GOING HOME?--GO MOBILE!
DO 2507
3/89
--More Counsel for Families Returning to Home Fields!
1. WE'VE TRAINED UP OUR CHILDREN IN THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD GO so that when they're older they'll not depart therefrom.--Pro.22:6. They might depart a little bit to get a taste of the System, like I did, in a way. (Maria: Or they might stray a little simply because their parents don't have much time to give them. They also won't necessarily have teachers with them all the time like many of them did at the schools. Without continued strict supervision, they may lose some of the gains they've made. But when the crisis comes, & they're "older," I think they'll pull through.)
2. WHY SHOULDN'T THEY HAVE THE SAME TRAINING WHEN THEY GO BACK HOME? They could still have Area Fellowships & Area Schools. I don't see why there should be any difference. (Maria: Well, they may be able to for a little while.) They should continue the same training at home, providing they don't go & get into the System or into the public schools.--If we can continue to have our OWN schools & stay SEPARATE, "Come out from among them & be ye separate. Touch not the unclean thing!"--2Cor.6:17.
3. I THINK THE WORSE THINGS GET, THE MORE SEPARATE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE. If they start requiring your kids to go to public school, you'll just have to [MOVE]! I had the same problem in the United States. [Note: When Dad was raising his first family.] When we were in Florida, even California, they didn't require your children to register in the public school or any school for three whole months!
4. I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO MOBILE AGAIN WHEN THEY GET BACK to those countries. That's one of the smartest things they can do. If they possibly can, their schools can go mobile as well, they could go mobile in small GROUPS of 4-5 trailers.--Like the GYPSIES do!
5. I think our advice about going mobile is going to be more of a necessity NOW than it EVER was! When they go back to their home countries, I don't think they're going to be able to settle down too much.
6. WE FOUND OUT IN OUR EARLY DAYS THAT THE SAFEST THING WAS TO KEEP MOVING.--Right? (Maria: Yes!) And we kept moving, even in groups. We had cars & vans pulling various kinds of trailers. And we travelled together & we moved from place to place.
7. Sometimes some of us lived in a house & some of us lived in a trailer. We would rent houses for just short periods of time & park some of the trailers in the yard & others at nearby trailer parks.
EVADING THE AC SYSTEM!
8. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE CAMPING OUT OR IN TRAILER PARKS, they expect you to be travelling, & it's a general rule in nearly all States, in the United States, at least--I don't know about other countries--that you had to be in the State for at least three months, 90 days, before they required you to put your kids in school. Until then, you were counted as a visitor or a tourist, a temporary resident. You were not required to put your kids in school for at least three months.
9. (MARIA: DO YOU THINK THAT THE AC IS GOING TO TRY TO INSIST, LIKE THEY DO IN RUSSIA TODAY, that everybody has a permanent dwelling & nobody is just free to wander around & travel from place to place?) They'll try, but THEY can't even enforce it completely.
10. HONEY, REMEMBER, THE PEOPLE OF THOSE BIG DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES OF THE WEST ARE USED TO A LOT OF FREEDOM, & I think it's going to take a little while before he can really enforce his rules. In fact, it looks like it's going to take about the whole 3-&-1/2 years of the Tribulation--& he finally fails!
11. SO DON'T EXPECT EVERYTHING TO BE STRICTLY TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL even when he takes over after his Revelation. No dictator has ever completely gotten total control immediately, & some have NEVER gotten full control!
12. THERE ARE GOING TO BE REBELS EVERYWHERE with all of these Christians who will refuse to recognise the Antichrist. They're not going to give up. I don't believe they're going to give up without a struggle, without a fight.
13. JUST CONSIDER SOME OF THOSE WESTERN COUNTRIES: There are oodles of mountains & inaccessible & difficult places to get into, even if you have to hike up them. That's how the Jews managed to survive all those years, through one empire after another. They'd just chase them back up into the hills, & that's about all they did.--Then the government would give up.
14. THE MORE REMOTE THE PLACE IS, THE BETTER! Usually up in the mountains is where the Lord's Word advises time & again. "Flee to the mountains.--Flee the cities!"--Psa.11:1; 55:6-11. They're going to have to get out of the cities where there is more control.
