The Marriage Supper Parable - A Cartoon with Sound Effects, Music, and Scripture - A Teaching of Jesus in Matthew 22

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 24) - "Hotel Escape" / Or "The Escape from Norway" - (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 24)



Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 

with Messages from God)

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(This story chronicles the adventures of Steven O'Neill, his wife Sarah, and their friends during the End Times. Judgment has already struck the U.S., and Steve and his friends have reached the vast continent of Asia. Witness the amazing things God will reveal about the coming kingdom of the Beast (or the Antichrist), the Mark of the Beast, and the Tribulation period. This story should keep you fascinated, as a realistic account of the future unfolds in the form of a fictional story.

But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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Chapter Twenty-Four

PART 24: “Hotel Escape”
(Or, "The Escape from Norway")
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Karl awoke in the darkness. He sat up in his hotel bed and gazed at the digital clock on a lamp table beside the bed. It displayed the time in green numbers: 12:30 AM. Still wearing his daytime clothes, he got out of bed and walked toward the window of the hotel room he shared with Toben. The Nigerian man was asleep on the other hotel bed with the blankets drawn up under his chin.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Characters in Steven's Amazing Adventures (With Details about their Appearances and Lives)



Characters in Steven's Amazing Adventures (With Details about their Appearances and Lives)


This story chronicles the adventures of Steven O'Neill, his wife Sarah, and their friends during the End Times. Judgment has already struck the U.S., and Steve and his friends have reached the vast continent of Asia. Witness the amazing things God will reveal about the coming kingdom of the Beast (or the Antichrist), the Mark of the Beast, and the Tribulation period. This story should keep you fascinated, as a realistic account of the future unfolds in the form of a fictional story.

But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.

Miracles will abound and awesome sights will astonish people in these last days.

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Here are the names of most of the important characters, arranged alphabetically:

Abdul Hamed; Alexei Khlebov; Cheng Yuan;

Hu Zheng; Inga Jacobsen; Jason Harper; 

Karl Holst; Mark Mzembi; Nguyen Duc Quang

Sarah O’Neill; Sergey Ulanov; Sizwe Mahlangu; 

Steven O’Neill; Toben Nenge; Vasily Volvakov  

Details about these characters are included below. The names are in alphabetical order.

(Note: None of these characters are intended to represent specific people who actually exist. Any similarities to living people are coincidental.)
_____   _____   _____   _____ 

Name: Abdul Hamed 

Age: 25

First appears in: PART 20: “Communist Norway”
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Basic description: Abdul Hamed was born in Syria. He has dark hair, brown eyes, and a clean-shaven face and is single. During the Syrian Civil War, Abdul fled to Europe and found refuge in Norway along with his brother, Zahid. 

Sunday, October 22, 2017

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 23) - "Jungle Surprise" / "Escape Taxi"- (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 23)




Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 

with Messages from God)

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But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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Chapter Twenty-Three

PART 23: “Jungle Surprise”


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The Southeast Asian jungle at night was not a place Hu wanted to be. Having traveled through the Yunnan jungle for a few days, to escape persecution, Hu longed for a place to sleep in where no poisonous snakes would be found, and where no communist soldiers would threaten his life. But, he knew that the small group needed to continue their journey, since the Chinese government was aware of their last position.

Hu suddenly tripped on a thick root, and fell to the ground. “Ah,” he said as he impacted the soil.

His friend, Cheng, a 42-year-old Chinese man, reached down with a free hand and Hu took it. With Cheng’s assistance, the weary 24-year-old found his footing again. They were now walking on the side of a steep hill, and the ground was somewhat slippery, having been rained on recently.

Just twenty minutes ago, several columns of fire had fallen from the sky, passing down through the forest canopy, without burning any trees, and had consumed many Chinese soldiers on the ground. It was a miracle of Biblical proportions, which had astounded Hu, Cheng, and Quang, who had been traveling in the jungles of Yunnan Province, in southern China. The soldiers had found them using heat-sensing technology and were about to arrest them. But, God’s miraculous intervention had delivered the small group of Asian Christians. [Read about these events in Part 17 and Part 18.]

