Posted on 11/17/2008 7:01:17 AM PST by erkyl
I received this first-hand description of events that happened in San Francisco this past Friday night from a member of a Christian prayer group Justice House of Prayer-San Francisco. Please note there are some graphic descriptions in the email, but you can read most of it and skip the graphic portion if you wish.
A link to the news report is included, which includes video footage. The 'tolerance' of the left and the homosexual agenda is clearly evident in their violent and reprehensible actions against this peaceful group.
I know these people are doing what Christ has told us to do, I can’t, at this point in my life, take physical intimidation, especially from this crowd. God bless you/them for eternity.
All well and good, but we were discussing this lady's poor understanding of the Christian concept of forgiveness.
The miscreant who assaulted her never asked for it, didn't repent of his evil ways, and shows every indication that the behavior will continue.
Therefore 'forgiving' the perpetrator is a serious Doctrinal error on her part.
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Your comments appear to be fixated upon and obsessed with one particular aspect of Christianity to the exclusion of all others. Not that they are wrong, necessarily, but incomplete and and tilted like if you look through a colored lens instead of a clear one. Jesus spoke and acted differently in different situations. He wasn’t “Jesus the Compassionate” or any particular outward demeanor in all situations.
Bookmark.
Ping... the original post is kinda graphic, so heed the warning. More evidence we are in the end times.
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry [a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, [b] please! 19 Your [c] servant has found favor in your [d] eyes, and you [e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. [f] )
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
The whistles were truly satanic. Maybe that's what hell sounds like. Because those guys are in it now.
Amen!!
Thanks. Will check it out.
“The proper Christian response to this mob is a good ass-kicking.”
Man I bet those policeman were grinding thier teeth. I would have swung that nightstick a couple hundred times...no way I hold back on them flamers acting all rough and sassy...
Excessive severity is cruelty. Excessive mercy is weakness. We are called to walk a balanced path using discernment.
There are many people who have given themselves over to Satan so completely they will never be retrieved, EVER.
I disagree with your group’s visits to the Castro. It is extremely dangerous and little if any good will come of it. However, since you are adults that is your choice to put yourselves in danger. No minor children should be there EVER. That is child abuse.
SF is gone. The last time I was there the evil was so palpable in the air I could not wait to leave (and I like The City). It’s sad, but at some point you have to shake the dust from your sandals and leave. Only God can purge that place now and you don’t want to be around when it happens. The best you can do is save yourselves.
I love the Word.
This could be scary. A crazieman and a madman agree!
Throw some sack cloth and ashes on and I’ll meet you outside the gate, my friend!
San Francisco is a sanctuary city as I recall. Perhaps Pres. Elect Obama will take the Guantanamo Bay combatants and release them in the Castro district.
Well, it is a thought.
Just as a clarification...again, this didn’t happen to me. I posted an email I got from someone else. I wish I had this kind of commitment to a cause. Sadly, I’ve been a spectator and commentator for much of my adult Christian life. This election has increased my desire to be more pro-active. Perhaps soon many of us will no longer have a choice to sit idly by and watch as others fight the real battles in the street. I pray God will grant me courage.
There are many ways to contribute and God has a purpose for each of us. Perhaps something as easy as donating money or time to a worthy Christian cause:
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Praying for missy.
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As I recall some of Christ's last words from the cross were, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
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