Greetings, Fellow Members of the Body of Christ,

Wow, this one really took me by surprise. I didn't know Rodney had this. I believe this is the first time I ever taught on video. This was recorded at my home in Greenwich, Ohio—I would guess in the summer of 1995. I had quit the Postal Service in October of '93 to write and teach full time. I published my first newsletter in the spring of 1994, and by June of that year had spoken for the first time in Windham, Ohio, at the conference of Ted McDivitt. There were no video cameras there, only audio equipment.

I believe my family traveled to a conference in Baldwin, Michigan the fall of that year, where I delivered a few messages. And that's when a believer named Dorothy Van Buren loaned us her video camera. We'd never had one or operated one, but my wife Marcia and I thought it was good opportunity to begin filming the Bible studies we'd been conducting in our home for a few months. This is our first attempt.

Israel is the topic this day, and her terrestrial expectation. I take pains going through both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures showing that ALL of Israel's blessings are on earth.

It is really something seeing how much I look like my son Paul looks today. Paul appears near the end of the video. He is two years old and wanders into the living room to snag a pretzel out of a bowl.

Four people at this home meeting are now dead: Charlie Cronk; Art Cronk, Mike O'Brien, and Herb Dirks. Damn, I hate death.

Marcia has to be operating the camera.

I thank God for these early days of the work. Matt Rohrbach was and still is a supporter of this work. I met him at the Post Office in Willard, Ohio, in 1985. He became a believer through a book I passed to him in 1986 titled, "The Outcome of Infinite Grace."

I feel old. I guess I keep running to keep myself young. Also, Maria helps keep me young. I don't think a person is ever the same after they get cancer. Yes, mine was removed last summer, but the pains from the surgery are still there, always reminding me of mortality. Will I join my four brothers, or will I be snatched away to meet Christ in the air? I'm betting to meet Christ in the air. But one never knows.

God, I can't wait for this life to be like only a dream in the night. Because sometimes it seems like a nightmare.

Your brother, going through it all with you,

Martin

P.S. Thank you for your continued support of this work and the encouragement of the worker. You're backing the right horse.

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