The Middle Room

By Brian Alston

The Middle Room is an account of a Spiritual odyssey on the heels of a youthful rebellion. It's a true life story with a Genesis revelation. One that will reach deep into the heart of every reader and into the consciousness of every participant. You will laugh, you may cry, should you see, you will be changed. Enter The Middle Room.
There you will learn of a sight given to child raised by a maternal grandmother from six months of age due to the tragedy of an untimely death. She raises him with unconditional love and in the church from which he soon turns away. However she laid a foundation upon which will be built one of the greatest revelations of scripture. As a child he's introduced to a sight that culminates in his adulthood.
After years of rebellion the you man returns to more than his faith, he has been revealed something that is so fantastic it's almost unbelievable. For a long time he's even afraid to mention it for fear of what would be thought of him. After soul searching he decides he must communicate what he knows and sees. He's been given a sight that is linked to ancient civilizations of the past. This sight even goes back to the book of Genesis, what he began to see as a child raised by his grandmother is now to be communicated to all. You too can see if you enter The Middle Room.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Alston
• Release date: Feb 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310386930

Brian Alston

I have a Bachelor in Th. and married with four children, three of whom are in college with one to go. I lead a small congregation in n.c. right now. Thankful to have lived long enough to correct all the mistakes I could. Hope what I''ve written will bring light into the world at a time like this.I love teaching the bible and I like to cruise because it's relaxing. I'm fond of chess, social media and puppies. I'm not really special, not really fancy just real.

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THE MIDDLE ROOM

Brian Alston

Copyright 2014 by Brian Alston

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter one: Breaking The Silence

Chapter two: My Beginning

Chapter three: Early Years of Rebellion

Chapter four: Early Un-adult Life

Chapter five: Spiritual Awakening

Chapter six: My Wife's Conversion

Chapter seven: Dreams & Visions

Chapter eight: A Changed Man

Chapter nine: A Ministry Start

Chapter ten: Who Am I Really

Chapter eleven: Ma Died

Chapter twelve: Seeking Forgiveness

Chapter thirteen: My Revelation

Chapter fourteen: My Purpose

Chapter fifteen: My Commission

PREFACE

The purpose for which someone is born and the life they live sometimes contradict. Many times even the way one is brought up and the situations of that up bringing are not indicative of the purpose for which one has been placed on this planet. One's youth and early adult life can be very contrary to whom one is really supposed to be. My perspective in life is that it's more the exception than the rule but some do find purpose, if not their purpose. I nevertheless think of those people who were so affected by wayward upbringing, tragic drama, just warped parenting or even the lack thereof. To the point that they never discovered who they were meant to become. Subsequently that would mean we have missed righteous leaders, dynamic teachers, along with medical cures and breakthrough inventions to say the least. I wonder how much else have we missed, do you? Considering I only named a short list.

The simple fact is we just don't get to see who everybody is or suppose to be for one reason or another. All lives don't come to fruition as I believe they were meant too. I don't make mention of this fact that we might start seeking to place blame because that would neither remedy nor make the problem go away. However when I think not only of all the people who never got to fulfill their purpose, I think that a great deal many of those people are on the earth today are just living and going through life day to day and I pray GOD that they would at least find happiness. I'm not left depressed because the fact is that there are still those who have found their purpose in their occupation, which fulfills them. Albeit doing what they love to do so they never work a day in their lives and that is what purpose is so much of being fulfilled by doing what you love. Having found mine and knowing part of it is for the Spiritual betterment of others, communicating my message, my ministry, my life.

So is put forth the endeavor of this book to bring together the dramatic life and times of one who has found purpose coupled with a timeless fantastic revelation. Not to mention the fact that the years of silence which tended to fear have been turned into the courage for how to communicate what has been revealed. Having confidence and the sure calling of destiny coupled with the election grace. To produce a revelation that is foundation to this enigmatic story of forbidden life from its failures to redemption and new birth.

