September 2004

September 2004

Our Living Parable is Set to Complete the Task in Washington, D.C.

“God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:1-4

As we are nearing Washington, D.C., the message God has given us has become much clearer. What started off as a disorganized small group of people trying to obey the voice of the Lord, has become a sharpened, pointed warning to a nation rotting from within. We tried in the beginning to make our parable something it was not. But God has used a donkey once again to straighten us out so that we could proclaim His message.

We will enter our nation's capital first with a broken set of the Ten Commandments. The American Church is guilty of breaking the very Law of God. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves and have allowed the weak to become a prey. The sins of the Church have allowed the Ten Commandments to be sequestered in a closet (Judge Roy Moore). The sins of the Church have set America on a collision course with the judgments of a holy God. “The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the world's people, that enemies and foes could enter the gates of Jerusalem . But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.” Lamentations 4:12-13.

In case you haven't noticed, satan has become quite arrogant in America lately, parading and strutting his vile stuff as freely as he did in Sodom . He was able to move the Ten Commandments monument into a closet in Montgomery, Alabama, with nary a whimper from God's sleeping Church. He was able to do this because he knew full well that the Ten Commandments had long ago been carefully hidden in the closets of the hearts of God's people. He is boldly parading his sin in our schools, work places, and streets, with the help of the media and the courts of this land. He is doing it with impunity and no one dare contend with him.

The whole fiasco in Montgomery, Alabama, has become a “living parable” to the Church of Jesus Christ. It is not the enemies of God that are the problem, but the pathetic state of His Church. It is our fault! That's right! Our biblical convictions were once mountain peaks upon which we stood, but now they have become caves in which we hide. Judge Thompson's decision to remove the Law of God and place it in a closet is a sign and a judgment upon God's Church as well as upon this nation. What does the sign imply?

It implies that the salt of the earth has lost its savor. When this happens, Jesus Himself told us what the result would be in Matthew 5:13: “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”

The Church of Jesus Christ in America has lost all desire, ambition, and ability to rightly represent the heart and Word of God. Because of this, America is dying from the inside out.

Behind the set of broken Ten Commandments, “Baby Mercy” enters our parable. She is an aborted baby represented by a small white coffin. We have done unspeakable things to the most innocent among us. One-third of the generation of 31 years old and younger has been killed by abortion. Since we the Church have failed in being the conscience of our nation, America has been left to abort the young, discard the handicapped, and euthanize the old. Murder has become the solution for everything.

We have mercilessly killed over 45 million little baby boys and girls. We have thrown God out of school, banished Him from the school yard, and ripped His Ten Commandments from the walls of our schools, work places, and governmental halls. We have called what is evil good and what is good evil and we do not even know how to blush. We have shaken our fist in the face of Almighty God, expecting the offended Deity to bless us in the midst of our dismissing Him. Billy Graham said it well: “If God does not judge America , He is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

THE SALT HAS LOST ITS SALTINESS

This is why a white horse named “Judgment” follows “Baby Mercy” in our living parable. We in America are suffering under the remedial judgments of God Himself. When salt loses its savor it will be trampled under the feet of men. This has become so obvious. Instead of inoculating America with the righteousness of the Gospel of Christ, we Christians have become so infected by the world that sin is given a free ride. Instead of crushing satan under our feet, we have become the footstool under his. Abortion, homosexuality, pornography, drugs, suicide, and murder have become all the rage, while savorless salt whines about how bad things are.

Marriage is being redefined throughout the courts of our land. The homosexual juggernaut is pushing through legislation with a vengeance. Even the Pope has issued a statement regarding this matter: Such an attitude (radical feminism) “has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family.” He goes on to say, “The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences... giving homosexual and heterosexual couples an equivalent status.”

The root of this redefinition is found in the Church in America . Divorce and remarriage are the norm in the body of Christ. Never mind that God ordained marriage between a man and a woman as a sacred institution. Never mind that marriage is to represent the relationship between Christ and His people. Never mind that the Scripture says God hates divorce. (Malachi 2:16)

The pro-abortion lobbies, the homosexual juggernaut, the nation Islam, ad nauseam, are trampling us under their feet. Yes, we are vexed and tormented by the wicked and terrible things we see in our own country, yet we find ourselves powerless to do anything about it. What is happening? It is a sign and a judgment from God upon His Church and this nation.

GOD'S KINDNESS IS MEANT TO LEAD US TO REPENTANCE

Through it all, God longs to be merciful. In fact, His mercy is made evident in that we have not yet been utterly destroyed. It is here in our living parable that “Mercy” the donkey follows “Judgment.” In the beginning of our journey, we tried to make “Judgment” follow “Mercy.” We thought the message was “to find mercy we must repent now for when Jesus returns on a white horse, there will be no more time for repentance.” While that message is certainly true, it was not exactly what the Lord wanted to say through us. God used a donkey to get us straight.

Try as we might, “Mercy” would not lead. She wanted to follow “Judgment.” Since it is a whole lot easier to turn a moving vehicle rather than a parked one, God has fine tuned us every step of the way. We began to see that “Judgment” was not meant to represent end times, but God's remedial judgments we face in America today. Little did we know that God would change us again later down the road.

