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Just War Theory – Defended by James Webber

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Introduction by John McGlone

    I am privileged to know a wonderful soldier of the Lord, James Webber only through the internet and some important interpersonal counsel he labored with me a few years ago.  I am thankful for the many decades of work he has labored for the lost and to edify the saints over many decades of his colorful life of open air ministry.  I have for a few years questioned my hyper pacifism that I held to for a season of about seven years.  I have labored to study this issue and though I am not in complete agreement with St. Augustine and his just war theory, James sure helps me understand some important points in his following dissertation.

I am a patriot and love my countrymen and country. Some background on me, I have a family that is steeped in past proud military traditions.  On my father’s side of the family; my father was a Marine for four years earning Staff Sgt before getting out after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  My grandfather was a waist gunner in a B-24 stationed with the 8th Air Force in England during WWII.  He was shot down by Anti aircraft fire on Jan 7th, 1944.  Most of the crew bailed out except the tail and ball turret gunners, and my grandfather.  The SS gestapo shot and killed them as they exited the downed aircraft.  They were not known for taking POW’s who were injured in the fighting.  My great grandfather was an infantry man in WWI in the south of France in 1917.  He survived the war.  My great great grandfather was a Colonel in the CSA part of the Tennessee Volunteers killed at Rocky Top, TN.  My matriarchal side of  my family I only know of  a great uncle who has retired from the U.S. Coast Guard service as an Admiral.  I served 21 years in the U.S. Navy as a Boatswains Mate, Quartermaster, and Signalman retiring in 2001 as a Chief Quartermaster.  I served on five different warships, have four rows of medals, campaign ribbons, unit awards.  I spent upwards of 15 years stationed aboard ship, 12 of that actually either deployed overseas or underway training to go overseas.  So, needless to say, I was a patriot to the core. Sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States from enemies both foreign and domestic. 

I see many forces at work to try and dismantle our system of government; Communists, Muslim Sharia, Antifa, BLM, illegal immigration, homosexual agenda, political corruption to the nth degree, etc.  I believe that God has blessed us with such abundant resources and responsibility.  We should use that responsibility to go with His Word into all nations. We should care for the widow, and orphans, keeping ourselves unspotted from the world.  Jam 1:27   I spent 21 years in the U.S. Navy, defending our Constitution as a primary motive when I joined. It was an ideology that matured me into a man.
Here are past views I’ve held: SEMIPASSIVE   HYPER PASSIVE

Just War Theory Defended
by James Webber

I think all Christians should be Peaceful people but capable of Implementing retributions and Justice as needed.

{Note: Particular Scriptural verses or topics are not always balanced when they are written.}

God’s actions, in relationship to killing humans.
GOD= Father- {Son, Jesus} – Holy Spirit

Point #1 God is Not Always Passive

God drowns everything on earth, except Noahs ark. Genesis 19:7:22
God Killed people and destroyed cities. Genesis 19:12-26
God kills all the first-born of Egypt. Exodus 12:29
God drowned the entire Egyptian army. Exodus 14:27
God had 3000 religious men destroyed. Exodus 32:19-28
God consumed with fire an untold number of Israel.
Numbers 16:31-32
God killed Korah and His family. Numbers 16:35
God killed 250 of the leading men of Israel. Numbers 16:35
God killed many Amorites. Josh 10:11
God killed directly killed 50,070. Men 1 Samuel 6:19
God directly killed 70,000 Israelites. 2 Samuel 24:15
God directly killed 185,000 Assyrians. 2 Kings19:35
God directly killed Ananias and Saphira. Acts 5:1-11
God directly killed king Herod Agrippa. Acts 12:21-23
God directly kills one-third of all mankind.
Revelation 9:15-17
God throws all whose names are not written in the Book of Life into the Lake
of Fire. Revelation 20:11-15

Point #2 Gods Attitude on War and Killing Revealed Within the Scriptures.

DR. A. E. WILDER-SMITH, Professor of medicine holding three doctorate degrees, and author or co-author of over fifty publications: …we ought never dare to state that there is a different God in the Old Testament to the One revealed in the New, on the basis that the Old Testament reveals a God of judgment and the New Testament a God of love. Love and judgment are present in both Testaments. Man’s Origin, Man’s Destiny (1974), p. 179

Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you, and you shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. 3“Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, or shall you take their daughters for your sons.
Deuteronomy 7:9-10
“Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who
hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7:24-26
“And He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you shall make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25) “The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 26) “And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban;
you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
Deuteronomy 20:13
“When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:17
“But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you,
Psalms 5:5
The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity.
Nahum 1:2
A jealous and avenging God is the LORD; the LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies.
Exodus 15:3
“The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is His name.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Point#3 God is NOT a Pacifist

What we have shown so far is, God is not a PACIFIST. We also see the Bible
speaking using Warfare terminology.
If Jesus was against Just Wars and was truly a Pacifist by Nature, I am sure He would not have used Warfare terms to express Biblical truths.
Luke 14:31 31
“Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and take counsel whether he is strong enough with ten thousand {men} to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
1 Corinthians 14:8
For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
Luke 11:21-23
“When a strong {man,} fully armed, guards his own homestead, his possessions are undisturbed; 22) but when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied, and distributes his plunder. 23) “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.
Romans 13:12
The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil: Breastplate, Shield of faith, Helmet of salvation, Sword of the Spirit
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?
Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need;
2 Timothy 2:3
Suffer hardship with {me,} as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:3-4
Suffer hardship with {me,} as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4) No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
Philemon 1:2
and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
2 Corinthians 6:7
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,
Matthew 12:20
“A battered reed He will not break off, and a smoldering wick He will not put out, until He leads justice to victory.
1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
Revelation 2:16
‘Repent therefore; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.
Revelation 12:7
And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war,
Revelation 19:10-16
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, “Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” 11) And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it {is} called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12) And His eyes {are} a flame of fire, and upon His head {are} many diadems; and He has a name written {upon Him} which no one knows except Himself. 13) And {He is} clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. 14) And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white {and} clean, were following Him on white horses. 15) And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
16) And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Point #4  There Will Be No Peace

War will not always be with us. For now, to insure Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
of happiness, war at times is necessary.
1 Corinthians 13:8-10
Love never fails; but if {there are gifts of} prophecy, they will be done away; if {there are} tongues, they will cease; if {there is} knowledge, it will be done away. 9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10) but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
Isaiah 2:4
And He will judge between the nations, and will render decisions for many peoples; and they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.
Revelations 21:1-5
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer {any} sea. 2) And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3) And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, andvthey shall be His people, and God Himself shall be among them, 4) and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be {any} death; there shall no longer be {any} mourning, or
crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” 5) And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” (NAS)

Point #5 War Accepted
Yet, Jesus seems to accept war as a part of the world system Matthew 24:6,
and his followers who were soldiers were not condemned Acts 10.
Soldiers were recognized as some of the heros of the faith Hebrews:11:32-34.
Hebrews 11:32-34
And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, 33) who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed {acts of} righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34) quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

Point #6
Some say there is no evidence of a single Christian soldier in the Roman army
from the NT times until A.D. 170. But this can easily be explained, by realizing in order to become a soldier you had to pledge allegiance to their gods. In addition, Christians were being killed for their faith, And had no Nation, of their own. By the third and forth century things changed as a result of Augustine’s, Just War theory. Since then, War has been accepted by almost all Churches, till this very day. The book,”Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace”, by Roland H. Bainton, pp. 95-98 spells out Augustine’s theory of just war.
1. A just war must be just as to its intent, which is to restore peace. Augustine wrote the following to Boniface: “Peace should be the object of your desire. War should be waged only as a necessity and waged only that through it God may deliver men from that necessity and preserve them in peace. For peace is not to be sought in order to kindle war, but war is to be waged in order to obtain peace. Therefore even in the course of war you should cherish the spirit of a peace maker.” –Augustine said every effort should be made to avoid war.
2. A just war must seek to vindicate justice. The following injustices would be motivation for war: –an attempt to destroy the state. –refusal to grant passage through the nation –failure to make amends for wrongs
3. A just war must be motivated by love. That is, the intent must be good. War is not waged because of hatred for the other side, but because love dictates that action be taken to stop evil. A just State is obligated to examine its motives. They must be pure.
4. A just war can only be waged by the duly constituted rulers. The scriptures do not allow the individual to take action, only the duly constituted authorities.
5. A just war must be conducted properly. There should be no wanton violence, profaning of temples, looting, massacres, or conflagrations. Vengeance, atrocities, and reprisals are excluded.
6. A just war must be conducted in a mournful mood. War is a serious thing, and it is undertaken with reluctance and sorrow, not glee, as if it were fun. War should not be entered with joy and singing and thanksgiving.
Jeremiah 48:10
“Cursed be the one who does the LORD’S work negligently, and cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.

