Posted on 07/03/2003 8:47:23 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
FOREST, Ohio -- A guest evangelist was preaching at the First Baptist Church in a small Hardin County town Tuesday night, emphasizing penance and asking for a sign from God.
At that moment, the church's steeple was hit by lightning, setting the church on fire and blowing out the sound system.
"It was awesome, just awesome," said church member Ronnie Cheney, 40, of rural Forest.
"You could hear the storm building outside ... He (the evangelist) just kept asking God what else he needed to say," Cheney said. "He was asking for a sign and he got one."
Cheney said the lightning traveled through the microphone and enveloped the preacher, but he was not injured.
Afterward, services resumed for about 20 minutes, but then the congregation realized that the church was on fire and the building was evacuated.
The Forest Fire Department quickly doused the flames. Damage was estimated at $20,000.
Forest is about 60 miles south of Toledo.
Be careful what you wish for. It might come true.
Take a particularly close look at the following passage from this article and tell me with a straight face that the Lincoln crowd doesn't worship the guy. They throw out ba'al as a red herring for slavery (which, BTW, Lincoln was perfectly willing to tolerate and even enshrine into the constitution) but the real idol of the day was mammon. That idolatry of greed and power continues to this day in the worship of the state and the undeserved veneration of its secular idols like Lincoln. Here's the quote:
"Slavery was the Baal of those days, the idol before whom the apostates worshiped, and Lincoln preached the Declaration to convert them, and save the whole people. I mean to show you Father Abraham's words, as an act of proper homage to him, in mourning for the errors of the Court in our day, and as a model of the right use of Declaration Principles in overcoming injustice. Lincoln, and Liberty, prevailed in the 19th Century. If we remain faithful to the founding, we will prevail in our day."
Fire and brimstone is well and good, but I'll ignore him until he's got lightning.
Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign.Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign...(15 minutes later) Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign. (LIGHTNING Hits). It just awesome...what you can do if you get the Weather Channel, local weather on the 8's.
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