Romans 2:4 states, “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” God is calling out to us to repent so that He can pour out His mercy on us as a Church and as a nation. What is it that God requires of us? “…To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8.

It is here that one more horse was added to our living parable. When “Judgment” needed to rest a bit, God miraculously gave us another horse named “Justice.” Originally, “Justice” replaced “Judgment,” but the Lord was working out our message as we continued on. “Judgment” has taken his rightful place and “Justice” now follows “Mercy.” Why? Because true repentance will always seek to restore justice.

Let's get one thing straight right now. Until there is a national repentance over the shedding of innocent blood in this land, the mercy from God will be withheld. He has issued judgment after judgment to confront us with our sin, yet we have not returned to Him (Amos 4:6-11). Judgment begins in the house of God. Until we Christians realize that the hand of God's redemptive mercy is being withheld from us as a nation because of our own failure to confess, as the Church of Jesus Christ, our culpability in the slaughter of over 40 million children, there is little hope for national survival.

Repentance is a marvelous gift from God that does remarkable things. “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.” 2 Cor 7:10 -11.

We Christians are the only ones who can call upon God and move His heart. But it is only upon our active repentance (turning from our wicked ways and seeing that justice is restored) that He will hear from heaven. We are the ones called by God to repent and lead our nation to a national repentance for shedding the innocent blood of His children. Their blood is crying out to God for justice.

Which brings us to the last messenger in our parable. It is here that Curtis walks behind “Justice” blowing the shofar. He sounds the alarm throughout the streets of our cities calling men and women of God to rise up and defend the innocent. Will we sit passively by while little children die or will we be like the voice of Amos as he thundered, “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” Amos 5:24.

This is the message that started in California and is now headed into our nation's capital. Why are we headed toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ? Because just as Bill Clinton was a sign and a judgment from God upon our nation, showing us the moral depths to which we have fallen, so George W. Bush has become a sign and a judgment from God upon the Church of Jesus Christ, demonstrating her unwillingness to stand upon the Word of God and proclaim the Name of Jesus. Waffling with homosexuality…never standing upon God's Word concerning abortion…calling false religions great (i.e., Islam). This has become the norm of the Church of Jesus Christ in America . Indeed we have failed our Lord, we have failed our children, and we have failed our nation as we have wrongly represented our Lord's character. George W. Bush is simply a living parable of our failure.

I have no doubt that he is a born-again Christian man. He is simply parroting the sorry preaching in pulpits across this nation. When we look at him we see what the Church is saying. We can get along with the killing of children. We can get along with homosexuality. We can get along with Islam. Why can't we all just get along?

God however is saying something entirely different. Elijah represented the heart of the Lord well when he asked, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God serve him. If Baal is God serve him.” 1 Kings 18:21.

COLUMBUS, OHIO – 2004

We entered Columbus gloriously as Christians from all across the nation met up with the Walk Team to enter the city carrying flags, banners, and balloons. What transpired throughout the week was nothing but sobering as a picture was painted of where we are as a nation. Police on foot, police on bicycles, federal marshals, FBI agents, snipers on buildings, tactical units, and SWAT all were on hand to make sure that gentle Christians did not get out of control as we proclaimed that Jesus is Lord. Below is a summery of the week from Mike Warren.

“We tasted rejection from the City of Columbus and the local church, yet experienced the favor of God on the streets of Columbus . Our daily rallies were held outdoors at City Hall every evening, after morning outreaches at abortion mills around the city. Babies were saved in the daily sidewalk counseling and truth proclamations at the mills. At one mill, a man was escorting his wife to her doctor. After finding out that this doctor killed children, he stated that they were leaving and would never return. The woman believed that she was pregnant. After the bulk of our people had left that mill, a Columbus police officer approached our sidewalk counselor. He asked for some literature stating that he was going to call his wife's OG/GYN to make sure that he did not kill children.

On Friday, OSA rescued at a Planned Parenthood. We believe that a child was spared a horrible death. At our daily gatherings at City Hall, we stirred the spiritual warfare pot by attacking the three major strongholds within our nation: child killing, homosexuality, and Islam. This was accomplished by standing against these lies and exposing them with the Truth. We held a memorial service for Baby Mercy complete with a bagpiper, a eulogy, and four empty chairs signifying the fact that her mom, dad, and siblings were not present. In a separate event, a copy of the Roe v. Wade decision, a gay flag, and a copy of the Quran were burned at City Hall. This was done soberly and somberly as we looked for the Lord to expose the lies of these strongholds. Each of these have led to the destruction of millions of lives and the damnable deception of hundreds of millions around the world.

The City of Columbus has been manipulated and run by the homosexual juggernaut for years, bankrolling and supporting “Gay Days” celebrations with public monies. Every rally at City Hall was accompanied by anti-Christ forces seeking to disrupt our lawful assemblies. Yet, we had tremendous opportunities to witness and testify for Christ. OSA had been invited into Columbus by a group of men who have committed to each other and to the Lord to stand in the gap for this nation. They are called ‘Minutemen United.' You can get more information about them at minutemenunited.org.”

You can read detailed reports from our week in Columbus on our website at operationsaveamerica.org.

Keep storming the gates,

Flip