GUARD YOUR CHILDREN!
DFO 1698
12/83
1. You could hardly touch a more sensitive nerve in most of the Systemites to enrage them & have them want to lynch you on the spot than to bring up child abuse & child sex & child pornography & all that kind of rot!--Which of course we're not guilty of!
2. TODAY OUR CHILDREN ARE PROBABLY OUR GREATEST ASSET, OUR GREATEST WITNESS, OUR GREATEST PROOF THAT OUR FAMILY WORKS, our revolution works, & I'm sure the Devil hates our children almost more than anything or anyone else, or any one of us, except perhaps me & Maria. And he knows & our enemies know there is no way that they could hurt us more & where they have a better chance of legally attacking us than attacking our custody of our children. And it's already worked.
3. I'M NOT TRYING TO FRIGHTEN YOU, I'M JUST TRYING TO WARN YOU HOW CAREFUL WE MUST BE & THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN MEASURES WE HAD BETTER TAKE TO PROTECT OURSELVES. And that is the feeling I got off of those scandalous articles, that a new campaign has begun, stirred up by our enemies, the anti-Christs. They feel they have enough new ammunition now, enough new material to warrant it & to make the accusations believable & to make them serious enough that it can infuriate the public & incense the government & inspire them to crack down on us, find us, prosecute us, take our children away, whatever they can do. I just have that feeling. So I'm just asking you to beware & I'm warning you of the possibility.
4. ALL THE LATEST ARTICLES HAVE BEEN PLAYING THAT TUNE, SINGING THAT DIRGE, that we are the lowest, vilest, filthiest, nastiest people on Earth.
5. [A]s far as they're concerned we have done everything wrong in the sight of the System, infuriating them, stirred up by the Devil & our enemies to endeavour to trap us & find us & fight us & do all they can against us. And I think this sounds to me like a new campaign.
6. WE NEED TO HAVE PEOPLE REPORT SUCH THINGS, REPORT THE KIND OF PUBLICITY THAT'S GOING ON & THE KIND OF ARTICLES. It's not always safe to send them in, I don't particularly like that, but they should report them & tell us about it where they are getting waves of very bad publicity, this very low, shit-type publicity, the lowest kind of lies that they can tell. We need to get indications of the Devil's devices & what he's up to & what he's trying to do & his plans & tactics so that we can be prepared & on our guard against them & secure our walls & fortifications so that he is unable to find a breach & attack & cause damage.
7. SO IT'S A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION if this is true that they're starting a renewed campaign, to say the least, of anti-"us" propaganda & bad publicity, & it's quite obvious that it has begun some places, particularly in Europe. I don't know about the U.S. & I don't know about South America. But people in Europe are having quite a problem. In Europe we're still pretty active & they're trying to drive us out & the persecution is no doubt the hand of God as well to try to get those people out of dangerous Europe & get'm to the field. But when that sort of thing starts on the field, then it could get serious.
8. IN THIS NEW FORM OF ATTACK ABOUT OUR CHILDREN WHAT KIND OF PREPARATIONS SHOULD WE MAKE? What can we do to protect ourselves? What advice would you give the Family? (Peter: I suggest that they go to the mission fields for a starter. ) Right! And that's what we've been trying hard to do, to get'm out of those dangerous areas where the persecution is the worst & the opposition is the strongest & get out to the mission field where God will bless them more & protect them better, etc.
9. BUT WHAT SHOULD WE DO TO PROTECT OURSELVES? First of all, get out of the most dangerous countries & go to the field. OK! Then what? What if they start attacking on the field? I'm following this thought: How can you particularly protect yourself against attacks upon your family & your family relationships & your children?
10. FIRST OF ALL, YOU PARENTS, ARE YOU MARRIED? Are you legal parents?--Legal custodians of these children? Do they bear your name? Can you prove it? Are you married as they think a fit father & mother should be? Mating & betrothal doesn't count with the System, legal marriage & the same name, that's the only thing that counts, & with children of the same name.--Unless you've got some mighty good excuses or reasons that you can prove to them that they're your children even if they haven't got the same name. Otherwise, the authorities can say, "Well, we'll just take'm along until you furnish us with the proof, until you can show us somehow."
