THE GYPSIES!
DO 61
3/71
MARRIAGE--THE NEED & THE BENEFITS!
1. I HOPE YOU'RE GETTING YOUR MARRIAGE TAKEN CARE OF, as I've suggested.--The more the marryer, so marry'r! Amen? In the beginning God created them male & female & said, "Be fruitful & multiply & fill the whole Earth!" So let's get busy & obey His commandment! Especially you sexy little gals who are watering at the mouth for a nice juicy boy--go ahead & marry him. And you elders, let them marry, they sin not, that every one may have his or her own & to avoid fornication; it's in God's Word & God's plan! So get with it!
2. DON'T HAND ME ANY OF THAT EUNUCH OR ST. PAUL STUFF, UNLESS YOU ARE A EUNUCH OR ST. PAUL! If you're like all the rest of us, you need a mate--& bad!--And you'd better wake up & break down & marry one & quit trying to get the victory over something God ordained you to do. It's like trying to get the victory over eating! Temperance is one thing, but if you quit altogether for too long you'll die! Some of you reluctant gentlemen don't wanna oblige, to show how sanctified, how holier-than-thou & sanctimonious you are by refusing to marry that poor little girl who's just dying for you.
3. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'D BETTER STOP BEING SO DAMN SELFISH, EXPECTING EVERYTHING & GIVING NOTHING IN RETURN. The labourer is worthy of her hire & muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn. You expect the girls to do everything for you--your wash, your mending, cooking food, cleaning house, taking care of the office & the school & the kids, & being a lovely decoration & a comfort to the whole home, but you're not willing to knuckle under & give them their duty of marriage! "He that withholdeth, it tendeth to poverty, but there is that scattereth abroad, & it increaseth!"--Pro.11:24
4. BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY--THAT'S ONE OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THIS OUTFIT IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE! We believe in multiplication--that's part of the game--in more ways than one! Two & two don't make four--they oughta make a dozen--so let's get busy, boys! Give the girls their due--their duty of marriage! DO IT!--Unless you wanna be like the Antichrist, who won't regard the desire of women! Could it be that he that regardeth not the desire of women is anti-Christ, defying the plan of God & living selfishly only for his own interests, enjoying his privacy & unwilling to share & refusing to humble his pride?
5. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT UNSELFISHNESS, HUMILITY & SHARING, JUST GET MARRIED! Then somebody will find out just how good a Christian you really are! I think some of you guys are afraid to get shown up for the egotistical, conceited, selfish asses you really are. Are you gonna be a man & face up to it & settle it with God & her & admit you need a woman as much as she needs a man, & you owe it to her as much as she owes it to you, & agree together that you oughta get married for the Lord's sake, His work's sake & your own sake? Some of you are way overdue! You're lagging way behind. And there have been times when we even lost some boys & girls because we were slow in getting them married. If it takes marriage to keep'm happy, let them marry, they sin not. It is better to marry than to burn!--Or to let THEM burn! Marry that fire!
BABES TRAINING PLAN & THE BENEFITS!
6. OF COURSE, SOME OF YOUR BABES HAVE BEEN THERE TWO & THREE MONTHS & NEVER EVEN HAD THE REVOLUTIONARY SHEET YET, which we used to start'm with the very first day! And others haven't even begun the most basic classes when we used to shove them through all the basic courses in only three months, & all the leadership courses in another three, or a total of six months, with only three months more of leadership training in actual positions of responsibility, teaching & pioneering before we sent them to a distant foreign field where they had to shift for themselves on foreign soil--strangers in a strange land, using a strange tongue! That was progress, brother!
7. BUT FROM WHAT I HEAR OF SOME OF YOUR BABES, YOU STILL CALL'M BABES AT NEARLY A YEAR, & they still haven't had all the courses! You still don't trust them with any leadership responsibility, so of course you don't have enough help, & of course you're not ready to send'm out, because you've babied'm TOO long, just like the churches, who are full of just such overgrown retarded children, because Papa & Mama want to pamper them & keep them home forever!
8. WHEN I SAID "BABY THE BABES," I DIDN'T MEAN FOREVER! When the Lord said temper the wind to the little lambs, He only meant while they were still LITTLE! There comes a time when they all have to grow up & be trusted with responsibility & the leadership of others!--At first under your supervision & then on their own! We're not moving fast enough, Folks! The harvest is gonna rot in the fields before you've taught your labourers how to use a scythe. Time spent sharpening the scythe is not wasted, but if you spend all your time sharpening, you'll never get the crop in! We have more openings now than we can fill. Get with it, Leaders! It's time to go, go, go!--Past time. You're acting like Mothers & Fathers who never let'm grow up!
