Zechariah 14 in Preterist Perspective (2 of 3)

By Jay Rogers. Posted October 17, 2017.

A contemporary Roman image of Revelation 19 in the Arch of Titus. Click to enlarge.

The following is part 2 of an excerpt from my soon-to-be-published book, In The Days of These Kings: The Prophecy of Daniel in Preterist Perspective. In the book I discuss the prophecy of Zechariah as “bridge” material between Daniel and the New Testament.

Zechariah 14:1-7 closely mirrors the language of Matthew 23:34-38 and Revelation 19:1-2,6-7,11,14; 21:9-10. Zechariah 14:1-7 seems to specifically refer to the Roman-Jewish War from AD 67 to 70. The preterist argument for Zechariah 14 and portions of Revelation 19 is that both were fulfilled in the destruction of the Temple in AD 70.

Here we ought to let Scripture interpret Scripture. If Matthew 23:34-39 and Revelation 19:1-2,6-7,11,14 are about the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, then this portion of Zechariah is also about the same events.

“Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’” (Matthew 23:36-38, emphasis mine).

Here Jesus is saying that the curse of blood-guiltiness due to the murders of God’s prophets, culminating in the martyrdom of Zechariah (which may or may not be the Zechariah of 520 BC – although it would be fitting here) would come on Jerusalem in “this generation,” that is, those alive in Jesus’ day would see it.

Theodoret of Cyrus, writing in AD 460, believed that Zechariah 14:2 had an application to the Mount Olivet Discourse.

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its end is nigh; then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, and the one on the roof not go down to get something from the house” (Luke 21:22; Matthew 24:16,17). He forecast this also in blessed Zechariah, “that the remainder will not perish” (Zechariah 14:2).

The Flight to Pella (AD 66)

A likely historical fulfillment that can be drawn from Zechariah 14:3-7 and Matthew 24:15-22 is the Christians’ flight to Pella in AD 66. Christian historian Taylor Marshall explains.

Hegesippus records that Saint James of Jerusalem had been cast down from the pinnacle of the Temple because he had claimed (in about AD 63) that the “Son of Man was coming on the clouds.” Apparently, the authorities dramatically pushed Saint James off the top of the Temple in mockery of the descent of the “Son of Man.”

However, James was not wrong. Things were about to get bad in Jerusalem. Really bad.

The Church historian Eusebius recounts that the Jerusalem Christians were warned in a vision to depart Jerusalem because its destruction was near. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, writing in about AD 75, “many of the most eminent of the Jews swam away from the city” in AD 64 (Jewish War II.20.1). In other words, this “exodus” from Jerusalem occurred three-and-a-half years before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.

Eusebius describes it like this:

“The whole body, however, of the Church at Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine revelation, given to men of approved piety there before the war, removed from the city, and dwelt at a certain town beyond the Jordan, called Pella. Here those that believed in Christ, having removed from Jerusalem, as if holy men had entirely abandoned the royal city itself, and the whole land of Judea; the divine justice, for their crimes against Christ and his Apostles finally overtook them, totally destroying the whole generation of these evildoers form the earth” (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3,5).

And thus was fulfilled the words of Christ: “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place” (Matthew 24:34) (Taylor Marshall, Eusebius on the Flight from Jerusalem in AD 64).

I disagree with Taylor Marshall here only on the date of the Flight to Pella. AD 70 is not three-and-a-half years from AD 64. Instead, since the Roman armies did not appear until AD 66, the Flight to Pella most likely took place in the spring of AD 66 after the Jews had won a short-lived victory and had driven the Roman troops back to Caesarea. There the Roman general Cestius Gallus sent word to Nero of the defeat and promptly committed suicide. At this point, the early Christians fled the city, but the Jews rejoiced thinking God was favoring them in victory over the Romans. This peace lasted until the following year until the spring of AD 67, when Roman legions under Vespasian and Titus invaded Judea from the north and south. This campaign began in April of AD 67 and lasted another three-and-a-half years until the destruction of Jerusalem in September of AD 70. Despite Marshall’s mathematical slip-up, his eloquent and insightful analysis is correct.

Likewise, Revelation 17,18 is about the destruction of the “Great City” – Jerusalem and the false system of Temple worship. In fact, the Temple furnishings are described so vividly in these passages that I find it amazing that so many have ignored this interpretation. The details of these chapters may be interpreted by Old Testament descriptions of the Temple.

Revelation 19 and Zechariah 14

In Revelation 19, John prophesies about what will happen “after these things,” that is, after the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the idolatrous system of Temple worship.

After these things, I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.” … And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound on many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His wife has made herself ready” … Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war … And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean followed Him on white horses” (Revelation 19:1-2,6-7,11,14).

In summary, we see a close parallel of Revelation 19 to Zechariah 14:1,2 – the destruction of physical Jerusalem. And we see a close parallel of Revelation 19 to Zechariah 14:3-7 – the armies of the Lord making spiritual warfare for spiritual Jerusalem. These passages can be seen as a more elaborate recapitulation of what is also described in Daniel 12:1-3.

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Zechariah 14 in Preterist Perspective (1 of 3)

By Jay Rogers. Posted July 27, 2017.

Painting by Enrique Simonet Lombardo — Flevit super illam (1892) — “He wept over it.” Click to enlarge.

The following is based on an excerpt from my soon-to-be-published book, In The Days of These Kings: The Prophecy of Daniel in Preterist Perspective. In the book I discuss the prophecy of Zechariah as “bridge” material between Daniel and the New Testament.

Behold the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city (Zechariah 14:1-2).

Nearly all Christians would agree that there is one way to God and one faith. However, many of us were so steeped in dispensationalist thinking at one point — especially in terms of eschatology — that it requires a paradigm shift to understand that the prophets saw no division between the Old and the New Covenant. Therefore, when they spoke of Israel, they spoke at the same time of the Church.

I have debated with premillennialists who will cite Zechariah 14 to claim that a great earthquake will split the Mount of Olives either at the beginning, middle or end of a future Great Tribulation. “When did that already happen in history?” is the common retort. In short, I don’t believe that the Mount of Olives will be literally split down the middle in a soon coming war over the existence of a modern geo-political Israel.

I have very intelligent friends who believe this will literally happen very soon.

Early Christians didn’t have trouble seeing this applied to AD 70.

In his Proof of the Gospel, written around AD 318, Eusebius of Caesarea held to this preterist interpretation of Zechariah 14:1,2.

