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This has been an incredible week. It's been a very emotional week for us as well. We realize the events in St. Louis may not have a lot of connection for you personally, but we would like to share some things to help you see some prophetic connections.
Over a week ago, a young man was shot and killed by a police officer after he had some type of altercation with that officer. As he ran, he was shot at from behind and eye witnesses say he stopped, turned around and put his hands up to surrender. Instead arresting him and putting him in handcuffs, he was shot 5 more times. Then his body was left in the street for about four hours.
I was born and raised in St. Louis. Carol and I lived in that apartment complex where this all took place. We are extremely familiar with that area. Several of our friends and spiritual children live in that community. My parents and other family members live only 10 to 15 minutes away. This is very, very personal for us. We admit that we have been a little traumatized by it.
As the community responded with protest by marching down a main street in that area, the police came out in military and full riot gear. They were armed with rubber bullets, tear gas and attack dogs. They came for a showdown and a conflict. However, the protesters stopped and the two sides met in front of the gas station/ convenience store known as Quik Trip. The crowd consisted of parents, children, teenagers, young adults and grandparents.
As the police brought the dogs closer and began to toss the tear gas, the crowd erupted in chaos and the younger people began to fight and riot, having been incited and taunted into that negative response. They burned down the Quik Trip and destroyed several businesses in that immediate area. Unfortunately, that burned out building has become the focal point and symbol to the world.
However, that is just a media ploy to make you think this was about an out of control, animalistic mob. By painting that picture the masses will assume that just like the teenager who was shot, these people deserved to be treated this way.
This scenario was repeated each night but the people didn't riot. They simply ran away. This also happened a fourth night, but this time, the police roughed up and arrested some national news reporters. When they were released from jail, they immediately reported to the world what was really going on.
Upon that exposure, the Governor finally stepped in and President Obama made a statement. Then the local police were replaced by the Missouri Highway patrol. Things calmed down until another tactic was used and that was to release a video showing the young teen had shoplifted from a convenience store and pushed the owner away when he confronted him. This video release led to another riotous response.
However, several dynamics are taking place between day and night. In the day time, people march up and down the street carrying signs and chanting. Many churches have come out also, walking up and down the streets lifting praise to God and praying for people. Pastors have been out there praying and preaching.
But at night , the negative elements, most of whom are coming into the area from outside of that community, start making trouble.
So a curfew has been announced and the military presence has returned. Now the area has been told to prepare for a military-like presence for the entire area. The curfew is the first step toward establishing martial law in an American city. We told you it was coming and now it's here. When martial law is established a curfew is imposed and all civil rights are suspended.
What does all of this have to do with you in your city? Well, we hate to tell you, but whatever happens in St. Louis will establish a precedence to be implemented in every city in America. If this leads to Martial Law, we're all in trouble. Martial law = no civil rights for anybody: Black, White, Latino, Asian, nobody.........
You may recall that we have warned and predicted these things would happen Back on November 13, 2013 we sent an email titled: 2014-The New America? and wrote these words:
As we watch the suffocating grip of a new system of government slowly coming upon our nation, all of us are left to wonder, how the church can continue in such an environment. Freedom of speech is essentially nullified. Gay Rights and Pro-Choice activist have vilified all religious organization. Muslims, within America, are now being called upon to start a holy jihad against Jews and Christians, and even Homeland Security has now classified many Christian groups as domestic terrorist.
Believers all over America are having dreams about soldiers invading their homes through the initiation of martial law; stripping away all citizen rights. Like us, many pastors and Christian leaders are beginning to implement plans and strategies to launch home church and under-the-radar gatherings, right here in America.
As I share these things, please don’t panic. The Church has survived all kinds of cruel and harsh governments and movements. It’s just that in America, now it’s our turn to face the real struggle that has been going on, all along, all over the world.
Today we are watching it come to pass. As much as we enjoyed the powerful messages during our all-day prayer gathering at the Giant Center in Hershey last Saturday, I know that predictions about church revival is conditional. If the conditions of repentance, reconciliation and humility are met, we will see revival. But if the people of God do not repent and if St. Louis erupts in a major race and class war, and if the race riots break out in other cities, you will eventually see the tanks roll into your city, too. We will experience our daily lives being dictated by America's new military police force.
So what are saying? We're saying we've got ONE MORE CHANCE to turn and repent. We've got one last time to get it right.
Will you take the invitations?