ADVICE ON PIONEER ROAD TEAMS
9. OF COURSE, NOW DON'T GO DUMPIN'M OUT IN THE STREET BEFORE THEY'RE READY, without knowing how to take care of themselves, much less how to take care of others. Be sure your teams are well-prepared, well-trained, well-taught, well-instructed, well-organised, well-equipped, well-directed, well-staffed, well-led--& know where they're going, & where they're going to land. There's no need for any team to have to go out not knowing where it's going to stay, especially a large team that's hard to feed & house. I grant you we've done this in the past, but we were equipped for it & had no other place to go & it was God's design for then.
10. I STILL BELIEVE THAT CHRIST'S BASIC PLAN OF ABOUT A DOZEN THAT AREN'T TOO HARD TO HOUSE OR FEED IS BEST FOR MOST SITUATIONS. Any group larger than that on the road can become a nightmare living in a constant state of emergency. There may be times when this is necessary & cannot be helped, even as a testimony to others, as it was then, but it's quite obvious from the Bible that His children weren't always living under these conditions which take every moment of your time just to survive with very little time for witnessing.
11. HOWEVER, WE DIDN'T LIVE LIKE THAT BECAUSE WE LIKE HARDSHIPS, PRIVATION & SUFFERING, but because it was the only way we could get the job done, & God used it! But Jesus Himself said that when you go out & enter into a town, inquire in it who is worthy & there abide in that house until ye depart, so they must have usually stayed in the homes of friends & didn't always camp out!
12. IF YOU THINK THE CITY MERITS A LARGE TEAM, BE SURE YOU'VE ARRANGED ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THEM when they arrive where they're going so they don't have to camp out on the streets, which I told you would not be tolerated by the authorities. A road team of about a dozen with good camping equipment could camp in approved campgrounds & survive till they had a place, but a large team has got to have a place, at least to camp, if nothing else. Even Jesus, when He sent out the 70, only sent them out two by two. How about you?
SCATTERATION--WHY TO KEEP IT SMALL & PERSONAL
13. I AM STILL AS MUCH CONVINCED AS EVER THAT THE SMALLER HOMES ARE THE IDEAL. I am just as much opposed as ever to large churches, over-sized congregations & their cumbersome, burdensome machinery & their impersonal conglomerate fellowship where leadership loses that personal touch, intimate fellowship & close attention to the individual. No pastor can be a good shepherd to so many sheep! He cannot give each the individual attention that is necessary.
14. THIS IS ONE REASON MOST CHRISTIANS LIKE BIG CHURCHES, THEY CAN HIDE IN THE CROWD & avoid the close scrutiny of them & their lives by the pastor's NOT all-seeing eye. They can live as they please, do their own thing & still call themselves a church member on Sunday, although the pastor doesn't even know who they are, much less anything about their individual lives. There are just too many people, too many calls to make & it's too confusing & impossible to get around to everyone.
15. SO LIKE A DOCTOR, CALLS ARE NOT MADE TO KEEP THE PEOPLE HEALTHY, BUT INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION IS ONLY GIVEN IN THE MOST DIRE EMERGENCIES, WHEN SOMEONE IS VERY SICK. No pastor, even with a small group of assistant pastors can do a consistently good job of giving personalised, individual attention to so many in one congregation in one place, no matter how well-organised they are. Some are bound to escape the watchful eye of the shepherd & go astray.
16. EVEN JESUS DIDN'T ATTEMPT IT! He preached to the multitudes & He fed & healed them & ministered to them, but when it came to actually pastoring them, teaching them, & giving them the individual care & watchfulness of their growth that's necessary, even He couldn't properly care for more than 12! I'm convinced that a congregation of 12 is the ideal, God's ideal. I don't know how He taught the 70, but if you'll divide 70 by 12, you'll find that each of the 12 Apostles could very well have had a little handful of half a dozen each, which is perhaps all that weaker undershepherds in training are properly able to supervise. They're not even ready for a load of 12, because they're still being taught themselves by the Master Shepherd.