The fulfilment of this also agrees with the passages quoted on the destruction of the whole Jewish race, which came upon them after the coming of Christ. For Zechariah writes this prophecy after the return from Babylon, foretelling the final siege of the people by the Romans, through which the whole Jewish race was to become subject to their enemies: he says that only the remnant of the people shall be saved, exactly describing the apostles of our Saviour (Eusebius of Caesarea, Proof of the Gospel, 2.3.50,53).

Zechariah 14:3-7 then shifts from divine retribution on Jerusalem to God’s anger toward the surrounding nations. One of the problems that dispensational thinking has introduced into the modern interpretation of Bible prophecy is the discontinuity between the Old and New Covenant – between natural Israel, the Old Covenant Church – and the spiritual Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ. In the eyes of God, He has only one people, the ecclesia, the “called out ones” of God.

In effect, Zechariah goes on to say that after physical Jerusalem was thoroughly defeated, God would fight for His people, spiritual Jerusalem.

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. You will flee by the Valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, My God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him! In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light (Zechariah 14:3-7).

The Mount of Olives would then be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley – Here is an image of the people of God being split into two groups, the faithful remnant who will not be cut off from the city – the spiritual city of God – and those who will be taken into captivity – those who rejected God’s promise (Zechariah 14:2).

You will flee by the Valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal – At first glance, it is easy to pass this over as an insignificant topographical remark. “Azal” is thought to be the valley now known as Wady Yasul. The Hebrew name is Nahal Atzal. The mouth of the valley lies at the base of the southernmost summit of the Mount of Olives.

There is a possible allusion to the commandment of God to His people in Zechariah 14:5 to “flee by the Valley of My mountains” in the Mount Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24.

“Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.”

Many preterists believe that this was fulfilled when the Christians left in Jerusalem fled to the city of Pella — according to the Church historian Eusebius. They would have had to flee in the direction of the Mount of Olives. Then they eventually made it to the Jordan river and made the journey north to Pella.

In fact, Theodoret of Cyrus, writing in AD 460, believed that Zechariah 14:4, the Lord’s feet standing on Mount Olives, was specifically fulfilled by Vespasian’s troops and the 42 month long siege of Jerusalem from the spring of 67 to the fall of 70. Theodoret is here quoting from the Greek Septuagint, which has some significant differences from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

Zechariah 14:4 – On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives – which is opposite Jerusalem from the east – From where he ascended into heaven, from there he gives victory to those fighting against the Jews. He then says the mountain would be divided into four parts, one going to the east, one to the west, one to the north and one to the south.

Zechariah 14:4,5 – The Mount of Olives will be split, half of it to the east and half of it to the sea in the west, a vast expanse, and half the mountain will face the north and half of it the south, a great valley. The valley of the mountains will be blocked as far as Jassa, and will be blocked in the way it was blocked in the way it was blocked in the face of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah – By mountain he refers to the cohort of the enemy divided for the purpose of besieging Jerusalem, some occupying its eastern part, some its western, others guarding the north, others the south (Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Zechariah).

Zechariah 14:1-7 is primarily about the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. There is first the natural and then the spiritual. First, God defeated His adulterous Bride, earthly Jerusalem. Then He began to war against the heathen enemies of His true Bride, the heavenly Jerusalem. The spiritual warfare that is accomplishing this is ongoing. It began in the first century and it continues to the end. The warfare spoken of in Zechariah 14:1,2 is about physical warfare and the destruction of physical Jerusalem. Then the warfare of Zechariah 14:3-7 is about spiritual warfare in which the Lord himself fights for spiritual Jerusalem, His Bride, the Church.

In the 1990s and 2000s, I took 12 short term missions trips to Ukraine and Russia spending several months out of my life helping two Christian media ministries. When I was in Russia I ran into ministries that had raised millions of dollars to get the Jews out of Russia to Israel. The goal was not to evangelize Jews. It was to get them to Israel because of biblical prophecy about the “end-times.” When I would ask them on what basis they believed that, they would say that the Old Testament spoke of the regathering of the Jews to Israel.

I tried to offer the covenantal view on the evangelism of ethnic Jews that does not necessitate an end-times scenario with a restored nation-state of Israel and a resulting war that will kill two-thirds of the Jews who will return. That wasn’t heard though. They believed they had a prophetic mandate to see the Jews return to Israel rather than evangelize the Jews who remained in Russia.

Now it’s interesting that none of the prophets of the Post Exile period, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, speak of regathering. What they do instead is to delineate between true and false Israel, true and false shepherds, a great shaking of the heavens and the earth, God’s winnowing fan, etc. The “Church” is the seed of the woman that existed from the time of righteous Abel, to the time of Abraham, Moses, the prophets and the time of Jesus until today.

It’s not that Israel was separated from the Church — but it is that the unbelieving Jews within the Old Testament church were cut off from the “Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16), which now includes believers from all nations.

– to be continued …

My Life Story

By Jay Rogers. Posted July 25, 2017.

I had such a beautiful day. Many times when I was younger, I went to the beach by myself. I loved to go out beyond the wave line where it was just over my head and float for a long time in the salt water far away from any human being. One time, I was stung by jellyfish doing that. Another time, devil rays swarmed around me during their mating season. Another time, a sea turtle popped his head up next to me startling me. Another time, I tripped over a young manatee that was swimming by.

There is always a mystery and danger in the ocean. Most times, I would just be floating in the ocean lost with my thoughts, plans and regrets and I would work things out with God. Today, I just spoke with God and told Him my life story, even though He already knows my story and knows me better than I know myself.

I haven’t done that in a long time. Just be in the ocean with God. The sea is so big and so powerful. When I am floating in the waves, I feel like God holds me in His hand and we can have communion together.

Operation Save America: Rescue in Kentucky

By Jay Rogers. Posted May 13, 2017.

I was blessed to see Christians in Kentucky earlier today taking their words and backing them up with deeds. Some of my good friends, including Rusty Thomas and Cal Zastrow’s family, were among the rescuers.

Some background here is that I lived in a house across the street from an abortion mill for seven years in Melbourne, Florida. The house was originally bought by Operation Rescue National director Keith Tucci. I bought it from Keith when he was planning to move out of Melbourne. The original reason for the purchase was a court ordered “buffer zone” injunction that said Christians couldn’t preach, pray or protest on the sidewalk or even 100 feet away. The house provided some legal proximity. Hundreds of us challenged the injunction by risking arrest. One case challenging the injunction went all the way to the Supreme Court where we lost.

Yet we inexplicably won!