Point #7 But, Jesus Said..
Matthew 5:39
“But I say to you, do not resist him who is evil; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:44
“But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you
The context of these verses primarily, has to do with the attitude and actions of the Saints, towards the ones that are the enemies of God, that are Persecuting the Saints for their Faith. Theses verses are not dealing with National Security Issues, Police Actions,
or National War.

Point # 8 Governmental Responsibility
Deals with the responsibility of Christians to their Government, and the
honoring of it, as a viable institution.
Matthew 22:21
They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
Romans 13:1-7
Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2) Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. 3) For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same; 4) for it is a minister of God to you for good.
But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath upon the one who practices evil. 5) Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for {rulers} are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. 7) Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax {is due;} custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
Acts 28:19
“But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; not that I had any accusation
against my nation.
In Philippians 3:20 Paul says, “But our citizenship is in heaven.” It appears
Paul was aware that His citizenship was in heaven, yet He works within the
Worldly system.
Acts 27:23-24
“For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, 24) saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.’
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,
Proverbs 8:13-15
“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverted mouth, I hate. 14) “Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine. 15) “By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
Daniel 2:21
“And it is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men, and knowledge to men of understanding.
John 19:11
Jesus answered  “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me up to you has {the} greater sin.”
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood,
1 Timothy 2:1-2
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties {and} prayers, petitions {and} thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2) for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
Point #9
Israel was to be an example of a Godly government.
Old Covenant VS. New Covenant Question.
NOTE: Exodus 20:13
Has been wrongly translated as “kill” kjv, rather than murder.
The text correctly reads “YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.” Murder is a different word and meaning than to kill. Thou shalt not kill. ‘Killing’ is not what is prohibited, otherwise the judicial infliction of capital punishment, as well as the slaughter of an enemy in defensive war, would be unlawful-in which light these were certainly not regarded by the Israelites in the time of Moses (Exodus 21:14; Deuteronomy 19:11; 31:9). [Lo’ tirtsaach, Thou shalt not commit murder. The verb signifies to slay with premeditation and malice, and is properly rendered by the Septuagint: ou foneuseis.]
from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary,
NOTE: Exodus 22:2
“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed;” Moreover, (3) God gave mankind permission as a lawful society, to “kill,” or destroy those guilty of capital offenses. We call this today “capital punishment.” We read in,
Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.”
The divinely sanction war is important to understand. For later on, God organized and engaged the entire nation of Israel into His army to kill all God’s enemies that He had labeled for destruction. Make no mistake God sanctioned the killing of human life by warfare. Again we read:
Josh 10:40
“So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.” (NIV)
Point #10
Some say: We are all children of God, therefore Killing a fellow child of God has to be wrong. Wrong, We are not all children of God, you are either a child of God or a child of the devil.
I John 3:10
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
Romans 9:20-23
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21) Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use? 22) What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23) And {He did so} in order that He might make
known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
Acts 13:10
and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?
John 8:44
“You are of {your} father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own {nature;} for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Matthew 13:38
and the field is the world; and {as for} the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil {one;}
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Point #11
Some say: “Jesus would never Go to War!”
Wrong!
John 2:15
So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Matthew: 10:34
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. If war is inherently evil, why are soldiers not told so in the New Testament?
• John the Baptist, went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 3:14  Some soldiers were questioning him, saying, “And what about us, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not take money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wages.”
• In Matthew 8 why did Christ commend the faith of a Centurion but did not call on him to abandon his profession? He told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more.
• Why did Paul avail himself of military protection if it is always wrong to kill? Wasn’t the protection predicated upon the fact that the soldiers would kill those who might try to kill Paul?
• Why is nothing said about Cornelius leaving his profession as Centurion in Acts 10?

Point 12 Patriotism
In discussing Patriotism it is difficult because there are a multitude of possible application, so I will not deal with the obvious mis applications. Any time we place something above God it is wrong whether Patriotism, Golf, TV, Money and so on.
Romans 14:1-2
Now accept the one who is weak in faith, {but} not for {the purpose of} passing judgment on his opinions. 2) One man has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables {only.}
• If you eat Vegetable only you are the weaker Brother.
• If you eat Vegetable and Meat you are the Stronger Brother.
• If you worship God on one day a week you are the weaker Brother.
• If you worship God everyday you are the Stronger Brother.
You see the ones that are limited in their Freedom are consider the weaker
Brothers, and the ones that are able to live in Freedom are the Stronger
Brothers.  The person that can’t be Patriotic is the weaker Brother where as the one that is able to be a good Christian and be Patriotic is the Stronger Brother.
If in fact you see God first and Country second Romans 13, and you attempt to Honor Romans 13
as directed, and Serve your Country, that position is completely in line with our Freedom and the Scriptural examples. Some say, look at the evils in your Country, how can you Serve a country like that, and be Patriotic to it? God looks at His Church and see Evil, and still Loves and Serves it, and is faithful to it. A married Man may see evils within His wife, yet He is still commanded to Love Her. Most Parents Love their
Children even when they do Evil. When People pledge allegiance to the flag, that does not mean they do not have built in restrictions within that allegiance.
Even in a Church, when one pledges allegiance to it, by way of membership, that does not mean, the commitment does not have limits.

IN CONCLUSION:
In Point #1, Jesus is No Pacifist, to the point He will not kill humans or direct other humans to kill humans, In War and otherwise.
In Point #2, We see that The Lord Jesus has always been a warrior throughout history.
In Point #3, We see God uses the opposite of Pacifistic terminology within the Scriptures.
In Point #4, We see Peace will come, just not yet.
In Point #5, Jesus seems to accept war as a part of the world system.
In Point #6, We see most Christians from all faiths have almost always seen War as a tragic necessity at times.
In Point #7, We see, as Christians in rightly dividing the Word of God, We need to make a distinction between individual responsibility’s before God and National responsibility’s before God.
In Point #8, Christian are responsible to their Government.
In Point #9, Israel a Godly example of a Government.
In Point #10, We are not all Children of God.
In Point #11, Jesus came with a sword.
In Point #12, Christian Patriotism can be an indication of one that is stronger in the faith.
True Pacifism, is Anti Self-protection, Anti Self-defense, and Anti John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

Blood Covenant of Virgin Sex

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When I was a young buck of a punk, I would often repeat things that I heard my friends say which are really gross to me now. Things like; young enough to bleed, young enough to butcher, that is effed up like an abortion, etc  When looking back on such nonsense I realize how these communications cheapened women, marriage, sex, and family.  I lost my virginity to a whorish girlfriend of one of my ‘good’ friends at that time.  I walked her home to her parent’s apartment on a dreary cold day when my friend wasn’t at school.  Man, I wish I could’ve undone that experience!  I wish I would have had a man of God in my life who would have warned me about whorishness and the spiritual deadliness of laying down with a whore.

Pro 5:3-5 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

If only a godly man had shared the importance of this Bible verse and many others!

1 Cor 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

The CDC, Center for Disease Control reports that young college age people 18-25 have a 35% chance of contracting a myriad of sexually transmitted diseases.  They range from annoyances to debilitating disease that can cripple, sterilize, or even kill you.  AIDS, Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, are but a few examples of these consequences.  When we preach on the college campuses we will often use the following statement, “1,2,3, STD,  1,2,3, STD,  “1,2,3, STD,  1,2,3, STD,  as we point out students.  They will look at each other, laugh, get embarrassed etc. But, it proves a reality they need to think about before getting in the sack!

As I explained to a young couple just a week ago while on outreach.  That time before marriage is a time to show each other that you have self control to resist each other.  If you can show God and each other that fruit of self control by the power of the Holy Ghost and not even touch each other.  Then you can resist temptations of others that will come along to try and wreck your marriage later on!  If you find one, or the other, or both tempting each other, then you must question yourselves and even consider stopping the courtship for a a season of fasting, prayer, and study on these issues.

1 Cor 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 

For every regretful Christian that would have wished to have done it different in not keeping their wedding bed pure, please share with young couples you know that are planning on marrying.  Young couples in courtship pray  and share it with others.  God bless you as you seek His will for your lives, marriage, and children to be!

I would file this under ‘THE THINGS YOUR PASTOR AND HIS WIFE ARE TOO AFRAID TO TELL YOU.’

