EGS - Our Story

1. How I was Given the Gift to Discern Signs
The story of how I received a certain gift by accident, the gift to discern signs.

On March 12, 1967, when I was 5 weeks old, my parents took me to St. Philomena catholic church in Torrance, California to be pedobaptized by affusion. Fr. James Cavanagh administered the rite, thereby making me a member of the Catholic Church (CCC 1213, 1267-1273).

In June 1989, I married a preacher's daughter at St. Anne's catholic church in Columbus, Georgia. We had met in the Army at nearby Fort Benning. Her father, a preacher in the churches of Christ, lived thousands of miles away and was not able to come to our wedding. He liked me, and one of the reasons why was because I believed the Gospel of the Christ Jesus (1Co. 15:3-4). But he did not believe that I had been baptized.

So, in May 1990, when my wife and I traveled thousands of miles to see her father in Homer, Alaska, he welcomed me to the family and offered to credobaptize me by immersion while I was there. I did not see anything wrong with accepting his offer. Being credobaptized by immersion upon my own profession of faith is an entirely different rite than being pedobaptized by affusion upon my parents' profession of faith. Therefore, I was not being "re-baptized," because you cannot "re-do" something that has never been done before.

So, I went ahead and accepted my father-in-law's offer, thinking that I would just be getting wet. Little did I know, however, that something more than that was happening to me. I was being given the ability to discern signs from a spiritual source. This ability is the gift of the Holy Spirit called "the discerning of spirits" (1Co. 12:10).

Gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to those who were credobaptized (Acts 2:38). But because it was only the circumcised Jews that wanted a sign (1Co. 1:22), only the circumcised would receive the ability to discern signs when they were credobaptized. However, pedobaptism would come to replace circumcision (Col. 2:11-12). Therefore, the pedobaptized can also receive the ability to discern signs when they are credobaptized.

But again, I had no idea that I was receiving that ability when I was credobaptized. I did come to know, however, that I had just become a member of the Church of Christ (Acts 2:47) without canceling my membership in the Catholic Church. It is not possible to cancel one's membership in the Catholic Church anyway. That's why, to this day, I am a member of both churches, one by choice and one not by choice.

So, please do not hold it against me, because I'm sure that if you had been in my shoes, you would have become a member of both churches too.

2. The Altar is Overturned: Is it a Sign?
The altar is overturned during Mass by Marie and Joseph at a church named after the Annunciation in Mary's vision and Joseph's matching dream.

From 1992 to 2007, my wife and I called Decatur, Alabama home. Both of our children were born there. We made many good friends from both churches that I was a member of. (We have stayed in touch with some of those friends to this very day, even having dinner with them in 2024 when we went down to Alabama.) Every Sunday morning, Decatur's church of Christ would meet in a building on Grant Street. They also met there on Sunday and Wednesday nights.

"St. Ann" was the name of the catholic parish. They would gather for Mass in a building on Johnston Street. (Fun fact: the family of a future NFL star, a lad by the name of Philip Rivers, were regular attendess at Mass there.) In 2003, when local Catholics began to gather for Mass in a new building on Spring Avenue, their parish was renamed "Annunciation of the Lord."

What's the Annunciation of the Lord?
The Annunciation of the Lord is the unbelievable announcement that was made by an angel to the virgin Mary in a vision and to her betrothed husband Joseph in a dream (Luke 1:26-38, Mat. 1:18-25). The announcement in Mary's vision was that she would soon conceive the Son of God, and the announcement in Joseph's dream was that she had conceived the Son of God.

Mary needed to know that nothing is impossible with God. So, the angel also told her that her kinswoman Elizabeth, despite her old age, had conceived a son, who would later become known as John the Baptist. After hearing the unbelievable announcement, Mary went to see Elizabeth, and sure enough, she was six months pregnant!

