Servant of Messiah Ministries

Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Feast of Trumpets is prophetic

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Notes to Download:  Feast of Trumpets - Rosh Hashanah

Leviticus  23:1,2  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

We have studied that Spring Feasts which have all been fulfilled on their very day. Now we look forward future events.  They are to yet be fulfilled, on their day too.

The first three feasts Yeshua fulfilled at His first appearance.  The Feast of Shavout (Pentecost) was fulfilled on its exact day with the coming of the Holy Spirit.  The book of Ruth is read by the Jewish sages and we identify with Ruth the Gentile brought home by Naomi  to work a harvest and prepare for the wedding to Boaz her kinsman Redeemer.

The summer passes and we now come to   the 7th month of the calendar.  Three feasts are yet to come.

Lev 23:23-24 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Quakes, Japan and Israel.

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March 11, 2010: Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission to construct in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of Jerusalem and the territories in the pre-1967 borders

January 11, 2011: Japan condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in E. Jerusalem to construct housing for Jewish people. Japan does not recognize any unilateral measures that prejudge the final resolution on pre-1967 borders, nor does Japan recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel.

February 8, 2011: Japan welcomes measures by Israel on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter. Japan will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter.

February 10, 2011: The Government of Japan is concerned about the Jerusalem municipal planning committee’s approval of a plan to build housing units for Jewish people in the Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem.

Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of the territories in the pre-1967 borders nor Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem and urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act.

February 28, 2011: Japan signs $32.5 million agreement for treating waste water in Jericho; Japan has given Palestinian Govt. more than $1.1 billion since their establishment. We count on the implementation of more initiatives and projects that our people were deprived of because of the Israeli measures ”

March 8, 2011: Japan Increases Food Support to Palestinian People to offset Israeli isolation.

March 11th, 2011 The Government of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission for the construction of 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem in addition to 112 units in West Bank.

March 11th, 2011 A powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday app ears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. The Japan earthquake was the fourth most powerful ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.0.

In fact, nine (9) of the ten “top ten natural disasters ranked by relief costs” found on FEMA’s webpage occurred at a time when the U.S. went against Israel.

Some of these judgments occurred within 24 hours of an American push against Israel. God warns us in His Word to not interfere in His covenant with the nation of Israel I find Nine (9) significant also as the number of Judgment:

There are 9 Greek words derived from the root word meaning judgment = dikay. The following words each occur 9 times in the Bible: abussos (bottomless pit); asebee (ungodly); aselgeia (lasciviousness); and astrapee (lightning).

Some thoughts: Zechariah 12:3,9: And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Obadiah 1:15 which says, “The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done (to Israel), it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.”

We are accountable

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Watching a very graphic documentary on world hunger.  Similar to watching the camps of Dachau and Belsen being liberated. Except these are not camps, they are feeding stations where the black skeletons crawl to. There they wait under the sun and wind, and they wait,  for the aid that may not arrive.

Makes one truly hate obesity, being overfed, overpaid and unconcerned, our priorities, all we do and all we stand for.

Jesus identified  Himself as being Bread and Water. God himself promised His followers only Bread and Water, not luxuries. Our prayers are to be for only daily bread and water. Those were Gods priorities and His bottom line…to all of us…to all who call on Him.  Give us this day our daily bread, no more, no less!

The trials at Nuremberg will again convene and we collectively are the accused…… and then we can all say we did NOT  know!!!

Given we like to process their grain into our ethanol at a loss which we tax payers subsidize – so we push the food price beyond their means.  Then  we can pour it into a gas tank,  while the oil we have lies under the soil, so not to disturb the polar bears…?

The extremists are right. We are the great satan!  The world is their recruiting station and our policies and values, are their clarion call.

  • Every year 15 million children die of hunger
  • Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children did die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could have been been prevented for the price of only ten (10) US Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
  • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving.  Since you’ve entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
  • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day. UNICEF
  • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
  • Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
  • Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide – a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
  • To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion– what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year
  • Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
  • It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

Nuremberg.  MR. JUSTICE JACKSON:  May it please Your Honors: The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility.

