Tuesday, Sept. 11 was a "day

of infamy" but Dee was still trying to walk in the Spirit and see

what God had to say to America (in Alaska at the time). Pastor Herndon

Herndon

Monday, Sept. 10, 2001

Dee gets Zion's Hope newsletter

in the mail (Dr. Mary Rosenthal, a Christian Jew whose organization built

the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Fla., which opened February 2001).

Mary Rosenthal cancels the October 2001 tour to the Holy Land.

Mary Rosenthal talks about

his Jewish "brethren" who still lie "according to the flesh"

and who have "not submitted themselves unto God's righteousness."

Mary Rosenthal quotes prophecy

form the Bible about a "future day is coming, however, when Jewish

people will turn to the Lord in faith."

Mary Rosenthal talks of his

thoughts about the conflict in Israel which started October 2000 as possibly

the beginnings of "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7)

or "the great tribulation" (Matthew 24:21).

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001

9 a.m.: Dee gets call from

a retired general informing Knox and me that the general's father had

died Monday night (the man that died had been close friends with Momma

and Poppa Herndon while they were all in the Army; Poppa Herndon baptized

the Benton children in the Atlantic Ocean off of Panama in the 1950s.)

Dee leaves message in Alaska

for Knox to see if he can get home to Atlanta for the funeral Friday.

9:30 a.m.: Call from friend

of one of His House's youth group members asking for advice as to what

to do for this youth group member who had a terrible crisis the night

before (young one had been baptized by Knox just three weeks before).

1 p.m.: Dee gets call from

member of His House's congregation wanting to know about the basis of

the conflict in Israel. Dee told her to read the Genesis account about

Father Abraham fathering Ishmael (the Arabs) and Isaac (the Israelis).

2 p.m.: Longtime Christian

friend of the Herndons who knew Knox was in Alaska and called Dee to ask

how we were this Christian friend prays for our country and the youth

member in crisis.

4:30 p.m.: Dr. Jim Willis calls

to see if Knox can come speak at a "What America Means to Me"

prayer gathering at the North Fayette Baptist Church that night at 7 p.m.;

Dee tells him Knox is still in Alaska but that she was in West Berlin

and in Korea and by Knox's side during his whole Army career and as a

civilian pastor after retirement. Jim Willis extends invitation for Dee

to speak at the evening service.

5 p.m.: Dee had just hung up

the phone with Pastor Willis and walks back into the TV room where CNN

had been on all day. CNN news anchor Judy Woodruff says the following

on international TV:

"We as a nation must go

to God. No matter what you believe about God, we all need to believe that

there is a higher authority from whom we can receive salvation."

7 p.m.: Dee interprets this

as what God wants her to speak about at the "What America Means to

Me" prayer service.

Dee addressed two issues and

passes out copies of the Zion's Hope newsletter that she had received

the day before. Dee often cannot read all the correspondence that comes

in, but God made her look down and read the first page of Mary Rosenthal's

newsletter!

1. We must receive salvation

from God. If we have it, we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ, and no

matter what "trouble" or "tribulation" we go through,

we will eternally be with our Lord.

2. From what do we need salvation?

Evil cannot resist evil and do good. Do not fight each other because of

color of skin, ethnic group, language differences, denomination. Band

together with Christians who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior,

and don't be evil and "submit themselves unto God's righteousness."

Bless you all! The work of

Christ's bride, the universal church, must keep going. And what is that

work supposed to be? The last thing Christ says to his disciples before

he ascended to heaven was: "Go Ye therefore and teach all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy

Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded

you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

Matthew 28:19.

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