How was that possible? The injunction still stood and the Supreme Court had ruled against us. But there is a Supreme Being who alone is sovereign. We kept challenging the unconstitutional and ungodly injunction. Finally, the state prosecutors stopped bringing evidence against us after my roommate cleverly won a case by defending himself in court. The city council decided there was no use in arresting people who weren’t being prosecuted and we got the sidewalk back. We elected three city councilmen in Melbourne (all people who had been arrested in front of the abortion mill or had risked arrest). They got to share their testimonies with the other council members.

Eventually, the mill was forced to close. Another one opened, but it was forced to move twice and finally it closed for good in 2005. We didn’t end abortion in America, but we ended it in our county. Or rather, God used us to end abortion. For over ten years, no abortion mill has reopened in Brevard County.

This is an example of interposition and nullification on the local level.

When OSA director Rusty Thomas called me to ask what I thought of doing a rescue in Louisville, I explained that the Holy Spirit had brought this memory to my mind just before he had called me. What was accomplished on the local level in Melbourne, Florida can be accomplished state-wide, even nation-wide.

I was arrested three times in Melbourne and prior to that I was arrested in Boston twice in two rescues. Four years ago, I was arrested while video taping a challenge to a similar ordinance in front of a Planned Parenthood CEOs home.

Lots of Christians naysayed what I did — including some good friends. It never bothered me a lot because I knew I was doing the will of God. However, I was certainly disappointed in them for their betrayal and I prayed for them. There is a price to pray when you actually back up your words with acts. It was not like being martyred like the Apostle Paul who was first imprisoned by Nero and then had his best friends desert him.

However, there has been a cost in my professional life. I always have to disclose my arrest record because I am a teacher. But it’s ironic that part of our English curriculum is Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail! I have taught that almost every year. I know that someday school children will be required to read Rusty Thomas’ writings or someone like him.

Over the course of seven years, being at the mill almost every day, I saw lots of Christians do things I disagreed with. I still see that. But one thing I have learned is that you never know how God is going to use someone. God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines. I am a crooked stick and so are you. And I’ve known some really crooked sticks that God used to end abortion in their region.

Likewise, I was disappointed, but not surprised by some Christians who chose to immediately opine and even spread false information about what actually happened at the Operation Rescue/OSA event earlier today. The criticism is all about what men should have done or should not have done. But I’d like to encourage you reading this to have an attitude that sees God to be sovereign. We don’t know how God will ultimately use this Kentucky rescue. We heard that one baby was saved as a result. It may be nothing more than that. Yet even that is amazing! I know too much of God’s faithfulness to doubt. I know a lot of fervent prayer, fasting and seeking of God’s will went into this rescue.

See also Rusty’s video explaining the purpose of this rescue. We are not looking to return to the paradigm of rescue of 25 to 30 years ago. The emphasis is to awaken the Church and our pro-life lawmakers that we can end abortion without overturning Roe. We can do it through interposition and nullification. I’ve written a short series of articles here explaining this more fully.

I gave an example of how this worked in Melbourne, Florida. It can work every place in America, if Christians will stand in the gap. The United States Constitution allows for this and more importantly our Lord mandates it.

The Tangled Legal History of James Pendergraft

By Jay Rogers. Posted March 29, 2017.

Abortionist James Pendergraft arrives at Orlando Women’s Center in the summer of 2011. Pendergraft owns a chain of five abortion centers in Florida that specialize in late-term abortions. (Click to enlarge.)

The legal history of James Pendergraft is complicated enough to make anyone’s head spin. Due to the confusing aspect of this tangled web of iniquity, I’ve compiled a brief biographical sketch and a time-line of the highlights to make sense of it all. After the time-line is a list of over 100 articles detailing James Pendergraft’s legal troubles in chronological order.

In future articles, I will summarize the circumstances of Pendergraft’s medical license suspensions from more than 1000 pages of legal documents. I’ll follow that with another article giving a brief legal history of several other convicted felons who have worked as abortionists in the state of Florida. Finally, I will show evidence that demonstrates that not only have illegal third-trimester abortions taken place routinely at Pendergraft’s five abortion mills, but that many of these children were born alive and left to die in violation of the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

A Brief Biography of James Pendergraft

From “About Extortion or Abortion?” Business Week, 10/9/2000

Born – July 4, 1957, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Early years – Grew up in Chapel Hill. Eldest son of a mortician and a nurse.

Education – BA, University of North Carolina, 1978; MD, Meharry Medical College, 1982.

Medical training – U.S. Army, residency at a hospital affiliated with University of Maryland; fellowship in high-risk obstetrics, University of South Florida, an elite credential.

On abortion as a career – “A lot of doctors with my training diagnose fetal abnormalities, but won’t perform abortions. I felt it was much more satisfying to work with women through termination.”

On money as a motive – Pendergraft likes to boast that he is “a $2000-an-hour man.”

Administrative philosophy – “It’s easy to keep the doctors who work in my clinics in line because they know I can come in and do the procedures myself.”

Known to friends as – “Scott.”

Family – Father of four children. Denise Williams is the mother of his two middle children. She holds approximately two-thirds of Pendergraft’s assets through Wilson Medical Management, LLC according to 2011 court records.

The Tangled Legal History of Abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV

James Pendergraft worked at Aware Woman abortion clinic in the early 1990s when he lived in the Tampa area. In 1995, residents of Orlando awoke to the news that a new “doctor” was coming to town. This abortionist proudly proclaimed that he was going to fill a niche left open by other facilities in the area. His specialty would be late-term abortions.

Abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV on a local news broadcast in Orlando in the 1990s. (Screen capture)

Pendergraft advertises that he performs second and third trimester abortions in five abortion clinics in Florida. In a television interview, Pendergraft openly admitted performing late-term abortions on babies as old as 24 weeks or older if he deems it “necessary.” And the late-term abortion business is lucrative. Pendergraft makes no qualms about bragging that he makes “$2000 an hour.”

His plan is simple. Set up late-term abortion clinics in areas of the state that are easily accessible to women in Georgia and Alabama where late-term abortion is practically illegal.

1995 – Pendergraft files a lawsuit against the city of Orlando after it blocks the opening of his Orlando Women’s Center abortion clinic on Lucerne Terrace on zoning grounds.

1996 – An Orlando hearing officer recommends that Pendergraft ought to be allowed to open his clinic. Then a district judge rules that Pendergraft can perform both first and second trimester abortions.

As Pendergraft seeks a settlement, he predicts the city might lose millions in a legal fight. Pendergraft asks the city for lost wages, plus attorney’s fees amounting to almost $1 million. Pendergraft says:

“I’m not going any lower than that offer because I deserve more.”

