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A horrible thing is
taking place in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, May 1 which, upon hearing
of it, will leave every faithful Christian filled with wonder, that is
astonishment, not to mention grief. That event, "May Day 2010,"
is scheduled to begin in front of the Lincoln Memorial at 6:10 AM with
"praise and worship," followed by seven hours of
"repentance" and prayer. The crowd in D.C. will be joined by
other groups around the nation and in Guam gathered in churches
and other facilities being opened for prayer, and in some cases for a live
simulcast of the event, which will be broadcast on cable and satellite TV
and the Internet. In Florida, thousands will participate in May Day 2010
by praying in front of sixty-seven abortion clinics in the state. In
short, this is a very large, far-reaching event.
An official May Day 2010
program states, "Everything we do today is aimed at one
thing--pleasing God and obeying His word by humbling ourselves, praying,
seeking His face, and turning from our wicked ways (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Today you won't be hearing speeches. In this solemn assembly we will
repent, remember, and renew our covenant with God as we pray in Jesus'
name. . . . Please keep your focus wholeheartedly on God, because if He
hears our cry, remembers His covenant, and relents from the judgment our
sins deserve, this historic day--May Day--will be remembered as the day
repentance gave birth to rescue and revival."
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now the reader might be wondering why I have spoken of May Day 2010 as a
horrible event. In truth, that old serpent is in the details. Let's
begin with the quote I just shared. That was the handiwork of one Janet
Porter, president of a "ministry" called Faith2Action and the
brassy host of a one-hour radio program of the same name heard every
weekday on the VCY America Network and several other networks. Mrs. Porter
(pictured) is the moving force of May Day 2010, which is coordinated by
her F2A and has been very heavily promoted on VCY America, Bott
Radio, and American Family Radio, all of which garner a special
thanks in the May Day program. Certainly Porter is expecting a very good
turnout, as evidenced by the announcement in the May Day program that
donation "barrels" will be set up by the Faith2Action tables to
receive gifts.
But Mrs. Porter ought not
to usurp the office of a teacher of God's people, as she does on her
program and elsewhere, or the responsibility of leading. This is plain,
most importantly from a number of Scripture passages, including 1
Tim. 2:11-15, and even from the "laws of nature," which law
looks sure to be brought up in a different, that is the political, context
at the May Day event. Concerning women such as Mrs. Porter, the word
of God states, ". . . O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths" (Isaiah 3:12). This can be
seen "in spades," as they say, with May Day 2010, although
in that, Janet Porter shares the "credit" with the rest of the
May Day committee, including Dr. James Dobson, David Barton, and Tim
Wildmon, as well as a number of new evangelical ministers and ministry
leaders. Also on that committee, one finds the names of Roman Catholics
and two genuine Jewish rabbis!
By
way of the "wonderful and horrible thing" being committed this
Saturday in Washington, it also bears mentioning that the May Day 2010
committee includes self-described "Apostle" Dutch
Sheets and Cindy
Jacobs who is
described on her ministry web site as "a respected prophet who
travels the world ministering not only to crowds of people, but to heads
of nations. Perhaps her greatest ministry is to world influencers who seek
her prophetic advice." Chuck
Pierce is also on the
May Day 2010 committee. Pierce, we are informed, is "an ordained
minister and serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries
in Denton, Texas. This ministry facilitates the vision of other apostolic
ministries worldwide. . . . He also serves as President of Global Spheres,
Inc., an apostolic ministry for apostolic, prophetic and intercessory
leaders. . . . He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps
direct nations, cities, churches and individuals . . ."
Another
May Day 2010 committee member, according to the listing in the program,
is "Pastor"
Deb Fritch, founder
and director of Lite the Fire. Along with Deb Fritch's name, the May Day
program also provides--as it does for other May Day
personalities--her ministry web site, litethefire.org.
To give the reader a little flavor of what Fritch is about and a little
additional insight into what Janet Porter, her accomplices, and the
radio networks already mentioned are promoting through the May
Day event, here is just one brief quote from Fritch's web site: "We
believe that the Lord still speaks to His people through dreams and
visions . . ." Fritch's homepage has an article describing a church
meeting in which "We all broke out into hilarious laughter! Together
the pastors released fire into that church." In her May Day program
welcome, Janet Porter extends special thanks to, among others, "Deb
Fritch for the strategic prayer that brought us here" and to
"Mike & Cindy ['respected prophet'] Jacobs, who helped us to
birth the idea of May Day."
By the way, the influential
May Day committee also includes five congressmen, a state
representative, a retired three-star general, representatives of the
Christian media, and several well-known authors.
Many
of the May Day 2010 committee members, including one of the rabbis, the
false prophets (male and female), and the counterfeit apostle, will
be leading in prayer this Saturday. A number of individuals not
on the committee are also billed as prayer leaders, among them several
Roman Catholics, such as Priest Peter West, and of course, various neo-evangelical
celebrities.
