January 2002 Newsletter

January 2002 Newsletter

Do You Know the Father and Mother of This Child?

Baby Malichi

This little baby boy was found frozen in a jar with three other little children at an abortion mill in Dallas, Texas, in February 1993. We were stunned when we found him. There were jars upon jars of frozen children in that abortion mill. Rhonda Mackey, our executive secretary, brought this one jar out and asked me what we should do with it. I had no idea, but I instinctively knew we could not leave it there. We brought the jar to Dr. McCarty, a wonderful Ob-Gyn in Dallas, who put the pieces of this baby and the others back together.

The entire process was put on video as Dr. McCarty, and all who were present, wept at the reconstruction of these precious children. The life that was once there was now gone forever. It became apparent to all of us that God had given us these children, one in particular, to show to the entire world the horror of abortion. One picture can speak louder than a truckload of words.

We prayed, and asked God to allow this little boy to speak to our nation. We remembered the scripture in Hebrews 11:4: "…he still speaks, even though he is dead." It was upon a very specific revelation from our Lord that we had the picture of one baby blown up to poster size. Rhonda asked me if she might have the privilege of naming this little baby boy. She prayed, and God gave her the name that this child would become known by all over the world - Malachi!

This name strikes terror in the hearts of those who kill children, for they know that this child, more than anything else, reveals the incredible horror of what abortion really is. It strikes terror in the hearts of pastors who know they should be taking a bold stand for our Lord's children but realize that, if they do, they will suffer at the hands of their own congregations. It brings terror to Christians who do not want to be confronted with their sin in such a graphic manner. It brings terror to those who agree with their lips that abortion is murder, but by their actions prove that it is really OK! Yes, the picture of baby Malachi exposes the hypocrisy that resides in all of our hearts.

The name Malachi literally means my messenger. Rhonda couldn't wait to share what God had revealed to her. God was going to use Malachi to be a messenger to His church, to our nation, and to the world. Yes, Malachi would reveal the truth that abortion is murder, and that we must speak for those who, like Malachi, cannot speak for themselves. I reminded her of the last verse in the last book of the Old Testament: "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers…." Malachi 4:6.

We prayed that Malachi would indeed be the messenger that would turn the hearts of fathers to their children. He has done that. Yes, he has done that and so much more! Though he is dead, yet he still speaks! Thousands upon thousands of children have been saved because of his precious little life. It lasted only 21 weeks, yet fathers are now joining the battle to defend the defenseless.

We buried Malachi at the Cemetery of the Innocents in Dallas, Texas, in the summer of 1993. The funeral was held at the mammoth front portico of the Dallas City Hall. Hundreds gathered to pay their last respects to Malachi. We loved him deeply though we knew him not. When those in City Hall realized that we were having a funeral for a real child they demanded that the Dallas Police put a stop to the whole funeral. Captain Kowalski, the head of SWAT in Dallas, told his superiors that he would in no way violate this funeral. This man, who had arrested us on several occasions, now joined with us in honoring the life of this one small (so very small) child. He stood for Jesus. HE STOOD!

When he relayed to me that he would not interfere with the memorial service, nor would he allow anyone else to interfere, I wept. I wept because I knew that Captain Kowalski was now taking his stand and all his officers knew it - all City Hall knew it! I wept because I knew that Malachi was beginning his missionary journey and that he was already fulfilling the purpose for his short life.

Listen to these words, you mothers and fathers who have aborted your children. Listen to these words you, who have failed so miserably and found there is no way to undo the wrong you have done. Hear the word God and your child are speaking to you: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Genesis 50:20.

If you know the mother and father of Baby Malachi, would you please tell them that God is using him powerfully to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves? Will you please let them know, that though they intended him harm, God is using it for good? Will you please tell them that God loves them and that the guilt that has driven them so far from Him can be overcome in one divine moment? Please let them know that it is time to come home to Jesus.

ESTABLISHING BLOODGUILT - THE PROJECT

January 20, 2002, marks the beginning of our project, "Establishing Bloodguilt." We have been laboring over this project for the past five years. Before God, we are now ready. On the third Sunday of every month, we will be going to the most evangelical churches in our cities with the graphic truth of what is happening to precious children being brutally ripped apart at local abortion mills. Baby Malachi will now be delivering his message at the very gates of the Church of Jesus Christ.

