GENERATION OF VIPERS!--Mt.23:33  DO 1773  3/84
--Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees!--Mt.16:6.

         1. THERE ARE SOME COUNTRIES THAT HAVE HEARD ABOUT US & THE AUTHORITIES HAVE HEARD ABOUT US, but God bless'm, they've not bothered us or seem not to be worried about it because they know us so well. They're not going by hearsay & the Enemy's propaganda, they know us personally, thanks to our dear faithful brave FFers! God bless'm! So they're not scared by all the rumours & wild tales & lies & stuff like that. They already know about us & our weird doctrines & sexual freedoms & all that sort of thing & it doesn't bother them as far as we now know. But!--And that's where the but comes--so did Pilate & the Romans!
         2. JESUS CONTINUED FREELY & OPENLY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, HEAL THE SICK & DRAW HUGE CROWDS OF THOUSANDS FOR THREE-&-A-HALF YEARS UNDER ROMAN RULE without being bothered by the Romans at all!--In fact, getting Roman converts & Roman officers & centurions converted, having great success even in high places with high officers of the government, & perhaps even Pilate's wife! According to legend, rumour or tradition, she was a secret disciple.
         3. JOHN THE BAPTIST & JESUS CARRIED ON FOR FOUR YEARS THERE WITH VIRTUALLY NO PROBLEMS! The only problems they had were from the guess who? During Christ's ministry, who were the troublemakers?--The dominant religion & particularly their religious leaders! The people really liked Jesus, the common people heard Him gladly (Mk.12:37), even a great company of the priests believed (Acts 6:7), but the jealous, envious, covetous religious leaders saw themselves losing flocks & lambs & converts, & as a result, money, wealth & power, which is what the religious leaders always love most.
         4. SO WHEN IT GOT THAT BAD, THEY DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO PUT A STOP TO IT! Up to that time the Romans had virtually ignored the Christians, in fact almost favoured them. A lot of them went to hear Him preach, got converted, & even the spies that the Scribes, Pharisees & Chief Priests sent to try to catch Him in something said, "We can't find anything wrong with Him, in fact, no man ever spake like this Man!" (John 7:46) They were practically converted! Till finally some of the top officials of the church themselves went & harassed Jesus with questions, etc., tried to trick Him & trap Him & embarrass Him before the people. But He was too smart for that & gave them wise answers that practically made the people laugh in their faces! Jesus made fools out of them with His knowledge of the Lord & the Law.
         5. SO WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THEY COULDN'T QUEER HIM WITH THE PEOPLE, HE HAD THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE, THEY DECIDED TO WORK ON THE GOVERNMENT. No matter what kind of scandals had arisen & wild tales were circulating, etc., the people still loved Him & welcomed & received Him, heard Him gladly. And up to that time even the Romans & some of the Roman officials had been quite favourable. But then these leaders of the Jews decided the best way to get rid of Jesus was to get Him in trouble with the government, to stir up political charges!
         6. THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A POLITICAL SITUATION WHICH WAS ALREADY SERIOUS FOR THE GOVERNMENT, with which the government was already having trouble. So they decided the best thing to do was to accuse Jesus & His disciples of being subversives, rebels, belonging to the opposition! In fact, one of His disciples was a Zealot, at least an ex-Zealot--Judas--& so the [Jewish leaders] began to condemn them as enemies of the government, enemies of Rome, subversives--exactly what has happened to us now in some countries!
         7. I'M SURE PLENTY OF THOSE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT COMMUNISTS OR SUBVERSIVES POLITICALLY, ALTHOUGH WE MAY BE SUBVERSIVE RELIGIOUSLY, THAT'S FOR SURE! We're undermining the false religious establishment with our doctrines of freedom & grace, etc., which they hate, because they can't control the people once you give them that kind of information! But they found the best tack to use was to accuse Jesus & His disciples of being anti-Roman & pro-rebels, pro-opposition, on the side of the Zealots--you might say the Communists of their day, accusing them of being subversives, as they have now accused us in some places.