17. EVEN IN MODERN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, WE ARE TAUGHT THAT THE IDEAL SCHOOL CLASS SIZE IS ABOUT A DOZEN, & never more than two dozen at the most. Even the teachers whose business is education, have discovered this through years of experience & we should be able to take a tip from their common sense. This is also one of the secrets of the famous Montessori Method!
18. ENORMOUS HIGH SCHOOLS & MAMMOTH UNIVERSITIES HAVE BECOME HEARTLESS MACHINES, producing unguided little monsters which are going to destroy them--the Frankenstein that made them--& the churches are the same. The ideal school system was that of the early settlers & pioneers, in which the local pastor used the simple little church house, which tripled as a town hall, church & school with full 100 percent usefulness all week long as his schoolroom, housing only a dozen or two students in several different grades, with the older students being taught to help, teach & care for the younger, as assistant teachers even in so small an operation.
19. THERE WAS MORE INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION--MUCH MORE THAN IN THE SCHOOLS OR CHURCHES OF TODAY!--And this little one-room school system produced America's greatest statesmen, leaders & heroes of those bygone days, which are no more, along with no more great statesmen, leaders or heroes either. You just can't produce that kind of product with the massive machinery, mass production & rapid, hasty, impersonal assembly-line type of an operation of our present educational & religious systems! It's impossible!
20. THE POOR COMMON PEOPLE HAVE LOST THAT PERSONAL INDIVIDUAL TOUCH & INTEREST--with their pastors, teachers & politicians, even the children with their parents, because the selfish parents have abdicated their responsibility as individuals & turned their pitiful little living sacrifices over to the greedy clutches of the mammoth god Moloch to be cast into its gaping, massive, fiery maw to their eternal destruction--to come out in identical molds of dead, lifeless, mindless, leaden robots!
21. MAY GOD PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING TO US! I can write you & your leaders from afar & give you overall counsel & advice & occasional individual instruction as your Supervisor or Bishop, but I cannot give you the individual personal attention that you each need. This must be the job of your local shepherd & individual overseer, & I am convinced it can still be best done in only a small Home of a dozen or two in a separate place away from the rest where your shepherd can keep an eye on you!
THE DANGERS OF BEING LARGE & THE SAFETY OF BEING SMALL
22. IT SEEMS THAT MOST KINGDOMS NEED SOME CENTRALISED LEADERSHIP, SUPERVISION & UNIFYING ADMINISTRATION to keep them together & in fellowship, of one mind, one heart & all speaking the same thing, as well as coordinating the operation & effective maneuvering of their forces in correlation with each other--all members of the same body, working together in perfect coordination, although in many different places & of very different kinds & types of operations or members. This seems usually the necessary case!
23. HOWEVER, NOW I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO SHOCK YOU, & which is entirely contrary to this. The most highly organised kingdoms this World has ever known with the strongest & most centralised & dictatorial forms of government & leadership with the widest expanse of territorial coverage, such as the various Empires this World has known, although they have lasted for long, sometimes hundreds of years, have every one eventually crumbled & fallen or been destroyed by others! Why? Was it poor leadership, poor organisation, poor unification, poor loyalty, poor instruction or poor control? What was it?
24. I SUSPECT THAT PERHAPS EVEN THEIR GIGANTIC SIZE, GREAT STRENGTH & DICTATORIAL CONTROL WAS A PART OF THEIR WEAKNESS, which brought on such impersonalisation, such remote control that they lost the personal touch completely, lost the loyalty of their lowliest subjects, lost communication & identification with the grass roots, got out of touch with the masses & no longer had their fingers on the intimate pulse of each individual & his basic morale. Such a chain of command system is no stronger than its weakest link, & even now, small independent guerrilla bands of individual warriors are proving able to outmaneuver, outflank & outdo the largest of conventional armies of the most powerful nations on Earth.
25. IT'S A LONG, DIFFICULT & HAZARDOUS PROCESS, BUT THE TINIEST GUERRILLA BANDS of these little, loyal followers, unbelievably outnumbered & out-armoured, have been able to hold at bay the huge conventional armies with all their top-heavy brass & elaborate sophisticated equipment of the World's most powerful nations in one little country alone for nearly 30 years! This is an amazing accomplishment of decentralisation & diversification! How can this be so?
