THE WARNING A Novel of America in the Last Days (The End of America Series Book 2) by John Price

Author:John Price [PRICE, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christian House Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-04-25T07:00:00+00:00

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Solid Word Baptist Church

Lansing, Michigan

“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:

shame hath covered our faces:

for strangers are come into the sanctuaries

of the Lord's house.”

(Jeremiah 51:51)

The Pastor of Solid Word Baptist Church received a considerable amount of feedback after the overflow meeting at his church. Local media were generally fair, sensing that they should report the truth of what was said by the incensed local residents. The conservative talk radio station in town was abuzz for several days after the meeting at Solid Word, with callers applauding the growing antagonism against the President. Though most of the residents of Lansing were pleased with the outcry for something to be done to take back their country, official Washington was less than pleased.

The President himself reviewed highlighted parts of the transcript of the meeting. His review hastened his approval of the DHS plan to punish America’s religious leaders who refused to sign the Loyalty Oath. It also increased his determination to make an example of the Lansing Pastor whose church was the site of a meeting that he considered to be treasonous. He was not about to allow radical right wing religious zealots to rabble rouse others to oppose his rule. He authorized DHS to take the appropriate action.

Three armored trucks pulled up in front of the Solid Word Baptist Church just as the second service started. The dark green, almost black, armored SWAT trucks were painted with the logo and name of the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, an American Flag and the words SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM. Twenty-one armed DHS employees with body armor and helmets quickly exited their SWAT trucks, formed up and ran towards the church’s three entry doors. The leader of the DHS assault team held up his hand until he confirmed that his full team was in place. He then dropped his hand, motioning towards the church. The lead assaulter in each of the three sub-teams jerked open their assigned doors, as all twenty-one SWAT team members ran into the church, entering the sanctuary.

The armed men and women trotted down the middle aisle and the two aisles on the side of the sanctuary, reaching the front of the church in seconds. Congregants were hushed as their eyes saw something that didn’t match with reality – armed, helmeted, uniformed men and women in their sacred space. Half of the strangers entering the sanctuary had their guns trained on the Pastor and the three men seated behind him on the front platform of the church. The other half turned and trained their guns on the people - men, women and children, seated in the pews. For almost everyone present this incursion represented the first time that any of them had experienced someone training a gun on them.

Solid Word Baptist Church, like most American churches, organized a security team a few years ago in the off chance that some deluded soul would attempt to enter a church service to harm or kill. Four of the members of Solid Word’s security team were in attendance at the second service when it was invaded by DHS armed employees.

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