The Wake-up Herald
And that, knowing the time, that
now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far
spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in
strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof. Romans 13:11-14
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Robert McCurry, Editor &
Publisher
May 3, 2015
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"Let the
Scriptures cease to be heard, and soon the remembered
Christ becomes our imagined Christ, shaped by the
religiosity and the unconscious desires of His
worshipers. The authority of the church, then, becomes
nothing more than the wisdom of Popes and councils." - Dr. James D. Smart, 'The Strange Silence of
the Bible in the Church: A Study of Hermeneutics',
(Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, June 1,
1970), p. 25.
It's official.
The Obama Administration plans to go after the tax exempt
status of Christian churches, schools, colleges and
religious institutions that refuse to recognize same-sex
marriage, if the United States Supreme Court rules it to
be a right protected by the Constitution.
by Timothy A. Pope
Top of FormThe admission was
made by Barack Hussein Obama's lawyer, the sitting Solicitor
General of the United States, Donald Verrilli, Jr., on
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, during questioning by Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Samuel
Alito, Jr.
Solicitor General Verrilli,
using a public office to defend same-sex marriage on behalf
of the United States, was asked by Justice Alito if
religious institutions could be at risk of losing their tax
exempt status due to their beliefs about Biblical marriage.
Verrilli's reply was, "It's
certainly going to be an issue."
Chief Justice John Roberts then
asked, would a religious school with married housing be
required to afford such housing to same-sex couples?
Solicitor Verrilli did not say
no. Instead, he responded with, "Presently, the federal
government does not have a law banning discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation and gender identity."
This all took place as
thousands of gay and lesbian activists rallied outside the
Supreme court in Washington on Tuesday, the groups which demand "tolerance" but have none
for anyone else acting upon their own moral principles which
are antithetical to their own.
So, what does this tell us? The
Solicitor General of the United States government officially
told the Supreme Court of the United States what the
official policy of the Obama Administration is going to
be―that the tax exempt status of churches and religious
schools will in fact be in jeopardy if they dare to oppose
the presidential proclamation mandating homosexual marriage.
Likewise, Christian colleges will survive only as an
accommodation on a state-by-state basis, and until
Washington passes its own federal legislation or
regulations.
Understanding the extreme
lawlessness and rebellion of the current administration and
its hatred of all that is moral and virtuous and decent, it
should come as no surprise that this agenda not only flies
in the face of the law, it establishes a direct insurgency
against the lawful authority of the People.
The Constitution for the United
States of America―still the Supreme Law of the Land since it
has not yet been lawfully amended, repealed or rescinded―is
crystal clear about the role the federal government can play
in going against the American people regarding their freedom
to engage in and not be denied religious convictions.
The Bill of Rights, which is
inseparable from the Constitution, says in its Preamble,
"...having at the time of their adopting the Constitution,"
the Conventions of a number of the States "expressed a
desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its
powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses
should be added: And as extending the ground of public
confidence in the Government, will best ensure the
beneficent ends of its institution."
\Many states in
the Union in fact flat-out refused to sign the
Constitutional contract between the States and the People
into law without the addition of the Bill of Rights to
further bind down the hands of the government from
potential abuses to the unalienable Creator-endowed rights
of the People.
The
First Article in Amendment to the Bill of Rights:
Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.
Did everyone catch that? The
active clause is "shall
make no law," and
there is no interpretation needed or warranted for such
simple, coherent and succinct language. It is undeniable in
its intent.
Where is this
all headed?
A group of prominent Christian leaders,
including Reverend Franklin Graham, Dr. James Dobson,
Governor Mike Huckabee and National Religious Broadcasters
(NRB) President Jerry Johnson, signed a letter to warn the
Supreme Court that they will not obey.
The pledge in solidarity to defend the sanctity of marriage
said, "We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross
that line. We stand united together in defense of marriage.
Make no mistake about our resolve."
Several of the signers made it very clear that
they are calling for widespread civil disobedience and
resistance. To their credit, the Declaration of
Independence, our nation's very first
official founding declaratory document which is still in
affect and preceded even the Articles of Confederation, laid
the preliminary groundwork for the duty of all Americans,
should our government become the despotic and destructive
force that it has become and it goes way farther than mere
civil disobedience and resistance. It commands forceful yet
lawful removal and replacement of that government, by the
People:
"That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of [our Creator-endowed unalienable
Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness], it
is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. . . . But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security."
We are quickly approaching a very
dangerous time for this country. The United States has
never been so polarized and divided since the Civil War.
And it's no wonder, considering that Obama has compared
his presidency to that of Abraham Lincoln's, the man who
presided over the most tumultuously divided and war-torn
era in our nation's history. In fact, Obama has been
compared to President Lincoln over and over and over
again. Is that a giveaway?
