"BE AS WISE AS SERPENTS!"--Mat.10:16     DO 2469  8/88
--Turn & Fight!

         1. NOW WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET UP A LITTLE GUMPTION & FIGHT & have a little wisdom & be as wise as SERPENTS, snakes in the grass if we have to be, to save our kids! Let's LOOK as harmless as doves. Why do you think the Lord said "be as harmless as doves"? Do you think we really are harmless? Do you think we really are supposed to be harmless & not FIGHT for our KIDS? No, just APPEAR as harmless as doves. Do you get it? But when they come around, we are going to BITE like SERPENTS!--Bite if we have to!
         2. "AS WISE AS SERPENTS!" What do serpents do? How are they wise? They sneak around through the grass unseen, unknown, silently, soundlessly. Like them, we don't even have to give warning.--Just sneak around until we can get close enough that we can even BITE before they know it! And most serpents, the kind that are any danger at all, are POISONOUS, & they bite to KILL!
         3. SO HOW WISE DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE A SERPENT? When the serpent itself then is finally in danger of the Enemy, what does he wisely do THEN? He BITES to kill, to maim, to paralyse, to keep from getting killed himself! THAT'S how wise he is! To be as wise as a serpent is that when you are finally in danger of getting killed or robbed or whatever it is that is going to happen to you by the Enemy, you STRIKE FIRST & BITE, to protect yourself & your young ones & your nest! THAT'S how wise a serpent is!
         4. WE NEED TO WAKE UP TO WHAT THE LORD WAS SAYING! You can LOOK as harmless as a dove, just flapping its wings & flying around & seeming to do no harm, but let me tell you, when the Enemy gets close & he threatens you & yours, especially your little kids or your big kids, any father or leader or shepherd that's worth his salt will be as WISE AS A SERPENT, & stay out of trouble as much as he can, but when trouble comes, be ready to BITE to defend yourself & yours! In that case the GOOD shepherd lays down his LIFE for the sheep!
         5. AND HARDLY ANY SNAKE WILL EVER ATTACK UNLESS HE'S ATTACKED FIRST. That's wise too. They don't go around LOOKING for trouble & CAUSING trouble, it's usually only when they're CORNERED. Normally they'll RUN AWAY & HIDE, they'll try to get away. Most creatures will not seek trouble & attack unless they are afraid & in fear that they're going to BE ATTACKED or they're CORNERED.
         6. A SNAKE WON'T GO AROUND LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, he'd rather RUN & HIDE & slither away & GET LOST! That's the SMARTEST thing, the first thing a snake ought to do, to be WISE AS A SERPENT. But when CORNERED & with his back up against the wall & no place to retreat & no way to get away & nowhere to hide, he will turn on you & he will sock it to you to take your life before you take his!
         7. GOD SAYS "WISE AS A SERPENT," & that may be some rather radical, revolutionary new doctrine that the churches haven't been preaching, but that's what serpents are like, & that's being as wise as a serpent too! The FIRST & the SMARTEST thing you can do is to [MOVE]! But if they FIND you & you CAN'T run, then you turn around & you SOCK IT TO'M & you immobilise'm or you kill'm, if necessary. That is being as wise as a serpent!
         8. A LOT OF THESE CHRISTIANS & THE PREACHERS HAVE TAUGHT PACIFISM & only being harmless as a dove. "Why, the Bible says to agree with your enemy while you're in the way with him."--Mat.5:25. That obviously had to do with financial affairs, in other words, pay, before you have to go to court & have to pay a lot more! And this business about "when they hit you on one cheek, turn the other." Well, brother, I've only got FOUR CHEEKS, & by the time they get done with those, it's time for me to get to THEIR cheeks, or more, whatever it takes! I hope we're learning something out of this.
         9. THE TIME HAS COME, obviously the day has come, & the season has come now in these Last Days where we are going to have to put that into EFFECT! We not only have to be harmless as doves--actually we ARE harmless except to the Devil's kingdom, & we're the biggest threat there is to them--but harmless as far as APPEARANCES go, harmless, like our Schools. As far as really being harmless, we're not only harmless, we're HELPFUL! But when it comes down to where they're looking for us in the grass, then we need to be as wise as serpents & slither away & HIDE & GET LOST!
         10. BUT IF IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS THEY CATCH US, IT'S TIME TO TURN & DEFEND OURSELVES & TO BITE, & one of the SAFEST ways to bite nowadays in this present World is to get a LAWYER, so you don't have to get involved in some kind of crime yourself, but you can defend yourself LEGALLY & let HIM put the bite into it. Okay? All right!
         11. OKAY, LET'S FIND OURSELVES SOME TEETH! LET'S KNOW A LAWYER that's sympathetic & is willing to fight FOR us that can put some TEETH into it & help us BITE when we're cornered! Amen, I think we've all learned something. I never thought of that illustration before, but that's straight from the Lord. It's wonderful when the Lord shows you things. I was just quoting that Scripture to you & all of a sudden it dawned on me that part of the WISDOM of a serpent is to BITE! His FIRST wisdom is to get away, GET LOST, HIDE, get out of the way! But when he's caught or CORNERED, his next wisdom is to FIGHT BACK!
         12. SO LET'S GET US A LAWYER READY TO FIGHT BACK BEFORE WE NEED HIM! If right then in that moment they could have just called their lawyer & said, "Get down there quick & save those kids, save him, & let's do something legally to stop this thing!", I believe we'd still have them! But nobody did anything, everybody just sat there & just waited until it happened. We haven't been used to fighting things. We have been used to, & usually successful in, [moving on]! But now they're getting us cornered.
