{"id":208005,"date":"2020-05-29T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208005"},"modified":"2020-06-02T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:48:29","slug":"church-that-defied-lockdown-order-is-torched-by-a-suspected-pro-lockdown-arsonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208005","title":{"rendered":"Church That Defied Lockdown Order Is Torched By A Suspected Pro-Lockdown Arsonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hide Out Now \u2013 May 28, 2020<\/h1>\n
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The church was burned to the ground. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

First Pentecostal Church in Holly Springs, Mississippi has been burned down by a suspected arson fire. The fire is believed to have been started by retaliators who heard that church pastor Jerry Waldrop filed a 14-page lawsuit against the city of Holly Springs, alleging police officers had disrupted Easter service.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing left. It\u2019s gone. No roof and very few walls,\u201d pastor Waldrop said to local reporters.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve kind of racked our brains and we have no idea. No enemies that we know of. We don\u2019t even know anyone that we would think would be capable of doing something like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A poorly-spelled spray paint message reading \u201cI bet you stay home now you hypokrits,\u201d was discovered on the church\u2019s parking lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Baltimore pastor Stacey Shiflett defied local officials by openly tearing up a cease and desist order during a special Wednesday night church service.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m tearing up this cease and desist order right here, and I\u2019m telling you right now, we\u2019re gonna do it God\u2019s way,\u201d shouted Pastor Shiflett to an excited congregation at Calvary Baptist Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shiflett tied his act of civil disobedience to his sermon by comparing local and state bureaucrats to the tyrannical Pharoah from the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNewsflash, Pharaoh doesn\u2019t get to dictate to God\u2019s people how they worship their God,\u201d said the pastor.\u00a0 \u201cGod\u2019s the one that defines the parameters. God\u2019s the one that communicates His will and His plan for His church, not Egypt. And I\u2019m telling you right now, with this cease and desist letter in my hand, the Bible says to the New Testament Church not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some he is. But so much the more as you see the day approaching. And the closer we get to Jesus coming back, the more church we ought to be having, not less church. Now that\u2019s God\u2019s parameters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor Shiflett slammed local bureaucrats for restricting religious services to digital-only.\u00a0 Shiflett pointed out that live streaming can\u2019t replace the feeling of being in a physical church.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSitting in the basement and watching a baseball game video is not the same thing as going to a baseball game,\u201d explained Pastor Shiflett.\u00a0 \u201cAnd sitting at the house and watching a prerecorded or a recorded service on your device is not the same thing as assembling in the house of God. It\u2019s obvious that some of the people that are making these rules don\u2019t go to church. It\u2019s obvious that they don\u2019t care how we worship, how we do it.<\/span><\/p>\n