👉 “Have you ever wondered why God carefully positioned a membrane of blood in a lady’s sexual opening? It is a tinny membrane that partially or completely covers the opening of the vagina.

It is called the “HYMEN”.

Why would God-Our Maker put a breakable tissue full of blood at the very door of the sexual opening of the female? Why is it so carefully placed at that entrance, like a ribbon tied at the entrance of a new house about to be launched? Why is it filled with blood that spills away when it is broken? Why? Without doubt, the HYMEN IS A GATE! It was God (our creator) who set that blood filled vessel there as a covenant blockage, a sign and a token of a covenant between the bearer and whoever enters into her opening.

Before God, the dis-virginity of a lady is not a casual act of fun. It is a serious covenant struck and confirmed by the blood shed on that day.

This is God’s way of saying, “Whoever enters in to this woman shall only be able to do so by making a blood covenant to be joined to her for the rest of his life, from that point onward.

Little wonder why sexual intercourse was designed by God to take place only and only after the marriage contract is sealed. The one who made the body (the hormones, organs, nerves,tissues, e.t.c)said it in clear terms in 1 Cor.6:13 , “Now, the body is not for fornication”. Anyone who chooses to use the body for fornication must know that he/ she is working directly against God’s plan and there would definitely be a consequence either now or at old age!

There is a spiritual bonding, a supernatural process that takes place in a lady’s heart to the first guy that enters in to her especially at that particular time when the hymen breaks. There is no covenant without blood: this is why the membrane contains enough of it.

As a matter of fact, what happens the first time a lady has sex is not just sex but an immersion and a bathing of the man with her hymen blood to initiate a covenant that is highly recognized in the spirit realm of both light and darkness! The first time this happens just marks her opening day covenant ceremony and each subsequent experience goes on to further ratify and strengthen that covenant or establish another version of it with another person.

Many have washed useless boys with that hymen-blood.

Many have struck irreversible covenants with men that have nothing to do with their destiny.

Many have shared that hymen blood in sexual activity with demon-possessed men while some others have struck such precious covenants with candle sticks fingers of banana etc as they exercised sex with it.

If only they knew, many girls who carelessly allowed themselves to be deflowered in a bid to be among the so called “big girls” would never have done so.

The Bible says it in clear terms: “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot (through sexual activity) is one with her (1 Cor. 6:16).

This is why many girls are not yet married, yet their spiritual composition is already shattered and imbalanced, because they have mingled their souls with that of different men.

Dear Singles, know today that there is a definite proportion of your virtue that leaves you each time a man enters into you and when that man leaves you, he leaves with it. Just imagine how much of yourself would be lost each time a man enters into you without any properly signed marriage bond or contract.

Sex is a spiritual affair. A giving of yourself to another. All of these things have strong and terrible spiritual implications.

A broken hymen opens you up to the spirit of the man that broke it, any other spirit whatsoever that may have mingled with that man’s spirit, those who have mingled theirs with him and the spirit of any other man that
enters into you thereafter. The fun part is that pre-marital sex is not funny at all. What happens between the lines could be deadly and dangerous.

The very first day a lady, or a man does that there will be spiritual transfer of destiny.

The sin of fornication gives demons and occultist people direct access into your God given destiny of a pure wedding bed and spouse who will always have that moment sealed in their hearts and minds.

Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

So guys, zip up! Girls wise up!! It matters a lot.

BIG THINGS COMES FROM LITTLE THINGS WE DO!!!” – Anonymous

P.S.  Don’t let the sin of fornication lead to murdering your own flesh and blood!  See www.abortionno.org for horrifying videos and pictures of preborn babies.

 

First Church of Sinners

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CMA Festival 2017 This is an Eric Church blasphemy tee that he will surely give an account to the Ancient of Days

“The New Testament knows no salvation while continuing in a state of sinful indulgence. Sin as a manner of life is always referred to in the PAST TENSE in Christians.

1Co 6:11
Such were ( past tense ) some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Eph 2:1
And you were ( past tense ) dead in your trespasses and sins,

Eph 5:8
for you were ( past tense ) formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light.

Tit 3:3
For we also once were ( past tense ) foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Gordon Olson

SINNER or SAINT… It has been said many times by professing Christians ” I’m just a sinner saved by Grace ” It’s sad that the American pastors teaching has confused the masses with such nonsense. What they should be taught is ” We WERE ( past tense ) sinners saved by grace.

The word sinner in the Greek means, devoted to sin, not free from sin, especially wicked.

” In the NT. we are called 61 times ” Saints ” never sinners again. The word holy and Saint comes from the same Greek word ( Hagios ) which means the most holy thing, a Saint.

In 1 Peter 2:9, Peter explains what position the Saints are in.. You are a Chosen Race, a Royal priesthood, a Holy Nation ( in the Greek nation means group of people ) a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1Co 6:11
Such WERE ( past tense ) some of you; ( sinners ) but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 John 3:7-8… Those who practice ( those who do ) righteousness is righteous… ” A SAINT “….
Verse 8… Those who practice ( those who do sin ) sin is of the devil ” A SINNER “.
Scriptures makes it clear the difference between a Saint and sinner.
Practice in the Greek means who do sin or those who do righteousness..

If we value the sacrifice of Jesus Christ’s suffering for our sin on the cross, why do we revive the power of the serpent?

The Law of Diminishing Perspective

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Note: There is no horizon that blocks the end of this very long straight tunnel. But, we can’t visually acquire the end through the law of diminishing perspective. This is known as vanishing point.

 

by John McGlone

Having studied Geocentricity and the form of the earth for about two years now, I think I am finally at peace about what I am understanding.  Here are some earlier blogs I posted on this issue:  1.  The Scriptural Foundation of Geocentricity  2. The Flat Earth Controversy.  I thought I would begin to document some very important points that bring about a doubt on what has been taught to us by the ‘science’ of this world about Heliocentricity (Orbital Solar System) and the Globe of the Earth.  Generally, we are instructed from the very beginnings of our experiences on the Universe, it’s origins, and characteristics.  So, in this point paper I would like to discuss the law of linear perspective which has much to say about what and how we are seeing the world and universe around us.

Firstly, I would like to define said law of linear perspective.   noun 1.  a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point(one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.

Secondly, I’d like to recognize that everything we see with our eyes are mathematically and logically processed by the retina passing into the brain to continue the process of understanding the world we are seeing around us.

Here is an example I’d like to start with on our understanding of the laws of perspective in what is a very real life situation.  We will be using the well known, scientific, and mathematically proven formula for the earth’s roundness based on the same ‘scientifically’ proven circumference of the planet of ~25,000 statute miles.  That formula is:  Distance to Horizon² X 8″/12 = rise/fall of the arc of the horizon.

1.Imagine you are flying a plane at 36,000 feet.  An aerial observer can see 232.6 miles in one direction. But, from the cockpit one can observe in opposing directions gaining a total observation of 465.2 miles. For reference, here is an altitude horizon calculator for distance.

Horizon Distance Calculator

465² X 8/12 = Feet of Rise and Fall that we should see on the globe.  Following the well known curvature formula that is mathematically proven:  465 X 465 X 8/12 = 144,150 feet of total rise and decline of the arc across that 180 degree observation. Keep in mind we are flying at 36,000 feet.  Can you imagine seeing such an interesting and different sight?  For 90 degrees of the view from left to center we should see an amazing 72,075 feet of rise, then the same fall from center view to the right horizon on our starboard wing.  However, since our childhoods we have all been taught that the earth is so large the curvature of the earth is minuscule from what we actually experience in day to day life.

This perplexing mathematical formula which is supposed to help us calculate the curve of the earth, does exactly the opposite when a person employs it without accepting the presupposition of a globe earth to distort their sight.  

Now with all the aforesaid information in mind, why don’t we see the curvature that the globe formula demands if it were true?  As the below picture does not show, we should see a mountain of water climbing up to over twice the altitude of this plane to a majestic height of 72,075 feet above the median sea level!

A great photo of someone trying to disprove the flatness of the earth, yet helping the cause immensely.

