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, beginning with Revelation 6:9.

Revelation 6:9 (MKJV)
And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

The Lamb (our Lord Jesus) is the one who opened the Fifth Seal, and John is the one who saw the souls under the altar. They were slain for two reasons. The first is "for the Word of God." This could apply to anyone, because it was through the Word of God that all things, including these souls, came into being (John 1:1-3).

The second reason is "for the testimony which they held." This also doesn't tell us much. But it's interesting, because the terms "Word of God" and "testimony" appear four times in the Apocalypse (1:2, 1:9, 6:9, and 20:4), and this is the only time that the testimony is not the "testimony of Jesus". That's the first clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs. Now, let's examine the next verse.

Revelation 6:10 (MKJV)
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

Notice that the souls under the altar cry out to their "Master," which is despotes in the Greek text, rather than to their "Lord," which would have been kyrios. In all his inspired writings, this is the only time John wrote despotes. Contrast that to kyrios, which he wrote seventy-seven times, mostly in reference to our Lord Jesus. This is another clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs.

The souls under the altar are asking when their blood will be avenged, which is natural; but vengeance is the opposite of what Jesus and Stephen asked for when they were martyred, which was that their killers be forgiven (Luke 23:34, Acts 7:60). This is a third clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs. Now, let's examine the third verse.

Revelation 6:11 (MKJV)
And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were) should have their number made complete.

Let's consider the white robes. The only other group of souls who have white robes are the saints before the Lamb in Revelation 7:9-17, and they "have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Rev. 7:14). Before they washed their robes, they must have made them dirty by committing personal sin.

Therefore, the saints before the Lamb must have been given their spiritual robes before they were old enough to commit their first personal sin; and since the souls under the altar were killed before they were given their spiritual robes, they must have been killed before they were old enough to commit their first personal sin.

Do victims of abortion have souls?

We need to confirm that human fetuses have souls; because if they don't, then the souls under the altar cannot be victims of abortion. It has been said that a fetus does not have a soul until "it takes its first breath." But what is that breath? It is inhaled air, consisting of 21% oxygen. Exhaled air consists of only 16% oxygen since the body has converted the rest of the oxygen into carbon dioxide.
So, we constantly need to replenish the oxygen in our body. When the widow's young son died, there was no longer any "breath" (Heb. neshamah) in him (1Ki. 17:17). That meant there was no longer any oxygen in him. The soul had exited the boy's body, and Elijah prayed that the soul would reenter the boy's body (v. 21). When his prayer was answered, and the soul reentered the boy's body, the boy was revived (v. 22). Breath was in him once again.
As for an embryo, it begins to take in oxygen when it becomes implanted in the womb. From that point, the woman is literally breathing oxygen into her offspring. If we take Genesis 2:7 literally, by saying that Adam became a living soul when oxygen (Heb. neshamah) was first breathed into him, then it follows that an embryo becomes a living soul at implantation, because that's when oxygen is first breathed into the embryo.
Since victims of abortion were implanted in the womb, they are, without a doubt, "souls of those who had been killed" (Rev. 6:9).

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.

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.

Before anyyone could be taught how Christians can help stop an unholy sacrifice, it was necessary for someone to be taught the four things that the skeptic had now been taught. Those four things are as follows.

What a Sacrifice Is
A sacrifice is an act of giving up something to obtain something else for oneself or for others.

How a Sacrifice is Stopped
A sacrifice is stopped by taking away its efficacy, that is, its power to obtain something for one or more individuals.

What a Holy Sacrifice Is
A holy sacrifice is the act of giving up one's own life to obtain something else for others.

What an Unholy Sacrifice Is
An unholy sacrifice is the act of giving up the life of someone to obtain something else for someone else.

In the time of the early church, many disciples of Christ gave up their lives as a holy sacrifice to obtain faith for people on earth. Billions of people on earth have come to faith in Jesus Christ, because his disciples in the early church chose to give up their lives rather than to deny him before men.

