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Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
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Their foot shall slide in due time. Deuteronomy 32:35
In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as vers 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. — The expression I have chosen for my text, their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following things, relating to the punishment and destruction to which these wicked Israelites were exposed.
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That they were always exposed to destruction; as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed to fall. This is implied in the manner of their destruction coming upon them, being represented by their foot sliding. The same is expressed, Psalm 73:18. “Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction.”
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It implies, that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected destruction. As he that walks in slippery places is every moment liable to Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God fall, he cannot foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once without warning: Which is also expressed in Psalm 73:18,19. “Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction: How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!”
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Another thing implied is, that they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down.
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That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God’s appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. — “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” — By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment. — The truth of this observation may appear by the following consideration.
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There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. — He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel, who has found means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the numbers of his followers. But it is not so with God. There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
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They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God’s using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, “Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?” Luke 13:7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God’s mere will, that holds it back.
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They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to hell. John 3:18. “He that believeth not is condemned already.” So that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell; that is his place; from thence he is, John 8:23. “Ye are from beneath:” And thither he is bound; it is the place that justice, and God’s word, and the sentence of his unchangeable law assign to him.
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They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell. And the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as he is with many miserable creatures now tormented in hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell.
So that it is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness, and does not resent it, that he does not let loose his hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such an one as themselves, though they may imagine him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.
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The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion. The scripture represents them as his goods, Luke 11:12. The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost.
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There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire, if it were not for God’s restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men, a foundation for the torments of hell. There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire. These principles are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruptions, the same enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them. The souls of the wicked are in scripture compared to the troubled sea, Isa. 57:20. For the present, God restrains their wickedness by his mighty power, as he does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;” but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it. Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable. The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God’s restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into fiery oven, or a furnace of fire and brimstone.
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It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand. It is no security to a natural man, that he is now in health, and that he does not see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger in any respect in his circumstances. The manifold and continual experience of the world in all ages, shows this is no evidence, that a man is not on the very brink of eternity, and that the next step will not be into another world. The unseen, unthought-of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable. Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen. The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them. God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell, that there is nothing to make it appear, that God had need to be at the expense of a miracle, or go out of the ordinary course of his providence, to destroy any wicked man, at any moment. All the means that there are of sinners going out of the world, are so in God’s hands, and so universally and absolutely subject to his power and determination, that it does not depend at all the less on the mere will of God, whether sinners shall at any moment go to hell, than if means were never made use of, or at all concerned in the case.
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Natural men’s prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, do not secure them a moment. To this, divine providence and universal experience do also bear testimony. There is this clear evidence that men’s own wisdom is no security to them from death; that if it were otherwise we should see some difference between the wise and politic men of the world, and others, with regard to their liableness to early and unexpected death: but how is it in fact? Eccles. 2:16. “How dieth the wise man? even as the fool.”
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All wicked men’s pains and contrivance which they use to escape hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men, do not secure them from hell one moment. Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends upon himself for his own security; he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do. Every one lays out matters in his own mind how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes will not fail. They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men that have died heretofore are gone to hell; but each one imagines that he lays out matters better for his own escape than others have done. He does not intend to come to that place of torment; he says within himself, that he intends to take effectual care, and to order matters so for himself as not to fail.
But the foolish children of men miserably delude themselves in their own schemes, and in confidence in their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow. The greater part of those who heretofore have lived under the same means of grace, and are now dead, are undoubtedly gone to hell; and it was not because they were not as wise as those who are now alive: it was not because they did not lay out matters as well for themselves to secure their own escape. If we could speak with them, and inquire of them, one by one, whether they expected, when alive, and when they used to hear about hell, ever to be the subjects of misery: we doubtless, should hear one and another reply, “No, I never intended to come here: I had laid out matters otherwise in my mind; I thought I should contrive well for myself — I thought my scheme good. I intended to take effectual care; but it came upon me unexpected; I did not look for it at that time, and in that manner; it came as a thief — Death outwitted me: God’s wrath was too quick for me. Oh, my cursed foolishness! I was flattering myself, and pleasing myself with vain dreams of what I would do hereafter; and when I was saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction came upon me.”
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God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen. But surely they have no interest in the promises of the covenant of grace who are not the children of the covenant, who do not believe in any of the promises, and have no interest in the Mediator of the covenant.

So that, whatever some have imagined and pretended about promises made to natural men’s earnest seeking and knocking, it is plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction.
So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in any Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.
Application
The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation. This that you have heard is the case of every one of you that are out of Christ. — That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell’s wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.
