Eighty Years Revised

By LONG TON

Long Ton had been a lecturer on pedagogy/philosophy at the Dalat University, 1968–1975, before he was terminated at the fall of the Second Republic of Vietnam. An eleven-year lengthy death has been following until he was born again neither by might nor by power.

The true stories of his real lives have been published since 2003 as testimonials to the Spirit, which had brought him on the eagle’s wings for a spiritual journey backward some millennia into the ancient Hebrews’ spirituality whereat he discovered their creator YHVH as never been ever taught before.

He was turning eighty when he claimed to have been born a stranger and sojourner to be walking the sojourners’ way for all the years of his previous two lives and the following third.

All the way, although he has always been very happy because he was abundantly blessed, time and again he used to get himself worried more and much more worried as he cannot become a blessing yet, that is, a blessing as he thought he ought to be—to the best of my knowledge.

—David Kolzion

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796010688

LONG TON

Long Ton NGO Graduated from the National Institute of Pedagogy, Saigon 1959 Teacher at high-schools, Dalat 1959–1961 Graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy, Dalat 1963 Teacher at high-schools, Tuy hoa 1963–1965 Teacher at high-schools, Pleiku 1965–1967 Resigned from RVN Department of Education, Saigon 1967 Graduated in Basic Library Sciences, Saigon 1968 Managing Librarian of a high-school library, Dalat 1968–1975 Lecturer at the Faculty of Pedagogy, Dalat 1968–1975 [e-mail]

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. Prologue

3. The Hebrew Sojourners

4. In Vietnam

5. By the Spirit

6. By Faith

7. Monotheism

8. In the On-Fire era

9. Epilogue

1

Introduction

Long Ton was turning eighty (April 2018)

when he got ready for his claim to have been:

–born a stranger and sojourner

by his mother of an uncertain descent

–and walking inadvertently the sojourners’ way

for the full forty years since the death of his mother

but quite deliberately

for over the thirty years following

up to nowadays as he was moved into his third life

(June 2018)

By his paternal lineage, he was at birth Cochinchinese,

a French subject in their (1862–1945) colony Cochinchina.

May 1940, the Germans overran Metropolitan France;

September 1940, the Japanese took over Cochinchine and the lot of French Indochina,

they unified the three French possessions

(Cochinchina, Tonkin, and Annam)

into the so-called Empire of Vietnam (March 1945):

Eventually the Cochinchinese child was made Vietnamese successively under the Japanese,

in the French State of Vietnam,

and of the American Republic(s) of Vietnam.

Not worthy of any of all Vietnam, then and later,

he had to work with a

Vietnamese Republic under the Americans

before they deserted him on March 31, 1975.

Disowned and persecuted, even exterminated by another Vietnamese Republic under the Soviets

he had been tortured, in a sense even dead and entombed,

by an eleven-year lengthy sort of death,

before he was born again on March 27, 1986.

He was then turning forty-seven

when those three days came destroying all and altogether the things of his previous forty-six-year edification.

Early morning the fourth day of that festive season,

he was checked up again to see if he did still believe,

"I was made of dust taken out of the ground,

Definitely, Reverend!"

and he was born again By The Spirit

—That would bring him on the eagles’ wings

for a spiritual journey backward some millennia

into the ancient Hebrews’ spirituality whereat

he discovered their Creator YHVH

as never been ever taught of before.

Easter Sunday, 15 April 1990, the four-year born-again

was taken out of the lost country of birth,

aboard a nine-meter long fishing boat

escaping over sea overseas.

Eventually the stateless escapee had to spend

four other Easter seasons

studying another religious tradition

on an Island of Refuge.

Three and a half years later,

the UNHCR-recognised refugee

left Indonesia’s Galang Refugee Camp

for Australia’s Adelaide

in the ending of July 1993.

Long Ton, his name-at-birth, was legally buried

on 15 June 1994,

and after the twenty-year self-incarceration

inside Adelaide,

he was brought again upon the eagles’ wings

from south-eastern islands of the Old World,

across the Pacific Ocean

and crossing

both the International Timeline and the Equator

at a same moment,

to north-western lands of the New World (2013).

There, in the Spirit

he was set down amidst very many bones

that were indeed very dry

as they themselves acknowledged it, saying

Our hope is lost and we are cut off.

Actually, they were eating and drinking

and enjoying their spiritly death

on a day of their independence from the Creator

while he was standing

on Level 102 of the Empire State Building

with a closed ‘Holy Book …

comparable to the Bible …

the most correct …

containing the fullness of the everlasting Gospel’.

A year later,

Long Ton made another studying journey

to that Land of Angels,

focusing on his compatriots

dispersed there up to almost forty years,

searching for the fortunate born-again if any

in those Cities of Saint.

Ever since his last return from the US,

he has definitely been ascertained of

his complete death to the world (since 2015)

in the same sense as to

all sorts of Vietnam (since 1975),

desperately giving up the hope that

–dry bones can be given spirit

–brought up from graves

–and put into a Land of the Living.

Long Ton, the name-at-birth,

has only remained till nowadays

as a mere pen-name for the true stories of his real lives

that have been published

in Australia since 2003

and in the