"THE BATTLE FOR OUR COURTS" - Not ony about the Law, but the God who Gave the Law

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"THE BATTLE FOR OUR COURTS"
 Not only about the Law, But the God who Gave the Law
 an Appeal on Behalf of Chief Justice Roy Moore

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A Note from Steve Shultz of the Elijah List
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Dear Elijah List readers and your friends (please forward this),

While I am not "into" the Law, Jesus said that ALL SCRIPTURE, including the Law was by inspiration for our instruction. Christ is the fulfillment of the law and the law is the tutor until Christ comes into each person's life (Galatians 3:23-26). It is how we know just how far we fall short of God's most basic requirements. To take these 10 commandments out of the courts is like saying, "We no longer stand for justice and LAW - abiding through the jurisdiction of the courts."

Therefore, I want to stand with Chief Justice Roy Moore. Let's all join in this fight.

Please, if you can't go Saturday, pray for this situation.

If you can go, PLEASE DO!

Stand with your judges in the land. This isn't about the 10 commandments solely. It's about the right of judges in our land to be righteous judges, not being ashamed that they serve a higher Creator, the Lord God.

Pray that Chief Justice Roy Moore will prevail. Dutch Sheets has been spearheading a fight in prayer and intercession for the judges of the land. Dutch has stated many times that this battle is even more important than who is in the office as President . And that is why so many judges are not being confirmed right now. There is a fight to keep righteous judges out of our courts.

Finally, Joni Ames, who met with Chief Justice Moore's legal advisor,  is often a writer for the Elijah List and is a prophetic Voice to this and other nations --writes her own appeal below.

Joining the fight for God in our court system,


Steve Shultz
THE ELIJAH LIST
www.elijahlist.com

PS:  For further reading by Dutch Sheets and Chuck Pierce on the Battle for our Courts, feel free to read the following articles:

"DUTCH SHEETS calls the Church to Emergency Prayer Re: Supreme Court Justices"

and

A WORD TO THE BODY OF CHRIST/URGENT PRAYER ALERT TO SHIFT THE JUDICIAL BRANCH IN AMERICA

"The Rock of Offense - The Rock Cries Out"
by Joni Ames
http://hometown.aol.com/joniames/index.htm

Dear Friends,

A quick note to you regarding an update on the Ten Commandments issue in Montgomery, AL. To be honest, I was asking God, "What's the big deal?," and the Lord spoke clearly to me, "I didn't come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it in this nation. The rocks are beginning to cry out."

Jesus is the TRUE Rock, and He is crying out to us to be wise and realize that this isn't one man's fight, but His, for our nation, and our hearts are being evaluated regarding it. It is a heads up to us that, if we don't stand with Chief Moore on this, it could be the beginning of THIS nation jailing people for their beliefs.

I met over dinner last evening with Chief Moore's Legal Advisor, Tom Parker and his wife, and the following is information directly from him regarding this situation. They are requesting your prayers, and even your physical presence at a rally there in Montgomery, AL, this coming Saturday morning.

by Joni Ames
http://hometown.aol.com/joniames/index.htm

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PUBLIC PRESS RELEASE RE: CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is taking a difficult public stand on God's Word. He is risking his job, his retirement, and even possibly his freedom (as in jail time) in his fight against the federal courts for the right to acknowledge God and His Law as the foundation of the laws of our nation. The monument to the moral foundation of law that he placed in the Rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building is a Rock of Offense to the ungodly. It is as a sharp two-edge sword, separating soul from spirit and revealing the true nature of a person through their response to it. It is causing a raging whirlwind of opposition.

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WATCH LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY AT 1:30 P.M.
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Chief Justice Moore will hold a press conference Thursday, at 1:30 p.m. Central Time, in the Rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama, to publicly announce his response to the federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the Rotunda of the State Judicial Building by August 20th. Please pray for him and our nation. You should be able to hear him explain his rationale as it is most likely that major networks, like CNN or Fox News, will carry his press conference live. You will also be able to access his statement in printed form at www.morallaw.org , the website for his legal defense fund.

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COME TO MONTGOMERY SATURDAY A.M. FOR PUBLIC RALLY
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There will be a massive public rally in support of the Ten Commandments and Chief Justice Moore at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday, August 16th, starting at 10:00 a.m. Central Time. ALL are invited to come and show your support. You can find details about the event at www.restorethecommandments.com .

Please show your support publicly for God's Word. If you cannot attend in person, you can watch it live on C-SPAN.

Tom Parker
Legal Advisor to Chief Justice Roy Moore
Montgomery, Alabama

Today, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the "stay" on the "order to remove" the Ten Commandments from the Alabama State Judicial Building
by Douglas W. Phillips, Esq.

Earlier today (August 5th), the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the "stay" on the "order to remove" the Ten Commandments from the Alabama State Judicial Building. Now that the stay is lifted and the order to remove is in place, Chief Justice Roy Moore has been given fifteen days to remove the Ten Commandment, or else.