The men continued down the trail, taking it easy, to avoid slipping.

They had flashlights, but none of them dare turned them on, since they knew Chinese soldiers might still be searching the forest for them. Carrying backpacks, Hu and his two older friends trekked down a series of animal trails, trusting that God would protect them from poisonous snakes, just as He had done earlier. Hu had been bitten by a chain viper, but the wound had miraculously been healed, without inflaming. Mark chapter 16 and all of the Bible had brought comfort to Hu as he thought about the miracles God had done for him and for people in the Bible times.

“Hu,” Cheng said, “why do you think God would send fire from heaven to consume those Chinese soldiers, who sought to kill us, but people in China are being tortured and killed because they are Christians?”

Hu turned back toward the 42-year-old man and said: “There are many people who suffer for Christ’s sake, but Jesus did tell His disciples that if they are persecuted in one city, they are to leave and go to a different city. And, Elisha and Elijah both saw God deliver them from evil people who sought to kill them. Elisha called blindness on them, and Elijah called fire from heaven upon his enemies, who were very hardened and calloused against God.”

“That is interesting,” Cheng said as he walked beside Hu, careful to avoid rocks and protruding roots.

God doesn’t respect one person over another,” Hu continued. “In the book of Romans, chapter 2, verse 11, I remember it says: ‘For there is no respect of persons with God.’ God has no favorite sons or daughters. He loves us all in the same way as He loves Jesus Christ. Jesus spoke of this in John chapter 17, verses 22 and 23. He said: ‘[22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: [23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.’.”

“God loves us the way He loves Jesus?” Cheng said. “That is amazing. I didn’t realize that was in the Gospel of John. I don’t know if I even read John chapter 17.”

“When I read it, it seemed to jump out at me from the page,” Hu said. “Abba Father God loves us the way He loves His Only Begotten Son, Jesus.”

Suddenly, a snapping sound came from the jungle fifteen feet away. Hu, Cheng, and Quang turned quickly to the left and tried to see what had caused the sound, but thick bushes and dark patches blocked their view up the hill.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 22) - "The Search" - (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 22)


Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 

with Messages from God)

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(This story chronicles the adventures of Steven O'Neill, his wife Sarah, and their friends during the End Times. Judgment has already struck the U.S., and Steve and his friends have reached the vast continent of Asia. Witness the amazing things God will reveal about the coming kingdom of the Beast (or the Antichrist), the Mark of the Beast, and the Tribulation period. This story should keep you fascinated, as a realistic account of the future unfolds in the form of a fictional story.

But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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Chapter Twenty-Two

PART 22: “The Search”

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Major Lukas Grieg was running, or he felt like it. He had just gotten out of his car in the parking garage of the headquarters of the Norwegian secret police, and was heading toward an elevator at a quick walking pace.

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Lukas Grieg, a brown-haired man with an athletic build and piercing eyes, aged 42, was a major in the military-like Ministry of the Interior Special Command for National Protection (or the SCNP). Most everyone in this military-like command structure called themselves state protection officers. But, Lukas knew that some prisoners had called them “secret police,” “the Gestapo,” or “the Norwegian KGB.”

Immediately after entering a chrome-plated elevator, Lukas pressed the button for the second floor. Less than twenty minutes ago, Lukas had been awoken from sleep by a secure phone call from a first lieutenant he was in charge of. He had been informed that an important prisoner, Karl Holst, had escaped from a cell in the SCNP headquarters. Lukas had also been told that the lieutenant colonel, who was in charge of the headquarters, had also been notified.

The elevator came to a stop at the second floor, which housed the offices of high-ranking personnel. Once the door slid open, Lukas stepped out into a sparkling hallway. He walked briskly down a white vinyl floor past artificial potted plants and office doors. He was very concerned about the prison escape. For that to happen, in his mind, it would mean that someone on the inside would have to have helped the prisoner escape. This individual would have to be a mole or a compromised person, Lukas thought.