Elizabeth had been keeping her pregnancy a secret, and her well-born husband, who had been born into the Jewish priesthood, couldn't talk (Luke 1:5-25). So, he wasn't about to tell anyone about the miraculous pregnancy either. Mary stayed with Elizabeth and her husband for three months, just long enough for Mary to help them with the birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:56).

After Mary returns home, Joseph finds out that his betrothed wife is pregnant. But he has no idea who the Father of her child is. Since he does not want to make her a public example, he plans to put her away privately. But then Joseph had a dream about an angel making the unbelievable announcement to him, that Mary had conceived the Son of God.

If Joseph was wise, and I believe he was, then the next thing he would have said to Mary was, "Who is the Father of your child?" That way, her answer would either prove or disprove the announcement in his dream. Then, when she told him about her vision and the fact that she became pregnant without knowing a man, he would know that the Annunciation of the Lord was true. Mary truly was carrying the Son of God in her womb!

Mary and Joseph acted upon their vision and matching dream by bearing the Son of God, naming him Jesus, and raising him.

The Altar at the Annunciation of the Lord is Attacked
On the morning of October 1, 2005, while I was reading the Saturday edition of the Decatur Daily, I noticed that the featured story in the 'Religion' section was about the relics which are kept under the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord. (I can't remember if the article said where the relics were kept, but I knew that catholic churches keep relics under the altar.)

The next day, during the 11 AM Mass, the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord was overturned by some vandals. I was with the church of Christ at the time, waiting for Alan Watkins to stop preaching, so that I could go home and watch the Titans play the undefeated Colts. It was not until after the game, when I watched the local news, that I heard about the altar being vandalized.

I had heard about the altar in other places being vandalized, but never had I heard of it being vandalized DURING MASS. Have you ever heard of anything as crazy as that? Out of curiousity about why it happened, I studied the first newspaper report about the incident. It came out in the Monday edition of the Decatur Daily.

The First Newspaper Report About the Attack (Link)
The day after the altar was overturned, the Decatur Daily reported on the incident from the point of view of those who were attending Mass when it happened. It also had the mugshots and full names of the four suspects who disrupted the Mass. The first thing I picked up on was their middle names. I will use their middle names to summarize the newspaper report.

The four suspects were Marie, Joseph, and a young married couple, Beth and Eugene, which means well-born. They entered the church at 11:40 AM, about 2/3 of the way through the 11 AM Mass. Marie and Joseph sat near the front of the congregation to the right of the altar. Beth and Eugene hung out in the back of the church.

Right after communion, Marie and Joseph went up to the altar, stood near the priest, and preached to the church about idolatry. Then, Joseph went behind the marble altar and pushed it over, causing it to tumble down the steps and smash into pieces on the floor below, where it tore up some carpet.

The four suspects were arrested. The priest led the congregants in prayer, asking the Lord "to help us to make sense of why something so senseless happens." The mayor of Decatur, who was one of the congregants, agreed that it definitely wasn't a rational act.

So, why did they do it? That's what I was curious about, especially since the altar was overturned by Marie and Joseph at a church named after the Annunication in Mary's vision and Joseph's matching dream. The middle names of the two vandals was the first indication that the incident might have been a sign.

3. How I Discerned the Source of the Sign
The church in Marie's dream and Joseph's matching vision is the one named after the Annunciation in Mary's vision and Joseph's matching dream.

In the last chapter, I described what happened to the altar from the point of view of the Catholics who were there. In this chapter, I will describe what happened to the altar from the vandals' point of view.

The Second Newspaper Report About the Attack (Link)
Two days after the altar was attacked, a second newspaper report came out in the Decatur Daily about the incident. This report was from the perspective of the suspects. From the jailhouse, Marie and Joseph spoke to reporters, while Beth and Eugene were silent.

Joseph told reporters that he couldn't see what he was doing when he pushed over the altar. When asked what drove them to attack the altar, he said that he had a vision, and in it, Marie and he "were tearing a church apart." He denied doing that, but he did admit that he "tore up a table," which just happens to be the centerpiece of every catholic church. He also tore up some carpet.

