Time Witnessing: The Truth Behind Moral Values Inspired by God’S Word and How Long You Will Spend in Heaven or Hell

By Kevin Turnbaugh

As the son of a minister, author Kevin Turnbaugh had the truths from the Bible as part of his life right from his birth. His life was dramatically changed in August of 1984, when his eye doctor gave him the news that he was going blind from the incurable eye disease retinitis pigmentosa. In early 1998, he went totally blind from this disease.

Turnbaughs vivid memories of two visits to Israel and his background in service in and around the church and in government, have given him special insight on the matters of our country today and the threats to our freedoms and to the family. Detailed study of Gods Word and sitting under the teachings of several ministers of the Bible have helped Kevin form his understanding of what we need to do about these issues today and why each person needs to be ready for the imminent return of Christ. This provides a unique mathematical manner of understanding how long eternity will be, whether your future home is heaven or hell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449713058

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Contents

Section I

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction

CHAPTER 2 - The Life of a Preacher’s Kid

Section II

CHAPTER 3 - Save the Amendments to the Constitution

CHAPTER 4 - First Amendment: Freedoms of Speech and Expression

CHAPTER 5 - First Amendment: Freedom of Religion

CHAPTER 6 - First Amendment: Freedom of Assembly

CHAPTER 7 - Second Amendment: The Freedom to Bear Arms

CHAPTER 8 - The Constitution: The Freedom of Choice

CHAPTER 9 - The Eighteenth Amendment: Prohibition

Section III

CHAPTER 10 - One Man/One Woman

CHAPTER 11 - The Old Family Shows

CHAPTER 12 - A Christ-Centered Family

CHAPTER 13 - Dealing with Attacks on the Family

Section IV

CHAPTER 14 - Hell: Home of the Unrepentant Sinners

CHAPTER 15 - Hotter than Hell

CHAPTER 16 - Heaven

Section V

CHAPTER 17 - Time Witnessing

CHAPTER 18 - God’s Timeline

CHAPTER 19 - The Rapture of the Church

CHAPTER 20 - The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

CHAPTER 21 - The Millennial Kingdom

CHAPTER 22 - Eternity and the Sparrow

CHAPTER 23 - Eternal Mathematics 101

Section VI

CHAPTER 24 - Amazing Grace

CHAPTER 25 - Too Much the Sinner

CHAPTER 26 - Good-Bye and God Bless

CONCLUSION - Whosoever

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REFERENCES

PREFACE

My purpose in writing this book is to give as many people as possible an understanding of those things that threaten our values in today’s world. There are people and organizations in our country today that are dedicated to the destruction and removal of our Judeo-Christian lifestyle. They threaten our church buildings, as well as those who attend them to worship God. They influence those who represent us in Washington, D.C., as well as on the local government level, in an attempt to reduce, if not remove completely, those rights and freedoms we cherish so dearly, as set forth in the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution.

I also wanted to write this book to tell as many as possible of the coming judgment of God on this earth. The Bible clearly explains to us a day when all who call Jesus Christ their Savior will be taken away, and only the wrath of God will be left to those who remain: the horrors of living under the rule of the Anti-Christ and the twenty-one judgments God will pour out on the earth. Finally, to give the reader a detailed understanding of how long a period of time we are talking about when we talk about Eternity, it is timeless. But do you know what that means? In the coming pages, we will deal with all of these issues, and more, for the purpose of getting you to understand why you need to ask Jesus Christ to become your Savior, too. In this book, all of my scripture references are taken from the New International Version (NIV) or the King James Version (KJV).

Kevin Turnbaugh

Section I

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction

I have read many books, articles, and so on, and now that I am blind, I have listened to books on cassette tape or CD. In the case of books written by authors telling about their years in politics, ministry, or the like, the first few chapters are usually about their childhood. This always includes their school years, college, and how they met their wives or husbands. I have always thought of these beginning chapters as the blah blah blah chapters. In the introduction to this book and section, I will endeavor to get the blah blah blah stuff out of the way.

