Dear Fellow Believers,

The way I used to look at God's application of good and evil was that the system (the world) was good by default, and that God added enough evil to keep us humble. But this tended to force people to think of God as the daily deliverer of difficult situations. When I gave this message in Willard, OH, in 2002, I had decided (based on Scripture, of course) that EVIL was the default setting of the world, and that God adds just enough good to keep us going. 

This viewpoint gives us a better opinion of God as a daily Operator. In the relative sense, God rightly presents Himself as the Bringer of Light and a hero against a dark backdrop—never mind the fact that God invented the black backdrop to begin with (Isaiah 45:7). In other words, God solves a problem He created. Since we weren't around when God created the problem, our opinion of God is more favorable (we live in the moment) than it would be if God were fighting against a GOOD system He created, necessitating Him to throw up evil against us every day to balance things out, that is, to keep us humble.

It is not difficult to prove that evil is the default setting of the present system, and this is what I do in this presentation. Perhaps I will elaborate upon this theme this week on MZTV. Or possibly the following week.

I experienced the happiness of seeing Rodney Paris again at the Phoenix conference last weekend. What a great guy. He had this show in the can before the conference, but I didn't have the time to get it to you last Sunday. So here it is. Mr. Paris is a true soldier in the information war between the truth of God and the lies of Satan. It is a privilege to fight in this war with him and to bring these gems to you from the storage unit in Canton, OH, every Sunday.

To everyone who attended the Phoenix conference last weekend, it was great seeing you. To one and all, thank you for your continued support of this work. I need you. We need each other. As the days grow darker, we grow closer together. This will continue until the wonderful day when we are extricated out of this present wicked eon. Wait until you see how close we're going to be THEN.

I am remaining yours, as always, from the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,

—Martin