I served 21 years in the U.S. Navy sailing the world’s oceans and looking at that horizon perspective for many tens of thousands of long hours standing watch.  I was a lookout, helmsman, and navigator for most all of those years.  I never questioned the rotundity of the earth as I had been taught since grade school.  I had these ideas reinforced in my navigational training as well.  I worked with mostly Mercator projection charts to safely transit the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, Persian, Adriatic, and Pacific oceans and seas.  One of the often used arguments that prevented me from believing this flat earth ‘theory’ was the fact that we could watch ships, lighthouses, and landmarks pass over the visual horizon and out of sight.  This really does seem to prove the globe model very simply in anyone’s mind.  But, the same lines of perspective that causes telephone poles, cars, train tracks and the like to diminish to vanishing point is not roundness, but simple ocular vanishing point.  The picture at the top of this blog post is a perfect example of a straight subway train track and tunnel not going over the horizon, but simply vanishing by ocular weakness.  Put a telescope to this tunnel or a lighthouse or a ship at vanishing point you will see they did not actually travel over the horizon at all!  You can see this demonstrated in these very cool videos:

Objects Over the Curvature of the Earth

More Video Evidence on Curvature Myth

With enough distance everything we see with our naked eye diminishes to vanishing point.  This includes sun, moon, stars, etc. that approach our visual horizon and then diminish to ocular non existence.   The assumption that the world is spinning and therefore that is why we see the heavenly bodies racing about is just that, an assumption of a theory.  ‘Well, what about NASA, ISS, astronauts on the moon, etc?’, you the dear reader may ask.  For now could we just stick to what we are seeing with our eyes and minds here in front of us?  The same ‘science’ that brought you Darwin evolution, and Big Bang Theory is the same God rejecting, Bible hating philosophies that tell us that Heliocentric Theory and the shape, orbits, spinning, and travels of planet earth are true according to them.

When looking at telephone poles that are diminishing to the horizon, we don’t assume that they are going on the other side of the curve of the globe do we?  Here is a great video from Brian Mullins on Perspective.

 

 

What do star trails have to do with flat earth?  Well again perspective is all we are talking about.  Many misunderstandings are created by the fact that most all of us start with the assumption we are living on a globe versus living on a circle as the Bible describes.  Now since we see star trails at the equator are diverging from each other, anyone must ask themselves what is causing these opposing whirlpools of diverging lights?  Shouldn’t the epicenters be at opposing axis’s?  If that is the case how can you see both at the same time? Isn’t this the same effect of seeing the Southern Cross and Polaris at the same time?Don’t the globalists deny anyone can see this phenomenon because of curvature?  How is this possible according to the roundness everyone promotes in the ‘scientific’ community?

Here is a great video which gives some great understandings of perspectives in regards to star trails.
Flat Earth Star Trails Explained

 

Equatorial star movements

https://youtu.be/MeMxeOrBhz8

https://www.facebook.com/pilot.lx/videos/366439238444452

Does God Hate Sinners?

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by John McGlone

Often when interacting with sinners and saints alike during ministry, a major confusion the world has about God comes to light.  They believe God’s emotions toward humanity are love only.  He can’t hate anything or anyone, they will proclaim these ideas with great zeal.

A simple examination of Scriptures reveals that the God of the Bible does in fact have a holy hatred of everything that is sinful and everyone living therein.  People are blinded by their own lusts for sin and for the teachings and traditions which false teachers have created for them to consume.  However, it is not just the false teachers fault, as the sin loving sinner desires to have their ears tickled versus their hearts and minds convicted of sin that they may turn from it.  When I was converted some twenty years ago now, I often wondered at the seeming contradiction that God is love, yet He will throw most people into eternal fire and torment forever.  How could both of these concepts be cogent and true at the same time?  How could Jesus judge and then knowingly torment my family and friends with everlasting pain and fire  IF He is so loving?  What about our love toward Him and the rest of humanity?

1 John 4:7-21 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

God’s Love:

Neh_1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Psa_145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Eph_5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

1 Jn_5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Rev_3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Often when interacting with sinners and saints alike during ministry, a major confusion the world has about God comes to light.  They believe God’s emotions toward humanity are love only.  He can’t hate anything or anyone, they will proclaim these ideas with great zeal.  -John McGlone

God’s Hatred:

2 Ch_19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

Psa 5:4-6 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Psa 11:5-6 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psa 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Pro 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Joh 3:18-21 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Our Proper Love Response to God:

Psa_97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Mic_6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Luk_10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Since God is love and yet He obviously demonstrates hatred, we must come to the conclusion that Jesus is both loving and hateful at the same time. God’s love and hatred are a both/and characteristic not an either/or.  Ironically, God uses these very things to winnow out partial lukewarm believers also known as hypocrites.   Do you ‘believe’ every doctrine that God teaches from every verse of His Holy Word?

Many ‘Christians’ in our day will say, “But, if God hates sinners then we are all condemned because we are all sinners!”  Well as we have seen in other areas of God’s Word that He doesn’t even listen to sinners!  When I realized this some years ago it was a light breaking forth in my mind and heart about how Holy God really is.  You can read that teaching here:  DOES GOD HEAR SINNERS?  True believers are called saints in the Bible.  Almost every Epistle starts with the terms; saints in Ephesus, saints in Rome, etc.  May the Lord show you that being sanctified and holy are the characteristics of the saints that will return with Jesus.

Jud 1:14-15 …., saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jud 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

What should we then conclude?  Firstly, we should not try and change God’s characteristics to make Him seem to be more loving, tolerant, or accepted by or for the carnal mind.  Secondly, to compromise His character is to bring into question whole sections of Scripture which describe him and how He will deal with humanity forever. Thirdly, we must realize if we do so that we create a new god, with a new gospel that will never bring about true reconciliation and peace between God and mankind.

The World’s Hatred of God and Us

From the beginning of the fall of mankind, we have hated and disobeyed our Creator.  If we loved Him we would simply obey all of His directions for our lives because it is honorable to do so, and beneficial to our lives spiritually and naturally.
Here are examples of mankind’s hatred for God:

Joh 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

1 Jn 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Luk_16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luk_6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

Mat_10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Mat_24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

Mar_13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Luk_19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

Luk_21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

Joh_15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

If the faith that you live doesn’t produce the fruit of the world hating you, what are you doing wrong?  How are you more loving or kind than Jesus that the world will think you are nicer than God?

These outlined points have always been major problems in the people’s understanding of the True and Living God of the Bible.  This isn’t a new phenomena that recently came upon America the last few hundred years, there is nothing new under the sun.

 

 

Hawaii – Missions History of the Islands People

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Rainbow Falls, Hawaii

Henry Opukahai’a was an orphan raised by his uncle to be a pagan priest but he became disillusioned with rituals and chants.

He fled Hawaii in 1807 with his friend Thomas Hopu on the American whaling ship Triumph bound for New England.

They were befriended by Christian students at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, who instructed and prayed with them to become the first Hawaiian Christians in 1815, during the time of the Second Great Awakening.

Henry Opukahai’a studied Greek and Hebrew and attempted to translate into his native tongue the Book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible, though none this survived.

In his Memoirs, which sold 500,000 copies after his death in 1818, Henry Opukahai’a wrote:

“O what a wonderful thing is that the hand of the Divine Providence has brought me from the heathenish darkness here the light of Divine truth never had been.

And here I have found the name of the Lord Jesus in the Holy Scriptures, and have read that His blood was shed for many …”


Henry Opukahai’a continued:

“My poor countrymen, without knowledge of the true God, and ignorant of the future world, have no Bible to read, no Sabbath.”


Thomas Hopu met General Andrew Jackson, whom he accompanied to New Orleans.

Hopu fought the British during the War of 1812, resulting in him being perhaps one of the first Hawaiians to serve in the United States armed forces.

An excellent swimmer, Hopu saved several crewman after a shipwreck.

Five times he taken prisoner by the British in the West Indies.

Once starving in prison, African slaves gave him food and water, affecting Hopu to forever detest the enslavement of Africans.

Two years after Henry Opukahai’a’s death from typhus, Thomas Hopu went as a missionary withHiram Bingham and Asa Thurston back to theHawaiian Sandwich Islands, serving as their translator.

Hiram Bingham’s grandson, Hiram Bingham III, discovered the Inca city of Machu Pichu in 1908 and was elected Governor of Connecticut and a U.S. Senator.

Hiram Bingham IV was U.S. Vice Consul in France during World War II, where he helped 2,500 Jews escape internment camps of Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party.

Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston were sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Missions on the ship, Thaddeus, arriving at Kailua on MARCH 31, 1820.

The missionaries not only spread Christianity, but confronted drunkenness and vice which had been introduced into the islands by sailors, whalers, and convicts from Botany Bay.

The missionaries created a 12-letter Hawaiian alphabet and reduced the Hawaiian language to writing.

They translated the Bible, began a newspaper, set up schools and churches, and convinced the Hawaiian women to wear dresses.

