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Am glad they were sane enough to avoid Wash and Ore.

I knew a Buck brother--pastor of First Assembly in Spokane. His brother, Roland was long time pastor of First Assembly in Boise. Roland had the BELIEVABILITY type of personality like Walter Cronkite [in terms of the national people ranked by such].

Roland had what--14 extensive visits by angels and an extended visit to Heaven. His fascinating story is in ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT.

His visit to Heaven began as he sat at his desk. He put his head down to rest and poof, instantly, he was in Heaven. That whole scene is alone worth the read. Anyway--while he was in Heaven, he was told 120 things that would occur in the future.

One included the next Pope--which was accurate. Several of the 120 items were interesting miraculous ministry experiences--which occurred exactly as predicted.

Particularly interesting was that when Roland came to himself back at his desk, raised his head up--he realized he had a velum/parchment sort of sheet with the 120 items written on it in a beautiful script.

Being a bit used to such dramatic things at that time and/or maybe a bit foggy from his Heavenly experience, he just laid the sheet with the 120 items on it down and went to bed. When he got up the next morning, it had started to sort of disintegrate. He swept the pieces into an envelope and a number of people saw them. Eventually they sort of just evaporated to nothing, as I recall.

One of my favorite parts is that they had two great dane dogs. And they could always tell when angels were manifesting more overtly in their home by the behavior of the dogs--who loved it when the angels came more overtly.

As I recall, the first event was Roland waking up in his king sized bed facing outwardly on his side and realizing that the bed beside him--between his body and the edge was sunk WAYYYY DOWN because a VERY BIG [8-9 feet? I forget exactly] A VERY BIG man was sitting on the bed beside him--as I recall--in somewhat radiant clothing--I forget whether it was armor or a white robed sort of affair. I think some of the time, the angels were dressed casually in turtle necks.

I think the book's still in print though Roland went to his Heavenly reward years ago. I heard him speak in the midst of his angel visitations. I was prepared to discount it wholesale as more A of G hoopla [I was reared in the A of G. And, his brother who introduced him and whom I've met with, was very typical A of G. But Roland was a real solid character. The closest personality I can come up with is Walter Cronkite IN TERMS OF HIS BETTER POINTS! --his unflappability and solid scrutiny of reality. You just knew no body was going to pull anything over on that man.

Of course a long list of pharisees in Christianity had a fit that God would never do things THAT WAY. Some claimed parts of the book were unBiblical but I never found such and read it at least twice.

No, keep your tinfoil hats to yourself, thank you.