After a short walk, Lukas reached a metal security door. He placed his hand on a scanner to the right of the door. A small screen beside the biometric hand scanner displayed the words, “Enter the number access code.” After he quickly typed in a number code on a keypad, the door unlocked and Lukas flung it open.

Thursday, October 12, 2017

🔥 CALIFORNIA FIRES --- PRAYER NEEDED FOR CALIFORNIA 🔥



(California fires in October 11-12, 2017)
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CALIFORNIA FIRES --- PRAYER NEEDED FOR CALIFORNIA


Over 191,000 acres have burned across California. The official death total is 31 (as of Oct. 12, 2017). At least 3,500 homes and other buildings have been burned down. Entire neighborhoods were burned to the ground, including schools, houses, businesses, valuables, and cars.

Several destructive fires started on Oct. 8, 2017, during the night, and they quickly swept through California, destroying whole neighborhoods in Santa Rosa and parts of Napa County, including some vineyards.

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 21) - "The Traitor" / "Communist Prison Escape"- (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 21)


Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 

with Messages from God)


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But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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Chapter Twenty-One

PART 21: “The Traitor”

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“The Prayer Meeting and the Traitor”

Miles away from the secret police headquarters, in the downstairs den of a 5-bedroom house, twelve Christians were praying and interceding for Karl the day after Karl was arrested by the secret police. It was a Friday when Karl was locked up. Now, on this Saturday, Toben Nenge, a Nigerian emigrant to Norway, led the prayer meeting. Standing beside him was Karl’s good friend, Felix Tangen, a tall, Norwegian man in his late forties, with brown hair and graying temples.

At the moment, Inga Jacobsen (a brunette, Norwegian, 22-year-old girl) was praying and asking her Father God to deliver Karl from prison. Though she disagreed with him on several issues, she liked him as a good friend, and felt some attraction to him, even though was ten years older than her.

“And Father God,” Inga prayed, “please deliver Karl from the jail, like you did for Daniel in the lion’s den, and Peter, who you delivered from prison by sending an angel. If you can have an angel unlock Peter’s chains, and release him from prison, surely you can have an angel, even the same angel, unlock Karl and release him. Let your best will happen, Father God. In Jesus Christ’s Name, amen.”

“I have a word from the Lord,” Toben said, looking around at the group as they opened their eyes.

“God wants me to speak,” Toben said. “He will speak a message through me. God says: ‘My children, your prayers are being answered. Just wait on Me, and you will see Karl delivered from prison. I will certainly bring him out, just as I did for Simon Peter. Now, rest in Me and look to Me. I will bless you and protect you as you look to Me. And, I the Lord your God and Abba Father have spoken.’”

“Wow,” Inga said, smiling. “That is exciting to me. God just spoke through you, Toben. And, He’s answered our prayers.”

“I believe God will deliver Karl from prison very soon,” Felix’s wife, Elise said.

Suddenly, a ding-dong chime filled the air.

Friday, October 6, 2017

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 20) - "Communist Norway" - (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 20)


Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 

with Messages from God)

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But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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Chapter Twenty

PART 20: “Communist Norway”


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[In the future, Norway and all of Europe will be communist 
and under the control of Russia, God showed this writer. 
I encourage you to seek God about this. If you are Norwegian 
or Russian, please don't take this personally, but seek God. 
God will use Russia to bring judgment down on Europe and America, 
but Russians are not the enemy.]


Karl Holst, a sandy-haired Norwegian, opened his Bible and flipped through the pages until he reached a place in the book of Revelation. He was sitting in a metal folding chair facing a circle of men and women who also were holding Bibles.

“Is everyone at Revelation 5?” Karl asked the group of twenty-two people.

Most nodded or muttered that they were at the place.

“I’ll read down to verse 5, starting at verse 1,” Karl said. “As I do, I encourage you to think about what is happening and what significance it has to us now.”

They were in the windowless basement of an old apartment building. A handful of tall floor lamps were scattered among the group to provide light in a room that would otherwise be dark.

