2002 – Terrorism in the United States and Believers

WHEREAS, our homeland has been under the attack of militant, terrorist groups, even before September 11, 2001, while politicians and bureaucrats were preoccupied with their own re-elections and security, and

WHEREAS, our nation suffered a major loss to terrorism on September 11, 2001, in New York, Pennsylvania, and Arlington VA, which cost over 3,000 lives and millions of dollars in damages, and

WHEREAS, the previous administration, according to the FBI report “Project Megiddo,” made fun­damentalist Christian groups the targets of investigations and suspicion of terroristic threats against the United States, contrary to the truth, leaving our nation more vulnerable to subsequent attacks at the hands of foreign forces bent on the destruction of our nation, and

WHEREAS, regard for God, the Holy Scriptures, the Church and concern for eternity among the people of our nation enjoyed only a transient increase since September 11, 2001,

BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED that we the members of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America meeting in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, on June 25-27, 2002, do hereby call for all believers to lift up our nation and its leaders in fervent prayer, mindful that God clearly stated that:

II Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

and:

Psalms 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.”

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we recommend only those candidates for public office that take the security of our land seriously while preserving the Constitutional rights of our citizens, without enlarging either bureaucracy or the grasp of federal powers.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that fundamentalist Christians deserve an apology from the Clinton Administration and the FBI, then under President Clinton’s authority, which issued “Project Megiddo,” denigrating Bible-believing Christians across our nation and bringing unwarranted suspicion upon the Church, while warnings of foreign attacks lacked sufficient attention or analysis to prevent the tragedies of September 11, 2001.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that we endeavor in every ministry to challenge the lost with the need to trust in Jesus Christ as personal Savior before it is too late, knowing that the Lord may return at any moment and that terrorism can strike here as never before. Furthermore, we call our nation to repentance from the systematic exclusion of God and His Word, as we also commend those leaders who advocate Bible study and prayer among government personnel (Psalm 127:1).