FROM: Jeff & Joanne Pohlman
EXPLANATION: You know how King Nebuchadnezzar and crown prince Belshazzar were having a huge party in Daniel 5, and God decided to crash the party by writing on the wall of the party room, using the form of a human hand? Then, when King Neb's supposed wise guys couldn't interpret it, the queen had him fetch Daniel, and Dan not only read the "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN," but interpreted and prophesied about his kingdom and future kingdoms? Can you imagine the look on old King Neb's face? The crown prince made Dan the third in command that moment, but it only lasted a day, because Dan's interpretation and uttering of God's directive prophecy immediately came true, go read how...
Well, the following picture is from an institutional "church" building that caught fire in the very late 20th century, in a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas. This wall was dead-center in the middle of the fire, in the "youth" part of the building. These youth were always said to "be on fire," and were always trying to press in to hear more and more words from the Lord. "Next generation..." stuff, "I am doing a new thing..." and the like. Problem is they were also smack in the middle of one of the national hotbeds of the narcissistic religion of the worship of the god of money and debt. A great place to be an "on fire" minister, a proverbial piece-of-clay-servant in the hands of the true Master.
While platitudes were uttered for a brief moment after the fire, and insurance paid for the rebuild of the wing that experienced fire, this message has long since been forgotten by most of the youth affected at that time, and their pastor(s). Not by others J At least the wall wasn't turned into a lifeless shrine relic.
If you look closely, you'll see the miracle of the absolutely un-retouched picture (taken by Joanne herself - just hours after the fire). While the wall was totally consumed by the fire, the insulation was melted away, much of the beam structure was burned (those are sixteen-inch centers between the beams), and even the horizontal electrical wiring under the written phrase was melted (creating a type of an underline to the sentence), this phrase from a poster that had hung on the wall, in almost-obscurity, now became the central-and-only message left on that total wall, and the whole burned area.
Can you just see The Hand writing?
In the midst of, or after, a devastating fire, what a clear message it IS!!!
