From Darkness to Light E-Book

Tom Slone

• Herausgeber: RWG Publishing
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

From Darkness to Light, the first part of a two-book saga, is an incredible true story about Tom Slone, who suffered tremendous difficulties living as a runaway, Satanist, sorcerer, and gang president growing up in the south side of Chicago. Little did Tom know, that despite everything in his life, God would take him to Heaven to make a decision that would change his life forever. God also revealed what Tom's life was like before coming to earth, and how the strategies of Heaven and angels constantly intervene during the life-span of all humans living on earth. This story is about incredible supernatural intervention and deliverance in the most impossible circumstances. This book inspires everyone and gives assurance that with God nothing is impossible and no one is too far gone to be saved.
 

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From Darkness to Light

Tom Slone

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Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing

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Litchfield, IL 62056

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Paperback: 978-1717836915

Table of Contents

Foreword One

Foreword Two

Preface

Chapter 1:

I Knew You Before You Were Born

Chapter 2:

The Little Spirit Being Comes to Earth

Chapter 3:

First Steps

Chapter 4:

First Grade Trouble Begins

Chapter 5:

My Childhood: Gang Intimidation, Manipulation and Control

Chapter 6:

Moving to a New School and New Area –

Trouble Even Worse Than Before Begins.........................................89

Chapter 7:

Going to High School and Joining a New Gang

Chapter 8:

The Gangs Are All Here! The Beginning of Organized Crime

Chapter 9:

The Last Week of Criminal Activity

Chapter 10:

The Beginning of a New Life Never Lived Before!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Foreword One

Tom Slone is a remarkable man with a remarkable story. His life from his earliest childhood seemed to be destined for tragedy. Growing up unwanted among the gangs of Chicago’s Southside, Tom experienced ridicule and neglect, as well as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the very ones who should have protected him from those things. Forced to fight or die, Tom became a fighter, a gang leader and master in the occult practices of witchcraft. In his book, From Darkness to Light, Tom shares not only the circumstances, but also the hidden thoughts and feelings that transformed him from a wide-eyed little boy into a violent predator.

But Tom's story is not a tragedy; his story is one of redemption. This is the story of hopelessness transformed into hope, fear transformed into faith, and hatred transformed into love. It is the story of a broken man and of a miraculous God who reached into the utter darkness to rescue him and give him new life.

Years ago, we found a stray dog. His fur was a tangled mess; he was wild, aggressive, lacked manners, and clearly had learned to hunt to survive. The amazing thing about that dog is he seemed to remember what he had been rescued from and appreciated our home and family in a way other animals we have had did not. This occasionally can also be true of people. They remember what life was once like and seem to cherish more than others what they have been given in Christ. Jesus said, “He who has been forgiven much loves much.” Tom is such a man. He remembers in vivid detail what his life was like without Jesus and has never lost that fresh gratitude and amazement at all Jesus has done for him.

Today, the violent gang-banger is long gone. Tom is a gentle, loving, and tenderhearted Pastor, teacher, evangelist, husband, father, and friend. He has a simple yet profound faith built upon a deep love of the scriptures and passion to walk in the ways of Jesus. His story is a living fulfillment of God's promise to transfer us out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son. He truly has gone from darkness to light.

- Dana Morey,

Evangelist and President, “A Light to the Nations”

Foreword Two

It has been my privilege to know Pastor Tom Slone for about 35 years. (Ordained 11-12-84. It will be 34 years on 11-12-18.)

I saw a man full of joy and optimism, and humble before God and His Son Jesus Christ.

As Tom shared his past on a tour through his old neighborhood where he was a gang leader in Chicago, I realized that his heart and mind had been renewed and transformed by the love and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He has great compassion for all people and gives extended time and effort to those who come (seek or call) for ministry. He is like a rapid-fire machine gun equipped with the ammunition of revelation, wisdom, and prophesy. I'm so happy and thankful to see his life story reveal the truth of the gospel of God's love and grace through Jesus Christ to this generation.

God bless your (Heaven-sent) ministry to those who have failed over and over again. Praise God that real life begins through following and trusting Jesus with your life! (Just as it is right now!)

Philippians 1:6 (KJV), “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,”

and

Mark 9:23 (KJV), “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

- Reverend Jim Haligas,

Pastor, Believers Prayer Fellowship Church

Glen Ellyn, IL

Preface

This book documents the story of my life from before I was born up until the time I was taken to Heaven and had a supernatural encounter with God on March 4, 1979. It is at this time that God wanted me to write about my experiences and publish this book. My extreme transformation from Satanism, being involved in organized crime and living my life as a gang leader, to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, means God can save anyone.

God wants to touch the lives of many people supernaturally through the testimony He has given me. I was born into a disadvantaged family of gang members on the South Side of Chicago and suffered abuse from the beginning of my life – only to be rescued and mentored by a powerful Satanic high priest. I became a very powerful sorcerer and as mean as a junkyard dog, quickly rising to become a gang leader and exact revenge on the people who had hurt me or would cross me.

Part of the perspective given in this book includes what God showed me was taking place in the spiritual realm before we came to Earth and while we are living on Earth. The insights He showed me explain how the good and evil forces work to influence and at times control our lives.

