Just
before leaving for Israel to do volunteer work (1989) My wife (Pam) and I in a restaurant in
Fairbanks, Alaska (2003)
Who Is Dan Mace?
I would like to share a little of my personal background with you. The reason I feel this is necessary is because many of the truths contained in our writings will be viewed as controversial and/or false by most of your fellow Christians. When you try to share the things you read, they will probably scoff at you and say I am some kind of religious nut.
So, first of all, let me tell you what I am
not. We are not affiliated with any church, denomination or religious movement.
We don’t follow the teachings of any man. I do not see myself as an apostle, a
prophet, a teacher or anything else. I have no religious credentials or
seminary degrees. We are just a small group of people who are seeking to serve
God the way we believe He is asking us to serve Him. The Lord has given me the
ability to write and explain things that pertain to Christianity and the goal
of redemption. The ability to write comes from the Lord because I never went
past the 9th Grade.
Many years ago my parents attended a First
Assembly of God church. Then they moved to a non-denominational, Spirit-filled,
Bible believing church. However, as I was growing up I was never involved too
much with church and later (as a teenager) I rebelled against the Lord and my
good Christian upbringing and went out into the world.
At age 24, while living in San Antonio,
Texas, I heard the Lord speak very clearly to me. The voice was not “audible”,
but it might as well have been. God told me very clearly that if I didn’t get
off the path I was on, I would be dead before that time next year. I knew that
I was living in sin, and I knew that if I died I would almost certainly end up
eternally lost. So when God warned me, I heeded the warning and re-dedicated my
life 100% to Jesus. I then moved back home to Pennsylvania. Below are some
photos of what I looked like when I returned. That was 23 years ago. (This
November, 2005, I will be 47 years old). Since then, the Lord has been very
faithful to me. He has guided my path and kept me out of all the deception that
many are now falling into.
My brother (Terry) and I
While I was away
from home and living in sin, the Lord called my parents out of the Church
System altogether and they began having "home meetings" with some
other believers. Soon the Spirit of God began to teach them how to move
"corporately" without having to be under the "covering" of
recognized (i.e., ordained) church leaders or pastors. This is the way they
were living when I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ and returned home, and
it’s the way we have been living ever since.
I do not walk alone. I am part of a small spiritual family, each of whom has chosen to make themselves accountable to each other. We all came out of some kind of denominational (Spirit-filled) church or group, yet we are not playing church, and we are certainly not trying to build our own little religious kingdom. What we are doing is learning how to live and move and have our being in Jesus Christ, and in Him alone.
Living this kind of a life has brought us into a deeper relationship with the Lord than the average believer experiences. As a result, the Spirit has been able to show us the bankruptcy of the Church System, both in doctrine and practice. We are convinced that many of the churches in America, and indeed the entire world, have already gone into full-blown apostasy, and that many more congregations are now in that process.
In 1997 the Lord led us up to move to Delta Junction, Alaska. We purchased a 7-bedroom home and lived corporately. Soon after we got situated, God led us to open a Christian bookstore. It was not a business, but rather, a ministry to the believers in the town. We only sold solid, holiness and discipleship books. We didn’t sell “Christian Novels” or books that propagated the Pre-tribulation Rapture, Greasy Grace, Word of Faith, or books promoting the latest “fads” which were currently sweeping through the churches. We operated the store for 4 years.
It
was during this time that I did most of my writing because I was not working
full time. I worked at the store a few days a week, and then the rest of the
time I spent with the Lord. The photo to the left is our house in Delta
Junction. It was a very nice home, with a livable cabin in the back, about 2
miles outside of the town. Above is my room/office. This is where I spent most
of my time, alone with the Lord…and writing.
After closing the bookstore (at the end of
2001), we stayed in Delta another three years. We didn’t know it at the time,
but the Lord had some purging work to do in the group. By the summer of 2004,
that work had been completed and we moved back to Pennsylvania. We purchased a
home about 6 miles outside of a little place called “Miffilintown”. It’s about
60 miles North of Harrisburg, which is the capitol of the state.
One of the many things God has shown us over the years is what the relationship should be between believers and the Jewish people. There is so much confusion in the minds of today’s Christians regarding the Jewish people and Israel. Some believe the Church has replaced the Jewish people altogether, while others exalt the Jews above the Church and practically worship them. At one end of the pendulum you’ve got Gentile Christians trying to become Jews or live and worship like Jews, and at the other end you’ve got Christians who look down their noses at the Jews. They hate them and call the “Christ-killers”.
We believe God has given us a balanced view
of our relationship to the Jewish people and exactly who “Israel” is. God has
placed a deep love for the Jews in our hearts and we are very pro-Israel. We
support the Jewish people and the Jewish State and it’s right to defend itself
against all who seek to destroy them. We have written several books on this
subject. I encourage you to read the following titles on our web site:
True Israel (Brochure)
Who Hath Bewitched You?
(Book)
The Olive Tree (Book)
Having Therefore These
Promises (Book)
God has allowed us to express our love to
the Jewish people in many ways. One way we have done it is through the
participation in an event called the “Jerusalem March.” It’s organized by the
“International Christian Embassy” each year, around the same time the Jewish
people celebrate their “Feast of Tabernacles”. Christians from more than 60
different nations travel to Israel for a week-long celebration in order to show
their love and support for the Jewish people.
On a certain day during that week, the
authorities close off the main street of Jerusalem and all these Christians
march down it with banners and flags and candy to give to the spectators. It’s
a genuine expression of Christian love for the people of Israel, and each year
they appreciate it more and more because each year more and more people on this
planet have nothing in their hearts but hatred for Israel. We do not
necessarily endorse everything the ICEJ teaches or does. Nor do we necessarily
endorse what goes on during the rest of that week-long celebration,
particularly the convention meetings, for there is a very great mixture present
in the whole event. Our purpose for going to this celebration is simply to show
the Jewish people God’s love, and to let them know that there are still some Gentiles
in the nations who care about them and support them.
We hope that you will be encouraged and
challenged as you read the material on this Web Site. But be warned: if you
bear witness to the things you read, be prepared to stand and walk alone. You
will find that when you try to share these truths with other Christians they
will not listen. And if you persist, they will cast you out of their
fellowship. The reason is simple: the deception inside the churches is
just as bad as the deception outside the churches.
Daniel O. Mace