UFO Magazine Interview with Terry James

The following is Terry’s interview with UFO Magazine, the leading publication that deals in a serious way with the Unidentified Flying Object sightings, and attendant phenomena.

The interview is based upon Terry’s second novel of the series “The second Coming Chronicles”. The book discussed is “The Nephilim Imperatives: Dark sentences”.

The first novel, “The Rapture Dialogues: Dark Dimension,” received more than ninety, 5 star reviews on amazon.com. “The Nephilim Imperatives” is on its way to achieving a nation-wide, even world-wide readership.

Terry’s interview is in the August issue number 146 of UFO Magazine.
The interviewer is Farah Yurdozu.

UFO Mag: In your book you talk about Black Operations, Guantanamo prisoners, and some scientific experiments on them. What was your inspiration in this book? Real life, history or just science-fiction?

Terry: Without getting overly political, my thoughts in writing the fiction were, and remain, that there might be those in clandestine governmental services who consider using enemies to accomplish their purposes in any way they choose. The objective, in this case, was to find the leaders of Al Qaida–bin Laden, for example–in their mountainous cave hideouts. In that sense, I suppose I used all of the elements you mention–real life, history, and science fiction. The real life and history kind of run together.

The prisoners have been there for much of the era following the 9/11 attacks on New Yorkand Washington, D.C. I include the Bush Administration and other historical factors. The sci-fi, of course, speaks for itself–the RAPTURE device experiments that take the subjects apart at the molecular level and attempt to reassemble them, etc.

UFO Mag: In the story there are lots of religious references. In fact, you make us see the religious facts from another view. Is religion an interpretation of a space legend?

Terry: My worldview is biblical, and Bible prophecy from a literalist perspective. That is, I believe that the Bible foretells the future in literal terms. It will 100% come to pass. In those places where Jesus or the Old and/or New Testament prophets spoke or wrote prophecy, they intended it as going to literally come to pass. The exception is where they use an analogy, or simile; sometimes even a metaphor.

For example, in Revelation 8:8, the prophecy says, “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood…” The prophecy says “as it were.” This always means it’s not actually, in this case, a literal mountain. However, it is similar to a mountain. The prophecy describes something as dramatic as an actual mountain falling into one of earth’s oceans. Probably, John the prophet saw something akin to an asteroid–a huge meteorite. So, I don’t view these matters of Bible prophecy as legend. God views them as having already happened. I agree with Him, because He knows the end from the beginning.

Thus, when Jesus–who is God came to Planet Earth in Jewish flesh to be the once and for all sacrifice for the sins of fallen mankind–prophesied in Luke 17:26 that things will be at the time His second coming nears like it was in antediluvian (pre-Noah’s flood) times, I believe Him.

Those times are described in Genesis chapter 6. The bene elohim (sons of God) came to earth and had sexual relations with human women. From these unions issued forth the nephilim–half-human/half supernatural beings. These became the demigods from which the Greek, Norse, Roman, etc., legends were born.

Jesus said there will be a re-visitation of this angelic/human contamination just before He returns to take over earth and rule atop Mt. Moriah (changed to Zion) at Jerusalem. I see the sightings, abductions, etc., people are experiencing as a part of this re-visitation. These are not extraterrestrial; rather, they are interdimensional beings. This is why concrete evidence of their “visits” can’t be tangibly documented.

UFO Mag: In one place in the book, you talk about “daughters of the men” and “child of darkness.” Who is the child of darkness?

Terry: Chalk this up to literary license based upon my worldview–that this is a spiritual invasion from Lucifer and his fallen angels (the 1/3 that fell when he rebelled in Heaven). Mankind is fallen since the Garden of Eden (Genesis Chapter 3), according to God’s word. Thus the main character, Morgan Lansing, in this case, is a “child of darkness.” She is the “daughter of fallen man.”

I made her the focal point of Lucifer’s/Satan’s try in these latter days of earth’s history to again mingle the supernatural “seed” with the human procreative process in order to produce the genetic contamination like that produced during the pre-Flood days. The devil is, in this era, trying a different tact. He is–even if by this time insane with lust to usurp the throne of God as he declared in Luke Chapter 14–nonetheless the most brilliant of God’s created order. He will try the subtle, scientific reverse-engineering tactics as opposed to the direct seduction and intercourse of and with human women. The first attempt went awry, and God destroyed all of the contamination (or corruption, as the Bible puts it in Genesis Chapter 6.)

Lucifer believes, if anything, that if at first one doesn’t succeed, one must try, try again.

UFO Mag: Is Bigfoot a nephilim?

