For All Who Asked, An Important Update On Derek & Sharon Gilbert!

The Reports of Our Et Cetera

By Derek Gilbert

Tom Horn kindly advised us last week that a number of Raiders News readers have asked about our whereabouts and the status of P.I.D. Radio, wondering if something bad had happened to us. A critic, posting at his own site, went so far as to imply that something nefarious on our part was afoot.

No, all that's happened is that we didn't give enough warning when we pulled our websites offline. We're still here, healthy, happy, and thankful.

The decision to take our personal websites, the P.I.D. Radio and Forum sites, and the Watcher Magazine and Connecting The Dots news and analysis sites offline was prompted by a decision about two months ago to leave mid-Missouri for Sharon's home state of Indiana. Her mother is 83 years old, and while she's still living on her own in the home in which Sharon grew up, our inability to afford the cost of traveling to see her really bothered us.

So with no jobs waiting for us on the other end, I gave notice to my employer, KSSZ-FM (The Eagle 93.9) in Columbia, Missouri. While I truly love my job as a talk radio host (honestly, this is what I wanted to do when I was ten years old), it wasn't worth keeping Sharon away from her mother.

To prepare for the move, we pulled our sites offline and transferred our blogs to Wordpress.com (derekpgilbert.wordpress.com and sharonkgilbert.wordpress.com). We shifted P.I.D. Radio to an account at LibSyn (pidradio.libsyn.com/), and we began a series of shows culled from archived interviews with some of our favorite guests such as Tom Horn, the Collins brothers, Peter Goodgame, David W. Lowe, and Russ Dizdar.

Then we began searching for jobs in Indiana. I interviewed at radio stations in Indianapolis and Bloomington and at a manufacturing firm in Sharon's home town of Madison. By the third week of July, it looked like we were headed for Bloomington, where Sharon had just begun working on a Ph.D. when we met -- online, appropriately enough -- ten years ago.

And then something unexpected happened.

Followers of P.I.D. Radio know that Sharon designed, edited, and published Watcher Magazine and CTD from our home for the last several years. For some months, I'd been lobbying the management of our radio group to create an Internet division. We had nine radio stations with websites and two non-radio web properties with no one responsible for managing the content.

So at Sharon's suggestion, I proposed that management hire her as our Web Content Manager. I asked for a combined salary that I honestly didn't expect the company to meet.

Instead, the response was, "When can Sharon start?"

Wow.

Now we can afford the cost of gasoline to make the trip from mid-Missouri to southern Indiana every couple of months. Sharon gets to work with a wonderful group of people who appreciate the qualities I've seen in her for the last decade.

Better, we discovered that a couple of key members of the team we're working with are solid, Bible-believing Christians. We've got people to whom we're accountable on the job, and that's a blessing.

Here's the kicker: Based on what I've seen of Christian talk radio (albeit at a distance), I'm convinced that I have more freedom to share what I believe on this secular station than I'd have working for the major Christian broadcasters. Since arriving in mid-Missouri, and especially since we started the Off-Road Friday shows (Sharon's idea), I've brought in such guests as Tom Horn, Patrick Heron, David Lowe, Mike Heiser, Russ Dizdar, and Doug Elwell -- Christians who get it. And we're preaching on the street, as it were, as well as to the choir. What an opportunity!

We've moved "the bunker" into a modest duplex we're renting about four minutes away from the office. Sharon is in her first full week of work for the company. While we settle into the new roles and digs, we won't be as active on the web as we've been in the past. We've been charged with getting eight new radio station websites online within the next seven weeks.

Thanks for your prayers and concern. We're still here, God has richly blessed us, and we'll return to a weekly schedule of P.I.D. Radio as soon as we're able.

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For All Who Asked, An Important Update On Derek & Sharon Gilbert!

Book Review: Then His Voice Shook The Earth

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Bruce Collins

‘Then His voice shook the Earth, but now He has promised," I will once more shake not only the Earth but Heaven too." ‘ Hebrews 12:26

David W. Lowe, author of ‘Earthquake Resurrection’, has written an excellent companion piece, ‘Then His Voice Shook The Earth.’

Lowe begins with Paul and what he describes as the "mysterious Arabian connection." In First Corinthians, Paul said that Jesus appeared to him. This appearance was with the physical embodiment of Jesus Christ, not to be confused with the bright light encounter on his trip to Damascus.

Lowe makes the interesting claim that Peter took a trip to Mount Sinai where he saw Jesus. To be sure, he presents some fascinating parallels to Moses on Mount Sinai.

As the book points out:

"Such an Arabian experience becomes even more intriguing in light of the similarities between the events on Mount Sinai when the Ten Commandments were given to Moses and Paul’s revelation of the future catching up of believers, including:

Moses was instructed to sanctify the people and have them wash their clothes. Similarly, a person must be sanctified and washed in order to be a believer who will be resurrected and caught up.
The appearance of the Lord on Mount Sinai was accompanied by the trumpet sound of God’s voice. Similarly, Paul stated that the Lord’s future coming will be accompanied by the trumpet of God.
The Lord descended onto Mount Sinai from the heavens. Similarly, Paul stated that the Lord will descend from heaven before the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
Moses was summoned to the top of the mountain by the Lord, and he went up and met the Lord. Similarly, Paul stated that believers will be suddenly caught up together into the air to meet the Lord.
Then, the author explores the last trumpet that proclaims the glorious resurrection of the dead in Christ. Taking passages of Scripture and delving into Hebrew, David makes a compelling case for what the last trumpet actually is and what the ramifications are. As in his first book, Lowe includes a lot of Scriptural research in ‘Then His Voice Shook The Earth.’

Lowe’s book takes great detail in explaining each of the seals of the book of Revelation and how they fit on the timeline. There has been a lot of buzz about ‘Then His Voice Shook The Earth’ on the internet (in particular, Lowe’s perspective on the chronology of the seals). The trumpet and bowl judgments are also carefully examined.

The placement of the beginning of the day of the Lord’s wrath is very important to understanding Bible Prophecy and ‘Then His Voice Shook The Earth’ places it at the opening of the seventh seal. This explains a lot, including the spirit of antichrist (first seal) which the world has been experiencing since the Resurrection.

‘Then His Voice Shook The Earth’ is another Bible Prophecy masterpiece by David Lowe. It has the same unique and fresh prophecy perspectives that readers have come to expect since ‘Earthquake Resurrection.’ This book is another first rate winner and highly recommended.

It is written in a way that is appealing to both the beginner and well studied student of prophecy. For more information, visit David Lowe’s website.

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Book Review: Then His Voice Shook The Earth