The city of Orlando eventually settles for $325,000.

Abortionists Joe Sanchez, Jr., Paul Shipley and Randall Whitney work with Pendergraft in Orlando.

1998 – Pendergraft opens an abortion clinic in Ocala and accuses city officials of discriminating against him by prohibiting police officers from moonlighting as security guards at his clinic. He recruits Roy Lucas, the legal mind who devised the argument that won Roe v. Wade, to write a lawsuit against the city of Ocala. The lawsuit reads in places like a silly, paranoid, hysterical screed.

Roy Lucas says that providing police protection for abortion clinics in Florida has been more difficult than in other locations.

“There’s a Bible Belt problem here. You’ve got state judges overruling protective injunctions upheld by the Supreme Court.”

In March 1998, Pendergraft tells Marion County officials he will “stay away three years for $500,000, five years for $750,000, and forever for $1,000,000.”

1999 – As the case proceeds, the FBI begins an investigation of Pendergraft. Wiretaps find that Lucas and Pendergraft falsified information in affadavits in a conspiracy to bankrupt the city of Ocala. In late 1999, Roy Lucas lets all three lawsuits drop and promptly disappears. Pendergraft vows to fight on.

During this time, Pendergraft continues to do illegal third trimester abortions. In the procedure, the patient is injected with a long spinal needle through the abdominal wall with digoxin, a medication that is supposed to stop the baby’s heart. The mother has her cervix dilated with laminaria or Cytotec and returns to the clinic the next day for a forced birth while sitting on a toilet. The toilet is not used to dispose of the fetal remains, but to collect them in one place. The water would obviously serve to drown a baby born alive.

Orlando Women’s Center advertises “Second and third trimester abortions by induction method.” James Pendergraft’s website also offers handprints and footprints of aborted babies. Note that this abortionist does not attempt to depersonalize the unborn by calling them “fetal tissue” or “product of conception,” but instead terms them, “the baby” and “their child.”

At the Women’s Centers we are prepared to aid patients and their families in getting through the entire process with our compassionate and caring staff, supporting them from the beginning to the end of the termination procedure. Each patient goes through the procedure process differently. We encourage all patients to at least see the baby minimally as we believe that this is the best way to bring closure for families. We are also prepared to help families have a memory of their child such as having a handprint or a footprint. Some patients want the baby to be cremated and others want a burial to take place.

On November 6th, at 21 weeks of pregnancy, a mother chooses to have her child aborted by Pendergraft. The reason given for the abortion is that the mother is 13-years-old. Sidewalk evangelist Patte Smith describes the scene.

The father didn’t want the abortion. He named her Little Mary and talked the clinic staff into letting him take the attached photograph of her inside the clinic. He asked that I use it to honor his daughter’s short life by telling her story.

Around this time, a Florida Agency for Health Care Administration report notes the following incident:

Interview with the physician revealed there was an incident … where a patient allegedly went out to get some lunch after starting the procedure, got lost, delivered a viable fetus in the car, and patient and fetus were sent immediately to the hospital. Baby lived 2 days. Policy changed, patients no longer leave after getting medication…. Physician also stated that sometimes an 18 week old fetus may twitter but this is not considered “viable.”

Later testimony from Randall Whitney suggests that he is the “physician” interviewed here.

2000 – Former Mickey Mouse Club extra and Britney Spears back-up singer Kelly Clinger has two abortions in November 1999 and February 2000. On duty are James Pendergraft and William Phillip Egherman, a Cincinnati abortionist who has been the subject of a string of complaints and lawsuits due to abortion related injuries. Kelly is injured during the second abortion and experiences cramps and bleeding. After tests in her doctor’s office, it is discovered that she has had a incomplete abortion and a perforated uterus. After professing Christian conversion a few years later, she writes about her experience in several blog entries beginning in 2011 and becomes a spokesperson for Silent No More Awareness.

Pendergraft is indicted for extortion. In June, James Pendergraft and his real estate investment associate, Michael Spielvogel, are indicted in federal court. The five-count indictment alleges that the two men conspired to extort millions of dollars from the Marion County government by making false and fraudulent statements. The extortion charges stem from evidence gathered by the FBI that they offered false testimony in the 1998 lawsuit case in a failed attempt to win a big judgment.

In October, a forensic psychologist characterizes Spielvogel as “self-aggrandizing,” “manipulative,” “obnoxious,” “ingratiating,” “narcissistic,” “paranoid” and “almost like the permanent puppy, seeking to get approval.” The psychiatric testimony is ruled as irrelevant to the trial by a federal judge.

2001 – In January, a grand jury watches secretly recorded video by the FBI showing Pendergraft and his attorney, Roy Lucas, talk about wrecking the finances of the Marion County government with a lawsuit.

“We’re going to go for a verdict of over $100 million, and they better come up with some money or they’re gonna get burned,” declared Lucas, according to the transcript. “We’ll try to bankrupt the county.”

Added Pendergraft: “Not try. We will bankrupt the county. And I promise you I’ll put a statue of myself in the town square that states that Dr. Pendergraft brought freedom to Ocala” (Businessweek).

James Pendergraft (center), his bodyguard and attorney enter the Golden-Collum Memorial Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in 2001, in Ocala, Florida. (AP Images/ Ocala Star-Banner, Bruce Ackerman)

Odd events occur during the trial. First the trial is postponed by the death of Pendergraft’s grandmother. A juror falls outside the courthouse and is hospitalized with head injuries. Two electrical blackouts occur during playback of the surveillance video and two more occur the next day. One attorney on Pendergraft’s defense team, Jacob Rose, falls in the dark during one of the blackouts and reinjures a knee. He reappears the next week walking on crutches.

Pendergraft is convicted of extortion. Both Pendergraft and Spielvogel are found guilty and sentenced to 46 and 41 months respectively. Pendergraft begins serving his sentence in July at a federal prison camp in Atlanta, but vows that all five of his abortion clinics will remain open while he is in prison.

Pendergraft and his attorneys allege racism motivated the trial. Dr. Sangeeta Pati, Pendergraft’s long-time girlfriend and spokeswoman for an abortion rights group, comments to the Orlando Sentinel:

“We can see how an innocent person can be convicted in a United States court room. Abortion was an issue. Race was an issue.”

In August, pro-life sidewalk evangelist Patte Smith receives a letter from the imprisoned abortionist, who states:

“God says to love thy neighbors as thyself and to love all people including your enemies. That in order to love people you must not have hatred. I go to sleep every night with love and peace in my heart. I hate no one.”