So, we can say that Marie and Joseph had at least begun the process of "tearing a church apart," meaning that the vision was a premonition and that the church in Joseph's vision was the one named after the Annunciation in Mary's vision and Joseph's matching dream. That's an interesting parallel, and it was the second indication that the incident might very well have been a sign.

The article said that Marie had been raised Catholic. So she was probably pedobaptized, thereby making her a Catholic, a lapsed Catholic, but a Catholic nonetheless. She passed away two years after the incident. So, if you are a practicing Catholic, then you might want to pray for the repose of the soul of Lisa Marie Wagner.

Finally, it's worth noting that Marie and Joseph did not see the article about the relics in the 'Religion' section of Saturday's newspaper. So, that article had nothing to do with the attack on the altar, at least not from a human standpoint.

The Third Newspaper Report About the Attack (Link)
After reading the first two articles, I suspected that the incident was a sign, but I was not convinced of it. So, I tried to forget about the whole thing. But a few years later I came across a third newspaper article that was still on the internet. It was from the Huntsville Times, which I did not subscribe to, and it came out on October 16, 2005, exactly two weeks after the altar was overturned.

I could not believe my eyes when I read this article. Joseph's vision was what Marie dreamt of a few nights earlier! And no, she did not tell him about her dream until after his vision. This explains why they acted so irrationally. They were freaked out over the coincidence. Now that I had "the rest of the story" as the late Paul Harvey used to say, I could write a full story, based on all three newspaper reports, explaining how the altar was overturned. As you read it, please pay special attention to the antitypes in bold.

The Attack on the Altar at the Annunciation of the Lord in Decatur
On the outskirts of Decatur, Alabama lived a divorced woman, whose middle name was Marie. She was living with her boyfriend, whose middle name was Joseph, and a young married couple, whose middle names were Beth, which is short for Elizabeth, and Eugene, which means well-born. One night in late September, on or shortly before the Feast of the Archangels, Marie has an iconoclastic dream of her and Joseph tearing up a church.

She does not tell Joseph about it. A few days later, which was a Friday, Joseph has an iconoclastic vision of him and Marie tearing up a church. When Joseph tells Marie what he saw in his vision, she tells him that she dreamt the same thing a few nights earlier. Unable to dismiss it as a coincidence, they come to believe that God is speaking to them.

But they know that God is not telling them to literally tear up a church, because that is a felony which would only result in them having to serve prison time and pay a hefty fine. So, they come to believe that God is telling them to just spread the message that a peaceful iconoclast might spread, namely, to stop worshipping objects and start worshipping God. But Sunday is only two days away, and they have no idea which church they will bring the message to first.

The next day, the local catholic church, which is called "Annunciation of the Lord," is the one that is featured in the weekly 'Religion' section of Saturday's Decatur Daily. It's named after the announcement in Mary's vision and Joseph's dream, and it's the church in Marie's dream and Joseph's vision. But Marie and Joseph don't know any of that, because they don't read the Saturday paper, at least not the 'Religion' section.

The newspaper story was about the relics, which were under the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord. The alter is the centerpiece of every catholic church. Unbeknownst to Marie and Joseph, they were going to wake up the next morning, go the church in their vision, and tear up the centerpiece of that church during Mass. Their vision was going to be literally realized after all.

The next day comes, and it is Sunday, the Feast of the Guardian Angels. Joseph and Marie still have no idea which church they're going to bring their message to first. They drive into Decatur with their two friends. They see the catholic church, pull into the parking lot, and get out of the car. Then, they wander into the middle of the 11 AM Mass. Nothing was going through Joseph's mind.

But Marie knew what to do. Right after communion, she goes up to the altar and starts preaching their message. She tells the parishioners that it is idolatry to worship objects, such as the centerpiece of the church. Then, Joseph goes up to the altar too, but he inexplicably deviates from the plan. Instead of preaching, he lifts the altar, and shoves it down the steps, where it smashes into pieces, tearing up the carpet. Later, he told reporters that he couldn't see what he was doing.

