By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~ Proverbs 24:3-4

The Sons of Liberty, the Liberty Tree, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty—Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—To (our Founders) (Liberty) was a sacred trust, a precious possession, a privilege to be stewarded, and a right they would be responsible to give an answer for. Liberty meant everything to them. It was something worth fighting for, and, yes, even dying for. It was far more valuable than mere freedom…in comparison to liberty, freedom is somewhat feeble. A certain freedom can be revoked, and my rights violated or rescinded, but liberty cannot be rightfully violated by anyone except the Creator or the individual who owns the liberty. Under freedom, others can negate an individual’s rights anytime they can acquire (or steal as in 2020) enough political power to do so. It is called majority rule, and with it you can vote (steal) someone else’s freedom out of existence; but not so with liberty, because that is an endowed right from our Creator…This is also why our Founding Fathers were at pains to establish a republican government as opposed to a democracy. ~ Founders’ Bible

Remember; democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ~ John Adams

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! ~ Benjamin Franklin

Now, my dear friends, after this past week of DISTRACTION upon DISTRACTION, even on Jeff’s C&C radar screen…Distracting Beasts…I need to connect the good truth of our Liberty to the evil truth behind the little red doors…

Scott asks in last night’s Please Refrain From Thinking, “Why do they keep distracting us?”

We ended up finding at the end of this multi-month operation this little red door in downtown Port-au-Prince that you wouldn’t think anything of it. It looked like a janitor closet, but it’s this den of satanism, its this dungeon-looking place where these children are being raped there. It was the first time we actually walked in on a raid and saw the kid being raped. Anyway, (holding back tears) we got the kids out…there’s four of them that came out. A couple of them had babies…the infant they were using to leverage the young mom. Anyway, the next day we were talking to them and the one girl couldn’t believe it. She finally spoke her first words holding a teddy bear after being rescued. She had been kidnapped at age six after her parents died in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. From six to sixteen she was brutally raped for money. And here the red door opens, we go in and get her out, and she says to us, “Is it OK for me to have hope.” ~ JP, Underground Railroad

So, God has revealed to me the spirit of infiltration and deception…the very spirit behind the evil in JP’s report above, that unfortunately is very much alive and well in the majority of our churches, as I personally observed in both my former church in Orange County, as well as within a group of Sullivan County pastors. Called before the pastor, deacons, and elders of my former church to be reprimanded for exposing the spirit behind the sexual grooming that leads to the sex-trafficking of our children, as well as exposing the spirit behind the contact-tracing used to groom people into accepting the evil of the mRNA injection, and ultimately to the mark of the beast, God put on my heart to present all five of them a copy of the Founders’ Bible. I honestly thought these were good men who simply didn’t know the truth about our great American heritage, our liberty, and our solemn duty as churchmen to uphold and pass it on to the next generation. Only two of them ever thanked me. The two largest Christian assemblies in Orange County are infiltrated and controlled by the same spirit…paying lip service to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John while bowing the knee at the Progressive altar of Social Justice, equity, inclusion as it cozied them into solidarity with Black Lives Matter in total submission and surrender to enemies of God who, in turn, have declared them unessential.

The very same spirit among the Sullivan County pastors saw the Founders’ spirit in us willing to defend the sacred trust, the precious possession, the privilege to be stewarded, and the right WE would be responsible to give an answer for, and it vigorously attacked that spirit in us…for being “political”. And it is the very same spirit in both Orange and Sullivan churches that have led their flocks off the field of battle and into the graveyards of irrelevance, as it demonizes patriotism as idolatry and afflicts the church leaders with indifference to the John 17:21 mission of CLOTH as well as their own revival! Far worse…this spirit has literally disarmed men from their primary role of protecting their communities, their families…and especially the children from the evil that is rapidly closing in around them.

I simply can’t imagine a greater pain born by God than that caused by our indifference as repayment for the absolute greatest abba love any father has ever shown, let alone from the ONE who pulled us all from the jaws of hell!

As one of the Sullivan Pastors recently put it, “We serve an awesome God and He’s still in complete control of our universe.” Truer words were never spoken. I, for one, have never doubted God. It is His church and church leaders that need to be held to account in this hour by every single one of us who counts himself a Christian. Proverbs iron has never sharpened iron in silence. Speak up for the (children) who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute! ~ Proverbs 31:8-9

CLOTH is a cross-denominational fellowship of Christian leader’s committed without apology to Biblical truth and values, to the clear Gospel of Christ, and to our unity in Him according to the Scripture (see John 17:21)!  This unity is critical for us as the followers of Christ, for mutual encouragement and spiritual strength, as today we face an unprecedented battle against the forces of anti-Christ evil, in every area of spiritual, moral, educational, and political concern!  As the early, First Century church stood together as one in Christ, so must we, for strength and effective witness by the Spirit of God in these perilous days!  We are certainly praying for a genuine revival in the church and in our Land, bringing true repentance, reconciliation and restoration across the board, to a backslidden church, and to a country needing divine cleansing from their sins and iniquities before a holy and just God!  With this in mind, and with a revival gathering prayerfully planned for this coming September 23rd, we are beginning, effective tonight, the 25th, a 40-day season of prayer and fasting, through August the 4th!  As you personally seek the leading of God’s spirit for this season, please join us seriously, sacrificially, and prayerfully, to cry out to the Lord for HIS mercy and mighty move among us as His people, for a new “Great Awakening” in our midst!  We commence this 40-day season at 7:00 PM tonight in the “Upper Room” at the Twin Ponds Farm 531 River Road, Montgomery, NY 12549! There is absolutely NO church alternative or amendment to, or religious substitute for 2 Chronicles 7:14 – no concert, no recital, no sermonette, or any other easy “quick fix” for what we need!  We must be desperate for our God, and for what He alone can do by His Word and answer the cry of His people (Jeremiah 33:3)!  ~ Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church