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Volume 20 Issue 12 - December 2005
MERRY CHRISTMAS
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this." (Isaiah 9:6,7)
THOMAS NATION "MERRY CHRISTMAS" 2005  NEW ASSISTANT God in His marvelous mercy has raised up a young man to be a paraclete (one who comes along side to help) to assist me in the ministry. His name is Robby Wachsmann. He is my pastor, John Wachsmann’s son. God has been dealing with Robby powerfully ever since my wife’s illness and subsequent graduation to glory. His entire worldview, goals, and destiny has been dramatically change. He left his pursuits of corporate America to follow hard after the Lord. As a result, I have the privilege to train, mentor, and disciple Robby as we serve the Lord’s purposes together. Please keep this young man in your prayers. RACHEL’S PARK MEMORIAL FOUR-FOLD VISION Robby and I are working diligently to complete Rachel’s Park Memorial to get it up and running and fully functional for our January 22nd, 2006 event. As I write, we are beautifying the landscape of the park, installing benches, completing all the signs, and building an outdoor podium. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, will be our special speaker at the MEMORIAL SERVICE. (See flyer on page four for details) We will conduct a press conference the next day to unveil the Rachel’s Park Memorial ministry to our area. It will let our city know that there is help available through Jesus Christ our Lord for those who suffer the regret, remorse, and shame associated with having an abortion. Rachel’s Park Memorial is first and foremost dedicated to the Glory of God. The Westminster Confession of Faith asks this primary question, "What is the chief end of man?" Answer: "To glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Jesus gave us a glimpse of what it means to glorify God in John 17:1-4. The text reads, "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."Our Lord teaches through his words and example that to glorify God in this earth, one must complete the work God has assigned. Therefore we must dedicate ourselves to the heavenly vision and fulfill our God ordained destiny to glorify God in the earth. In the spirit of this understanding, by God’s grace, my goal before I shuffle off this mortal coil is to build one park in every State of the Union. At some point, America will have to come to grips with our complicity and complacency concerning this grave evil against our own defenseless children. Many will be reminded of this horrendous sin against God and their brutal crime against their own nameless sons and daughters. Thus this deep, festering wound that has polluted and defiled our beloved land must be adequately cared for. We must not find ourselves in a position that the prophet Jeremiah warned against, "They have also healed the wound of my people slightly (Jeremiah 8:11)." Rachel's Park Memorial is specifically designed to deal with the deadly wound abortion has afflicted against our children, the family, the Church, our government, and our culture. It exists to provide a place, a point of contact for America to grieve, repent, and receive God’s deliverance in the wake of this holocaust. Secondly, Rachel’s Park Memorial is committed to the advancement and spread of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Abortion at its root is not a social, political issue, but a Gospel, Kingdom issue. The truth is he who frames the argument over abortion wins the debate. In other words "he who defines wins." When the world frames the abortion battle in terms of politics, Satan wins the day, but when the Church sees this struggle through the grid of God’s word, life wins the day. Matthew 19:13,14, "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Psalm 127 compares children to arrows, kingdom ammunition. Malachi teaches us that one of the major purposes for the sacred bond of marriage is to bring forth into the earth a godly seed (Malachi 2:15). Satan comes to kill, steal, and to destroy the seed of man. Every time he raises his ugly head children die. This is the hard lesson of history. In the Old Testament, Pharaoh made the tyrannical decree that every male child of Israel be cast into the Nile and drowned. Thankfully, Moses was spared and God raised him up in Pharaoh's court. In God’s timing, Moses was used to bring down this despotic empire and liberate the people of God. In the New Testament, another dictator, Herod, demanded the death of the "little ones" to try and crush under foot like a scorpion the birth of our Savior. Jesus survived this demonic onslaught and the rest they say is history. This battle has raged throughout the pages of mankind’s bloody existence. Why? Because Satan knows that children redeemed equals the Kingdom of God and that is the harbinger that signals his demise. Thirdly, Rachel’s Park Memorial seeks to reestablish the personhood of the preborn child. Two important reasons why. Number one, it helps post abortive families in the healing process. John 16:21 states, "A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world." Abortion cuts this process off. Thus women never experience the release of joy of having their babies and are left in a perpetual state of anguish. To address this travesty, we created in the park a Wall of Remembrance. This wall allows post-abortive mothers and families to name their children and place their names upon the wall. This process helps restore the dignity, worth, and personhood of the preborn. It also aids in bringing righteous resolve and merciful closure to the sin and crime of abortion. Secondly, by creating this practice, it addresses the larger issue of the unjust law that denies the self-evident truth that preborn children are human beings made in God’s image of God They are worthy of the same protection of law that is afforded you and I. History is replete with tragic examples of what happens when nations remove the personhood status from groups of human beings. Nazi Germany defined Jews as subhuman and vermin. Thus they became a prey to the atrocities of the German holocaust. During the Civil War era America decreed our black brothers and sisters were only 3/5ths human. They were denied full personhood and subsequently they were confined to a life of slavery and abuse. Whenever laws are struck down that remove the status of personhood from humanity, select human beings become a target of destruction. This issue of personhood is actually acknowledged in the infamous Roe vs. Wade Decision itself. Harry Blackman essentially stated that the whole Roe vs. Wade "Constitutional" argument collapses if the personhood of the child is ever established. He stated, "The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a "person" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well-known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment." Finally, Rachel’s