INTRODUCTION

The Middle Room is a true story of events in the life of a young man that began in 1968. Whose beginning is as about as bad as any but when he was a young child he began to be graced with a gift of biblical proportions. He subsequently got to know things that he was for a long time afraid to communicate inside or outside of his immediate family. He's had a fear of being seen as crazy or thought of as delusional. This fear gripped him for a long while. However he overcame the fear and began to write about what he had been privy to. Although he thought his secret should be kept as a child. After some adult life drama he knew he needed to communicate but didn't know how but now that has all changed and what a story he has to tell.

Due to the tragic and untimely death of the mother his family is torn apart. Having been raised by his maternal grandmother with the utmost love from six months old she gives him a matriarchal rearing in three distinct areas of his life, Home, school and church. She gives him as sound a home life as she can, while guiding him in school she teaches him about GOD and raises him in church. Through the young man’s rebellion, he falls away from what he's been taught. Then after years of his rebellion he comes to back to more than his faith. However it's only when he is well matured that he begins to understand what grandma (whom he calls ma) was trying to teach him and what his grace is for.

GOD has been waiting for him and as he then begins an eye opening walk with GOD that makes him think he is crazy. Nevertheless he in due time through maturity realizes why GOD has been waiting for him. However before then he consequently believes that god wants him to become a pastor so he then starts a congregation but he has very little success because he's afraid still to tell what he really knows and what GOD really shows him. However in his heart he believes if he can communicate his revelation to his wife, his children, to his family, to his congregation, to any others, then that will be the proof that he is not an oddity. It will also be the proof that GOD want's this revelation to be brought to the world. So finally, reluctantly he begins to speak about his revelation from GOD and what he has to tell is incredibly unbelievable. To understand his revelation, you need to know his story. You are about to be told the all most unbelievable but yet truth, so get ready for a mind bending, brain washing, eye opener of a story for truth is stranger than fiction. This is the first step in beginning the revolutionary task that is set before us.

CHAPTER ONE: BREAKING THE SILENCE

For the better part of thirteen years, I thought I was crazy. Other times I thought paranoid and or delusional although in my heart I knew better but my head had no real explanation for the phenomenon that I had incurred into my life. Since I've had this spiritual experience and new birth. Consequently my eyes have been opened or reopened to a phenomenon that came to me when I was but a youth. However it wasn't completely revealed until I came to faith in Jesus Christ as my savior that I am able to see this serpent. It is composed of these circles some have dots in them and I can see them. It isn't anything that I have imagined or that I have conjured up. It is not formed outside of me, it is projected from within. I can close my eyes on a sunny day and I can still see a smaller version of the serpent. I know how crazy this sounds that's why it has taken me so long to come forward about this phenomenon.

I have often thought that there must be others if not at present definitely at some point earlier in time. Because if not that would make me what? However, if so, who were they? Where are they? What was their level of understanding concerning the phenomenon? What was the level of societal impact because of the phenomenon? If they did or if they didn't understand it and why? Where were they located? Just out of pure wonder am I related to them? All these questions require searching and researching so I have performed as far as I know the due diligence necessary to get the questions answered. Although I have come to terms with it and it doesn't bother me anymore, for a long time it did and I didn't know what to do, or who to tell about it. I mean it's not the kind of thing you just start telling family and friends or parishioners at your local church.

Super natural claims may not be received well when you're only weeks removed from drug addiction. So it was just kept inside. The main reason I kept it to myself again was, I thought that people would just think well it's just the effects from the drugs and alcohol, which is true in a lot of cases and I know of one in particular that was clear to me even when I was a youth, drugs messed up this guy we knew and he was a smart guy in college. There was this other guy who was an athlete playing football for a division one college that drugs got the best of. So the accusations would not have been unfounded. Although I knew that the spiritual experience had removed all effects of the addiction. I also knew I would be hard pressed to make others understand it. I speak in particular of those, who knew me as an addict, and especially those of my own family. Fact is I thought, since I only had this revelation and experience a very short time. So that in and of itself was not really a convincing proof. However time does validate a lot of things which is why I am now writing after some fifteen years of spiritual odyssey and new birth. I'm hoping that you through these chronicles of my life can get a better understanding of the serpent which I see. Yeah! You read it right a spiritual snake for lack of a worse term. So as I have mentioned for the first thirteen years I took the path of least resistance which was to just keep it to myself. Wasn't that just nice and cowardly? I thought if I don't talk about it, it doesn't really exist or at least I don't have the problem of explanation. You know the preverbal tree falling in the forest if no one hears it, does it make a sound? Now doesn't that really relegate sound to being subjective rather than objective or consider, if I don't see the sun is it not there? Is it not still the sun? Nevertheless I didn't know the duration of the manifestation I was experiencing. Would it disappear as easily as it appeared, silence seemed the best course of action or rather inaction.