15. IN THE CITIES IS WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE THE TIGHTEST CONTROL, because they're easily accessible to the police & military forces, & the people are concentrated & already registered, & you have to have permanent residence. But if you're in a CAMPER or you've got nothing but a TENT & a backpack, you can travel & get away.--And the kids love it more than anybody! They just love that camping out & moving & the outdoor life! The more kids, the more backpacks they can carry.
OUR TRIBULATION MOUNTAIN MINISTRY!
16. (MARIA: I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS: If we're out in the remote parts, in some caves or up in the mountains or somewhere, how can we support ourselves & witness, two things which the Bible says we're supposed to do? That's why the Christians are going to survive through the Tribulation, so they can BE witnesses & a testimony. What if we're stuck up in the mountains?)
17. NOT ALL OF US WILL BE BOLD OPEN WITNESSES, JUST SOME OF US.--Only outstanding prophetesses & prophets like HEAVEN'S GIRL, they are going to be the rare martyrs whom God is going to always have as His mouthpieces somewhere. But the vast majority of the people may have to just go out into hiding up in the mountains somehow, living off the land with other rebels.
18. THERE ARE GOING TO BE THOUSANDS OF REBELS! Think of all the church people & all the good strong evangelical fundamentalist people who really love the Lord & will know that that's the Antichrist. They're never going to take the Mark of the Beast! They're going to have to flee SOMEWHERE!
19. I DON'T DOUBT THAT THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS WILL BE PLACES OF REFUGE.--Just like they have been throughout all history, in every civilisation in every case in history and right NOW, the rebels are still surviving out in the wilds of the mountains, where the System has not been able to get rid of them. They're no longer a thorn in their flesh down in their cities. They've chased them out, they've gotten rid of them, they control the cities and they control the people, the schools, the minds, the children, everything, and they've got what they want, the vast majority. So they don't let this little bunch of rebels up in the hills or mountains worry them too much as long as they stay put and don't bother the city folk.
20. I THINK THERE WILL STILL BE A POSTAL SYSTEM, & that [people] will still be able to come down to mail letters, etc. And there will probably be little country mountain post offices where they can even get mail. And up in the mountains, how do they live?--The same way a lot of our people who have learned how to camp out already have lived in the past. The Lord told us we were going to have to be like Gypsies.
21. (MARIA: BUT HOW CAN WE WITNESS? Don't you think the Lord would take the Christians out BEFORE the Tribulation if they're just going to have to be holed up & not be a witness to anybody? What are they going to be able to do except hide out? That seems like a waste of their witnessing abilities & their purpose.)
22. HONEY, THAT'S WHEN THE CHURCH PEOPLE ARE FINALLY GOING TO BE WILLING TO LISTEN! The Lord said they were going to come to us for the answers of what's going on & what's happening, & we're just about the only ones who have it straight according to Bible Prophecy.
23. UP THERE IN THE MOUNTAINS I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE BUSY TEACHING THE CHRISTIANS & the church people. At last they're going to be willing to tolerate us & won't give a damn about our sex doctrines! They may still not LIKE it, but we'll have the ANSWERS.--And we'll have the leadership.
24. WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING WE'RE GOING TO DO, but the Lord has given us enough experience, enough knowledge & enough leadership to know what to do when we get back up in the mountains amongst the rebels, all the Christian rebels. In the Christian countries they'll be nearly all Christians & former church people.
25. IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY TROUBLE or we're not going to have enemies, but the Lord is going to use us, & I believe THAT'S going to be our time to witness to the CHRISTIANS. That's what I've said before. When the church people finally get DESPERATE & are in dire straits & really being PERSECUTED, they're going to come to us.--God's Word says so!: "And they that be wise shall instruct MANY!"--Dan.11:33. Who is that? That's not the World, that's not the Antichrist Mark-of-the-Beast people, that's the CHRISTIANS! It's going to be rough times, dangerous times, but there is only one reason why the Lord would not have taken the Church BEFORE, & that is because they need to learn some lessons.--Right? (Maria: Right!) And I wouldn't be surprised that they're going to learn a lot of them from US!
