Hi Pastor John,
I want to write to you about a testimony that is so very similar to your testimony about The Straw Man. Some months ago, you began to speak about The Straw Man, and it reminded me about my testimony from when I was a girl. I had an experience where Jesus showed me about The Paper Man.
When I was girl, maybe 10 years old, I was playing in the back yard by our brick BBQ. We never used the BBQ for BBQ’s; rather, we just burned twigs and branches and leaves in there. Well, this one day I was standing on the opposite side of the BBQ, and I had a vision from God. Before me, I could see a giant towering and intimidating man made out of paper. When I looked closer (waist level), I could see he was actually made up of thousands and thousands of tiny pieces of paper with writing on them, somewhat like fortune cookie paper or paper tickets, but there was much writing on them, and the writing was academic writing of man. The word “plagiarize” came to me. I was old enough to have a rudimentary understanding of the word, but I recall being a bit intimidated by the word, because it was a “big” word. But I understood these papers were writings of man that were copies of other men, and the writings were just repetitions, and nothing new being said. No revelation from God. And they were false. I also had the understanding this had been going on for a very long time, at least “a thousand years” was the time frame that came to my mind.
As I stood there and marveled, I was intrigued that the size of The Paper Man was so very intimidating, but he was only made of paper! Yet, I could feel its imposing intimidation. But it was false! As I marveled at this, I briefly came out of the vision long enough to notice the Red Head Matches that were set on the BBQ, and I understood (like your testimony) that it would only take lighting these matches to set the whole thing on fire. I marveled more at this, and my heart greatly wondered at the man in the future who will have the privilege of setting The Paper Man on fire and destroying it. I wanted that man to set it on fire right then!
It will be a wonderful day when that Straw Man/Paper Man is destroyed by fire!
Love,
Jenny