Preaching at another Location away from your own Pulpit!
May 2, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
During my 28 year excursions in conducting more than 500 revival meetings away from my own home pulpit at Dardanelle, I often heard the expression, “I’ll bet you don’t preach that hard where you pastor.” It is very tempting for some preachers to unload on a congregation they don’t have to pastor, while preaching only salvation by grace messages, security of the believer, and heavenly rewards at the church they pastor.
I remember as a boy in churches where I grew up, I would leave church after a hard message, thinking the man delivering the sermon was mad as a wet hen, and he would scare me half to death with what he said was going to happen if we didn’t do this and that. When I asked a deacon or older church member about it, I usually got the answer: “Don’t worry about it, Tom Mac, he was just preaching.” Well, I said all that to say this: I don’t think the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who was away from his Ramallah pulpit in Sudan, was “just preaching” in the Jerusalem Post article which follows
our introduction.
The Sheik meant what he said, and I don’t believe he was preaching in view of a call in Sudan. One of the problems
in this country is that most of the American public believes the Islamic radical preachers are “just preaching,” but they are dead serious, and I firmly believe he means what he says in the Jerusalem Post article which follows.
He doesn’t want to just wait and let us die a natural death, then have Allah burn us in Hell. He wants Allah to empower Islam to kill us all here physically in combat, and then for Allah to burn our souls in Hell. Somehow, I don’t think we are going to change that kind of mindset with dialog and diplomacy. I am not a conservative hawk because I like to kill people, but because it is the only way to deal with the Middle East problem.
In fact, that is the way Scripture indicates God is going to finally settle the Middle East and World mess that man has been able to create with all his great carnal ingenuity since the flood.
Ezekiel 39:1-12 – Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: [3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and
will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
[4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezekiel 39:17-29 – And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [20] Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. [21] And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
[24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them,
and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have ga thered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more
there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Top Hamas official: Kill all Americans
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 1, 2007
Sheik Ahmad Bahr, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, declared during a Friday sermon at a Sudan mosque that America and Israel will be annihilated and called upon Allah to kill Jews and Americans “to the very Last One”. Following are excerpts from the sermon that took place last month, courtesy of MEMRI.
Ahmad Bahr began: “You will be victorious” on the face of this planet.
You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] “you will be victorious,” but only “if you are believers.” Allah willing, “you will be victorious,” while America and Israel will be annihilated. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards, who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America’s nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.
Bahr continued and said that America will be annihilated, while Islam will remain.
The Muslims “will be victorious, if you are believers.” Oh Muslims, I guarantee you that the power of Allah is greater than America, by whom many are blinded today. Some people are blinded by the power of America.
We say to them that with the might of Allah, with the might of His Messenger, and with the power of Allah, we are stronger than America and Israel.
The Hamas spokesperson concluded with a prayer, saying: “Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters.
Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness.
Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.”
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