26. OH BOY! THEY'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN!--And I think we're going to be very busy teaching those rebel & fugitive Christians what's going on. The Lord said so! He said some will be martyrs, but He also said that, "They that be wise will INSTRUCT MANY."--And it will help to "purify & make white." Who needs to be purified & made white?--The World? Is He talking about the wicked Antichrist Mark-of-the-Beast people? Of course not! He's talking about His Own CHURCH! He's talking about the church folks! He's talking about the real CHRISTIANS! THEY still need to be purified & made white.--Dan.11:35.
27. SO I CAN SEE THEM SWARMING UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS, into the remote places, difficult places to go, & managing to survive AWAY from the System, OUT of the System. The Lord said, "Come out from among them & be ye separate. Touch not the unclean thing."--2Cor.6:17.
28. WE'RE THE PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH, but the Laodicean Church (Rev.3:14-22), that LAST church will be the one that really has to undergo persecution & suffering in order to be purified & made white, & those of us who are wise will instruct many! Who are going to be the wisest ones? (Maria: Us!) WE will be the wisest ones, because WE will know more about what is happening than they do. They're not familiar with the Scriptures & the interpretation of Bible Prophecy.
OUR PRESENT RETURN TO HOME FIELDS!
29. ALL RIGHT! NOW THINGS ARE TIGHTENING UP & WE'VE BEEN FORCED OUT OF COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY, especially in the East with their heathen religions, etc., non-Christian countries. There may be a few that are going to be able to stay to help the local natives and the Nationals to carry on, thank the Lord! But a lot of people--I said this years ago--a lot of the Westerners are going to be forced to go HOME.--Just by law and the impossibility of the situation of a foreigner on the foreign mission field. They're going to be finally forced out and have no place to go but home, where they have a RIGHT to be as national citizens of those Western countries.
30. SO WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO WHEN THEY HAVE TO GO HOME? They are going to witness & witness up a storm & carry on just as they used to as long as they can until the real serious persecution begins & the Antichrist is revealed & he begins his reign of terror.
AVOID GETTING TOO TIED DOWN--STAY ON THE MOVE!
31. SO I WOULD ADVISE OUR FOLKS WHEN THEY GO HOME, DON'T SIGN A BIG LONG CONTRACT FOR THE RENTAL OF SOME HOUSE & expect to survive on Welfare until you get a System job. I think the smartest thing you could possibly do is STAY ON THE MOVE! Don't get settled down anywhere! Preferably get either CAMPING EQUIPMENT, anything from backpacks & a tent to a trailer or camper or van or whatever you CAN get, & just MOVE from camp to camp & trailer park to trailer park & place to place!
32. STAY IN ONE PLACE AS LONG AS YOU CAN. And most of the laws allow you to stay in one State for at least 90 days without putting your kids in school.
33. (MARIA: WHAT ABOUT THESE COMBO HOMES & SCHOOLS THEY'VE BEEN STARTING? They've already started some Combo Schools in the West.) Temporarily keep'm going as long as you CAN.--You've had to land SOME place.
34. HONEY, WE KEPT LITTLE SCHOOLS GOING FOR OUR CHILDREN, travelling around with cars & trailers & even parking in trailer parks all over, even as a whole Home, meeting together for classes, fellowship & devotions!
35. I THINK THE FAMILY IS GOING TO GET PRETTY ADEPT AT IT AGAIN. And I would certainly suggest to our families who go home that the advice about being mobile definitely applies to them!
36. (MARIA: SOMEBODY SUGGESTED THAT YOU MIGHT RENT A HOUSE & THEN PUT TRAILERS OUT IN THE YARD.) Yes, temporarily you could do that if it's out far enough in the rural areas of the country. You can rent a little farm or something like that & maybe put one or two trailers in the back yard. Even the neighbours will usually put up with that in home countries where they're fairly well off--almost everybody has a camper or a trailer parked in their yard for their summer vacation.