There were two divisive political issues during
the time of the Civil War of the mid-19th century which had
profound religious and moral connotations. The two issues
were human slavery and marriage. In both political battles,
the early Republicans led the nation in morally opposing two
great sins that were threatening to tear the country apart.
First, the issue of slavery, which was hotly defended by the
Democratic Party. The second issue was Mormon polygamy.
During the presidential election of 1856, the
Republican Party platform pledged to "...prohibit in the
territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and
slavery."
The Republican-dominated 37th United States
Congress passed the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act,
and Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican President,
signed it into law on July 8, 1862. The law banned marriages
of a plurality of more than one man and one woman.
Contrarily, the radical, lawless Mormons in the
state of Utah ignored the federal law. Congress passed
tougher anti-polygamy laws, including the Senator Poland Act of
1874, which called for federal prosecution of
polygamists and eliminated the control that Mormon members
exerted over the justice system of Utah. The Mormon polygamy
activists were so radical and determined to change the
definition of marriage, that federal military forces were
deployed to the Utah territory to suppress the insurrection.
And Utah's courts and law enforcement agencies were
reorganized to break-up the considerable power of the
Mormons.
The Republican party's defense of traditional
marriage was so strong that the Congress refused to allow
Utah Congressman George Cannon to take his seat in the
House, because he was married to multiple women.
Fast-forward
to 2015.
The two issues tearing this country apart are
comparably moral issues: abortion and same-sex marriage.
This time, however, the Republican Party has lost its moral
compass and is quickly drifting into irrelevance as a
political force. It is merely a hollow shell of its strong
forebear and is now vestigial at best. Simply said, it
has acquiesced and no longer has any teeth. Does that offend
you? Well, judging a tree by the fruit it bears, what do you
see?
It is high time that ALL Bible-believing
Christians walk out of both the fallen Democratic and
Republican parties and do whatever is necessary within the
law to restore the principles and ideals which this nation
was founded upon.
Not only do the Holy Scriptures portend the
devastating conclusion this is leading to, but non-religious
historical and literary texts do as well. Every shining
nation of significant cultural and philosophical renaissance
which descended into same-sex practices and sodomy,
pedophilia, child sacrifice and abortion, human slavery, the
practice of witchcraft and other depravities-from antiquity
to recent recollection-has been taken into captivity, fallen
by the sword, brought utterly to ruin, laid waste and turned
to ash.
Did I make myself clear?
Anyone who can't yet see the writing on the
wall is willfully blinded. These two magazine issues were
released by two separate media outlets on the same day, back
in May 21, 2012:
Also, more recently, the White House Tweeted a
bizarre propagandistic photo on April 10,
2015, depicting a Barack Obama with a god-like rainbow
emanating from his hand. Thankfully, the ostentatious
gasconade of the Obama White House backfired and
received a deluge of sarcastic condemnations
from even his former ardent supporters.
And probably a vast majority of these now
disillusioned people once viewed him as "sort of a god," the
"second coming,"
the "god of all things,"
the "messiah," the
"alpha and the omega,"
their "lord and savior,"
and many other exalting
apotheoses.
Every true Christian knows exactly what is
going on here. The rainbow was set in the clouds as a sign
from the Creator God, an eternal covenant between Him and us
that He would never again judge the earth and
its inhabitants by water:
And what was the reason God judged the earth in
the first place? Because God "saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth," that "every imagination of his
heart was only evil continually". Every living thing had
corrupted and defiled its flesh in defiance of the natural
way that God had divinely ordained. And that is the reason
that the gay and lesbian community have adopted the rainbow
as its "Gay Pride" banner, because is at the very heart of
the original sin which has vexed mankind from day one, is pride.
In conclusion, notwithstanding the office
of the presidency being used as a subversive political
machine to dictate amorality, an extreme polarization is
coming to this nation. It will be felt strongest between
the true followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ who
take a stand for biblical faith, no matter what,
and those weak, apathetic and apostate religionists who
render unto the abominable will of wicked men for purposes
of security and political correctness.
This issue of sodomy, which taunts under
the banner of pride, will separate the
sheep from the goats in the very near
future. And if that issue doesn't purify the body of
Christ, then the overhanging genocide of 70+ million
unborn children since Roe v. Wade most assuredly will. For
the righteous blood of the innocent cries out to God from
the ground for vengeance, and only the pure in
heart will be blessed, and only they will see God.
Jesus
said, "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me
before it hated you" (John 15:18),
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" (Mark 13:13).
Posted
by America the Battlefield
Editor's
comment:
Regardless of how the SCOTUS rules, the sodomite,
same-sex marriage and taxing of churches issues will not
go away. Riots, blood in the streets and Martial Law are
looming. There must be Repentance to the Sovereign,
Holy, Jehovah God and obedience to His Perfect Law or
America will perish. ~Pastor
Robert McCurry
Wake-up,
Pastors! Wake-up, Christians!
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