Interview with Braxton King Author of “The Blackest Times”
Q. What is your name?
Braxton King, no middle initial.
Q. Do you attend a Christian church here in the area?
A. Greater Golden Gate Baptist Church here in the city of Dallas. It is located at 9333 Ferguson Rd. Pastor Fabian Keith Jacko.
Q. What is the name of your book- why did you decide on this title?
A. The Blackest of Times. With all the other titles, this one kept coming before me. It just seems to make sense.
Q. How did you get into writing?
A. I got into writing by reading the writing of such authors as Carl Sandburg Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, and Earnest Hemmingway. I always wanted to write a book like suddenly last summer or old man and the sea. I had more creativeness in my head than I could handle, so I began to write.
Q. how long did it take you to write this book?
A. I began to write this book in 1999 and self published it in 2002. The project at that time was a failure in part. The book was written but there were so much more work to do. Finally it was finished and published in October 2014. About twelve or fourteen years in all.
Q. when you were writing this book did you feel uncomfortable?
A. the work of Satan in the church, how easy leadership was led away, and even when they did not teach the congregation to follow them, they had to have known that they would. They used the women married or single for their own purpose. They preached and taught what was acceptable to the mind of people. Much disrespect for God reached out from the pulpit, lies, lack of faith, watering down God’s word and not living according to God’s word. Mrs. C Father, Dr. Harold Simmons, who sold himself to Satan to be the most successful preacher of his time, it finally included whatever made him look big. His success lasted until he tried to outdo his master. At the same time he killed two church women and their hate for him led them to sell their unborn child to Satan so that they would become angels of the devil, to destroy the church and to destroy pastors. Their hate for pastors, and the desired revenge against God for failing to rescue them while they were dying a horrible death at the hands of a pastor. This bought on a bitterness that is beyond man’s comprehension.
Q. Is this your first book? If not, what are the titles to the others that you have published?
A. No, there are two others, Time of the Locust. And The Brother up Nexat, and Blackest of Times.
Q. Does that title have meaning?
A. Yes, the title have meaning, it indicates that these time are the worst times that has ever come upon the earth. They are times that we know nothing about. Times that man has nowhere to walk to, from where he has come from. He must survive under his own shadow. Under his own shadow, there is no forgiveness and no true repentance. Under his shadow there is not hope.
Q. What caused you to write this particular book? What is there about the subject matter that will interest people?
A. I wrote this book because of the frightening possibility that many of those who are attending morning worship may not make it to the kingdom. We find that more of the world is being brought into the church, than the church convicting the world to come to her. I saw men’s ideas becoming doctrine over the word of God, and on a meaning that is comfortable with their thinking. The word says if the righteous just barely make it in what about the ungodly and the sinner.
Q. You have said that the book is fiction; does that mean that the things in the book will not happen.
A. No, it means that much of what is in the book has not happen. When you look at Revelation chapter 6 through chapter 9 you will find the times more difficult than in the book, matter of fact they are so difficult that it is hard to believe. But it will happen and we will be unprepared if we are not careful. The word says that God himself will shorten those days, if he had not, no flesh would be saved.
Q. What about this book you want people to know?
A. That this is a real account of what the church will experience in the first three and a half years of Jacobs troubles. It is a real life soul breathing account of the suffering and torment of a church family and the community web that has trapped it between heaven, the earth and hell. Here lie the consequences of disobedience, disrespect, compliancy, ungodliness, compromise and doubt. A living experience that will wake every soul to pay attention. I want the people to know that the time of true repentance is coming to an end. And that the survival of those days would cause man’s heart to fail because of things coming upon the earth.
Q. In the book you mentioned the tribulation period; how does it affect the church?
A. We live a life that we will always have an opportunity to get our lives right. We even believe that the church will not go through the tribulation period. If the church must go through this period, she is unprepared to withstand the things coming up in their lives. If we believe that the church will not be rapture until after the first three and a half years, we will live better lives.
Q. What about people who does not believe in the tribulation period.
A. Whether we believe in this period or not, it will come, it will happen. But we will not be prepared and we will not teach others to be prepared.
Q. I am a little confused, the characters seem to be leaders in the church, but yet they seem to be following the influence of satan. Can you explain.
A. the word of God teaches us that in the latter times man will depart from the faith. It teaches that. It teaches that when the most difficult times come upon us, we will not repent. The pastors and leaders in the church are the first ones to take God word lightly, to doubt its strictness because of what they want to do. As God hold them responsible to their calling, they will fail by the numbers. Life according God’s word become too difficult and they take a short cut.
Q. The book seem to be a little complex, is there something that you tell us to help our understanding better.
A. Remember the times that this is happening in, the first three and a half years of the seven year tribulation period. The writer believes that one can turn from God if he chooses. “Mrs. C IS HUMAN, BUT THE ANGEL OF SATAN. Minister Kitchens is human and an angel of satan, Joe Solomon is human but angel of satan. These three cannot be saved; they are sold out to satan. God can step in to rescue, but because of their disobedient and disrespect He will not.
Q. It seem to me that when I am reading the book I can feel frustration, anger, disappointment, or is this just me.
A. All three of those attributes are felt by the writer and the reader, as to what level of disruption you will experience depends upon your belief. It depends upon your relationship with your pastor and what he teaches. Whatever you believe, you must believe that because your life may depend upon your faith.
Q. Mr. King when I read this book will I get a good feeling about the church.
A. There is a possibility that you will not. You will feel frustration, Anger, and disappointment. And if you are not careful, you may feel as if God have failed you. You will feel that the faith that we presently have may not be enough to sustain us in our survival in the last days.
The Greater Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church,
Pastored by Rev. Fabian Jacko., is giving Braxton King the author of “The Blackest Times” Book Signing.
Saturday, November 29th 2014 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am. (chat and chew)
9333 Ferguson Rd. 75228 Dallas, Texas
For more information call 214-327-1250