On November 11th, Carol Howard goes to Orlando Women’s Center, to abort her 22 week old baby girl. The abortionist on duty is Randall Whitney. As a result of mistreatment and gross malpractice, the abortion is botched and a baby girl is born alive in a local hospital. The child survives with massive birth defects.

2002 – In February, Pendergraft is released from federal prison after serving seven months of his 46 month sentence. In July, all but one of Pendergraft’s extortion charges are overturned by an appeals court. The charges against Michael Spielvogel, Pendergraft’s real estate business associate are also dismissed.

On August 5th, the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act is enacted. It extends legal protection to an infant born alive after a failed attempt at an induced abortion.

2003 – A complaint investigation at Orlando Women’s Center is conducted by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. In the case of 11 patients, AHCA notes that

… the facility failed to have two physicians certify in writing to the fact that, to a reasonable degree of medical probability, the termination of pregnancy in third trimester was necessary to save the life or preserve the health of the pregnant woman as required by Florida Statute …

Common reasons cited by Pendergraft for these late term abortions include “depression,” “suicidal ideation,” mental instability,” “alcohol abuse in first trimester,” “depressed mental state,” “increased risk to the mother due to a young age,” “alleged rape,” and “fetal anomalies.”

The complaint summary alleges that the facility is performing third trimester abortions. A medication called Cytotec is continually given to women until the baby is aborted. Cytotec’s only FDA-approved use is treating ulcers. The process takes 6 to 36 hours. The complaint witness also states that in speaking with a nurse who once practiced at this facility that babies are at times born alive and no actions are taken by staff. Many times the physician is not in the building and the abortion is completed by a certified medical assistant.

On November 3rd, Roy Lucas, Pendergraft’s lawsuit attorney and infamous Roe v. Wade lawyer, dies at age 61 of a heart attack while vacationing in Europe.

2004 – On May 25th, Carol Howard files a civil lawsuit against Randall Whitney, Pendergraft, and the Orlando Women’s Center.

On June 10th, Pendergraft pleads guilty to a final count of accessory in an agreement that allows him not to serve any more time in prison.

According to an AHCA report, Pendergraft determines a pregnant woman to be at 22 weeks’ gestation. She is given medication to take at home to initiate uterine contractions and begin the abortion process. But the woman progresses more quickly than expected and aborts the fetus at home before she can return to the clinic. A hospital later evaluates the fetus and estimates its gestational age to be 25 to 27 weeks – putting it in the third trimester.

2005 – On April 2nd, 911 Emergency receives a frantic call from a woman claiming her friend has given birth to a live baby at Pendergraft’s EPOC clinic in Orlando. Harry Perper is the abortionist on duty. When the mother alerts medical staff that her baby was born alive, the staff tells her to leave the baby in the toilet. The young mother holds the child and the amniotic sac in her hands as she calls a friend at a nearby hotel who had traveled with her to Orlando from out of state. An ambulance is dispatched, but arrives too late to save the baby. An autopsy report and photos show a perfectly formed baby boy who died from premature birth confirming part of the mother’s story. Liberty Counsel begins a lawsuit case on behalf of the mother and Baby Rowan, but later abandons the effort. Meanwhile, the story receives wide coverage by pro-life media.

In July, a third trimester abortion is performed at Orlando Women’s Center on a woman who is 28 weeks pregnant according to an AHCA report.

2006 – In April, the state board of medicine drops its disciplinary case considering the revocation of Pendergraft’s medical license and affirms a decision by a judge that the extortion case should be dropped.

On July 24, 2006, Carol Howard’s motion for summary judgment is granted. The case will eventually be decided for the plaintiff with a judgment of 36.7 million in July 2011.

On July 26, 2006, James Pendergraft changes most of his Florida corporations associated with his five abortion clinics to limited liability companies (LLC) and then converts each of the LLCs to the state of Nevada on the same day.

Pendergraft receives his first suspension. In August, James Pendergraft’s license is suspended for the first time on evidence that he did illegal third trimester procedures in 2004 and 2005.

The suspension order temporarily closes all five of Pendergraft’s abortion clinics. The clinics in Tampa, Ocala and Fort Lauderdale are allowed to open in late August. The two Orlando clinics are reopened later in the year.

2007 – In February, Orlando sidewalk counselor and evangelist Patte Smith is interviewed for a series of videos about Baby Rowan, which include the taped 911 calls that were placed to the Orlando fire department and emergency.

Pendergraft receives his second suspension. In December, Pendergraft’s suspension is extended another year. He is also fined $10,000 and ordered to pay more than $80,000 to cover the state’s legal fees. Pro-life evangelist Mary Jo Gardner states:

“He’s been killing children through nine months of pregnancy here for a number of years. I have personally met women who have been as far along as eight months and I think he should be thrown in jail.”

Medical malpractice attorney Mark Morsch agrees:

“What would be right is for Dr. Pendergraft to never have a medical license in the state of Florida.”

2008 – A film on Baby Rowan called 22 Weeks is released in the fall.

2009 – This 30-minute dramatization is shown in churches including a showing in Orlando in early 2009. Filmmaker Ángel Soto, lawyer John Stemberger (Florida Family Policy Council) and sidewalk counselor Patte Smith (Sanctuary Ministries) form a panel to take questions from the audience after the showing.

Pendergraft receives his third suspension. In July, Pendergraft loses his license suspension appeal. Although he argues that he cannot be suspended for violating state statutes regarding late-term abortion since he has never been criminally prosecuted, the state notes that:

Criminal sanctions are available for violation of this subsection as any person who violates this provision is guilty of a second degree misdemeanor…. A violation of [other] sections is punishable as a third degree felony… Although the statutes Dr. Pendergraft is charged with violating may provide penal sanctions, there is no explicit statutory requirement that a licensee be adjudicated guilty of the acts specified in the penal statutes before disciplinary action may be instituted.

On December 19th, abortionist Paul Leslie Sibley dies of complications of a stroke at age 53.

2010 – On March 27th, abortionist Randall Whitney is arrested at Orlando Women’s Center for aggravated battery after slapping a patient while she was on the operating table.

On April 3rd, abortionist William Phillip Egherman dies at age 56. The cause of death was not published in his obituary. Egherman is known for leaving a string of botched abortions while he worked as a “circuit rider” abortionist throughout Florida.