37. (MARIA: AND THEN THOSE PEOPLE, WHEN THEY WEAR OUT THEIR THREE MONTHS WELCOME, or whatever, they could leave, & maybe some of the other Family members in their trailers could come & park in the same place?) Yes, if the landlord will allow it. They'd just better be sure they don't sign too permanent of a lease, too LONG of a lease, or contracts that are too binding that will keep them from moving on whenever they feel they need to.
LET YOUR RELATIVES & FRIENDS HELP YOU GO MOBILE!
38. YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK?--I think if they've landed with their folks, a lot of their relatives & parents, etc., are going to be just tickled pink to give them a down payment on a trailer or a camper just to get them out of the house so they can be on their own! They can ask their parents & relatives, they've got plenty, compared to us they've got plenty of money.--And they can at least ask them for the down payment!
39. BUT EVEN THE POOREST FAMILY CAN AFFORD SLEEPING BAGS & BACKPACKS! (Maria: You can provision or buy those in second-hand stores with used camping goods.) Thank God most of our people are probably going to be going home this SUMMER before the big news, or whatever it is, that's coming in November! And you can survive with a backpack & a sleeping bag in Summer!--And of course, preferably a small tent, even a pup tent, or a few pup tents.
40. CAMPING OUT IS NOTHING UNUSUAL TODAY! It's nationwide in the U.S., for example. They call it the "homeless," whole families sleeping in their cars! So people are used to the sight, & won't be shocked.--That here's a whole family sleeping in the car!--Though I'd only advise it in an emergency.
41. I THINK THEY CLAIM THERE ARE SOMETHING LIKE TWO MILLION HOMELESS IN THE UNITED STATES! (Maria: And also they have shelters for the homeless that end up being sort of like communes.
ADVERTISING & PROVISIONING YOUR NEEDS!
43. BUT I ADVISE YOU, BY ALL MEANS, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, TO GO MOBILE! (Maria: You know, you might even put ads in a paper. One missionary family several years ago put an ad in the paper when they were going overseas. They said, "We need household supplies, clothes & a vehicle," & the help just poured in! Maybe by the same token you could put ads in,
44. ("RETURNING FURLOUGHING MISSIONARIES WITH KIDS. HAVE NOTHING & NEED A CAMPER."--Or vehicle. Or clothing. And you might be able to do pretty good like that.) Yes--"Need temporary housing." (Maria: So you could advertise. You'd have to [explain] what missionary group you were with before!) "Independent missionaries," that's what most of our people have [explained].
45. IF THEY WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU'RE INDEPENDENT, just say, "The Lord said to go into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature, & lo, I will be with you always."--Mk.16:15; Mat.28:20. He didn't say first find a missionary organisation that will send you. You just went independently by faith, & the Lord was with you. "He took care of us. And now we're coming back home & we need help. We need housing. We need a camper, a vehicle, a tent, trailer, clothing, whatever."
ECONOMIC, SAFETY & WITNESSING ADVANTAGES OF GOING MOBILE!
46. THE NICE THING ABOUT TRAILERS & CAMPERS IS THAT THEY'RE ALREADY FURNISHED! You don't know what trouble it is to go & furnish a house! Campers are already furnished! Those home countries are just loaded with government & national campgrounds, state parks & all kinds of places, many free! And even if you've got a Home of several families you could each go in & qualify & just rent a campsite.
47. OF COURSE, AS LONG AS YOU CAN WITNESS, YOU CAN GO AHEAD & KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING ON THE MISSION FIELD!--Selling Posters & Tapes & Videos & witnessing, & distributing Videos & even selling on the street if you can get away with it. They'll know we've come home.--The same Posters, same message, same style, same people. Just do it as long as you can in one community & get away with it, fine!
48. BUT THE NICE THING ABOUT HAVING CAMPING EQUIPMENT is that if they start giving you too much trouble, forbid it, tell you you CAN'T do it, you can just pick up, pull up stakes & move on to the NEXT place or the NEXT county, or the NEXT state, whatever! I am for MOBILITY! Absolutely! Because we never stay any place very long, even in freer days.