In 1823, Betsey Stockton (1798-1865), a young African American woman, sailed with the second group of missionaries from New Haven, Connecticut, to Hawaii.

She had been been born a slave but was given her freedom.

A strong Christian, Betsey had attended classes at Princeton Theological Seminary before sailing to Hawaii.

She set up schools and taught islanders English, Latin, history and algebra. In two years, over 8,000 students attended 200 schools.

Idolatry and human sacrifice had previously been ended by King Kamehameha II and his Queen mother Ka’ahumanu.

Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized in 1823.

She then banned prostitution and drunkenness, resulting in sailors resenting the missionaries’ influence.

 

Queen Ka’ahumanu helped spread the Gospel in the islands, beginning a ‘Great Awakening’.

She was presented with the newly completed version ofthe New Testament in the Hawaiian language just prior to her death.

Her last words were:

“I am going where the mansions are ready.”

 

 

 

The cousin of Kamehameha I,Chiefess Kapiolani, in 1824. defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.

Chiefess Kapiolani then praised ‘the one true God’, proclaiming:

“Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. All the gods of Hawaii are vain.”

The son-in-law of Hiram Bingham was Titus Coans, another missionary to Hawaii.

Titus Coan’s account of evangelism is recorded in Life in Hawaii: An Autobiographical Sketch of Mission Life and Labors, 1835-1881 (NY: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1882, 49-52); and in Michael McClymond’s exhaustive work,Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America (2006):

“I set off Nov. 29, 1836, on a tour around the island … On reaching the western boundaries of Puna, my labors became more abundant … They rallied in masses, and were eager to hear the Word.

Many listened with tears, and after the preaching, when I supposed they would return to their homes and give me rest, they remained and crowded around me so earnestly, that I had no time to eat, and in places where I spent my nights they filled the house to its entire capacity, leaving scores outside who could not enter. All wanted to hear more of the ‘Word of Life.’

At ten or eleven o’clock I would advise them to go home and to sleep. Some would return, but more remain until midnight.

At cock-crowing the house would be again crowded, with as many more outside.

At one place before I reached the point where I was to spend a Sabbath, there was a line of four villages not more than half a mile apart.

Every village begged for a sermon and for personal conversation. Commencing at daylight I preached in three of them before breakfast, at 10 a.m.

When the meeting closed at one village, most of the people ran on to the next, and thus my congregation increased rapidly from hour to hour.

Many were ‘pricked in their hearts’ and were inquiring what they should do to be saved.

Sunday came and I was now in the most populous part of Puna.

Multitudes came out to hear the Gospel. The blind were led; the maimed, the aged and decrepit, and many invalids were brought on the backs of their friends.

There was great joy and much weeping in the assembly.

Two days were spent in this place, and ten sermons preached, while almost all the intervals between the public services were spent in personal conversation with the crowds which pressed around me.

Many of the people who then wept and prayed proved true converts to Christ; most of them have died in the faith, and a few still live as steadfast witnesses to the power of the Gospel …”

Titus Coan’s account continued:

“Among these converts was the High Priest of the volcano. He was more than six feet high and of a lofty bearing. He had been an idolater, a drunkard, an adulterer, a robber, and a murderer.

For their kapas, for a pig or a fowl he had killed men on the road, whenever they hesitated to yield to his demands.

But he became penitent, and appeared honest and earnest in seeking the Lord.

His sister was more haughty and stubborn. She was High Priestess of the volcano. She, too, was tall and majestic in her bearing.

For a long time she refused to bow to the claims of the Gospel; but at length she yielded, confessed herself a sinner and under the authority of a higher Power, and with her brother became a docile member of the church.”

This courage of High Chiefess Kapiolani inspired many Hawaiians to be missionaries to other islands, such asSamuel Kauwealoha, who sailed in 1853 to the Marquesas Islands.

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Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha planted churches and schools in the Marquesas Islands, and helped end cannibalism.

He was mentioned in Titus Coan’s 1882 missionary account Life in Hawaii, (Chapter 13, “The Marquesas Islands … The Hawaiians Send a Mission to Them”):

“The missionary at this station was the Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, a native of Hilo, and a member of the Hilo church …

We landed on a beautiful beach of white sand, and walked half a mile through a charming grove of tropical trees, along the margin of a crystal brook …

We found Mr. Samuel Kauwealoha living in a stone house … all built by himself …

Here, amidst the shade of lofty trees, he was living with his devoted wife, teaching the children to read and write, and preaching ‘Christ our Life’ to 149 savages; and here, under the shadow of a towering tree, I spent one of the happiest Sabbaths of my life.

The almost naked and tattooed savages came out and sat quietly in semicircles under the tree, with the bright-eyed little children in front, all seeming to love their teacher, and to welcome the stranger, to whom they listened, Samuel Kauwealoha interpreting …”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missionary Titus Coan continued:

“We had also a Sunday-school, where the pupils recited the Lord’s prayer and the Ten Commandments, with some other lessons, in tones and inflections of voice which were soft and melodious …

At 11 A.M. Captain Brown and his mate, Captain Golett, a good Christian man, who had commanded many a ship, came on shore with the crew of the Morning Star, and we had service in English.”

Another missionary from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands was James Kekela.

The Marquesas Islands were first visited by American Maritime Fur Trader Joseph Ingraham on the brig Hope in 1791, who named them Washington Islands.

In 1813, Commodore David Porter claimed the islands for the United States, but the U.S. Senate never got around to ratifying it.

This delay gave time for France, beginning in 1842, to incorporate the Islands into French Polynesia.

 

 

In French Polynesia, missionary James Kekela wrote thatHawaii was fortunate to have become a possession of the United States rather than a possession of France:

“The French government is celebrating the 14th of July in Papeete, as America does on the 4th of July.

What Americans do to celebrate is to give speeches, worship God, do things to strengthen the body, and so on.

The French are pleasure lovers, acting as in the old days … the dances of Tahiti, Tuamotu, Rurutu, Tubuai, and Atiu…

What is done is like what the (filthy arioi?) did. It is a very painful thing for our eyes to behold, because all kinds of liquor are allowed on the tables on this day-beer, soda, wine, whiskey.”

In 1842, a 23-year-old American sailor namedHerman Melville was  on a ship that visited theMarquesas Islands.

Soon after, Melville wrote first book, a semi-biographical novel titledTypee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (London; New York: 1846).

Melville described how he and a companion deserted the ship Acushnet.

 

 

They stole up into the mysterious island mountains, waiting for their ship to depart without them.

His companion was injured as they descended a steep ravine into the Typee valley.

They were captivated by the sensual beauty of this island paradise until shortly after, his companion disappeared.

When Melville asked the natives what happened to his friend, they were strangely silent, leading him to conclude that he had been eaten.

The natives forbade Melville from going anywhere near the coast.

Nevertheless, three weeks later, Melville barely escaped with his life.

Melville wrote at the end of book Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life:

“These disclosures will … lead to … ultimate benefit to the cause of Christianity in the Sandwich Islands.”

 

 

In 1864, James Kekela rescued an American seaman from death at the hands of angry cannibals in the Marquesas Islands.

 

 

In gratitude, President Abraham Lincoln sent James Kekela an inscribed gold watch.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson related the story in his book, In The South Seas when he visited the Marquesas Islands in 1888-89:

“During my stay at Tai-o-hae … a whole fleet of whale-boats came from Ua-pu … On board of these wasSamuel Kauwealoha, one of the pastors, a fine, rugged old gentleman, of that leonine type so common in Hawaii.

He paid me a visit … and there entertained me with a tale of one of his colleagues, James Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa.

… It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian slaver, the boats of an American whaler put into a bay upon that island, were attacked, and made their escape with difficulty, leaving their mate, a Mr. Whalon, in the hands of the natives.

The captive, with his arms bound behind his back, was cast into a house; and the chief announced the capture to James Kekela …”

Robert Louis Stevenson continued, relating the story of Mr. Whalon’srescue from the cannibals:

“In return for his act of gallant charity,James Kekela was presented by the American Government with a sum of money, and by President Lincoln personally with a gold watch.

… From his letter of thanks, written in his own tongue, I give the following extract. I do not envy the man who can read it without emotion.

 

 

… ‘When I saw one of your countrymen, a citizen of your great nation, ill-treated, and about to be baked and eaten, as a pig is eaten, I ran to save him, full of pity and grief at the evil deed of these benighted people.

I gave my boat for the stranger’s life … It became the ransom of this countryman of yours, that he might not be eaten by the savages who knew not Jehovah. This was Mr. Whalon, and the date, Jan. 14, 1864.

