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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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No Longer Meaningless

Are you one of those hopeless romantics? I’m not. I used to be and I may well be again, but I’m not at the moment. That said, I’ve learned the root of romance, and for that reason alone being a romantic has its draw.

Within the Bible are eight strange and beautiful chapters that have helped to carve out who I am as a human being living on earth with my heart in heaven.

The Song of Solomon.

Eight chapters of the steepest romance known to man. If this defines me, no wonder I’ll be a hopeless romantic again soon.

I’m going to stay here for a while, and I hope you hang out with me in this place where we can glimpse, if even for a moment, beauties unrivaled anywhere in this majestic world we live in. So, since we’ll be here for a while, let’s start at the beginning.

It starts out like this:

The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

The expression ‘song of songs’ means that it’s the greatest song ever written.

We learn in 1 Kings 4:32 that Solomon wrote 1005 songs. I grew up around songwriters, and the most prolific among them has written probably 800. One thousand and five is a huge number of songs. But among those, one stands out as the best. The superlative, the greatest song of all: The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

That’s quite a boast to make, to have written the greatest song of all, but he only makes this boast under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Let’s consider for a moment the placement of this glorious and most wonderful song:

It sits beside the book of Ecclesiastes. I don’t know if you’ve cracked open that book lately, but the contrast between Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon is amazing (especially if they were written by the same man). The main exclamation in Ecclesiastes is:

Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is meaningless!

In the KJV, it says:

Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

Do you immediately see the contrast? Again, we have a superlative, this time informing us that everything in life is vanity. Meaningless. Worthless. Eek. You feel happy yet? Don’t worry, you will.

Ecclesiastes kindly informs us that everything under the sun is meaningless (1:14).

But don’t despair. Because everything under the SON is life, love, sweetness, glories unimaginable. Last week I wrote about how the Cross is the gateway to the Bridal Paradigm. This is the beautiful road that follows.

Of all the songs, this is the best. Some rabbinical scholars have called the Song of Songs the Holy of Holies of the Bible (yet another ancient superlative). Many modern Jews, in preparation for the Sabbath, read these wonderful eight chapters (see The Gift of Rest by Senator Joe Liebermann and David Klinghoffer). Can you think of a better way to begin rest then to revel in the glories of romance?

This is the secret place, the Holy of Holies. It’s not a place to trample into, but to enter in on one’s knees. The things the Lord has shown me through this Song have frightened me, have excited me, have carved me into a brand new human being. Read it. Pray it. Sing it. Journey with me for these next few weeks, or months, as I dive into this Song. Because here, life is no longer meaningless.

Lord, I thank you for this Song, and I thank you that you’ve provided a secret place to meet with you.

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Guilted to Give and Other Similar Crimes of Passion

Have you ever had someone try to get you to like them by making you feel guilty? Blech! I *shudder* at memories of ever doing this to someone else. (If you’re one of those people I ever did this to, and I haven’t said so yet, I’m sorry.) It feels miserable for both parties.

And how ready is your heart to give when you have your wallet opened by the pliers of guilt? I don’t know how you feel about that, but I’m usually like, ugh!! wanting to grab my belly, ready to heave my last meal. Guilt is a nasty motivator.

You’ve seen the pictures: kids in deplorable poverty with the charity’s plea for your donation at the bottom, and little accountability about where that money goes.

Some have gone so far as to call this “poverty porn”.

I want to tell you, though, that nothing exemplifies a Christian so much as generosity. A willing heart that gives generously (of both time and resources) shows Jesus to the world in ways that few other actions do. A generous person shines the light of Christ in powerful ways.

But I strongly believe that a person coercing and manipulating people into giving money by making them feel guilty does not demonstrate Christ. It does the opposite.

The only good that guilt can ever do is lead us to Christ who frees us from its crushing weight.

On the other end of the spectrum, there is conviction. There is the quickening of the Spirit upon a heart saying, “I need to be a part of the solution! Whether I give time, money or both, I need to be part of the solution!”

Whenever I seek to bring awareness about the issues of human trafficking, or of extreme poverty, or of the plight of child soldiers, I seek to inform those who want to learn, as well as those who were once as ignorant of these issues as I was.

I was grieved and convicted about my ignorance, and in response I’m committed to as much action as a I can do right now.

If I ever leave you feeling ‘guilted to give’, I give you permission to call me out for it. Seriously.

Real love doesn’t use the pliers of guilt. Neither should real generosity.

God bless you!

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