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Robin's Answers to the Questions on
Streiker's Morning Sun
1. What does Beaconville represent? hell
2. What does the Warfield Group represent? the "powers and authorities" that are opposed to God: Col. 2:14-15
3. (a) What does Lilith's letter represent? the prayer of an unbeliever
(b) Does she know what Fletcher needs to do? she hasn't a clue
(c) Why does he respond to her letter in person? Because he knows exactly what needs to be done, not just for Lilith but for everyone in Beaconville, and he has a plan to do it.
(d) Why does he bring Adair and Daniel with him? Adair is there to learn, and Daniel is there to help teach her.
(e) Why doesn't Lilith meet his train as he requested her to? She does not believe that he meant what he said about coming in person.
(f) How does Fletcher begin to convince her and her son, Cody, that he is who he says he is? (p. 24) by his knowledge of them, and his understanding
4. How did a church get built in Beaconville? Fletcher had effected a means for their deliverance from Beaconville before they ever knew they needed it.
5. Why does Fletcher start buying up all the businesses in Beaconville? He wants to force them to look at what's really important to their lives. Why do most of the owners renege on their agreements to sell to him? They don't want to change their lives . . . yet.
6. What does it mean when Daniel tells Adair that the people in Beaconville are not real? (pp. 45, 112) They are unredeemed, ghosts, already dead.
7. Why does Adair start recognizing places and objects in Beaconville? She was just as dead as they before she met Fletcher, and she didn't realize it any more than they.
8. How is it that Fletcher (and those with him) can walk through walls in Beaconville? (p. 119) Evil is unsubstantial when it comes up against true goodness.
9. (a) What do the different levels behind the Warfield Building represent? (p. 121) As the Apostle Paul hints at the various levels of heaven (2 Cor. 12:2) it stands to reason that there are various levels of hell.
(b) What does the red core represent? (p. 125) the core of hell, the source of all evil
(c) Why is it overflowing? If unchecked, evil spreads.
(d) Why does the red miasma not affect anyone in the church, nor affect them once they leave the church? (p. 171) When Fletcher's companions act according to his instructions, they are protected from the effects of evil.
10. (a) What does the train represent? God's supernatural transport between realms; in our case, salvation
(b) Why can no one leave Beaconville without Fletcher? He, representing Christ, is the agent of our salvation.
(c) Why does Fletcher make Lilith leave when she decides that she doesn't want to? He knows that what is preventing her leaving isn't her will, but her fear. She wants to go, but she is too afraid to make it on her own.
11. Why can no one who gets off the train get back on again? (p. 173) Salvation isn't an on-again, off-again experience. You're either in or out. (Heb. 10:26-27)
12. Does Carl deserve his seat on the train? No. Does Case, Gus, or Powell Rodgers? No, no, no. Does anyone who made it onto the train deserve it? No.
13. Which part of the book is a dream and which is real? The attitudes that the characters develop and the choices they make are the only things that are real—just as those attitudes and choices are all that is real for us: 2 Cor. 4:18.
I want to emphasize that the exact nature of hell, and the specifics of what awaits those who choose it, are unknowable to anyone on earth. In writing Streiker's Morning Sun, I was merely extrapolating from Scripture to create an imaginative argument for choosing wisely while we have time.
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