RON
HAMILTON
AND FRANK GARLOCK Black
is the color of the background to celebrate piracy,
the mentoring source
of Hamilton and Garlock.  Jointly,
RON HAMILTON AND FRANK GARLOCK-- Editor:
Blessed Quietness Journal, Steve Van Nattan In
New England, I had the joy of hearing Frank Garlock on the subject of music. He
had one of only two best presentations I have ever heard which are not bogged
down in current examples of Rock music. That is the scourge of every other
such ministry which exposes Rock music by playing Rock music. Now, Frank has gone
loonie for kenisiology in music, which is a form of occult spiritualism. He
has been confronted about it, and he just laughs it off. QUESTION:
"Where did these two men get 'pirates' in naming their curriculum
for a youth program?" Ron Hamilton had a medical problem which hospitalized
him. In the process, Ron lost one of his eyes. Now, that is no small
matter. Those of us who have not experienced this cannot imagine the trauma
of losing even one eye. Ron went through some real testing, and up to that
point handled it well in Christ. But then some of the UNSAVED hospital help,
trying to cheer up Ron Hamilton, called him, "Patch the Pirate." You can
imagine the rest. Some misguided hubris and some misplaced huggy huggies,
and, Voile! "There is the name for our new ministry." Ron
let lost sinners name his ministry, and later, rather than follow the leading
of the Lord as he had formerly known it, Ron redirected his ministry naming it
Patch the Pirate. If
the above historic details are off in some small way, I am sorry, but what follows
is NOT off-- It is fearful indeed. Let
us review the life of a pirate: PIRATE
ONE: Pirates
in past history are hardly remembered today. Piracy on the high seas has
nearly disappeared. One place where piracy is still a problem is in the
South China Sea, where Chinese pirates prey on boat people from Vietnam. They
are famous for rape, robbery, and murder in the old heritage of the Chinese bandits
of long ago. Another
place where piracy is a serious and large issue in off the coast of Somalia in
the Red Sea where pirates board ships and rob them of hold the crew hostage. Also,
in the Malaysia area there is a piracy problem that seems to be impossible to
stop. Piracy
on the high seas is still with us. There
is another form of piracy that is a major international problem. It is the piracy
of music and movies which are pirated by people in nations with lax laws, and
millions of dollars in royalties are lost annually to these pirates.
Pirates in the Treasure
Island model were mindlessly wicked men. They loved violence, and if
they got bored, they killed each other for distraction. Their classic symbol
was the Jolly Roger-- The skull and cross bones on a black field. [ Once
again, we note that evil gets the name "Jolly" from Satan, as sodomy gets the
name "Gay" in our day. Satan always tries to portray sin is fun and cute.
] Pirates would often sail under a British flag, come close to a potential
victim, then pull down the Union Jack and hoist the Jolly Roger with a raging
shout. The victims on the target ship knew that soon they would either be dead,
if they were male, raped, if they were female, or sodomized, if they were young
men. Robert Lewis Stevenson, for reasons of propriety, left out the worst
of the pirate's life in Treasure Island. Pirates,
like the shifta of Ethiopia, and the bandits of China, were hated supremely because
they did not keep their murderous crimes on the seas. They went ashore,
and the whole town closed their shutters and prayed for their soon exit.
They were a terror in taverns where they delighted in knifing anyone they didn't
like. They held grudges for a life time, and would kill the young son of
their enemy with a laugh. Moral
character in a pirate was considered a liability. They could be murderers,
rape their own mother, be sodomites, or known pedophiles. The only real
qualification to be a "free and accepted" pirate was that one already had to be
an outlaw. Pirate captains did not trust a man who had no former record.
He must already be a wanted candidate for the gallows.
When pirates were captured
at sea, they were immediately killed under admiralty law. Giving mercy to
a pirate would have been considered madness. If they got to land and were
caught, they were hanged at once. No one would stand to witness for a pirate.
They were the personification of evil to all men. If
Ron Hamilton and Frank Garlock want a pirate who did "good" to vindicate their
wimpy choices, they should consider Sir Francis Drake. He was a criminal
at heart with a doubtful background. But, he endeared himself to Queen Elizabeth
I, and she sent him to pirate Spanish gold galleons off the South American coast.
Drake flew the Union Jack, and he raped the Spanish. He would always
return home with the Golden Hind, his ship, heavy in the water with treats for
Queen Elizabeth I, and she, on her part, had her bed chamber warmed and ready
for a "little private visit" with her chief pirate. Needless to say, this
era of British history had to change before God used England to send forth thousands
of missionaries to the world. Teacher,
what are you going to tell the kiddies when one of them asks, "Miss Smith, what
is a pirate?" Time to sing "Climb, Climb up Sunshine Mountain," right? In
modern terms, Patch the Pirate is not different than naming a youth program,
"Henrietta the Whore, Carl the Queer, or Paul the Pimp." Why not use these
more modern titles for future curriculum additions for high schoolers and adults?
Morally, there is not a particle of difference. The
assumption that pirates have disappeared into ancient history is just as asinine
as assuming that God is no longer offended by Beethoven's Ode to Joy simply
because time has passed. YOU, of all people, ought to have a sense of history
from your studies in the history of music. PIRATE
TWO:
We now consider
the modern pirate. There is a very common pirate at large today. He
sits in a darkened room and, through modern technology, searches the world of
cyberspace for booty. We are talking about production music, software, an movies.