Marie told the reporters that God must have elevated their abilities, because she does not like to speak in front of crowds and Joseph cannot lift a 500-pound altar. Beth and Eugene would not talk to reporters. But Marie gave them the conclusion of the whole matter by saying, "God allowed us to be His puppets."

Everything written above can be found in three newspaper reports about the incident. None of it is made up. You cannot make that stuff up... unless you are the divine Father of Jesus. The One who orchestrated the birth of his son through the Annunciation of the Lord is the same One who orchestrated the overturning of the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord.

Without a doubt, the overturning of the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord was a sign from God the Father; and at least one person in Decatur was able to discern the spiritual source of the sign.

Hopefully, you can see the antithetic parallelism between the story about the Annunciation of the Lord (Luke 1:26-38, Mat. 1:18-25) and the story about the attack on the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord. The antithetic parallels make it evident to me, and hopefully to you, that nobody could have made up all the stuff in the story, except for a divine Father of Jesus. The bizarre incident was a sign from Him.

4. How I Discerned the Meaning of the Sign
Since overturning an altar reveals what was under it, the sign is God's way of revealing what is under the altar in the Fifth Seal, the souls of the unbaptized victims of an unholy sacrifice.

Overturning an altar reveals what was under it. To reveal is to make something known, which was previously unknown, usually in a surprising manner. It was already known what was physically under the altar. The relics were. But it was not known what is spiritually under the altar. Therefore, by orchestrating the overturning of the altar, God was revealing what is spiritually under the altar.

Only the Apostle John got a glimpse of what is spiritually under the altar, and he recorded what he saw in the Fifth Seal of his Apocalypse (Rev. 6:9-11). He saw the souls of martyrs. Who are they? There are two possibilities. Since the altar is the place of sacrifice, the souls under it are either the baptized martyrs, who gave up their lives as a holy sacrifice, or unbaptized martyrs, who are victims of an unholy sacrifice.

The Catholic Church has always thought that they are the baptized martyrs. After all, the fact they gave up their lives as a holy sacrifice is the very reason why their relics are placed under the altar. But God would not orchestrate the overturning of the altar just to tell Catholics that they have been right all along. Therefore, it must be that the souls under the altar are unbaptized victims of an unholy sacrifice.

The meaning of the sign is that the time has come for God to reveal that the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal are the unbaptized victims of unholy sacrifices, which must be happening at an unprecedentedly high rate, since we are only now receiving the revelation. To confirm the revelation, let's prayerfully study the text of the Fifth Seal. We will begin with Revelation 6:9.

Revelation 6:9 (MKJV)
And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

The Lamb (our Lord Jesus) is the one who opened the Fifth Seal, and John is the one who saw the souls under the altar. They were slain for two reasons. The first is "for the Word of God." This could apply to anyone, because it was through the Word of God that all things, including these souls, came into being (John 1:1-3).

The second reason is "for the testimony which they held." This also doesn't tell us much. But it's interesting, because the terms "Word of God" and "testimony" appear four times in the Apocalypse (1:2, 1:9, 6:9, and 20:4), and this is the only time that the testimony is not the "testimony of Jesus". That's the first clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs. Now, let's examine the next verse.

Revelation 6:10 (MKJV)
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

Notice that the souls under the altar cry out to their "Master," which is despotes in the Greek text, rather than to their "Lord," which would have been kyrios. In all his inspired writings, this is the only time John wrote despotes. Contrast that to kyrios, which he wrote seventy-seven times, mostly in reference to our Lord Jesus. This is another clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs.

The souls under the altar are asking when their blood will be avenged, which is natural; but vengeance is the opposite of what Jesus and Stephen asked for when they were martyred, which was that their killers be forgiven (Luke 23:34, Acts 7:60). This is a third clue which suggests that the souls under the altar might not be the baptized martyrs. Now, let's examine the third verse.

