What Was, What Is, What Is To Come: An eye-opener for people of all ages, nationalities, and religions

By Gary Downton

God knew all the half truths and misinformation concerning His creation process so he asked me to do something new and write the book. He wanted people to know how much he cares for us and want s us to be on the positive side of His creation. He wanted people to see and understand how He unfolded His ongoing creation process and a semblance of what can be expected in general in the future. He wants us to grab a glimpse of His endless variety both visible and invisible to His and our enjoyment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641400565

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What Was What Is What Is To Come

Gary Downton

Copyright © 2018 Gary Downton

All rights reserved

First Edition

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc

New York, NY

First originally published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc 2018

ISBN 978-1-64140-055-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64140-056-5 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

My wife (Christine) and I decided to dedicate this book to our cat (Zoe), who never asks questions and only complains if you inadvertently step on her tail. She is also soft, fuzzy, and makes a nice noise.

Introduction

As I begin this book, I began to think of the many correct teachings and the not-so-correct teachings I have received from various sources. No one except God can teach everything right and correct all the time. He can present us with everything right, but through various means, those precepts and concepts can be distorted by our own mental reactions. No one except God is immune to mistakes. We can be taught right and wrong by well-meaning pastors. We can also be taught right and wrong by books and articles written on various godly subjects and material written by various religious leaders. A lot of the things we hear may be very sincere and sound good but be sincerely wrong.

Many of the ways of life are best learned by the simple practical experience of living. A person doesn’t know how to be a parent unless they have a child or children to take care of. A person doesn’t know how to run a household or a business if they are only three years old. In order to accomplish the above tasks, an individual needs to have a certain level of maturation. Through observation and our own mistakes, we hopefully will gain both sympathy and empathy for life’s issues.

I asked the Lord if I was correct in the subjects you are about to peruse through. He said to me, No, but you are fairly close to what happened, what is, and what is to come. I asked Him why I was only fairly close, and He simply impressed on my mind that I was not present to see and know all the details unfolding in their respective occurrences and timing sequences. I don’t even pretend to be any type of scholar, but going forward by faith in God seems to be an excellent endeavor.

I will discuss various subjects that, at first, may seem unrelated and may seem to be in no particular order, but as the reader goes forward, I hope you will see the reason for the variety and how everything will come together. Different subjects will involve Genesis, geology, angels, man, evolution, and animals. Also found will be information on vapor canopies, plants, the rapture of the church, and some general prophetic things for the future.

I believe this book has answered most of my own personal questions and has cleaned up a number of negative things all of us have been informed of by various sources.

This book hopefully will inform you of what happened in the past, what is happening in general at the present time (mostly 1948 forward), and some of those things that are going to come. I hope at least some of your questions will be answered or made clearer to you, the reader.

There are a number of books that I consider eye-openers. One, of course, is the Bible. Another book is Essentials of Geology by Stephen Marshak. Still others are 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Weise and Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson. There are a number of other books that I also consider important. My hope is that this book will be an eye-opener for many people.

Most of the time when a person is viewing a book with possible intent to purchase that particular book, there will be some comments found usually within the confines of the front and back covers to help sell those writings by that particular author. It could be a children’s book, a novel/novel series, educational material, technical data, how-to, or anything else. Here to help you out, I have included a list of possible answers of review as to what different people might say. God gives us a free will choice as to what we want to incorporate into our minds. To take Revelation 3:6 slightly out of context, I state, He who has ears to hear let him decide.

______Why bother reading it as it’s just another creation book?

______I have a friend who should read this.

______I bought the book, started to read it, and threw it into the trash. However, I figured I paid for the book, so I might as well retrieve it and finish reading. Glad I did.

______Good job, never saw creation in this light before.

______I’m a pastor and never knew this information existed.

______Thanks for having the nerve and fortitude to write something like this.

______ Hmmm, that was interesting.

______I’m a 24-hour creation-day person, and I’m sticking to it.

______I didn’t know all those things about angels.

______Okay! What’s next!

______The cover and title caught my eye, so I decided to buy it and read it.

______I don’t believe even half the stuff this person wrote

______I heard about this book and was curious.

______Where did he get all this information from?

______It went over my head.

______I got bored with the whole thing, too technical.

______It was okay, but I’m sticking to what I know and feel comfortable with.

______Your thoughts.

You can put a check mark beside your before and after choices, or maybe you have your own particular thoughts, some of which I may not want to hear.

