THE EXODUS!      DFO783   8/4/79
--Passing Through the System to the Promised Land!

         1. SOME OF THESE CRAZY DREAMS I HAVE! It's sometimes like I'm in a space movie or sci-fi thriller... We were in a church full of hostile Systemites, & we were trying to make peace with them, like we were Furloughers or Homegoers. Afterwards, they were going out to the picnic grounds for a Sunday afternoon picnic like churches often have.
         2. Suddenly some kind of a cataclysm started happening! I don't know what it was, but it was some kind of a big World catastrophe & everybody was running, hundreds of people were trying to climb on to this huge airship!
         3. But you were supposed to have a ticket, & somehow or another I had gotten ahold of a ticket. This guy had traded it to me for my good camera, so I took the ticket & we ran & jumped on the airship. The ship was huge! It had salons & lounges & all kinds of sitting parlours like a hotel!
         4. THEN WE LANDED IN SOME STRANGE COUNTRY or on some other planet, like we were going to invade this land of hostile or alien people. We were really the aliens & it was their land, they lived there, but we were trying to get past them to some other part of this new world that wasn't inhabited that we knew about. Someone said:
         5. "Just march in & try to sneak by them. Don't show any signs of hostility or enmity, just be friendly & pass quietly by"--like the children of Israel did a few times when they were going through the wilderness past unfriendly tribes.
         6. Of course we were wondering if they were going to attack us! But we just kept going, kept marching, & they just kept watching.--And we waded through this swamp & passed on by into the land we'd come to settle in, like pioneers. The new land looked like a jungle, a virgin rain forest! Huge!
         7. There was one time there I remember when we were hungry & we were rationed just so much food, & the food had something very important about it. It was more than just ordinary food, it had to do with our safety or something. We were to eat this food & we would be safe & protected from whatever the danger was.
         8. Maybe that's like the Word, huh? You eat the Word & it will keep you, comfort you. It was not only just for our health & strength, but for our safety! How much like the Word that is.
         9. IT WAS SORTA LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MOVING FROM ISRAEL TO EGYPT & BACK AGAIN! Well, you know, they did do that! They left Canaan & went down into Egypt under Joseph, lived with the Egyptians 400 years, & then they moved out & back to the Promised Land under Moses in the Exodus!
         10. We have to go through the System in order to escape from it again! It was just like we had gone back to the System & gone back to church & gone back to their picnics & all their foolishness, pretending to rejoin them. But at our first opportunity to escape, we seized it! We got on that big airship! And I was so glad I got a ticket! Look what the stupid Systemites valued!--That guy valued that camera more than an escape ticket!
         11. We were really using the System! We beat the System at its own game! We traded our goods for a ticket to escape! You gotta forsake all, sometimes, to escape! We've often found that an escape ticket can be more priceless than the junk you're carrying!
         12. ARE YOU GOING BACK INTO THE SYSTEM ONLY TO USE IT TO ESCAPE TO THE REAL PROMISED LAND?--Don't miss it for mere things! Toss that junk to the wolves & come on with us to the Promised Land!--Maybe that's when Jesus comes!--Will you be ready to forsake all to hop aboard for Heaven?
         13. It seemed like the hardest part was going back through the System! It didn't seem to make sense! It was like a real step backward!--But then we took a tremendous leap forward onto that ship of God's help & sailed away with only a few more swamps to cross & jungles to go through till we reached the Promised Land! Will you make it?
         14. Don't let the System get you down! (Jn.15:19) You're in the World!--Don't let it own & use you! Disown it & its junk & only use it to catch God's Salvation on to glory!--Amen? Stay close to Him & us, your Family in the Lord, & we'll all work hard together to pull you through! Stay in tune! Read the Letters from the Lord & be fed & strengthened & saved from the Enemy!--Hallelujah! Are you ready?--Let's go! NOW!--Here we go! PTL!


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