Hiding in Plain Sight! 10.14.07

The True and Sad Story of Joe Christian, “Your Average Pilgrim Off the Street”!

St. Paul told us in his writings that when the ruler of Damascus wanted him killed, that Disciples of our Lord placed him into a basket and lowered it down the wall of the city and helped him escape to save his life! The Bible is full of stories like this!

When I was offered to teach Catechism to some small children (in a small, rural setting in the country side of America, after years of serving as both a Gospel Preacher, Missionary to the Poor, and a Christian Social Worker [all the while traditionally Catholic in my Theology, having grown up Catholic and with Charismatic tendencies towards spiritual gifts and NT manifestations of the Christian life, as well as always associating with ALL Christians, Jews and Muslims, New Age people, Hindis, and others]; But always remaining loyal to the Church in my spiritual goals to minister God’s practical love towards others… Because I believe that ALL PEOPLE count! Whether they are “Saved” or yet to be “Saved” by the ministry of the preaching of ‘the Gospel Message’)…

I felt it was my certain duty to take that opportunity! And as usual, I was ill once again, as I have always had constant bouts of both illness as well as some moments of good recovery as well! My health has always been my trial of the flesh! As well as my “thorn”!

So I went to that small community where there were few Catholics, but those that were there wanted and asked me to come and teach their children the Catholic Faith so they could arrange to be Confirmed somewhere long away and then return home to be raised in the Catholic Christian Faith, and I was most willing to help them in that request!

I was soon living in a small, country cottage of my own and my only contact with people was with those people and their friends who had invited me! Well I soon found out that that whole community that looked like a peace of rural American township or ‘village’ was illicit in their activities and were raising their children in the ‘business; as well, and all they wanted was a clergy person that they could trust to give his seal of approval as well as some kind of legitimate cover of Christianity, so that they could perform their ‘trade’ of manufacturing drugs, smuggling other drugs, and sex trade, murder for hire, and etc…! And let’s say that these persons are all part of the ‘Wisconsin syndicate’!

They offered me a situation with them, thinking that God approved of their lifestyle and criminal, murderous ways… because they all suffered so much in the world that did not care for them, or understand them! Well I rebuked them and told them that their suffering was because they were reaping what they sowed, and that they needed to all immediately repent and follow Jesus! But they claimed that they all had “personal relationships” with the Lord Jesus, and were “Saved” and that I was the one that was evil for judging them!

So they fed me d-Con and anti-freeze to murder me! And I prayed in my awful illness and God gave me supernatural strength to escape from them and to an ER far away… where I was told that I had internal damage and should not even still be alive! Some Christians took me home, after I reported that whole community to the authorities and went off into hiding with a Christian community, who nursed me back to health and prayed for me, and when I had miraculously recovered, I was secretly sent to where I now reside and serve the Lord! Although I first resided outside of the city proper!

I still suffer with a broken heart over these things, as well as other life experiences that I have personally endured, and that I am still ‘in hiding’ as it were, but now with new friends, and ‘in plain sight’! And that for my own sense of safety! But am I safe here?

And this is one reason that I am constantly telling my stories, so that I will remain known and protected by those who now know who I am and what I represent and teach as a Roman Catholic Christian of the inwardly ‘Charismatic’ or “Spiritually Gifted” kind, as well as of the outwardly ‘Evangelical’ or ‘Revivalist’ set! But still quite Catholic!

And if, that particular ‘syndicate’ group do locate me living here (as they just did a few years ago just outside of the city proper!), my hope is that all the new friends that I now have and associate with, and serve the Lord Jesus with… including the local authorities and city officials, will protect me from any further harm at the hands of those wicked persons! I fear being once again trapped so helplessly and forcefully poisoned again!

In the past six years I have been personally investigated several times over to see if I really am who I say that I am, as well as to see if I am really, truly a Christian!

I was told that some years ago a man came through the region preaching and baptizing people and wearing a white robe! And that they investigated the man and found that before he became a preacher he had abused illegal drugs and had possibly even been a drug dealer as well? And so his new little ministry was ruined and they declared him a ‘pretender’ and shut him down for having had a past!

Well I do believe that most all of Jesus early followers had had their pasts of sins and moral failures and mistakes didn’t they now? But I have been compared to that robe wearing preacher man who was declared unfit of service in the Lord’s ministry and run ‘out of town’ as it were? God can choose to minister through whomever He wishes!

But I am no druggy, nor am I a drug dealer! I have though been used and abused by such! And by such have I nearly lost my life! And I have been told that I am “a miracle” for what I have suffered! And now I still do suffer, but at the vain thinking of the shallow minded who will not always allow me space from some sad points that I no longer wish to remember in all the brutal detail… BUT only in the generalities of testimonial speeches and object lessons for my story sermons! I love sharing messages with others!

