The Sign Gathering

The Sign Gathering

Will Ford reports:

On August 16 -18, 2010, African American pastors and leaders are inviting everyone to fast and pray for America, with a targeted focus on the African American community. August 16th and 17th will be teaching and panel discussions, and on August 18th, we are crying out to God in an all day solemn assembly at Trinity Chapel, 4665 Macland Rd., Powder Springs, GA 30127 (just outside Atlanta, Georgia). We have chosen August 18th, (8-18), believing that it coincides with Isaiah 8:18, which says, “Behold, I and the children the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel…” Another translation says, “signs and symbols.” We are calling this event “The Sign Gathering,” because we believe that the Black community in America has been used of God as a sign of the spiritual and moral condition of this great nation. We believe that our current plight is a sign to America that is off course, and we need to fast and pray for a spiritual awakening. God began to confirm this for me in a most uncanny way.About two Wednesdays ago, I had fasting pangs while at the bank, though I’d been eating all day. I said “God if you want me to fast, speak to me,” thinking he’d confirm it in a few days. However, it was confirmed minutes later. As I was leaving the bank, I met the last customer who rushed in before it closed, and his name was Anthony Fast!

Perplexed, I told him about my prayer moments earlier, and he said he had a friend that fasted every Wednesday, the same day we were meeting, and also the day of the week of our solemn assembly, Wednesday, August 18th. Still trying to poke holes into the whole experience, I looked up the meaning of Anthony and went to the first website that came up on Google’s search list. It was a secular website which said that Anthony was the name of an Egyptian Christian, a saint who lived in the desert, who was known for prayer, fasting and his power over demons! He is one of the first desert fathers and walked in signs, wonders and the miraculous. It went on to say that Anthony means, flower, flourish and priceless. Anthony also means, “highly praiseworthy.” Could God be giving others and me an invitation to a priceless time of fasting to see new things flower or be birthed, as he causes his desire to flourish? Needless to say, I started the fast, focused on being thankful and being praiseworthy.

On the 10th day of my fast, I told the Is 8:18 team about the “Anthony” fast that I’m on, and Dehaviland Brown, who is heading up this event, was blown away. I was awestruck as well when she told us why. Dehaviland said, “I’ve told no one, but I’ve been in the middle of a 21 day Daniel Fast for our event, and had an uncanny God coincidence while I was in a church in Michigan. I was drawn to approach and pray for a little baby boy and his grandmother. The grandmother explained issues regarding the child’s upbringing, and that an evangelist had prophesied he would grow up to do great things for the Lord. She then told me that the little boy’s name was Will Ford III, not knowing that Will Ford III is also the name of one of the leaders for our Isaiah 8:18 gathering! When asked, they said they never had heard of him before!”
Dehaviland had no idea I was in the middle of a 21 day fast at the same time, neither did she know that God would affirm her fast for our Isaiah 8:18 gathering by meeting, at random, an African American baby boy who shared my name. What are the chances of that?! I feel that God is shouting to us, that this solemn assembly is His doing, and “I and the children the Lord has given me, are for signs and symbols” to America! This is not about us, but what God wants to do in America.

African Americans have been influential in music, fashion, arts and entertainment and pop culture, and have been used as a major catalyst in America. More importantly, God has used the Black community to be a barometer and sign of the spiritual health and moral climate in this nation. As we have cried out against injustices such as slavery and segregation, God has used us to subpoena the consciousness of America. Its been said that when Black America gets a cold, this nation gets the flu.
Consider the Civil War.

If you combine all the casualties of war from the Korean War, the Vietnam War, World War I and World War II, the combined casualty count amounts to 619,107. But in one war, the Civil War, 623,026 people died, more than all the casualties of these four wars combined. That number is especially intriguing when you consider that no fighter jets with bombs or any nuclear warheads were used in the Civil War, of course, they hadn’t been invented yet. Nevertheless, how could bayonet’s, muskets and cannons, wipe out 623,026 people? It’s because the Civil War was God’s divine judgment against America, for the injustice of slavery. Abraham Lincoln said it best when he said,

“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

In other words, Lincoln knew that the blood of the sword in the Civil War was repaying the blood of the lash from slavery. He knew it was divine judgment for the suffering of Blacks during slavery.
We feel it is a critical time to cry out for Black America and our nation again. If Lincoln is right, and the Civil War was divine judgment for the atrocity of slavery, how much more should we be concerned when 50 million babies have been aborted in this nation, especially when its been well documented that abortion began as a targeted attempt to eliminate the African American population?! Even now, according to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, in 2005 for African Americans, though there were 587,000 live births, there were also 452,000 induced abortions! That ratio is 77%. In other words, for every 100 Black children born, 77 were aborted! (http://www.protectingblacklife.org/abortion_stats/pdf/cdc_nvsr58_10-14-09.pdf)

