About

J. Preston Eby

December 2, 1936 - February 16th, 2022

Some background on his life and the Kingdom Bible Studies Ministry.

J. Preston Eby was born into a Mennonite family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  While still a toddler his parents received the baptism in the Holy Spirit through the witness of some Pentecostal brethren in the area.  They were led of the Lord to sell their business and move to Alabama to do missionary work.  In his twelfth year Preston was filled with the Spirit – and in that same year the Holy Spirit sovereignly unfolded to his understanding the wonderful truth of the reconciliation of all things and all men unto God.  No one else around him – in family or church associations – embraced this revelation.  Through those early years he kept this truth to himself and pondered it in his heart.  Later he came into contact with, and was touched by, a mighty move of the Spirit known as the "Latter Rain", with emphasis on the body of Christ, gifts of the Spirit, laying on of hands, impartation, five-fold ministry, prophetic ministry, spiritual worship, the kingdom of God, and going on to perfection, unto fullness of sonship to God.

The Lord pressed him into a deeper walk with Him, intensifying within his heart the truths of sonship and the kingdom of God, already planted within as seed through the visitation of the Lord as Latter Rain.  Along the way he became associated with brother Gerald Derstine and The Gospel Crusade in Sarasota, Florida, serving as an associate minister with him for eight years, first co-pastoring and later pastoring the Revival Tabernacle in that city.  His wife Lorain and he, with their family, were on the mission field in Latin America for a total of five years, with ministry in several other areas as well.  For seven years, following this, he was an elder in a fellowship of believers in El Paso, Texas where they witnessed a precious move of the Spirit and a body of saints flowing together in the liberty and life of the Spirit. 

Eventually the Lord changed even that order, and in 1976 led him into a full-time writing ministry directed to those who are called and chosen as elect of God to grow up into the full stature of Jesus Christ as sons of God.  The writing ministry includes a monthly message titled KINGDOM BIBLE STUDIES as well as a number of booklets on various subjects.  This ministry is greatly expanding throughout the world and our sincere hope and earnest prayer is that this course shall redound to HIS GLORY in encouragement, strengthening, edification and blessing to unnumbered thousands of God’s elect sons everywhere – that creation may at last witness the true manifestation of the sons of God, setting all creation free from the bondage of corruption, restoring all things to God, and bringing to pass the glory of the kingdom of God throughout the whole earth and unto the unbounded heavens.

**Website authors note: Having only discovered Eby’s writings in February of 2024, I never had the opportunity to meet him due to his passing in February of 2022. Others who have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Eby said that he was “a very humble and compassionate man who exuded the love and life of Jesus Christ”. I can see this in his writings. That said, this website does not exist to bring attention to Eby - the man, but to the Spirit of the Word he was entrusted with. Many of us have been entrusted with this same word even though we may lack the ability to express it to others the way brother Eby has done through his writing.

In his own words, “I have heard the voice of the Spirit through a great many men and women during my lifetime. The word of the Lord and the revelation of God has come to me through many chosen vessels. Almost daily I hear the voice of the Spirit through precious letters we receive from members of God’s elect all across the land and around the world. I have both seen and heard great and mighty things from the Spirit of God in His people! But we are never to pay homage to the vessel, nor we can ever fall down to worship the person through whom God expresses Himself! We have to watch the esteem we give to the man God uses — for many have become followers of men rather than followers of God. In the Book of Revelation, John fell down to worship the man (angel, or messenger of God) — and that is an object lesson for us out of this book of pictures and symbols! He was straightway commanded, "See thou do it not." And I command you today — never get your eyes on me, beloved, nor on any other of the voices of God in the land today! I am but a vessel, a voice. The voice is that of the Spirit, the testimony is of Jesus Christ, it not my voice nor the testimony of myself. The sincere love and steadfast faithfulness of all those precious ones who esteem and value the ministry the Lord has been pleased to bring through us is truly appreciated on our part. But do not esteem us too highly, beloved! Be not followers of men but be a follower of Christ Jesus the Lord! Do not worship at the shrine of any man, whether he calls himself an apostle, a bishop, a king-priest, or any other title. All — if indeed they are the messengers of Jesus Christ — are but your fellow servants, of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the saying of this book. Worship God! That is what the Spirit is teaching us in these things.”

The articles on this website are made available at no cost.  God’s way is, “. . .Freely you have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:8). As members of Christ’s Body, we do not have anything to sell, nor do we rely on donations.  We trust God to lay it upon the hearts of those He chooses to provide the means for publishing these studies.  God bless!