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God Uses Dumb Animals to Set us Straight

Our own Brenda Spurlock will be reporting what is taking place on the “Walk Across America .” She answers our emails and takes care of our newsletter list. She has been such a tremendous help to us over the years. Below is her first report. Thank you, Miss Brenda! We love you! – Kristene

I caught up with Flip by cell phone Monday afternoon as he and the team of ten plus Judgment-the horse, and Mercy-the donkey, headed toward San Bernadino. They began the trek across America at San Clemente, CA. They've followed old Route 66 through San Juan Capistrano, Los Angeles, Santa Anita, Azusa, San Dimas and Glendora.

As we spoke, Flip explained how he came to be leading a white horse named Judgment over the California highways:

I knew God was calling me into deeper waters. He was asking me, "Do you want to stay and do what is comfortable for you or do you want to move into deeper waters with Me?" When Rusty called me with the thought of carrying a dead baby across America, it was a sermon I knew - Zechariah 9:9. When a King comes into a city riding on a donkey it is the year of the Lord's favor and mercy. When Jesus returns, however, He'll be riding on a white horse, His robe will be dipped in blood and on His side will be written, "King of Kings and Lord of Lords." When He comes next time there will be no mercy only the awful prospect of judgment and condemnation. There will be no mercy when a king comes riding into a city on a horse. The message was clear to me I knew we now had to make it clear, first of all to God's Church, and then to our nation.

Little did I guess that God had, for a long time before, been preparing the way so that we could even attempt such an endeavor. In 1998 while we were in Dallas, Ronda Mackey, who had once been our administrative secretary, had procured an RV to be used as a mobile sonogram unit. Jill Busha, Director of the Garland crises pregnancy center, gave it to us in 2002. We painted it and prepared it, but basically we did nothing with it. I decided to bring it to Charlotte, NC because we have two pro-life doctors here and they didn't put it to use either. Then I decided to sell it and use the money to further the gospel. We had a number of people interested in buying it, but God wouldn't let me sell it because it was what we needed to house five of us on this trip across America that I didn't even know about at that point.

Then we needed a horse trailer. Richard Couron and his wife Becky were among the first families to join the church I started in 1980. We prayed over Richard that he would be able to go into business, and that God would bless his business. The Lord certainly did that. Richard's business did very well. He bought a huge ranch in Athens, Texas and a horse trailer, the Cadillac of all horse trailers! Becky wondered what in the world he would do with that horse trailer. He used it once in 2000. Though no one realized it at the time, he was buying that horse trailer for our trip across America. He also provided us with a big Dually to pull the trailer.

We've had some misadventures and learned something about animals along the way. Judgment got hung up in his halter in the trailer. He looked almost dead by the time we discovered him and we were very concerned. When I complained that I hadn't started out with the intention of killing our horse, Graydon Yates responded dryly that this wasn't about my killing the horse. He was reasonably certain, he said, that Judgment was trying to commit suicide "because he found out where you're going."

Mercy, a jenny, wasn't eating or drinking and we couldn't figure out why. We had stopped at a gas station when we heard the most awful ruckus. Mercy had gotten herself hung up when she tried to get to the water. We learned that we had tied her head too high for her to be able to reach the food and water. She calmed down considerably after she had been properly fed and watered.

Gas is $2.27 a gallon in California. I spent $118 the first time I filled the RV. I spent $190 when we got to California. I was dumbstruck. I had no idea to expect this. We ran out of diesel fuel in the big Dually at Rancho Mission Viejo, a 25,000 acre ranch. We were invited up to the ranch and spent a couple of days there receiving the kindest treatment you can imagine. They gave us dinner and breakfast the next morning and they helped see that we got fuel and the parts needed to repair a bad exhaust manifold. So there has been a ram in every thicket along the way.

We were having a problem with Mercy. She wouldn't move when going in front of Judgment the horse and everyone knows that Mercy has to come before Judgment... She was afraid of everything. She would stop at every manhole cover or anything else for that matter. Rusty (Thomas) tried everything he could think of to get her to walk in front, but she wasn't going to do it. When we were at the ranch, we had let the animals run loose in the fields. We began to notice something about Mercy. She followed Judgment everywhere he went. They ran and played and rolled together, but Judgment was always in the lead. It was a case of dumb animals speaking to dumber human beings. It was a wonderful lesson for us.