Since choosing to accept Jesus Christ and to serve Him, I have graduated from Christ for the Nations Institute and traveled the world preaching, teaching, and testifying the good news of Jesus Christ. For many years I was asked to write the story of my life but was never released to do it. I went from being a gang leader to speaking and ministering in a variety of churches, and at one point I felt like many churches acted just like a bunch of gangs, with all their doctrinal and theological differences.

Today is a new day. There is a hunger and openness to supernatural heavenly encounters and revelations, and people in general are ready to learn deeper things from God.

I wanted to thank my family, my wife, Dana, Karman and the whole Morey family, and many other people who have believed in me and supported the work of God in my life.

Chapter 1:I Knew You Before YouWere Born

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5, King James Version (KJV)

The phrase “I knew you before you were in your mother’s womb” means “we had a relationship before you came to Earth.”

There was an eternal day eons ago when all the light beings came together, enjoying the heart of the Father, the depths of His wonderful love, and the delights of the heavenly realms. We were similar to angelic beings – full of energy, happiness, and excitement, playing in the wonderful rainbow waters of light and life, enjoying the sweetness, the loving embrace and the gentle movements of the winds, and the caressing, loving expressions of the fatherhood and divine motherhood of God. We were oblivious to the future, just knowing that we were precious in His sight and that His thoughts were like the sands of the seashore for each one of us. We so loved our times together as friends, and because of the supernatural state of the world itself, we were able to enjoy and know the Father, so holy and divine with His feminine heart. For us, the supreme heavenly realms were places to enjoy, play, and have communication with our friends. Some heavenly friends would even be connected to us in the future, so on that day when we would have met again on Earth, we would say, “It seems like we’ve met before.”

In those supernatural realms created by Father God, we would dance, sing, be entertained, and enjoy all the wonderful, exciting pathways and amazing portals that took us wherever we liked in the universes of the Creator’s love, protection, kindness, and tenderness. Wherever we went, we always felt that we were light beings of love. The purity was so good, the excitement was so fantastic, and the memory of it was so profound. We all loved the special foods and drinks of light, and every created thing was made of light and alive in its own special way. The communication we experienced was beyond words and natural knowledge. It was so special because we communicated through knowing inside of ourselves what was really being conveyed, and in the same manner we responded back to each other via this spiritual, indescribable

inner communication. Understanding and comprehending exactly what was being communicated was so pure and enjoyable.

We had lots of good times when we existed before the beginning of time with Father God; we had each other as friends, along with angelic friends who would later become our guardians in our future earthly missions. We used to talk together and wonder about our future missions on Earth, but really, we had no idea what they would be like. We would talk to the Father about our future in the earthly world where we would become changed into another form of being, created in His image. We were told that being sent into that world would lead us to receive the most fantastic, wonderful Entity into our hearts and lives: Jesus Christ, the resurrected King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We would see parts of our future on Earth, talk with one another about the images we saw and the feelings, emotions and expressions we experienced, and try to comprehend the meaning of these future events. Even when we were contemplating our future earthly missions with the Father, He would assure us that what He began, He would surely finish and bring to completion through His Precious Son.

We were all excited about the time when we would be placed inside a woman’s womb and then become a human being. We could not comprehend or understand these things fully, yet we eagerly awaited our turn to go. The meaning of living a new life on Earth as a human being was beyond us because we lived in such a fantastic, magical world where anything we wanted was pure and was given to us. All of our friends seemed to always be with us, and so we never even considered being apart. The angels enjoyed playing with us, and they communicated and talked with us whenever we wanted. All we knew and understood in our life before the beginning of time with Father God was love in all of its expressions, which was greater than any man, woman, a mother, or a father on Earth could give. We lived experiencing His perfect love in its purest form. We would play in the trees, and whatever images we saw would transport us into that reality, so we constantly tapped into endless things in the heavenly realms that were so good, fun, and enjoyable. All along we were wondering and thinking together about the future, just like little children. We couldn’t wait to come to the place called Earth and begin exploring and experiencing life as human beings. We thought Earth would be a wonderful place – even though there was talk going around that it would not be easy for us to live and grow up on Earth. Compared to our blissful existence in the heavenly realms with Father God, we could not comprehend or even think of the meaning of danger and other things that would happen on Earth because of the fall of man. We just wanted to do whatever our loving Father asked of us. It was so exciting to serve Him while at the same time dwelling within the loving, feminine part of Him, and therefore we all wanted to stay close to Him, like children would want to stay near their mother. We were told that when being sent on our earthly missions, we would at first be very comfortable inside our mothers’ wombs, and our guardian angels would go with us. We were even told that some of us would not make it through the process and would be sent back to the heavenly places and into the arms of the loving Creator. We would return in a different form, and that form would be of a man, the mankind and womankind of Earth, created in the image and likeness of God: spirit, heart, soul, and body.

We were all excited as we would play in the trees, talk to the animals, walk, float, and fly. We were ecstatic to come to Earth, thinking it was just another new joyous adventure, and never thought we would ever lose everything that we had ever known. In our existence with the Creator, we could enjoy, play, explore, and have an adventure in all the worlds-within-worlds of our Creator and our dear heavenly Father. We loved to see His delightful face that expressed enjoyment of how much His creations so loved to please Him in any way. When looking at other light beings and how they were similar to the angelic creatures, we could never dream of what we would become on Earth.

...Then the Adventure Began