Hello,
I am a senior at Cornerstone University (a Christian college in Michigan), and I was preparing for my day, I received a tweet from a DJ who works for a Lansing radio station. He mentioned your protest in East Lansing, where I am originally from.
To be honest, I read the article written online, and I broke down in tears. I couldn’t understand how someone who reads the same Bible I do can come to such a strange conclusion.
I believe that God is just with His anger and wrath. God cannot sin, so for us to say that He shouldn’t be angry at something is theologically incorrect. I also hold fast to the statement that "His anger lasts for a moment, but His favor for a lifetime" (Psalm 30:5). If God’s anger lasted any longer than a moment, He wouldn’t have sent Jesus to be the sacrifice for our sins, both the sins of those who believe in Him and those who choose not to.
What I don’t understand from your picketing is how you can believe that God is not loving. As I said above, God has a just reason to be angry at us. We have inherited the sin of Adam, and sin is reason enough for God to expel us from His presence. But He sent Christ, the Sacrificer and the sacrifice, the mediator between God and man.
Through the blood of the Lamb, we Christians are able to approach the throne of grace with confidence.
God has blessed believers with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, and for us to not proclaim His love, His jealous love, is just as wrong to preach that God is only made of hate.
It seems to me that your message seems to be works-based. "Don’t be a fag, and you won’t doom America." "Don’t do this, and God won’t smite America down." Grace is not deserved by anyone, including believers. Grace is God, the Creator of the universe and the King of heaven, reaching down to us, a depraved, defiled people, and extending mercy. Without the blood of Christ, which He so willingly and joyfully gave, and the grace of God, we would not be able to shout, "Glory and hallelujah to the Lamb of God!" with all the saints, both in heaven and on earth.
Many thanks for the time you spent reading this, if you got this far. I would love to continue this discussion, if you do so wish, you who are reading this.
Psalm 18:19,
Marty
Marty,
Your words are saturated with what you think instead of what God thinks. Your reading of the Scriptures is without light and understanding, because you put no distinction between the obedient elect and the disobedient reprobate. God is merciful, kind and loving towards them who obey him-those he foreordained from the foundations of the world to obey him-those he calls the apple of his eye, his anointed, his elect, his sheep. He is equally furious with and utterly loathes, abhors and hates the disobedient-those he foreordained from the foundations of the world to reprobation-those he calls the wicked, the workers of iniquity, the goats, the reprobate. Until you get that foundation sure, you will stumble in darkness. And shut your mouth claiming we are works based. You’re the same kind of liar Christ and Paul faced-who falsely accused them of letting grace be an excuse for sin. The Bible-including the New Testament-is saturated with words about obedience. Sum it up the way John the Beloved sums it up repeatedly, and the way Christ himself summed it up repeatedly-those who love God keep his commandments and they are not grievous-them it is who love him, and whom he loves. No one else! It has nothing to do with works; it has to do with the condition of your heart. This is a nation that wallows in proud sin, hates the standard of God, and supposes it is all about what they want and think. You are no exception.
Meanwhile get a look at how the Bible describes the Day of God’s Vengeance, which is in his heart-he is going to tread the winepress and the blood is going to come up to the horses’ bridles-while you sit over there yammering about God’s love without the slightest sincere interest in submitting your every thought to captivity to obedience to the will of Christ! Christ was obedient to death; you want to be obedient only to your depraved heart!
Pr 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isa 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Jer 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Revelation 19:
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Revelation 14:
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Isaiah 63:
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
These days are NOW! God hates this nation-all 310 million of your hard-hearted proud sinners with your pie-holes open and running. It is a disgusting sight to anyone who has the slightest fear of God. God is avenging himself on this sinful nation and world. The destruction of this nation is imminent. We traveled to Michigan-three thankful souls-and you received the words. So stop all that pompous prevaricating pontificating these faithless “teachers” and “preachers” have filled up your head and heart with-get your humble and contrite on-close your mouth; read all the words we’ve written patiently and painstakingly at www.godhatesfags.com and all related/sister sites-and obey the Lord your God! This is not the time for children like you to be jabbering; this is the time to be mourning for your sins. THIS NATION IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED AND CHRIST IS ABOUT TO COME THROUGH THE CLOUDS TO PUNISH THE DISOBEDIENT. Shut up and obey! If you are going to speak about God, say these words-tell everyone around you that this nation is about to vomit its inhabitants from the land; God is not remotely interested in all your goofy theories; and the only hope is HUMBLE OBEDIENCE. Say that, or you hate your neighbor.
Magormissabib.