BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Authorities enter Eldorado-area temple (Fundamentalist LDS cult)

Go San Angelo ^ | 5 April 08 | Paul A. Anthony

[SkyPilot]

Local and state officials entered the temple of a secretive polygamist sect late Saturday, said lawmen blockading the road to the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado.

The action comes hours after local prosecutors said officials were preparing for the worst because a group of FLDS members were resisting efforts to search the structure.

The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and Schleicher County sheriff’s deputy confirmed that officials have entered the temple but said they had no word on whether anything occurred in the effort.

The incursion into the temple caps the three-day saga of the state’s Child Protective Services agency removing at least 183 women and children from the YFZ Ranch since Friday afternoon. Eighteen girls have been placed in state custody since a 16-year-old told authorities she was married to a 50-year-old man and had given birth to his child.

Saturday evening, ambulances were brought in, said Allison Palmer, who as first assistant 51st District attorney, would prosecute any felony crimes uncovered as part of the investigation inside the compound.

“In preparing for entry to the temple, law enforcement is preparing for the worst,” Palmer said Saturday evening. They want to have “medical personnel on hand in case this were to go in a way that no one wants.”

Apparently as a result of action Saturday night at the ranch, about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, a Schleicher County school bus unloaded another group of at least a dozen more women and children from the compound.

Although members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, have provided varying degrees of cooperation to the sheriff’s deputies and Texas Rangers searching the compound, all cooperation stopped once authorities tried to search the gleaming white temple that towers over the West Texas scrub, Palmer said.

“There may be those who would oppose (entry) by placing themselves between law enforcement and the place of worship,” Palmer said Saturday afternoon. “If an agreement cannot be reached … law enforcement will have to — as gently and peaceably as possible — make entry into that place.”

Sect members consider the temple, dedicated by then-leader of the sect Warren Jeffs in January 2005 and finished many months later, off-limits to those who are not FLDS members, said Palmer, who prosecutes felony cases in Schleicher County.

Palmer said she didn’t know the size or makeup of the group inside the temple.

The earlier refusal to provide access was even more disconcerting because CPS investigators have yet to identify the 16-year-old girl or her roughly 8-month-old baby among the dozens removed from the compound, Palmer said.

“Anytime someone says, ‘Don’t look here,’” she said, “it makes you concerned that’s exactly where you need to look.”

The girl told authorities in two separate phone calls a day apart that she was married to a 50-year-old man, Dale Barlow, who had fathered her child, Palmer said.

The joint raid included the Texas Rangers, CPS, Schleicher County and Tom Green County sheriff’s deputies and game wardens from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Although CPS and Department of Public Safety officials have described the compound’s residents as cooperative, Palmer disagreed.

“Things have been a little tense, a little volatile,” she said.

Authorities removed 52 children Friday afternoon and 131 women and children overnight Friday. About 40 of the children are boys, said CPS spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.

No further children have been taken into state custody since Friday, when 18 girls were judged to have been abused or be at imminent risk for abuse. CPS has found foster homes for the girls, Meisner said, and will place them after concluding its investigation.

Meisner declined to comment on the fate of the 119 other children and said authorities were still searching the ranch for others Saturday evening.

“They’re in the process of looking,” she said. “They’re literally about halfway through.”

[Elsie]

It looks like our tax dollars at work...

Hello!@

They did not write the law.

WHY do WE continue to SUBSIDIZE children borne out of wedlock?

It is DESTROYING our country!

[Elsie]

It is highly unlikely that the Baptist insignia on some of the buses will even be discussed...by any of the lawyers present...

They gots INSIGNIA??

[Elsie]

It is highly unlikely that the Baptist insignia on some of the buses ...

What??

No LDS insignia??

You'd think that THEY would be the one's wanting to help!

[Elsie]

We have that tool here?

Yup!!!

Click on ANY posters SCREENNAME, and their HOMEPAGE will appear.

At the upper left corner you'll see this bunch of words:

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~ About ~ Links ~ Contact ~ In Forum ~ Mail To ~

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Click the IN FORUM one and a list of THEIR appearance in ALL threads is displayed.

