Anne Graham Lotz, Billy’s daughter, says judgment is imminent and nothing can save us but loads and loads of prayer. From an e-mail sent out yesterday to her Web site subscribers:
This past spring, Joel Rosenberg and I taught through the book of Joel as we led a prophecy seminar at The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove. It was my privilege to give the first two messages that covered Joel 1:1 through Joel 2:17. The impact on me was profound. Both times, when I stepped off of the platform, I knew God had spoken. The messages almost made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Why? Because God was clearly warning that His judgment is coming on America and it’s going to be ugly. I knew it then, and I know it now.
I believe Jesus is soon to return to take all of His followers to Heaven with Him in The Rapture. While this will be deliverance for you and me, can you imagine the impact on our nation, let alone the world, when suddenly every single authentic Christian disappears? Institutions will collapse. Banks will close. The Stock Market will plunge. Planes will fall out of the sky. Cars will crash on the road. Government in America at every level will disintegrate. Families will be torn apart. In the unprecedented turmoil, our nation will be vulnerable for our enemies to seize the moment and attack us. There will be mass chaos, confusion, fear, grief, despair, anger, threats, danger — judgment.
Damn. Judgment. Since we are all naturally born no damn good, I’ve got to believe some grim stuff is coming our way, for sure.
The other possibility is that Ms. Lotz is merely reprising a scam that seems never to go out of style, because the stupid are like the poor: We will have them with us always.
UPDATE: Just so’s you know, Pat Robertson is on exactly the same page:
I warned about this years and years ago that it was going to happen and it did, it has. What’s next? What’s next is what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. It is just a question of how soon the wrath of God is going to come on this land.
Uh-huh. The unexciting truth is that, if the Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage, nothing whatever will change in the lives of the overwhelming majority of us.