Grief

AS I REPLIED TO MY COUSIN CATHY CAMPBELL, YES, DEAN WAS A FINE MAN, AS FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS GO. AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, HE LOVED GOD AND HE LOVED HIS NEIGHBORS AS HE LOVED HIMSELF. CHIEF AMONG HIS NEIGHBORS WERE HIS FAMILY AND RELATIVES AND THEN HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES. I LOVED HIM AND I LOVE HIM STILL. HE WAS A GREAT BIG BROTHER. I HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF HIM IN CHILDHOOD AND IN ADULTHOOD. I'M SURE THAT HE COULD LOSE HIS TEMPER, BUT HE WAS GENERALLY A KIND AND GENTLE MAN. HE WAS WELL-READ AND WISE IN GENERAL AND I LOOKED UP TO HIM FOR THAT. HE WAS HARD-WORKING AND LOYAL. HE WAS A LITTLE TOO TIGHT WITH HIS MONEY, BUT THEN, JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY IS. 

 

BUT DEATH AND FUNERALS ARE GOD MOMENTS, SO I'M GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT GOD THAN MY DEAR BROTHER DEAN. I'M SURE HE WOULD BE FINE WITH THAT, AS HE AND HIS WIFE LEO HAD SPIRITUAL RENEWALS AFTER MY MOM DIED IN 2010. BESIDES HE WAS 3 1/3 YEARS OLDER THAN I, SO WE WERE NOT CLOSE GROWING UP AND WE NEVER LIVED NEAR EACH OTHER IN ADULTHOOD, EXCEPT FOR A YEAR OR 2 AT THE UNIV. OF IL. SINCE 2010, I GREW CLOSER TO DEAN AND LEO AS WE 4 BROTHERS AND LEO HAD REUNIONS EVERY 2 YEARS AND WE COMMUNICATED A LOT BY EMAIL.

 

BANG! 14 BILLION YEARS AGO, GOD BEGAN CREATING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. ONLY GOD COULD HAVE CAUSED THE BIG BANG. THE 1 ST 2 VERSES OF GENESIS COVER THAT. AND WE WOULDN'T BE MORAL BEINGS IF GOD DIDN'T EXIST.

 

THEN ALMOST 6000 YEARS AGO GOD CREATED MAN. DON'T BELIEVE IN MACRO-EVOLUTION. IT'S JUNK SCIENCE. GOOGLE A NEW TAKE ON THE GENESIS CREATION ACCOUNT IN QUOTES.

 

THEN CAME THE FALL. I THINK SOME ANGELS FELL AND ADAM AND EVE FELL, BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T PUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM. SO, THE HUMAN RACE NATURALLY BECAME UNHOLY AND MESSED UP. ESSENTIALLY, WE ARE ON DEATH ROW, JUSTLY HEADING TOWARDS DEATH AND HELL.

 

BUT THE GOOD NEWS, THE GOSPEL, IS THAT GOD MERCIFULLY SAVES A MINORITY OF FALLEN SINNERS FROM HELL AND TAKES THEIR SPIRITS TO HEAVEN AT THEIR DEATH AND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE WILL GIVE THEM RESURRECTED, IMMORTAL BODIES ON A NEW ETERNAL EARTH.

 

GOD DOES THIS ON THE BASIS OF JESUS' VICARIOUS SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS AT THE END OF 4000 YEARS TO PAY THE PENALTY FOR THEIR SINS. THEIR SINS ARE IMPUTED TO JESUS AND JESUS' HOLINESS IS IMPUTED TO THEM.

 

GOD ALSO DOES THIS THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT. IF HIS HOLY SPIRIT BLOWS INTO AN ADULT OF SOUND MIND TO GIVE HIS SPIRIT REBIRTH, SO THAT HE WILL BE BORN AGAIN, SPIRITUALLY, THEN HE WILL BELIEVE AND TRUST IN JESUS AS HIS LORD AND SAVIOR.

 

THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE HAPPENED TO DEAN AND LEO AROUND 2010. THE HOLY SPIRIT BLEW INTO THEIR SPIRITS. HAS THIS HAPPENED TO YOU? I HOPE AND PRAY SO. IF SO, GOD'S MERCY IS GLORIFIED IN YOU. IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU, GOD'S JUSTICE WILL BE GLORIFIED IN YOU AS YOU ARE SENT TO HELL. SO, I ENTREAT YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, BEG GOD THE FATHER WITH ALL YOUR HEART THAT HE WILL GIVE YOU HIS HOLY SPIRIT THAT YOU MIGHT BELIEVE AND TRUST THAT JESUS IS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. PERHAPS HE WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOU. PERHAPS HE WILL GIVE YOU HIS HOLY SPIRIT. PERHAPS YOU WILL BELIEVE AND TRUST THAT JESUS IS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR.

 

THE TIME IS VERY SHORT, I BELIEVE. JUST AS THERE WAS DEMONIC ACTIVITY FOR 120 YEARS BEFORE NOAH'S 600TH YEAR, SO WE ARE IN 120 YEARS OF SATANIC AND DEMONIC ACTIVITY BEFORE THE 6000TH YEAR. ERGO, WORLD WAR 1 AND THE PESTILENCE OF THE SPANISH FLU JUST OVER 100 YEARS AGO. THEN WE HAD WORLD WAR 2 AND THE HOLOCAUST AND NUKES, 9/11 AND TERRORISM, AND NOW THE PESTILENCE OF COVID. RUSSIA IS LIKELY TO INVADE UKRAINE AND MY GUESS FROM THE BIBLE IS THAT PUTIN WILL BE ASSASSINATED AND THE JEWISH ANTICHRIST WILL REPLACE HIM.

 

BEG GOD TO SAVE YOU IF HE HASN'T YET. BEAT YOUR CHEST AND SAY, BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER.

 

BY THE WAY, I DREAMED THAT I WOULD GO TO MY PARENTS' GRAVES ON THE LIKELY DAY OF THE RESURRECTION AND THE RAPTURE AND MY BROTHER DEAN REPLIED, "I'LL GO WITH YOU." DEAN, I'LL SEE YOU IN HEAVEN AND THEN ON A NEW EARTH FOR ETERNITY.