But he will not obey this order. To do so would be (a) to violate his oath of office to the Alabama Constitution which specifically declares the state laws to be under God; (b) to grant jurisdiction to a federal court which is acting beyond the scope of its lawful jurisdiction; (c) to ratify an unlawful and usurpatious application of the First Amendment; and most importantly (d) to concede that the God of Scripture is not supreme over the laws of the United States.

Because the Chief Justice will not obey this order, he may well be found in contempt of court and jailed or fined. (In the order handed down today, the Eleventh Circuit Court anticipates Moore's refusal to comply and threatens a $5,000 per day fine to be levied against the Chief Justice in his official capacity.) Alternatively, federal marshals could be sent to remove the Ten Commandments, although the recent movement of Congress to defund such an activity may put the brakes on this approach. There are other possibilities as well, but whatever the tactic of enforcement adopted by the 11th Circuit Court, one thing is certain: the stage will be set for one of the greatest constitutional crises in American history (second perhaps only to the crisis between Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court over the establishment of an unconstitutional monetary system, and the crisis precipitated by the Lincoln Administration when it raised troops against Virginia).

A Constitutional Crisis

In this case, a "constitutional crisis" means a showdown between competing governmental jurisdictions. This showdown is all the more likely if the Governor of Alabama sticks to his principles and supports Chief Justice Moore against the unconstitutional order of the 11th Circuit Court.

There are many Ten Commandment cases surfacing around the country. This one is different from most of the others for two reasons: First, the defendant in the case is not a school official or a lower judge, but the highest judicial officer of a state, the Chief Justice of a Supreme Court. Second, the Chief Justice has refused to employ the specious arguments which are so tempting to conservative constitutional attorneys intent on winning their cases at all costs. Such lawyers often employ enemy arguments.

Justice Moore refuses to use such arguments. He has staked his case, his career, his very life on a simple proposition: The Lord God of the Bible who gave us the Ten Commandments is the only source of law and authority under which our nation and its judges may govern. It is this very God of Scripture to whom our Framers appealed when they drafted the charter documents for our nation. These same Framers gave us a Bill of Rights, To be precise, the First Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." As Moore has pointed out: He is not Congress, and no law has been passed. He is simply acknowledging the source of law, God Almighty.

Thompson has Hardened his heart

This is the type of argument that makes the judges of the land quake with indignation. They are the gods of the land and do not like to be challenged. Like Pharaoh before Moses, Eleventh Circuit Court Judge Myron Thompson has hardened his heart, mocked, belittled, and even taunted the prophet who stood before him. Thompson and the Republican-appointed judges who ruled against Moore have forgotten God's warning to them:

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. (Psalm 2:10-12)

The true mettle and faith of many professing Christians may soon be tested. Where will they stand? If the Governor of Alabama stands with the Chief Justice, God's Law will remain publicly displayed in the gates of that state. As the Chief Executive over the federal government, President Bush may also be presented with a decision of far-reaching implications: Enforce the federal court and stand with the 11th Circuit Court in their opposition to the display of God's Law, or declare it invalid and stand. The United States Supreme Court has discretion as to whether or not to hear a case. But where a significant conflict exists between jurisdictions, it is virtually obligatory that the Court help to resolve the matter. If the Court grants a writ of certiorari to hear the case, you and I will be living spectators to an unprecedented event.

Picture this: For the first time since the Founding era, a state Chief Justice with faith in God Almighty will stand before the Supreme Court and exhort them of their duty to God, to man, and to the Constitution. He will defend the proposition that the God of Christianity is supreme over the laws of our nation and that we must acknowledge Him or perish. Perhaps he will quote Scripture. Perhaps he will exhort these judges to "kiss the Son, lest He be angry." But whatever happens, it will be a defining moment in our nation's history.

Where will YOU Stand?

Once again, America will be tested. Where will we stand? You can decide to stand with Justice Moore by appearing for the national rally which will be held at the Alabama State Judicial Building on August 16, or simply by praying that the Governor will reject the authority of the 11th Circuit Court to enforce this order.

One thing is clear: God has raised up Chief Justice Moore as a Moses to the children of these United States. He stands immovable because his confidence is in Yahweh. He knows that the Lord of hosts will do battle for us. The same God who opened the sea with the blast of His nostrils to free the children of Israel is the same God who will defend all those who diligently seek him.

Perhaps because of this Moses of the American court system, we will someday live to see the same principle God gave to Israel, realized in the life of our own nation:

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. (Isaiah 1:23-26)

Oh, that God would restore our judges as at the first. Oh, that we would be called a city of righteousness! Do you believe in the power of God? Will you stand with Him and the prophets of righteousness that He raises in our own land? Who is on the Lord's side?

Stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh!

Douglas W. Phillips, Esq.
President of Vision Forum, founder of the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy, and a constitutional attorney.

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