We have brought this truth to the abortion mills, the college campuses, the high schools, and the public highways and byways. We brought it to the halls of Congress, the steps of the Supreme Court, and recently, we brought it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, pleading for the lives of God's children. We have been just about everywhere with the exception of the one entity ordained by Almighty God to overcome this heinous lie called abortion - the Church of Jesus Christ!

"Establishing Bloodguilt" is an all-out cry for our Lord's Church to repent of her apathy and indolence toward little children being led away to death. It is a call to move beyond establishing crisis pregnancy centers next to abortion mills. Unfortunately, crisis pregnancy centers have kept the Church of Jesus Christ from moving into true repentance (2 Cor 7:8-11). The Church is not tearing down the strongholds of the enemy because the crisis pregnancy center creates a false sense of peace with child-killing. We build a crisis pregnancy center and feel our job is done. It is not!

As important as the crisis pregnancy center is, it can never be the front lines of the abortion battle. It is a mercy ministry - triage (a place where the wounded can be healed). The crisis pregnancy center is the Red Cross of the abortion fight. By and large it is manned by women. Can you imagine an army putting the Red Cross on the front lines to lead it into battle? It was designed to heal, not to fight! It is a mercy ministry, not a prophetic one. Establishing Bloodguilt is calling men, prophetic men, to rise up in the Name of Jesus and turn their hearts toward the children.

Establishing Bloodguilt is a call to the men of the Church of Jesus Christ to go to the place where little children are being slaughtered and tear down these altars of child sacrifice. They will do it by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, not loving their own lives so much as to shrink from death. The praising, praying, proclaiming Church of Jesus Christ showing up at the very gates of hell will always prevail. There will be no peace until the altars of child sacrifice are dust under our feet.

The Church of Jesus Christ is the one entity ordained by God to bring abortion to an end. Not just abortion, but it can bring to an end the plethora of other sins stealing the very life from our nation. Yes, the Church of Jesus Christ is God's answer to the abortion holocaust, the radical homosexual agenda, the lie of radical Islamic Jihad, etc. For the Church to become what God intended her to be, however, she must first be confronted with the fact that she has failed. All of us who claim the Name of Christ in America must quit pointing our fingers at everyone else and allow God to get them pointed in the right direction - directly at ourselves!

That's right, abortion will come to an end in this nation when His Church makes up her mind that it will end. "if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14. Note that this oft-quoted verse is not calling abortionists, homosexuals, nor those lost in Islam to turn from their wicked ways. He is calling His own people to turn from their wicked ways and turn to Him.

We presently have 43 cities enlisted in this national project and we hope to have 100 cities by this summer. If you would like to know more about "Establishing Bloodguilt - The Project," please look us up on the web: operationsaveamerica.org.

Taking the Gospel to the Local Mosque!

In this day of religious pluralism where all "gods" are to be tolerated, we Christians are called to draw a line in the sand. We must stand upon the fact that Jesus Christ alone is God and apart from Him there is no other. This is the reason we are placing the enclosed brochure in your hands. If we love our neighbors lost in the lie of Islam, we must love them enough to tell them the truth. If we love our brothers and sisters who claim the Name of Christ, we must love them enough to tell them that Islam and Christianity cannot peacefully coexist. They are at war (Genesis 3:15).

There is no common ground between the two any more than there is common ground between Christianity and abortion or Christianity and homosexuality. Yet, in our desire to get along with everybody and be at peace, we are accepting every moral depravity and religious heresy known to man without the slightest whimper. Listen to Robert Schuller's wholehearted support for "positive" Islam in his endorsement of Bill Baker's book, More in Common Than You Think (Baker is the founder and President of CAMP, Christians and Muslims for Peace):

"The coming century will most surely witness either a coalition or a collision between Islam and Christianity. I have a dream, that positive believers from both religions will find each other, and once finding each other, and helping each other, can and will write a new history, a new legacy for the world: from collision to coalition. True believers in God must move our society and our world from compatibility to compatibility; from intolerance to tolerance; positive Christians and Muslims becoming partners in peace."