You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God in it; but look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your own life, and the means you use for your own preservation. But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock. Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you; the creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly; the sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan; the earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon; the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God’s enemies. God’s creatures are good, and were made for men to serve God with, and do not willingly subserve to any other purpose, and groan when they are abused to purposes so directly contrary to their nature and end. And the world would spew you out, were it not for the sovereign hand of him who hath subjected it in hope. There are the black clouds of God’s wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder; and were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you. The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come with fury, and your destruction would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff on the summer threshing floor.
The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. It is true, that judgment against your evil works has not been executed hitherto; the floods of God’s vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the mean time is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are constantly rising, and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward. If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it.
The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God. However you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. However unconvinced you may now be of the truth of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it. Those that are gone from being in the like circumstances with you, see that it was so with them; for destruction came suddenly upon most of them; when they expected nothing of it, and while they were saying, Peace and safety: now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows.
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God’s hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.
O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment. — And consider here more particularly,
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Whose wrath it is: it is the wrath of the infinite God. If it were only the wrath of man, though it were of the most potent prince, it would be comparatively little to be regarded. The wrath of kings is very much dreaded, especially of absolute monarchs, who have the possessions and lives of their subjects wholly in their power, to be disposed of at their mere will. Prov. 20:2. “The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: Whoso provoketh him to anger, sinneth against his own soul.” The subject that very much enrages an arbitrary prince, is liable to suffer the most extreme torments that human art can invent, or human power can inflict. But the greatest earthly potentates in their greatest majesty and strength, and when clothed in their greatest terrors, are but feeble, despicable worms of the dust, in comparison of the great and almighty Creator and King of heaven and earth. It is but little that they can do, when most enraged, and when they have exerted the utmost of their fury. All the kings of the earth, before God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing: both their love and their hatred is to be despised. The wrath of the great King of kings, is as much more terrible than theirs, as his majesty is greater. Luke 12:4,5. “And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”
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It is the fierceness of his wrath that you are exposed to. We often read of the fury of God; as in Isa. 59:18. “According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries.” So Isa. 66:15. “For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.” And in many other places. So, Rev. 19:15, we read of “the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.” The words are exceeding terrible. If it had only been said, “the wrath of God,” the words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful: but it is “the fierceness and wrath of God.” The fury of God! the fierceness of Jehovah! Oh, how dreadful that must be! Who can utter or conceive what such expressions carry in them! But it is also “the fierceness and wrath of almighty God.” As though there would be a very great manifestation of his almighty power in what the fierceness of his wrath should inflict, as though omnipotence should be as it were enraged, and exerted, as men are wont to exert their strength in the fierceness of their wrath. Oh! then, what will be the consequence! What will become of the poor worms that shall suffer it! Whose hands can be strong? And whose heart can endure? To what a dreadful, inexpressible, inconceivable depth of misery must the poor creature be sunk who shall be the subject of this!
Consider this, you that are here present, that yet remain in an unregenerate state. That God will execute the fierceness of his anger, implies, that he will inflict wrath without any pity. When God beholds the ineffable extremity of your case, and sees your torment to be so vastly disproportioned to your strength, and sees how your poor soul is crushed, and sinks down, as it were, into an infinite gloom; he will have no compassion upon you, he will not forbear the executions of his wrath, or in the least lighten his hand; there shall be no moderation or mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind; he will have no regard to your welfare, nor be at all careful lest you should suffer too much in any other sense, than only that you shall not suffer beyond what strict justice requires. Nothing shall be withheld, because it is so hard for you to bear. Ezek. 8:18. “Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.” Now God stands ready to pity you; this is a day of mercy; you may cry now with some encouragement of obtaining mercy. But when once the day of mercy is past, your most lamentable and dolorous cries and shrieks will be in vain; you will be wholly lost and thrown away of God, as to any regard to your welfare. God will have no other use to put you to, but to suffer misery; you shall be continued in being to no other end; for you will be a vessel of wrath fitted to destruction; and there will be no other use of this vessel, but to be filled full of wrath. God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to him, that it is said he will only “laugh and mock,” Prov. 1:25,26, etc.
