Westboro Baptist Church,
If picketing existed in the past, would Christ have picketed and cursed at people and made a mockery out of everyone?
Would he be standing out there with signs that only address one out of hundreds if not thousands of sins that every man is committing?
Walking around picketing would be like Christ holding up tablets and continuously saying “Thank God for the fire and brimstone that set on Sodom and Gomorra! Thank God for the flood! God hates liars, thiefs, slanderers, homosexuals and adulterers.” Of course God hates all of that, but did Christ really just parade around saying that over and over and over and over again? To the point where he never preached about anything else when he was out in public?
Did he?
Dear Miss:
Please accept this response to your e-mail to Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.
“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?” (Proverbs 1:22).
Jesus Christ invented picketing: Habakkuk 2:2 “And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” And, it’s quite effective, yes?
Christ rightly divided the word of truth as he has commanded of those that love him and believe his word. 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” [That means you apply His word accurately and in the proper dosage for every of life’s situations.] He had mastery over the word of truth because he is “the Word.” John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
In rightly dividing His Word He preached eternal peace and felicity towards His people, the “sheep of [His] pasture.” (Jeremiah 23:1“Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.”) John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know [love] them, and they follow me.” John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 1 John 3:14 “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”
However, He also addressed the reprobate: John 10:26 “But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.” 1 John 5:10: “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” John 3:18: “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Since the majority of the earth-dwellers (past and present) are reprobate, the majority of His words are cursings, including mocking, of those that hate Him, His word, His judgments, and His people. E.G.: Proverbs 1:25-27 “But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.” You would have to actually read the Bible to know these things. And, you should.
In the meantime, we give you tastes and bite-sizes on picket signs and twitter (follow @WBCSays for all things WBC) and we give you huge meals at www.godhatesfags.com and her sister sites, including videos (at www.signmovies.com) for those that learn better that way. No doubt these are delicious to the sheep; but the hogs and the goats have no stomach for them. Proverbs 23:8: “The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.” Our friend, John Gill, in his exposition of the Bible, might help with this: “Ver. 8. The morsel [which] thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up, &c.] It shall turn in thy stomach, thou shall not be able to keep it, when thou understandest thou art not welcome; or thou wilt wish thou hadst never eaten a bit, or that thou couldest vomit up what thou hast; so disagreeable is the thought of being unwelcome, or when this appears to be the case; and lose thy sweet words; expressed in thankfulness to the master of the feast, in praise of his food, in pleasantry with him, and the other guests at table; all which are repented of when a man finds he is not welcome.”
All of His word; all of His providences [those things that fall out day to day]; they are all either a blessing or a curse. All of them are a blessings to his people (including those cross-handed blessings); and all of them are a curse (even those that seem to be blessing and truly are on a temporal basis, but are despised by the unthankful) to the reprobate—not His people. Go back to the children of Israel on the threshold of entering the land of promise, and you will see that God built two mountains to establish the theme of His blessings and His cursings, and instructed Moses:
Deuteronomy 11:29-30 “And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?”
They were given more specific assignments with respect to that perpetual memorial of God’s blessings and curses later in Deuteronomy 27: 12-13 “These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.”
And, then they did that at the time appointed, Joshua did the job appointed: Joshua 8:30-35 “Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.”
Moses and Joshua are dead, but we are here to do that appointed job, too, to this last doomed generation. WBC members were created for that purpose: Isaiah 53:21 “This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.” Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
The Judge of all the earth shall do right. Genesis 18:25. And, we are going to turn again with a loud voice and glorify God in all His works: both in healing and in wounding. Deuteronomy 32:39: “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.” Luke 17:15: “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God.”
We have a lot to be thankful for, not the least of which that the day is soon upon us as described here: Isaiah 34:8 “For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.” This matter of God’s vengeance is extremely to him. 1 Thessalonians 1:6-10 “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
In rightly dividing the word of truth, it is necessary to discern the obvious signs of the times: we have reached an age of societal universal reprobation. This age mirrors the age of the antediluvians before Noah entered the Ark and the Lord destroyed them all. Genesis 6:5: “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” The last smash-mouthed insult in the face of God was when these devils instituted same-sex marriage. (Sounds like today.) Luke 17:27: “They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.” God early and often has warned you rebels against going where you have gone; and he made plain the result for you. See, e.g., Deuteronomy 28:20 “The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.”
You made your bed; now lie in it. Isaiah 50:11 “Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.”
On behalf of your friends at WBC, who knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men [i.e. confute the gainsayer with unassailable argumentation]. (2 Corinthians 5:11; Titus 1:9.)