Senior Pastor Yang Tuck
Yoong launched into the fray of 377a debate in Singapore by providing
close artillary support for Lawrence Khong of FCBC by urging Christians
to rise up and go for battle against the GLBT community.
Who are they precisely
firing their salvos against? a handful of gay activists!
In the word for the
season below, Pastor Yoong equates the church with Israel, and the GLBT
community with Syria harrasing the church. Such self deception is
difficult to comprehend when the GLBT community is minding her own
business whilst the church (Love Singapore, and National Council of
Churches) is constantly harrasing the Gay community through condemnation
as sinners and insisting that the Government actively put them in jail.
Syria in the bible has
a much more powerful army than Israel, and so could have invaded israel
easily. What does the GLBT community have? they are weak not able to
form any organized group whilsts the Christian community can call upon
an army of tens of thousands. The Christian leaders are generals adored
by thousands every Sunday whilst the few gay activists can get support
amongsts few close friends.
The vastness of the gap
(in terms of wealth, power, and influence) between the church leaders
and the few gay activies is so huge that Christians in Singapore find
the need to create an imaginary gay aggenda with a victimhood mentality
whilst all the while they were the main perpetrators. The extent of self
righteousness and self centeredness is not comprehensible as people
following Christ. The work of Satan has caused the church to fall into
such self delusion that they would cause serious harm to the weak and
loose their righteousness in Christ.
Rather, the church is
acting like Syria of the bible with a large army. The GLBT community is
not Israel but the slave maid, the least in the community, and the most
despised outcasts.
Pastor Yoong called
upon Cornerstone not to be like Gehazi not being aware of the season
that Israel was in, hence implying that it was the Gay
community harassing the church and the church should go on a war path
against gays in 2013.
The opposite is true,
for the GLBT community is quite ambivalent of their circumstances. They
tried to keep a low profile and live life as best they could under the
circumstances and keep to their own community minding their own
business. Yet all the time, the thoughts and the understanding of times
that Christians have declared war on them is not appreciated. And now
you have FCBC firing the first salvos, and the supporting divisions
backing up the attack.
Such an aggression and
unprovoked intention to harm the GLBT community is quite meaningless.
For look unto the battle field with your spiritual eyes and see that the
first salvo is fired into empty land. For the Gay Christian community is
but skeletons buried in the ground, the lives and faith destroyed by
false rethoric, rejection from the churches, and a dismay at
Christianity. These are children of God lost in the field, their crosses
of make shift tombs filled the ground of lives destroyed due to the inner conflicts between
their faith and sexuality, and the lack of freedom in the closet.
Lives are lost, many
died, the living being irrevocably harmed mentally and spiritually. The
new salvos would hurt no one because one cannot die over and over again.
The good life and relationships were stolen from them. Their bones lie
the ground in a deserted land.
As Pastor Yoong and his
Cornerstone army moves across the land, it is like a battle ship firing
on a few small yatchs owned by the few gay activists. The 40,000 strong
of Love Singapore like scavanges continues to fire their empty shells to
keep the dead in the closets.
The ground is soiled
with blood of lives lost and destroyed, and relationships and freedoms
stolen. They are dead, skeletons in the ground to ever rise up against
the incoming forces and their artillery. The ground cries out from
justice and redemption. The blood cries out to God for freedom.
As they continue on to
draw sword and insists that gays be put to jail and their rights
limited, it doesn't change the status quo nor was it likely to change
until there is movement in the US concerning gay marriages. But once the
sword is drawn and tasted blood which it has, we will be condemned by
the blood of the innocent.
They should at least be
blibical and go prostitute hunting instead at Geylang, but no, that
would reveal their own sins, for the wide scale prostitution and marital
infidelity is by straight people. Their salvos should fired at those who
worship Molech and abort their children, but that would be too close to
home.
Why is the church so
adamant on a warpath against the hapless gays? because there is sin in
the midst of the churches. The Pharisees were all out to persecute and
stone the hapless prostitute because by condeming others, a sense of
self righteousness comes in and we feel a sense of moral superiority
against those sinners!
When they brought the
prostitute to Jesus, surely she was guilty and caught in the act. Why
didn't they go ahead and kill her? for they want Jesus to be implicated
and be blamed and loose credibility.
Jesus didn't have a
long conversation with the Pharisees to exchange views on how to stone
the woman! for He just wrote on the stone, the very sins each of them
were hiding that deserved condemnation far more than the prostitutes!
For the GLBT community,
the stones have been thrown, gays put in jails and deep in closets.