         8. AND OF COURSE THIS STIRS UP A GREAT DEAL OF EMOTIONALISM & PATRIOTISM & NATIONALISM, especially in a country that is already quite anti-Communist. So just the mere word "Communism" or "Communist" strikes terror to their hearts & they're scared! So what better charge could the religious leaders bring than: "They're Communists!"--To bring down the wrath of the Romans, or the government!
         9. THE THIRD WORLD, ESPECIALLY THE NON-ALIGNED THIRD WORLD, HAVE TRIED TO STRIKE A MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD STANCE & DECLARE THEIR FREEDOM FROM DOMINATION OF EITHER SUPER POWER. But of course that's kind of hard to do, because nearly everybody has their prejudices & their preferences & hardly anybody is ever really neutral. (Mt.12:30) So if you're not actually an American, you're either pro-American or anti-American. If you're not actually a Communist, you're either anti-Communist or pro-Communist. So it wouldn't be difficult to try to convince some ignorant officials who don't know us & are not personally acquainted with us, that because of our anti-Americanism & our sometimes somewhat sympathetic view of the Russians & the Communists, a good smart lawyer could probably convince some people or a jury from our literature that if not actual Communists, we were pro-Communists!
         10. WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD REASON TO BE ANTI-AMERICAN, because we know America pretty well & its dirty tricks & its anti-Christ government with the anti-Christs running it, & we're quite sure of how bad the U.S. is! On the other hand, we have tried to be a little sympathetic & tried to see a few good points & refute the lies the U.S. is always telling about Russia. Of course, the anti-Christs are ready to tell lies about anybody they don't like.
         11. SO WE KNOW WHO WE'RE UP AGAINST! WE KNOW THE FACE OF OUR ENEMY! WE KNOW HIS NAME! We know he's taking over the World & almost got it, virtually got it except for a few little problems amongst the two major Superpowers.
         12. WE CAN SEE EVERY EVIDENCE OF THEIR PLACES OF POWER EVEN IN THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, HOW THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL IT. Now in recent years, [some] Russians seem to have awakened to the threat of the [ACs] in Russia & have tried to put a stop to it, but there are still plenty of top, smart, loyal, Communist Russian [ACs] in power today, those who declare themselves solidly on the side of the government, & only a few little Orthodox or political dissidents who are troublemakers have stirred up the trouble & been suppressed by the Soviet government. The others cooperate wholeheartedly & are solidly behind it, because it's anti-Christ, it's secular & it's powerful, taking over the World, & they'd like to run it, & they'd like to run the government running it.
         13. SO WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON & WE KNOW THE BACKGROUND & WE KNOW THE FOREGROUND, WE KNOW THE FUTURE, AMEN? And obviously we have accomplished quite a bit to get the Devil that mad & stirred up that much to get that angry to retaliate that viciously in that country that persecuted us, to send such a wave of lying propaganda against us stirred up in all of the media, which is probably Jewish-owned! They're everywhere! There are probably Jews in the government there disguised as Moslems!
         14. THEY'RE WILLING TO PUT ON THE DISGUISE OF ANY RELIGION IN ORDER TO HAVE POWER! [S]ome of the heads of the Catholic Church, they're as Jewish as they can be! If you can't lick'm, join'm! They can do more damage from the inside than the outside, & I think that's just exactly what the Jews have done in the Catholic Church. And frankly, I think they're running it today, with perhaps a few rare exceptions.
         15. BUT THE POINT IS, THE WAY IT AFFECTS US NOW IS THAT THE WORLD HAS GOTTEN DIVIDED INTO THESE TWO CAMPS, & TO MOST PEOPLE YOU'RE EITHER ANTI-COMMUNIST OR YOU'RE PRO-COMMUNIST. Particularly to the anti-Communists, you are either one of them or you're against them. And so the cleverest ruse that our enemies could make--whether they be Jews or Christians or Churches or whatever--is to brand us as Communists, & that immediately turns nearly everybody against us!