26. EMPIRES HAVE COME & GONE, BUT THE LITTLE PEOPLE HAVE LIVED ON, & the poor ye have always with you, as Jesus said. Maybe their very weakness is their strength! What glory is there in attacking & conquering a tiny little handful of the weak, the poor & the meek! Rulers have come & gone, but the meek still inherit the Earth. They live on the land, close to it, enjoy it & benefit from the fruits thereof, the healthful atmosphere, the non-pollution, the vigorous exercise, the wholesome foods & the simple, uncomplicated life, with no psychological neuroses & nervous breakdowns, little or no drug problems, very few medical needs & very little dependency on the System. Each little farmer & his family or his tiny village grows its own food, makes nearly all of its own needs & equipment & lives its own life, almost totally independent from the rest of the World.
27. LARGER GOVERNMENTS ARE ALMOST A NUISANCE TO THEM, from which they derive few benefits, but must pay useless taxes to support. These governments prey upon them, upon their own people, oppress them, overburden them & use them for their own selfish ends & their manpower to wage larger wars in which the common people have little or no interest. God warned of this when Israel lived peacefully in a tiny little independent theocracy ruled by God alone through His simple Prophets, when the people finally demanded a king to become big & powerful like other nations.
28. NUMBERS, POWER & WEALTH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WORSHIPPED BY MAN, but as long as God's people were small, somewhat scattered, only loosely associated & with a minimum of rule from above through His Prophets & obedient to God's rules, they lived in peace with few wars, close to the land, engaged in the production of only the necessities of life, with more intimate fellowship & personal attention from their leaders.
29. THE POOR HAD NOTHING ANYBODY ELSE WANTED, so their very weakness was their protection under God. They were the poor, the nobodies, the have-nots, & nobody paid much attention to them but God. From the viewpoint of the historians of the great powers of the Earth, God's children were just little, insignificant bands of guerrilla savages living in the remote mountain hideaways of an almost unknown wilderness & nobody much bothered them, except for an occasional retaliation by the powerful nearby System for Israel's raids on the establishment. The Jews & the Gypsies & the common poor of the whole World have long outlived all of their would-be conquerors & the mighty empires of governments that have come & gone. The poor ye have always. It pays to stay poor! Amen?
30. WHERE WAS THE CENTRAL ORGANISATION OF THE EARLY CHURCH? What was its so-called headquarters & how much control did it have over its individual members or units?--Very little, except for the Lord by His Spirit. Our Headquarters is in Heaven! Our Ruler is God! Our King is Jesus! And our communication system is His Spirit!
31. THEY WERE NOT BOUND TOGETHER BY A DICTATORIAL, HIERARCHICAL, CENTRALISED GOVERNMENT, FROZEN TOGETHER WITH FORMALITIES, but they were only united by His Spirit, governed by His Word & melted together in love, with an absolute minimum of supervision by the Apostles. Their unity was in the Spirit & in love & in doctrine, not in highly technical organisation. Their coordination & cooperation were God-made, not Man-made, & it was a supernatural thing, strictly miraculous & not manufactured by Man's fleshly wisdom! Hallelujah!
32. WHILE IN THIS POOR, WEAK, SCATTERED & DISORGANISED CONDITION, THEY LITERALLY EXPLODED, with a population explosion through their individual witnessing which filled the whole World with their doctrine & their converts, swept the whole Earth in a tidal wave of love, simplicity, poverty & loyalty that threatened the very Roman establishment itself & eventually overthrew it!
THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY--& ITS LESSONS FOR US!
33. THEN A SAD & SIGNIFICANT & DISASTROUS CHANGE TOOK PLACE! Christianity became accepted, recognised, popular, powerful, wealthy & dictatorial, & became Rome itself--the very System it had dropped out of & the establishment it was to be separate from! The church had become the empire & continued to persecute & attempt to destroy the true little bands of GENUINE Christians who lived on in spite of it, even in the Catacombs, beneath the city itself & in far-off lands, free from the long arm of Rome! For a thousand years of the Dark Ages the True Church had to go underground while the whorish System of Babylon reigned supreme!
