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Ray's Current Condition - May 13th, 2009
Dennis Vogel:
UPDATE ON RAY’S HEALTH:
Greetings to God’s Elect and Forum members:
I apologize for not updating you sooner on my health. The reason is that I was hoping to give you a more positive report than I am presently able. The last six months have been pretty rough with a few better days mixed in from time to time. What would I do without all of you? Never in my life have I experienced such a concern and outpouring of love and affection. I had no idea how many people God has chosen to open their minds to His Truth. I don’t believe a day has gone by since the September Conference that I haven’t received at least one or more emails or letters from our readers and Forum members wishing me well and praying to God for my healing. I am truly overwhelmed with gratitude and affection for every one of you!
My life has been full with many experiences. I have no regrets except for the many stupid sins I have committed during my 68 year journey. Even our sins, however, are a necessary part of our spiritual development. There is but one major reason for God to continue my life, and that is to serve all of you and those yet to be called out of this world at this time. I cherish the opportunity to continue should that be God’s will for my life.
I know a few are disappointed that I have not communicated with them regarding Bible questions and subjects that many want me to do research papers on. I am sorry, but I just haven’t been able. When one is sick, exhausted, in pain, itching, coughing, and choking, it’s hard to concentrate on doing research papers. I hope you understand.
I am totally exhausted most of the time. I continued to have severe pain in my wrist for another month after the September Conference. Then for a period of three months or more I had a terrible cough where I would cough up mucus maybe a hundred times a day. At times I would cough for a half hour at a time. I used 40 to 50 boxes of Kleenex a month.
Miraculously that horrible coughing stopped almost overnight. One day I said to my wife about mid day, “Have you noticed I am not coughing?” Wow! Just like that. But then I broke out in an ugly rash. I kiddingly told my medical doctor that after dealing with all my cancer problems, diabetes, arthritis, etc., I now have Leprosy. He didn’t know if I was kidding or not, however, he could not find anything similar in his thousand page book on rashes. Dr. Steger (my naturopath) suggested that I may be detoxifying too fast. Actually my medical doctor later agreed that this could be the cause. I was covered over my back, shoulders, arms and hands with this burning, paining, itching rash of infected boils. Recently it has spread to my legs. The itch was enough to drive one crazy. Natural salves and ointments did not help, but my medical doctor prescribed something that helped with the itching but not the healing. These are now beginning to heal on some parts of my body.
Recently festering tumor like lumps the size of grapes developed under my arms—five on one side and eight on the other. Some fester and others are too deep and just pain.
For six months following the Conference, I could sleep only 1 to 3 hours a night. I’m not complaining, but rather trying to let everyone know why I haven’t been holding Bible Studies or writing articles or answering very many lengthy email Bible questions. For nearly two weeks now I am sleeping much better which makes dealing with these other problems a little easier.
Here’s a real doozy: A couple of weeks ago I began to choke on my food (even water). I must be extremely careful how I swallow or the food and even water does not go down, but gets lodged part way down my throat. It takes ten to 30 minutes sometimes to return to normal where I can swallow again. I have reached the point of passing out several times. At first it happened every time I ate, but now it is getting some better. I mentioned this to my doctors, but they have not taken any action on this one yet.
As the pain progressed, my medical doctor put me on morphine. I started taking the prescribed dosage, then twice the dosage, and then three times, but except for getting spaced out, it didn’t help very much. We then switched to oxycodone which works much better. Most of my pain is in my bones and joints, however, the boils and some of the infected rash sores are quite painful (they burn like really bad sunburn). I don’t want to give you more information than is helpful—I am not a pretty sight right now. Some of the infection spread to my face, but that began to heal up more quickly than the rest of my body.
My PSA continues to rise, albeit at a slower rate. It was nearing 800 at my last checkup. I will see my medical doctor again in a couple of weeks and have these things checked again. Right now I am in day four of a ten day liver, kidney, and colon cleanse (this is my second such cleansing). After a week I can have a baked potato and veggies and then start another cleanse for a few days. I have lost 70 pounds the past 12 months.
