Sink or Swim NOW! The Gulf Oil Tragedy - An Open Letter from Pastor C. Covert

Being misunderstood is a frustrating thing. But being ignored or scoffed at as a “crank” is often the fruit of that misunderstanding, and it makes me even more frustrated. I’m frustrated because I am so afraid that I will not say the message clearly enough, and that some may not catch the importance of my message until it is too late. This is so unthinkable to me that it causes me to groan and pray before the Lord, begging Him to help me convince people while there is still a little bit of time.

So I’ve come to a decision. I am writing to urge my friends living in or near the Gulf of Mexico to all go on vacation – if they don’t believe they should relocate altogether – and do it soon, so you can avoid being taken where you don’t want to go. If I am wrong, if my prophecy and vision is that of a false prophet, then you’ll all have a vacation, and come back to your normal lives when you are finished.  I will apologize publicly, and then sink quietly back into oblivion without further protest.

But if I don’t warn you, and then you are taken from your homes suddenly, and if some of you are so shocked that you resist and get shot or taken to jail instead of a FEMA camp: then your blood will be on my hands when I stand before my Lord Jesus.

I’ve labored over this Gulf Oil gusher and what it means to all of us: night and day, weeping before the Lord, waiting for the right moment to speak publicly. I’ve been sending out news reports, videos and opinion editorials written by well-informed individuals, and entering into dialog with any who would speak with me – and there are very few who do. For over six weeks I’ve been “watching from the wall”, reporting whatever I find to everyone I can think of. I spend eight hours or more on some days just sifting through the available news out there to try to find out what’s true, so I can pass it on to those who need to know.

DISCLAIMER – PLEASE NOTE: I don’t claim that every part of every report I pass on to you is accurate. I can’t vouch for every other article on a web-site that carries one that I think is spot-on. I don’t say, and don’t believe, that every video we see on YouTube is right.  I’m just priming your pump, so to speak – trying to get you to do some investigating on your own. I try to provide enough information that you can get a sampling, an overall “flavor” or sense of what the real truth is.

I’ve been sending out warnings about the Gulf of Mexico for more than six weeks, and it seems that most people don’t wish to pay attention to that which they have decided has nothing to do with them. They didn’t “see the oil”, so they reason that it will not come near them. But no matter how much denial some people entertain, someone must be able to see, smell, and feel that things are not normal anymore in the Gulf of Mexico. Someone knows someone else who can’t feed his family, and someone who can’t take her shrimp boat out. Someone has seen the crude lying thickly in the wetlands, and surf washing up tar balls. Someone has gone to his favorite beach with the family and had to go home because the beach was covered in long, smelly streaks of crude. Some have dug down a short way through the sand to find pooled up crude just under the surface. Some have seen dead fish, dying porpoises and suffocating pelicans. Everyone knows someone who has seen something.

There is a time for optimism. There is a time for truth: for understanding that no amount of wishful thinking is going to change what is happening.

There are certain things we can tune out because they are of no consequence to us. There are certain things that can kill us if we don’t pay attention.

People are far too dependent on the main network news stations. But I have very good reason to believe that there is a mainstream media blackout on the Gulf Oil spill. I have sources that I need to protect that are finding independent verification of a lot of the technical information I have found on the web-sites of various news outlets.

My best friend, a helicopter pilot, is working in the Gulf, in Louisiana, right now, and he reported to me yesterday that the place we used to fish in Port Fourchon (just a few miles from Grand Isle) just got covered with crude and gas sheen. He saw it with his own eyes. I mourn for the beauty of that place, and it is only a speck in the ocean of crude that BP is diligently sinking 20 feet or so, below the surface, so that it pools up under the seeming-clear Gulf waters.

BP is using Corexit 9500, a dispersant that is highly toxic to all marine life and to humans, to sink the crude below the surface. It was estimated a couple of weeks ago that there was a pool at least 40 feet deep, of crude oil lying on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The oxygen is being depleted, all the zooplankton is or has already been destroyed, and the food chain from the smallest to the largest is dead or dying. Even the birds that depend on the waters for their food are diving for dying fish and coming up covered in crude or poisoned water.