How awful are those words, Isa. 63:3, which are the words of the great God. “I will tread them in mine anger, and will trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.” It is perhaps impossible to conceive of words that carry in them greater manifestations of these three things, viz. contempt, and hatred, and fierceness of indignation. If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case, or showing you the least regard or favour, that instead of that, he will only tread you under foot. And though he will know that you cannot bear the weight of omnipotence treading upon you, yet he will not regard that, but he will crush you under his feet without mercy; he will crush out your blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his garments, so as to stain all his raiment. He will not only hate you, but he will have you in the utmost contempt: no place shall be thought fit for you, but under his feet to be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
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The misery you are exposed to is that which God will inflict to that end, that he might show what that wrath of Jehovah is. God hath had it on his heart to show to angels and men, both how excellent his love is, and also how terrible his wrath is. Sometimes earthly kings have a mind to show how terrible their wrath is, by the extreme punishments they would execute on those that would provoke them. Nebuchadnezzar, that mighty and haughty monarch of the Chaldean empire, was willing to show his wrath when enraged with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; and accordingly gave orders that the burning fiery furnace should be heated seven times hotter than it was before; doubtless, it was raised to the utmost degree of fierceness that human art could raise it. But the great God is also willing to show his wrath, and magnify his awful majesty and mighty power in the extreme sufferings of his enemies. Rom. 9:22. “What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?” And seeing this is his design, and what he has determined, even to show how terrible the unrestrained wrath, the fury and fierceness of Jehovah is, he will do it to effect. There will be something accomplished and brought to pass that will be dreadful with a witness. When the great and angry God hath risen up and executed his awful vengeance on the poor sinner, and the wretch is actually suffering the infinite weight and power of his indignation, then will God call upon the whole universe to behold that awful majesty and mighty power that is to be seen in it. Isa. 33:12-14. “And the people shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire. Hear ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites,” etc.
Thus it will be with you that are in an unconverted state, if you continue in it; the infinite might, and majesty, and terribleness of the omnipotent God shall be magnified upon you, in the ineffable strength of your torments. You shall be tormented in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb; and when you shall be in this state of suffering, the glorious inhabitants of heaven shall go forth and look on the awful spectacle, that they may see what the wrath and fierceness of the Almighty is; and when they have seen it, they will fall down and adore that great power and majesty. Isa. 66:23,24. “And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”
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It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all. You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Oh, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! All that we can possibly say about it, gives but a very feeble, faint representation of it; it is inexpressible and inconceivable: For “who knows the power of God’s anger?”

How dreadful is the state of those that are daily and hourly in the danger of this great wrath and infinite misery! But this is the dismal case of every soul in this congregation that has not been born again, however moral and strict, sober and religious, they may otherwise be. Oh that you would consider it, whether you be young or old! There is reason to think, that there are many in this congregation now hearing this discourse, that will actually be the subjects of this very misery to all eternity. We know not who they are, or in what seats they sit, or what thoughts they now have. It may be they are now at ease, and hear all these things without much disturbance, and are now flattering themselves that they are not the persons, promising themselves that they shall escape. If we knew that there was one person, and but one, in the whole congregation, that was to be the subject of this misery, what an awful thing would it be to think of! If we knew who it was, what an awful sight would it be to see such a person! How might all the rest of the congregation lift up a lamentable and bitter cry over him! But, alas! instead of one, how many is it likely will remember this discourse in hell? And it would be a wonder, if some that are now present should not be in hell in a very short time, even before this year is out. And it would be no wonder if some persons, that now sit here, in some seats of this meeting-house, in health, quiet and secure, should be there before tomorrow morning. Those of you that finally continue in a natural condition, that shall keep out of hell longest will be there in a little time! your damnation does not slumber; it will come swiftly, and, in all probability, very suddenly upon many of you. You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell. It is doubtless the case of some whom you have seen and known, that never deserved hell more than you, and that heretofore appeared as likely to have been now alive as you. Their case is past all hope; they are crying in extreme misery and perfect despair; but here you are in the land of the living and in the house of God, and have an opportunity to obtain salvation. What would not those poor damned hopeless souls give for one day’s opportunity such as you now enjoy!
And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day wherein many are flocking to him, and pressing into the kingdom of God. Many are daily coming from the east, west, north and south; many that were very lately in the same miserable condition that you are in, are now in a happy state, with their hearts filled with love to him who has loved them, and washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. How awful is it to be left behind at such a day! To see so many others feasting, while you are pining and perishing! To see so many rejoicing and singing for joy of heart, while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit! How can you rest one moment in such a condition? Are not your souls as precious as the souls of the people at Suffield, where they are flocking from day to day to Christ?
Are there not many here who have lived long in the world, and are not to this day born again? and so are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and have done nothing ever since they have lived, but treasure up wrath against the day of wrath? Oh, sirs, your case, in an especial manner, is extremely dangerous. Your guilt and hardness of heart is extremely great. Do you not see how generality persons of your years are passed over and left, in the present remarkable and wonderful dispensation of God’s mercy? You had need to consider yourselves, and awake thoroughly out of sleep. You cannot bear the fierceness and wrath of the infinite God. — And you, young men, and young women, will you neglect this precious season which you now enjoy, when so many others of your age are renouncing all youthful vanities, and flocking to Christ? You especially have now an extraordinary opportunity; but if you neglect it, it will soon be with you as with those persons who spent all the precious days of youth in sin, and are now come to such a dreadful pass in blindness and hardness. — And you, children, who are unconverted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dreadful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night? Will you be content to be the children of the devil, when so many other children in the land are converted, and are become the holy and happy children of the King of kings?
