EGS - Our Story

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Eternal Gospel Society is the result of a skeptic investigating a bizarre incident that happened at one of the two local churches that he was a member of.

Chapter 1 A Hartselle Man Overturns the Altar
The skeptic looks for the reason why the altar was overturned during Mass, and all he can find is that the incident could have been orchestrated by a Divine Father of Jesus.

Chapter 2 The Meaning of the Overturned Altar
If the overturning of the altar was divinely orchestrated as a sign, then its meaning would be that the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal are those whose lives are currently being given up as an unholy sacrifice.

Chapter 3 The Purpose of the Overturned Altar
If a Divine Father of Jesus orchestrated the overturning of the altar to reveal the victims of a continual human sacrifice, then the purpose of the revelation would be for someone to be taught what Christians can do to help stop the sacrifice.

Chapter 4 The Purpose of the Overturned Altar is Fulfilled
The skeptic is taught that Christians can help stop the unholy sacrifice by signing a petition for the permissive law that will stop coerced abortion.

Chapter 5 The Aftermath of the Fulfilled Purpose
Now that the former skeptic has been taught what Christians can do to help stop the unholy sacrifice, he is commissioned to bring an invitation to the faithful and a more complete Gospel of Christ to the unfaithful. This new evangelism will be the work of the Eternal Gospel Society.

1. A Hartselle Man Overturns the Altar
The skeptic looks for the reason why the altar was overturned during Mass, and all he can find is that the incident could have been orchestrated by a Divine Father of Jesus.

D. John Schmude was a skeptic, who lived in Decatur, Alabama from 1992-2007. During that time, he was a dual member of two local churches, the Catholic church and the church of Christ. That's because his father had sponsored his Catholic pedobaptism, and his father-in-law had administered his Christian credobaptism.

Since John tried to live in a way that would be pleasing to a divine Judge, just in case one exists, the skeptic would attend the Christian worship every Sunday morning, after having attended the Catholic Mass the night before. Since he was always curious about religion, he studied the Bible regularly and he read the 'Religion' section of the Decatur Daily every Saturday morning.

On Saturday morning, October 1, 2005, the Catholic church was featured in the 'Religion' section. The article was about the relics which John's bishop had installed under the altar two years earlier.

John's bishop installs the relics under the altar at the new sanctuary in 2003.

On Sunday morning, John was heading home from worship when the weirdest thing was about to happen at the 11 AM Mass. The altar was about to be overturned by some vandals, four of whom would be arrested. John didn't find out about it until Sunday night when he saw it on the Channel 48 news. Since he was curious as to why anyone would do such an irrational thing, he planned to read about it in Monday's Decatur Daily.

On Monday, John read that two of the four vandals went up to the altar. They were L. Marie Wagner and A. Joseph Turgeon, who went up to preach about idolatry; but as Marie preached, Joseph suddenly felt the urge to push over the altar, causing it to go down the steps where it smashed into pieces and tore up some carpet. Joseph was Marie's boyfriend and they lived in Hartselle with the other two vandals, a young married couple by the name of E. Beth and V. Eugene Loughman.

When Marie preached, Joseph felt the urge to overturn the altar.

John was curious about the second names of the vandals; because the second name of the Catholic church is "Annunciation of the Lord," which is the announcement in the alleged vision and dream of Mary and Joseph (Luke 1:26-38, Mat. 1:20-23). It could be that the foursome, Marie, Joseph, Beth, and her husband Eugene, were anti-types of the foursome, Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, and her well-born husband, the name of whom was not mentioned in the Annunciation of the Lord.

On Tuesday, John read in the Decatur Daily that a "vision" had spurred the attack on the altar. Joseph said that he had a vision where he saw him and Marie "tearing a church apart." He said that wasn't what they did, but he did admit that he "tore up a table" in addition to tearing up some carpet. Since that "table" is the altar, which is the centerpiece of every Catholic sanctuary, his vision turned out to be precognitive.

Headline in the Montgomery Advertiser (10/5/2005)

That made John even more curious about the second names. He told his Catholic priest and his Christian pastor about the second names and the vision, but they dismissed it all as a coincidence.

So, John tried to forget about it, and in 2007, he moved to Idaho, where he would live from 2007 to 2012.

But John could not forget about what happened to the altar in Alabama, because he would remember it every time he brought his gift to the altar in Idaho. One day, he went online looking to see if he had missed anything that had been written about the altar incident. He found that he had missed a newspaper article of great significance. It was published in the Huntsville Times on October 16, 2005, exactly two weeks after the incident.

The article said that when Joseph had the vision of him and Marie "tearing up a church," he did not know that Marie had dreamt the same thing a few nights earlier! Her jaw must have dropped in amazement when he told her about his vision. No wonder they acted so irrationally at the Catholic Mass. They were not themselves.

