About the Author
This book is an outgrowth of a lifelong
search for truth. My formal education is in science. My religious education is
the result of three books: The Urantia Book, The Complete Poems of Emily
Dickinson, and The Bible in chronologic order. This book is woven out of these
three strands.
As I knew
nothing about prophecy interpretation, this book grew out of a one year
intensive study
of The Old Testament prophets, 1Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and The Complete
Works of Emily Dickinson. Many of the ideas that emerged from this study
were wholly foreign and surprising to me as they may also be to you. For
example, I believed, as a scientist, that predictive prophecy was impossible.
The first time I read the Old Testament prophets, I understood practically
nothing. I could not see how I would ever comprehend those utterances. However,
a statement in the Urantia Book kept
recurring to my mind. “Do not overlook the value of your spiritual heritage,
the river of truth running down through the centuries, even to the barren time
of a materialistic and secular age.” (Urantia
Book page 2082 is from the Urantia Foundation printing.) Slowly, I realized
that I had overlooked this source as a result of many, deeply ingrained
prejudices and assumptions that have turned out to be false in the light of
further analysis. And so, encouraged by the Urantia Book; little by little,
step by step, the meanings and values emerged for me from the scriptural texts.
This book contains my understandings to date. However, there is much yet left to learn, many errors to correct, and new material to add. History of course, will be the ultimate arbiter of the value and accuracy of these interpretations. Nevertheless, I feel confident that these truths will stand the test of time because they belong to God Himself and I believe that they have been given to man for his edification and use. It is up to each one of us to decide how we will receive and use this information.