And let every one that is yet out of Christ, and hanging over the pit of hell, whether they be old men and women, or middle aged, or young people, or little children, now hearken to the loud calls of God’s word and providence. This acceptable year of the Lord, a day of such great favour to some, will doubtless be a day of as remarkable vengeance to others. Men’s hearts harden, and their guilt increases apace at such a day as this, if they neglect their souls; and never was there so great danger of such persons being given up to hardness of heart and blindness of mind. God seems now to be hastily gathering in his elect in all parts of the land; and probably the greater part of adult persons that ever shall be saved, will be brought in now in a little time, and that it will be as it was on the great out-pouring of the Spirit upon the Jews in the apostles’ days; the election will obtain, and the rest will be blinded. If this should be the case with you, you will eternally curse this day, and will curse the day that ever you was born, to see such a season of the pouring out of God’s Spirit, and will wish that you had died and gone to hell before you had seen it. Now undoubtedly it is, as it was in the days of John the Baptist, the axe is in an extraordinary manner laid at the root of the trees, that every tree which brings not forth good fruit, may be hewn down and cast into the fire.
Therefore, let every one that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let every one fly out of Sodom: “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.”
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by Michael Cutler http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/michael-cutler/jeh-johnsons-amnesty-lies/

On Sunday, February 22, 2015, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson appeared on Fox News and was questioned about a conjunction among the impending defunding of Homeland Security, the president’s continuing push to implement a massive amnesty program for an estimated 5 million illegal aliens and the ruling of a federal judge in Texas to block the implementation of that program.
The Washington Examiner published a report about Johnson’s interview shortly after it aired. The title of the article focused on a claim made by Jeh Johnson during that interview: “Judge’s ruling leaves illegal immigrants ‘in the shadows,’ Homeland Security chief says.”
Here is how the report began:
A ruling by a Texas judge temporarily halting President Obama’s executive action sparing up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation effectively leaves those people “in the shadows,” argued the nation’s Homeland Security chief on Sunday.
“It is better to find ways to encourage [illegal immigrants] to come forward,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“They have to stay in the shadows,” he added. “That’s not a good thing.”
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen forced the administration to put the brakes on Obama’s executive action on immigration. The Justice Department is expected Monday to seek an emergency stay of the decision but faces an uphill battle to get the immigration program moving forward again.
The absurdity of Mr. Johnson’s assertions was ignored during his interview and he was never asked a simple, but obvious, question: How will the administration’s amnesty program now being put on hold enable DHS or other law enforcement agencies locate and arrest aliens who refuse to emerge from those “shadows” if, for example, they know that they are wanted for criminal activities or for being linked to a terrorist organization and their fingerprints will likely alert our government to their situation?
The harsh reality is that there is absolutely no provision for DHS to be given the resources to accomplish this vital and fundamental mission. I spent roughly 30 years with the former INS and my colleagues and I spent considerable time and effort tracking down such fugitives who had absolutely no desire to step out of the shadows in which they were hiding.
On the other hand, many times international fugitives, including murders wanted in countries around the world, managed to hide in plain sight by acquiring official identity documents in false names. In point of fact, for a criminal, spy or terrorist a false identity is the equivalent of camouflage.
When we are told that the aliens who would participate in the administration’s illegal amnesty program will be fingerprinted, you need to realize that unless these aliens have been fingerprinted in the United States or a handful of America’s allies, the likelihood is great that the prints will come back as a “no hit,” meaning that there are no relating records. If these aliens use a false name, the name will also come back as a “no record.” These heretofore illegal aliens would then be given an identity document by DHS that would immediately enable them to apply for Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and other such documents in a false alias that would give them the ability to move freely around the United States, gain access to government and corporate office buildings, and get jobs that may have critical infrastructure implications. Perhaps their jobs would give them access to a potential future target for a terrorist attack to provide them with familiarity with that target, whether it is a mall, a hotel or sports arena.
Mr. Johnson is not, however, the first high-ranking official to tout the supposed benefits of enacting a massive amnesty program for aliens who evaded the essential inspections process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection), an agency under the aegis of DHS.
For many years advocates for Comprehensive Immigration Reform have claimed that it would be in everyone’s best interests to provide lawful status to millions of illegal aliens who are hiding in the “shadows” in towns and cities in every one of America’s 50 states.