34. BUT ALL OF THAT TIME, BANDS OF TRUE CHRISTIANS, UNITED ONLY IN LOVE, THE SPIRIT & THE WORD, MANAGED TO SURVIVE by the grace of God throughout the World despite every attempt to stamp them out, every effort to burn their Bibles & destroy their numbers through torture, intimidation & martyrdom. They had no central leadership but the ever-present Prophets of God, no formal organisation but the unity of the Spirit, no common bond but His Love & no doctrine but His Word. And yet they, like the Jews & the Gypsies & the common poor, have survived until this day despite every effort to crush them, liquidate them & completely exterminate them! o
35. BUT STILL THE TRUE CHURCH HAS SURVIVED UNDER ONE AFTER ANOTHER OF HIS TRUE PROPHETS, until this very day, when you are a part of this present manifestation of another powerful moving of His Spirit to save this last generation!
36. LET US NOT OURSELVES FALL PREY TO THESE FORMER ERRORS. Let us remain pure from these corruptions. God help us to stay poor & weak & despised & scattered & united only by His Love, His Spirit & His Word!--"For when we are weak then we are strong, & His strength is made perfect in our weakness, for His grace is sufficient for thee!"--1Cor.12:9,10. As long as we perpetuate the seemingly impossible conditions of scatteration, decentralisation, diversification & indigenuity in small individual, virtually independent groups or Homes, held together by His Love, His Spirit & His Word, there is hope for our survival, no matter how the Enemy attacks.
37. IF THERE IS NO TRULY CONTROLLING HEAD BUT GOD, THEY CANNOT KILL IT. If there is no visible organisation they cannot destroy it. If there are only tiny scattered Homes they will never find them all--& some of us will survive, no matter what happens, even under the Antichrist government, until Jesus comes! God help us to stay this way, like the Jews, the Gypsies & the Early Christians, & we'll outlive them all! PTL!
KINGS & HELPERS--OUR NEED TO HAVE, HELP & KEEP THEM
38. JESUS & HIS DISCIPLES HAD MANY UNDERCOVER FRIENDS, MEMBERS OF THE SYSTEM--a great company of the priests & even some of the Sanhedrin, the rulers & the rich, who were their friends, helpers & protectors, whom God had ordained for this ministry. You must remember this & not curse everyone who does not immediately drop everything & join you. God may know that they would not make very good fulltime disciples, they would not be whole-hearted enough, sacrificial enough & enthusiastic enough to do a very good job as one of the inner circle--but there are many concentric circles & degrees of discipleship which must be recognised & appreciated & used. As we have taught you before, this includes kings & politicians & businessmen & noble women & influential friends whom God MUST use to help, provide for & protect you--so again I say, don't knock'm, use'm! But also, always keep an eye on'm, & don't trust them too far, or too close in to the inner sanctum of the inner circle or you may be sorry, as they are usually rather weak spiritually, confused theologically & sometimes unreliable physically.
39. THESE ARE THEY WHICH HAVE NOT YET COME OUT COMPLETELY TO BE SEPARATE. This includes a great many born-again Christians who ARE truly saved & DO love Jesus, but are stunted, retarded, handicapped little babes far from spiritual maturity due to the sins of their spiritual fathers, the religious leaders & the damnable religious system of which they are victims.
40. WHEN I CURSE THE SO-CALLED CHURCHES & THEIR PHARISAICAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS, as Jesus did, I'm not cursing the poor pitiful victims of this horrible churchianity system, I feel sorry for them! They're like wounded casualties in a monstrous war--the deformed babies of a vicious drug. The Communists are only too right when they say that religion is the opiate of the people. The kind of religion they have seen is exactly that--a horrible drug which puts them to sleep, makes them oblivious of the conditions around them, lethargic & senseless to the needs of Mankind, & the mothers & fathers of horribly handicapped children who cannot even care for themselves, much less others. But the religious system likes it this way, since they can control them better in this stupor, & the government prefers it this way since they don't know any better anyhow, & the religious system helps keep them in power. But the pitiful part about it is that the vast majority of Christians prefer it that way, pampered infants, spoiled children!
41. SO DON'T TRUST THEM TOO FAR, as some of them can be so deceived & deluded sometimes as to even kill you, thinking they're doing God service, because their diabolical leaders tell them so, as when the high priests told that mob of simpletons to crucify their Saviour! Nevertheless, while they're still with you, still listening, still observing your miracles & sharing your popularity, let them help you all you can! Use them!--And you may even have to let them use you a little, as Jesus did, when He fed them & healed them & helped them, because He came to minister, not to be ministered unto. Nevertheless, a few of them DID minister unto Him, provided Him with their protection, their provision, their legal defense, their homes, their food & even their grave. Some of them even helped provide His final cross, as they will yours! But in the meantime, accept their assistance & bless them for it!
