The following report is from The Independent:
A Georgia pastor has been arrested on charges of false imprisonment after police found eight individuals locked up in the basement of his home.
The Griffin City police department said that Curtis Bankston, 55, and his wife Sophie, 54, were operating “an unlicensed group home or personal care facility under the guise of a church known as One Step of Faith Second Chance”.
The couple had taken control of the imprisoned individuals’ finances and medication as well as public benefits.
Police said that all eight individuals who had been imprisoned were mentally and/or physically disabled.
It is frightening and disgusting to see the degree to which these individuals have been taken advantage of by people who were in a position of trust.
The police said in a press release
Police said that they started investigating the case after the Griffin fire department received a call from emergency medical services (EMS) on 13 January that they needed assistance to help a patient having a seizure.
When the EMS and the fire department officials arrived at the pastor’s house, they found that the door to the basement had been double locked and that the patient had to be accessed through a window to the basement.
Preliminary information indicated that as many as eight individuals resided in the basement of this residence and they were ‘locked in’ at certain times by the ‘caretakers.’
The police said
The couple had been leasing the house for fourteen months and using the basement as a personal care home for the individuals, “which essentially imprisoned them against their will, which created an extreme hazard as the individuals could not exit the residence if there were an emergency,” the police statement added.
The individuals have been placed under suitable care by the Department of Human Services, police said.
While Mr. Bankston is in Spalding County jail, charges will soon be brought against his wife as well, police said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 12:10
This is all “churchianity” is: the worst that society ever conceived. And as insidious as this, this story is not even a drop in the bucket for the perverse abominations that happen in these places.
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But what makes this one unique is the fact that it was at a home, but the sickos in their conceit licensed it as a healthcare facility. The fact that a large outlet like The Independent has picked this up, signals, to me, the emergence of the government wanting to crackdown on more in-home fellowships; to prevent these types of “incidents.” Beware, for that is coming to America and the rest of the world.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Church buildings are satanic all of them! “ “They quote and teach the Bible and about God” Well so does the devil! So do his subtle children of mischief!
I pray the vaccine goons have a hey day with these satanic pagan pseudo-Christian temples and government buildings and every denomination (demon-nation) from here to Timbuktu and they jab up the pastors and the snakes!
They think they’re such christians because of their religious rituals and because they “pray” and say “praise the lord” every so often, but in reality they’ve got a heart that’s as black as night! They’d make Hitler look like a selfless charity volunteer!
I’m glad they arrested that monster and I hope he gets life or 50 years at least!
I heard of a so called pastor that was mollesting his daughter and the idiot hirelings said that she forgave him-No, she succumbed to satanic cult brainwashing mind control! I say to that so-called pastor “have fun in the lake of fire you repulsive pervert!”
I hope the government gets extra tyrannical with these buildings including Jimmy and Donnie Swaggart those satanic charismatic freaks! I hope the jesuits rip them to shreds!
Very very evil, sick couple!
And I forgot to mention the Duggars! They make the Manson Family look like the Brady Bunch! We need to thank and praise God that Josh Duggar that pervert predator is in prison and that highway patrolman family friend that “talked some sense” into josh when he was a teenager, he’s serving time for having child porn himself!
So easy to boast when you’ve not been subjected to their level of deceit, torture, entrapment, set-up’s and extortion. In a day when hindsight is 2020, & the bold talkers don’t even realize their pride puts them outside God’s protection as surely as sitting deceived in a building run as a branch of Rome by hirelings & wolves. Beware! Be cautious. Wise as serpents, harmless as doves. Watch. The Talmudic/Cosmic humanist Jews, Islam, Rome & all the cults of antichrist craft are now united. Organized. Their common target is you & ensuring you, as those few true Christians of the Middle East, & now suffering in Africa & elsewhere die in the ‘collateral damage’. Make sure you don’t fight their fight with them playing you like puppets.
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I realize the story is different, but the headline reminded me of the set-up to destroy the Bible believing tribe in Rwanda. Catholic nuns & clerics lured them into their churches signaling ‘safety’, then betrayed them, pretending later that they’d been in fear for their own lives as ‘Christians’ in the ‘communist’ rebellion. (Remember Stalin’s Catholic saint glass coffin & veneration?) The Canadian UN commander was forbidden to act after frantically seeking permission to protect the defenseless, & later lost his mind. There were no guns, just containers filled with machetes shipped from Russia for the Catholic, communist, rebels. After the ethnic cleansing was done, a Bishop was promoted in World Mag & other ‘conservative’ ‘evangelical’ sources calling for ‘unconditional forgiveness for the atrocities’ and ‘crimes of ethnic strife’.
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I began separating, investigating, asking questions. Brethren overseas said: Americans, do not let them take your weapons. Don’t trust anyone blindly. Now that 5g is in place & thousands of terrorists imported: be cautious. DEW incapacitates & weapons become moot at that point. Pray for protection & work-arounds. Sister Katherine might know more of evasive protection from such weapons on a practical note.
Look for the same pattern when it ‘goes kinetic’ here as they’ll make sure happens. That old usurper and counterfeit, spirit of antichrist, father of lies never comes head on & he covets glory & worship as a ‘savior’ even as he comes with death, destruction & ruin. Lying & seductive, subtle. Stay close to the Lord. He is near the humble. Far from the proud. They probably HAVE set up the vaxed as triggers & distractors. But remember Romans 11 KJB.
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Ro 11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Ro 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Ro 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Ro 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Ro 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Ro 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Ro 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Ro 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Ro 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Ro 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
Ro 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Ro 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Ro 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Ro 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Ro 11:33 ¶ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Ro 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?
Ro 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Ro 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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and, Jude….Jude 15 ¶ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Jude 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jude 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jude 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Mt 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Mt 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
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They also call black Martin Luther King, Jr Aryan godman antichrist promotors & ‘liberation theologians’ (they liberate people of freedom & God’s word & order) ‘pastors’ to set up legitimate believers as ‘potential terrorists’ & unquestionably untrustworthy scum…..while the compliant hireling up the street trafficking children and/or drugs gets a pass. And most likely after this story runs, a paid-off DA will just slap this guy on the wrist & turn him back loose, getting the maximum agitating division, psych-pressure vexation against godly & moral types….trying to tempt them
to react constantly on, & the maximum propaganda use out of him.
Great points.