Also, we must include videos posted on YouTube. The pirate steals that booty out
from under the nose of his victim, and then he sells it to friends for a profit.
He can virtually destroy a hard working man by sucking the blood from his
business. This pirate is hated supremely, and when caught, he can be given a lengthy
prison term. He is the computer software pirate, and some of you "good Christians"
reading this are among these pirates, right? You are a thief!
The pitiful thing is this.
Kids are some of the worst software pirates. While their Daddy, the Fundamental
Baptist deacon, is at work, these clandestine thieves are hard at work stealing
every program they can get their hands on. They copy them to disk and distribute
them at the "Christian" school. Some of these kids don't even understand that
they are stealing. Now, you pastors who won't confront Patch the
Pirate and its filthy heritage, don't you think it will be a great
relief to these junior pirates in your church to hear that pirates are in fact
cute? You are sending a message loud and clear that pirating software is
in the greatest tradition of the Carpenter of Nazareth. Ron
Hamilton and Frank Garlock could not have known when they started their program
that computer "pirating" would be coming. But, this shows what happens when
we start arrogantly down the road of rebellion-- We end up in a habitation
of dragons. Furthermore, Garlock and Hamilton knew very well about the historic
pirates and their vile heritage of rank evil.
PARENTS:
You Dads must
face this reality-- If your pastor knows of this and will not change it, he is
playing a political game to keep the program going. This preacher, in our
day, will make rebels of your kids in a couple of years. No pastor, even
the "Pastoral Authority" dictator in some Fundamental Baptist circles, has the
right to enslave you and your kids in his wickedness. YOU, Dad, are going
to answer to God for YOUR choices. The
preacher may not even be saved. He may have been sent to your church as
an agent of destruction by the Jesuits or organized Witchcraft. This sort
of thing DOES happen-- It happened in a church I pastored. Wicked
men, planted in sound churches, look for every opportunity to import tainted
things, disguised as good things, into the Lord's church. The church
mentioned above in Ohio has a pastor who claims to have been saved out of the
Roman Catholic Church. Much as we may love him, he is suspect unless he
"gets right" on this issue. You
will also note in the illustration at the top of the page that animals and space
aliens are needed to give the Gospel. Jesus did not need to use toy poodles
and stuffed creatures to teach the little children. Nor did the Apostle
Paul. A real man and Bible believer needs only Jesus and the Word of God
to teach children. Kids today are getting the impression that the Gospel
has to be a muppet show or it is no fun. Beware of this false Gospel.
END THOUGHTS:
In
closing let us consider the Samson principle. Samson was a mighty judge of Israel,
but he was a perpetual disaster as well. He did not teach Israel to go to war.
God indicated this was His desire from His praise of the lives of other Judges
and Kings elsewhere in the Word of God, especially with David. Samson was a one-man-show,
and he also seemed to delight to tinker with God's law. Sounds like Hammond, Indiana,
eh? First, he tinkered with God's law about touching unclean food sources,
then he got right into bed with a pagan whore, thus doing to the max what he did
lightly with the lion's carcass. But,
God used Samson through much of the era of his degeneration. No doubt, like the
preacher in Hammond who preaches a sermon called, "Merits and Demerits" in which
he claims that God will tolerate sin if you work hard for Him, Samson must
have thought that his exploits for Jehovah would outweigh his perilous play with
sin. The day of accounting came, but long after Samson had started playing the
fool. So,
God today continues to use men to a limited degree who shack up with their Indiana
secretary, God sends out preaching tigers of unmatched zeal from a Bible Institute
in Florida where the leader is in a marriage situation which violates the literal
use of Christ's Word, and a preacher in Massachusetts still experiences spiritual
fruit in spite of his perpetual slide into textual criticism of the King James
Bible. Does the ongoing spiritual fruit mean that God is vindicating these men's sin?
Blasphemy! So,
as we are tempted to look down our noses at Ron Hamilton and Frank Garlock in
the matter of their choices, let us consider if there be any wicked way in us
which we have justified by the fruit of the Spirit in our ministries. God
is merciful, but woe to the man who uses God's mercy to justify his wickedness.
Woe to the lemming who just runs on in the line of least resistance.
Until they rename
their curriculum, we at Blessed Quietness Journal will hold Frank Garlock
and Ron Hamilton at arm's length as Balaams who have not got the guts to do right.
They either fear they will lose subscribers and thus lose money, or they are too
lazy to go to the trouble of rewriting some things, or they fear their publishers. Whatever
the reasons, they are classic Balaams. They run on with mass opinion, as Samson
went on and on in arrogance against God's holiness. Samson's end should be a strong
caution to these two brethren and to us all who are too wimpy to GET RIGHT!
QUOTE:
"When a man starts buttoning his shirt wrong at the bottom,
it will
be wrong all the rest of the way to the top." Pastor
Carleton Helgerson,
Church of the Open Bible, Burlington, Mass.
If you communicate with
Ron Hamilton and Frank Garlock, be gracious.
These men are not heretics--
but they do need a push in the right direction.
Put them on your prayer
list. GE | 