There were times when I thought maybe this is something that should not be kept to myself. That this is meant to be experienced by others and somehow inside me I knew that it was supposed to be brought forth but then I would think about the ramifications of making such a claim. That I am able to see the serpent of the book of genesis in effect saying that I'm living in the Genesis. Or that there is something that I have that maybe the world needs or something that people could benefit from in a Spiritual way. Thinking of the importance of what was manifest did not help me overcome the oddity of the experience. However many times I had this conversation with myself I was still convinced that it was just not what I wanted or needed. I was experiencing a dichotomy of life on the one hand I was set free from the vices of life and believed I had entered into a virtue. While at the same time being afraid of the very virtue that had been manifest to me made me captive again. This was not a good place to live, fear is an emotion that holds one back from the possibility of the reality that is desired. When one is overcome by the perception of the reality that is not desired but might be. This I knew all to well and I didn't have anyone to talk with about it. I mean it wasn't the kind of situation I wanted to tell anyone who knew me from before my spiritual new birth. Neither was it something I wanted to tell anyone who I had met since that experience. I was just letting time pass by and it passed for some thirteen years. Then I decided it was necessary to just use my common sense. Although I still thought on the one hand, think if I started to tell and then it just wasn't there anymore how then would I explain that? Better yet would others explain that as delusional? Something like this maybe hey Orlando you know that snake, I mean serpent I was telling you I could see last week. Well guess what, it's gone man, I don't see it anymore, what a relief huh. To me that would definitely be teetering on the brink of instability and that is definitely putting it mildly to say the least. Now on the other hand, think if I were to live my life and a long one at that. Yet never talked or wrote or communicated on this experience in anyway. What kind of person would that make me? Considering over the course of my life the serpent never disappeared. I know how crazy this sounds that's why it has taken me so long to come forward about this phenomenon.

I have also considered how this can help others into a deeper walk of spirituality. I'm thinking of the people that could be enlightened. In places everywhere without the old Lordship of religion. I've considered if this is from GOD then it would be for all those that would seek him through it. When I think of the possibilities of how many could be changed or at least how many would pay attention to it just to see if it is something worth looking into for no other reason than curiosity. This would easily become a great awakening. Yes the possibility of enlightenment exists all across the nation and the globe because of one insignificant person that was chosen and shown something that is as ancient as man himself. I'm no longer afraid or thinking it's something that I should keep to myself. I'm prepared to tell all who are willing to listen and all who are willing to learn I'm willing to teach. This is going to be great and my goal is not to change the world. It's just to tell about what I know came to me from GOD. Besides changing the world requires a changing of hearts and minds. I do however believe that changing the world can be the effect of something that is done in the Spiritual as well as the natural. I call to mind the very one I serve the Lord Jesus Christ he has changed the world. Though most change is done on a secular level with inventions and things that for the most part make life better. However it can be done through a spiritual experience that could reach all people or at least spiritual seekers seeing that we are all spiritual creatures. Again this is not my goal, though I will tell my story and bring as many into this spiritual reality as possible.

While it has been a life altering event I have learned to cope with it and also learn from it. Now I dare to celebrate it and furthermore I'm daring to share it. I can't keep silent anymore I won't go another year without telling what I know I've been gifted with.