(The seed of the Gospel) was planted in Hawaii, and I brought it to plant in this land and in these dark regions, that they might receive the root of all that is good and true, which is love.

1. Love to Jehovah. 2. Love to self. 3. Love to our neighbor.

… If a man have a sufficiency of these three, he is good and holy, like his God, Jehovah, in his triune character (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), one-three, three-one … If he cherishes all three, then is he holy, indeed, after the manner of the Bible.

This is a great thing for your great nation to boast of, before all the nations of the earth …”

Stevenson continued quoting James Kekela:

“From your great land a most precious seed was brought to the land of darkness.

… It was planted here, not by means of guns and men-of-war and threatening.

It was planted by means of the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was the introduction of the word of the Almighty God into this group of Nuuhiwa.”

 

 

Robert Louis Stevenson concluded quoting James Kekela:

“Great is my debt to Americans, who have taught me all things pertaining to this life and to that which is to come.

How shall I repay your great kindness to me?

Thus David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of you, the President of the United States.

This is my only payment-that which I have received of the Lord, love-(aloha).'”

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Trashy Talk at the Trump Rally?

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We had short notice planning on the Trump rally visit to Nashville’s Auditorium in the downtown area.  Bros Tim Brown, Marvin Heiman, Kenneth Winslow and myself were able to get into the labor field of thousands of conservatives who were standing in long cold lines for hours and hours at a time in order to get into the general free admission offered by Trump. The line was 5-7 wide and went on for I guess about 8-10 city blocks and up and around a hilly area on the other side of the capitol.

Bro Marvin and I got there first, a little after noon, as I was concerned about the road closures and knew there would be people there in line waiting for President Donald J. Trump.  We were met with the usual angst from people who may have voted conservatively but don’t live in a manner that conserves their lives.  They love the liberality of living in their favorite sins.

Road closures started at noon with max security at 3:30 pm with the expected arrival window of President Trump sometime between then and 6:30 pm, his scheduled time to speak.   Originally, we thought we would want to preach to the head of the line but with the road closure we wouldn’t be able to get back up to the front if we opted to leap frog preaching to the end of the line.

Tim and Kenneth showed up about an hour after we started and began our two man, two team leap frogging of the line.  They quickly disappeared behind the bend of the roadway and a building as we labored to bring God’s Word to the attention of the carnal minds in line.  We found that we were going back and forth in the line as we dealt with various hecklers who would chase us down the line and then back up again.  Fortunately, we had a fence barrier between the Trumpers and ourselves.  Some of them really did not like the Bible scourging they were receiving.  We did find a few here and there that would give us a thumbs up, say we’re praying for you, keep going, etc very encouraging as we work to bring glory to Jesus.  Water in a thirsty land to the preacher of God, so to speak…Here is an email that I received the next morning, I was very blessed.

I enjoyed hearing you speak on the word of God at the Trump event in Nashville yesterday while I was in line. You have have reached a part of my soul that knows you are 100% right on what you say . God is going to Bless you for speaking the truth . Thank you   -Dorothy F.

We had noticed some of the Trump fans were looking across the street to point out the President as he stood across the street.  We knew it wasn’t really him, but an impersonator who would make his way down the line to where we were.   I was blessed to actually get an interaction going with him for 5-10 minutes which the crowd appreciated and I think the impersonator as well.   We talked about rich men, camels, eyes of needles, kingdom of God, and that nothing was impossible with God.  I met a young reporter who filmed the whole thing.  Here is a small clip of that interaction published nationally.  After this link is the full video Br. Marvin shot, he did great!

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We met Capt. Corman who was cordial to us as always and in a sense I think he enjoys listening to our work, except our admonitions to the Pope and the RCC.  He asked if we were needful of anything, assured our constitutional protections under the law,etc. and we said our goodbyes.  About an hour later a LT. from the police force informed us we would be in an exclusion zone where were standing.  We made a decision to catch up to Tim and Ken to discuss the matter.  As we traveled down the line we began to realize that this line was for block after block with no end in sight!  Praise Jesus!  We spoke to them to decide if we would preach the head or work the line.  We decided to work to the end of the line as daylight was burning and we didn’t think the multitudes would even make it to the auditorium to see the President.

Bros Tim and Kenneth took the lead and again they were soon out of sight around the bend.  We came out into an open area between the hill the state capitol sits upon with a huge grassy area and the Centennial Park beyond the line and the street.  We had been working the line and the listeners were complaining that the small 16 watt Radio Shack bullhorn was too loud, imagine that, eh? I was having some pretty heated discussion between a woman and her husband in line who were judging our preaching and telling us not to judge.  Well, just about that time the wind picked up and snapped our fiberglass banner pole with our gopro on it.  The crowd erupted in cheers and approval at this act of ‘God’.  I agreed with them that it was an act of God, maybe He didn’t want us to warn them anymore.  They became quiet, meanwhile Marvin worked to do a street repair on our pole. He used some electrical tape and within five minutes we had the banner resurrected!  No cheers but from two saints of God who gleefully lifted up His Word unto the sinners.  Keep in mind our camera is mounted to this as well along with a battery pack.  About that time the Lord pointed out this beautiful mount upon the grassy hillside that we advanced  in order to speak to thousands instead of tens at a time.  It was marvelous!  As the line slowly passed us they were getting a full 20 minute sermon which followed Tim and Kenneth’s previous preaching they had already given to these same people as they marched down the line.  We were there for a good three hours preaching from this hillside.  Keep in mind these folks had been standing in weather that felt like 24 degrees with the windchill for hour after hour after hour in the slowly progressing line.  The sun was setting and the shadows were consuming the line with cold.  Our position was well lit and warmed by God’s sun and kept us nicely until about 6:30 pm when we packed it up to head to the front of the line.  Here is a video of Marvin preaching His Sermon on the Mount:

We had planned to go and see the President and be a part of the rally.  We knew we would have to take our gear back to our car and return to the end of the line.  However, by this time we realized we would never make it in.  As we walked back up to the auditorium we spotted the small crowd of maybe 4-500 people protesting Trump’s rally.  Tim was pumped up and jumped right into the crowd.  I believed that we needed to get to the edge of the crowd.  We then could duck and move to new locations so they wouldn’t surround us and lovingly beat us up as I have seen these types do on many occasions.  The crowd consisted of tolerant BLM, FemiNazi, LGBTQ, Muslims, illegal immigrants, Demoncrats, etc..  They were immediately inflamed to surround and physically bully Tim.  We pulled back and chose a new spot, they did the same maneuver.  We played this game for about a half an hour and decided it was enough of a warning and didn’t want to cast any pearls before these swine.  We left and is another usual tactic they stalked us claiming they weren’t stalking us telling us to get out of ‘their’ town.  We warned them several times, and went to seek assistance from an officer when most of them realized the seriousness and backed off and continued on their merry rebellious way to hell.
In summary, this was a great preach!  I hope that the President continues to hold these things throughout his term.  They let the public know that He is real and wants to see good change for our country.  The Fake News outlets did their standard bites of anti Trump stew with pro libtarded ideologies promoted and approved of.  Lastly, I would exhort the saints to make it to these events even if you have to take the day off of work!  It was a fantastic opportunity to reach conservative people that 8 of 10 believe they are ‘Christian’ but can’t explain the Gospel, go figure.  God bless you all as you seek to do the will of our King!

 

#GoTrump Outreaches in Washington, D.C.

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History made in Wash. DC to Lift up Jesus!

God had lead a team of godly holiness preachers to go out to the millions of people that would gather at the inauguration of President Elect Donald John Trump.  Very exciting to prepare to return to my home stomping grounds as I was born and grew up in Northern VA.

Day One – Travel and Cincy Basketball

I traveled north to Cincinnati to join John Williams, Josh Borchett, Quincy Annatello, and R.D. Christian.  From there we would head to DC and join about a dozen other preachers that were being hosted by a holiness church in Springfield, VA.   While waiting for R.D. to come in we decided to go to the Univ of Cincinnati and preach at a playoff game.  We preached there for a few hours, headed to the airport, then off to DC!

Day Two – #PizzaGate & Islamic Center of Wash., D.C.