When I started writing this book, I didn’t want to end up being known as a false prophet or a false teacher. I also did not want to write a book to get attention to myself. Jesus has to be first in our lives. This book is not being written so people could see what my personality is and how my brain might work. I wanted to be open to the Holy Spirit in these last days to help people see what happened in the past and see a semblance of what will happen. Little did I know all the things the Holy Spirit would reveal. It was my duty to God to say I will try and then to place the first word on paper. You take the first step in your walk with God, and He will guide you through the rest if you are willing.

I have included also in this book the tenets of faith I go by as a check on my Christian conduct to help me with the various mistakes that happen in my own life. Included also are the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit available to us. Toward the back of the book short addendums of facts about vapor canopies by Henry Morris and Mr. Vardiman have been included. You will also find included the fifty-plus principle that the Holy Spirit instructed me to write about and two sermons.

Also scattered throughout the book are short ponder points gathered over a forty-two-year time frame of my Christian walk. There are eighty-one of them. Please forgive me as I don’t know who to give the credit to for almost all of them. The Holy Spirit instructed me to scatter them randomly.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live (Eccles. 3:11–12, AMP).

But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [Through the Book] and knowledge [of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great (Dan. 12:4).

Tenets of Faith

I believe in one God, maker of all things and being in Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I believe that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, became incarnate, was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and is True God and True man.

I believe the Bible in its entirety to be the inspired word of God and the only infallible role of faith and conduct.

I believe in the resurrection of the dead, the eternal life of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost.

I believe in personal salvation of believers through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

I believe in water baptism by immersion for believers.

I believe in divine healing through the power of God.

I believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit revealed in the book of Acts as available to believers today, distinct from the new birth, and in the nine gifts of the Spirit found in 1 Corinthians 12:8–10, as now available to believers.

I believe in the Christians’ hope—the imminent personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe in the principle of tithes and offerings to the local church (expression of the body of Christ) as established in the Old Testament and as fulfilled in Jesus in the New Testament.

From number 8 of the tenets above in the Amplified Bible we find the following Scriptures:

"8. To one is given in and though the [Holy] Spirit [The power to speak] a message of wisdom and to another [the power to express] a word of knowledge and understanding according to the same [Holy] Spirit;

9. To another [wonder working] faith by the same [Holy] Spirit, to another the extraordinary powers of healing by the one Spirit;

10. To another the working of miracles to another prophetic insight (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose); to another the ability to discern and distinguish between [The utterances of True] spirits [and false ones] to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, to another the ability to interpret [such] tongues."

Preface I

Here We Go

I was outside hand-splitting firewood with a splitting maul. I was just minding my own business when the Holy Spirit said He wanted me to write a book. I thought, Okay, I’ve never done that before. What do you want me to write about? Oh, really? Creation. What was that you said? Not just creation? What else? The present and the future also? Okay! What do you want me to call the book?

It will be called what was, what is, what is to come.

So, Holy Spirit, how do you want me to start the book since I’ve never really written much of anything in my life?

The Holy Spirit said to start with how I annually prepare to supply my wife and I with the firewood we need to keep the house warm for the seven months of cool and cold weather. I’m thinking okay with a slight hesitation, He said that the universe, and especially earth, was prepared for the advent of mankind. We also have to keep our hairy kids (three dogs and three cats) warm also as we are responsible to the Lord for them and their care. The Holy Spirit showed me that the realization of the gathering of wood fuel is a sequence.

We, at the present time, have no other financial means to purchase, oil, gas, or electric heat. We live in upstate New York about fifteen miles from the Canadian border near Morristown, New York. We live in a rural, wooded area in a nondescript place called Brasie Corners. I run a small sawmill that provides useful products. Someone asked how I make boards. My reply was that I roll the log onto the sawmill and proceed to cut away everything that doesn’t look like a board. That way, I get my smart answer in for the day without being too abusive. It’s kind of like every dog that has their quota of barks that they have to release each day to feel better. Well, back to the subject at hand, the sequence of wood supply. There has to be a need for firewood, then a supply of wood usually but not always in the form of trees that God created. In order to process the trees from wood to ashes, a person has to have the following:

Means of cutting the wood by crosscut saw, chain saw, bow saw, sawmill, or a very well-trained family of beavers.

Fuel for the chainsaw and food for me.

Ax, splitting maul, wedges, or power splitter to reduce the size of the wood rounds.

Means to haul the wood from point A to point B by truck, wheelbarrow, or a teenager willing to work.

Place to stack wood to dry more evenly.

Stove to put wood into and stove pipe or chimney so the house doesn’t get filled up with smoke.

Knowledge of how to start and maintain fires and not burn your fingers or