Revelation 6:11 (MKJV)
And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were) should have their number made complete.

Let's consider the white robes. The only other group of souls who have white robes are the saints before the Lamb in Revelation 7:9-17, and they "have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Rev. 7:14). Before they washed their robes, they must have made them dirty by committing personal sin.

Therefore, the saints before the Lamb must have been given their spiritual robes before they were old enough to commit their first personal sin; and since the souls under the altar were killed before they were given their spiritual robes, they must have been killed before they were old enough to commit their first personal sin.

I realized that the young victims were probably killed by abortion. But when I would share the revelation with others, nobody had the ears to hear, because it's bad news and nobody wants to hear bad news.

It's bad news, because the sacrificial victims are asking when their blood will be avenged on those who dwell on the earth (Rev. 6:10), and that includes the church militant. Moreover, when the number of victims is fulfilled (Rev. 6:11), meaning when the sacrifices have stopped, their blood will be avenged (Rev. 19:2).

I figured that God would not give us bad news unless there is some good news and that the good news must have something to do with stopping the unholy sacrifices.

5. The Unholy Sacrifice is Revealed
Victims of abortion are victims of unholy sacrifices, the most unholy of which is coerced abortion.

In the last chapter, we confirmed that the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal are in fact unbaptized victims of an unholy sacrifice. Moreover, the reason for them being unbaptized is not unbelief in the Gospel. Rather, it's them not even being old enough to commit personal sin, let alone believe the Gospel. So, they are very young victims of an unholy sacrifice, most likely victims of abortion.

In this chapter, we will examine the definition of a sacrifice to determine whether victims of abortion are in fact victims of a sacrifice. If they are not, then they cannot be the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal. We will also determine whether they have souls. If not, then they cannot be the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal.

Are victims of abortion sacrificed?
According to the Collins Dictionary, a sacrifice is an act of giving up something to obtain something else for oneself or for others. That's a definition we can apply to animal sacrifice. The priest at the temple in Jerusalem offered a sacrifice, because he gave up the life of an animal to obtain atonement for himself and for others. The efficacy of the sacrifice was to obtain atonement for sins.

The most selfless and holy sacrifice is the act of giving up one's own life to obtain for others the forgiveness of their debts to the Divinity. Only the man who has a human mother and a divine Father was qualified to offer the Most Holy Sacrifice and he offered it almost two thousand years ago. Since Jesus was human, he was able to die; and since he was divine, he was able to raise himself from the dead.

The most selfish and unholy sacrifice is therefore the opposite. It is the act of giving up the life of another to obtain for oneself the forgiveness of a debt to the other. The man who makes his pregnant girlfriend get an abortion offers a most unholy sacrifice, because he gives up the life of another (their offspring) to obtain for himself the forgiveness of his debt of postnatal support to their offspring.

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

sacrifice - the act of giving up something to obtain something else for oneself or for others.
efficacy of a sacrifice - the power to obtain whatever is obtained through the sacrifice.
holy sacrifice - the selfless act of giving up something, which belongs to oneself, to obtain something else for others.
unholy sacrifice - the selfish act of giving up something, which belongs to another, to obtain something else for oneself.
Most Holy Sacrifice - the Most Selfless Act of giving up one's own life to obtain, for others, the remission of their debts to God. (Only the Son of a human mother and a divine Father was qualified to make the Most Holy Sacrifice, and He made it almost two thousand years ago. He needed to be human so that he could die for the sins of others, and he needed to be divine so that he could rise from the dead.)
most unholy sacrifice - the most selfish act of giving up the life of another to obtain, for oneself, the remission of a debt to the other.

The efficacy of the unholy sacrifice of coerced abortion is to obtain forgiveness of a postnatal support debt. The man who makes his pregnant daughter get an abortion offers the second most unholy sacrifice, because he gives up the life of another (his daughter's offspring) to obtain for himself the assurance that he will never have to assume her boyfriend's debt of postnatal support to her offspring. That's another common type of coerced abortion.