Clearing his throat, Karl read from Revelation 5:1-5“‘[1] And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. [2] And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? [3] And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

‘[4] And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. [5] And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.’”

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Looking at the faces of this Bible study group, Karl said, “Notice in verse 3, how no man or woman was worthy to open the book? No one but Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, could open that book. We are not worthy, in ourselves, for any of God’s purposes, but God gives us the grace to do His will and to serve Him in His Kingdom. Though we are not worthy in ourselves to serve God, God sees value in us. That is why He sent Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son, to die on the cross for our sins.”

A few of the men and women nodded and said, “That’s true.”

“Verse 5 speaks of the Root of David, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,” Karl said. “This is Jesus Christ, of course. And, notice how He is called the Root of David? What this means is that Jesus Christ is the Creator of David. Though his physical body, which Jesus dwelt in on earth, was genetically from David’s DNA, Jesus is the One who created David and his DNA.

“Now, we probably all know that, but it is good to be reminded of who Jesus Christ is. He was not just a good teacher on earth. He was and is the Son of God, who is One with God the Father. Jesus Christ will come back in a visible form to this world, riding on a white horse, and many thousands of saints, which will include you and me, will follow Him. He already dwells in us Christians by His Spirit. But, we will all see Him coming in the clouds of Heaven.”

In one corner of the room, a set of stairs led up to a door that opened into a yard outside. That door opened and a young Syrian man in his early twenties entered. Another staircase, located in the middle, of the room reached a door that opened into the first floor of the apartment building.

Closing the outside door behind him quietly, the Syrian man said, “I saw soldiers approaching from down the street. We need to quietly pray that God will keep them from coming to this apartment.”

“Abdul, how many soldiers did you see?” a thirty-year-old Norwegian woman asked. 

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

■ Steven’s Amazing Adventures, and the Future of the World ■ (PART 19) - "The Surprise" - (A STORY about the END TIMES, with Messages from God) (PART 19)



Steven’s Amazing Adventures,
and the Future of the World

(A Story about the End Times 
with Messages from God)

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(This story chronicles the adventures of Steven O'Neill, his wife Sarah, and their friends during the End Times. Judgment has already struck the U.S., and Steve and his friends have reached the vast continent of Asia. Witness the amazing things God will reveal about the coming kingdom of the Beast (or the Antichrist), the Mark of the Beast, and the Tribulation period. This story should keep you fascinated, as a realistic account of the future unfolds in the form of a fictional story.


But, this story is not just a story. It contains messages from God and prophecies that actually shall happen. It is written as fiction with fictional characters, but the message of the story is very real, and the cataclysmic events, touched on in this story, will actually impact this earth as God’s Holy Bible and its prophecies unfold. The world will soon enter a time much like that portrayed in this story. I encourage you to seek God about this to see what He will show you.)


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PART 19: The Surprise"

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Sledgehammers swung and shattered rocks into pieces. Vasily Volvakov worked hard, crushing rocks with his sledgehammer, hour after hour, with only three breaks for a period of twelve hours per day. In spite of his age of 60, he had energy that even younger men didn’t have, who worked in the rock-crushing enclosure at a labor camp in Siberia. The Russian guards even commented to one another, on occasion, about Vasily’s endurance and strength. But when he overheard them, he quietly gave God the glory.

The cold air stung his face as he worked, but Vasily tried to keep blinking and moving his face muscles to keep them from becoming numb. It felt like it was negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

After becoming a Christian in the labor camp, Vasily had begun speaking more and more to God and hearing His loving voice better. God had given him supernatural strength for him to work well, without feeling exhausted like other men, who worked for 12 hours with two fifteen minute breaks, and a half-hour lunch break. This added up to 13 hours outdoors, in sub-zero temperatures. Every so often, men died from exhaustion or sickness. [See “Footnote1.]

“Hey,” a prisoner ten feet away said, when the guards had moved away from earshot.

“Yes,” Vasily said just before he slammed his hammer into a rock, bursting it into small chunks.