On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:31:58 -0400, Al Patrick wrote:

You should have heard Pastor Peter John Peters' sermon tonight. It will be archived at http://www.scripturesforamerica.org if anyone would like to hear it. Of course it will also be replayed tonight at 04:00 EDT on 5.070 MHz.

Basically, it deals with the blackout that that occurred in the NE of the US and in parts of Canada this evening. The first I heard of it went something like, "We don't know what caused it, but it was not a terrorist act." This lead me to say immediately, it was probably a terrorist act! How do they know it was not a terrorist act if they don't know what caused it?

Glad I missed it. last thing I need to waste time listening to is
another jackass assuring people he knows everything when obviously he
doesn't know shinola.

Well, let's look at a couple of scriptures.

Exodus 23:27 "I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. NASB

Good. makes it easier to shoot 'em in the back of the head - a highly
effective target area.

Leviticus 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that shall waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you shall sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies shall eat it up. NASB

My enemies are going to swallow my wad? Imagine that.

Deuteronomy 4:34 "Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? NASB

Congratulations on taking the quote out of context - what yhou posted
means nothing at all now.

Thursday at the Patrick residence:

4:00 PM - the power goes out.
5:00 PM - Al decides he netter use up the rest of the beer that's in
his 'fridge since, with the power out and the 'fridge thus not
working, the beer is going to get warm and skunky.
6:00 PM - Al polishes off the last of his beer, and in the feeble
state of mind that results, turns on his radio, listens to John
Peters, and turns into Super Zealot (faster than a speeding bull****
artist, more powerful than a wounded skunk, able to jump to monumental
conclusions in a single bound).
11:30 PM - Al decides to get on Usenet and post a bunch of off-topic
drivel to rec.radio.shortwave in an effort to record the confused
thoughts running through his alcohol-soaked grey matter so that after
the next day's hangover wears off he can try to make some sense of it
all himself - it never occurs to him that he's not going to make sense
to anyone else either, or that nobody else even gives a flying f#$%k
at a rolling doughnut.

Deuteronomy 26:8 and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders; NASB

These are only four examples, but a NASB search for terror* produced seventy-nine hits. Not all apply.

None of them do. It was a power outage, period. Not the apocalypse, no
matter how much you might wish it to be.

Anyway, someone on the TV and / or radio said it was not a terrorist act, it was just lighting that hit a power station near Niagara Falls, Canada.

Whoever said that should have checked with the National Weather
Service before forfeiting their credibility by making that statement.
The NWS would have told them beforehand that at the time of the
blackout the skies over Niagara Falls were blue and clear, and the
nearest lightning was 400 miles away.

The anti-Christ controlled media want us to fear man, but attempt to forbid our fearing God. Fear the guy who can pull a trigger or crash a plane, but don't fear the God of the universe who can create tornados, hurricanes, earth quakes, volcanic eruptions, galactic collisions, incurable diseases, and eternal fires! (It tickled me when Kennedy's "eternal flame" went out just days after it was lit, only to be turned off again later as an icon of conservation. The Titanic was unsinkable! Remember? There are other examples, but we'll pass on them for now.)

The only thing we have to fear from God is that He allows imbeciles
like you to inhabit the same living space as sheep, innocent children,
senior citizens, and women.

Yep! If some man cuts a cable, explodes a bomb or shoots a hole in a transformer it is a terrorist act. If Almighty God casts a six billion volt of lightning from the sky across a half mile air gap it is not a terrorist act! It's just a lightning bolt. :-) I LOVE IT!

Read Deuteronomy 28 and see the many blessings that will come it we obey God and the many curses that will befall us if we forget and disobey God. There are other places as well, but Deut. 28 will suffice for now!

Go ahead. Fear the car breaking down on a lonely road or in a "bad" neighborhood. Fear the loss of a job. Fear some "terrorist" bombing a shopping center or government building. Fear the tooth fairy not bringing your child his dollar bill. (inflation)

BUT, for goodness sake, Don't fear the terror of an angry God.

Kiddos, you ain't seen nothing yet! God is not going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. Even the "supreme court" will bow it's knees to Jesus Christ, though it'll probably bow its knees to the world courts first.


This is what happens to people who sleep through seventh-grade
Physical Science class. Science knows what causes lightning bolts, but
Al Patrick doesn't. Pity poor Al, he must absolutely crap his drawers
when there's a solar eclipse in the middle of the afternoon.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -- Teddy Roosevelt

Go ahead, America! World! Phony churches! Fill up your cup!

Sounds like you already emptied yours - several times in fact.

Goood Day!

Al

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