This is one of many utterly false claims made by those eager to exploit the immigration issue for a variety of reasons and is an important one to consider, especially given the threats that America and Americans face in this dangerous era.
Our leaders have been blatantly lying about the true significance of immigration, hoping that they will succeed in deceiving most Americans. On April 15, 2014 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my article, “Immigration and the ‘Mushroom Treatment’” in which I wrote about this deceitful and dishonorable tactic.
Furthermore, it is more than a bit ironic that so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” have created the deepest and darkest shadows in which illegal aliens hide, yet the federal government in general and this administration, in particular have encouraged these insane practices. This was the topic of my recent article for CAPS, ‘To Serve and Protect:’ Who Is Served, Protected in Sanctuary Cities and States?
There is absolutely nothing in any legislation pertaining to Comprehensive Immigration Reform that provides resources or calls for ramping up the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States to locate and apprehend those potentially deadly “shadow dwellers.”
Undoubtedly among those dwelling in the shadows are terror “sleepers.” On January 23, 2015 FrontPage Magazine published my article, “Sleeper Cells: The Immigration Component of the Threat.”
There is also nothing in Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation that would address the issue of fraud that currently permeates the adjudications program at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) that is already overwhelmed by a massive onslaught of more than six million applications filed each and every year for a wide variety of immigration benefits.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States, but to also embed themselves in the United States.
Page 54 of this report contained this excerpt under the title “3.2 Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot”:
During the 1990s, al Qaeda was either directly or indirectly involved in a number of terrorist plots in the United States that partially or totally failed. A study of these plots and how those involved in them moved about clearly indicates that foreign terrorist operatives were being planted in the United States and that foreign terrorist operations were being planned against Americans here at home.
The attempted operations were valuable to those carrying them out despite their lack of success: they gave Islamic terrorists critical operational experience in entering and “embedding” in the United States. Although there is evidence that some land and sea border entries without inspection occurred, these conspirators mainly subverted the legal entry system by entering at airports.4
In doing so, they relied on a wide variety of fraudulent documents, on aliases, and on government corruption. Because terrorist operations were not suicide missions in the early to mid-1990s, once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.
Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.
Aliens who evade the inspections process do so, presumably, because they know that they are, under the current immigration laws, statutorily ineligible to enter the United States via the lawful process requiring that anyone seeking to enter the United States must present himself/herself for inspection by a CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspector. It is believed that more than half of all aliens illegally present in the United States evaded this process.
Other aliens who are subject to removal (deportation) either entered the United States with visas or under the visa waiver program and, in one way or another, violated the terms of their admission into the United States by, for example, remaining after their authorized period time expired, accepted employment to which they were not entitled, failed to attend schools for which they were admitted to attend or committed serious crimes in the United States.
Advocates for Comprehensive Immigration Reform have, since the administration of President Jimmy Carter, attempted to minimize the true essential nature of that inspections process, a process I am intimately familiar with having spent the first four years of what would be my 30 year career with the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) as an immigration inspector assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. This is why they have come to refer to aliens who enter the United States surreptitiously as having entered the United States “Undocumented” when, in point of fact, they entered the United States without inspection. Indeed, as I have often pointed out in my articles and presentations, INS personnel always referred to such aliens who trespassed on America as being EWI (Entry Without Inspection).
To help illuminate the true nature of that inspections process I am providing you with the description of the immigration inspections program as it appears on the CBP website:
Individuals seeking entry into the United States are inspected at Ports of Entry (POEs) by CBP officers who determine their admissibility. The inspection process includes all work performed in connection with the entry of aliens and United States citizens into the United States, including preinspection performed by the Immigration Inspectors outside the United States.
“An officer is responsible for determining the nationality and identity of each applicant for admission and for preventing the entry of ineligible aliens, including criminals, terrorists, and drug traffickers, among others. U.S. citizens are automatically admitted upon verification of citizenship; aliens are questioned and their documents are examined to determine admissibility based on the requirements of the U.S. immigration law.”
Under the authority granted by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended, a CBP officer may question, under oath, any person coming into the United States to determine his or her admissibility. In addition, an inspector has authority to search without warrant the person and effects of any person seeking admission, when there is reason to believe that grounds of exclusion exist which would be disclosed by such search.
The INA is based on the law of presumption: an applicant for admission is presumed to be an alien until he or she shows evidence of citizenship; an alien is presumed to be an immigrant until he or she proves that he or she fits into one of the nonimmigrant classifications.