In the story of the Annunciation, Joseph, at the time of his dream, would not have known that Mary had an angelic vision and that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. All he would have known was that she was pregnant. After his angelic dream, he likely would have asked Mary who the father of her child was, and her answer would have confirmed his dream. That's how he would have known that his dream was true! John had always wondered about that.

The Annunciation of the Lord was allegedly made by an angel to Mary in a vision and to Joseph in a dream.

The skeptic had begun to think that there is a Divine Father and that he had orchestrated the overturning of the altar in the same way that he had orchestrated the conception of his beloved Son in the womb of a virgin two thousand years earlier. In no way, however, did the overturned altar prove the Divine Father's existence. To obtain proof, John would need to discern the meaning and purpose of the sign, and the meaningful purpose would need to be fulfilled.

2. The Meaning of the Overturned Altar
If the overturning of the altar was divinely orchestrated as a sign, then its meaning would be that the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal are those whose lives are currently being given up as an unholy sacrifice.

If a Divine Father exists, then he revealed his Anointed Son to a few men some two thousand years ago (Mat. 16:17). Overturning an altar reveals what is under it. To reveal is to make something known, which was previously unknown, usually in a surprising manner. It was already known what was under the altar physically. The relics were. Therefore, the altar would have been overturned to reveal what is under it spiritually in the Fifth Seal (Rev. 6:9).

Since the altar is the place of sacrifice, the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal would be either those who gave up their lives as a holy sacrifice or those whose lives are given up as an unholy sacrifice; and the catholic Church has always thought that they are those who gave up their lives as a holy sacrifice.

But it is unlikely that a Divine Father would orchestrate the overturning of the altar just to tell Catholics that they have been right all along. Therefore, if he is revealing anything, it must be that the souls under the altar are those whose lives are currently being given up as an unholy sacrifice.

Let's see if that makes sense, by analyzing every word of the Fifth Seal.

[To do: Paste analysis of the Fifth Seal here]

So, now the skeptic had obtained two of the four pieces of evidence that he needed to prove the Divine Father's existence: the way the altar was overturned, and the meaning of the overturned altar. The two remaining pieces of evidence were the purpose of the overturned altar and the fulfilment of the purpose.

3. The Purpose of the Overturned Altar
If a Divine Father of Jesus orchestrated the overturning of the altar to reveal the victims of a continual human sacrifice, then the purpose of the revelation would be for someone to be taught what Christians can do to help stop the sacrifice.

If a Divine Father exists, then he teaches those who are "teachable of God" (John 6:45). Therefore, the purpose of him revealing the souls of the sacrificial victims under the altar in the Fifth Seal would be so that he could teach someone how Christians can help stop the unholy sacrifice.

Since nobody else was taking the class, John decided to take it. He began praying to the Divine Teacher, just in case he exists, to teach him how Christians can help stop the unholy sacrifice.

Every time the skeptic tried to stop praying, he would bring his gift to the altar and there he would remember that the Divine Teacher, if he exists, had something against him (Mat. 5:23), namely, that John had no excuse for trying to drop the class, because he had graduated from a prestigious university with a 4.0 GPA in a challenging field of study. So, the skeptic would resume praying, asking to be taught how Christians can help stop the unholy sacrifice.

First, John was taught what a sacrifice is. A sacrifice is an act of giving up something to obtain something else for oneself or for others. That was how the Collins Dictionary was defining it. For example, on every Day of Atonement, the life of a goat was given up, or sacrificed, at the temple to obtain for the people, atonement for their sins.

Next, John was taught how a sacrifice is stopped. A sacrifice is stopped by taking away its efficacy, that is, by taking away its power to obtain something for at least one person. For example, the goat sacrifice was stopped, not by destroying the temple in AD 70, but by taking away the efficacy of the sacrifice some 37 to 41 years earlier, when the Messiah allegedly died for our sins.

Next, John was taught that the Messiah was foretold, by two prophets, to die and take away the efficacy of the sacrifice in the year 3790 AM, that is, 486 years after the seventh year of Artaxerxes and 40 years before the destruction of the second temple (Eze. 4:6, Dan. 9:27).

Next, John was taught that Jesus of Nazareth allegedly died by crucifixion shortly after 3 PM on the fifth day of the week and the fourteenth day of the month Nissan (Mat. 12:39-40, John 19:31).

Next, John researched the ancient moon phases of Jerusalem, to determine if one of the five possible years of Jesus' death, from 3789 to 3793 AM (To Do: show how to arrive at those five years), had the fourteenth day of Nissan falling on the fifth day of the week. One of those years had it, and it was 3790 AM, the year the two prophets had foretold the Messiah to die.

The skeptic was now convinced that the Gospel of Christ (1Co. 15:3-4) was likely true and that three of the four pieces of evidence, concerning the overturned altar, had been met: 1. It was likely orchestrated by a Divine Father of Jesus as a sign, 2. The sign had a meaning, and 3. The sign had a meaningful purpose, to teach someone how Christians can help stop the unholy sacrifice. Only one piece of evidence was needed. The purpose needed to be fulfilled.