A Great Silence in the Land
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Preface
This book began in my mind a few years back when I heard a radio talk show host agree with a caller that anyone who believed in a young Earth and in the Bible creation “myth” should not be allowed to vote as they were too ignorant. Young family members, Christians all, were also talking one day about the Bible being mostly myth. I was shocked. “How could anyone reared up in the Christian church not believe the Bible is true?” "How can anyone believe,” they answered, “that the universe and its inhabitants could be created in six days? Impossible!” "A flood that covered the mountains of the globe? Nonsense! Where did He get all that water?” "A whale whose digestive enzymes refused to consume a man? Yeah, right!” Many people question these things, but believers in Biblical truth find that literal events are woven into divine history to complete the whole picture of salvation. So that each event that seems so extraordinary and impossible to us brings honor and glory to God. For instance, the story of Noah and the ark is a literal event in time, but the spiritual meaning points to God's mercy in sending us Jesus as the Ark to save God's family of souls from the final punishment of the wicked. What is divine history? The Word of God is a record of literal events with spiritual applications that are both divine and human. The historical is confirmed by the archaeological and stands as a type and shadow of the spiritual, for all work together to help us understand the Will of God for mankind. But then, it came to me: there are just so many people who don't believe it. Then, I began to think about how the Bible is being stripped of its Scriptures: the ones that tell us what God wants of us that are contrary to our lusts, that affirm that life begins at conception, and the Scriptures that warn of God's wrath and judgment. These are the main issues that are under attack today. For a long time I didn't notice the shredding; then, I guess I became inured to it. But when I finally understood from newscasts of human interest stories and court cases that Christians must be tolerant of all beliefs and lifestyles. I began to listen. I listened, and in the noise of all the communication flowing around the globe, opinions argued, innumerable words written, spoken, and recorded, errors put forth as fact, I heard a great silence in the land. The Bible, the Word of God, rejected, claimed to be irrelevant, an outcast to this brave new world, is no longer allowed to speak to us; thus, the Spirit that moves the Word upon the heart finds a lukewarm reception. Then I got angry! All this hoopla about global warming! When the answer is in the Word of God (Genesis 8:21, 22)? I was asked when I mentioned the majority view in this country today, “How do you know what the majority view in this country is?” I can say what the growing majority view is with certainty because I have not heard that Scripture mentioned by anyone of my acquaintance, the news networks, random internet sites; televangelists, no one but me to counter the insupportable rumor. The Word of God is silenced. Do you believe the innate goodness of man will come to the surface and find the answers to turn us back to the prosperous, `take no prisoners' country we once were? Or will the next generation have the answers? We leave them no basis for it; the answers to the prosperity of a nation and the overcoming of its enemies were always to be found in God's Rule for our lives. We have only Henley's false and empty boast to leave them: Fear not death and punishments, he says. But the Bible says ...the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). Henley says, “I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul!”
Timothy McVeigh had no last words to speak, but he wrote Henley's boast on paper just before he was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing. It is also the essence of Sinatra's, “I did it My Way,” but to meet your maker with that boast on your lips will only teach you that God is ...even a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24).
Oprah says it was that statement by a minister that caused her to reject traditional Christian thinking, believing he meant God was jealous of her.
We Laodiceans have lost the knowledge of God as God and have yielded to vain imaginations that silence His Word, ignore the prophecies of the Book of the Revelations, and prevent us from hearing the rumble of God's anger even today that will be poured out in complete and perfect wrath against the nations that forget God (Psalms. 9:17). "Oh, right. That same old warning. Repent! The end is near! Every generation has said the same thing!”
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About the Book
In A Great Silence in the Land, K.W. Swain adamantly defends the Holy Bible--the actual dictation of the Holy Spirit who inspired holy men of old first to speak it, then to record it, and later translate it on its way around the globe to spread the Gospel of Christ. It is the Word of the Holy Spirit, and His watch care over it is described in a small but interesting history of the KJV.
Why has it been disavowed?
Could it be the desire of today's world to be free of its "outdated" commands and the torment of conscience that has extinguished it as a light to the nations?
Could this time of great wickedness be a result of its silence?
The Holy Bible tells us how the world began and how it will end, but the world in its pleasures is blind to prophecy that is being fulfilled even now. Is the Book of The Revelation coming to life before our eyes?
Here is an awakening look at the signs of the times. Believers will have much to think about. Unbelievers will scoff, but as events make headlines, even they may be surprised.
About the Author
Mrs. Swain is a retired teacher whose only claim to credentials for writing this book is her reverence for and study of God's Holy Word. The anger generated by its global rejection by both leaders and populace strong-armed her into its defense. She writes to a slightly derisive audience of questioners and brings them around to comparing the rejection of the Word of God and its attendant Holy Spirit to the death of the two witnesses in the Book of the Revelation. Together they discover just how closely the end of the Book of Providence compares to the headline events of today.