ON APRIL 18, 1775, PAUL REVERE SET OUT ON A MISSION TO WARN HIS FELLOW COUNTRYMEN OF DIRE IMPENDING DANGER – THAT BEING THE THREATENED MARCHING OF THE ‘KING’S REGULARS’ (THE BRITISH ARMY) FROM BOSTON INTO LEXINGTON TO ARREST SAMUEL ADAMS, JOHN HANCOCK AND OTHERS AND TO SEIZE STORES OF MILITIA WEAPONS HELD AT CONCORD. TO THIS DAY, PAUL REVERE IS LAUDED AS A GREAT HERO AND HIS MESSAGE OF WARNING WAS BOTH HEEDED AND APPRECIATED BY ALL WHO RECEIVED THE MESSAGE – HIGHWAYS, RESTAURANTS, PARKS AND LIBRARIES ARE NAMED FOR HIM AND MONUMENTS ARE ERECTED IN HIS HONOR. THE FAMOUS CRY THAT HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO HIM – “THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING!” WAS BUT A WARNING OF TEMPORAL PERIL; FAR MORE SERIOUS PERIL – ETERNAL PERIL – IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER FOR THE DOOMED CITIZENS OF EVIL, WRETCHED NEW ENGLAND. ONE MIGHT THINK THAT, GIVEN THE AREA’S HISTORY OF HEEDING AND APPRECIATING A SINCERELY-EXPRESSED MESSAGE OF WARNING DELIVERED BY THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE IMPENDING DANGER, BOSTONIANS WOULD HAVE DELIGHTED IN THE MESSAGE DELIVERED RECENTLY BY GOD’S SAINTS AT WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH; TO WIT, “THE LORD IS COMING! THE LORD IS COMING!”
WHOM WE PREACH, WARNING EVERY MAN, AND TEACHING EVERY MAN IN ALL WISDOM; THAT WE MAY PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS. – COL. 1:28
ONE MIGHT THINK THAT THEY’D LISTEN.
WE WARNED THEM THAT GOD WAS ANGRY WITH THEM FOR THE MANNER OF LIFE THAT THEY BOTH LIVED AND PROMOTED. THAT THEY HAVE GONE AWAY BACKWARD. THAT THEY HAVE UTTERLY FORSAKEN THE LAW OF THE LORD GOD WHO MADE THEM. THAT HE IS NOT MOCKED. THAT HE WILL REPAY THEM TO THEIR FACES. NO FAGS. NO DIVORCE. NO REMARRIAGE. NO ABORTIONS. NO FORNICATION. NO PRIESTS RAPING BOYS, FOR GOD’S SAKE! NO IDOLATRY. NO LYING, WHORE PASTORS. NO FORGIVENESS WITHOUT REPENTANCE – AND THAT INCLUDES THE HARD-HEARTED JEWS OF BOSTON, WHO ERRONEOUSLY THINK THAT THE COWERING, SEMITOPHILIC ZEITGEIST GIVES THEM A FREE PASS FOR HAVING MURDERED THEIR MESSIAH! NO CHANCE, SCHLOMO! “THE LORD IS COMING! THE LORD IS COMING!”
THIS WAS ALL GREAT NEWS – IN THAT, SINCE THE LORD HASN’T COME YET, THEY STILL HAD SPACE TO CALL UPON HIM AND TO ASK FOR HIS MERCY – TO CHANGE THEIR STONY HEARTS INTO SOFT, PENITENT, CONTRITE, HUMBLE HEARTS. “THE LORD IS COMING! THE LORD IS COMING!” ONE MIGHT THINK THAT, AS THEY DID WITH PAUL REVERE’S TIMELY MESSAGE OF WARNING, THE BOSTONIANS, LEXINGTONIANS, AND THE REST OF THOSE GOD-HATING BRUTES IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY WOULD HAVE THANKED GOD’S SERVANTS AND HEEDED THEIR WARNING – STRAIGHTAWAY CALLING FOR THE REPEALING OF THEIR ANTICHRISTIC LAWS, POLICIES AND ORDINANCES – CALLING UNTO THE LORD THEIR GOD TO FORGIVE THEM OF THEIR INIQUITY. AND TO STOP DIVORCING. AND TO STOP KILLING BABIES. AND TO PUT FAGS TO DEATH. AND TO PUT RAPING PRIESTS TO DEATH. AND TO CAST THE LYING, WHORE PASTORS OUT OF THE PULPITS. AND TO BURN UP ALL THE IDOLS. AND TO SNATCH THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THE FIRES OF MOLECH THAT THEY HAVE PASSED THEM THROUGH. TO REPENT. OF ALL OF IT. BUT THEY DIDN’T.
THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY LOVE THE LIES THAT ARE BELCHED FORTH FROM THEIR PULPITS. THEY LOVE THEIR LIGHT, BASE TREACHEROUS ’MORAL LEADERS.’ THEY LOVE THEIR SIN. AND THEY HATE THEIR GOD, SO ANY MESSAGE THAT CALLS UPON THEM TO STOP OR WARNS OF THE ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR SIN IS NOT WELL-RECEIVED. WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED HAD THEIRE FOREFATHERS NOT HEEDED PAUL REVERE’S WARNING BACK IN 1775? IF THEY HAD JUST IGNORED REVERE, WOULD THE KING’S REGULARS MERELY HAVE SIMPLY VANISHED INTO THIN AIR?
PAUL REVERE WAS A WATCHMAN OF SORTS. NOT OVER MEN’S SOULS OR OVER THE MORAL CONDITION OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVED. HE WAS SIMPLY A WATCHMAN IN A STRICT MILITARY SENSE. NEVERTHELESS, A WATCHMAN HE WAS. WE, AT WBC, ARE WATCHMEN OF A DIFFERENT SORT. WE DO WATCH IN ALL THINGS – OVER MEN’S SOULS – OVER THE MORAL CONDITION OF SOCIETY. THAT’S OUR JOB. IT’S ALSO OUR JOB, AS WATCHMEN, TO WARN OTHERS ABOUT THEIR MANNER OF LIFE – ABOUT THEIR ETERNAL PROSPECTS – ABOUT WHAT THE LORD THEIR GOD REQUIRES OF THEM – IT’S OUR JOB TO WARN MEN OF THEIR SIN. WE ARE OBLIGATED, AS GOD’S WATCHMEN, TO WATCH AND WARN – BOTH THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED. OUR ETERNAL PROSPECTS REST UPON IT. HERE’S THE BIBLE FOR IT:
SON OF MAN, I HAVE MADE THEE A WATCHMAN UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: THEREFORE HEAR THE WORD AT MY MOUTH, AND GIVE THEM WARNING FROM ME.WHEN I SAY UNTO THE WICKED, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE; AND THOU GIVEST HIM NOT WARNING, NOR SPEAKEST TO WARN THE WICKED FROM HIS WICKED WAY, TO SAVE HIS LIFE; THE SAME WICKED MAN SHALL DIE IN HIS INIQUITY; BUT HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THINE HAND. YET IF THOU WARN THE WICKED, AND HE TURN NOT FROM HIS WICKEDNESS, NOR FROM HIS WICKED WAY, HE SHALL DIE IN HIS INIQUITY; BUT THOU HAST DELIVERED THY SOUL. AGAIN, WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN DOTH TURN FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND COMMIT INIQUITY, AND I LAY A STUMBLINGBLOCK BEFORE HIM, HE SHALL DIE: BECAUSE THOU HAST NOT GIVEN HIM WARNING, HE SHALL DIE IN HIS SIN, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH HE HATH DONE SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED; BUT HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THINE HAND. NEVERTHELESS IF THOU WARN THE RIGHTEOUS MAN, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS SIN NOT, AND HE DOTH NOT SIN, HE SHALL SURELY LIVE, BECAUSE HE IS WARNED; ALSO THOU HAST DELIVERED THY SOUL. – EZE. 3:17-21
HEY, BOSTON! “THE LORD IS COMING! THE LORD IS COMING!”