         16. SO THEY HIT A SYMPATHETIC NERVE WHICH GETS LOTS OF RESPONSE, especially amongst the ignorant & uninformed & anybody that didn't know anything about us, particularly government officials if they hadn't been well-informed.
         17. IF ANYBODY KNOWS HOW TO PROPAGANDISE, IT'S THE JEWS & THE RELIGIONISTS & THE CHIEF PRIESTS & THE SCRIBES & THE PHARISEES WHEN THEY WANT TO, when they're mad enough & get the ear of the government!--To the point that even when the government doesn't want to, they have been known time & time again from the days of Pharaoh to the days of Jesus to the days of the present to put such pressure on a government that they virtually had to come out against God's people & make some show, at least, of banning, suppressing, limiting, restricting & investigating.
         18. IN THAT ONE COUNTRY THAT KICKED US OUT, APPARENTLY THE ANTI-CHRISTS & ALL THE CHURCH PEOPLE DECIDED IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO STRIKE! They must have gotten the ears of the right government officials or they wouldn't have started this campaign, because they knew they were going to win it! They wouldn't have started the fight & the smear tactics & the lies & the bad publicity unless they figured it was going to do the trick. It's too well-organised, too widespread, too vicious not to have been pretty well-organised & pretty confident of victory over us, & they did win as far as politically is concerned: They got the government turned against us & ousted us. (Maria: Led by the Catholics!) Yes!
         19. SO OUR PEOPLE OUGHT TO STEER CLEAR OF RELIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES LIKE POISON, LIKE DYNAMITE! That's where they can have the worst trouble. They ought to go to the secular universities. I think that's where they've been getting the trouble in India, they've been going to all those Christian universities! Well, the short-term results are quick, you get a lot of quick results because they're already Christians & easily persuaded that we're right. They're not hardcore Hindus, Buddhists or Muslims that take a whole new rewiring & reorganisation & complete conversion where it's virtually miraculous & supernatural to get'm won over! But the short-term results come pretty quick the other way too, because you get quick opposition, quick 10:36ers, quick screams & hollers & hurts & complaints!
         20. IT'S FUNNY, THE [ACs] CALLING US COMMUNISTS IS LIKE THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK! Because wherever they can be, they've been Communists & led Communism, are the creators of Communism, & they would like to control the Communist World if they can. But they found that the easiest one to undermine & seduce & infiltrate & conquer first was the U.S.A., because the U.S.A. wasn't quite as smart as the Russians. They didn't seem to know the [ACs] as well & what they were up to, & there was greater freedom & greater opportunity to make more headway there.
         21. I'M SURE THEY ONLY ATTACKED US NOW IN THAT COUNTRY, NOT BECAUSE WE HAD GOTTEN SO FAR THERE, BUT BECAUSE THERE WAS A BIGGER CHANCE OF ENDING IT THERE! We'd gotten too far to suit'm & there was a better chance of putting a stop to it there than in other countries. But when the time comes, if they figure they can put a stop to us elsewhere, they will, or will try to. And when that time comes, they're usually successful, they usually do. And the Lord allows it because you've been there long enough. They've all heard, they're all responsible, they've all made their decision & it's time to quit wasting your time on them, it's time to clear out & go to some place more fruitful & more profitable, more receptive, more responsive, more needy, whiter fields ripe to harvest!
         22. YOU SAY, "WELL, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THERE'RE TOO MANY LEFT!" Well, maybe this will get more people into some fields where they could still use more labourers, like India, a huge field there, nearly a billion people, & even into supposedly closed nations like China & Russia! If people have no place else to go, & they've had to flee because of persecution, they're sometimes willing to go where it's not so easy, where it was once considered too difficult but is now better than nothin'!--How about you?


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