Title: The Forum: A Deadly Game of Wheat and Tares
By: Ronald Winters
ISBN#9781542870962
A CBM Book Review
10.0 out of 10.0 stars
The Forum: A Deadly Game of Wheat and Tares by Ronald
Winters offers a riveting fictional account of “real world end time events,
current day attitudes and directions of the spirit of the times in which we
live.”
Barak Zonman, starts off this fast-paced thriller, blending
elements of espionage with a religious and political polarization that affect
the masses of population around the World. In the book, there is a conspiracy
to bring all faiths into one large interfaith religion and Barak Zonman and his
popular TV show – The Forum must be eliminated.
This begins with Zonman, the show’s founder. The Forum “is a
faith oriented call-in TV show designed to let viewers question leading members
of the clergy.” Controversial in nature, this show sparks debate – and hinders
the worldwide current of leading all into one faith and world peace. This novel
of the wheat and tares is an amazing book written to those that would seek
truth in God and the true Christian faith.
Running for his life, Barak finds sanctuary in a church and
finds himself radically changed by a baptism by water, followed by a baptism of
the Spirit, as evidenced by the speaking in tongues. Highlighting this issue,
the author speaks of the controversy between believers on being “born again”
(either by just statement and belief and/or by receiving the infilling of the
Spirit, as evidenced by speaking in tongues). This radical way of being born
again and receiving the Spirit is what Apostle Paul spoke of, thus, the book
sheds light on God’s way versus man’s way. Man’s way and God’s way are running
a collision course to the End Times in this book that reveal an exciting plot
of scenarios begun by two Prologues that concurrently blend modern-day
questions and events that has been spoken of in Bible Prophecy. The author also
notes that we are in the time of the Olivet Discourse that Jesus speaks of on
the Mount of Olives, mentioning the time of Jesus return as near since the
birth of Israel in May 1948.
In the back of the book the author offers his personal
testimony, delivered instantly from prescription drug dependency when
“he looked in the mirror” and repented of his ways. Holding fast to true
repentance, the author advocates true Holy Ghost filled deliverances and that
the modern-day believer should have them as a norm, instead of replaced by the
Forum so to speak – the modern day church who compromises and duplicates the
actual workings of the Holy Spirit by replacing them with good theology,
programs and modern day mood alteration technology. He also offers observations
on some relevant issues, two being backsliding and tithing.
This book comes highly recommended for those that look to
fill the void inside, but are not sure what they are looking for. And for those
that enjoy thrillers with the elements of religious and political overtones.
Recommended either for a personal read or as a tool to reach the unbeliever,
the book highlights the End Times and gives a faith-filled read that speaks of
the true evidence found in an all-powerful God. Based on Barak’s faith-filled
experience, the book offers challenging questions to believers and to
non-believers (the wheat and the tares) as to the times that we are living in and gives a warning to the group of
believers that call themselves, the Church.
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