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Made Homeless By Campfire - Battle is Raging

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MADE HOMELESS BY THE MOST DEADLY AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY

My name is John Vega and I'm from the town of Paradise, California which was completely decimated by the Campfire here in northern California on Thursday, Novenber the 8th, 2018 just two weeks before Thangsgiving holiday. Sadly, like 13,000 other residences, our home was consumed by the flames but thankfully, my family and I survived the fire and are safe. We evacuated our home just hours before it burnt to the ground and found temporary refuge at the homes of our dear friends and family. 

Cal Fire reported last Tuesday that 13,503 residences, 514 businesses and 4,404 barns, sheds and other buildings have burned in the blaze. The total of 18,421 structures is more than three times the toll from last fall's Tubbs Fire in Napa and Sonoma.

The Camp Fire grew rapidly near midday Nov. 8, consuming 10,000 acres in about 90 minutes – burning the equivalent of more than one football field every second during that time. It charred more than 70,000 acres in a day's time. As of last night the news reported that there has been 88 confirmed deaths and that there are 265 people still missing. 

We have suffered a great loss in this fire but we are so thankful to be alive and in good health. Not only our home and it's contens but also my car and my trailer were also burnt along with all of their contents. All I was able to take where cell phones, some clothes and a few personal items and my credentials. Now we are looking for a place to live in while we decide what our next step is. If you can help us in this great time of need to rebuild our lives we would greatly appreciate it. You can donate here on gofundme or if you prefer to donate through PayPal rather than Facebook or gofundme, my personal PayPal email is [email redacted]. 

Please keep all of the evacuees on your prayer list. Many familys are not struggling to keep a roof over their heads or ar living in tents or in their cars or on the streets of the nearby cities of Chico and Oroville etc. 

I humbly ask for your financial support as we have needs and have lost almost everything in the fire including my car and a trailer and all of it's contents. In addition to helping with my immediate material needs I want you to know that I am continuing to circulate timely Christian literature just as I have always done for the last 25 years so supporting me includes the support of my ministry. My life has been occupied with literature evangelizm since 1993 and I guaragteee that every penny you give will help me with the overall goal of educating the public and especially the college students of our nation as to the perilous times before us and that we must take shelter under the wings of our Saviou by submission to his commandments, statutes and judgments before destruction comes to the whole earth. 

Paypal is the safest and easiest way to donate. My Paypay account email is
[email redacted] 
You can also mail snail mail donations including checks or money orders directly to my PO Box address which is: 

John Vega
PO Box 325
Redwood Estates, Ca 95044

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A MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE STORY

On Thursday, At 7:30 AM on November the 8th I went out for a walk and 2 minutes into my walk I got a whiff of smoke. About three minutes into my walk I saw some small ash falling on the asphalt and a couple minutes later the smoke began to burn my lungs. At this I called my mother and told her to look out her back sliding door and that there was a fire. I decided to cut my walk short and return home. When I got home I saw a traffic jam on my road. People were trying to get out and cars were backed up. Mother was already receiving phone calls informing her that Feather River hospital was evacuating, which is only 2 miles down the street on the same street we live on called Pentz Rd. I got out my leaf blower, climbed on the roof and blew off any pine needles that were on the roof and inside of the gutters. I had hoped that this would prevent a fire from consuming our home but it didn't help at all. 

By 9 AM we were informed that there was a mandatory evacuation enforced so my mother packed her bare essentials for the two 6 year old children she adopted in her old age and herself, loaded up in the car and drove to her brother's home in Angwin, Ca for refuge. 

Because of the fires and people being burned alive in their cars traffic was not able to come down our road anymore and there was no more bumper to bumper traffic. At this time Fire trucks and police were racing by our home with their sirens blasting announcing evacuation orders on their megaphones. One CHP officer stopped by and begged me to flee, telling me that people were burning alive in their cars!! in spite of this I hung around the home for about an hour more in hopes that I could prepare the home and make it more fire resistant but the power went out, the concussions from exploding propane tanks were getting stronger and stronger which sounded like a fast approaching war machine, the smoke was getting thicker until it looked like it was dusk, panic began to set in. My car battery was waning and I thought "what if my car doesn't start?" the power being out made it difficult to see when inside the home so I decided it was time to grab my bare essentials, credentials etc. and say goodby to our home for the last time and flee the scene. 
So at about 11:00 AM I left the house in a hurry with my credentials, some clothes, my cell phones and a couple of cases of the book called The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan retitled with two catchy titles, "America in Prophecy" and "Will America Survive?". I read this book in 1992 for the very first time and it enlightened my understanding of Christian history and vital issues at steak in end time world events. 

As soon as I left my home I began distributing these books to the evacuees who were parked on the sides of the roads gazing off at the smoke clouds generated by the fire from their burning homes and property. Believe it or not most people gladly received the book and thanked me for it. 

Initially, Some gracious friends and family took us in and shelters us but now I'm staying at a hotel southeast of Sacramento. Our home was reduced to rubble on November 8th by the flames. I lost EVERYTHING. My car and trailer were burned as well. The gusting winds, low humidity, a forest of 100+ ft. tall ponderosa pine trees caused the fire to burn like a giant blowtorch which quickly consumed everything in its path. As much I loved living in a forested wilderness setting in the Sierra foothills, this type of setting certainly does have it's drawbacks with the extreme fire risk.

I rejoice in this trial and say HelleluYah! It's good to see prophecy being fulfilled. The end is certainly nearing and people are searching for something better as they see their world falling apart. I plan to continue distributing these books as long as I can and to as many as will receive them. It's so good to trust in Yahushua/Jesus. What a dear and loving Friend He is in time of need.We shall never be discouraged!!

The Lord Jesus/Yahushua has placed upon my heart the longing desire to distribute the book The Great Controversy to every college and university in America. The plan is to go to each campus and give the book away face to face, dorm room to dorm room. Please help me reach the beautiful intellectual minds of our great country while there is still time to do so. Time is of the essence and we need to move fast and take advantage of this small window of opportunity before more calamities and or terror attacks make it impossible to travel freely in this great nation. 

"The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones."--Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 11. {ChS 52.2}

I will be so grateful for any support you can give and the people that receive these books will likewise be eternally thankful as well. Please keep me, my family and this project in your prayers. 
God bless you,
John Vega
President
www.TotalRestitution.com
cell [phone redacted]

P.S. 

"It is more blessed to give than to receive." Acts 20:35

This is not just an interesting fact but a beautiful reality. The poor are here and always with us to give opportunity to the rich to develop the generousity and kindness in their characters. These character traits are laying dormant in the heart of those who are wealthy but who have no compassion upon their fellow man. By allowing the rich to behold the desperate want and need of the poor in this world, Father God is trying to awaken in them the selfless, benevolent, generous character qualities of Himself. If God wanted to he could easily make every person on earth rich but he doesn't do this because it would be a terrible curse to those of wealth by causing them to be satisfied with their envious, selfish, evil and greedy characters and to remain in an eternally lost condition. In this respect the poor and needy are a priceless gift and a blessing to those who are rich and increased with this world's wealth and goods but who don't know the generous King of the universe. Indeed, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

John Vega

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