“The RoseBouquet”

This past weekend really broke my pattern of the summer and took my mind in a new direction. Well, not all that new as I’ve ready and thought a lot about Bible prophecy, but hadn’t really heard a talk or sermon on it in quite a while. Suddenly I was hearing several days of it.

The executive director of the Berean Watchmen Ministry is in our church and this was the fourth annual such Bible Prophecy weekend he had set up in our church. Of course, I’m so new, I didn’t realize this, but when I heard it announced I decided that I would take time for it. The first sessions started on Friday afternoon, but I felt I needed to stick to my work agenda until 5 pm, so I didn’t go until 7 pm for the two evening sessions. I was quite impressed, though found it odd that the church was not full.

Speakers had been flown in from the USA. Gary Fisher, Dr. Randall Price, and Dr. Thomas Sharp. The latter two are trained and have degrees in archaeology and the sciences.

I met a couple on the break from my old home church and Ron had found it by accident on the internet. Saturday was a long day from 8:30 am to 9 pm. They had announced that the talks were being streamed live from their website, BereanWatchmen.com, and just before the evening sessions, Jeremy Hall commented that some of the people seemed to have gone home to watch the evening sessions online while sitting in their pajamas. They had laptops here and there to provide for the speakers’ powerpoints, so in a few minutes someone in the sound booth confirmed that 30 people were watching from home.

I considered doing that, but realized that my computer at home is not fast enough to watch live streaming video without it being jerky, and besides, I had given up this weekend for this conference, so I stayed there.

On Sunday morning the sanctuary was just about packed out, and Gary Fisher preached a fine sermon about living on the edge of eternity. After lunch (when I had opportunity to sell a copy of my novel to the wife of one of the speakers, as well as share my story), we had two more sessions, but the last one was not streamed live. It was announced that the material was too sensitive to get out to the general public, people in another country could get into trouble with the government, so you had to be present to hear about some exciting discoveries.

I got home after 5 pm, and was pleased to see that the ice in my two rain barrels had melted. All weekend spent indoors, while outside the weather had turned warmer and quite nice. The previous weekend I had not been able to empty and turn over the barrels for the winter, and when I checked the weathernetwork I saw it was suppose to rain Monday. So - I quickly changed into work clothes and got busy emptying the barrels and turning them over. I was quite relieved to get that finished before the serious winter comes.