A woman can also make an unholy sacrifice. It's by getting an elective abortion. That sacrifice is not as unholy as coerced abortion; but because it's visible to the public, "pro-life" people always focus on trying to stop elective abortion, not knowing that they should focus on stopping coerced abortion instead. I will have more on that error of "pro-life" people later.

Do victims of abortion have souls?
One last thing I needed to confirm is whether a fetus has a soul; because if not, then the souls under the altar cannot be victims of abortion. It has been said that an embryo does not have a soul until "it takes its first breath." But what is that breath? It is inhaled air, consisting of 21% oxygen. Exhaled air consists of only 16% oxygen since the body has converted the rest of the oxygen into carbon dioxide.

So, we constantly need to replenish the oxygen in our body. When the widow's young son died, there was no longer any "breath" (Heb. neshamah) in him (1Ki. 17:17). That meant there was no longer any oxygen in him. The soul had exited the boy's body, and Elijah prayed that the soul would reenter the boy's body (v. 21). When his prayer was answered, and the soul reentered the boy's body, the boy was revived (v. 22). Breath was in him once again.

As for an embryo, it begins to take in oxygen when it becomes implanted in the womb. From that point, the woman is literally breathing oxygen into her offspring. If we take Genesis 2:7 literally, by saying that Adam became a living soul when oxygen (Heb. neshamah) was first breathed into him, then it follows that an embryo becomes a living soul at implantation, because that's when oxygen is first breathed into the embryo.

Since victims of abortion were implanted in the womb, they are, without a doubt, "souls of those who had been killed" (Rev. 6:9). So, now I knew that most of the souls under the altar in the Fifth Seal are victims of abortion. But because I was "pro-life," I thought that the way to stop the unholy sacrifice was to convert "pro-choice" people to the "pro-life" position, so that elective abortion could be banned again. Stay tuned to find out why that is not the way to stop the unholy sacrifice.

6. When the Animal Sacrifices were Stopped
Learning how and when the unholy sacrifices will be stopped began by learning how and when the animal sacrifices were stopped.

Having received the revelation from God the Father, I began praying to him, asking him to teach the theodidaktos (those who are able to be taught by him, John 6:45, 1Th. 4:9) what Christians can do to stop the unholy sacrifices of the Fifth Seal, or at least participate in stopping them. The first thing I was taught was how and when the animal sacrifices at the temple were stopped.

[Show that the way Jesus stopped the animal sacrifice was by taking away the efficacy of the sacrifice, namely, its ability to obtain atonement for sins. He took away the efficacy at the Cross. Evidence of that can be found in the Talmud, which testifies that for the last 40 feasts of atonement at the the temple, the lot for the Lord came up in the left hand and the red strap remained red. The odds of the former happening are about a trillion to one.]

[Show that it is a historical fact that the number of years between the 7th year of Artaxerxes (3304) and the year of the 2nd temple's destruction (3830) was equal to 526, and it is a mathematical fact that (7 + 62) x 7 + (4 - 1) + 40 = 526. Show how those numbers come from Daniel 9:24-27, Ezra 7:7, Ezekiel 4:6, and Papyrii AP6.]

[Show how according to Luke 3:1, coupled with historical data, Jesus was baptized between the summer of 26 AD and the summer of 29 AD, depending on whether Luke included a two-year coregency in the numbering of the years of Tiberius Caesar's reign.]

[Show how according to John, Jesus died on either the third or fourth Passover after his baptism, depending on whether the feast in John 5:1 was the Passover. (The feasts in John 2:13, 6:4, and 18:28 were definitely Passovers.) Together with Luke 3:1, it means that Jesus died on the Passover in one of five years: 29-33 AD (3789-3793 AM).]

[Show how according to Matthew 12:39-40, 27:64, and John 19:31, Jesus died on the 5th day of the week.]