49. (MARIA: WELL, HOW WILL THIS JIVE WITH THE LETTER WE JUST PUT OUT ABOUT "CHURCHES IN THE HOME" & fitting into the society & their homes?) It jives perfectly, as long as you can! If you get a house, fine! If you don't have to pay too much & sign too binding a contract, fine!--If you can get one & can stay awhile. As long as you're free & you can still witness & sell Posters & Tapes & Videos & whatnot, just keep going like you've always gone, just like you used to do when you were in your home country before, until things close down or you get driven out.--Then you need your MOBILITY to go on some place ELSE!
50. (MARIA: BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING HOME & DON'T HAVE MUCH MONEY, they probably have to make a choice, whether they're going to get a house or get their trailers.) I would say by all means, if you possibly CAN, get MOBILITY, get SOME kind of mobility!--Anything from a sleeping bag & a tent to trailers & campers. And you can have a GROUP of SEVERAL FAMILIES living in the same trailer park, operating Combo-style. Then you can go into the nearby town & witness.
WITNESSING FORAYS FROM CAMPGROUND TO TOWN!
51. I'VE EXPLAINED ALL OF THIS IN THOSE LETTERS ABOUT GOING MOBILE. (See ML Volume 7, ML#s 812-1 to 25.) I said you could park out in a free campground outside the big city somewhere up in the hills or mountains. So if you have to drive into town a few miles, you can drive in and sell Posters, Tapes and Videos and earn your living by that kind of witnessing. Then drive back at night.
52. OR LIKE WE DID AT TSC RANCH, we used to take whole groups, 25 or 30 people, into the city on three-day weekends. We'd sleep them all on the floor of a home we'd rented, or one that someone had opened to us. They all took their sleeping bags & slept on the floor in one house, & then they'd go out & spend the whole weekend witnessing! They'd get in town by Friday evening, spend all day Saturday & Sunday witnessing, & go back to the Ranch either Sunday night or Monday morning, so that they had about two or three full days of witnessing in the city. And we all managed to survive by faith, the whole camp there!
53. (MARIA: THEY COULD JUST DO IT ON THE WEEKEND, & THEN CONCENTRATE MORE ON TEACHING THEIR KIDS THE REST OF THE WEEK!) Yes, just go into the cities even on the weekends, & then go back up to your beautiful mountain campgrounds & forest & fresh air & sunshine, pure water, etc.! (Maria: Do a lot of praying in the meantime, & then your weekend will be so successful that it will more than make up for what you'd otherwise have done all week long.)
54. BESIDES, THEN YOU'RE OUT THERE OUT OF THE CITY, OUT OF THE MESS & all the crime & government regulations & everything, & you're halfway into the wilderness, halfway into the mountains already, so that if the time comes when you've REALLY got to [MOVE] & go higher up, you're on the way!
DISADVANTAGES OF STATIONARY HOMES!--ADVANTAGES OF GOING MOBILE!
55. SO I WOULD CERTAINLY ADVISE YOU RETURNEES TO GO MOBILE IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN, & continue to operate in the cities & the towns openly as long as you can until you get stopped or chased out, & then you're ready to easily move on. Then you don't have to have a big job of having to unload a bunch of furniture! Otherwise, when you get home, you have the big problem of finding a HOUSE that will accommodate your large family, or maybe two or three families.
56. THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT CAMPING OUT & BEING MOBILE IS THAT IT'S SO CHEAP TO LIVE THAT WAY! You don't need a fortune of thousands of Dollars to put down on a house & more thousands to buy enough furniture & all your other luxuries that you usually go for.--All kinds of linens & kitchen equipment & dishes & silverware & pots & pans & appliances, etc.
57. WHEREAS WHEN YOU BUY A CAMPER OR A TRAILER, IT'S ALREADY FURNISHED WITH ALL APPLIANCES INCLUDED! It's the cheapest way in the World to live! I KNOW! I lived 20 YEARS that way! And it's the SAFEST way to live, because you can move at a moment's notice.