There are two identifying details that I was told would be best for my own safety not to share with local persons. They are small things, but could get those wicked persons of my over six years past informed of where I am now! And that is all together a frightening prospect! And those are the two detailed questions that I am sometimes asked! And it spooks me to think that those of that particular long-reaching syndicate will find me! <><

THIS IS "THAT DAY"!

"It is now time for a revival of LOVE and of HOLINESS in THIS CITY and among MY PEOPLE!" says the Spirit of the Lord!

THEN THE LORD SAYS THE FOLLOWING!

""For in those days," says the Lord! "I will call those who are among many people, kingdoms and nations by MY NAME!

And many will become holy and seek My FACE! And when they seek MY FACE earnestly, I will reveal MYSELF and MY SPIRIT to them!

And they will become one nation out of many people, kingdoms and nations! And they will become a holy nation, a royal priesthood unto ME!

And this is that time to come when no will have to say to them "Know the Lord!" For ALL MY PEOPLE will know ME!"" says the Lord!

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Thanx,

Joe Christian <><

P.S. THIS IS A 'GOOD WORD' AND I JUST HAD TO SEND IT ON AGAIN TO OTHERS! THANX!

"It is now time for a revival of LOVE and of HOLINESS in our CITY and among MY PEOPLE!" says the Spirit of the Lord!

""For in those days," says the Lord! "I will call those who are among many people, kingdoms and nations by MY NAME! And many will become holy and seek My FACE! And when they seek MY FACE earnestly, I will reveal MYSELF and MY SPIRIT to them! And they will become one nation out of many people, kingdoms and nations! And they will become a holy nation, a royal priesthood unto ME! And this is that time to come when no will have to say to them "Know the Lord!" For ALL MY PEOPLE will know ME!"" says the Lord!

PLATOON STORY! About ‘Small-Town-Thinking’! By Joe Christian! <><

One thing I can tell you is that one can be older than they once were, smarter than they once were, and wiser than they once were; and essentially that is who they are! Does this make any sense to you?

When I was nineteen I could’ve served in the military service, but things were not like they are now for those who serve their country and their Lord Jesus. Now being a Christian in the military is a very welcome[d] matter! But when I was young, I would’ve had to’ve thrown away my Bible in the canister along with all other “contraband”, like switchblades and weapons and illegal drugs, and the like! So I would not serve in the military service for that reason!

I was asked about this as well as where I was born recently? And I explained that in my youth I would not be allowed to be a Bible-toting Christian and serve in the military as well. But now things are certainly different than that now aye?

I also told this friend that I was born nearly forty-six years ago and that for reasons of safety, as well as for whom I am, where I was born does not matter anyway. But my ‘friend’ just had to know these long ago meaningless details. But would a real “friend” back a person against the wall and force them to answer a question that the government already knows and is well aware of, including Social Security and the like; and that no one locally needs to either know or bother prying into?

I think that small-town-thinking thinks that where a person was born and their teenage opportunities, identify who they are now? Silly isn’t it though? At least to the more sophisticated mind that kind of thinking would be silly, uneducated and shallow aye?

My people are from West Counties England and I still carry some of those traits and characteristics, language skills, mode of speaking and some of those ‘old English’ mannerisms and ‘genteel-nesses’; Or so I have been informed?

The days that I could’ve served in the military, they had “Blanket Parties” for Bible carrying Christians! That’s where the sergeant suggests that in the night, the Christian’s platoon-mates throws a blanket over the sleeping Christian, and the whole platoon then proceeds to beat the Christian mercilessly to ‘teach him a lesson’!

So I ask you, why does a grown, middle-aged man have to then feel forced against a wall and asked questions about these things, and about his birthplace, even when he has shared that it all comes with memories of personal harm and youthful dangers beyond his younger control? And especially when he has already shared that the government is well aware of all these things as well as all his other statistics?

I think that it is true though, that ‘small-town-thinking does and says and asks small-town things’! Like kindly interrogating retired, ill missionaries about childhood experiences!

Like here in our own ‘small-town-thinking’ place, they beat and taser good citizens and bad ones to death and say “Whoops!” And then call yet another sad, murderous occurrence, “Excited Delirium”!

People of God! This ought not to be! <><

Rejection Can Be a Lonely Pill and Hard to Swallow Again and Again!

So I was viewing the 1985 LIVE AID Concert on TV and thinking, thinking, thinking about so many things, times, places and people!

I made it through another near-death experience where I was bleeding in the bathroom and weak and on my way out... I was pretty sure! But my friend "L" freaked and I mustered my strength and prayed, and told Jesus that for his sake, and for the others who love me, I will not dispose of this "mortal coil" but remain to praise the Lord upon the earth yet another day! Although, I do know that when I get to Heaven I can shout even louder there for His name sake and for His glory!

Now where does that lonely pill of rejection fit in to all of this? Memories!