Terry: Again, in the novel, I take literary license. There are two rather strange manifestations, as the fiction presents them. The first is a cloud-like being that is, in my concept, the equivalent of the bene elohim, like those who rebelled with Lucifer in the fall from Heaven.

The rebellion, for the most part, changed them from the brilliant beings of purity and glory into becoming increasingly hideous. This, although they can still appear at times as “angels of light.” These are strictly of the spiritual dimension. The Bigfoot types are, in my fictional presentation, hybrids of animal and demonic (fallen angelic) beings. They are half-animal, half-spiritual beings.

These are the chimera–much like the mutated creatures on the Island of Dr Moreau. From my worldview, apart from my fictional concept, I see Bigfoot as exactly that–a part physical being of grotesque size and demeanor, yet with a ghost-like capability. They can appear and disappear. No physical evidence has ever been found that 100% verifies that they exist. Yet there are quite credible sightings. So, the “nephilim” designation fits.

In my fictional account, of course, I portray these as the product of a covert, black ops cooperation between nefarious human operatives and interdimensional beings–the Luciferian forces that have always inhabited the dimension just outside of our third dimension. They step through and involve themselves at will (although I believe God will allow them only limited leeway). They are scheduled, according to Bible prophecy, to become more and more involved, the closer to Christ’s second advent the world gets…

UFO Mag: Are nephilim interdimensional, or spirits? If so, how can our science communicate with interdimensional’s?

Terry: Again, in my worldview–as well as in my fiction—the nephilim are the offspring of the fallen angels and human beings. But now this activity, I believe, is done in clandestine laboratories. Since the Bible says that we humans have sometimes, unknowingly, “entertained angels unawares,” we are obviously speaking to them, thinking they are fellow humans.

In Genesis, Abraham spoke to them, thinking they were men. Lot, in the Sodom account, spoke to them; he even tried to protect them from the Sodomite men who wanted to “know” those strangers. So, the spirit beings have no problem interacting with human beings, if God allows. Why He allows is another question, which is above my pay-grade to know.

UFO Mag: In your story, beings use human’s bodies. Is this a kind of possession just like in ancient biblical times and before?

Terry: Yes. When we see, near the first of the novel, Osama bin Laden acting strangely, with his eyes becoming all pupil (totally black), he is being possessed. Later, Morgan’s roommate is able to see one of the cloud-like creatures exit her sleeping body. Throughout the novel there is the interaction of angelic and human activity. The Bible certainly speaks directly to possession of human beings by demons, which are a class spawned by the angelic fall when Lucifer rebelled.

UFO Mag: What about the teleportation? Is teleportation a reversed engineering science?

Terry: Yes. The fiction implies, I think, that the RAPTURE (Rapid Atomic Particle Transmolecular Unification Reassembly Energizer) is something that some within covert operations have been working on–in the reverse engineering sense—since Roswell in July, 1947.

I have a friend who heads a patent attorney firm, and he tells me that work is being done on just such technologies, although they haven’t gotten much past the cloaking stages (mirror-like materials that make things seem invisible). Of course, we’ve always been told that anything we hear about in terms of military technological developments are usually far advanced from the things we are allowed to witness.

The Heisenberg principle still applies, though. Teletransportation still presents basic problems of physics. Taking something apart at the molecular or atomic level then putting it back together involves space and time movements that are, to say the least, prohibitive. This is especially true when dealing with living human flesh!

UFO Mag: Is genetic mutation possible in our present time?

Terry: Absolutely. There are accounts of this. Cloning is just that, is it not? There are documented accounts of cloning of animals, and quite a lot of innuendo and postulation about cloning in the human sense.

UFO Mag: How would we notice the differences between the people who are genetically mutated and not?

Terry: I must defer to someone who has the answers; I do not.

UFO Mag: What is an ultra human?

Terry: I wonder why I’m asked that question. Thinking back into the writing of The Nephilim Imperatives, I must have referred to one of the babies in the laboratory as the “ultimately evolved human.”

In that sense, this is what I believe the one called “the beast” of Revelation, Chapter 13 will become. He is called the “Antichrist” by most today. This character of biblical prophecy was, of course, the subject of the three movies under the series name “The Omen.” He is the one Revelation 13:16-18 addresses. The number of his name equates in some way no one knows to 666.

This world is steeped in the religion known as evolution. It is a theory, and requires more faith than believing God created all that is. However, this man, who will be the most tyrannical dictator ever to rule upon Planet Earth, will be considered the ultimately “evolved” human being.