Pendergraft receives his fourth suspension. In August, Pendergraft, already serving his third suspension, is suspended again. The state finds evidence that Pendergraft

Allowed a woman employee to administer narcotics to patients although she had no license to do so;
Knew she abused drugs but gave her “free reign” to order drugs under his name;
Prescribed steroids for the woman without medical justification.

On September 22 at 9:20 pm, abortionist Randall Whitney is taken out of the Orlando Women’s Center abortion clinic in handcuffs by the police. This time it is on a warrant issued because he did not show up for a court hearing. The police are tipped off by two sidewalk counselors who knew about the warrant and noted that Whitney had been sleeping in his car in the OWC parking lot. This is the second time in six months that Whitney has been arrested while on duty at the abortion clinic.

2011 – Filling in the gaps early in the year at Orlando Women’s Center in the absence of James Pendergraft is Walker Whaley who spent time in prison and had his medical license suspended for manufacturing synthetic cocaine in his home.

In January and February, abortionist Vera Stefanac’s neighborhood and office is the setting for several pro-life awareness campaigns. A few weeks later, Stefanac officially retires from doing abortions, according to an abortion clinic worker.

In March, Zvi Harry Perper, the abortionist on duty at EPOC when Baby Rowan was born alive and left to die, is charged with multiple counts of racketeering, drug trafficking and conspiracy. The charges carry a possible penalty of 490 years in prison.

Abortionist Zvi Harry Perper is arrested at a Florida “pill mill.” He worked here as a dealer of pain pills for a controversial clinic in Miami that was founded by a convicted drug smuggler.

Beginning in March, abortionist Scott Spagnolo-Hye’s neighborhood is the setting for several pro-life awareness campaigns.

Other awareness campaigns are held in the neighborhoods of Randall Whitney and Sangeeta Pati, James Pendergraft’s long-time girlfriend and abortion rights promoter. Pendergraft sometimes stays at Pati’s residence and drives a vehicle registered in her name.

On July 22nd, a Florida jury awards $36,766,000 in damages to Carol Howard, to provide funding for lifetime care of “JH,” who was severely harmed as a result of being born alive after a botched abortion that occurred at Orlando Women’s Center in 2001.

During the trial, Pendergraft testifies to instances of infants born alive in abortuaries.

“… you can allow a patient to just deliver vaginally by just using Cytotec alone… Anyone over 23 weeks we use digoxin….

Either the medical assistant does it or a physician does it. In a lot of situations, the patient delivers into the toilet by herself. So even though a physician or medical assistant may be present, it actually delivers into the toilet without any help….

Well, usually you don’t have to worry about fetal demise, because, again, when you’re dealing with a zero possibility of viability [between 17 and 21 weeks], then you don’t have to worry about that. But, again even at 22 weeks now, there are – a certain amount of those fetuses may live…. But between 17 and 21 weeks there’s not even an issue.”

James Scott Pendergraft appears at the Orange County, Florida courthouse in July 2011 awaiting the jury verdict that awarded a plaintiff $36.7 million. The lawsuit stemmed from a 2001 botched abortion in which a baby girl was born alive and has suffered lifelong handicaps. (Photo credit: Ken Scott)

Perhaps the most interesting part of the trial testimony is when Randall Whitney, the abortionist on duty at the time, speaks cavalierly and without being prodded about babies being born alive into the toilet.

Question: Has there ever been a circumstance where you have been contacted by the medical staff that there has been a delivery of a live fetus?

Randall Whitney: They would not have contacted me because of that.

Question: What was the procedure to be followed in that circumstance?

Randall Whitney: Well, usually the fetus was into the toilet. I mean, nearly always they made it to the toilet. It was precipitated into the toilet so …

Question: Okay. Explain to me what you mean by that, I’m kind of confused. Is that how it was disposed of?

Randall Whitney: No…. No. That’s how it happened, though, at the time of the expulsion. It was just more convenient to be in the toilet, okay? So I assume that at times there might be some movement, which would suggest life…. But there was no attempt at resuscitation.

Question: Were there any protocols or procedures in place that there should be resuscitation attempts where there was fetal movement?

Randall Whitney: I don’t know of any.

Question: And I take from your response when you say “usually it was in the toilet,” that had occurred before that you were aware of? The woman has delivered a fetus, there had been movement, and the movement ceased thereafter?

Randall Whitney: Where? In the toilet?

Question: Yeah.

Randall Whitney: I think so.

Question: Was that at the Orlando Women’s Center?

Randall Whitney: Yes.

Question: So just that I’m clear, the instances where there may have been signs of a live birth; i.e., movement by the fetus, were instances where the woman was experiencing symptoms within the restroom and delivered the fetus into the toilet – that is what you’re saying?

Randall Whitney: Yes.

One of the jurors in Pendergraft’s lawsuit trial revealed that Pendergraft’s baby momma, Denise Williams, is hiding 64 percent of the assets generated by his late term abortion empire. The anonymous juror wrote:

Pendergraft in fact has upwards of 8 LLC’s he funnels money thru. The umbrella company for his 5 clinics, Wilson Management, he put 64% controlling interest in his girlfriend’s name and the other 36% is in his. He & his girlfriend refused to divulge the umbrella company’s finances as authorized by discovery rules, chosing to instead be charged with contempt. All of the jurors’ greatest hope is the plaintiff can recover the money awarded. Unfortunately, we all realize it most likely will be a long hard road fraught with appeals. But that is out of our hands. My disgust with the whole scheme got to me emotionally and I was pushing for $50m, $100m whatever I thought could crush him (in my outrage obviously I wanted this guy bankrupt & his clinics closed).

On September 8th, Denise Williams, the mother of the middle two of Pendergraft’s four children, files corporation papers for Latetermabortion.net LLC. Williams is also an officer in two of Pendergraft’s corporations and holds about two-thirds of his assets. A website www.latetermabortion.net is launched, which describes Pendergraft’s plan to do late term abortions in the Washington, D.C. area.

The procedure is to do an intra-cardiac injection with digoxin, a medication that stops the baby’s heart. The mother has her cervix dilated with laminaria or Cytotec in order to force a premature birth. The injection takes place in a doctor’s office, but there is no medical clinic involved in the abortion by forced delivery. When the mother begins to deliver her baby, she is instructed to call 911 or go to an emergency room. Several pro-life media groups cover this new twist on late term abortion services in the form of an exposé, but describe what Pendergraft explicitly states on his website.

On September 28th, abortionist Joe Sanchez, Jr. dies of a stroke at age 77.