We began to see the message much clearer. It is a message that we have preached for years: Many have asked if God will judge America . They have asked if we have gone too far to avoid God's terrible and final judgment. Let's face it. We have mercilessly killed over 45 million little baby boys and girls. We have thrown God out of school, banished Him from the schoolyard, ripped His Ten Commandments from the walls of our schools and society. Murder has become the solution for everything. Perversion of every sort is being hailed as normalcy, including homosexuality. We have called what is evil good and what is good evil and we do not even know how to blush. We have shaken our fist in the face of Almighty God, expecting the offended Deity to bless us in the midst of our dismissing Him. Billy Graham said it well, “If God does not judge America , He is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah .”

God has already judged America and is presently judging her now, desiring that we return to Him. He has given us warning after warning through prophetic utterance, signs, and judgments. God's heart for America is most perfectly expressed in His words to the Church of Laodicea: “Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me.” Rev 3:19-20.

The lesson is this: God has called us to judge now! We are not to evacuate this cultural crisis and wait for the final judgment. What God is looking for are those who will rightly stand upon His Word and wield the “Sword of the Spirit” so that we might repent and find His glorious mercy. This is not only for us as individuals, but for America as well! He has already told us that abortion is murder, homosexuality is sin and Islam is a lie. Our society has been liberally dishing out unconditional mercy to everyone. In our seeker-friendly evangelism, we extend mercy before judgment is allowed to do its work, but mercy can never be dispensed apart from judgment. Mercy triumphs over judgment (James 2:13) because judgment now is no longer the last word, there is mercy.

God's love is unconditional for everybody, for the homosexual as much as for the greatest saint on the mission field. But God's mercy is contingent upon repentance. "He who conceals his sins does not proper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy," (Proverbs 28:13).

America was birthed as a “city set on a hill,” whose foundations were built upon the precepts of God's Word. Our Pilgrim Forefathers and our Founding Fathers certainly believed this to be true. America therefore, has a responsibility to Almighty God and to the world to let His light shine forth to the utter ends of the earth. We have failed in our responsibility. God is lovingly calling us to return to Him and fulfill our purpose as a nation.

His judgments upon our land are signs that we must repent and call upon His Name (2 Chronicles 7:14).

For those who doubt that God would judge America we need only look upon the prevalent writings, sermons, and speeches of Civil War days.

“Every master of slaves is a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this … Providence punishes national sins with national calamities.” George Mason

“On many a defeated field there was a voice louder than the thundering of a cannon. It was the voice of God, crying, ‘Let my people go.' We were all very slow in realizing it was God's voice, but after many humiliating defeats the nation came to believe it a great and solemn command. Great multitudes begged and prayed that I might answer God's voice by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and I did it, believing we never should be successful in the great struggle unless the God of Battles has been on our side.” Abraham Lincoln.

We are in the throws of God's judgment now! So what will it be America? Will we continue down this spiraling path toward utter degradation? Will we continue to “legalize” that which is immoral so that we feel good about ourselves in our sin? Will we put forth a nother godless million-dollar program that will never touch the cancer of violence destroying us as a nation? Or, will we have the courage to call on the Great Physician Himself, and ask Him to perform the surgery that will completely remove the cancer forever!

 

03/27/2004  WAA Report from Las Vegas, Brenda Spurlock

03/23/2004  Gambling on Our Future, Kristene, Brenda & Liz

03/22/2004  WAA Report from Needles, CA

03/19/2004  Walk Across America, Twentynine Palms, CA

03/17/2004  Walk Across America Report, Yucca Valley

03/16/2004  Walk Across America (WAA) Report

03/15/2004  Judgment the Horse Becomes Judgment the Beatuiful

03/13/2004  Report from Liz Thomas; "Riding through the desert on a horse with no name."

03/10/2004  Flip speaks from the outskirts of San Bernadino, CA

03/09/2004  Flip speaks with Brenda from Rancho Cucamonga, CA

03/06/2004  God Uses Dumb Animals to us Straight

03/01/2004  Rusty reports from San Juan Capistrano, CA

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