Individual Sets Trailer Full of Bibles on Fire in Front of a Tennessee Church on Easter

An individual set a trailer full of Bibles on fire before fleeing the scene in front of Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee on Easter Sunday.

According to WSMV 4 News, Wilson County deputies responded to a trailer fire at Old Lebanon Dirt Road and Chandler Road around 6 a.m. Easter Sunday.

Mt. Juliet Fire Department crews contained and extinguished the fire, but not before the Bibles in the trailer burned.

Sheriff Robert Bryan told News Channel 5 Nashville that investigators are examining the security footage, and said the car appears to be an out-of-state plate.

Pastor Greg Locke, a prominent Christian Conservative and supporter of President Trump, leads Global Vision Bible Church.

Locke said in a Facebook post that his security team caught a man dropping off the trailer who then got out and set the trailer of Bibles on fire in front of the church.

“Happy Resurrection Sunday. This morning at 6:00 AM, our security cameras saw a man dropping off a trailer in the middle of the intersection and blocking the road into our church. He then got out and set fire to an entire trailer full of Bibles right in front of our church,” Locke wrote.

“There was a lady that had driven through the night to get to our church, and she was in the parking lot and was able to get the police officers here quickly, but it was quite the scene to wake up to on my first morning back from Israel. Had to block traffic in all directions but they are almost finished cleaning it up. It’s going to be a great day in the Lord. The enemy is already.”

Locke told WKRN he was shocked when he saw the burned Bibles and that the suspect was “very meticulous” and called the act a “rebellious statement” toward the church.

“It was strange because he had his blinkers on, and he scotched the wheels and everything,” Locke said. “He was very meticulous, so he had to be very courageous to do what he did.”