58. TRAILER PARKS, OF COURSE, ARE MORE EXPENSIVE, IF YOU WANT THE LUXURY OF BOTH RUNNING WATER & SEWAGE & ELECTRICITY. But in national & state park campgrounds, if you don't have to have electricity, you can camp in many of them free of charge! All you do is pay an initial fee. Now some of them have a time limit of 30 days. Some of them have 60 days, & some of them have no limit in the more remote ones, in the rougher ones.
59. SOME CAMPGROUNDS DON'T HAVE MUCH, BUT USUALLY THEY HAVE AT LEAST ONE TOILET & A FAUCET of running water where you can get your water at a campsite. Some of them have a picnic table, which is a help. And if you've got an awning you can throw out over the picnic table, that gives you another room, a dining room & sometimes a place to sleep.
60. I'VE SAID ALL OF THIS BEFORE! I have explained this all in great DETAIL before. You just need to go back & read the Letters on mobility, all about camping out--everything from backpacks to sleeping bags to tents, campers, trailers & whatnot.--Even the early Letters on tips for mobile road teams.
61. SO I THINK THE SAFEST THING FOR OUR FAMILY TO DO AS YOU GO BACK HOME IS TO GO MOBILE! You can get a little used trailer or a little second-hand camper for a fraction of the price it would cost you to rent a house on several months contract & to furnish it. Forget it! I'd say you could get a camper for no more than it's going to take you to rent a house on a contract & furnish it with thousands of Dollars' worth of equipment! The average rent on a large house back in the West is about a thousand Dollars a month or more, & then all the furniture expense as well!
62. MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE, IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN, GET A CAR & A TRAILER. Then you can park your family or families up in the mountains in the trailer while others run back & forth to town to do your business. (Maria: And to WITNESS.) Well, yes, of course!--That IS our business! That's what I'm talking about, your BUSINESS!--Witnessing, selling Posters & Tapes, etc.--And scrounging or provisioning, you could still do that.
GOING MOBILE--THE SAFEST WAY FOR HOMEGOERS!
63. SO IT WORKS! WE'VE DONE IT! WE KNOW IT! AND IT'S THE SAFEST WAY IN THE WORLD FOR YOU to go back to your home country.--Get housing that's MOBILE so that you can MOVE when you have to--& we usually DO have to! We don't ever last very long in any one location. But as long as there is still freedom in those Western countries, in those democracies, as long as there is still freedom of speech, press & religion, you can still go out & do it!--Just like we did before, before we left for the mission field!
64. SO WHEN THEY PERSECUTE YOU IN ONE CITY, THEN FLEE TO ANOTHER!--Mat.10:23. Just pick up & [go] like the Gypsies do, like the Jews used to do, & like the Rechabites did, if you've got mobility! That's your SAFEST way, I'd say--especially with the Antichrist & the Tribulation coming! That is the only way to live that is going to be safe at all. Then at least you can [GO] into the mountains & live with the rebels, which in the Western Christian countries will mostly be Christians.
65. AND IT WILL BE THE REAL CHRISTIANS WHO ARE WILLING TO RISK THEIR LIVES TO REFUSE THE MARK OF THE BEAST! Of all the people who may hate you & not like you NOW, they're going to be the ones who are going to need you the most THEN. They're not ALL going to accept you, but there are going to be those desperate enough then to want to know what's happening. "What happened? How did we misguess the situation? How come the Antichrist is here & the Lord hasn't come?"--And we'll be able to tell them--we'll have the exact time & the days & almost the dates! So praise the Lord! That's my advice!
66. WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO HOME TO YOUR HOME COUNTRIES, GO MOBILE! I think a good title for this would be, "Going Home?--Go Mobile!" (Maria: We just published a Letter about finding a house & having Church in the Home, etc. Now with THIS Letter we are giving them a CHOICE, to choose whatever situation they feel will work best for THEM, right?) Yes, of course. But for MOST, I think the BEST situation will be to be MOBILE.
CAMP-WITNESSING!
67. YOU CAN STILL WITNESS IN TRAILER PARKS, THEY HAVE A LOT OF CAMARADERIE, CAMPERS DO. I remember when I was a little boy out camping with a tent with our whole family, Mom, Dad & the three kids & a governess, six people, an average-size little family. At night my Dad would build a campfire out in front of our tent where we did our cooking. And then after our meal we would sit around on campstools or rocks or logs or whatever we could, & he'd play his guitar & sing, & we kids would sing. Just sing hymns & things like that.