Lives are lost and destroyed. The modern day Pharisees could no longer
just walk away, because grave injustice and harm have been perpetuated.
The year 2013 will be a
tough year but the focus will not be on the GLBT community as the issues
could be easily defused by the Government maintaining 377a due to the
strong objection by Christians.
It will be a tough few
years ahead, because God is going to write down on stone tablets the
hidden sins of the church leadership and proclaim the sentence. There
will be public revelations after revelations of wrong doings just as in
America where billions were paid out to sexual abuse cases in the
Catholic Church.
As the salvos are being
fired by Christians in an artillery barrage, there comes a point where
the guns will be quietened when the whole world sees out white washed
tombs with hidden skeletons.
It is not about the gay
community, but the sins in our own lives that we put on the gay gentle
lambs to sacrifice for our hidden sins. The battle has started, but they
cannot kill a GLBT army which is non existent or already dead with their
skeletons buried in the grounds of lives lost and hope despaired.
As we march on to
Jordan river to cross over the other side to fire our salvos and hunt
after gays, just as the Syrian General needed to dip himself into the
river, the water in the river Jordan will expose the church. Any sins
that we have will be abounded by a factor of 4, and when we reach onto
the other side, we will be found to be naked!
A prophetic message to
the churches in Singapore - "Do not to cross the river Jordan for the
river of God's grace and mercy that heal the Syrian General, could also
be a river of judgement and harm for Gehazi."
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Firing the
First Salvo
A word in season by
Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong, Cornerstone Community Church, Singapore, 19 Jan
2013
In the days of the great prophet Elisha, a Syrian General had
contracted leprosy and he had heard that there was a God in Israel who
could perform miracles. At this time, Israel was at war with the Syrians
and so, the whole idea of going to the enemy to ask for a favour was in
itself a humbling thing for this General to do. Nevertheless he humbled
himself to come and see this great prophet. And the prophet Elisha did
not even extend the courtesy of coming out to speak with him. Instead,
he sent a servant to tell him to go and dip in the muddy waters of the
Jordan River seven times.
The General was mad with rage and rode off, almost missing the greatest
miracle in his life because of his pride. But his servants eventually
persuaded him that dipping in the Jordan River wasn’t really going to
cost him anything, and that he actually stood to gain everything. He
humbled himself and went into the waters and dipped himself. On the
seventh dip, his leprosy was completely healed and his skin was restored
and made new and soft, like that of a baby. He was amazed and returned
to the prophet and asked what he wanted and how he could reward him.
Really, all the prophet wanted was for Syria to stop harassing Israel.
The rationale was very simple - God did this favour for you; now you go
and show kindness to Israel. The General rode off but lo and behold,
Elisha’s servant Gehazi, a greedy and foolish man, approached Naaman's
entourage and said “my master Elisha has need of some precious stuff”,
which the General was more than glad to oblige and give. But when he
returned, this was what the prophet said to him, “Did not my heart go
with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it
time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and
vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?" The leprosy that
was on Naaman was then transferred over to Gehazi, who lived and died a
leper.
The important question we need to ask is - what period were they all
living in? Israel was at war. The threat was existential. But the
prophet’s apprentice, Gehazi, had not understood the seriousness of the
season. Listen - there is a time to receive clothing; there is a time to
receive money and all kinds of nice stuff. But now is not the time. This
is a season of spiritual warfare.
Don’t you understand what period the church is living in? God is not
against all that receiving and buying and selling. But we need to be
aware of the time we are now living in. When we crossed over into 2013,
it was as if God sounded a trumpet and all of us must realise the
severity of the hour we are living in. We are entering into a time of
great conflict and the church must not be ignorant of the dangers that
lie at our gates. We must not be oblivious to our responsibilities as an
army to push back the powers of darkness. So how is it that at the most
critical time in history, the church finds itself so unprepared to face
the almost insurmountable challenges before us?
We must sound the trumpet because the church must get herself into
battle footing, and be battle-ready. The first salvo was fired by the
Senior Pastor of FCBC this week on the LGBT issue and the churches are
beginning to mobilise themselves not just for this battle, but for the
many battles ahead of us. The LGBT bloc will of course be outraged, but
that is to be expected. We must make a stand for righteousness in this
nation. This war is winnable and the church will arise victorious. We
are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus who loved us. Be ready for a
sharp polarising of our society over the gay and lesbian issue and when
it happens, you better make sure you know which side you are on. Grace
to all of you.
Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong
19 January 2013
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