 According to the official May Day schedule, "praise and
worship" will not only open and close the May Day "solemn
assembly," but there will also be ten to fifteen minutes of the
same at the close of each of seven hours of repentance and prayer. As the
reader may have guessed by now, the "praise and worship" will be
as offensive to the Lord as the rest of the May Day festivities, provided
by "Christian" rock and roll bands. One of those bands,
Sonicflood, wrote the May Day theme song. That's Sonicflood in the picture
we have included--those surly, ungodly looking fellows, earrings and
all, with the Romanist images on their shirts.
Now,
as if all of the things I have mentioned are not enough to provoke the
Lord to anger and further bring about the opposite of the "rescue and
revival" that Porter and company cite as their goal, this whole orgy
of spiritual fornication, gross doctrinal error, and idolatry will not
only be webcast but also broadcast on television live around the
world so that "people from all over the globe [up to 500 million
more] will be joining in prayer." To complete what certainly seems to
be, using the popular expression, an almost "perfect storm" of
provocation, the television network's blasphemous name is "GOD
TV." The featured
ministries of that
network, better called "Godless TV," include Joel Osteen,
Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, and Joyce Meyer (besides Billy Graham,
etc.). A promotion for "GOD TV" in the May Day program shows a
little girl praying with rosary beads wrapped around her hands! The
network web site also has a page titled "Prophetic
Words" where a
prophetess gives Christians new revelation from God . . . at least the
false god she serves.
So there you have it . . .
women leaders, new evangelicals, Romanists, rabbis, apostles, prophets and
prophetesses, a woman pastor, blasphemy, dreams and visions, rock and
roll. And this they call a "solemn assembly" and "pleasing
God."
While more details
are readily available at www.mayday2010.org
(at least as this article is being published), there
is little need for me to lengthen it with them. I will address just one
objection, of no doubt many which will be raised to this article. Someone
is sure to point out that the evangelicals at the May Day event promise
to pray "in Jesus' name" and that there is also a short,
typical new evangelical gospel message included in the May Day 2010
program. Those individuals who make such an objection clearly are
"ignorant of his [Satan's] devices" (2 Cor. 2:11). Obviously,
Roman Catholics are more than comfortable with prayer in the
name of Jesus, and the Jewish rabbis are happy to be on-board to join the
Romanists in corrupting the evangelicals present. The most dangerous, and
effective, tactic of Satan has always been subtlety and corruption by
infiltration and association. (For instance, Num. 25:1-18; Ps. 106:35; 2
Cor. 6:14-18; Acts 20:28-30; Jude 1:3-4; Rev. 2:20.)
It is a given that Mrs.
Porter and her neo-evangelical co-laborers are not going to press their
rabbi brethren for an honest, heart-revealing answer to the question, "What
think ye of Christ?" (Matt. 22:42). If the rabbis actually came out
and said that Jesus Christ was not, and is not, the Son of God but rather
was a blasphemer and false prophet worthy of the death he died, that could
somewhat complicate the "solemn assembly." Of course, it is a
similar situation with the Roman Catholic "Christians" who will
be praying and participating at May Day 2010. A few pointed questions
concerning justification and the mass, for instance, would quickly show
that the May Day 2010 Romanists are not followers of Christ but rather
lost sinners in need of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in
Christ alone. Woe to those evangelicals who smooth the road to hell for
Roman Catholics by accepting them as Christians!
There is no doubt that
America as a nation is sliding ever deeper into the murky, dangerous
depths of immorality and godlessness. But it is just as obvious and more
dangerous that much of the conservative, "evangelical" church in
this nation is plunging ever deeper into the depths of idolatry, spiritual
corruption, and utter lawlessness. I am all for standing against evil,
including threats to liberty, so long as we make that stand in obedience
to the word of God, remembering also that our responsibility
as evangelicals is to actually be evangelical. That is, our first concern is
to teach, preach, and defend the precious doctrines delivered to us
in the Scriptures and take the gospel to the lost--this for the glory
of God.
But over two decades of
ecumenical activism, rallies, and solemn assemblies have resulted in the
slow, but steady, strengthening of the very forces which threaten our
civil and religious liberty. Such are the results of trusting in the
corrupt arm of flesh rather than the omnipotent arm of the Lord. Yet most
evangelicals "will not endure sound doctrine" (2 Tim. 4:3) and
refuse to return to "the old paths, where is the good way" (Jer.
6:16). They continue to follow celebrity personalities who refuse to see
the handwriting on the wall and instead plunge drunkenly ahead on their
mad course, leading millions along with them. ". . . they have beaten
me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again"
(Prov. 23:35).
The warning sounded by
Zechariah the prophet to the people God graciously delivered from the
Babylonian captivity would seem to be appropriate to close this article
with: "Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil
ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto
me, saith the LORD" (Zech. 1:4).
See also:
A May Day Covenant with Death and Hell
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