Posted on 05/09/2021 1:20:39 PM PDT by lightman
Well, they did it. A "[h]eavily-armed SWAT police" team arrested and dragged off a Christian pastor in the middle of a highway after he had held his church service because he was "inciting" people to go to church. As you can see from video evidence of the arrest, Artur Pawlowski is made to kneel on the road, with his hands behind his head, as he's been handcuffed. It appears to have been raining.
I had written just over a week ago how a judge had granted a warrant for police to arrest Pastor Artur Pawlowski using "anything necessary," but still, watching a pastor getting arrested and dragged away on a Saturday on a busy highway, along with his brother, Dawid, isn't something we should get used to, especially when it happens in a first world country, by authorities from our neighbor to the north. No wonder it received coverage from Not the Bee.
Rebel News, which has been following Pastor Pawlowski's legal plight, reported on the update, complete with video evidence. The breaking news article aptly noted that "Arresting Christians for holding church services is what police states do, not liberal democracies. This has to stop." They are also promoting a legal defense fund for the pastor.
Newsome, Baker, Islee, Whitmer, Pritzker, Cuomo and Murphy are turing green with envy.
My goodness, and he wasn’t wearing his mask either!
The Resurrection is Against the Law
An excerpt from Bill Wylie-Kellermanns classic Seasons of Faith and Conscience (1991).
The sealing of the tomb is, I believe, notoriously misunderstood. I grew up with a Sunday School notion that to seal the tomb was a matter of hefting the big stone and cementing it tight. The seal, in my minds eye, was something like first-century caulkingputtying up the cracks to keep the stink in. Not so. This is a legal seal. Cords would be strung across the rock and anchored at each end with clay. To move the stone would break the seal and indicate tampering.
The event conspicuously echoes the story of Daniel sealed in the den of lions. And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel (Daniel 6:18). As there, this is a legal lock on the tomb doornot air tight, but politically tight. To move the stone and break the seal is a civil crime. The resurrection is against the law.
The seal is also a recurring theme in the book of Revelation. Remember the scroll of history sealed with seven seals? Only One is worthy to break them and look upon or unveil the truth: that One is the Lamb who was slain. The seal is a claim of ownership and authority. Its meaning in Revelation is at least that God in Christ reigns sovereign over all history and in all events.
Caesar, in Pilate, on the other hand, violently disputes the claim. He has set his seal of approval on Jesus death, and now he guarantees it with troops. Secured by security forces. When the seal is broken in the resurrection, it stands among the signs that the power of the powers (death in all its forms) has been broken. The dominion of political authorityespecially inflated, aggressiveand imperial authority has been cut to the heart.
B.C. has established zones that residents can only leave for designated essential reasons. The RCMP’s will be setting up roadblocks to monitor travel and be sure the restrictions are being obeyed.
Did they get their ideas from China?
And the Nazis DRAGGED Pastor Art.
They wouldn’t let him walk to the police car.
The evil bastards tried to dehumanize him by DRAGGING him.
But BLM can gather and riot without consequence ...
The Canucks are clear out of their ever-loving minds now, aren’t they? Safety socialists and compassion fascists are full of fierce brutality behind the thin facade.
Another reason to abolish all police departments.
Nazi thugs.
Was the pastor blocking traffic?
Same thing coming to the US and to a community near you. Communist hate competing with God.
If the police were given the order here, I suspect that many would follow them without question.
“””Another reason to abolish all police departments.”””
More specifically this is the reason to abolish all leftist government departments/politicians and leftist judges who give the orders to the police to arrest a person.
The police did not arrest the pastor under their own volition.
Idiocracy, tyranny, wokeism or liberal socialism. It’s all the same dung - different color but the same stench.
#DefundLeftistJudges
The worst thing of all is that he is not wearing the training burqa.
Have they closed the mosques and drug off the imam or whatever?...didn’t think so...
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