Today, the lives of many are being given up as an unholy sacrifice. In each unholy sacrifice, the life of a young human offspring is given up, usually in the womb, to obtain for its father the forgiveness of his debt of sustenance to his offspring.

Giving up the life of a man's offspring in the womb obtains for him the forgiveness of his debt of sustenance to his offspring.

The way to help stop the unholy sacrifice is to let every pregnant female certify the debt of sustenance, which is owed to her offspring, so that if anybody was to kill the creditor in her womb, the debt would not be forgiven but would instead be converted into reimbursement for wrongful death, payable to the parents or guardians of children in need, whom she could either list on the certificate or let the state determine.

A bill of law, which would "let every pregnant female certify the debt of sustenance," could be drafted as either an obligatory bill, one that would require her to certify the debt, or a permissive bill, one that would give her the option to certify the debt. Today, the bill would have to be permissive. so that it could gain the majority support that a bill needs to become law.

Also, the permissive bill must not state that its purpose is to empower women to "take away the efficacy" of the unholy sacrifice, because, sadly, most people don't care about the victims of the unholy sacrifice. To gain majority support, the bill must state that its purpose is to empower women to "take away the incentive" for coerced abortion. (The efficacy of the unholy sacrifice is the same as the incentive for coerced abortion, that being the forgiveness of the debt of sustenance.)

Finally, the permissive bill needs to point out the fact that a woman's "right to choose life" (i.e. her right to remain pregnant) is not being adequately protected at the present time. That way, nobody will have any excuse to oppose the bipartisan bill. Ignorance will be the only thing preventing the permissive bill from being introduced and passed into law.

Short Description of the Right to Choose Life Act
The RTCL Act would give every pregnant female an option that she could safely exercise to take away the incentive for coerced abortion. Her option would be to certify the debt of sustenance, which is owed to her offspring, so that if anybody was to kill the creditor in her womb, the debt would not be forgiven but would instead be converted into reimbursement for wrongful death, payable to the parents or guardians of children in need, whom she could either list on the certificate or let the state determine.

The reason why she could "safely" exercise the option is because she is now able, thanks to advancements in DNA forensics, to submit proof of paternity long before she begins to show. It's only when she begins to show that she must tell her boyfriend and her parents that she is pregnant. Those are the only ones who would have had an incentive to coerce her to get an abortion if she had not exercised the option. Because she exercised the option, they would have nothing to gain by making her get an abortion.

To see our latest draft of the Right to Choose Life Act, please click this link: A Draft of the Right to Choose Life Act. As stated earlier, ignorance is preventing the permissive bill from being introduced and passed into law. To overcome the ignorance, it is necessary for John, who we can now call the former skeptic, to start a new evangelism.

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 detailed Gospel of Christ to the unfaithful. This new evangelism will be the work of the Eternal Gospel Society.

Now that John was no longer a skeptic but a believer, he wad commissioned to start the Eternal Gospel Society. All one must do to be a member of the EGS is to be baptized and to sign the petition for the Right to Choose Life Act. To be an active member, one must become a new evangelist, someone who brings a new message of invitation to every baptized believer and a re-proposed Gospel of Christ to every unbeliever.

The new message is an invitation to help stop the unholy sacrifice by signing the petition. Each new evangelist will bring the new message of invitation to the leadership of randomly selected church each week. Because it's human nature to ignore a fantastic claim instead of investigating it, an RSVP date must be placed on the invitation.

If the RSVP date passes and leadership has either ignored or declined the invitation without a good reason, then they will have merited a church protest where large graphic images of sacrificial vistims will be on display outside their place of worship on the Lord's Day. The merely possibility of a church protest should encourage leadership to examine the claim and verify that it is true.

A new evangelism is what Pope John Paul II expressed the need for in 1990, the year of John's credobaptism. JPII did not try to define exactly how the new evangelism would look like. That part was the Divine Father's job, and now he has done it.