The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.

 

Rapture or Second Coming

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Notes to Download: Rapture or Tribulation

Today we are told that the Rapture will overtake us all and there is no preparing. Yet over and over Jesus tells us to watch and pray that we may be counted worthy to escape. One third of the bible is prophecy, most of it is still yet to happen. Why would God spell out the events that no saint will see or experience?

Why would Paul reassure the church that they are the children of light and so will not be caught unprepared. He actually says they know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will catch the unprepared by surprise. 1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.  1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord (not Rapture) so cometh as a thief in the night. 1Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
– Luke 21:36

God has assured us He will nothing but first reveal it to His prophets. So please review what Jesus said and compare it to what Paul said. It is my prayer that these events not be a mystery to you any longer.

POST TRIB  AND THE 2nd COMING OF YESHUA (Matt 24)

Matthew 24:29-31 says: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

IS THIS A PRETRIB  “RAPTURE??? “ (1 Thess 4 v 16)

1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 says: For the YHVH himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of YHVH, and the dead in Yeshua will rise first. [17] After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the YHVH in the air.  And so we will be with the YHVH forever.

Are these two verses speaking about the same event, or two different events?
Pre-Tribulation advocates claim that 1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 is the rapture, and that Matthew 24:29-31 is the “glorious appearing.”

Applying two separate terms to these verses makes you believe it’s two separate events.  But look at the similarities.  If it’s two separate events, then this event happens twice.  The word ‘rapture’ comes from the Latin, and means “caught up.” This word has always meant our being gathered into the clouds when Yeshua returns.  And the word was around long before Darby introduced the pre-tribulation rapture in 1830. As we can see, the rapture happens in both of these verses.  YHVH’s people are “caught up” into the clouds, by the angels, at the sound of YHVH’s trumpet.  Another passage that is commonly referred to as a “rapture passage” is 1 Corinthians 15:52. Although I would agree that this is describing the same event, the rapture is not specifically mentioned here. The reason we connect the two is because similar events are mentioned.

Both passages mention a trumpet and the resurrection of believers. Because of this, we conclude that these are both the same event. However, as I already mentioned, Matthew 24:27-31 has much more in common with the one clear rapture passage.

Notice the similarities:

Matt. 24:27-31 1 Thess. 4:15-17 1 Cor. 15:52
1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (27)2. Yeshua appears in heaven (30)3. Coming on the clouds (30)4. Angels present (31)5. Great sound of a trumpet (31)6. —7. Gathering of the elect (31) 1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (15)2. The YHVH descends from heaven (16)3. . . with them in the clouds (17)4. Archangel present (16)5. Shout and trumpet of YHVH (16)6. Dead in Yeshua will rise (16)7. We are caught up to meet him (17) 1. Called he parousia, “the coming” (23)2. —3. —4. —5. At the last trumpet (52)6. Dead will be raised (52)7. —

But pre-tribulation rapture advocates must believe these are separate events, because the verse in Matthew clearly states it happens after the tribulation.

Middle East – Global Focus.

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The protests in Egypt are ongoing but the Islamists have already toppled the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali. According to  security officials Islamists were largely instigating the protests in Tunisia under the cover of a popular uprising.

Clearly emboldened by the Tunisian and Egyptian protests,  banners were wielded by protesters in Yemen.

At risk is Jordan, Yemen, Syria and the Royal family of  Saudi Arabia. These governments are vulnerable when the underlying majority choose Islāmic principles regardless of what the current government structure is.

The riots in Egypt are but an extension of the Islāmic Revolution that swept Iran in 1979.  Then another US Democrat President encouraged those demonstrations too.

This is the Islāmic road map so far and the results.

