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Thank you, Deo volente.

For sentimental reasons, I have kept an old eight track video of a TBN TV broadcast of Jan and Paul with one of their guests who was from Beaumont, Texas. The year was 1988-89.

This particular guest was introduced on the show as a Messianic Jew I believe, and he had written a book called “Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Messianic Kingdom to Come”.

It was a fascinating interview and the very first time that I had ever been introduced to the term of “feast” and “feast days” and “seasons”, as applied to the commands of God in the Old Testament, and in the practices of “the people of God”, (which also was an especially interesting term for me— “the people of God”).

The people and the priests were devoted to these feast days of the year, and went up to Jerusalem as an act of obedience and devotion.

The book walked through the old feasts of the Old Testament and neatly applied them to the practices and events of the New Testament. I was stunned to hear from him that the lamb was killed at 3:00 PM, bound vertically on a rack... and many other minute details recognizable in the sufferings and display of Jesus on the Cross.

From this “Messianic Jew”, I learned soo much and it changed my course. I bought the book, of course, bought copies for friends and remained struck that “my” modern church had never taught the meaning of the old feasts and the events of the Old Testament, Christ Jesus as Sacrifice, the importance of the Altar, etc., etc.

That one program, miraculously, prepared me to recognize, years later, that their actually is a Church on earth obedient to “feast days” and “Holy Sacrifice”, with full understanding of the commands of God, of our destiny in Christ, and our obligations to obedience to His commands as our Shepherd.

I wanted to share the book he authored with my non-denominational pastor, but something held me back. It was eight years later that he was preaching on feasts, all by himself, or at least without my prompting or injections.

Many foolish changes occurred in that growing mega church and the Psalms sung in the beauty of King James language, became guitar strings and second grade reading level lyrics.

It was too much. We left. During that “sabbatical”, I was pretty lost and just a little desperate. We built a home with high ceilings in the living room and tile floors and many windows. Listening to TV in this house was acoustically terrible!

I would channel surf and land where the quality of sound was better and more comfortable to have on, just for droning in the background, as I did this or that of my work.

The best and only channel, in that house, was ........ you guessed it. EWTN.

The rest is history. My little story began with Paul and Jan, and that awesome little guest of theirs, from Beaumont Texas.

I would say Jan & Paul were certainly used by the Holy Spirit of God to bring me to Christ’s Church. I have regard for them for that, pity, and no condemnation. Prayers for Paul and Jan. They suffered much, even with the material excesses, they suffered much.

Somehow, I believe God recognizes affliction and can separate it from the true love of the heart. I pray it was true love. I think it was.

I was received into the Church in 2001. Thanks be to God.