Volume 19 Issue 6 - June 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: Every Step, a poem written by Rusty Thomas, during the Walk Across America Two tracts that the WAA Team pass out as they walk along the way; The Walk Across America Prophetic Tour Tract Abortion is Murder!! Homosexuality is Sin!! Islam is a Lie!! What do these three have in common? Invitation to OSA's National Event in Columbus, OH, July 17-24 EVERY STEP Dedicated to the Walk Across America Prophetic Tour 2004
The following two articles are tracts that the Walk Across America Team passes out along the way. THE WALK ACROSS AMERICA PROPHETIC TOUR
God has used Operation Rescue/Operation Save America as a prophetic witness in cities throughout America. In each city, God would watch over His Word to perform it with mighty signs and wonders following. This is just a sampling. In Orlando, we prophesied against the abortion industry and the homosexual agenda being promoted by Disney. We declared that God would judge Orlando just as He judged Sodom and Gomorrah by raining down fire upon their heads. Butch Berget, our OSA worship leader, sang this song at every gate we visited, "We Serve a God Who Answers by Fire." We gave the benediction for the event. After the saints of God said "Amen," the entire area went up in flames and burned out of control for over a month. In New Orleans, however, God blessed the city by arresting the spirit of murder and bringing peace to their streets. Pastor Bill Shanks prophesied that if the abortion mills would shut down while Operation Save America came to town then God Himself would end the plague of murder in that city. At the time, New Orleans was the murder capital of America. Even the police were murdering each other. We came into town and every abortion mill shut down. Halfway during the event, the media made mention that there was a connection between the murder of the innocent in the womb and the escalating violence in the streets. They declared, "Didn't OSA say that if abortion shut down there would be peace in the streets? There hasn't been one murder thus far since they have been here." In Buffalo, NY, Flip Benham preached from Hosea 4:1-2 which states, "Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is not truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." He specifically cried out against the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion. He demonstrated from the Scriptures that there was a direct connection between the bloodshed in the womb and the blood coursing down the corridors in our public schools. The next day two young men walked into their school in Columbine, CO and gunned down 13 of their peers. The following is taken from the press statement OSA released after 9/11. "America has been given its own warnings over the years for the shedding of innocent blood through the horrific practice of abortion. This past weekend a prophetic word was spoken to the White House police on Saturday, September 8, 2001. Flip Benham, along with 18 other pro-life pastors and leaders from across the nation, gathered in the nation's capital to bring a prophetic warning that if we continue to sow bloodshed in the womb, we would reap it in ever-increasing horror in our streets. Standing in front of the White House, praying and proclaiming the prophetic Word of God, these gentle Christians were threatened with arrest. They refused to move, and instead continued to pray for the mercy of God on our nation. As they were given their third and final warning, Benham declared these prophetic words, "No, America! This is your third and final warning!" He then read from Dt. 32:25, "In the street the sword will make them childless, in their homes terror will reign. Young men and women will perish, infants and gray haired men." After Flip gave God's "Third and Final Warning," he was arrested. He told me in no uncertain terms to open his Bible to Dt. 32:25 and preach. I stretched out my hand toward the White House and prophetically declared that if America didn't repent immediately of child-killing then God would reduce our economic and military might to dust. Thirty hours after we left Washington DC, the Twin Towers, the symbol of our economic might, and the Pentagon, the symbol of our military might became dust. The reason for this brief history of how God has soberly used Operation Rescue/ Operation Save America in times past is to try to give understanding of the national implications concerning this "Walk Across America" Prophetic Tour. In Joshua, the Word of the Lord proclaims, "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses (Joshua 1:3)." Every step of this three thousand mile journey carries a prophetic parable to our nation. The warning we are bringing does not just encompass a city or a region, but the entirety of our sin-soaked and blood-stained land. ABORTION IS MURDER!! HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN!! ISLAM IS A LIE!! WHAT DO THESE THREE HAVE IN COMMON? They are all inspired by the same liar who has come to the earth to rob, kill and destroy. All three are the beneficiaries of the marvellous freedoms and liberty we have in America. All three have violated these freedoms and perverted liberty - making it license. All three deny God and the truth of His Word. All three have entered into a pact with death. All three are often more rigorous in their devotion to false "gods" than "Christians" are devoted to the one true GOD. All three have a desperate need for the forgiveness found only through the blood of Christ. "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12. It is precisely for this reason that we come to you today; to share the love of Almighty God as expressed through His one and only sone, Jesus Christ. "Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt." Leviticus 19:17. We are here as a living and gentle rebuke. Our Lord commands us in His Holy Scripture that, if we truly love our neighbor, we must tell him the truth. We are here to proclaim to you this day that Jesus Christ is God and apart from Him there is no other. To do or say any less would be hate! SINCERE BELIEF IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR TRUTH The nineteen men who crashed airplanes into buildings and brought many innocent people to their untimely death may have sincerely believed that they were serving God, but they were sincerely wrong. If they could come back from