         13. I THINK THAT WAS THE CLINCHER, I JUST SAW THAT AS CLEAR AS A PICTURE! "Wise as serpents"! What IS it to be WISE as a SERPENT? I just saw that serpent sliding away into the grass & getting lost, hiding, but when cornered, turning on his enemy & FIGHTING!--ENDANGERING his life then to [attack] somebody else to SAVE his. THAT'S being as "wise as a serpent!" That's a time for the shepherd to LAY DOWN HIS LIFE for the sheep: If he's run & hid as far as he can, but he gets caught by the wrong people. I don't mean by this you're supposed to [resist of fight] cops, officers of the law or Immigrations officials!
         14. THIS IS THE TIME OF THE ANTICHRIST, BELOVED, & HIS PEOPLE ARE ON THE ATTACK! And the average church Christian today doesn't even know anything about who the Antichrist is, doesn't even know they're being ATTACKED, much less know how to DEFEND themselves or to FIGHT for the faith! But I hope to God that is never said of us, that we don't know who our enemies are, we DO, & we know when they're on the ATTACK! The first time I heard something about that "20/20" program I said, "They're going to have a new campaign against us & that is the leading blast!"
         15. EVEN WHEN I HEARD ABOUT ALL THIS BLAH blah blah that was being stirred up in the States about CHILD ABUSE, I thought, "Uh-oh, I know who's publishing all that!" I told you this years ago when all that stink first began to be raised about child abuse! (See No.1698, "Guard Your Children!") I said, "They're going to use that!--And when they get the public stirred up enough about it, then they're going to use those lies on US! It's just a part of their campaign against us." And sure enough, here we are!
         16. MAYBE A GOOD TITLE FOR THIS IS, "BE AS WISE AS SERPENTS!" Maybe that's a good next one in the series, "Time to Fight" & "Be as Wise as Serpents!" First [move], & then if you're caught, TURN & FIGHT! Praise God? Hallelujah! TYL!
         17. THANK YOU LORD FOR THE WISDOM YOU GIVE US & these wonderful VISIONS, Lord. You show us PICTURES like that just as clear as I'm sitting here & as clear as these people are, Lord. Right off here in these bushes, seeing that serpent, how he runs & he hides when he sees me coming, his enemy, but then if we find him, he turns & he fights.
         18. SO LORD HELP US, IN JESUS' NAME! HELP US TO FIND SOME GOOD TEETH to fight with, some good lawyers, & be ready to USE them! The snake has always got his weapons there in his head, it's part of his wisdom, with his poison sacs full, READY to SHOOT if he needs them, but he doesn't use them unless he HAS to. Only then, after running & hiding has not done the work, then he has to TURN & FIGHT & sink'm in to somebody to keep HIMSELF from getting hit!
         19. SO LORD HELP US TO BE AS WISE AS SERPENTS!--As harmless as doves, Lord, while we're flying , that's fine, & as harmless as a serpent , but as WISE as a serpent when we're caught, to TURN & FIGHT & have our teeth ready, whatever it takes, whether it's a lawyer or a [legal weapon], in Jesus' name! Amen.
         20. IN AN EXTREME CASE, YOU MIGHT JUST HAVE TO TAKE THE LAW INTO YOUR OWN HANDS & BE AS WISE AS A SERPENT & DEFEND YOURSELF! Now I hope as a result of this talk we don't start having a series of [incidents], etc., in the Family, or we'll probably be in even MORE trouble!--Ha! That's a last resort. That's the LAST RESORT, & that's where that Scripture that Jesus Himself said comes in, "The GOOD shepherd layeth down his LIFE for the sheep!" How can you lay down your life for your sheep?--Get killed, & die! How could you get killed defending your sheep? Huh? (Fam: Fighting.) Fighting, how? With a nice little peaceful prayer in front of your enemies, "Lord, please..."
         21. THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THE DEVIL'S CROWD UNDERSTANDS, & THAT IS FORCE , that's all they understand! And when it comes to dealing with THEM, if you can't do it peacefully some OTHER way, legally, by law, by lawyer & all the rest, when it comes to the last analysis & you have to FIGHT until your DEATH for those sheep, that's what God expects you to do!--If you're FORCED to it, to FIGHT TO THE DEATH for those sheep! And that means using some kind of [FORCE], or else why else would they KILL you?--Because they HAVE to, to STOP you!
         22. SO THE LORD OBVIOUSLY CONDONES FIGHTING FOR THEM, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO [SMITE] YOUR ENEMIES TO STOP THEM! Let's hope we don't. Let's hope we have enough sense FIRST of all to [MOVE] so we WON'T have any confrontation. But then if they catch up with us, to have enough sense at least to call a LAWYER, call on the DOGS to fight'm so YOU don't have to! But if it does come to that, any good sensible snake AS WISE AS A SERPENT will TURN ON THEM & FIGHT & BITE if they have to! "The GOOD shepherd lays down his LIFE for his sheep!"
         23. AMEN, LORD, THANK YOU JESUS FOR GIVING US THIS TIME & GIVING US THIS PICTURE & giving us these points that we need to put into effect, that the Family needs to be prepared for FIGHTS from now on, because the Enemy is going to go on a rampage of ATTACKS from now on, of which this is just the first, not even the first, but a beginning of a series of attacks to try to rip off our children, THY children, Lord!
         24. SO HELP US TO BE PREPARED FOR IT, & be prepared if we HAVE to, if we CAN'T [move], to be able to fight it LEGALLY first, to know a LAWYER, a sympathetic lawyer who's willing to FIGHT for us, in Jesus' name. Or if it comes to that, Lord, to have to TURN & FIGHT & BITE, in Jesus' name, Amen! PTL! GBY!


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