[Show that according to modern astronomical data, among the five years, from 3789 to 3793 AM, the year the Passover fell on the 5th day of the week was 3790 AM. (The first full moon after the spring equinox is the Nissan moon, and each calendar day, from one sunset to the next, during which the 1st crescent of the Nissan moon becomes visible is the 1st day of Nissan)]

[Therefore, according to the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel, Judah was going to put the Messiah to death in 3790 AM, and according to the apostles Matthew, Luke, and John, coupled with modern astronomy, Judah put Jesus to death in 3790 AM. Since a matter is established by the mouth of two or more witnesses (Deu. 19:15), it is established that Jesus is the Messiah.]

[This is why the EGS, being a modern apostolate with access to modern astronomical data, is able to include the phrase "in Jewish year 3790 AM" in the Gospel of Christ (1Co. 15:3-4) that we bring to the unbaptized.]

Lord willing, the rest of this chapter will be coming soon.

11. How to Be an Active Member of the EGS
The only qualification for membership in the EGS is to be a baptized Gospel-believer who has signed our petition. Every member is encouraged to consider becoming a new evangelist. A new evangelist is a messenger who brings the Gospel of the Christ to the unbaptized and a new message of invitation to the baptized. The new message is that every Christian is now invited to participate in stopping the unholy sacrifices of the Fifth Seal (ie. coercive abortion) by signing a petition for the effective anti-coercion bill which we promote.

The new evangelist brings the new message to the baptized by periodically visiting the leadership of a church of which the new evangelist is not a member. Upon reading the message, church leadership sees that they are invited to participate in stopping the unholy sacrifices of the Fifth Seal, and that they participate by doing two things: 1. Signing a petition for the most effective bill at stopping the crime of forced abortion, and 2. Announcing the invitation to their people.

That is where our ministry hit a brick wall in 2025. Each church would either ignore the invitation or decline it without a good reason. We believe that this is due to the fact that forced abortion is a secret crime; and because of that, nobody believes that the criminal activity is even taking place, let alone that we need to do something to stop it.

Now we are in January of 2026, and a window of opportunity has opened up for us to meet abolitionists of abortion for the first time. Their mission is to ban elective abortion, and ours is to stop the crime of coercive abortion. So, the two missions do not overlap, but they do meet at the boundary between elective and coercive abortion. Our upcoming meeting with them is providential, because they need our help and we need theirs.

They have been stuggling with the question of how abortion would be punished under an abolition law, particularly when coercion is involved. This is where we can help them, because we know exactly how abortion would be punished justly under both laws, the most effective anti-coercion law, which we promote, and an abolition law, which they promote. One of our charter members has written a paper explaining exactly how justice would be established, and we invite abolitionists to read the paper, which can be found at www.EternalGospelSociety.com/papers.

We hope they find our advice helpful, because we are greatly in need of their help in getting over the brick wall. Here is what we have in mind. When we bring the message of invitation to the leadership of a church, we give them an RSVP date. They have until the RSVP date to either accept the invitation or ask for more time. Declining will not be an option, because there is no reason to decline. If they have not responded by the RSVP date, then their place of worship will need to be picketed. That's where we will need the help of abolitionists.

Abolitionists would need to be on standy, so that if a church fails to respond by its RSVP date, abolitionists can join the new evangelist at a church picket, with large signs showing how the victims of coerced abortion look like. We need to be able to tell the leadership of each church that abolitionists want progress reports from us, because the success of their mission depends on the success of ours; and they are prepared to picket any church that does not respond to the invitation by its RSVP date.

The possibility of being picketed should encourage the leadership of each church to either accept the invitation by the RSVP date or ask for an extension. It should enable us to get over the brick wall, and start advancing the worthy cause of stopping the crime of coerced abortion. We hope that we are able to help abolitionists see that the success of their cause depends on the success of ours, and that the success of ours depends on them helping us. We hope to have a positive update to report soon.

If the EGS is of man, then it will eventually fail; but if it is of God, then it will not stop until it has been successful (Acts 5:38-39).