The jailing of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis for five days recently has begun to galvanize Christian conservatives. Hundreds of people rallied at a Christian conservative gathering outside the Tennessee capitol.
The celebration of Constitution Day was sponsored by the Tennessee Pastors Network and drew Rafael Cruz, a pastor and the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican and presidential candidate. “The devil overplayed his hand,” said Cruz, speaking of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent same-sex marriage decision. “We’ve been silent too long,” he said, when calling for the country to elect a constitutionally conservative president. “Religious persecution ends in January 2017,” he said.
Joe Davis, husband of the Rowan County, KY clerk who was jailed for five days after defying a federal judge’s order to process same-sex marriage licenses, was also present at the rally. “What we saw in Kentucky with Kim Davis is tyranny,” Cruz said, to cheers and applause. Joe Davis asked for prayers for himself and his wife.
About 40 Tennessee legislators also appeared at the rally. Also speaking at the rally was Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary. He also predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling would lead to a backlash. He suggested to reporters that if the next president is conservative, and appointed a conservative to the SCOTUS bench, the same-sex marriage ruling could be overturned. “The good news for America is that Supreme Court decisions are never final,” he said.
Religious freedom is one of the key principles of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Christian conservatives, a substantive voting block are concerned that their freedoms are being eroded rapidly by those in power. U.S. constitutional freedoms are predicted to be repudiated as the United States careens toward the final prophetic events. And it should be no surprise to students of prophecy that the loss of other freedoms will prepare the world for Sunday laws.
“When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.” Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, page 451
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