We arrived the next morning and joined the men for a fellowship breakfast, then off to our first event in the area.  We decided to preach at #CometPizza which is a homo pizza shop which promotes pedophilia according to many reports in the social media.  We would preach at this place three times during our stay in DC with the police doing a great job every time.  I have uploaded the last outreach as it was the craziest of all.  You can view that here:

DEMON POSESSED PEOPLE Outside of DC’s #CometPongPong #CometPizza #PizzaGate #pedogate NOT #fakenews #MCM #Gay #LGBT https://t.co/dcIxreV6NE

When we went to #Pizzagate #CometPizza #Pedogate it was not open.  They don’t open until 5 pm which is really weird because pizza joints could make lots of money between 11am – 5pm but this place really isn’t about making profit from pizza.  We stayed for about an hour and left to go to the biggest Mosque in the area.  You can see some of our work here:

 

Day Three – Inauguration of Donald John Trump as the President of the U.S. in Washington, D.C.

From the metro subway travel all the way downtown we could just sense the excitement in the air.  I was thrilled to hand out many thousands of good gospel tracts over the course of five days.  You can see our ministry tract here:

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Outreach to the Inauguration went great as Br. Ruben Israel picked out the perfect spot for us to preach at the main gate of the event.  We had marched directly to the front past all the security points with our banners, shirts, and bullhorns and got this great spot situated between two buildings, no background noise and two lines 6 people wide that were slowly moving by.  It is reported that these lines were tens of blocks long, I was so thankful that we had the Lord’s favor to get this area.  We surely preached to hundreds of thousands as they streamed past us in very slow security lines.  This lasted from about eight hours before the lines crowds dissipated about 4 pm. Then we headed to Le’Enfant Metro Plaza food court.  Two of us had gotten separated but Uncle Ruben was great guiding us back to the squad of soldiers for Jesus.  We sat down and within minutes an angry loud mouthed black woman started trouble with a preacher who wouldn’t back down.  The police were called and she was shooed away.  We had a nice meal, got some rest and headed back to our lodgings before heading out to #Cometpingpong and those weirdos for a second night of spiritual attack into the darkness of that place.  Long days of great battles really fatigue my body and yet energize my soul for the lost to be found in Jesus!

Day Four –  A Half a Million Pussy Hat Wearing Radicalized Feminazi Lesbians!

The next day on Saturday the 21st of Jan, we preached the #Womenswalk which were those representing reproductive rights aka baby murder, #BLM rights aka police murder, LGBTQ rights aka self murder by perverted sexual activity, Muslim rights aka a everybody murder by peaceful religion.  Here you see Sister Onica doing a great job scourging the hundreds of thousands of feminist lesbians who are contrary to God’s Word and will for their lives.

 

Day Five – Going Into Three Temples of Doom

Sunday we hit three churches and went inside and rebuked two out of the three.  Here is one I went inside of:  Click Here for Covenant Baptist Church Outreach in Wash. DC
This ‘church’ is Homo-Abortion Affirming

A story that really stuck out in my mind at the second church was a young black woman across the street named Jasmine.  She had a big bandage on her forehead and one eye was blackened, and swollen shut.  I asked her what happened and she related she just got out of the hospital because her boyfriend had bitten her in the eye the night before.  We prayed together that Jesus by His stripes would heal her wound but more importantly that she would surrender to Him and be healed of all of her spiritual wounds unto salvation.  She was very humble as she took a tract, thanked me, and told me she would read it.  Maybe God had us there just for her!

We decided to relax after that and do some touring around DC. We saw the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the mall, and lastly we went the other end of the mall.  There were still many tens of thousands of pink pussy hats all over the city.  When we went to the Lincoln Memorial guess what happened…:

Great trip praise the Lord for all the soldiers who endured to come;  Ruben Israel, Jim Gilles, Jesse Morrell, Pastor Aden, Amar, Kevin, Chelsea, Quincy Annatello, John&Onica Kranert, Joshua Borchert, R.D. Christian, John Williams, Isidro, Vijay Pisani, Daniel Rusk, and myself.  I praise God for you all and thank you so much for all the wonderful time together both in battle and in fellowship.  God bless you.  Oh, did I forget to mention that  Official Street Preachers  organized this event?

Br. John McGlone
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Nashville New Year’s 2017 Week Outreach Report

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Reaching Out to the Lost is Our Job!

It took several months of planning to execute the coordination of about 12-13 preachers for three days leading up to the New Year’s Party Dec 31, 2016.   Br. Marvin was very generous in offering his home to six soldiers to host about 40 minutes from downtown.  For another four soldiers we got a great deal on hotel room for $150 for two nights.  This was an incredible price considering the density of tourists in the area for this week and others times like it.   We also planned to receive families into our home in KY so that the wives and children would have a season of fellowship, meals, and prayer while we worked the streets 130 miles away in TN.  We were almost maxed out, praise Jesus!

Tuesday morning, the Lord led me and Marvin to work on a new legal outline letter to the City of Nashville.  I had not crafted one since 2010 and it was high time we addressed the new mayor, new legal director, new stadium director, new Nashville Visitors director, and because the New Year’s Eve event was now going to be held in a state park the TN State Park director.  We would find later on Saturday how important getting that letter out when we did would be, more on that later.

Marvin, Tim, and I went out on Tuesday night to Broadway and a Preds game to preach I initially started at the Ryman Auditorium as it is s a good quiet place off the noise of Broadway, the acoustics are fantastic, people are coming and going, and there is a bus stop there.  I spoke on the wickedness of American gender confusion, exhorting lesbians to repent and let their hair grow out and sissy boys to get a hair cut that gender would not be confused in our culture and countrymen anymore.  I’ll add that clip as I get it produced. It went pretty well and it was a good initial impact to the tourists many who have never seen us preach, though we have been downtown Nashville regularly for seven years..

After that we moved down onto the main street, Broadway Ave., very appropriate considering all the partying they do on that real estate. It was barricaded for the festivities.  Marvin started out and we were getting good reactions/interactions with many sinners there.  Suddenly, out of nowhere a very cocky motorcycle officer approached and directed us to shut the bull horn down and move off the barricaded street.  Marvin did a great job interacting with the unreasonable cop, initially refusing to give his ID until the officer explained what laws we were breaking in accordance with the protection of ‘unreasonable search and seizure’ laws.  He finally surrendered his ID and explained to him, he was doing so under duress.   We formally requested his supervisor to wit, he curtly replied, “Way ahead of you pal, this isn’t my first rodeo.”  I thought, this wasn’t ours as well and smiled slightly at the officer.   Soon, we had six officers and the supervisor there and it was looking like they were about to put him in the cruiser.  I asked for his keys so I could have transportation to secure bail and hopefully get him out of the jail if he were arrested.  I then called the wives to start praying, which they did.  We began to pray earnestly removing our covers and seeking the Lord.  After about 15 minutes of consultation with the supervisor, he returned gave us our ID’s and stated he was advised by his supervisor not to press any charges or arrest Marvin, Hallelujah!

That was the big burp for the night and everything else went really well, handing out hundreds of tracts and preaching to thousands, with everyone having some one2one’s and small groups during the preaching.

Thursday the 29th we had a full crew of preachers, Marvin Heiman, Tim Brown, Joshua Heiman, Adam & Caleb Bishop, Jeff Mullen, Daniel McGlone and myself.   This was the night of the Battle of the Bands, which is a bunch of wicked music coupled with wicked activities, like food eating contests gluttony, etc.  I have been grieved for many years by parents who bring their small children and/or youth to wicked events and then sin in front of them being a bad example in their lives.  Here in this video you will see me upbraiding a mocking, bird flipping daddy who is drinking in front of his children.  The fruit of his loins, watch and laugh with daddy as he is on his way to hell. Then the youth laugh even more when I describe them turning to daddy on Judgment day asking why he led them to the very gates of hell without telling them about Jesus!  I’m sure parents are motivated to come to these kinds of events for a variety of reasons but most of them are sinful; drinking, listening to wicked music, celebrating wickedness [Pride or Xmas parades], lusting, sports idols, etc.

Friday the 30th, we had the same crew but we were minus Joshua Heiman yet the Lord added Quentin Deckard.  This was Music City Bowl day and there are so many things happening from early in the am it is an incredibly target rich environment for preachers.

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view from downtown Nashville across the Cumberland River.