That being said, we also know that much of our current plight in America today is much of our own undoing. Consider these alarming statistics:

Nearly 50% of Black teenagers have genital herpes

For African American women, the leading cause of death for those between ages 25 to 44 isn’t heart disease or cancer, its AIDS

40% of Black men drop out of high school. Of those, 72% are jobless, resulting in the likelihood of them being incarcerated jumping to 60%

Black America is in a socioeconomic and spiritual crisis, and our plight is a sign to America that is off course, and we need to fast and pray for a spiritual awakening! Our solemn assembly on August 18, 2010 is not a festival; it’s a fast! This generation must repent for how we’ve spurned the sacrifice of our forefathers who risked their lives for our freedoms. The Black church, once used to be the spiritual backbone for this nation, but now has gotten off track itself, and many preachers have comprised their sacred callings. As a result, many of our people have turned their backs on the God who delivered us from slavery, and have bowed down to the false god of Islam and other false religions. We need to cry out to God for a spiritual awakening, and for the next generation. We had one other confirmation about this prayer gathering that gives us hope.

Recently, Dehaviland met a 14-year-old girl, who is on fire for God. She told Dehaviland that she must attend this gathering. She said, “My mother was gonna abort me, but my grandmother was told by God of my mothers secret plans. She grabbed a phone book, and God showed her exactly which abortion clinic my mother was going to. She called and made the worker put my mother on the phone. Frightened, and yet assured that God had a plan for my life, she left the clinic.” She then told Dehaviland, “My birthday is on 8-18!” This young lady once preached the gospel at her school by standing on the lunchroom tables in the cafeteria. She got in trouble, but many people got saved! For such a time as this, God is using this young lady’s birthday and life as an Isaiah 8:18 witness to say, “I and the children the Lord has given me, are for signs and wonders” to America!

We are calling America to a 21-day fast, to pray for a spiritual awakening in the Black community and America. The fasts starts July 27th, 2010, and ends August 16th, the first day of The Sign gathering in Atlanta, GA. On Wednesday, August 18th, we will fast and pray together at Trinity Chapel in the solemn assembly. If you can, we are asking everyone who can make it to attend these three days, and especially the solemn assembly on August 18th. This is a critical hour for the Black community and our nation. Won’t you please join us?

Will Ford III

Deadly Consequences

Silent Churches

PIMPS FOR JESUS OR MEN OF GOD?

By Roger Fredinburg

NewsWithViews.com reports:

California’s Proposition 8 passed overwhelmingly by California voters has recently been negated by a single San Francisco Federal Judge with suspect motives, some even speculate the Judge is gay and therefore unfit to hear the case.

United States District Court Judge Vaughan Walker, who heard the challenge to the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, has come under attack from several sources, but the Christian churches are not rising up, in fact, they are “deadly” silent. Yet, people still attend Sunday service and give them tidings believing that God lives there. (That’s why you’re losing America and because you’re repeatedly voting for scoundrals).

Notre Dame Law School Professor Gerard Bradley criticized United States District Court Judge Vaughan Walker, who heard the challenge to the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, on the grounds that the judge was unfit to hear the case if the reports that he is gay are correct.

Christian Churches are basically hiding out, quietly waiting for some sign, apparently allowing the issue to run its course completely unchallenged in the public arena.

It probably won’t occur to them how dangerous this issue is until their Government subsidized churches are forced to perform gay marriages or surrender their State and Federal tax subsides under 501( C3). (Those are the contracts churches have with the IRS).

Many voters are steamed that a Judge, a lone appointed government goon, can single handedly overturn the will of the people.

Proposition 8 (or the California Marriage Protection Act) provides that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

By restricting the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples, the proposition overturned the California Supreme Court’s ruling of In re Marriage Cases that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 went into effect immediate the day after the election.

The proposition did not affect domestic partnerships in California or same-sex marriages performed before November 5, 2008.

Proponents of the constitutional amendment argued that exclusively heterosexual marriage was “an essential institution of society,” that leaving the constitution unchanged would “result in public schools teaching our kids that gay marriage is okay,” and that “gays … do not have the right to redefine marriage for everyone else.

Opponents argued that “the freedom to marry is fundamental to our society,” that the California constitution “should guarantee the same freedom and rights to everyone” and that the proposition “mandates one set of rules for gay and lesbian couples and another set for everyone else.” They also argued that “equality under the law is a fundamental constitutional guarantee.”

The campaigns for and against Proposition 8 raised $39.9 million and $43.3 million, the highest-funded campaign on any state ballot… Same-sex couples and government entities filed numerous lawsuits with the California Supreme Court challenging the proposition’s validity and effect on previously administered same-sex marriages.

In the Strauss v. Horton case, the court upheld Proposition 8, but allowed existing same-sex marriages to stand (under the Grandfather clause principle).

