It’s a poignant token of Apostate Christianity. The response of co-pastor Darlene Bishop, to the lightning strike on the graven image which stood before the Solid Rock Church of Dayton, Ohio, serves as a mordant example of the contempt American Christendom has for God’s Word.
God =1, Idolatry = 0
Despite the fact that the structure had lightning resistors and grounding rods, the 6 story high statue was utterly destroyed by the strike late Monday. Even more interesting, is the fact that God chose to strike the statue over the Hustler Hollywood Adult store, which sits a little more than a mile to the south.
Rather than seeing the event to be the judgment of God, Bishop has been quoted as saying, “I think he (the Jesus image) couldn’t have gotten this much advertising if we had paid a billion dollars.” Bishop further stated that because the statue was insured, “Now we get to build a whole brand-new one, paid-for,” adding “We are blessed.”
In accepting insurance money to rebuild the image, Solid Rock Church is agreeing to the fact that the statue was destroyed by “an act of God.” So it would seem that despite the church’s apparent admission that God himself destroyed the image, they intend to rebuild it to spite his judgment.
This is in character with the American church which has lost her spiritual bearings. The opportunity to reap financial rewards and advertising outweighs to advantage God gives her by repentance. She has become Babylon.
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While her coastal areas are destroyed { www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m6d5-Revelation-88-and-the-Deepwater-Horizon-oil-spill-Part-1 } by God’s mighty hand and her leaders openly blaspheme before believers without rebuke, [www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m6d5-Nancy-Pelosi-God-made-me-do-it], the American believer watches her own demise [www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m5d10-The-destruction-of-Christian-America-Whose-fault] with nary a protest. As the Christians are vilified in the press, [www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m4d19-The-demonization-of-fundamental-Christians] and their children are used as weapons against them, [www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m4d13-The-global-government-wants-your-children], the sit impassively before their televisions. Most spend their time entertaining themselves, indifferent to the erosion of their God given rights. [www.examiner.com/x-37026-Bible-Prophecy-Examiner~y2010m3d14-Home-church-declared-illegal-in-Arizona]
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Our God is indeed a merciful God, and may keep America from reaping her well deserved rewards, but by sparing America his judgment, will God owe Sodom and Gomorrah a humble apology?