I was born on August 10, 1954, in Bad Axe, Michigan, to Reverend Ray and the late Mrs. Edna Turnbaugh. We moved from Bad Axe to Dodge City, Kansas, and then on to Colorado Springs, Colorado, before finally getting to Texas. There, we lived in Killeen, Abilene, and San Antonio. Except for a year of school (fifth grade) back in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and my junior and senior years of high school in Hanover, Pennsylvania, all of my school years were in Texas.

Having lived in San Antonio for thirteen of my first sixteen years, I had adopted it as my hometown. I have told people that if Jesus can be born in Bethlehem yet call Nazareth is hometown, I can be born in Bad Axe and call San Antonio my hometown. I was planning to have a wonderful life as a Texan, attend the University of Texas, School of Communications, and get my degree in telecommunications as a television cameraman. But no, my parents had to move me to Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1970, before I could graduate from high school. I was more than just a little mad about this move. Frankly, I was one mad dude!

No sooner had we moved into town than Mom decided to play Cupid. She would try to convince me that this girl or that girl was so nice, good-looking, and, So, why don’t you ask her out? type of stuff. Well, my mad dude attitude was still with me, and every girl I saw, met at the new church, and so on was nothing short of ugly ducks. After a while, some of them started to look interesting, but, sorry to say, others were just ugly ducks, and I did all I could to avoid them. I think I dated six or so girls from my senior year of school in 1972. Some I dated for a period of time; others were once and done. I had one blind date, and she was a real dud. In 1981, I met my future wife, Lori, at a restaurant.

Out of high school, I worked a part-time job at a grocery store and full time at a meatpacking house in Maryland. My next thirteen years were with Freeman Shoe Company in Hanover, where I started out in the Outlet Store and then into the manufacturing side of the company as an industrial engineer. On June 18, 1983, Lori Kay Reichart became my wife, and we set out on life together, having no idea what would hit us just fourteen months later.

I had problems with my eyes, missing things on the floor, running into corners of desks, and hitting people on their shoulders while walking around at the factory, church, and home. So, on the recommendation of a friend at work, I made an appointment with a local eye doctor for an exam. I had worn glasses ever since fourth grade, but the doctor I had been going to had retired. It was August 18, 1984, and in just one half hour, he found that I had the incurable eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, commonly referred to as RP. Before I left his office, I had an October appointment at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland for a more thorough exam. The results of that exam only confirmed the initial diagnosis.

In January of 1987, my employer decided it was too dangerous for me to continue working in the factory, so I was laid off due to my failing eye situation. This fact, and the moving of the shoe industry to overseas locations, led to months of unemployment for me. To date, this has been the lowest time in my life. I spent nine months unemployed, watching our very limited savings disappear, and most important, becoming increasingly visually handicapped. Added to this was the fact that I had to quit driving during this same year. But, after many résumé mailings, phone and face-to-face interviews, and the help of a placement counselor from the State of Pennsylvania’s Department of Welfare, Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services (BVS), I was able to obtain a new job with the US Army in September of 1987.

Those nine months were terrible for me, and I can remember shouting out one time, Where are you, God? Little did I realize He was preparing me for the rest of my life. I had never been known for much patience, so He taught me a very bitter lesson during that time. Although, I still have a problem with patience, it is nothing like I had before that time. To get to work, I must depend on other drivers; make arrangements for backup transportation, and so forth. I must be prepared to wait for people to be available to help me. This is also true in other areas of life as well. However, it became much more evident of God’s preparations for me, when, about 1998, I went from being visually handicapped, with a little bit of vision to work with, to having the disease take the remaining vision and becoming totally blind.

As I write this, I have worked for the US Army for twenty-three years, and I think I have missed about five days of work, because I did not have a ride to work. I believe I have become a much better, and more learned, Christian by going through this difficulty. My wife, Lori, has been at my side through it all, and I can tell you that He gave her to me to help me get through it all. She was especially gracious, supportive, and loving during the time between going totally blind and getting the medication needed to deal with the depression that came with my blindness. One of my most painful things is not being able to see her and her beauty.

CHAPTER 2 - The Life of a Preacher’s Kid

There is nothing worse than having to do a job that does not pay anything and provides all the frustrations you can imagine. One of those jobs is that of a minister’s son or daughter (better known as a Preacher’s Kid, or PK). Having been one since my birth fifty-six years ago, I can speak from personal experience and the horror of it at times. You cannot seem to find