October 29, 2002 journal, dare not call it art, ambassador to Jordan ambushed, theater in Moscow gassed with many dead. World turmoil confirms apocalyptic age in Armageddon. This must be why I paint art / write journal. The opening last evening at North Greenville College last evening was a wonderful experience with great student participation and with many wonderful supporting friends. I can now say the things that I should have said when I was introduced by my good friend art director Jim Craft at this 1400 student college in Northern Greenville County. The show was with a great selection of their choice from my available art featuring the Beast of Revelation, some modified to reveal our modern times.

I was very happy that my brother James came to this event. I appreciate my family and my brother is very special to me as a real brother unconditionally. Our father was a man that spoke his mind and he was well respected for it. I paint what is on my mind and I write my thoughts in my daily journal and make it a devotional with prayer and scripture. Art to me has always been considered luxury, especially growing up on a dairy farm and never being exposed to original artwork. Not until in July 1989 did I ever dream of painting any art.

I saw a vision suddenly and within it was a command to paint apocalyptic art of the end-time prophecy message of the Book of Revelation and the entire Biblical prophecies that we see coming to pass with the world under attack by the Islamic religious movement. There is little doubt in my mind that we are seeing the beginning of the end of this day of God's grace and the pouring out of the 21 judgments described in the Book of Revelation.

There is little doubt that the killing of our ambassador in friendly Amman Jordan and the capture of hostages in the theater in Russian was part of the United Moslem hostility to capture the World and destroy Christianity. From left to right, the painting of the beast

substituting politicians faces on the seven heads call ‘faces of the beast was highlighted’.

The big mouth of Sodom Hussain 5 ft. tall is again appropriate as part of my series painted during the Gulf War. The painting of collapsing towers I did in 1996, acrylic on canvas 36 by 48 drew lots of attention with its people falling out on the way down as my prediction of Wall Street and a collapsing stock market. To scenes from the Revelation series of the seven headed beast were included in this show that are bound for the three-year traveling show at the University of Memphis. At the end was two paintings on health. 1- I want my teeth back 'sugar baby' showing a Coke and Pepsi cans . 2-Don't be a turkey and eat the five killer whites in our diet-sugar, flour, meat, milk and processed table salt. I feel I have a responsibility for people's health as well as their soul in the progress of reality and eternal life. I was proud to have Dr. Jim Mann,jr. Ph.D. formally curator of the Las Vegas Art Museum in the audience to speak and describe my work for whatever he has seen in it for these years and having shown it in 1998 as a major one-man show in the LVAM. I was also proud to have my good artist friend Don Mize attending. I first met Don when he was on the board directors at the Las Vegas Art Museum in Las Vegas Nevada during my show there. I am proud for all the applause but I feel that I have just begun and that I have no talent of my own. Universities and museums have been my outlet even though I would have preferred the church show my work. The collaborative painting 'Idolatry' was shown in print form with description because it is so complicated. The print is 4 ft. tall while the regional is 9 1/2 ft. tall. This is a takeoff of the Revelation scene of the woman Israel standing on the moon clothed in the sun with the crown of 12 stars on her head which we changed to seven churches to illustrate the idolatry that has plagued the churches since Babylonian days when the mother and child were featured as idols to be worshipped.