“THE DEVIL IS WORKING OVERTIME”: 200 Bibles Were Burned Outside of a Tennessee Church on Easter

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” – Romans 3:18

“In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.” – 1st John 3:10

DAILY MAIL reports: A trailer containing hundreds of Holy Bibles were set on fire and left outside an Evangelical Tennessee church on Easter Sunday.

Officers from the Mt. Juliet Police and Fire Department responded to a suspicious fire at the intersection of Old Lebanon Dirt Road and Chandler Road outside of Global Vision Bible Church.

Deputies reported that the trailer had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and “intentionally” set on fire, WKRN News reported.

Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church, who returned from Israel a day prior, was shocked when he learned what happened at his church on the Holy Day.

Easter weekend – including Easter Sunday and Good Friday – is the most holy celebration in the Christian calendar.

Locke told its members in a Facebook post that the church’s security cameras caught a man at 6am Easter morning dropping off a trailer filled with bibles before setting the trailer and bibles ablaze.

Locke, who lives close to the church, said he was not aware of what happened until he arrived at the church Sunday morning.

On his social media post, he posted photos of the burnt bibles, fire trucks, and police vehicles handling the disturbing incident.

He wrote that a woman, who had driven through the night to get to their church, was in the parking lot at the time the fire was raging, and was able to call police who responded quickly.

“A trailer with about 200 Bibles had been set on fire blocking the entrance from Old Lebanon Dirt Rd. and Chandler Radford Rd. into the main part of our parking lot,” the pastor said.

He added: “It was quite the scene to wake up on my first morning back from Israel.”

Despite the ordeal, he wrote in his post: “It’s going to be a great day in the Lord.”

Locke said: “It was strange because he had his blinkers on and scotched the wheels and everything. He was very meticulous, so he had to be very courageous to do what he did. We’ve had people do things to our building, we’ve been vandalized a number of times, hence why we have security, but never Bibles being burned.”

He added: “That’s a pretty rebellious statement towards the church.”

Locke also told worshippers of his church to move forward from the ordeal.

“What people think many times is going to stop us, really just encourages us, in a weird way, to know that we’re doing what’s right,” Locke said.

Some commenters expressed gratitude to the police and firefighters who arrived at the scene, while others thanked Pastor Locke for his service. While others recited psalms from the bible.

“So evil! They will face the Lord on Judgment day! God bless your Church today. He has risen!,” one person wrote.

“The Devil is working overtime,” said another… (Continue reading)