The mission of the inspections program is to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States against the illegal entry of aliens. In a way that:
• Functions as the initial component of a comprehensive, immigration enforcement system;
• Prevents the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, criminals, and other persons who may subvert the national interest;
• Deters illegal immigration through the detection of fraudulent documents and entry schemes;
• Initiates prosecutions against individuals who attempt or aid and abet illegal entry;
• Cooperates with international, Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to achieve mutual objectives;
• Contributes to the development and implementation of foreign policy related to the entry of persons;
• Facilitates the entry of persons engaged in commerce, tourism, and/or other lawful pursuits;
• Respects the rights and dignity of individuals;
• Examines individuals and their related documents in a professional manner;
• Assists the transportation industry to meet its requirements;
• Responds to private sector interests, in conformance with immigration law;
• Continues to employ innovative methods to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the inspections process.
In reviewing the description of the inspections process the obvious question is whether the goals of that process are important or trivial.
In point of fact, when you consider the first few items on the list of goals would you rather that they be eliminated or, perhaps, be given greater resources and emphasis?
Why then are our elected officials ranging from the President of the United States, key officials at DHS, an agency that claims to be the Department of Homeland Security, so willing to trivialize the process by which our government attempts to prevent the entry of terrorists and criminals?
Perhaps, in the interest of honesty, it is time to rename the DHS to provide it with a name that is more accurate and descriptive. It should be renamed the Department of Homeland Surrender.
Let us, once again, consider those goals in particular as articulated in the official CBP website in reviewing these excerpts:
“An officer is responsible for determining the nationality and identity of each applicant for admission and for preventing the entry of ineligible aliens, including criminals, terrorists, and drug traffickers, among others. U.S. citizens are automatically admitted upon verification of citizenship; aliens are questioned and their documents are examined to determine admissibility based on the requirements of the U.S. immigration law.”
The mission of the inspections program is to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States against the illegal entry of aliens.
DHS and the administration and our Congress cannot have it both ways. The DHS website made the true importance of the inspections process in efforts to prevent the entry of terrorists and criminals abundantly clear, yet the Secretary of Homeland Security is among the strongest of advocates for providing aliens who evade that vital screening process with lawful status and identity documents.
On January 10, 2013 CAPS posted my article, “The Masquerade Ball” in which I focused on the way that identify documents can be used as a mask to conceal the true identities and movements of criminals and terrorists. If there is no way of verifying the true identities of millions of aliens who entered the United States surreptitiously for reasons known only to them, there is a very real possibility, indeed, probability that some of these individuals will seek to conceal their true identities by participating in a massive amnesty program in order to obtain such documentation that would immediately enable them to secure driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other such ID in false names.
Concerns about the use of ID in false names by terrorists was, in fact, the impetus for the REAL ID Act.
If “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” preventing the entry of terrorists and criminals is is the best prevention imaginable. Nevertheless, the president, key cabinet members, including the nominee for the position of Attorney General, along with managers at the DHS, insist on pushing a massive amnesty program for unknown millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspections process to enter the United States in “stealth mode.”
This is also the message being delivered by supposed “leaders” in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Here is something for you to consider: When Americans had their fill of drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes they demanded action from their government representatives. The response from cities and governors across the United States was to deter drunk driving by taking such actions as setting the minimum age for those purchasing alcoholic beverages to 21, lowering the acceptable blood/alcohol level and imposing enhanced penalties to those caught driving drunk to include revocation of driver’s licenses, imposing massive fines, seizing vehicles and the mandated incarceration of those found guilty of drunk driving.
These efforts have been highly successful at deterring drunk driving, having been further bolstered by massive advertising campaigns and the establishment of sobriety checkpoints by local and state police departments across the United States.
Today, texting while driving has been identified as posing a new serious threat to safety. The approach taken by political leaders and law enforcement executives has paralleled the way that drunk driving was dealt with. The goal was to convince those who would text while driving that they were likely to get caught and, if caught, the punishment would be onerous.
As many illegal aliens as we likely have in the United States, it is safe to say that there are many more motorists who have cell phones than there are illegal aliens . Yet we have never heard any politician or law enforcement executive claim that there are too many such motorists to aggressively and effectively enforce drunk driving and texting while driving laws.
If drunk driving was dealt with the way that our “leaders” propose to deal with illegal immigration, they would have greatly increased the acceptable blood/alcohol levels in motorists. Then when an impaired driver was involved in a deadly crash, they could claim that the driver was not legally drunk so obviously drunk driving was not the issue to blame in the fatality.
Of course no one would ever think about proposing such an insane “strategy” to “solve” the problems created by drunk driving. Yet, this is essentially how our political leaders are proposing to “fix” our “broken” immigration system — providing massive numbers of illegal aliens with lawful status, official identity documents and even “pathways to United States citizenship” literally “sight unseen” without so much as an in-person interview.