I personally–at least in my fictional scenario-mindset—believe he, along with the “second beast,” who is also called the “false prophet,” will be nephilim. That is, he will be spawned by the fallen bene elohim and the human race.

UFO Mag: Even in the Bible, the struggle against evil is described as a battle against the spirit. If this is true, what is our chance against a race who has very advanced paranormal abilities?

Terry: Again, you are going to get a dose of my worldview. Man has no chance whatever against the created order bene elohim–the sons of God. For example, the Bible gives an account that a single angel killed within probably a few minutes more than 20,000 human soldiers. There are probably, according to God’s word, literally billions of such creatures.

The fallen ones are likely as powerful as the “good” ones. So, that leaves us facing billions of these evil creatures, most likely. There is but one who can control them, and/or defeat them. That is God, the creator of all things.

Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Trinity–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is Jesus who returns at the end of Armageddon to put down human and angelic rebellion (Revelation 19:11).

Antichrist and the false prophet, who will have ruled mankind in a draconian way during the Tribulation (Revelation Chapters 6 through 19), will be bound and thrown into the lake of fire at the time of Christ’s return. Satan will be bound 1,000 years during Christ’s Millennial Kingdom Reign, then will be released for a very short time.

To show his incorrigibly rebellious nature, Satan will lead millions of humans–who have been born during that 1,000 years—and God will devour them all with heavenly fire in a moment, Bible prophecy says. So, to answer your question. Accepting Christ as Savior and thus receiving His eternal protection is man’s only hope.

UFO Mag: Interdimensional beings called Jinns are a very important part of Turkish culture and their religious system. They easily interact with us in our physical dimension and cause possessions. Is it possible to say the shadow beings that enter the human body in your book and Jinns of Middle Eastern culture are coming from the same race?

Terry: Any such anomalous activity like that you attribute to the beings Turkish spiritualists call Jinns is a part of the Luciferian fall as described in Genesis, in my biblical worldview of these mysteries.

In a time long ago, Lucifer, one of God’s chief angels, led a rebellion in Heaven. This creature and one-third of the angels who joined him in his rebellion against God were cast out of Heaven.

These are the supernatural beings that are the source of all demonic manifestations today –from supposed ghostly haunting, to reported dark, shadow beings that bedevil mankind, to brilliant flying disks in the night skies we’ve come to call UFOs. The fallen angels and the whole demon world–created through, I’m firmly convinced, angelic/human genetics mixing in antediluvian time and times later– now have access to the heavenlies. This is prophetically foretold to come to an end.

There will be another casting down from Heaven when Lucifer, now called Satan and the Devil in biblical parlance, will no longer have access to the dimensional space surrounding Heaven. About that coming time, God’s Word says the following:

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (Revelation 12:7-9).

So this demonic activity such as the Turkish spiritualists describe will grow infinitely more horrific during a certain end times era. This will be the Tribulation, the Apocalypse about which the Book of Revelation testifies.

UFO Mag: If we are facing a race with advanced paranormal abilities maybe the solution is not physical weapons or technology? Maybe the solution is human soul’s cosmic education? Or maybe do we have to accept our weakness?

Terry: As stated before, there is nothing, in terms of human defense, any human force can do to deal with these beings. They are spiritual in every sense, although they can take on physical form, even tangible form, and can through genetic interaction, mix their “seed” with the “seed” of mankind.

Paul the apostle has this to say about the warfare faced by Christians–but, also by all other human beings. He instructs about how to face these supernatural enemies of humanity:

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints…” (Ephesians 6:11-18).

So our struggle is against the principalities and powers of wickedness in high places (the supernatural realm), only supernatural defense will protect flesh and blood against such beings. God, of course, has ultimate power, and hasn’t allowed these beings full reign. If He had, none of us would be around.

The only way to obtain spiritual armor, as described here, is through belief in Jesus Christ –and Him alone—for salvation of one’s soul.

 UFO Mag: Do you believe in the theory of the “Galactic Federation” or “Space Brothers” who watch over us and will descend to earth to take the UFO believers on their space ships saving us from the upcoming dangers?

Terry: No, not in the sense that science fiction writers and others think. I do believe there is that hierarchy as given in Ephesians 6:12, as I’ve included above. These are Lucifer the fallen, Satan and his hordes, who rebelled and became evil in every sense of the word. I guess one could call this a “federation” of sorts.

