When the dust settles Bob and Gailon will go their merry way and DS and 3ABN will go theirs as will LS. What will be left is alot of animosity and bad feelings.
I am of the firm opinion that the four main players deserve one another.
Girl, flesh and blood did not give this to you. The real damage will be others who have seen all of those meintioned above as leaders. Not all are spiritually mature to separte the sin from the sinner, especially in leadership.
When the dust settles..an interesting assessment, particularly given our early efforts to simply bring reformation to the few issues we were aware of, specifically that the charges against Linda were unsupporteded by the evidence and that Tommy Ray Shelton, a non-SDA "minister" and alleged pedophile, should most certainly not be in charge of programming for Three Angels Broadcasting Network. Yup, that is how it started. Simple as that and most of the effort was directly with DLS and Dr Walt.
As we moved along, the allegations of financial abuses and the errant firing of the trust services department raised their ugly heads.
Then ASI and the collapse of ecclesiastical efforts to resolve the issues. I e-mailed my concerns, Danny responded and Danny used the bully pulpit of the Thursday Night 3ABN Live.
We responded by building our own pulpit and preaching about the errant issues. They claim someone was listening and we damaged their bottom line, apparently rather permanently, despite Doug Batchelor's endorsements.
They filed suite to bring our pulpit down,,,but it survived!!! We defended and now have the smoking guns and the loaded weapons as well. Will we have to fire them?
Now the economy has us all in it's grips and escatology may well be laying foundations for the a false reformation and a National Sunday Law. And instead of doing door to door work, we are shooting at each other from behind parapets with an uncertain longevity. But shoot we must. Yes, we will have to fire them, I would suppose.
But leaders? Of who, of what, When and where are we leading people to? It is a historical fact that no-one really likes the gunfighters turned sheriffs that clean up the streets of Dodge City!!! We will be nothing but a forgotten footnote in someone's history of 3ABN and in far less than five years, assuming we have that long, from our arrival at Boot Hill, we will long since have been forgotten, our epitaph of little note and some will even declare "good riddance" in bright orange paint across the marker!!!
Leaders??? Of what??? When I turn my head I do not see anyone following me to the courthouse or even doing as we suggest? On the contrary, those with real claims shrink from battle and avoid conflict at any cost, regardless of the principles involved. There is no army following me!!! If there were, this would have been over long ago and the truth would be clear as crystal, 3 ABN would have a constituency, damages would have been recovered from 3ABN's leaders and Linda would back to doing her Front Porch Liturgies. Trust services could be trusted and those damaged would have been made whole, reformation would be unifying and cathartic and sin would be caste out of the camp.
Instead, we shall most certainly duel to the death of one or the other and given the state of the economy, 3ABN's chances of survival have decreased. A sad end to what began as a simple reform effort. Sad end to what should have been a confession, reformation and restoration...oh, what a testimony to the 3ABN viewing public of the value of Christianity. What a day of rejoicing that should have been!!! Love restored, mercy and justice exonerated, and a cathartic re-union of all the parties bringing the very best of talents to bear to warn a very badly mislead world, a world now looking for answers in ways we had never imagined!!!
Does your neighbor know you have a clear view of the coming eschatology?
Do they know that the demise of the World Trade Center buildings likely began a clear eschatolgy leading to the end of time?
Do they know that the Sunami moved "islands out of their places, as yet another eschatological event unfolded? Do they know that the leadership of this world now struggle in vain to put business back on a sound footing?
Do they know that National Apostacy leads to National Ruin?
Do they know the implications of that as the false reformation brings upon us the National Sunday Law?
Do they know how important it is to be a part of the True Reformation and how that leads to the Loud Cry?
Do they know just how close the Loud Cry will bring us to the end of probation and the Universal Sunday Law?
Do they know the implications of probation closing?
Do they know the meaning of the Death Decree?
Do they know why all eyes will be upon the Nebulus in the belt of Orion?
Do they even know that the second coming of Our Lord and Saviour is imminent?
Do they know they need to prepare for that inevitable event?
DO THEY KNOW? And if not, do you know why?
No, it was not because 3ABN never came to your town or your cable company, it is because we did not warn them. It is because we did not have the courage to tell them that Jesus is coming again!!! that they need to prepare...or to even hand them a Great Controversy and read the dire warnings or The Desire of Ages and they get to know HIM.
Do they know to be wary of the "peace and safety" message? Do they know that McCain has no answers, Palin has no answers, Obama has no answers, Biden has no answers? Do they know that no human will have a solution, but that WE HAVE THE ANSWERS? Yes, YOU have the answers...we have the gift of prophecy and a biblically based truth that is perfectly logical and leads to answers and solutions to the dillemma ahead. Do we dare share it?
People, the time of trouble is dead ahead and how many men, women and children will be on your conscience as you wonder about your soul's safety? You must make the time that remains count!!! Every person warned is one less that will weighing on your conscience as the time of trouble unfolds. Every one saved will be a source of Joy as you contemplate the status of your soul as God withdraws HIS Spirit from an aposticized world!
It is now time for us all to stand up and be counted, for us all to take up the book work and spread the message, for us all to be prepared to give real Bible Studies that will expalin our Faith in detail. It is time for us all to leaders!!!
Gailon Arthur Joy