I would like to start by saying that the Government should NEVER exercise its authority, employ its resources nor push its political agenda against ANY AND ALL opposition, in a vindictive way!
When aside from its legal and only common sense legal prospects, the Government is looking at collateral ways to intimidate, coerce and ultimately impose its will upon people and institutions, especially churches, you know you have met tyranny and persecution!
It is exactly what the state and local governments in California are doing right now against churches such as Grace (Pastor MacArthur), where the County officials retracted in a 45 years old arrangement for the church to use certain parking facilities!
As it happened in our case, the Mayor of Chicago sent the police to illegally block our access to a privately owned parking area under contract between Elim Church and a bank for the last 18 years!
Welcome to the all powerful, vindictive government!
Not having a legal path to intervene and harass our church, they again sent the police with citations for… disorderly conduct!
Threatening to shut down utilities, fine churches and parishioners, even arresting people and labeling us as nuisances with the maximum punishment of summary abatement (destroying our facilities)… ladies and gentlemen, what else is left there, guillotines and firing squads?
You might think it’s local and rare, some might even think we deserve it.
For all pastors and churches in America, I say you either come on board, reopen your churches and fight along us or… your turn will come!
If you think playing nice will spare you, you’re wrong!
Remember the harlot in the Book of Revelation! For as long as Antichrist and the Kings could use her she was in the game! But in the end, after she no longer served their purposes, they destroyed her!
Stop being treasonous and spiritually promiscuous!
Come on board, stand and fight!
I hope that the pastors that you brother Cristi called upon to stand up and be a light will hear you, but, i don’t have much hope! They will play the good guys, obedience and actually will quote Romans 13 (i’m pretty sure that most of them memorize that by now)! May the Lord give them wisdom to read the signs of our times! We are praying for you brother and Elim Church!