Luke 19:43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
On November 13th, we reported in a story called Knock Out The Jew about Jewish residents in New York City being attacked over the previous months by gangs who attempted to knock out their victims with a single punch. A local rabbi said they were playing a “knockout game.”
Now, police in other northeastern cities are reporting that the “game” has made its way to their communities.
At least three knockout attacks have taken place in the Philadelphia area. Police in Lower Merion Township say two attacks took place in their jurisdiction. Philadelphia police detectives confirmed one attack taking place within the city.
Victim Mark Cumberland told CBS he is still suffering from blurred vision and having trouble breathing from the attack on November 11th. He was walking out of a pizza shop when he was attacked.
Two teens were arrested for attacking an elderly man on October 29th. Lower Marion police say the teens walked up to a 63-year-old man and just punched him in the mouth.
Police in Washington, D.C. confirm at least two attacks they believe to be “knockout game” incidents. In one attack, a woman riding a bike was punched in the nose and knocked to the ground.
THANK GOD FOR THE BLOOD OF JESUS WHICH COVERS HIS CHILDREN.
Amen.
I came very close to getting attacked by a gang of kids when I was downtown Rockford at an event with my parents when I was about 10 years old. That was more than 50 years ago. I used to go off by myself to explore, and ended up by the old railroad tracks that used to be kind of off the beaten path even though it was just below the main street. I was talking to a girl about my age and then her ‘friends’ came and surrounded me. I was never confronted by such anger before; they were very, very angry and murderous. I had never been afraid for my life from kids until that day even though I did many such stupid things for which I am eternally grateful to the LORD for His angels that kept me safe, as in this instance, when at the last minute someone came and distracted them. Even at the tender age of 10, I somehow knew I was escaping with my life.
The gang mentality has never changed; they only seek out new methods to express their anger.
David Wilkerson wrote a non-fiction book: The Cross and the Switchblade, that was made into a movie starring Pat Boone in 1970, wherein a preacher, Wilkerson himself, fought to reach out to the gangs of New York City. Jamie Buckingham, plucked as a brand from the fire from one such gang, became a glorious evangelical success story.
David Wilkerson’s time has passed; the ball is now in our court. Send us people, O God, who will lay their lives on the line to reach the lost souls who wander the streets of America. Their story has never changed: they look for kicks; they kick against the pricks; they look for a way to release their violent, explosive, all-consuming anger. It will take nothing short of a sudden, abrupt confrontation with the absolute unconditional love of the Almighty to detour them from their evil agenda. Let us pray that we will not lose this generation to the selfish, self-absorbed life style Americans have come to expect. Let us not appear before you empty handed, Lord Jesus, for we know there is a crown waiting on the other side of our obedience to your call to reach the lost: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let us daily put on our full suit of armor, and go out and pluck a brand of our own to the glory of God in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!
This happened to me in South Carolina at a water park last summer, a boy wandered out of a group of teens and headbutted me in the head in the temple area. We thought he did it on purpose,I am now sure of it. You hit home about a month or so ago when you spoke of devils entering into people in the streets. We are revelation days, Thank you for being a voice crying out,when there is so much false teaching out there.
I think that as more and more people try to get rid of God the door opens more and more to evil. When God is kicked out evil enters in. I do believe the Lord will protect His children though – like the Hebrew children were protected in Goshen while in Egypt there were the plagues.