11. THIS IS A COMMON PRACTICE, NOTHING NEW! It's been done before, thousands of times. Within my memory it happened frequently to the Pentecostals. They took the father or the mother or both & put'm in insane asylums & said they were crazy for talking in other languages, etc. They took their children away & often gave'm to their grandparents, who hated the parents & hated their new religion, just as 10:36er then as they have been with us & are still, there was no difference in those days, or gave the children to one mate or the other, husband or wife, depending on which one was System & which one was "crazy."
12. SO YOU'VE GOTTA WATCH OUT FOR THE DEVIL & HIS OUTFIT! They've got all kinds of ideas, & as I used to say, as many different tactics as a dog has fleas! We can't always prevent their attacks, but we should try to prevent their charges sticking or our getting stuck in their clutches or our children getting taken away from us permanently.
13. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT ANY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN, MAKE SURE THAT THE MOTHER & FATHER WHO ARE IN CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN ARE LEGALLY MARRIED. They won't even let unmarried people adopt children out of orphanages, etc., & in our case they're less likely to let the parents keep the children if they're not even married. So it would be wise to get the children's names put in their name in some way if they can.
14. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TO THEM AT THIS LATE STAGE OF THE GAME TO TRY TO GO THROUGH LEGAL ADOPTION, BECAUSE THAT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE & IN OUR CASE THEY'D NEVER ALLOW IT. They'd be more than likely to lose'm. But that's one simple little thing they can do, & that's get married. (Maria: There's quite a few cases where they can't though. We've got a lot of threesomes & couples.) Well, at least two of them ought to get married, male & female.
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16. OF COURSE, IN ALL OF THE CASES WHERE OUR GIRLS HAVE HAD WHAT WE CALL "JESUS BABIES" or even children of known Family members but were not married legally, we have recommended that the mother register the birth of the child in her own name, & this is permitted in nearly all countries. Even an unmarried mother can register the child in her own maiden name & thereby assume custody of the child legally. Thereby the child also has her name which makes it a lot easier to go through immigration checks or home checks or God knows what! She's got the papers to prove that she's the mother & to prove that that child is hers.
17. OTHERWISE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE SUCH PAPERS & YOU CAN'T PROVE IT, THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD YOU CAN DO OUTSIDE OF SOME MIRACLE OF GOD TO PREVENT THEM FROM TAKING THOSE CHILDREN AWAY FROM YOU, because they don't know who the parents are & you can't prove who they are, which is the most likely case in which they may remove your children. Even an immigration check could reveal the fact that your children are not in your name & bring up the question of who has legal custody. Do you have any kind of papers to show that either those children are yours or you're the legal custodian? If not, in the case of an attack of the enemy, they're most likely to take them away from you!
18. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THAT'S ALMOST THE WORST THING THEY COULD POSSIBLY DO TO ANY OF US! I think that would about break my heart, break theirs, maybe even kill me!--Or I'd feel like [resisting the authorities] who tried to take'm & that would get me in even more trouble! Because you can't fight City Hall, you can't fight the System, there're too many of them, they're too big, they're too strong.
19. SO I WANT TO WARN YOU, BELOVED, & I WANT TO WARN THE WHOLE FAMILY RIGHT NOW, YOU HAD BETTER TIGHTEN UP your legal papers & tighten up your Family Unit & tighten your protection of your own kids, or you're apt to lose'm at the next border crossing or a mere little seemingly harmless passport check when they discover that you have children living in your Home or are travelling with children who have no name similar to anybody in the group! (Maria: So far the power-of-attorney legal paper signed by someone else for travelling has worked with most of the Family around the World, because that's what a lot of them have had to use.) Well, they'd better be sure they've got'm!
20. THE FIRST THING THEY DO IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS SAY THERE WERE COMPLAINTS & THEY COME OUT FOR AN INVESTIGATION or just to make a simple passport check to make sure everybody's visas & passports are in order & everything is as it should be. That's considered a simple routine thing. And if that happened to some people & they didn't have proper papers & there was nobody there they could prove were the mother, father or legal custodian, they could lose their children on the spot!
21. IN SOME CASES, EVEN IF PERHAPS THE CHILDREN HAVE THE MOTHER'S NAME, in some countries they could doubt that the mother's a fit parent if she's living unmarried with some other man than her husband. This has been a charge many times & people have often lost their children that way. They can claim that there's evidence & proof that she's an unfit mother because she's living illegally with another man, & therefore the children shouldn't be in the home.
22. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF LITTLE CATCHES TO THE LAW & SNAGS & THORNS & HOOKS ON WHICH YOU MIGHT GET HUNG IF YOU DON'T WATCH YOUR STEP & make sure that your children are safe & your family set-up is legal & safe & protected from harm & from the dangers of such attacks or the simplest kind of a passport check. Amen? So if you are not set-up that way right now, you had better get set-up somehow.
23. (MARIA: DO YOU THINK THE COUPLES SHOULD BE LEGALLY MARRIED IF THERE'S A WEAKER MEMBER OF THE COUPLE? [Some] mates that have run off with their kids because they've had'm in their name & they've been able to travel with them. But do you think that's the lesser of the two evils?) Well I suppose, of course, that every case has to be judged on its own merits. Many factors can affect it.
24. OF COURSE, IF YOU DON'T EVEN TRUST YOUR WIFE OR YOUR HUSBAND AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD TRUST THE LAW, then you might have to give it a second thought before you consider getting married.
25. I'M JUST TELLING YOU THE GENERAL RULE, TO WHICH THERE ALWAYS CAN BE EXCEPTIONS, & that is if you are a pretty well-mated, sure-to-stay couple & sure to stick with each other & continue to take care of those children, it could be a very good idea for you to get legally married & somehow get legal papers to show that you are legal custodians of the children. I would say one of the simplest methods is to simply get the legal parent whose name is the same as the child's & on the child's passport or birth certificate to sign a legal paper of some kind, such as Power-of-Attorney stating that you have a right to have that child in your custody for whatever reason, either travelling with you or living with you temporarily or whatever.
26. EVEN THAT IS NOT GOING TO HOLD WITH SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. They're going to say, "Well, what's the big idea of this mother just dumping her child on you & running off? Just because she gave you this little piece of paper doesn't mean a thing to us!"
27. SO MY ADVICE & COUNSEL TO THE FAMILY IS THAT WE HAD BETTER TIGHTEN UP , because it would be a tragic thing in most cases if you gave the government some excuse to come along & take your child or children away from you & put them in the System permanently in a permanent separation from you where you could possibly never get'm back. So beware!
28. OUR CHILDREN WOULD BE BROKENHEARTED SEPARATED FROM US, & WE WOULD BE BROKENHEARTED TO THINK THAT WE HAD LOST THEM TO THE DEVIL & HIS SYSTEM! It would be a heartbreaking, heartrending thing to lose our children because of our own carelessness & our own lack of preparation & our own procrastination in preparing protection for them. So may God help us.
29. LORD, YOU KNOW THIS PROBLEM & HOW SERIOUS IT IS! We know that the Enemy is attacking & it looks like he's on a new wave of attacks against us, to try to influence people against us & turn governments against us to try to catch us & trap us & attack us where we are in some cases most vulnerable because of our freedoms & our free life, & in many cases, occasional changes of mates & even taking care of others' children, Lord, to where we would have difficulty if there were a serious immigration check of any kind, either in the home or at the border, to where people could actually lose their children or even be charged in some ways as well.
30. SO LORD JESUS HELP US, IN JESUS' NAME! BLESS US & KEEP US & PROTECT US, & MOST OF ALL PROTECT OUR PRECIOUS, SWEET, DEAR, INNOCENT LITTLE CHILDREN who are so cloistered, in most cases, & protected from the World! How horrible it would be to have them suddenly thrust into Worldly homes or System orphanages without their parents, with nothing but nurses or even worse! My Lord, bless & keep us & protect us & help this never to happen to any of us, if possible, certainly never because of someone's carelessness & failure to protect them!
31. IF WE HAVE DONE ALL WE CAN DO, LORD, WE KNOW THAT YOU'LL DO THE REST, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. And if it even comes to the impossible, Lord, You're an expert at that. For with Thee nothing shall be impossible & all things are possible to those that believe. (Lk.1:37; Mk.9:23) So help us, Lord, to believe & do all we can & trust You for the impossible, to do the rest that we cannot, to protect us & our Homes & our mates & most of all our precious children, in Jesus' name. Amen! PTL!
32. OUR CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE! As the Lord told me not long ago, they are the future & we must protect them. So I trust you're doing your best to protect your children. In protecting your children you're protecting God's Work, you're protecting the future of God's Work. So God help us to protect our children!
33. So we'd better tighten up as quick as we can to protect us all from a new onslaught of the Enemy.--So that our poor, helpless, innocent little children will not fall victims to them, & worst of all, to our own carelessness! In Jesus' name, amen! Amen?
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