The odor from the water is in the air, and it is unhealthy to breathe. The large shrimping boats that are being deployed to drag crude into pools and burn it are insufficient. They can catch some of what is on top of the water, but it does nothing for the main body of oil that sits on the floor of the Gulf where no fire can burn it off. This is like trying to drain the ocean with a five-gallon bucket.

There are nowhere near enough booms set out to collect the top-oil, and crude is soaking into the marshes as if they were sponges. It will enter the ground water, if it hasn’t already begun to. It is not a safe place to live, and the fishing, shrimping, tourism and other Gulf Waters-dependent industries are not going to come back for a long time because the Gulf is becoming a Dead Zone for wildlife and aquatic life.

Peace and Safety. That’s what we all want. But the time has come for our nation when Peace and Safety are nothing but an illusion; the reality of want, need and personal peril for the general populace is at the door.

Some cannot do anything to change their situations. Some can, but choose to scoff. Very few are taking this seriously.

Time will prove whether I was being a fearful alarmist over false or inflated reports; or whether I was giving a warning that truly was from God, with real, verifiable evidence, when He showed me a huge black dragon head with wide open maw covering the entire Gulf of Mexico.

What did the dragon mean? The black head was truly evil – in the Bible, the dragon always represents the devil. The mouth was wide open, like a black hole, devouring everything in the Gulf. It covered the entire Gulf of Mexico, and that means all the shorelines, and everything that goes on in the Gulf – industry derived from the Gulf as well as all that live in or from its waters.

Oil is not evil. The dragon does not represent that oil is evil. Oil is a resource that God has put on the earth for us to use. But the Dragon represents the Industry, and all the Governments behind it, which have committed and do continue to commit great evil in their attempts to control this resource at all costs.

It must be obvious now that I believe in what the Lord showed me. I believe it enough to resort to pleading with all of you – if you don’t believe me, then please do your own research, find out for yourself, and then tell someone else what you discover! Don’t rely on the mainstream media to tell you the truth of what is going on! They tell you only what they are allowed to feed you, and by the time they are allowed to announce that FEMA is getting ready to take you to new homes, it will be time to go!

I pray for everyone who must do something to save themselves, that they do not become people who should have done something to save themselves. The evacuation is coming, and a massive buildup of FEMA and Homeland Security personnel has swelled to at least 175,000 people, as of one report today. They have been called to the Gulf of Mexico in order to prepare for the evacuation of Gulf residents.

Whether you believe in the oil spill or not, believe that they will move you, and you won’t have a choice.

Whether you believe the stories I have sent you or not, believe that you will take only what you can carry in your hands and the rest will be lost to you.

The lines are being redrawn in the United States. Katrina was a walk in the park compared to what is coming now. Our nation’s economy has already been dealt a mortal wound – it needs only to lie down and die. We who belong to the Lord must draw upon His strength and on our most holy faith in order to prepare our hearts, our minds, and our bodies for the time that we are entering. We must glorify the Lord in our actions, and not let the enemy drive us to fear. We must have the mind of Christ, and be strong in the strength of His might.

I have dedicated a page on my blog to news sources everywhere, regardless of political stance, because I believe that to put a wide array of information is the best way for the public to sample what is out there, in order to determine proper action: pastorccovert.wordpress.com/gulf-oil-disaster-news/

Armed with prayer, if we seriously seek God, we can each know for ourselves what we should do. No matter what, we need to pray that we are where God wants us at all times; His will and plans for us should always supersede our own!

Time is short. I have given you many news reports, clips, videos, and the words of credible witnesses. I have prayed and wept over the tragedy that is, and is to come. I am worried for my friends in the Gulf of Mexico who will only listen when the troops are at the door. I am worried that they won’t go peacefully, and that many will die, especially in Louisiana.

PLEASE! If you are still in your houses when the troops come to evacuate you, then go peacefully and do not fight or struggle. There may come a time when many of us will be taken where we do not wish to go, and that is the time to remember that our Lord Jesus Christ is with us, and we can be a witness of Him to others no matter where we are – even in jail!

So, at the risk of my credibility, I am begging you!  Won’t you please pray and ask God what you should do?

I am humbly requesting your prayers for all the people in the Gulf who have lost so much and stand to lose it all, and for all believers in the Body of Christ to wake up and see the times we are in.

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor C. Covert