Park Memorial is devoted to minister to post-abortive families. As stated previously, abortion has afflicted a deadly wound upon our children, motherhood, fatherhood, the family, the church, the government, the law, and our country. It has robbed our past, defiled our present, and laid claim to our future. The collapse of Social Security and Illegal Immigration are just two of the indicators that reveal these truths. We as the church must not be taken unawares. We must prepare to meet the challenges of our future. At some point America is going to be forced to deal with this deadly wound. This is why my goal is to have one such park set up in every state of the union, in order for America to have a place to go and find the healing balm of the Lord. YOUR RESPONSE Many hands make light work. I pray you will join Robby and I and help support this vision and mission. If you desire to see a park established in your state, please contact me at your earliest convenience. Together we can work to see this national dream become a reality. We need prayer warriors as well. If you are in the Texas area, please consider participating and inviting others to the event on January 22nd. We can also use financial assistance if you are led of the Spirit of God to invest in this Kingdom project. Thank you! rachel's park memorial Presents Roe vs. Wade Memorial Service
SMASH THE POT PROPHETIC TOUR "Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom (The place where child-sacrifice was being committed), which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee...Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, And shalt say unto them..." (Jeremiah 19) Just returned from CT and had a smashing good time. On Saturday morning, December 3rd, about 40 Christian Pro-lifers, including 5 clergy men, gathered in the frigid weather to proclaim to the principalities and powers of darkness that their reign of terror is over. We praised and worshipped the Lord, prayed prayers of consecration and then prepared to perform the prophetic act according to Jeremiah 19. I gave a brief teaching on the prophetic word of the Lord, raised the pot over my head and declared, "Lord, as we smash this pot, may the practice of child-murder be smashed! As we smash this pot, may the act of abortion be smashed! As we smash this pot, may the works of Satan be smashed. As we smash this pot, Lord smash the chains and bars that hold the abortion workers captive to perform the wicked deeds of Satan! As we smash this pot, may this death camp be permanently shut down. May it never raise its ugly head again to harm and molest babies made in the image of God!" The pot came crashing down and when it smashed we played an anointed prophetic song called "This is the Lord's Land." The words are as follows: Chorus:
Flip Benham our National Director of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America has officially recognized this song as our national theme song. For those who would like a copy to order, contact this number at (316) 683-8641. This is a powerful prophetic song to unleash at your local death camps. The whole concept of this inspired idea came from our visit to Wichita back in early October. OSA held a regional event that is still reverberating three months later in that blood-stained city (Thanks to Tiller the Killer’s world-wide demonic stronghold). OSA Wichita framed the invitation to come in the Biblical, prophetic language that is contained in the Scriptures similar to Jeremiah 19. They equated abortion with the ancient pagan act of child-sacrifice. In fact, they clearly stated that abortion is child-sacrifice. As I studied the Scriptures in preparation of going, I came across the prophetic act God called Jeremiah to perform at the altars of Moloch and Baal located in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. Though I had read this passage many times and actually preached from it as well, for some reason I never "saw" the validity of following the Lord’s instructions as it relates to the altars of Baal and Moloch in our generation. Well, that was then and this is now! There is no question that the abortion industry is collapsing under the weight of its own sin. The death camps are shutting down on a regular basis. In 1991 there were more than two thousand free standing abortion mills operating their grisly trade throughout America. Today there are only about 738 remaining to defile and pollute our beloved land (See ldi.org for latest figures). Perhaps it is now the Lord’s time to give a strong prophetic push to declare abortion’s reign of terror in the United States is over. God willing, I’m preparing my family sometime next year to go on a "Smash the Pot Prophetic Tour." By God’s grace, we intend to visit each and every abortion mill in America, smash the pot, and declare the abortion industry shall be no more. It shall lie in ruins like every other tyrannical, murderous regime that has blighted the image of God since time memorial. If your state would like to host us for awhile and participate in this prophetic act and declaration, please contact us ASAP. Our next scheduled time to minister in this fashion is January 14th, 2006 back in Wichita, KS. May God watch over His word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12)! (Just a little side note, Planned Parenthood in New Haven CT was so upset about our coming to do this at the Summit abortion mill in Bridgeport, they actually called the police to warn of our coming. We were not taking this prophetic action and declaration against them, at least not yet, but they were still besides themselves. This gave me a little indication that the Lord was in this as the wicked fled though no pursued, Proverbs 28:1) 2006 BIBLE READING SCHEDULE Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee...Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path...The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." (Psalms 119:11,105,130) Thanks to the diligent efforts of Pastor Flip Benham and Operation Save America, we are able to send you the 2006 Bible Reading Schedule as our gift to you this Christmas season. This has become a December tradition. We can provide the hard copy, but you, however, must provide the discipline to read through the entire Bible in this new year. What better way to commemorate the birth of the Word made flesh than by honoring God’s word through the year. I would especially encourage the fathers of households to model this goal before your children and lead them in the Scriptures. It is a quality commitment that is without regret. The Lord richly bless each and everyone you! Merry Christmas! (To those of you who receive this via our website or e-mail, if you contact us, will send you one in the mail.) IN KING JESUS' SERVICE, Rusty and the Thomas Nation
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