  • Iranian revolution, 1978-1979: Mass protests by a wide coalition against dictatorship. Result? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now president. During the Shah’s reign, Iran marked the anniversary of 2,500 years of continuous monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great.
  • Beirut Spring: Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Druze unite against Syrian control. Moderate government gains power. Result? Hezbollah is now running Lebanon.
  • Palestinians have free elections: Voters protest against corrupt regime. Result? Hamas is now running the Gaza Strip.
  • Algeria holds free elections: Voters back moderate Islamist group. Result? Military coup; Islamists turn radical; tens of thousands of people killed.

The means to these same ends (democracy, military coup  or dictatorship) is immaterial.

What do Egyptians (future voters) really think? They are extremely radical even in comparison to Jordan or Lebanon.

They preferred “Islamists” over  “modernizers,” 59% to 27%. In addition, 20 percent said they liked al-Qaeda; 30 percent= Hezbollah; 49 percent= Hamas.

Egyptian Muslims said the following: 84 percent favor the death penalty for any Muslim who changes his religion.

In a democracy  these views determine how people vote.  These are reasons that Egypt will not turn into a moderate, stable, and democratic state:

1) There are few forces favoring this outcome; 2)  the rebellion has no organization; 3) Egypt lacks the resources to raise living standards and distribute wealth;4)  extremist ideologies are deeply held and widely spread.

A possible outcome: The élite will lose its nerve and fragments, in part demoralized by a lack of Western — especially U.S. — support. The Muslim Brotherhood throws its full weight behind the rebellion.  Soldiers refuse to fire at or join the opposition.

A radical regime will emerge, with the Muslim Brotherhood as either ruler or power behind the throne.  Then the fundamental transformation will be complete and the next domino will fall. The army will be the wildcard.

Israel will lose all its Middle East Allies and America will have armed them, in the interest of “equality.”

Undoing of the Reformation

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Thousands of Anglicans are expected to defect to the Roman Catholic Church in time for Lent 2011. This started with the Campaign of Father Kieth Newton to leave the church in protest to its stance on the ordination of women and gay clergy.

Father Newton has encouraged the return of Anglicans to the Ordinariate – a special branch of Catholicism established by the Pope – to welcome protestant defectors.   These protestant defectors are traditionalists who oppose the ordination of women and gays into the clergy.

The efforts of the Archbishop of Canterbury has not been successful in preventing the split and defection of married Anglican bishops and their ordination back into the Roman Catholic Church. In any divorce first, comes the separation and incompatibility. Then comes the division of assets.

The Church facilities such as St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wales – a nineteenth-century red-brick church where the poet Siegfried Sassoon was baptized,  is an example of this split.  The Diocese of Rochester has forbidden the protesting priest, Father Ed Tomlinson, to conduct services there when he and his parishioners leave the Church of England. Their meeting place may be undecided but their Spiritual home will be Rome.

They are not alone:

On 3 March 2010, in Orlando, Florida, the eight members of the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted unanimously to become part of the Catholic Church along with 3,000 fellow communicants in 120 parishes in four dioceses across the country.

On 12 March 2010, the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada formally requested the erection of an ordinariate in Canada.

The Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (a province of the Traditional Anglican Communion) and Forward in Faith Australia, mostly members of the Anglican Church of Australia, jointly applied for an ordinariate in Australia.

The Church of Torres Strait, another province of the Traditional Anglican Communion in Australia, covering parts of Northern Queensland and the Torres Strait, has also applied for a separate ordinariate.

The Traditional Anglican Church (the TAC Province for England, Scotland and Wales) has also applied for an ordinariate.

The Ordinariate talks of recruiting members in waves with the first beginning training at Lent and they hope many more will follow. A little acorn it may be at the moment, it could grow into a mighty  Oak.

The Question one day may be “Did this begin the undoing of the Reformation?”

Is this kind of polarization not inevitable as the world races to its destiny?  For four hundred years the Reformation has veered from orthodoxy today’s lawlessness.

If times of crisis inspire the desire for stability, in a religious context Rome has all the right credentials: Rome never changes.  Throughout her councils (eg Trent to Lyons, Vienna, Constance, Constantinople, Nicaea) this motto has stood firm.

Will protesting erstwhile “reformers”  now return?

