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Ministries & Missionaries
India Election Results Have Consequences May 2014 eNews
Category: South India Church of Christ Mission
Published on Saturday, 17 May 2014 09:40


May 16, 2014
Dear Prayer Partners and Supporters,

The RSS has won control of the Central Government through its political party, the
BJP. And not by a slim majority; 330 Member of Parliament seats, 278 of these
directly. 272 MP seats is a majority in a 544 seat Parliament.

We have been praying for months that God would make His will clear as to the next
period of work by the South India Church of Christ Mission. Would it be in a time of
persecution or yet more time free from the attacks on Christ's church during the
previous BJP/RSS Central Government control of the Central Government? This has
been for us the No. 1 issue since Easter celebrations and evangelism.

God has made His will known today.
We are now beginning the time of the Second Great
Persecution of Christ's church in India this century.

The goal once again will be to make India "Christian free." The slogan of "..,to be
Indian is to be Hindu..." was heard throughout the election campaign. It will now
become policy.

The vote could not be any clearer. The RSS is the Indian branch of Hitler's Nazi
Party. It will stop at nothing to make India the homeland of its own brand of Hinduism,
called "Hindutva." Hindutva is very much like Hitler's "Aryanism." This goes far
beyond what many Hindus normally believe, as a true follower of Hindutva has to
believe in one god, Ram. And the RSS are his priests. They are ruthless and driven
with a Satanic energy.

Using money power, unending propaganda and a major push by RSS full time
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"saints", "India's Hitler", Nirendra Modi, now has control of Parliament with over half
the seats. Narendra Modi looks and acts like an old-style dictator. It is not by
accident. His campaign promises were like Hitler when he came to power in 1933:
something for everyone, no specifics. And the very real threat of an end to India's
constitutional democracy if Narendra Modi uses the full power of his majority. This is
a Constitution that protects the right of a citizen to be a member of a religion of their
choice.

I should be clear that the people of India did not vote for the persecution of Christians.
Narendra Modi put forward the "big lie" that he and the RSS didn't care about religion,
they only wanted the "development of India." No specifics, just "vote for us, and you
will get what you want: jobs." The reality is that with this vote there will be persecution
of Christians and Muslims, and no more jobs than before. And I anticipate a level of
corruption and attempts to destroy India's Constitution at a level never seen before.
Plus plenty of on-going violence, with Modi's police in charge of law-and-order.

Almost as hard news as this is the sweeping victory of Jayalithaa, the Chief Minister
of the AIADMK party in Tamil Nadu. She has won 38 out of 40 Member of Parliament
seats. So she is now the "Dictator of Tamil Nadu", at least until there's another
election. If ever there is one. It was Jayalithaa who was Chief Minister when the RSS
came to power in 1999 and it was she who passed the Tamil Nadu anti-conversion
act.

Both the Central Government and the state Government in Tamil Nadu put into place
"anti-conversion" laws in 2000, which lasted until 2004. These prohibited baptism of
"...any person, under penalty of up to two years in prison for each person baptized
and $2,000 fine." Those of you who have been prayer partners and supporters of the
South India Church of Christ Mission will remember the 5 difficult years of open
persecution.

The cold-hearted murder of Graham Staines and his two sons, burnt alive in their
Jeep in Orissa, was the beginning of many beatings of Christians as they
worshipped, killings of Christian leaders, and burning of church buildings.

There was a wide enough repudiation of the attacks on churches, Christian
communities and houses, church leaders and church property that in 2004, the
Congress Party swept out the BJP/RSS in a landslide. Following that, there were
smaller scale regional attacks on Christian and Christian churches in Gujarat (Dangs
District) and in Orissa (in the southern coastal and hill areas near to Chattisgarh.).
Both these were instigated and led by the RSS. Still, in the 10 years from 2004-2014,
Christians in India were able to build Christ's church, adding tens of thousands of
Christians yearly in each state of India.

I have written before often of the "need to harvest the hay while the sun shines."
Those years are now over, and we are at the first day of what will be an evil time until
God wills India free of the RSS and its demonic leadership. During this time of
darkness, the South India Church of Christ Mission will put to work the lessons
learned during its 64 years.

Through the 14 years of this century, the South India Church of Christ Mission has
endured 5 years of persecution, responded to the devastation of the tsunami,
watched the rural areas of earlier decades change as India urbanizes, and continued
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to plant churches.

What we know is that in times of persecution, Jesus leads us
with a clarity sometimes lost when Christ's church is free from
persecution. And that causes churches to be planted and
congregations to grow. This is because the witness of each
Christian is on display to neighbor non-Christians.

What the South India Church of Christ Mission learned, as it grew through the times
of persecution, is that God sometimes needs to strengthen Christ's church with the
heat and blood of persecution to have it grow to the next higher level. When you are a
Christian in a time of persecution, you will be asked by the mob in its anger: "Are you
a Christian?"

And there's only two answers possible: yes, to glorify Jesus or no, to preserve
oneself.

We look now to the leadership and will of Jesus to lead His church through this
Second Persecution and to be with us as we strive to do His will and be His servants.
Your prayers are also a source of strength to all of us here and have been a critical
part of planting the over 1000 churches to date. Whatever comes, this Mission
intends to continue to praise Jesus publicly, build Christ's church and bear whatever
burden or suffering Jesus puts upon us for His name's sake and for the growth of His
church here in India.

David Morris


For those who want to know more about the
RSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh
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