The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Genesis 8:15-19, “Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

17 “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families

from the ark.”

first time in all of Scripture that the word “family” appears. The ark was designed to protect the family of Noah

from the judgmental flood that the LORD was determined to bring upon the Earth. Today, the family is under

attack from a flood of satanic evil unlike anything the world has ever experienced. The fires of the god Molech

in which parents sacrificed their children have reached our 21st century. Divorce, abortion, abandonment and

political expediency have replaced Molech’s fires. Who really cares for children today?

When I was a child, we used to have family reunions. They were never to us kids what they were to our parents,

because we had no idea who the other kids were, but our parents mingled and talked with those they knew and

were introduced to others they had not known or had not seen in years. I remember many gatherings at gravesites

of departed family members –many of whom I had no knowledge at all. But funerals and burials were occasions for families to reunite. Such occasions are fewer today. The concerns of the past are slipping from our culture. Yet, the LORD is working to preserve families. When storms approach, animals gather with those of their own for protection.

It used to be that way with the human family.

We cannot control everything that occurs within our human families. But we can control some factors by allowing

the LORD to control us, our attitudes, and our love toward others. Work diligently to protect your family. For He is

just as concerned for families today as He was in Noah’s day. The LORD is our ark of safety and preservation.

Yield yourself to His call upon your life. That is your responsibility for preserving your family.

We pray for you and your family; we appreciate your prayers for us as well,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”