I try to answer everyone as I am able who emails me wishing me well and praying for me. I have set aside approximately eighteen hundred emails which I will try to acknowledge if I can.
I hope everyone understands that all the nutrition, detox procedures, and supplements, are only things that I should be doing anyway to help counteract the abuse and neglect of my body for a lifetime. Remember what I told you last time, how that Paul said: “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead” (II Cor. 1:9).
If I am to be healed, it will be abundantly clear that it is God’s accomplishment, and not mine. Healing is linked to the forgiveness of sins, and only GOD can forgive sins—that is, to make them go away and nullify their harmful effects (Mark 2:5-12).
I am weary, to say the least, of my weakness, pain, and difficult protocol. But I assure you that I am not depressed. There may be death in my flesh, but there is life in my spirit (John 6:63)! I understand what Paul meant when he said that when he is weak, then he is strong (II Cor. 12:10). The word “pleasure” in this verse means to approve of and to accept from God, not to have actual enjoyment from the infirmities themselves.
I sense that many of you are also growing stronger spiritually through my infirmities. I also sense a real hunger for more of God’s Word, now that I have had to put my writing on hold for a time. If God gives me strength, I have many more things to write about. I will be doing a critique on the book: 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Weise. I will take a slightly different approach to this book than many might think. I have read the book carefully three times, and I intend to expose more unscriptural and unscientific fraud than you could shake a stick at. This unscriptural/antiscriptural book is Christian pornography at its worst. I can’t comprehend how they teach this ungodly filth in front of little boys and girls.
The next Installment of the “Lake of Fire” series will probably be: “Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth.” I have little but the title so far.
We will post a feature article near the top of our home page that I think will maybe be the strongest paper I ever have written. It’s entitled: “Do You DESPISE the Word of God?” This paper will do a slam dunk on the idiotic approach of Christian hermeneutics and theology. You won’t need to attend Bible College or have a degree in religion to understand this paper. It will show you how to overcome all of the arguments regarding the dozens of false doctrines of the Church by applying a principle that is unbelievably simplistic.
I have about ten pages of notes on an article: “Is Jesus God?” This will cover more and different material than I presented at the 2007 Nashville Conference.
For over three years now I have been putting together notes (forty pages) for a paper on: “Was Jesus MADE Sin?” And a few others………
Dennis has asked me to send him all of my emails of encouragement these past months so that he can post them on the Forum for all to see. There are way too many, but I’ll give him a many of them, so you can be looking for that in a week or two.
Nothing is more on my mind than the people God is calling out of this world of religious confusion into His marvelous Light. As Willie Nelsen sings: “You are always on my mind…” Keep the faith. Keep strong. Keep praying. Perhaps God will show us a miracle.
May God be with each and every one of you,
Ray
fayewray:
As I sit here reading this, I cannot convey how overwhelmed I am at the power of God to give a man who is in such unimanginable pain (at least to me) such a positive attitude and a beautiful determination to continue with His work. I am almost speechless, but it says a lot and is an inspiration to me. It is wonderful to know our prayers are not in vain when it comes to Ray and certainly how mighty our God truly is.
Eva
aqrinc:
Thanks Ray,
Just get well and be there for GOD and Family, By His Grace And Mercy.
george.
Marlene:
Ray, You are always on my Mind and all of us here I am sure.
You are an inspiration to all of us.
All Glory Be To God.
In His Love,
Marlene
9440geoff:
My heart feels like it is laughing and crying at the same time. Crying for Ray for the suffering he's been through and is still going through, but laughing because he is experiencing God's healing in some areas, especially the coughing. Also it's great to know how positive Ray is, with plans for more teaching, which we will all benefit from. I continue to pray that a miracle of complete healing is God's will for Ray.
Soit beni,
Geoff.
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