I use it to find myself when I've posted in a BUNCH of threads and forget exactly which one I've made a particular witty comment.

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Have fun!

[Elsie]

Showed Buses Too,,,City/School/Charter,,,but,,,No Baptist!

Well I just saw on the TODAY® show a video snippet that DID have, on the front top of the bus...

tist Church       

...on it.

[Elsie]

They are a cult, do you see any signs that they care how disgusted the rest of America is with them?.

Give 'em anouther hundred years!

They will have BIG temples worldwide and be clamoring to get THEIR guy President!

[Elsie]

Joseph was the ‘adopting’ father of Jesus.

I've heard about another father: the Father of lies.

He has a BUNCH of creatures working for him.

[Elsie]

Actually, to be ‘technically’ correct, the son that resulted from the adulterous relationship was killed by the Lord.

I hope your belief of this is not ruled out by a technicality!

[Elsie]

Who is like the Beast?

[bonfire]

Just heard an update on FOX. They still have not found the girl that made the complaint.

I fear for her.

[Elsie]

Here are the references as to his very real mortal line.

Biblical Warning Alert!

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1 Timothy 1:3-4
3. As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
4. nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith.

Titus 3:9-11
9. But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.
10. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him.
11. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.

[Tennessee Nana]

Goodf mornng boys

:)

[Elsie]

Giving life support in the womb is biological connection. Jesus IS God taking for Himself a body to dwell in spacetime with us. We do not have an answer as to what genetic source fashioned that body, but we have many hints which until this generation could not have been comprehended!

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Hebrews 7:1-3
1. This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
2. and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of righteousness"; then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace."
3. Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever.
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15. And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears ,
16. one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
17. For it is declared: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."

[nw_arizona_granny]

If Utah and Arizona authorities had been doing their jobs during the past 50 years, this cancer would not have been able to spread into Texas in the first place. <<<

You are correct.

I live in Mohave County Arizona, the same county as the Jeff’s cult , has been in for years.

I am not keeping up to date on the cult, I do know that they are not Mormons [LDS].

For many years the Mohave County Sheriff’s deputy in that town, was a member of the cult, with more than one wife.

As I recall a series of articles in the Kingman Daily Miner, it was decided that the deputies were only breaking a misdemeanor law.

People here and teachers have complained about them for years and nothing is done.

[Elsie]

When the literal sense makes sense, seek no other sense, lest it result in nonsense.

But what if what it PLAINLY says; goes against what you want to DO???

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TRUTH IGNORED

 

 

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Smith, Young, Taylor, Pratt, Snow, Kimbal,l Woodruff ...

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 1 Timothy 3:2-3
 2.  Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
 3.  not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

 

 

1 Timothy 3:12
   A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

 

 

 Titus 1:6
   An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

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BEHOLD!!!!  The Restorative Power  of the Book of Mormon!!

 

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THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

 

  24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
  25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
  26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
  27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
  28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
  29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
  30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
  31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
  32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

 

 

[Elsie]

What kind of a FRiend are you ???

Beware the incoming Mormon wedge!!

"Are you SURE the word of god means that?

"What has one of your 30,000 separate 'ministers' TOLD you that it means???"

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When would be a good time for a couple of our fresh-faced young missionaries to arrive at your home and explain the RESTORATION of the Gospel to you?

[bannie]

This story is occurring just to hog-tie Mitt.

[bonfire]

Good morning, Nana !

[Elsie]

I am glad you are amused I have had this wicked cold for a week now which hit just about every organ in the body...

What?

Didn't one of your LDS hierarchy come by your home and give you a healing???

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THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
History of the Church, Vol. 4, pp. 535—541

 

 

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
   
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
   
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
   
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
   
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
   
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
   
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
   
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
   
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
   
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
    
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
    
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
    
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Joseph Smith

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(Anyone well enough of matching wits with others; should NOT try to use any illness as a crutch.)

[Elsie]

I'm surprised that story hasn't been updated to include an angel slipping Him a bottle.

Two 'angels' slipped JS something!