From the Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 March, 1999:
From God to you, in big print:
DALLAS. A warning for drivers everywhere: "Keep using my name in vain and I'll make rush hour longer - God."
The billboard message, part of a series with messages purporting to be divinely crafted, is part of a non-denominational national campaign meant to pique the interest of people who don't attend church. The billboard messages, which are also posted on the Internet, have won several advertising awards. Other offerings signed by "God":
"Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game."
"Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage."
"You think it's hot here?"
"Don't make me come down there."
COMMENT: We suppose this might equate, in modern circumstance, to God's command to his prophet, Jeremiah, to "stand in the gate." The idea was to proclaim the words of The LORD where the people were passing by on their daily business.

[ Jeremiah 17:19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates... .]

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