ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
The Johnstown Flood Is a Lesson for Quasi-Lutherans
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| Johnstown, after the dam broke |
The earthen dam upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was set up for deeper water and imported fish for the summer camp of the ultra-rich. The earlier drainpipes had been removed and the dam's top lowered for convenience.
There were many warnings, even some partial flooding, but no one considered dam failure a possibility. After days of rain in 1889, 20 million gallons of water burst the dam and rushed down on the small town where fortunes were made in iron and steel.
A dam is not passive, but holds back energy. We saw an interesting example at a nuclear power site. The plant pumped water all night into storage, to feed the generators all day.
The build-up for a catastrophe among the Lutherans and other apostate denominations is similar. They have their meetings, votes, and election of officers and bishops. The most outrageous acts and discussions are treated with indifference to the previous definition of normal.
By merging - "that they be one" - the ELCA maneuvered to consolidate and empower the radicals from Seminex, The ALC, and the LCA. They began in 1987 with quotas. Though I was a young lad and not even 40, I was already out of there, convinced that a quota-constricted merger would be a disaster. Very few howled in opposition to the con job and went happily on their way for 22 years of ELCA, wearing their bishop wardrobes.
Ohio LCA president Ken Sauer became the Ohio ELCA bishop and then left ELCA after 2009 to form the "bishops' synod" in reaction to The Vote. That led to Liz Eaton becoming Presiding Bishop of ELCA, someone Bishop Sauer welcomed into the ministry.
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| Note the date, 2017. Liz proved that the pulpit leads the world, as Melville wrote, before anyone noticed what was going to happen by 2022. |
What could be more full of meaning?- for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 8
The latest ELCA convention featured Presiding Bishop Liz Eaton's song and dance about how she kicked the first transexual bishop out of office in San Francisco.
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| Megan Rohrer was ordained by ELCA. |
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| Bishop Megan Rohrer experienced defenestration in ELCA, for removing a male pastor she did not favor. |
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| The 2009 ELCA vote took place at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, followed by a sudden storm that knocked the cross from the steeple. |
Many church bodies are following ELCA's disastrous ways. I believe the upcoming national vote will be like the Johnstown flood, with people saying afterwards, "We should have seen it coming."
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This is the hit-and-run assistant bishop, backed by her boss, who looks worried. |
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