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I wanted to thank you for including the article by Bill Britton in the last issue. His rendering of Elisha's story brought great encouragement to me as I read it through sobs and tears. Our Father knows our every need.

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We've enjoyed seeing Shoshanna here in Jerusalem. I think she has made friends now and is well on her way. She is a sweet girl. We have prayed for your little one, Autumn Sunshine, and admire your positive attitude. Keep the newsletters coming.

Hannah Rychlik
Jerusalem, Israel

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Thank you for sharing what you have learned with my family through your publication and the services we have attended while visiting family in Peoria. Your articles continually cause me to evaluate my beliefs about G-d, teach ings of the Bible and more. I believe I've begun to switch from having eyes that don't see and ears that don't hear to eyes that do see and ears that do hear. How my views of G-d, myself and the world have changed.

Kristana Tate

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We are blessed time and time again by your thought-provoking, insightful articles. This wilderness experience we are going through gets pretty lonely. We have no one near us that gets the picture. Thank you so much for your teaching.
The Murray Family
Union Hall, VA

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Thank you for the recent issue of Gates of Eden. We've really enjoyed it and look forward to more. Reverend Twistruth is brilliant!! Love it!

Mike Shields
Jacksonville, FL

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I really enjoy reading your articles and Rev. Twistruth always puts a smile on my face. By the way, your cartoons have really stepped on some toes around here [in a prison -DB]. You have quite a following on this unit and all the brethren can't wait for the next issue of Gates of Eden. Our Heavenly Father is pouring out His Spirit on the men here and the Gates of Eden is introducing these men to some of the real truths about the "old time religion." The evil one sure gets mad when he is revealed for what he truly is.

Clarence Pope
Ft. Stockton, TX

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Please send me any information you have on Sabbath keeping. I found your information on the Internet. For some 50+ years I have worshiped on Sunday. God is now showing me the light.

Dewey E. Fox
Morganton, NC

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Since, like many others, I'm inundated with material from a number of min is tries, I'm going to cancel some of them. I was going to cancel Gates of Eden, but your last issue was so good I reconsidered. Some will go soon, but G.O.E. won't be among them.

Daisy Smith
Chicago, IL

My church is against wearing jewelry. We checked Bible references and cannot see why it is wrong to wear jewelry as long as it's worn modestly and the wearer is not idolizing the jewels. What is your opinion on the wearing of jewelry from a Biblical perspective? Israel was stripped [of her jewelry] when they sinned. God told them in Exodus to put it on their children.

Name withheld by Editor

The fact that there are many passages of Scripture that speak of jewelry in a positive way makes it pretty hard to condemn all jewelry -- unless we take the "N.T.-only" approach and ignore these passages and base our entire theology on 1 Peter 3:3 ("...whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, or of wearing gold, or of putting on ap par el..."). Even if this verse were the only thing the Bible said about jewelry, it would be adding to the Word to say that this condemns the wearing of any gold whatsoever. If this verse means that it is wrong to wear any jewelry what so ev er, then we must also say that it is wrong to wear any apparel what so ev er, for Peter also condemns the "putting on of apparel" in this same verse. If the anti-jewelry Christians want to be consistent, they'd better not put on any apparel whatsoever, and go to church naked. The next verse of Peter's instruction makes it clear that he is simply telling women to be more concerned about the inward beauty of their character than they are about the outward adornment of their bodies: "But let it be the hidden man of the heart ... even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit." And if women today followed these instructions, there would prob a bly be a lot less jewelry. -DB

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I am very interested in your position on the rapture -- pre-, mid-, post-?

Mike Shields

I'm not 100% sure, but see page 12. Also info about a book on page 2. -DB