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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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The Reason For The Two Ands
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The story of the “Two
Ands” begins with a new Schofield Bible that was given
to me by the South Carolina church as a gift. It has a
navy blue cover, with a thumb index. As I began
reading that new bible one morning, I had a strange
thing happen.
The night before, I had a dream and it was a very
strange dream to say the least. In this dream, I was
down below my house in the woods. There appeared a
white marble, granite type stone monument in front of
me and it was shaped in an M. Like some type of
memorial and a monument had been set up there. It
looked to be about 6 feet tall and about 30 to 40
inches wide and it was so glistening white. At the
curve of the “M” at the top on the left side in bold
black letters was the word “AND”. Then on the right
side in the curve at the top was the word, “AND”. Just
as sudden as this appeared, it disappeared, then I
woke up. As I thought on this strange dream, I said,
“Surely that can’t be spiritual? I wouldn’t dare tell
anybody about it, they would think I had eaten some
hot peppers or something before going to bed.”
So I got up the following morning and sat down at the
table where I had left my bible the day before. After
I had been marking some scriptures in Matthew, Mark,
and Luke, I started to read Saint John. I read chapter
one and on to chapter two. As I read chapter two, I
came to verse 22 and I read right over the “two ands”
in that verse without noticing them. At this point it
seemed that something warm came over me and all of a
sudden I was in the woods again looking at the stone
type monument with the “Two Ands” written on it. Then
as I looked at my bible there in St. John 2:22, those
“two ands” there in the scripture, began to rise up
and off the page and became larger as they rose. Then
as they returned back to their page they went back to
their normal size. This happened several times and
then stopped. After I regained my composure, I began
to read St. John 2:22 again. Then I saw something in
that verse that I had never seen before. It spoke of
the written Word and the spoken Word. Watch this
scripture as it reveals the “Two Ands” “AND (1st and)
they (the disciples) believed the scripture AND (2nd
and) the Word which Jesus had said”. That’s the
written Word “ the first And”, “the 2nd And” of this
scripture is the “spoken Word”; it takes both to tie
it all together.
Thus we use the “M” with the 2 “AND’S” as our emblem
for our website, as well as our book covers. My prayer
is that this website, books and audio taped messages
will help you in understanding the Word for our day.
This is my testimony and defense of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and may God be merciful to us all.
God Bless You,
Brother Ben Howard
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