Let the Fire Fall

Obie Cox has gathered together under these covers all the revelations he has been granted and has added to them his understanding of the miracles thus revealed to him directly. Starting with his conversion and his acceptance of the call he heard from God, he has with great care and courage detailed each of the subsequent visitations he has been privileged to have. The book is a wealth of detail in chronological order which shows his growth as a man of God….

This book is important, psychiatrically speaking, because in it one can trace the spread of a pathological condition, first suffered by one man, Obie Cox, and through him transmitted to thousands, or even millions, of other people. A system of delusional grandeur emerges in the first chapter when Obie Cox suffered his first “blackout” and wakened believing he had heard the voice of God. From there it is a more and more hysterical recounting of other “visions,” intermixed with prophecies said to be documented, but it should be noted that when this reader tried to substantiate the documentation, it was found that referents cited did not in fact confirm those statements attributed to them…. offers a wealth of material for a graduate student of mental pathology….

“‘Armaggedon is now,’ so saith the Lord to me. I sat in the dark woods with my trusty gun across my legs and I knew I had to kill the aliens that were bringing sickness to my loved ones, and fouling the air of this fair earth. And I heard the Lord speaking to me just like a man hears his wife across the table, or his partner across his desk.” This is how the testimony begins in this remarkable new book, and it doesn’t get any better as Obie Cox warms to his subject. It is a chaotic mishmash of half truths; illiterate constructions, misused words, fractured sentences, tortured syntax. The main thesis of the book appears to be, and I use this phrase advisedly because it is not a simple matter to separate the gibberish from the message, that there is on immense battle going on in the universe. A scale so enormous that man cannot conceive of its dimensions. I always say that if it is inconceivable, then don’t try to make me understand, but Cox tries. So there is this battle taking place now. That’s what the title refers to, he would have us believe. God is forcing the battle with Evil; it is taking place throughout the entire universe, one of Cox’s favorite words, and one awfully hard to disprove in the connection in which he uses it. It may well be that there is a battle taking place in the “entire, endless, infinite, unimaginable stretch of God’s universe.” But to get on, Earth is one of the major battlefields. Cox is presumably a general in this bottle. Cox says: “And only by waging unrelentless [sic] war with this vast enemy, the Evil that has token up dwellings in our fellow men, and by, winning that war with that enemy inside our fellow Earthmen, can His house, this Earth, be made safe for the believers in God and Good, who will prevail forever after that, and be ready to face the aliens, who are controlled by the Evil and who will return with poisonous germs and sweep over this house, this Earth.” Oh, I say now….