2012 – On February 17th, Bayview Loan Servicing, Inc. files a commercial foreclosure lawsuit against Pendergraft’s EPOC clinic at 609 Virginia Drive, Orlando, Florida. The suit is settled and dismissed later in the year.

Pendergraft’s license comes up for review. On April 24th, Pendergraft, who has had his medical license suspended four times, is a respondent in a complaint filed by the Florida Department of Health. The complaint states that Pendergraft still owes a fine of $121,303.21 stemming from the previous suspension of his license in 2010. The complaint concludes:

WHEREFORE, the Petitioner respectfully requests that the Board of Medicine enter an order imposing one or more of the following penalties: permanent revocation or suspension of Respondent’s license, restriction of practice, imposition of an administrative fine, issuance of a reprimand, placement of the Respondent on probation, corrective action, refund of fees billed or collected, remedial education and/or any other relief that the Board deems appropriate.

James Pendergraft’s medical license status is changed from “suspended” to “probation.” Probation is defined by the Florida board of medicine:

The licensing board or department has disciplined the licensed practitioner and placed his/her license in a probationary status. The licensed practitioner may practice his/her profession in the state of Florida under terms specified by Final Order. Practitioner is obligated to update his/her profile data.

In late May, abortionist Scott Spagnolo-Hye announces on video that he is quitting abortions and going into family practice. Pro-life evangelist John Barros writes on his Facebook page:

“I have been speaking to Scott Hye for about two years. I have prayed with him shared God’s Word with him. I have even stood in front of his house. I have continued to pray and talk to him. He has said he hated doing abortions, but after so long I wondered. Then today he promised that he is going to quit and said he would meet with me to discuss where he stands with God and repentance. Won’t you pray with me?”

On May 31st, abortionist Walker Whaley dies of a heart attack at age 64.

In August, abortionist Harold O. Alexander, one of Pendergraft’s on duty abortionists with Latetermabortion.net, is suspended by the Maryland Board of Physicians. The final suspension order includes several legal and ethics violations by Alexander, which include:

sexual boundary violations;
botched abortions;
shoddy or non-existent record keeping;
illegal prescriptions of large amounts of Viagra and other drugs to himself and non-patients.

In late August, the Republican National Committee Platform is ratified. Among other pro-life measures it urges Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act of 2002 by adding civil and criminal penalties for doctors who don’t adequately care for newborn babies.

April 2013 — Pendergraft’s license suspended for fifth time
Owes state of Florida more than $120,000 in unpaid fines

June 2013 — Police raid Orlando abortionist James Pendergraft’s clinic
An Interview with Sidewalk Evangelist John Barros

“What is nicer than seeing police knock down doors and haul out evidence at Orlando Women’s Center abortion mill?” ~ John Barros

August 2013 — Orlando abortionist slaps woman, gets slap on the wrist
Florida Board imposes discipline on notorious abortionist Randall Whitney but does not suspend license

January 2015 — Pendergraft’s former associate, abortionist Zvi Harry Perper, receives emergency suspension of medical license
Notorious Orlando and Miami-Fort Lauderdale child killer now serving a one-year sentence for drug trafficking

October 2015 — Pendergraft is arrested in Spartanburg County, SC and charged with operating an illegal “rolling abortion scheme.”

May 2016 — Pendergraft is indicted on drug charges and illegal abortion procedures.

October 2016 — First trial date. Postponed due to defendant’s health issues and required recuperation period.

January 2017 — Second trial date. Again postponed – no reason given for this further trial delay.

March 27, 2017 — Third trial date. Again postponed, this time the reason given was “because Pendergraft’s defense lawyer does not have time for the trial and asked for another postponement.. His defense lawyer, reported to have offices in Columbia, SC, contacted Spartanburg County, SC court officials to say that “his trial docket is filled until sometime in June 2017.”

Mid-June 2017 — Fourth trial time frame. No definite June date has been set.