United States district court Judge Vaughn R. Walker overturned Proposition 8 on August 4, 2010 in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

Judge Walker issued an injunction against enforcing Proposition 8 and a stay to determine suspension of his ruling pending appeal.

Religious organizations

All six Episcopal diocesan bishops in California jointly issued a statement opposing Proposition 8 on September 10, 2008.

Southern California’s largest collection of rabbis, the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, voted to oppose Proposition 8.

Other Jewish groups opposed Proposition 8 including… Jewish Mosaic, the American Jewish Committee, Progressive Jewish Alliance, National Council of Jewish Women, and the Anti-Defamation League.

Los Angeles Jews were more opposed to Prop 8 than any other religious group or ethnic group in the city. Jewish Angelinos voted 78% against the measure while only 8% supported the measure; the remainder declined to respond.

The legislative ministry of the Unitarian Universalists opposed Proposition 8, and organized phone banks toward defeating the measure.

In addition, the California Council of Churches issued a statement urging the “immediate removal of Proposition 8″ – saying that it infringes on the freedom of religion for churches who wish to bless same-sex unions.

In The Aftermath

There seems to be a disconnection between what the Holy Bible teaches and what the churches themselves actually accept.

KJV Bible:

Romans 1:26-27: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”

This passage is unique in that it is the only place in the Bible that refers to same-gender sexual behavior by women. New Testament text unequivocally prohibits homosexual behavior.

Some minor efforts are evident in what are essentially meaningless skirmishes in the ongoing saga in California over Proposition 8…

What is clear is that no real battle for righteousness will erupt with Christian pastors and churches in the lead.

It’s not clear if they are just not interested, not convicted to the cause of preserving the sanctity of marriage or if they are simply victims of our new politically correct American lifestyle.

Oregon is Next

(Overturning Oregon’s Measure 36 which is similar to Prop 8 is their goal)

In Oregon the Anal sex lobby and appears to be a part of “basic Rights Education Fund” which like the silent and voiceless churches is a not for profit education entity, a tax exempt group.

Oregon residents are finding in their mailboxes 81/2 x 11 inch full color flyers on heavy card stock that purports to answer the question as to why Gays and Lesbians want to get married, and why voters should support them.

To dialogue with them; Contact, Phone 503-222-6151/Fax: 503-236-6686. Mailing Address: PO Box 40625 Portland, OR 97240

Additionally, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on Television ads where seemingly normal heterosexual families explain how similar gay relationships are to theirs.

Again, the churches are nowhere to be found. They are absent from the debate, hiding like scared rabbits, just as silent as they can be.

I personally think that any Christian Church that isn’t out front and denouncing this with all their might, might as well bulldoze the church building and put up a Brothel in its place.

Most church leaders and pastors are simple prostitutes, pimping for a Jesus who is unrecognizable from the savior of the Holy Bibles New testament.

Christians are called to occupy, hold their ground, cast out demons etc.

If you are terrified to come out from under your pews and face the demons to cast them out, then what is your calling, your purpose, your mission?

The collateral damage from promiscuous homosexual perversion is the deaths of thousands of innocent victims of automobile accidents and violent crimes who are denied first aid by police officers at the scene because of their fear of HIV (*Aids).

Thousands of victims die at the scene of car wrecks, shootings, stabbings beatings and other accidents or events that cause body fluids to leak out.

Police used to show up at the scene and immediately start life saving first aid, well, up until the late 1980’s.

Once the threat of HIV (*Aids) became a reality, victims at accident and crime scenes are now required to wait for trained medical personnel.

This fear of infection is costing thousands of lives a year for no other reason than politically correct cowards refuse to suggest to the Gays and I.V. druggies that their immoral lifestyles are murdering innocent people just to appease their abhorrent behaviors.

Not only should the law protect us from these morally debased perverts, but the churches should be rising up to defend their flocks. Fathers and Mothers should rise up and defend their children and grandchildren from this deadly plague of stupidity referred to as “tolerance” or political correctness.

Of course they will look you right in the eye and argue that HIV isn’t a Gay disease… But if you Google “Centers for Disease Control + HIV stats”

You can read the facts for yourself.

Now I am mostly a “live and let live” American. I don’t try to force my Christian beliefs on anyone.

I was raised that in a free society if what people do doesn’t harm innocent others, then so be it.

And, if the HIV thing only hurt the folks who dabble in the perversions of sexuality; I would basically determine to ignore the activity and keep my distance.

But, the collateral damage of this deviant sexual revolution is killing innocents, ruining the concept of family which is the cornerstone of our civilization, and making a mockery of the most cherished tradition of marriage being between a man and a woman.

Next will be the pedophiles, polygamists, and the incest crowd followed by the bestiality folks, all clamoring for their “equal rights.”

And I predict, if these churches don’t stand up and cast out these demons and occupy as the Bible requires… They will get caught up all right, like the folks in Sodom and Gomorra; they will get caught up in the flames of destruction, not in the clouds of rapture.

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