the dead and speak to us today, they would reveal a horror that is beyond words to describe. Rather than joining 72 virgins as promised, they have found themselves in hell for eternity - one cannot even commit suicide to get out. It is eternal damnation! The truth of what one believes is far more important than how much he believes it. Truth is paramount! Kamikaze pilots, on suicidal missions for a false god (Japanese Emperor Hirhito), attempted to crash their airplanes into American ships. No one can doubt the sincerity and zeal of these young men who so carelessly gave their lives for an unworthy and untrue cause, but death and hell were their eternal reward. Those who boarded the Titanic sincerely believed that the ship would not sink. They were sincere in their belief, but their sincerity could not save them when the ship sank. What they believed was a lie. The ship could sink, and the ship did sink. Truth is paramount! Since Mohammed's vision in the early seventh century, millions have been slaughtered by the lie of Islam. This false religion, birthed from the very pit of hell, has led to the eternal damnation of billions of precious people whom God loves that have been led astray from the one true God (Jesus Christ). No matter how sincere, no matter how committed, no matter how willing to die for "Allah," the result will forever be the same - eternal damnation! Believing a lie has severe consequences. OUR FAILURE TO RIGHTLY REPRESENT CHRIST TO YOU Unfortunately, Christianity in America has become so feminized, weak, and limp-wristed that these lies (abortion, homosexuality, and Islam) have come to prevail in a nation that was established and made great on the manly bedrock of biblical Christianity. We, the Church of Jesus Christ in America, have failed to love our neighbors lost in Islam by not representing the true God of the Bible to them. We have thrown God out of our schools and banished Him from the schoolyard. We have allowed mothers and fathers to kill their children at a whim. We have allowed sexual lusts to run rampant. Murder fills our streets. Drugs steal our kids. And, not content with the pollution of our own nation, we have become a pipeline through which the whole world is being polluted. We do all of this; yet proclaim with our lying lips that Jesus Christ is our Lord! The lives we live, the laws we pass, the example we have become have defiled God's Holy Name. For this we ask your forgiveness. But because we are false to the true and living God does not mean that He is false! AMERICA WAS FOUNDED UPON THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY It was not a group of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians that sailed across the Atlantic to the shores of the "New World" to begin a new nation where one was free to worship Almighty God (Jesus). It was those who loved Christ. It was upon the principles found in the Bible and the liberty found in Jesus Christ that the foundations of our nation were laid. Our Pilgrim forefathers viewed their lives as "stepping stones" upon which future generations could tread in the advancement of the Gospel of Christ. Our Founding Fathers placed their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor safely in the hands of Jesus believing that "divine providence" alone would suffice in their battle for independence. Yes, America was founded and built by those following hard after Christ. One of the Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, put it this way: "It cannot be emphasized too often or too strongly that this nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, no on religion but the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is for this very reason that people of other faiths have been afforded prosperity, asylum, and freedom of worship." If you are wondering why you are able to still freely worship a false god in this marvellous and free country you need only look to our LORD Jesus. He said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. He doesn't demand His dogma to be forced upon you like Islamic Jihad. He bids you to come - you can choose to accept or reject Him. This freedom is found only in a nation whose God is the LORD (YAHWEH). BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." Ps. 33:12 It was by this Name, YAHWEH that God said He would be remembered forever, from generation to generation. This Name was so sacred to the Jews that they removed the vowels and made it YHWH or the Tetragrammaton. They did not want to be guilty of taking God's Name in vain. Jesus, when He walked the sands of this earth, made one of the most startling statements ever uttered when He confronted the Jews in their religious hypocrisy: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM." John 8:58. he used the Name, YAHWEH! This so stunned the monotheistic Jews that they tried to stone Him right there. Jesus told them that He was God! He told them that He was, is, and always will be YAHWEH! Hear this my friends, it is Jesus and Jesus alone who is GOD! Not Allah, as interpreted by Mohammed, not Gautama Buddha, not Krishna, not the god in me nor the god in the tree. It is Jesus who made and makes this nation great. Ask yourself why you came to America. Ask yourself why people from all over the world come here. There is something about the liberty and freedom to pursue the very purpose for which one is born that makes America different from any other nation on the earth: "...and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." It is the Lord of liberty (Jesus) that you seek. It is He that draws so many to this nation. He is the one and only true God. He bids you to come unto Him, confess your sins, and find the forgiveness that only He can give. It is our prayer that you will come to experience this liberty in your own heart. Jesus said, "...you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free." John 8:32 --Flip Benham, Director, Operation Save America; Operation Rescue Please continue to keep Rusty, Shekinah, Destiny and Charity and the WAA Team in your prayers as well as the ones holding down the home front: Liz, Cassia, Elijah, Micah, Josiah, Valiant, Jeremiah, and Torah. Thank you so much! Rusty, Liz, and the Thomas Nation P.O. Box 3126, Waco, TX 76707 Voice: (254) 836-1037 Fax: (254) 836-4092 Cell: (254) 715-3134 E-mail: elijahmin@ifriendly.com
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