As for the second part of the question, I absolutely believe that these fallen ones are setting the world up for a great delusion when the Rapture of Christ’s Church takes place. We find that coming “lie” and the mass delusion it will engender in the following Scriptures. One needs to read all of 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2 in order to get the full prophetic picture. However, here Paul the apostle is foretelling a time (the Tribulation) when Antichrist will mesmerize the world with a lie that is swallowed hook, line, and sinker by most of earth’s inhabitants. I believe that “lie” will consist for the most part of explanation that the “space brothers” have taken some for beneficial reasons. Or it might be wrapped around the declaration that  the New Age proponents had it right; those who left earth have ascended to the realm of the ascended masters –or some such story.

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11).

I really am convinced that these many sightings today–the reported abductions –the stigmata, ghostly sightings, all the rest is all about setting up for the great lie that will be told when millions vanish from the planet in the Rapture.

These fallen bene elohim will make a sudden and spectacular landing, once they have been forbidden to any longer inhabit the heavenlies–as described in the Scripture in Revelation, chapter 12 given above.

This “landing,” I’m convinced, is prophetically reported (foretold) in the following Scriptures:

“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live” (Revelation 13:13-14).

This is when the false prophet–the one-world religious leader–deceives the people who are living during the time of the last seven years of human history before Christ’s Second Advent. This “second beast” as he is called, I believe will call the “space brothers” down from the heavens. They will be one and the same as those kicked out of those regions by God. They will appear to the deluded earth-dwellers as the extraterrestrials promulgated since the Roswell era.

We all remember the occurrence of several years ago in the Las Vegas area, when the “prophet Yahweh” performed some sort of calling down beings of light. Something appeared in the form of globe-like lights, and did strange things. But, the “prophet” said it was not yet time for them to come all the way to earth. Was this a foreshadowing of the Revelation 13: 13-14 prophecy? Don’t know, but it is interesting to contemplate, is it not?

UFO Mag: Is there a group of protective extraterrestrials somewhere in the space who is worried with our present and future?

Terry: Not in my view. But there are watchers who are very concerned with our well-being. The one group, I have been describing. The other group is that which consists of God’s angelic force.

The Luciferian leader and his forces want to enslave or destroy all of mankind. God and His forces want mankind to survive. And the remnant who believes in His Son, Jesus Christ, for salvation, will be one day living life that is glorious beyond description, and it will never end.

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Heart Trouble :: by Terry James

A question that keeps popping up in our email is along the lines of [assuming it is God’s doing]: “Why do places like Iowa and that heartland region get all the flooding, have the problems, since the nation seems more sinful in other states and regions than Iowa and surrounding areas?”

Ominous Evidence Mounting
The queries come from people inside and outside of media. The evidence is building that these record-breaking, weather-related events harbor portentous meaning beyond being merely cyclical or random occurrences. The fact isn’t lost on many who have begun to pay attention. Although offered sometimes as tongue-in-cheek questions, the questions belie visceral and widespread concern among Christians and non-Christians alike.

What’s the Answer?
So, what is the answer? Why, if these weather-caused calamities–the floods, tornadoes, etc.–are of God, do they not strike the places like Massachusetts, where gay marriage has been officially sanctioned by government as equal to heterosexual marriage? Why not Las Vegas, where there is debauched activity of every sort? Why not California, where gay marriage has just been legitimized–where the homosexual populations come together in greatest numbers? Why are the “good” people of the heartland chosen out for punitive actions by the Lord? Why aren’t these things visited upon the more–in the view of many—nefarious regions of the nation?

If I may make our nation, the most materially and spiritually blessed (in the sense of ties to Christianity) somewhat analogous to the human body, we are sick. Sin-sick, and getting progressively sicker.

Heart Troubles / Stomach Problems
We have heart trouble. The geophysical problems in the heartland of America certainly seem to confirm the diagnosis concerning the proposed disease. Like in the human body when sick, society/culture exhibits symptoms of the worsening illness. Presently, the malady is manifesting the illness in the American stomach–which we often term the nation’s “bread basket”. Just as the body emits signals of systemic troubles, a collective people suffers pains of things going wrong. Again, America’s trouble is one of its heart. The symptoms are those of swollen rivers, of dead and dying crops under the flood waters that cover the fields of the bread basket that feeds not only the American people, but millions of people in nations around the world.

You might say that it is quite a stretch to compare the geophysical to the physiological–comparing weather disturbances assaulting cornfields and wheatfields to a disease attacking a human body. Perhaps so, but it certainly seems to some of us who observe God’s methodologies of dealing with sin down through the corridors of time that making the comparison is a valid exercise in addressing the question: Why do the “good people” of heartland America suffer these things–if they are God’s judgments—while the sinful people of the hedonistic regions seem to be free of the geophysical assaults?

