Rereading Prophecy

Rereading Prophecy - Serialized

When I set out to prove my newly acquired stepfather wrong about Sabbath observance in the autumn of 1959, I was a twelve year old high school freshman who had been given a trout rod by a Catholic priest. The rod came with a junky spinning reel capable of handling fifteen inch sea-run Cuts, but not capable of landing the summer run steelhead of about ten pounds I hooked on the Siletz River: the bail frayed the line before the steelhead tired. So I purchased for four dollars a True Temper baitcasting reel and was using it for salmon fishing, despite having to patiently untangle backlashes from making poor casts.

Initially, I wasn’t very good as picking out the tangles from the overrun spool, but I became better the longer I fished with the reel.

A Seventh Day Adventist pastor gave me a book that allegedly unraveled the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation as he sought to help convince me that I, too, should keep the Sabbath … the logic on display in the book was more tangled than any backlash I had ever created. As a result, I lost interest in biblical prophecy, and still wasn’t interested in prophecy when I was called to reread prophecy on the 17^th day of January, 2002, a Thursday, the calling coming about 10:12 am EST, exactly forty years to the day and to the hour of when Garner Ted Armstrong, speaking under the authority of his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, rejected divine revelation, the story of which I have previously told and will tell again in a latter chapter of this present work, Rereading Prophecy Revisited, essentially a second edition of the short work published as Rereading Prophecy in 2003 (written in March of 2002).