Posted by Steve Benjamin (by Proxy) on September 3, 2009, 3:19 pm
Thursday, August 27, 2009
This post is actually far early, I will be going into town tomorrow,
I have been invited to lunch by a former girlfriend, well girlfriend
is probably not the right word, but a former romantic interest. We
dated in the past, but it never went anywhere, still she is pleasant
company, and humorous, it should be a fun lunch. She actually paid
close attention to my visions for a while, and witnessed some of them
come to pass. Such led into conversations of the Branch Davidians, or
vice verce. So it is actually Wednesday night, near midnight soon.
These next chapters will go much faster than the previous day, perhaps
even previous two days. And while I am in town tomorrow, I may as
well go ahead and forward these to Wendi for posting next week, and as
well the Sabbath Greeting for this week. So if all goes as I intend,
you will be actually be reading this in the first Thursday of
September approaching Labor day. You will note that there is not a
study for Saturday, that is because I reserve such for a Sabbath
Study, and Wendi has my anticipations up for reading a study she
should be placing soon.
Wendi's note: The study he is talking about is one I alluded to a few weeks ago, about obedience vs. perfection. However, matters revealed to me in the Spirit since that time have led me to re-examine my own understanding of some verses and passages before I post it ... the standard for those who teach is a higher level of responsibility... I do not want to present error. It may be a while. Okay back to your regularly-scheduled programming now 
I look forward to her presentation of the
subject matter. As You read this, I will likely be going to Austin
for Kung Fu on the same day, which for me will be next week, and as
Labor day approaches, I will be preparing to go to Waco again for
Sabbath Study. So lets get into the study, I will study Genesis 50 in
the morning, and comment on that chapter in town before forwarding
these, and it will serve for Friday’s study, like I said, sometimes,
we may not get even a few verses, sometimes a chapter, but usually a
couple, and often 3 or 4. That shouldn’t be too much to read in a
day, and we are not on a schedule, but I figure about a year, give or
take a few weeks for us to go through the entire Bible Chapter by
Chapter, verse by verse, and maybe at such time, we will progress
forward. Lester Roloff was a popular Independent Fundamental Baptist
evangelist with a Radio program for many years. He ran a boys home,
several in fact, but the main one, THE LIGHTHOUSE ministry in Corpus
Christi. He was jailed often for street preaching and for running his
boys homes against the state of Texas. Clive notes he listened to him
often and liked him. Brother Roloff actually went to Bible College in
Waco during the days of Victor Houteff, and one gets a strong
impression he was highly influenced by some group of Adventists,a s he
preached heavily against pork and advocated Levitical dietary laws.
In the 80s’ during my first year of marriage we did not even own a TV,
as I was very influenced by his teachings and I did not eat pork for
more that a year or two in the 80s, likewise influenced by what he
said. He emphasized old testament laws and was ridiculed by the very
people who claimed him, The Independent Fundamental Baptists, and the
same who loved him much after his death, untimely to a plane crash as
he had his own plane and flew often to hold revival meetings. Brother
Hyles, Dr. Jack Hyles, at Hyles Anderson was a personal Friend of
Roloff, both men highly instrumental in what rose to be the
Independent Fundamental Baptists, was a personal friend of Roloff and
attended Baylor at the same time. He notes he recalls the first time
he saw Lester Rolloff, he said some people bring trunks to College,
some cars, he saw Lester walking across campus, rope in hand with his
cow. Roloff sold fresh milk to help get through bible College, tells
you how country he was, but he was hellfire and brimstone, and unlike
many in the movement, he had content, real spiritual insight. Brother
Hyles noted after his death, the nature of the trash on TV in the late
80s and all those in the 60s and 70s himself included who poked fun at
Lester Roloff for his stance on TV, even making jokes after his death
about his stances on dietary restrictions to have been the “healthiest
man to ever die in a plane crash,” then Brother Hyles lost his smile,
grew sad a moment, noted…”yeah, that rotten TV, Ol’ Lester sure must
have known something we didn’t, God must have given him a vision into
it, we laughed at him in the 60s, in the 70s, and now he is gone, and
we are laughing anymore, everything he warned us about, it came true.
That box is sending more people to hell today than anything else, that
old Hell-a-vision.” I sure regret so many times the day I let that
box back into my life and home. I may still be married and together
to the wife of my youth had I kept it out. But I didn’t and I have
one now, though I can tell you, I am not watching a bunch of trash on
that thing, nor was I in NC when I had cable. IT can be a tool, but
it can easily get out of control. I was speaking quite regularly
with Livingstone for a few months last Spring, often having phone
conversations for a couple hours at the time, and I can tell you, he
noted often he didn’t have a TV, and such was by choice, wouldn’t have
home internet for the same reason, he was very worried about it
attacking “THE GOD MINDSET” and I think there is great need for both
concern and restraint in having such things. Dr. Hyles went on to
note Roloffs Preaching style. If you ever heard him preach, then you
know, and if didn’t well, his radio show went on for years after his
death, and his sermons sure had some crazy titles at times, they were
good, but sometimes, the titles were quite bizarre. He said Lester
Read his bible Through on a plan, every day on schedule, and he never
veered from it. He would be in almost the exact same passage next
January 1st as last, and when he preached, no matter where he was at,
on the radio, in a revival, at a bible college as a guest speaker, no
matter he was, he preached from what he read that day in the Bible, he
didn’t skip around, he didn’t move forward or back to make a point, if
God laid some issue on his heart to preach about, he drew scriptural
reference from where ever he was that particular day, and went to
address the issues God had for him to address, chapter by Chapter,
verse by verse he read, and you could always tell where he was in his
personal reading by the sermons he preached in the same timeframe.
Dr. Hyles notes that once he preached a sermon called “PAWING IN THE
VALLEY” and it was a good sermon, got good results, but it had
absolutely nothing at all to do with the scripture which he chose for
the title, but that what he used, and people responded, and God seemed
to bless it. But he’d preach, and he’d lay into the crowd over sin
and righteousness for issues which shouldn’t have had to been
addressed, but certainly needed to be, and every so often, he’d stop,
and he’d pause, and get kinda dramatic, and say..”Pawing in the
valley.” And Dr. Hyles just shook his head and laughed as he recalled
it. I don’t know if we will be Pawing in the Valley today or not, but
we will certainly continue, Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse.
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