Dear Fellow Believers,

Without an understanding of the eons, the purpose of God cannot be grasped. The Bible is not about eternity, but rather about five segments of time known as eons that were created by the pre-Bethlehem Christ during which God would begin and end His loving purpose. This is not to presuppose that time ends after the eons end. No. It is rather the consummation of the purpose of the eons. After God has reconciled the universe to Himself through Christ (for this is the purpose of the eons), Christ delivers up a perfect world to God, and God becomes all in all.

After that? I don’t know; I don’t need to. This is enough!

This is the second part of a two-part talk on the eons that I delivered in Newport News, Virginia, in November of 1996. I remember that weekend. I was the only speaker at a Friday-Sunday conference hosted by Robert Allen, the pastor of a church operating out of an old dentist’s office at a strip mall. I delivered a total of nine talks that weekend; it seemed as though God were granting me supernatural power. There were maybe 25 in attendance, and they were a very attentive crowd, soaking up everything I had to say. It is a wonderful thing when you can feel a group of people pulling from you. Wanting it from you. It inspires one to keep herald, I can tell you that.

This was the weekend of the first Tyson/Holyfield fight (not the one where Iron Mike bit Mike Holyfield’s ear; that was Tyson/Holyfield II). I’ll never forget watching that fight (Saturday, November 9, 1996) at the home of Robert Allen. My traveling companion Jean Douglas and myself were the only white dudes at about a twenty-person fight party, and let me say that it was one of the most memorable times of my life; that—and my talk on the eons. But seriously, I can’t think of that many times when I’ve had so much fun than at that party at Robert’s house.

I dedicate this video to our fellow-laborer and fellow member of the body of Christ, Jean Douglas of Atlanta, Georgia, who died around three years ago. I don’t think he was 45. Jean worked tirelessly from the day I met him at a conference in Circleville, Ohio in March of 1995, recording every video of at least a hundred conferences—that I can remember.

Current thanks to a man who also works tirelessly for you, Rodney Paris, who keeps fielding cassette tape after cassette tape that my sister Kelly ships him from Canton, Ohio—tapes that have been in a storage facility there for over 20 years. Rodney digitizes the audio and then spices it up (as though the eons need spice; although, it does help) with video and text frames. It’s a lot of work, you have no idea. So thanks again to Rodney.

I am thankful for you all, for your love and support of this work. We are a grass-roots operation, energized by God, fueled by the spirit that gives us a saving realization of His Word.

From the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,

—Martin