“Ask not” was Kennedy’s call to Revolution.

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Fifty years ago today John F.  Kennedy spoke for 16 minutes and with 1355 words inspired thousands to enter politics, government or the Peace Corps.

He said that America continued to fight for “the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the Hand of God.”

The speech has become etched in American lore, particularly among the 60 million people who watched it on television. They saw a youthful and apparently vigorous president grasp power from the elderly Dwight Eisenhower, summoning a new generation “to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle.”  It called on all to “pay any price; bear any burden” to guarantee the survival of liberty.

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

“Here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own,”  he concluded.

Did John F. Kennedy’s  noble wishes die with him?  Fifty years later we the People of the United States, in Order to form a perfect Union, we the people…..Yes we the people, have frustrated  Kennedy,  failed ourselves and forgotten our God.

Kennedy wished that “Here on earth, Gods work must truly be our own!” Kennedy had no idea that “Gods work” was dedicated to the sure destruction of this democracy.

God already declared that the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed, saying, Let us break His bands. He that sits in the heavens will laugh: the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He will speak to them in His displeasure. I will set my King in Jerusalem. I have decreed: Thou art my Son and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, even to the far reaches of North America,  for your possession.” (Psalm 2 vs 1 -8)

That King has asked us to die for His cause.  Ours is not the quick death of the bomber,  to the cry of Allahu Akbar. Ours is the slow daily torturous death of sacrificing our will, our desires and very life.  Let us answer His call to martyrdom.

That soldier Paul of Tarsus said,  I sometimes think God has put us on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die in the arena.  We have become a spectacle to the entire world — to people and angels alike. (I Cor 4 v 9)

So let us answer Kennedy’s call, in making “Gods work our own.” Embrace Gods vision of liberating this planet. Make a friend of self-denial. Be willing to die for His greater cause. You prove to everyone,  that there is no-one more fearless, than those with nothing to lose.

Anglicans ordained as Roman Catholics

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Since the Protestant Reformation, when the Church of England broke away from Rome, it has been a sometimes uneasy coalition between its Catholic and Protestant members.

It’s the huge achievement of the Church that it has kept these two wings together through numerous crises – that over homosexuality being only one of the most recent.

But traditionalists on the Catholic wing have become increasingly disenchanted by “progressive” trends, not so much with respect to liberal moves on homosexuality, but about the ordination of women as priests, and, in the next few years, as bishops.

Many traditionalist “Anglo-Catholics” have threatened to leave the Church and convert to Catholicism, and leaders of their cause say having a home already prepared for them by the Catholics, will greatly increase the exodus.

On Jan 15th, 2011 three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests Saturday, becoming the first ex-bishops to take advantage of a new Vatican system designed to make it easier for Anglicans to embrace Roman Catholicism.

The crowded ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in London made priests of former bishops.  “Today is a unique occasion marking a new step in the life and history of the Catholic Church’ said Rev. Vincent Nichols, the Catholic leader in England and Wales.

The groundbreaking ceremony was made possible by a 2009 ruling by the Vatican allowing Anglicans worldwide to join the Roman Catholic Church and still adhere to many Anglican traditions.  The new system was designed to entice traditionalist Anglicans opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy, the blessing of same-sex unions and other controversial policies that have caused a deep schism within the Anglican church.

What made the two-hour service in Westminster Cathedral genuinely historic, however, was that these three men were not simply joining the ranks of Britain’s six million Catholics, or even being granted a special dispensation from Rome’s usual rules to allow them to become married Catholic priests. That happened in small numbers since 1992.

As the Protestant Denominations become more liberal and biblical directives are cast aside for popular idea’s, the Catholic unchanging doctrines offer comfort.

Referring to Saturday’s ceremony, he said: “The truth is the Church of England has decided to take its cue from the society it lives in, instead of its cue from Christ and carries the gospel that he preached to them – as we would see it.

The ceremony was attended by hundreds of priests from England’s Westminster diocese as well as three former Anglican nuns who have officially received into the Catholic Church two weeks ago.