68. AND BECAUSE THERE WAS NO OTHER ENTERTAINMENT in the whole campground or anything, quite a few people would gather around, you know, just to join in on the fellowship & the fun. There wasn't anything else going on.
69. SO I WOULD ADVISE ANY FAMILIES OR GROUPS THAT ARE AT ALL ABLE, TO GO MOBILE! If you're going home, go mobile!--And God bless & keep you & make you a blessing, in Jesus' name, amen!
70. P.S. START READING ALL OF THE MOBILE LETTERS ABOUT HOW WE WENT MOBILE IN THE EARLY '80s! (MLs in Vol.7, ML#s 812-1 to 25.) Start reading'm NOW so you'll be prepared! (Maria: What about the WINTER?) How do you think those EXPLORERS do? What do you think those hunters do? What do you think those scientists do?--Even down in Antarctica, the first thing they did down there when Admiral Richard Byrd went down there, all they had were TENTS & CAMPFIRES in Antarctica! The same with the explorers that explored the Arctic, all those that went to the NORTH POLE! All they had were tents & campfires!--Campfires to cook on & keep them warm, & only TENTS with SLEEPING BAGS to sleep in, & dog sleds to travel with!
71. WE'RE WELL OFF! WE CAN GO TO PREPARED CAMPGROUNDS! We can have campers & trailers or even tents & sleeping bags, backpacks. Compared to those explorers that went to the Arctic & Antarctica we'll be in LUXURY!
72. (MARIA: AND IN SOME PLACES, AT THE END OF THE WINTER they'll probably be able to find thrift stores where they can get ski suits & big snow pants & things that will outfit them for the NEXT Winter.)--Yes! All kinds of Winter clothing is sometimes dirt cheap in the thrift stores.
73. AND IF THINGS GET TOO TOUGH IN THE STATES OR IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY, OR WHEREVER IT IS, YOU CAN EVEN [MOVE] TO ANOTHER COUNTRY! There are oodles of places you can [go] to in Europe. There are oodles of even WARM countries along the Mediterranean. I wouldn't advise North Africa, it's too Muslim & they're getting more bitter against Christians all the time. But in North America, you can [move] to SOUTHERN states if you want to keep warm, or even into Mexico & Latin America! And you can DRIVE all the way to Mexico & Central America!
74. (MARIA: IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A HOME, or you can temporarily land with your parents, or your parents insist on giving you a house instead of a camper or whatever, you'll have to take what the Lord provides. And maybe some of your houses in the city can be the BASES for campers who on the weekend could come into town & stay with you who live in the city.) So if some of you want to establish BASE HOMES that the campers can come & stay in overnight or for the weekend, fine, whatever the Lord supplies, however the Lord leads! Some may be led to establish bases, & some may be led to get homes & even jobs.
75. BUT I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T SEND MY KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO! "Come OUT from among them & be ye SEPARATE! Touch not the unclean thing that ye be not partakers of her sins & judgements!"--2Cor.6:17; Rev.18:4. We've learned to educate our kids at home. And many States now allow home schooling. Many countries now allow home schooling. And if they don't, then you'd better get yourself some kind of MOBILITY & move. In places where they're more liberal & more free & allow more freedom & home schooling & don't make you put your kids in school, well, fine, you may be able to settle down more.
76. (MARIA: THEY COULD ESTABLISH LITTLE CHURCH IN THE HOME SITUATIONS, where they could have the meeting in the home when they come in on the weekend.) Yes, as you get converts & establish little Fellowships in the cities, or even in your trailer park.--Although it might be better to kind of keep your ministry SEPARATE from your RESIDENCE in some ways, if you can. But you can't always do that. So if the authorities get on to you, you can [move]!
77. IT'S ALL IN THE LETTERS ON GOING MOBILE! You just need to go back to those Letters & READ them, all kinds of good ideas & suggestions!--OK?--Tx! GBAKY!--AMYAB!--In Jesus' name, amen!
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