Abortion Clinic Loses Bid To Open, 9/20/1995
Abortion Plan Gets Close But Loses Again, 11/10/1995
Doctor May Take City To Court Over Abortion Center
Abortion Doctor Sues Over Office
Lawyer: Orlando Protected From Lawsuit In Clinic Case
Judge Hears Abortion Doctor's Zoning Dispute, 1/6/1996
Doctor Seeking Abortion Office Gets Hearing
Doctor Wins Round In Fight Over Abortion
Abortion Practice Blocked, 3/12/1996
Orlando To Allow Abortion Facility, 3/15/1996
Abortion Doctor Accepting Patients In Orlando
Doctor In Orlando Can Do 2nd-trimester Abortions, 4/19/1996
Doctor To City: Let's End Fight
Abortion Doctor Says Settle Suit Or Lose Millions
Abortion Doctor May Get $325,000
City Okays $325,000 For Abortion Doctor
Who Stands To Profit?
Operation Rescue Mission, 1/8/1998
Ocala Resists Abortion Clinic, 3/1/1998
Abortion Clinic To Open Next Week In Ocala
Doctor Who Sued Orlando Opening Abortion Clinic
Abortion Clinic Owner Seeks Protection In Suit
Physician sues city, county, 12/11/1998
Matter of choice
Lawyer brings quest to Florida, 3/17/1999
Doctor seeks court injunction to protect privacy
Owner Of Abortion Clinic Not Bothered By Protests
Judge rules police must protect abortion clinic, 4/28/1999
Judge: Off-duty Police Can Guard Clinics
Police security prices up
The Specialist, 6/1/1999
Another case against Melbourne pro-lifer dismissed
Federal judge discontinues clinic's lawsuit, 12/23/1999
Abortion doctors' suit thrown out, 12/24/1999
Honoring "Little Mary" and Other Disposable Babies
Clinic owner indicted for extortion, 6/15/2000
Orlando Abortion Doctor Indicted
Where is Roy Lucas?
Abortionist denies extortion charges
James Pendergraft: "I Am Not A Criminal"
FBI videotape allowed in Pendergraft case
About Extortion or Abortion? 10/9/2000
Judge gives psych evaluation thumbs-down
Extortion Case Delayed, 12/12/2000
Extortion trial start postponed
Pendergraft trial begins, 1/3/2001
Testimony Begins in Pendergraft Trial
Prosecutor: Abortion Doctor Tried To Get Payoff
Cretul testifies at Federal trial
Jury Hears Taped Pitch To Make Deal
Attorney challenges Cretul's testimony
Commissioner Testifies
Judge recesses Pendergraft trial
Jurors Watch Abortion Doctor Video
Local attorney testifies at Pendergraft trial
FBI agents testify during Pendergraft trial
Defense attorney: FBI probe of abortion doctor was 'attempted entrapment'
Judge says testimony irrelevant
Spielvogel takes stand in Pendegraft trial
Co-defendant Takes Blame In Abortion Clinic Case
Lies are revealed at Pendergraft trial
Abortionist: Adviser Misled Me
Pendergraft takes the stand
Clinic Needed Protection, Doctor Says
Pendergraft saw possible 'conspiracy'
Doctor Defends Payments To Adviser
Pendergraft trial starts closing arguments
Pendergraft lawyer charges racial overtones
Pendergraft extortion trial jury returns, 2/1/2001
Verdict Won't Close Clinics, Doctor Vows
Jury convicts Pendergraft, Spielvogel, 2/2/2001
Pendergraft sentenced to 46 months, 5/25/2001
Pendergraft's Appeal Alleges Racism
Pendergraft denied appeal bond, 6/21/2001
Pendergraft serves 46 month sentence
Letter From Imprisoned Abortionist James Pendergraft, 8/13/2001
Doctor Is Let Out Of Prison, For Time Being, 2/28/2002
Conviction Of Florida Abortionist Is Overturned, 7/17/2002
Roy Lucas, Roe v. Wade Lawyer, Dies at 61
Pendergraft Pleads Not Guilty To Last Count Of Extortion, 5/12/2004
Pendergraft Admits To Deception For Associate
Abortion Clinic 911 Emergency Calls - Baby Rowan
Board won't discipline doctor, 4/9/2006
State bars abortions at 2 clinics in Orlando, 8/17/2006
Action limits abortion options
State of Florida suspends abortionist James Pendergraft, 8/19/2006
Abortionist Pendergraft: Restore license
Three abortion clinics can open, 8/25/2006
State refuses to restore abortionist Pendergraft's medical license, 12/1/2007
Late abortion results in fine, suspension, 12/1/2007
Abortion Clinic 911 Calls - Baby Rowan (Revisited)
22 Weeks premiere in Orlando
22 Weeks Premiere: Baby born alive after failed abortion!
Late-term Abortionist Pendergraft loses license suspension appeal, 7/4/2009
Can a pro-life video save unborn children?
Orlando Abortionist Randall Whitney arrested for aggravated battery
Suspended abortionist James Pendergraft suspended again, 8/11/2010
Report: Central Florida abortionist receives fourth suspension, 8/11/2010
Abortionist Randall Whitney Arrested … Again!
Abortionist Pendergraft offers handprints and footprints of murdered babies
Abortionist Zvi Harry Perper charged with racketeering and drug trafficking
Central East - Orlando - EPOC Clinic
Pro-life Residential Pickets
Pendergraft, James Scott (owner, verified) – Orlando, Ocala, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale
Civil lawsuit case against James Pendergraft, 7/24/2011
Final judgment in civil lawsuit against James Pendergraft: $36.7 million
Residential Pickets - OSA Orlando Recap (Part 3)
Fire-bombed Pensacola abortion mill linked to abortionist charged with murder
Florida DOH recommends revocation of abortionist Pendergraft’s medical license
Late Term Abortion: Can This Be Legal?
Florida DOH recommends suspension of abortionist Randall Whitney's license
Orlando abortion clinic security officer arrested, accused of rape
Orlando Abortionist Pendergraft suspended for fifth time
Is Kermit Gosnell an outlier?
Abortionist James Pendergraft's $36.7 Million Judgment
Police raid Orlando abortionist James Pendergraft's clinic
Orlando abortionist slaps woman, gets slap on the wrist
Jailed abortionist Harry Perper receives emergency suspension of medical license

Go Stand Speak (DVD)

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Does the Bible really call church pastors, leaders and evangelists to proclaim the gospel in the public square as part of obedience to the Great Commission, or is public preaching something that is outdated and not applicable for our day and age?

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Why Creeds and Confessions? (Book)

High Quality Paperback — 219 pages

Foundations in Biblical Orthodoxy

Driving down a country road sometime, you might see a church with a sign proudly proclaiming: “No book but the Bible — No creed but Christ.” The problem with this statement is that the word creed (from the Latin: credo) simply means “belief.” All Christians have beliefs, regardless of whether they are written.

Yet a single book containing the actual texts of the most important creeds of the early Church will not often be found. Out of the multitude of works on the evangelical Christian book market today, those dealing with the creeds of the Church are scarce.

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The Silent Scream (DVD) Eight Languages

“When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.” – President Ronald Reagan to National Religious Broadcasters Convention, January 1981

Ronald Reagan became convinced of this as a result of watching The Silent Scream – a movie he considered so powerful and convicting that he screened it at the White House.

The modern technology of real-time ultrasound now reveals the actual responses of a 12-week old fetus to being aborted. As the unborn child attempts to escape the abortionist’s suction curette, her motions can be seen to become desperately agitated and her heart rate doubles. Her mouth opens – as if to scream – but no sound can come out. Her scream doesn’t have to remain silent, however … not if you will become her voice. This newly re-mastered version features eight language tracks and two bonus videos.

“… a high technology “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” arousing public opinion just as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement.” – Sen. Gordon Humphrey, Time Magazine

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Freedom: The Model of Christian Liberty (DVD)

“Give me liberty or give me death!”

Patrick Henry’s famous declaration not only helped launch the War for Independence, it also perfectly summarized the mindset that gave birth to, and sustained, the unprecedented experiment in Christian liberty that was America.

The freedom our Founders envisioned was not freedom from suffering, want, or hard work. Nor was it freedom to indulge every appetite or whim without restraint—that would merely be servitude to a different master. No, the Founders’ passion was to live free before God, unfettered by the chains of autocracy, shackles that slowly but inexorably bind men when the governments they fashion fail to recognize and uphold freedom’s singular, foundational truth: that all men are created in the image of God, and are thereby co-equally endowed with the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

This presentation is a similar call, not to one but many. By reintroducing the principles of freedom that gave birth to America, it is our prayer that Jesus, the true and only ruler over the nations, will once again be our acknowledged Sovereign, that we may again know and exult in the great truth that “where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

Welcome to the Second American Revolution!

This DVD features “Liberty: The Model of Christian Liberty” along with “Dawn’s Early Light: A Brief History of America’s Christian Foundations.” Bonus features include a humorous but instructive collection of campaign ads and Eric Holmberg’s controversial YouTube challenge concerning Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.

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The Four Keys to the Millennium (Book)

Foundations in Biblical Eschatology

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