Look for a polarization in the Christian denominations as the Catholic Church welcomes back those “protesting Catholics,” that left during the reformation.

Thou anointest our beaches with oil

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We have gone from begging God for a Detroit bailout to now wanting the Gulfs Oil Tap of “blessing” turned off.

RESOLUTION
To recognise and declare Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana and for the population and region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, in particular, those people affected by the environmental and economic disasters that erupted in the aftermath of BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
WHEREAS, in times of great distress and need, we, the people of this land, have always turned to private, public, and corporate prayer; and
WHEREAS, a Statewide Day of Prayer provides each of us with a powerful
opportunity to humble ourselves before our Almighty God; and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Louisiana are urged to pray for a solution to this crisis, each according to his or her own faith, to pray for God’s continued guidance and protection, and to join in the observance of a day of prayer, seeking God’s blessings upon both our state and nation; and
WHEREAS, untold millions of people, not only in regions surrounding the Gulf of Mexico but throughout the world, will be affected by this event; a crisis that remains unaffected by the efforts of mortal man; and
WHEREAS, we now turn our attention and our prayers to the present circumstances and humble ourselves before Almighty God.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby appoint Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana and for the population and region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate of Legislature of Louisiana does
hereby urge the citizenry of the state and all people of faith throughout the United States and the world to give personal thanks, each according to his faith, for the blessings we have received, for God’s continued guidance during these trying times, and for God’s grace to bring an end to the devastation.

  • To whom are we praying? The God of Creation, the Holy One of Israel, was driven from our schools long ago, and prayer was made illegal in good times. Why should He hear in bad times?
  • This is no Act of God. We did this.  We are responsible. Our own greed cut the corners of safety and ignored the alarms of caution. We are only reaping what we sowed.
  • This is the anointing,  our prosperity theology has brought upon us. We have anointed ourselves with oil.

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

And if our Father allowed the drowning of  His innocent and obedient birds in oil, where will the wicked and the rebellious stand?

Presidents and Prophets

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President Obama ascended the mountain to Rev. Billy Graham’s  log cabin Sunday afternoon en-route to a memorial service for miners. There was a time a man of God descended from the mountain with a word of the Lord.

So Obama came to a mountain to be prayed for. There will come a time when all the kings of the earth will come to another mountain,  not for prayer, or a photo op,  but to pay homage to the King.

The president had never met Graham in person, Burton told reporters, and is now the 12th White House occupant to have done so in the last 7 decades.  For all those meetings and God speaking to the leaders,  our country still free falls into Hell. And while 7 signifies completeness,  12 is the number of government.

“Rev. Graham has obviously been an important spiritual leader to past presidents,” White House spokesman Burton told reporters, “He’s a real treasure to our country, and the president appreciates the opportunity to visit him at his home.”  There was a time “men of God” were greeted with Ki 18:17  ”when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that trouble Israel?’

All presidents need prayer. But what they all wanted most was the picture. Barack Obama’s visit to Billy Graham’s — was several years in the making.  Both the preacher and the presidents had their reasons — sometimes spiritual, sometimes political, usually both — for getting together. Hopefully, they got what they came for. There was a time kings dreaded and feared the Men of God,  and no man of God ever got together for a Photo Op.

Franklin Graham got uninvited to a National Day Prayer event because he called a false religion Evil, but there was the time when Eisenhower mused about recruiting Graham as a speechwriter, to help in the fight against “Godless communism.”

Now Prophets and the Kings mutually serve each other. From a skinny dip in the white house pool, while Johnson was in office, to pictures of a praying president on evangelical campaign literature, golfing with Kennedy, worship services for Nixon, marriage counseling for a post Lewinsky-Clinton,  Billy Graham was a part of White House life.  Were Gods purpose, His message,  and His agenda really served?

We now have the leadership we deserve in the Church and in our Country  – because the Church of the Living God has forgotten that Presidents serve at the pleasure of the Holy One of Israel,  and we are all accountable to Him.

It is our duty to remind them.