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Character Interview: Matthew Cho from Revelation Special Ops book 2

Transcripts from the Interview with Matthew Cho from Pharmacia: Those Magic Arts

Book 2 of REVELATION SPECIAL OPS

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Transmitter for the interview provided byLuzak.

Interview by Aaron Cooper, co-founder of Revelation Special Ops.

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M. Cho: Mr. Cooper, are you there, sir?

A. Cooper: Matt, it’s so good to hear your voice. But you don’t sound so healthy. How are you?

M. Cho: I’m keeping. Holding steady. (coughs) Please, I have to know–how’s Hadassah?

A. Cooper: Right after you were captured, she was recruited by Israeli Intelligence. She’ll be working with them for six months.

M. Cho: But how is she?

A. Cooper: She’s doing well, considering what happened to her dad, and then to you.

M. Cho: I saw her dad. Pastor Asher. He’s gone again.

A. Cooper: Is there any hope of you coming back to us, Matt?

M. Cho: Unless I become feed for the Velosiraptors, I’ll be back as soon as I can. They had me cleaning up after the Brachiosauruses for a while. This place, this rebuilt Babylon, it’s so freakish, man, I can hardly begin to tell you. You’ll see it from my journal pages soon enough.

A. Cooper: The journal pages made it to us.

M. Cho: I haven’t found my dad yet, but I’m recording everything I see. These underground prisons where they keep all of us…so many of the prisoners and slaves are sick. Mr. Cooper, I keep praying for them, but it’s so awful. It’s so awful. The smell. The stench of it all is making me sick. No one is healing, even though I keep praying. Please, I’ve got to get out. I don’t even know if God is still listening to me here. Sometimes I have visions of Him. Sometimes I feel His presence. But he seems so far away from me.

A. Cooper: Don’t let go of God, Matt. Hold onto Him with everything you have. We’ll be coming for you as soon as we can.

M. Cho: I’m going to be transferred soon.

A. Cooper: We’ll find you.

M. Cho: The first seal, Mr. Cooper, the first seal has been opened. The white horse and the arrowless rider.

A. Cooper: We know. The whole world was watching that.

M. Cho: I have to get out of here, Mr. Cooper. There are so many other girls here that need to be rescued from modern slavery. And boys. There are so many children here in Babylon. I can’t take it. If I’m not working to free them, who will free them?

A. Cooper: I’m glad for your heart, son, but it’s not all up to you. Keep praying. Someone else is coming to free them. That’s a promise we can hold onto.

This interview is based on some of what lies within the pages of Pharmacia: Those Magic Arts.

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Oh, JOY!

Since my last post was about comfort, I thought it fitting to write this one about joy.

Joy is one of those things that everyone loves to be around but few truly project.

I asked my husband one day if there was any particular fruit of the Holy Spirit I wasn’t showing much of in my life, he said, “Joy.” At that moment he was right. Since then I have been praying.

A few months ago, a friend and fellow writer told me something that both surprised me and encouraged me. She said she gleans joy from the books I write. I so much wanted to project joy, but wasn’t sure if my novels, particularly the ones that highlight modern slavery, transmitted JOY to the reader.

Apparently they do! At least to one.

Thomas Jefferson, in writing the Declaration of Independence, included that we have, from God, the right to pursue happiness. In the movie, Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith explored how elusive that happiness is. I know I won’t be able to wax as eloquently as that movie did on the subject of pursuing elusive happiness, but I do know one thing: happiness may be elusive, but joy…

Joy is permanent. It’s meant to be. I want to be filled with this. I want to spread it all around. I want to inspire JOY in people around me, because it is permanent. And it makes a human being become what God intended–you can sense it in the presence of those who are filled with joy.

Have you encountered someone who, when you’re in their presence, you’re infused with joy? Please, do tell!

And if you’re interested in my books, two of them are FREE today:

The Elite of the Weak

Pharmacia: Those Magic Arts

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YOU can do something to stem the tide of human trafficking

Recently, Jada Pinkett Smith appeared before congress to urge the representatives to do more in their efforts to combat human trafficking here in the United States. Here is the link about this in the Huffington Post.

Now, I love this woman’s heart, but is it just celebrities and others of influence who can stand up to the issue of human trafficking? Or is there anything an ordinary person can do?

Here are a few things that anyone can do:

First of all, you can help by notifying Amazon to take down books that endorse human trafficking through sex tourism. Would you like to know how? Follow this link to Love146 Task Force page.

Second of all, you can visit ijm.org and get involved in any one of their Justice Campaigns. I’m doing their 100 postcard challenge right now (you’ll see it on the far right).

Third of all, you can pray. Every Monday evening, 8pm Central Time, Exodus Cry holds an international prayer meeting about this issue of human trafficking through IHOPKC’s prayer room. Every month they take a specific city and pray each Monday for abolition in that city. Mark it on your calendar and join in via webstream.

Fourth, you can give to any one of these organizations, or support one locally that’s setting up safe homes and working with kids at risk.

My YA book series, Revelation Special Ops, was written to raise awareness for teens. Books 1 & 2 are FREE today:

The Elite of the Weak

Pharmacia: Those Magic Arts

Pharmacia: Those Magic Arts

One of the most amazing things to me is that it was Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter, Willow, who was the one to tell her mom about the realities of human trafficking. Willow is 11. Never underestimate the incredible influence kids can have.