Dear editor,
This responds to your writer of June 10 (“Where’s the mercy?” http://hutchnews.com/Westernfront/wfhenry-sendrr2013-06-10T20-37-30) concerning Westboro Baptist Church’s 20+ years of faithful street preaching, concerning God’s wrath on this nation.
The words of lukewarm “Christians” ring through this land – from “clergy” who have forsaken the truth of God, and ignored their duty to speak up when a nation is in crisis over sin. When they started filling the pulpits with rapists and pews with adulterers (divorced/remarried), they brought great and awful sorrow to this country. Shame on them!
The prophet Jonah was sent to Nineveh when that ancient land was imperiled for institutionalizing proud sin. Noah preached to an earth filled with violence for 120 years. The prophet Ezekiel expressly charges the servants of God with speaking up when God brings the sword of His wrath on a people. The Lord Jesus Christ preached about hell! There is no excuse for the nearly 2 million so-called preachers of this nation for not holding up Westboro-like signs! The blood of this nation, at the hour of its destruction, will be on their hands.
Westboro’s signs include words about God’s love for the obedient penitent mournful elect. But they are not a substitute for our signs about His wrath, hate and anger for the proud wicked. It is not mercy to stand by silent when you have a duty to warn your neighbor. You’ve sacrificed your soldiers and your children to your sin – including same sex marriage. But if you are still alive and can read, you can still put away your sin, repent, and obey, and be saved from the destruction that is most certainly coming to America. That is our plea to you – and we won’t stop until it’s over. And THAT – my misguided friends – is the true Bible definition of “love thy neighbor.”
Member of Westboro Baptist Church