Philadelphia Ecclesiastical
Court
Thursday, September 25, 2003 A.D.
As part of out Philadelphia Tour, Full Quiver Mission held an Ecclesiastical Court, timed to coincide with other such events all over the country on the same day, and culminating in a National Ecclesiastical Court at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC., Monday, October 6th.
An ecclesiastical Court, sometimes called a Court of Divine Justice, puts the civil court on trial before God's Holy Court, judged by His Holy Law. In this case, we were calling the federal court to God's Bar of Justice for grievous rulings, followed by God's Rulings on each case from His Word. The Court was convened by four Preachers of the Gospel: Bruce Evan Murch of Red House, Virginia; Dennis Green of Petersburg, Virginia; Michael Marcavage of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jason Storms of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Bruce Evan Murch opened with an explanation of the purpose of the Court. He recounted seeing a plaque on the wall of the old City Hall in Philadelphia, on which was inscribed William Penn's Prayer for Philadelphia. Bruce wept as he read it for the first time, realizing how far the city had strayed from Penn's prayers for her. Bruce then read the Prayer at the Ecclesiastical Court in front of the Philadelphia Federal Court, and proclaimed "The prayer of William Penn has fallen to the ground!
Left: Bruce Evan Murch opens the Court and reads the Charges against the Federal Court. Right: A fairly large crowd gathered to view the Court Proceedings.
We cited six Supreme Court rulings that proved that the Supreme Court "has become blind to the Law of God". The preachers took turns reading each of the charges, followed by a child taking a printed version of the sinful ruling, tearing it up, and throwing it in a can. We used the children in the hope and prayer that 25 years from now, they won't have to be leading THEIR children into the streets against this wickedness, because we and they did nothing to stop it in our own time.
View a 60-second video of Bruce Evan Murch reading Wm. Penn's Prayer for Philadelphia, and the resulting pronouncement.
View a 60-second video of Jason Storms reading the 6th Charge, followed by the tearing up of same by a Malachai Green (age 5)
The Charges Against The Supreme Court
This is the text of the Charges brought against the Supreme Court:
We cite six Supreme Court Decisions that prove, beyond a reasonable doubt that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has become blind to the Law of God. “So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.” Isaiah 59:14-15 The lawlessness in our streets, the murder of our children, and the unprecedented violence encompassing our land are judgments from Almighty God Himself. Our nation is being turned into hell. Blood is coursing through the hallways of our schools, churches, work places, and streets. Natural disasters have become commonplace. Perversion parades its sin like Sodom as pornography spews its filth through our computers and TVs. Yet, this court persists in codifying evil into law.
FIRST CHARGE: Engle vs. Vitale (1962). The Supreme Court silenced the prayers of our children in the public schools of America. The prayer targeted for destruction stated, “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country.” Since this ruling, untold devastation has come upon our children, our families, our schools, and our nation.
GOD’S RULING: It is written: “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6)
SECOND CHARGE: Abington vs. Schempp (1963). The Supreme Court removed the Bible from the education of our children in public schools. The knowledge of God was replaced with metal detectors, condoms, drugs, and violence of unprecedented magnitude.
GOD’S RULING: It is written: “You deserted the rock who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. The Lord saw this and rejected them … In the streets the sword will make them childless. In their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray haired men.” Deuteronomy 32:18-19a, 25. “Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel. For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed.” Hosea 4:1-2
THIRD CHARGE: Roe vs. Wade (1973). The Supreme Court removed the humanity and personhood of the unborn. With one stroke of a pen, the laws that once protected the most vulnerable among us were struck down and it became open season to kill precious babies in the wombs of their mothers. As a result, hell has enlarged its mouth to devour one-third of an entire generation of American citizens. America has committed domestic terrorism in the womb, and we are now reaping foreign terrorism in our streets. Our nation is defiled, and the innocent blood of our children cries out to God for vengeance.
GOD’S RULING: It is written, “…Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.” Ezekiel 35:6 “…My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge … because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.” Hosea 4:6
FOURTH CHARGE: Stone vs. Graham (1980). The Supreme Court stripped the Ten Commandments from the walls of our public classrooms, removing the foundation upon which the moral, legal, and ethical freedoms of America rest. It declared, “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments.”
GOD’S RULING: It is written: “because they had not obeyed My laws but had rejected My decrees…I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by.” Ezekiel 20:24-25
FIFTH CHARGE: Planned Parenthood vs. Casey (1992). The Supreme Court reiterated the lie of the serpent in the Garden (Genesis 3) that man can become as God. It declared that man can determine his own reality, standards, and meanings apart from the objective truth of Almighty God. In a joint majority opinion, Kennedy, O’Connor, and Souter said, “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning of the universe, and the mystery of human life.” With this statement the Supreme Court declared itself God, and discarded its historical reliance on a transcendent standard.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold lived out this newly created standard. They walked into their high school in Columbine, Colorado and mercilessly murdered 13 of their peers and then committed suicide. Eric printed this statement on the internet before his murderous rampage, “My belief is that if I say something, it goes. I am the law, and if you don’t like it, you die…feel no remorse, no sense of shame.” (Washington Post, April 29th, 1999)
GOD’S RULING: It is written, “Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.” Romans 1:28-32
SIXTH CHARGE: Lawrence vs. Texas (2003). The Supreme Court ruled, on June 26, 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas that there is a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy. In one fell swoop, this court threw out God, His Law, over 4,000 years of history, and its own past precedent, to declare sodomy, in all of its perverse forms, a constitutional right in America.
GOD’S RULING: It is written, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.” Leviticus 18:22 “Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.” Proverbs 28:4
Left: Jesse Murch (13) tears up one of the Supreme Court Rulings. Right: Federal Court Policeman, a professing Christian, disagrees with Bruce, Jason Storms and his brother Matt, on our method of challenging the government for its sinfulness.
We will join hundreds of preachers and other Christians in Washington, DC for the Ecclesiastical Court at the Supreme Court on Monday, October 6th, 2003.
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