Satan & The American Church
Joseph Forman was one of the two original cofounders of Operation Rescue. With over 100 'rescues' to his credit, her wrote the extremely kind yet persuasive book "Shattering The Darkness" from jail. The following, an excerpt from Chapter 1: The Challenge to God's Name, is authored in the tradition of the Book of Job. Even after the global slaughter of over a billion, abortion largely remains hidden and off the radar of the very institutions and the Church it was designed to devastate. Deeply affecting our prayers, worship and communion, like the Priest and Levite in Christ's story of the Good Samaritan even pastors and church leadership continue their duties unaware and unconcerned of the judgments such a wholesale slaughter must unleash.
Chapter 1: The Challenge to God's Name
In 1960, there was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Him, "From where do you come?"
So Satan answered Him, "From going to and fro on the earth and from walking back-and-forth on it."
Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant the American church, how there is none like them in all the earth for seminaries, missionaries, budgets, buildings and programs to advance my kingdom, how they fear God and shun evil?"
So Satan said, "Do they fear God for nothing? Look at them. You have given them everything they could possibly want, You have hedged them about. They do not love you, they love the things you have given them. They worship your blessings."
"Yes?"
"I will not say that I can get them to curse you to your face – I failed with Job. But, I will say this: your people are incapable of even the most basic acts of Christian faith and charity – acts by which you yourself said that others could determine the difference between your children and My children, your sheep and My goats."
"Yes?"
"Yes," said Satan."You say your people follow you like sheep? Within 30 years, you will not be able to get so much as one Christian to follow you across the street to save a babies life. Then you will have to turn, remove their lampstand, and visit their land a curse."
In 1973, Row vs. Wade struck down all antiabortion laws in America, creating the "right" of all women to hire a doctor to kill their children at any time during the full nine months before birth. It's companion decision, Dow vs. Bolton, on the same day decreed that a woman could do so for any reason.
And no Christian could be found to so much as cross the street to physically intervene for these children. And the slaughter quickly grew to 4500 today. It became a slaughter carried out in most hospitals and in publicly advertised clinics, established to make the killing quick and easy for everyone. So acceptable did it become, that Christians would go to child murdering hospitals, or by every day necessities – from phone calls and Cheerios to toilet paper – from companies who helped promote child killing organizations. Most Christian women thought nothing of having the children delivered by the same doctor who would be just as willing to kill their children. Pastors fear of rebuke from their congregations if they mentioned the "A" word too often – or at all.
Again, in 1989, there was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to him, "From where do you come?"
So Satan answered Him, "From going to and fro on the earth and from walking back-and-forth on it.?
Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant the American church? 50,000 crossed the street and physically protected a generation yet unborn, though you incite Me against them to destroyed them without cause."
"Skin for skin!" answered Satan. "Touch their houses, their church buildings, their families, their careers, their savings. Threaten them physically with beatings by police, long jail sentences, beatings and aids infested and urine from pro-abortion demonstrators. Then you will see them abandon your command to love and serve you only, as they scramble to abandon their neighbor to save themselves. They are My children, not yours. You will see the very Christian who spoke the loudest in defense of rescuing the babies become the leaders in justifying, in your own name, why they should no longer physically protect them, but seek some other way to 'rescue' them. You will see them worship the same God's the feminists, the mothers seeking abortion, and the doctors worship – the gods of Respectability, Autonomy, Career, Self-preservation. They will cry out to these new gods to preserve their organizations, reputations, and bank accounts – even those of the rescue organizations themselves. In that day your people will knowingly allow My doctors to offer Me sacrifices of the fruit of the womb. Your people will allow these sacrifices to buy the peace, prosperity and blessings they crave – blessings they will never trust you to bestow. To preserve their way of life at all cost, they will make peace with Me."