Today I received 2000 of my ‘Rapture’ tracts for the ‘Insurrection’ tour.

I am very pleased with how these have turned out and very grateful to the artist, author and graphic designer Laryn Bakker for helping my crazy vision become a reality.

At the moment the only way to get your grubby little hands on one of these is to trudge along to an ‘Insurrection’ event. However I appreciate that the first leg of the tour is quite geographically limited, and I have been getting a lot of emails from people asking if they might be able to get some to give out. So I am thinking that I should make these available to anyone who might be interested in doing a little street evandalism (handing them out, placing them on buses, hiding them in Christian book shops, slipping them into peoples pockets etc.). In fact, come to think of it, it would be great to get some pics of the places where people leave them that I could put up on the blog.

So, for a limited time only, I will be selling batches of these tracts at cost price to any individual or group willing to take this message to the streets.

If you would like to find out more about getting your hands on some then please contact me via facebook. I will be selling them in batches of 100.

Here is the parable:

Just as it was written by those prophets of old, the last days of the Earth overflowed with suffering and pain. In those dark days a huge pale horse rode through the earth with Death upon its back and Hell in its wake. During this great tribulation the Earth was scorched with the fires of war, rivers ran red with blood, the soil withheld its fruit and disease descended like a mist. One by one all the nations of the Earth were brought to their knees.

Far from all the suffering, high up in the heavenly realm, God watched the events unfold with a heavy heart. An ominous silence had descended upon heaven as the angels witnessed the Earth being plunged into darkness and despair. But this could only continue for so long for, at a designated time, God stood upright, breathed deeply and addressed the angels,

“The time has now come for me to separate the sheep from the goats, the healthy wheat from the inedible chaff”

Having spoken these words God slowly turned to face the world and called forth to the church with a booming voice,

“Rise up and ascend to heaven all of you who have who have sought to escape the horrors of this world by sheltering beneath my wing. Come to me all who have turned from this suffering world by calling out ‘Lord, Lord’”.

In an instant millions where caught up in the clouds and ascended into the heavenly realm. Leaving the suffering world behind them.

Once this great rapture had taken place God paused for a moment and then addressed the angels, saying,

“It is done, I have separated the people born of my spirit from those who have turned from me. It is time now for us leave this place and take up residence in the Earth, for it is there that we shall find our people. The ones who would forsake heaven in order to serve the earth. The few who would turn away from eternity itself to serve at the feet of a fragile, broken life that passes from existence in but an instant”.

And so it was that God and the heavenly host left that place to dwell among those who had rooted themselves upon the earth. Quietly supporting the ones who had forsaken God for the world and thus who bore the mark God. The few who had discovered heaven in the very act of forsaking it.

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