Dear Friends and
Family,
We appreciate your
efforts to notify Adventists and media about the upcoming press release and
Pastor McGill's arrest on Sunday. Unfortunately, it appears that the
Seventh-day Adventist denomination will continue to stop at nothing to keep
this matter away from the eyes and scrutiny of the public - including their own
membership. We regret to inform you that before Pastor McGill was able to turn
himself in on Sunday, the police were called within hours of his arrival in
Loma Linda on Friday afternoon. We can only suspect that the local constituency
had been alerted to keep a watch out for his presence and prevent, if possible,
the media's involvement.
During the onset of
Sabbath, law officers were called and Pastor McGill was taken into custody at
the behest of a supposedly "sabbath-keeping," "religious liberty
defending" organization. He is currently detained in the San Bernardino
County Detention Facility in San Bernardino, CA. This is the first time since
the late 1980s and the second time in history that a Seventh-day Adventist has
been jailed for the name of his religion in the U.S. Others are soon to follow,
as Bro. Chartier is also expecting a warrant for his arrest.
Pastor McGill began
his fast on Friday afternoon, and will continue until he is released. We covet
your prayers and just as importantly your actions and voices as God's people
are pressed down by the image of the beast. We have received reports of U.S.
Marshals setting up surveillance operations on the Guys, TN property to
identify anyone who comes or goes from the premises.
All of this is being
done, we are hated by all men, "because of the name." Please forward
this information to as many as possible - Adventists or not. Protest this
unjust incarceration, and let the Adventist church and its members know what
they are doing. Every Seventh-day Adventist member is accountable for this
action. Your tithe money is being used to keep Pastor McGill in jail, and seek
other Creation Seventh Day Adventists to incarcerate them as well. Will you
continue to support this beast? Will you stand by idly while men and women are
jailed for their faith on your behalf, with your sacred tithes? Will you, as in
the dark ages, say that "It is the leaders burning Huss and Jerome, we
have no accountability?"
May God forbid that
such gross negligence be found among His professed people in a religious
crisis.
"And now, in this
fearful crisis, in the presence of the idolatrous priests and the apostate
king, they remained neutral. If God abhors one sin above another, of which His
people are guilty, it is doing nothing in case of an emergency. Indifference
and neutrality in a religious crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and
equal to the very worst type of hostility against God." [3T 281]
Your
devoted servants,
Creation
Ministries Staff1162 Old Hwy. 45 South
Guys, TN 38339-5216
888-284-2487
csdapublications@gmail.com
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