, and stability to be found, within any circumstance, no matter how drastic. For the Christian, there is not just help from one’s own God given abilities: a sane mind, and a light from within given to us at birth; as well as help from others, but there is the right hand of an almighty God reaching down to us, to lift us up and out.
Jehovah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God, has promised us, when we believe in Him and trust Him, to turn all things into good for us. He is faithful who has promised, and also will perform it. All Praise and Honor and Glory to the Saviour – the Lord Jesus Christ. Marilyn King Ketler