42. I HAVE BEEN A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ATTITUDE OF SOME OF YOU TOWARDS SOME OF THESE PEOPLE. You're acting like some of Jesus' disciples did when they wanted Him to destroy someone who was using His name--but in this case He rebuked them & as good as said that he that was not against Him was FOR Him, because there are no neutrals.--Mk.9:34-41. If they're not actually against you, then they COULD be for you, because they certainly cannot be for you & against you at the same time. So for God's sake, stop cursing those who are for you, helping you & doing the little they can & sometimes a lot, just because they're not exactly like you, because they haven't gone all the way. Again I say, you don't curse the blind for their blindness, nor the lame for their lameness, nor a babe for its helplessness & ignorance.
43. BUT THEY MAY HAVE A HOUSE YOU CAN USE, A BUILDING OR A FARM OR INFLUENCE, or a fortune they can leave you for God's use when they die. So don't knock'm, use'm! Some of you are still being unwise along this line & cursing everyone that's not one of us, which will only make enemies out of those who could have been friends, & who even were friends, until you began blasting them for not forsaking all immediately.
44. NOTE THE WAY JESUS TREATED SOME OF THESE CASES.--He put them to the test, but when they couldn't take it, He didn't blast them, curse them & damn them to Hell forever for not being just like the Twelve, but rather He was SORRY for them, even the rich, because they were missing a big part of the blessing, losing a reward & possibly a crown. It's a high privilege to be one of the Twelve or even one of the Seventy, & not everyone attains to such discipleship, but many are just little, lost wandering sheep, pitiful victims of the fiendishly wolfish religious system, so have pity! Use'm!
45. BUT FOR OUR OWN INTIMATE DISCIPLES WE ARE GOING TO BE STRICT, EXPECT EVERYTHING, complete forsaking, 100 percent dedication, absolute loyalty & fulltime service! We are the hard core, the spear-head, the avant-garde of this last great spiritual Revolution! We are the cadre, the officers & leaders of it. After all, it's God's Revolution for all His people & some of us must lead it, while others can only follow in our wake, like the "Jesus People," the "Jesus Movement," which we pioneered & set the example for. We are still far ahead of them, but don't curse them. Thank God they are following even if only afar off, who, like Peter, weak & with little power, under the slightest pressure denied Him, as they will, but Jesus still loved him & took him back in when he repented. So don't knock'm, use'm!
WHEN TO BE NUMEROUS & WHEN TO BE SMALL
46. BUT FOR OURSELVES, IT'S QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY; purity, not population; pneumatology, not numbers; power, not populace; & leaders, not just sheep; disciples, not just church members; soldiers, not just civilians--but don't forget that both are necessary. Don't be like most of us when we were soldiers during WW II, & scorn all those who are not in uniform. The army could not operate without the help of the civilian population. Each depends upon the other, & cannot do without each other. So use'm!
47. DURING THOSE EARLY DAYS OF THE EARLY CHURCH, THEY NEEDED NUMBERS TO GET STARTED, A BIG PUSH TO GET'M ROLLING, sensational publicity to make them popular, & a wave of fame to noise them abroad, as we have had. Their original colony was immense like some of ours have been, to make them known, strong, encouraged, basically trained & off to a head start, way out in front of the opposition before scattering for survival.
48. ALSO, THE ORIGINAL CHRISTIANS PROBABLY WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN WIPED OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER JESUS' DEATH IF THEY HADN'T BEEN SO NUMEROUS & looked so big & powerful so they were practically telling the city what to do. This was to impress the System to leave them alone, for fear of the multitude, until they could get organized, taught, strengthened, grown up & ready for the bigger battles ahead, from babes to big brothers, from raw recruits to seasoned soldiers. Then when they were ready for full-scale war, God scattered them throughout the World to salt the whole Earth & enlighten all Mankind.
49. WE, THE LAST CHURCH, ALSO RODE OUR WAVE OF PUBLICITY & POPULARITY TO GIVE US TIME TO GROW IN STRENGTH & NUMBERS, & increase our quality, organise our methods, train our soldiers & get them battle-ready for the main war ahead, until we too were scattered in smaller groups throughout the whole World, like the Early Church, tough little, hardcore quality units.
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