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.
Me, just before leaving to do volunteer
work on a Kibbutz in Israel (1989)
My wife (Pam) and I in a restaurant
in Fairbanks, Alaska (2003)
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. Below is a photo of our house in Delta Junction, and my room/office. It was a very nice home, with a livable cabin in the back, about 2 miles outside of town. The room is where I spent most of my time, alone with the Lord, and writing.
Me at my welcome home party
My brother Terry and me (1982)
To the left is a picture of my mother and step-father. My father had died earlier from PKD (Polycistic Kidney Decease). For a while they attended a First Assembly of God church. Then they moved to a non-denominational, Spirit-filled, Bible believing church. As for me, while I was growing up I wasn't involved too much with church and later (as a teenager) I rebelled against the Lord and my 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.
Barry & Annabelle Finney (1989)
That was 23 years ago (as of November, 2005). 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. While I was away from home and living in sin, the Lord called my parents out of the Church System 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 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 church or group but 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 the Lord 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 Holy Spirit has been able to show us the bankruptcy of the Church System, both in doctrine and in 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 any books promoting the latest “fads” which were currently sweeping through the churches. We operated the store for 4 years.
Some of our group: summer of 1997
Me behind the counter before store opened
We are very pro-Israel. We support the Jewish people's right to defend itself against anyone who seeks to destroy them and we defend their right to the land. I've written an historical/political primer on the Arab/Israeli dispute called "A Burdensome Stone" (Click Here). Also, we use our Paltalk Chatroom to explain the uniqueness of Israel and expose the insane bias that flows from the international media and from anti-Israel national and religious leaders. If you have some time, listen to some of the following audio's or read the accompanying notes:
Should We Support Israel
Obsessive Compulsive Israel Disorder
Israel's Peace Efforts
Exposing Lies About Israel
Israel, God's Banner
Lying Tongues
Demonizing Christian Zionists
As America Has Done To Israel
Gentile Arrogance
The Lord has allowed us to express our love to the Jewish people in many ways. One of the more pleasant and exiting ways is through the participation in an event called the “Jerusalem March”--which is 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. Nor do we necessarily endorse what goes on during the rest of that week-long celebration, particularly the convention meetings because there is a mixture present in the whole event. Our purpose for going to this celebration is to show God’s love to the Jewish people, and to let them know there are still some Gentile Christians in this world who care about them and support their State.
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 or hear, 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 it trying to make them listen they'll cast you out of their fellowship.
Dan Mace
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 small farm 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 Jews 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, call them Christ-killers, blame all the worlds problems on them and say that God is finished with them as an ethnic race. We believe God has given us a balanced view of our relationship to the Jewish people and we have written several books on this subject:
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