The spiritual revolution will be visualized and I hope all can see it. I'm not a bible Scholar, religious historian, anthropologist or neurologist but I think they're all going to paying attention very soon. What is going to be said is going to get their attention and they're definitely going to be interested in this phenomenon. The knowledge of this revelation is going far and wide because of the type of impact something like this can have. There are so many spiritual seekers out there and the sad truth is many of them only get a philosophy on GOD and what someone else thinks GOD wants from them or requires of them. The plain truth of the matter is this, GOD simply wants something for you and that's to know that he is. Then this is why religion and philosophy are classes that go hand in hand. Though none of this really benefit's the seekers. The seekers should have something they can take away if not tangible something more than words. If not this is what opens up people to the fast talkers like Adolf Hitler who mislead people politically and lets not forget the David Koreshs and Jim Joneses of the world. Those who misled people spiritually. The real teacher leaves you with something more than words. Not that words aren't important because they are but when it comes to GOD it's about what revelation GOD gives. Because if he doesn't give revelation of himself or do something tangible then he's no more than the GOD made out of tree wood or the material false idol. Such idols don't see or speak and people make up words in their name to cover for their impotence. Therefore you have a lot of people speaking for their GOD because he's impotent and really they're speaking on his behalf. This may not be everybody but it's a great deal of what we call religion, church, spiritual seeking. The form of godliness is nothing without the power thereof. So having said all that to say this, the power has been given me to show how to see what I see and not just give words. You can put the words to it that you like. A revelation from GOD is just that, a revelation from GOD. I'm not ashamed of what he's shown me and now is the time to communicate it. However the question still looms why now? Simply the best reason is it's from GOD. Two, I'm not afraid to say it or to talk about it anymore. Three, I know it will help a diversity of others in more ways than I'm aware of. Four, well why not now? More importantly it's taken some time to get educated in respect to the phenomenon. Having studied it for some fifteen years and that amount of study in any field brings anyone considerable knowledge. Over the years of studying it, I've gained understanding of what the serpent's appearance to me means. Its appearance is there to remind me that my prayer to GOD was heard. It's also a reminder that the bible is true and that I can trust it. This phenomenon teaches me that I am Adam. Not Adam the physical man in the garden but rather my spirit is Adam and my soul is Eve. Thus the serpent is before me as a reminder although it was the first Adam in the garden who also saw this phenomenon. I am Adam in that I am strengthened by GOD with might in (the inner man) my spirit. Therefore will my soul (make her) boast in the Lord my GOD. That I'm the one he chose to reveal this phenomenon being privy as to the dynamic that's involved surrounding it. I am changed for the better and seek to bring forth what I've come to understand as a sight that's given to me but not just for me. For all those who will come to see that what I'm revealing is truth from the bible. Truth that we may know as surely as there is a nose on our faces. Concerning a GOD who seeks to reveal himself to us in these last days. That we might accept His free gift of salvation through His Messiah and if there is another way I don't propose to know it.

The fact of the matter is I'm proposing a revelation that can be seen just as you are. The fact withstanding that as you will see then you may want to change because it's going to bring a lot of other things into focus. I am not advocating religion in any way however I think knowledge of this revelation will bring one into relationship which is what GOD wants. What you do after you've come into the sight is entirely up to you as your free will is not to be violated not even by GOD. He has given you the freedom of choice and it's completely up to you how you use it. You do yourself a service by checking into this because it's sure to be a phenomenon that won't ever be forgotten. You will be of the same mind when you are able to see. You may also wonder why I kept silent for so long even though I've explained my reasons. The sight I believe is a prelude to things that are going to happen in our world and GOD is always out front of anything that's going to be a detriment with His truth evident for all. As with anything there will be skeptics but the proof is in the experience of the revelation. I'm not here to refute skeptics or to try and make someone believe something because belief has gotten a bad wrap from religion. I'm writing that people may see and understand the truth of a revelation. The sun is there whether I believe it or not. This revelation is not a matter of belief or faith it's a matter of fact. Through this experience, knowledge has been acquired and as well the courage to tell my story. It's just the obedient thing to do, since I know my level of consciousness has been heightened spiritually with a visible manifestation. Thus now my eyes are eternally opened. This is my life, this is my story and this is