The Muslim cleric of the mosque in Richardson, Texas, gave me this book when we brought the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the gates of his mosque. We came with a banner saying, "Jesus is the Standard," with the cross of Christ in front of the American flag. We also brought signs saying, "Jesus is the Way" and "Jesus is Alive." After about ten minutes, several Muslims came to ask us about our presence there. We gave them the brochure. They said they agreed with the first two tenants but felt the third was very intolerant. Then some of the younger ones tried to wrest the signs and banners from our hands. One American Muslim lady ripped the sign out of Kristene Odell's hands while screaming at her at the top of her voice. It reminded me of being at the abortion mill - same battle, just a different manifestation.

For the most part, those lost in this damnable lie were very kind. They invited us for dinner in the mosque and we joined them (about 1,000 of them). We sat at a large table where, much to my surprise, I was reunited with two long- lost friends who had been on the streets with us in 1990 fighting the sin of abortion. As we talked, I realized that, though we stood together on the streets in 1990 for the lives of children, we were separated eternally by a great chasm of truth. They believe a lie, and they believe it wholeheartedly.

We have gone to the mosque several times since and have added a couple more signs, "Islam is a Lie" and "Muhammad is Dead." If we love them, we must tell them the truth! Join us!

9-11, ANTHRAX, CLAYTON WAAGNER and the ABORTION INDUSTRY

The Abortion Industry and Terrorism - Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up? In its never-ending saga of trying to appear the victim, moving our eyes from the real victims of its murderous appetite, the abortion industry has used the events of 9-11 to ratchet up its slanderous campaign against Christianity. Rarely in America has there been an organization willing to exploit the tragic events of September 11, 2001, for its own gain. But just look at the pathetic behavior of Planned Parenthood and the "self-absorbed" abortion industry. This multi-million dollar, murder-for-hire business, has attempted to liken its plight to that of post 9-11 America - besieged by terrorists from without and within.

Not just terrorists, but Christian terrorists at that! In radio and television interviews, editorials, advertisements in magazines and newspapers, there has been an all-out media blitz by the abortion industry to paint gentle Christians who oppose abortion, as murderers and terrorists; terrorists in the order of Osama Bin Laden.

Unfortunately, a lie, if told often enough, will be believed. This from the Religious Coalition of Reproductive Choice (RCRC): "America is now experiencing the same kind of religious terrorism that abortion providers have endured for over a quarter of a century…" What utter hogwash! The abortion industry then rolled out press releases, measured by the ton, to anyone who would listen that its "providers" had received anthrax threats around the country.

Of course, it was presumed that these threats came from "Christian terrorists." It was never corroborated, but that makes little difference when one has a willing media! The RCRC bought an advertisement in several major newspapers November 15, 2001, entitled Bombs, Bullets, and Anthrax: "Like other extremists who cloak themselves in religion, anti-abortion zealots are certain God wants them to terrorize and even kill for their beliefs."

I was appalled as I read this incredible and libelous lie! The lies continued as the advertisement listed anthrax threats, assaults, arsons, bombings, death threats, kidnappings, etc. All of it laid at the feet of Christians who oppose child-killing. These poor, misguided, so-called "religious leaders" have no earthly idea how the abortion industry is using them as a cover-up for its murderous ways. Their backward collars are indicators of their backward theology.

For the past eight months the abortion industry has been using a man by the name of Clayton Waagner to paint with a broad brush every Christian who ever stood for life as a wild-eyed lunatic bent on shooting abortionists and blowing up abortion mills. None of us in the pro-life movement had ever heard of Mr. Waagner before his escape from a Clinton, Illinois, jail this February. So where did anyone ever get the idea that Waagner was a pro-life Christian activist? The abortion industry spin machine - that's where! After 9-11-01 we have been treated to claims that abortion industry employees had been suffering under Christian Jihad-type terrorism for years. What tripe!

9-11, Anthrax, and Clayton Waagner, have been successfully used by the abortion industry to turn the eyes of America from the brutal slaughter of her children to the tarring and feathering of gentle Christians seeking to save them.

Keep pressing the gates of hell, wherever they manifest, in Jesus' Name,

Flip Benham

National Event Dallas, Texas July 13-21, 2002