Why can’t they just submit?
4-6-06 my thots at 30,000 feet flying to speak at Kent State Ohio.
“Why can’t they just submit?” That is what Nebuchadnezzar was thinking as he ordered the Hebrew children thrown into the furnace. A few minutes later he got his answer as he understood there was a higher power able to stop his little furnace or render it useless. The men in the fire were not rebels or troublemakers. They were loyal top officers in the kingdom. They just served a bigger God. That’s why they couldn’t submit.
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what the Romans were wondering as they rounded up Christians by the thousands and crucified them for disobeying the Roman laws about claiming there was an authority over Caesar. How dare they insult “his royal highness” so! Don’t they know that Caesar is God? We’ll teach them! Why can’t they just submit?”
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what the Inquisition officers said as they tortured and murdered millions of Christians who dared to claim the Pope was a sinner like everyone else or that Marry was not a “perpetual virgin” or that the bread did not actually become the body of Jesus so the priest controlled God as he held the wafer. Don’t they know that our law says they must believe this? Why can’t they just submit?”
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what the kings of Europe wondered as they hounded the Pilgrims for daring to teach that baptism was only for believers. “Don’t they know we have met and decided that infant baptism is all that is needed and to re-baptize is against the law? How many of these Anna-Baptists will we have to kill and confiscate their lands until they understand? Why can’t they just submit?”
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what King George thought as he sent his army to snuff out the “rebellion” among the colonies who dared to ask that they be represented in the decision making process. “It is only a 1% tax on the tea. Just pay the tax and shut up! Why can’t they just submit?”
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what the elected officials in Culpepper, Virginia said as they whipped 12 Baptist pastors to death in 1775 for refusing to take a license to preach in their county. Why can’t they just submit? (See the story on drdino.com/patrick)
Why can’t they just submit? That’s what communist dictators said for 70 years as they jailed, tortured, killed or exiled millions of Christians in China and Russia who did not obey the state laws about only meeting in “state approved” churches where sermons were pre-approved and political dissent was silenced by force. “Don’t these people know we have the guns and will kill them if they disobey? Why can’t they just submit?”
“Why can’t they just submit?” That is what Building inspector Don Mayo, Attorney Allison Rogers, Attorney Janet Lander, George Touart, Commissioners Kevin White, Tom Banjanin, Marie Young, Bill Dickson and Mike Whitehead are asking themselves right now. “Don’t these people know the courts have ruled, the commission has voted, the inspectors have decided? They must get our permission to operate a Church ministry in this county. We decide if they can have a church ministry on that property and we decide if they build their buildings to worship God in the correct way. We decide who is allowed to worship God here and where they can do it. People like Apostle Paul, Patrick Henry, Shadrach or John Bunyon are not welcome here. Why can’t they just submit?”
So… Why can’t the Church ministry at 29 Cummings Road in Pensacola just submit? I can’t explain it to them. I’ve tried but they will not or cannot listen. Maybe someone else can explain it to them. Maybe God will have to explain it to them! [Job 38:1 style?] We don’t want to cause problems. We don’t want to build anything unsafe or pollute the ground or bother our neighbors. We have begged them to come tell us what they don’t like about our buildings but they won’t tell us. I fear that this county is at the crossroads and their decisions in the next few weeks or months may result in God’s blessing or judgment. Deut. 11:26.
When people are given a badge and a gun or a black robe, does it always make them think they are God?
Proverbs 30:21 “For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: For a servant when he reigneth;” “Don’t they realize there is a higher power named God? Why can’t they (the county) just submit to God?”