King David, who almost certainly wrote many of the Psalms, seems to have made similar laments, saying, for example: “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree” (Psalm 37:35).

The Seeming Injustice
That the anti-God bastions of this world seem almost insulated against ramifications of their evil works is the lamentation even today. Why do those hard-working, salt-of-the-earth folks of the Midwest suffer such loss while the evil goes unpunished?

The problem is one of lack of understanding the Creator in His most basic methodology in dealing with man. The question projects the lack of apprehension. The question presupposes that God looks at the troubles in our national heartland in the same way the one doing the questioning views what is going on.

The Great Physician knows, intimately, the nature of sin. He knows how deeply sin affects the nation. He knows how to deal with the infection. The questioners, whether derisive and mocking skeptics or believers who seek answers about why the “good people” suffer while the wicked apparently prosper, fail to understand and or acknowledge that the flooding and the winds are allowed by the Creator not as punishment, but as symptomatic forewarnings.

All Afflicted
Iowans and Californians are in the same proverbial boat. One state is not “good” and the other “evil”. The American national body –indeed the world of humanity—is suffering a terminal infection. The wages of that sin is death. This has always been the plight of civilizations since the time of the fall in the Garden.

Heart trouble…the human heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, God’s Word tells us. Scriptures tell us further: “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20).

The Lord of Heaven deals individually with His children–those who are born again into His family through Jesus Christ (John 3:3). But, in the context of His dealings with mankind, all, both saved and lost, live under His corrective regime until the time His cup of divine wrath will be full: ”…for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matt. 5:45b).

All suffer sin’s debilitating effects while in this life of fallen flesh. I chose a poem attributed to Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama judge removed from his court for his stance for God’s prescription for righteousness–The Ten Commandments, a prescription fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ.

The poem portrays vividly, I think, the truth of our sin problem in this much-blessed nation. America the beautiful, or so you used to be.

Land of the Pilgrims’ pride;
I’m glad they’ll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine
choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain.

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God’s love
and a need to always pray.

We’ve kept God in our
temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We’ve voted in a government
that’s rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges;
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God’s not
angry, that our land’s a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven;
and forgive us of our sins,
He’ll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
If you don’t – then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.

~~Judge Roy Moore~~

Wicked on Borrowed Time
The wickedness of the human heart is the heart trouble within America today that also afflicts all of humanity. Soon God’s corrective forewarnings will become His wrath unleashed. For those who ask why the wicked seemingly get away with their wickedness, the preacher of God’s great wisdom says the following:

“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God” (Ecc. 8:11-13).

Symptoms Proliferating
Shakespeare put words that ring true in our time on Roman General Mark Anthony’s tongue, in Anthony’s literary eulogy upon  Julius Caesar’s assassination: “The evil men do live after them, the good is oft’ interred with their bones…”

Certainly, man’s record of evil lives on, and worsens with each passing day. The good is more often buried within the deepest reaches of news of the hour.

Paul the apostle put in prophetic terms the ubiquitous and proliferating nature of the evil activities that would mark the end of the age: “But evil men and seducers shall [become] worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

America’s heart trouble exhibits the growing evil with each and every news cycle. The heinous nature of man becoming worse and worse is pumped into our senses through hourly reports presented by electronic and print news outlets. Bad news is overwhelmingly the order of the day.

The Prognosis?
The future for America, because of the heart trouble with which it is afflicted, is bleak. It is the same deadly malady as that suffered by the entire world. All suffer equally from the anti-God disease the Bible terms “sin”. It is the refusal of man to recognize that he suffers from sin –believing instead that he can find remedies through social action or government proscription that makes it not possible for humankind to be cured. God’s Word says the following: “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death” (Prov. 16:25).

Although those terminally ill from this human spiritual condition believe they sit immune from the wages of their sin, the Lord’s Word says that the final disposition of their judgment is sometimes seemingly slow, but it is 100 percent sure.

The Psalmist records the Lord’s omniscient truth on the matters involved in man’s heart trouble, and the inevitable result.

“For I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For there are no pangs in their death,
But their strength is firm.
They are not in trouble as other men,

Nor are they plagued like other men.
Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment.
heir eyes bulge with abundance;

They have more than heart could wish.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue walks through the earth.
Therefore his people return here,
And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
And they say, “How does God know?

And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who are always at ease;
They increase in riches.

When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for me—
Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their end.

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors…

For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.
But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord GOD,
That I may declare all Your works”

(Psalms 73: 3-12, 16-19, 27-28 NKJV)