MANSFIELD — The Bible is coming to life in North Central Ohio as area clergy believe they must obey GOD rather than Caesar.
This past July, leading clergymen from over one hundred congregations in Richland County sent a letter to all nine school districts in the county requesting they defy the Obama restroom mandate. The mandate threatens to withhold funding to school districts that do not allow students access to restrooms, locker rooms and showers of their choice.
Garnering national attention from the incident, the clergy now report this act of civil disobedience brought blessings of Biblical proportions to their area the following month.
“The Heavenly Father promised Israel in the Bible that when they obeyed His commands, He would bless them,” says Pastor Randy Raynes. “Deuteronomy 28 lists these blessings: the protection of the fruit of their womb, safe transportation, rain for their crops, blessing on livestock, and on and on. While GOD is not obligated to bless our land, it is out of His mercy He can bless our land. Our area has seen just that; seeing is believing.”
According to a report by the Richland Community Prayer Network, the following month after the clergy sent the letter of civil disobedience to school officials, the county experienced no infant mortalities and no traffic mortalities in the summer vacation month of August, notable for a county where there are approximately almost sixteen hundred miles of roads with two hundred-sixty miles being highway.
Pastor Randy Raynes
“The Heavenly Father promised Israel in the Bible that when they obeyed His commands, He would bless them,” says Pastor Randy Raynes. “Deuteronomy 28 lists these blessings: the protection of the fruit of their womb, safe transportation, rain for their crops, blessing on livestock, and on and on. While GOD is not obligated to bless our land, it is out of His mercy He can bless our land. Our area has seen just that; seeing is believing.”
Not only did Richland County see a good month of public health and safety following their letter, the report found a noticeable change in local commerce. Two out of the three local witchcraft businesses shut their doors in August. The clergy contend that not only is witchcraft associated with idolatry, it can be connected to consumer fraud.
On the agriculture front, with the county experiencing moderate drought conditions throughout the summer, three and a half inches of rain came in the hot month of August at just the right time.
While August 2016 was the second-hottest August on record, milk productivity countywide still increased by an astounding forty-three percent from the previous August according to state numbers. In addition, swarms of bees abounded for a bee population still stinging from the colony collapse disorder, with one prominent beekeeper declaring the summer of 2016 as “the best bee season in a decade.”
One local farmer on Adario Road reported “In seventy-four years of farming, I have never had eighty bushels of soybeans an acre like I did in 2016!” Another area farmer on Rome Greenwich Road proudly boasted of having five cuts of hay in 2016.
“You don’t have to change everything for everything to change,” comments Pastor Eric Byrom, one of the clergy letter co-signers.
The Bottom Line:
The Bible says in Deuteronomy 28, “If you fully obey the LORD your GOD and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your GOD will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.”
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