Because of the huge numbers of aliens involved in implementing Comprehensive Immigration Reform, millions of illegal aliens would not and could not be interviewed in person and no field investigations could be conducted. Given the reality of the situation here is what our officials will not be able to confirm:
1. The true names of these aliens
2. The true nationalities of these aliens
3. The possible affiliation that these aliens may have with criminal or terrorist organizations
4. When, where or how they actually entered the United States
So many “talking heads” and pundits on various television programs and on every major network are quick to jump on the “compassion bandwagon” saying that if an alien has lived in the United States for more than a certain number of years, it is only fair and reasonable to let them remain. No one ever asks how the adjudications officers could begin to determine when these aliens entered the United States. Many of these foreign nationals have used multiple false identities, no record of entry was created when they slipped into our country without inspection and there would be no way to conduct any field investigations. In my experience as an INS agent, these applicants will simply find out what the cutoff date by which they need to have claimed to have entered the United States is, and simply claim that they got here before that “magic” date.
The obvious question: What could possibly go wrong?
The many failures of our immigration system are evident to everyone. The fact that there are unknown millions of illegal aliens present in the United States, the fact that aliens who were granted political asylum, lawful immigrant status and even United States citizenship should raise serious concerns about the vetting process that such aliens undergo. The fact that immigration fraud currently permeates the immigration benefits program provides clear and unequivocal evidence that the division of DHS, USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is incapable of properly screening applications that they adjudicate, thereby enabling terrorists and criminals to enter the United States and embed themselves in communities across our nation.
Immigration fraud, as I noted previously, was identified by the 9/11 Commission as being a key method of entry and embedding employed by the majority of terrorists identified and investigated by that commission, including other terrorists who did not participate in the terror attacks of 9/11.
Undoubtedly, border security is a vital component of national security that involves far more than simply securing the U.S./Mexican border that is supposed to separate the United States from Mexico.
However, none of the 19 terrorists who participated in the attacks of September 11, 2001 ran the U.S./Mexican Border. Our nation has 50 border states and the entire immigration system is dysfunctional, thereby undermining national security, public safety and a host of other issues. Yet most politicians from both parties insist that once the U.S./Mexican border is made secure, it is in our best interests to provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and identity documents.
The true and commonsense “fix” for our “broken” immigration enforcement is no different from other law enforcement issues: Create meaningful deterrence to discourage those who would violate the laws by enhanced enforcement especially from within the interior of the United States, coupled with true resolve demonstrated by the words and deeds of our leaders.
My parents used to tell me, “Actions speak louder than words.”
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About Michael Cutler
Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) whose career spanned some 30 years. He served as an Immigration Inspector, Immigration Adjudications Officer and spent 26 years as an agent who rotated through all of the squads within the Investigations Branch. For half of his career he was assigned to the Drug Task Force. He has testified before well over a dozen congressional hearings, provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission as well as state legislative hearings around the United States and at trials where immigration is at issue. He hosts his radio show, “The Michael Cutler Hour,” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio. His personal website is http://michaelcutler.net/

Franklin Graham (Courtesy/BGEA)
Billy Graham was a pastor to presidents and certainly addressed the moral slide in America as far back as the 1950s, but Franklin Graham seems to be wearing his dad’s mantle on steroids.
The once prodigal son is not shrinking back from hot button cultural and political issues—he actually pointed to Jezebel Scriptures in the book of Revelation to describe the condition of America and is speaking bluntly about transgender bathrooms—nor does he mince words about Islam.
Franklin Graham even dared to rebuke President Obama at a time when other Christian leaders are embracing Chrislam.
Why is Graham so bold? Because he sees an Islamic storm coming against America. Although he’s not a Pentecostal spiritual warrior who prays in tongues and binds devils, he has strong discernment and enough boldness to go toe-to-toe with the principalities and powers that have targeted Christians for destruction.
Franklin Graham is saying what most politicians, pastors, news pundits and others refuse to say: Islam is not a religion of peace.
Do Peaceful Religions Do This?
“For Muslims, peace comes only through submission to Islam. When they speak of peace, they mean submission to their religion,” Graham says. “Worldwide, tens of thousands of men, women and children have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, under the bloody flag of Islam.”
Graham made it clear to Obama, who appears at best a Muslim sympathizer, that followers of a peaceful religion do not cut off the heads of innocent people in the barbaric fashion the world has watched recently. He told Obama that believers in a peaceful religion do not kidnap 300 young schoolgirls as Boko Haram did in northeastern Nigeria in April and reportedly sell them to men to be sex slaves.