     There are pep rallies downtown starting about 10am, tailgate parties at the stadium starting about the same time, people lining up for the game a few hours before the start. This was unique because our preaching had started to receive harassment from the New Stadium Lessees Nissan’s security a few months before.  They began telling us things like: we allow you to be here, your causing problems at the security gates, you can’t have abortion signs or we will arrest you.  With that in mind we knew that we would need to write a new legal letter to them as our last one had been in 2010 when I was still part of PinPoint Evangelism.  I called the stadium VP to get his email and had a return call from the General Manager.  The conversation was tense but I made it clear we would continue our work at the gates, all the property around the stadium was public, and their lease for naming rights didn’t take away out civil rights to be there.  Come game day between the Nebraska Corn Huskers and the Tenn Volunteers everything returned to the standard we had set with seven years of work in that venue.  Saints, you must keep pressing into these areas or the devilish communists will seek to remove our rights to have our messages heard!  Exercise your freedoms in America!  We had a great outreach at Nissan Stadium handing out thousands of tracts and breaking up into two different groups covering gates 8 & 9.  They are the best especially when it’s cold as the north wind is blocked and it’s sunny on that side.    Keep in mind brethren these environmental issues will strengthen or sap the energy of your troops. As we traveled to those gates we also stopped at gate 6 for about 15 minutes to preach to the crowd there.  We had our first interaction with a TN State Trooper.  Within a few minutes he got the word that we were good to go.  We preached the rest of the day unhindered by authorities, but the hecklers were certainly far from being done trying to shut up the Gospel preaching,   I noted that the out of town Huskers, though most professing Christians were very cold hearted about spiritual matters, cursing and threatening as we tried to engage their hearts and minds with the truths of the Bible.   We wrapped it up there and headed back to town to get some much needed rest, food, and bathrooms at an undisclosed location downtown.  We got about an hour of fellowship and rest before the sun started to set and we were headed to our next big event which was the Widespread Panic Concert which was being held at the Brimstone Arena for two nights.  Very rowdy and violent crowds from these concert goers, one man being violently thrown out by security the second night we would be there.

widespread-panicWidespread Panic Concerts Friday & Saturday at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN

We figured out for the Brimstone Plaza it is better to preach directly in front of the doors behind barricades about 75 feet from the entrance the acoustics are much better with the crowds in line being able to hear us all the way until they cram through the doors.  We will have to keep this in mind for the future.

One of the big changes this year is the move of the New Year’s Eve bash from downtown Broadway to the Centennial Park which was about a mile away.  This was not impossible to walk but really too far to drag all the troops and equipment and back to the downtown area.  Saturday was forecast rainy and despite our efforts to pray it away the Lord in His sovereignty decided we would have to endure as we knew the sinners surely would for their sin.   We wrestled with the ideas of where would the crowds go?  Would they wait until the end of the night to head over to the park or stay downtown and try to watch the fireworks from there.

I mentioned previously that we had a new legal outline letter we sent to the city. This was to cover many venues to include the Centennial park which is a TN State park with rangers and a whole other chain of command we only dealt with once before and unsuccessfully at that being threatened with arrest and chased out of the park a few years ago.

With all that in mind, we wrestled in prayer even on the streets where to make our stands for Jesus.  Ultimately, we decided though the weather was bad we would need to work the park for a period of time and then move downtown as that is where we scouted all the crowds to be.  The rules of for the event/park were no poles, bullhorns, or ‘soliciting’.  We knew who they had targeted but we’re confident that legal outline would be effectual for our entry to the park.  Sure enough it was, though we didn’t fight the search and seizure issue with them wanding us before we entered we were able to breeze right through pretty tight security.  The park is under major renovation with the whole Germantown neighborhood under revitalization which was previously overrun with thug, criminal drug / gang activity just a few years before.  I believe a big developer has come in and now is trying to spread the parties/business to this area of the city.  I see a big Oktoberfest party in Nashville’s future.  We got in and set up near some vendors with our banners and bullhorns, preached, waiting to be approached.  After about 15 minutes we got the head of the event Mr. Keeter to whom Marvin spoke.  It went great, and we had the green light. This was important to set this precedent with the city.  We stayed another half hour in the rain and cold and packed it up to head down to the crowds downtown where it would be much warmer and hopefully drier.  When we left we estimated a hundred or so people in the park.  The weather had busted the city’s plans big time.
There were thousands downtown and hundreds in the park. No brainer, we would end up working the rest of the night by the Brimstone Arena again as we didn’t realize the first night there would be a second concert NYE by Widespread Panic.   The concert goers proved themselves to be very gross and violent, so much so I closed our activities about an hour and a half early calling it a night.  We were all weary of the cold, rain, and we were being regularly attacked.  We departed on the assurance of the Holy Ghost’s leading and we were all in agreement.  We headed to the new CookOut in town and had a good meal before making the drive back to KY for fellowship the next day.  Here are our testimony’s in video format.  Now, get out there and seek and save that which is lost, not much time now…

Nashville New Years Week of Festivals

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UPDATE FOR NASHVILLE NYE WEEK PREACH, PLEASE READ:
If you’d like to join us give us a pm or call to confirm the meet, thanks.

1. EXPECT COLD TEMPS AND WINDS, BRING LAYERS OF CLOTHING, GLOVES, AND HATS SUITABLE. SAFETY GLASSES FOR DAY AND NIGHT, HAND/FOOT WARMERS, HEARING PROTECTION, WATERS, GRANOLA BARS.
2. WE EXPECT TO EAT TWO MEALS PER DAY, BREAKFAST AND A MEAL AFTER THE OUTREACH. PLEASE BRING CASH TO CARE FOR YOU NEEDS.
3. WE WILL NOT BE STOPPING TO BUY GEAR ON THE WAY INTO OR BACK FROM OUTREACHES.
4.WE ENCOURAGE DOCTRINAL SHARPENING WHILE WE ARE IN FELLOWSHIP. HOWEVER, WE EXPECT EVERYONE TO BE HOLY AND SELF CONTROLLED IN YOUR DISCUSSIONS. NO DOCTRINAL DISPUTES ALLOWED IN THE STREETS.
5. WE NEED A VOLUNTEER WHO CAN BRING AND CARRY A FIRST AID KIT ALL WEEK. IF YOU HAVE EMT EXPERIENCE A PLUS!

PLEASE CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES AND ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE TIMES INTO TOWN WITH OUR PLANNED PREACHING SCHEDULE. WE NEED YOU TO COORDINATE YOURSELVES TO THAT SCHEDULE. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE ANY CHANGES/ISSUES. THANKS,GOD BLESS, WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH YOU.

Attending Preachers
Josh G.
John McGlone
Daniel McGlone
Jason Crowley
Marvin Heimann
Josh Heiman
Jeff Mullen
Adam Bishop+ son
Daniel Maguire
David Sain
Timothy Brown + son?
Bill Preacher [possible]
Kenneth Winslow [possible]

SCHEDULE [EXPECT TO LV MARVIN’S 1 HOUR PRIOR TO OUTREACH START TIME DAILY, DON’T BE LATE. SOLDIERS ARE TIMELY FOR BATTLES]

Dec.26th Broadway Preach 3-9PM
Dec.27th Predators Hockey Brimstone Downtown 3-9PM
Dec.28 Return to KY for a time of rest and fellowship, visitation with families coming into KY
Thurs, Dec.29th Battle of the Bands Downtown 3-9pm
Friday, Dec.30th 11:00 am – ACC – SEC Pep Rally
1130 – 2:00 pm Stadium Tailgate Party–

Sat, Dec.31st New Years Eve Bash 4pm – 11 pm Centennial Park

Sun, Jan 1st, 2017 10am – 2pm Titans vs Texans football
contact Timothy Brown

1. A group of 6 will stay at Marvin’s house 6. Please contact him directly for his phone number and address.

2. We need a volunteer to stay at a hotel in White House who is willing to split the cost, total for them will be $38 for two nights, checking in on Thursday, free wifi, and continental breakfast.
We have arranged for 4 preachers on two king beds in one room for the two nights. It’s about 20 min from Marvin’s. Josh G., Daniel McGlone, myself, and the volunteer. We will stay there and meet at Marvin’s daily to travel into Nashville for the outreaches.

All of us heading back up to our home in KY on Saturday night about 11:30 pm. Many have family members wives/children that will be staying during the outreach with my wife/children/company until our return. Our home will be packed but we will manage nicely as the Lord enables.

We will have a big breakfast Sun morning, fellowship starts at 11am, hymns, prayer, readings, testimonies, and we will be doing a mock Matt 18 skit that we have been practicing for the edification of the saints.

Also, there will be a Titan’s game on Sunday outreach should start at 10:30 am latest near the ticket gates on the bridge side. There are those that may want to attend this instead of returning to KY with us for fellowship. Contact Timothy Brown if you would like to work that event with him.

Thank you and may God bless you.

Sincerely,

John McGlone
Founder, Jesus Preacher Ministries
www.JesusPreacher.com