Hoping Obama would get the point, Graham told him men who practice a peaceful religion do not detonate bombs on an American street during a marathon race to kill and maim innocent people. He said no one who belongs to a peaceful religion would even consider hijacking jet airliners and flying them into buildings occupied by thousands of innocent people beginning their workday, as happened in this country and in this city on 9/11.
“Mr. President—no peaceful religion would tolerate, let alone practice, female circumcision, require a woman to have her husband’s permission to leave her home and take up employment and restrict her ability to receive justice in the case of sex crimes,” Graham says. “”Mr. President—a peaceful religion would not condone and allow a father to drown a daughter in a swimming pool in front of the family in the name of family honor because she might have stayed out late in the evening with her boyfriend, Mr. President—why haven’t the 3.5 million Muslims in North America rejected this gross, barbaric and despicable behavior by their fellow Muslims on American soil?”
Obama Gives Islam a Pass
The righteous are as bold as a lion (see Prov. 28:1). Franklin Graham fits that description in his unrelenting campaign to expose Islam for what it really is—and for confronting an American president who some are starting to wonder is sleeping with the enemy. In fact, Graham told Fox News that Obama “only knows Islam” and therefore fails to use the term “radical Islam” when discussing Islamic terrorists.
“His mother was married to a Muslim. His father was a Muslim,” Graham said during an “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” interview. “Then she married a man from Indonesia. He was raised in Indonesia. Went to Islamic schools. I assume she was a Muslim. So his whole life, his experiences have been surrounded by Islam. He only knows Islam. And he has given a pass to Islam.”
Graham is not afraid to speak directly to Islamic terrorists, either. Graham is pointing to Romans 14:11, Philippians 2:10 and Isaiah 45:23 in his latest response to Muslim terrorism.
“The evil of ISIS really shouldn’t shock us—it is fully in keeping with their ultimate agenda of hastening a final apocalypse,” Graham wrote on his Facebook page. “God’s Word tells us that there will be a final battle one day, but it will result in the defeat of Satan and all those allied with him. One thing is for sure—one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Amen.
IHOPKC’s Mike Bickle last month called for believers to support and pray for Graham as he has “boldly yet tenderly taken a biblical stance in warning America in relation to Islam, gay marriage and several other important subjects.”
I’m making an even more fervent call for intercessors to rise up and pray for Graham day and night. The enemy would like nothing more than to silence this mouthpiece for God who is confronting and pushing back darkness in our generation. Likewise, those who subscribe to anti-Christ agendas are raging against his voice. Saints, let’s make it a priority to lift up Graham in prayer, wage spiritual warfare against the attacks on his life and bless his ministry. And while you’re at it, pray for President Obama too. Amen?
Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and author of several books, including The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening, Mornings With the Holy Spirit, Listening Daily to the Still Small Voice of God, The Making of a Prophet and Satan’s Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
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PLEASE READ THIS —-IT’S NOT TOO LONG.
A retired Constitutional lawyer
has read the entire proposed healthcare bill. Read his
conclusions and pass this on as you wish.
The Truth About the Health Care Bills – Michael Connelly, Ret.
Constitutional Attorney
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The
Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with
particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional
law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed
law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I
found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law
and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats
and the media are saying. The law does provide for
rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and
other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for
illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced
participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance
companies out of business, and put everyone into a government
run system. All decisions about personal health care will
ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will
not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments
to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will
be strictly controlled by the government.
However, as
scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In
fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no
intention of providing affordable health care choices.
Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer
of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever
occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a
similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of
the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted
balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and
Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress
will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a
number of different areas over the lives of the American people,
and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress
doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas
to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S.
Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of
Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also
provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama
administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct
violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the
Constitution information, your personal financial information,
and the information of your employer, physician, and
hospital. All of this is a protection against unreasonable
searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right
to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion
regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide…
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if
you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the
Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a
tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because
of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of
the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since
there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal
the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of
property without the due process of law.
So, there are
three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much,
out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively
nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though.
The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the
Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny
or disparage others retained by the people; The 10th Amendment
states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved
to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the
provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the
people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at
all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think
you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is
about seizing power and limiting rights…
Article 6 of
the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress
to “be bound by oath or affirmation to support the
Constitution.” If I was a member of Congress I would not be able
to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without
feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I
voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold
me accountable. For those who might doubt the nature of this
threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution,
and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about
to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly Retired
attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor Carrollton , Texas
AFTER HAVING READ THIS, PLEASE FORWARD….
If you don’t care about our constitution, or your rights
under it, just do nothing.
WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT IS TOO
LATE.

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