RULEBREAKERS BEWARE!     DO 2710          7/91--A WARNING to the WAYWARD to OBEY Family RULES!

(After hearing a report that Faithy had been sunbathing:)

         1. I want you to pass this rebuke on to Faithy, that I sharply rebuke her for deliberately disobeying the rules of the Family about sunbathing! Worst of all, it's a very bad example to the others--especially the Teens--that she's out there sunbathing in deliberate, direct defiance of Family rules that I have laid down about sunbathing! By sunbathing I don't just mean lying out on the "meat racks" for hours. I mean any exposure to the sun without proper clothing, which causes you to get sunburned or only tan.

         2. IT'S VERY DANGEROUS! Timothy Concerned just DIED of melanoma, cancer of the skin, due to too much sun! He & Rachel were great sun-worshippers too. (Maria: Some people think being tanned is sophisticated & "cool.") Well, it's very BAD for your skin; it dries it out & causes wrinkles. And the harmful ultraviolet rays can cause melanoma, which Timothy, Techi's flesh father, has just DIED of! When people get a bad cancer of the skin, it often goes inward & passes around through the rest of the body until it kills them. Tim's went to his brain & killed him! (See also WND 334, Pg.1: "Melanoma: The Darker Side of Suntans!")

         3. (MARIA: IN ADDITION TO THE HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS, sunbathing is such a vain & WORLDLY thing to do because it implies that you don't have anything ELSE to do but lie out there in the sun!--And if you should be trying to do some work while sunbathing, which is doubtful, the sun makes you so drowsy it's hard to concentrate & you feel like sleeping instead.) It makes you SICK & it makes you a dandy BAD example! It can hurt your health & even KILL you!

         4. I want you to tell Faithy that I'm absolutely shocked that she continues doing such a thing after I've forbidden her & the whole Family to sunbathe! Whatever they reap for doing it, they deserve.--Melanoma, cancer, even death! The Lord rebuke her, in Jesus' name, & may her overseers please rebuke her without hesitation! They should have really socked it to her & really scolded her for it & forbade her to do it!


TIMOTHY--LOST HIS CROWN!

         5. POOR TIMOTHY! LORD, I REALLY LOVED HIM, but I was really disappointed in him. He had one of the highest callings in the World, one of the greatest opportunities, to be one of the leaders of the Revolution, & he fluked out because he loved this present World!--2Tim.4:10. Lord bless & help & be merciful to Timothy, Lord. He made the wrong decision, but he was under a lot of strain & a lot of pressure. To have lost his crown would almost be punishment enough, to know what he missed & how he disappointed You & me, Lord.

         6. YOU'D THINK DEBORAH WOULD GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT considering all of the horrible things SHE did! At least Timothy never worked AGAINST us that I know of. Well, praise the Lord. Vindication comes slowly but surely. The Lord's going to put the pressure on all of our enemies. They're either going to repent or suffer the consequences. No telling what Michael Landon might have said against us. That type of hard, bitter, stubborn, wilful, Pharisaical, self-righteous person would have certainly condemned us. Well, he & Timothy both know better now.--And FAITHY is going to know better pretty soon too if she doesn't stop DISOBEYING & being a very BAD testimony! Those poor Teens are looking for a SAMPLE of the FAMILY STANDARD in their Shepherds, & we've heard reports that she has stumbled quite a few, through not only her sunbathing, but also her other disobediences.


CANCELLATION OF PRIVILEGES!

         7. DOES SHE THINK SHE CAN GET AWAY WITH DISOBEDIENCE? I'm going to punish her! I'm going to cancel her little monthly allowance. I still love her, but I want to show her that I DON'T like her lack of love for ME, & lack of RESPECT! Defiance & disobedience shows lack of respect & lack of love! It's terrible! To be all dark & tan like that is a bad example to the others, especially the Teens who she's supposed to be an EXAMPLE to.

         8. THAT'S ALL I CAN DO, THE LEADERS THERE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING MORE TO FAITHY. What are they going to do? I'd say they need to cancel her privileges. Cancel her authority & her position as a leader & teacher of the Teens for at least a week or two. Withdraw her privileges of teaching the Teens.--And let them know WHY & who did it! What do they call it in school?--SUSPEND her for violating the rules! She's got to know that there's got to be RETRIBUTION, there's going to be PUNISHMENT for her disobedience!

         9. I'm just furious that she has done such a thing! It shows her contempt for me, her father, & for the Family, the rules, the Teens, her leadership, everything! She's got to suffer for it, I mean it! Tell them to deliver some kind of punishment to her, & the first thing I'd say they should do is take away her job until she confesses & repents openly to all those who know about her disobedience & have seen how dark & sun-tanned she is in obvious violation to my rules on sunbathing! She needs to confess especially to the Lord & to me & her superiors, & the Teens to whom she's supposed to be an example. She cannot teach them any more until she does that!

         10. I'M JUST FURIOUS THAT SHE WOULD BLATANTLY, OPENLY DEFY FAMILY RULES & MY ORDERS! I've scolded her for getting too much sun before & I FORBADE her to do any more sunbathing! I rebuked both her & Abi for it & told them to stop it! (Maria: And it's on the record, in a published Letter!--ML#1827, "You Must Obey the Least of These Commandments.") Those kids must be totally confused by her sample! She preaches obedience & then practices disobedience! She preaches about following me closely & she practices doing her own thing! What kind of sample is that? How can they believe what she preaches & teaches when they're staring at her brown suntan face, knowing that she's defied my words?

         11. I'm sorry, Faithy, but you deserve it, you really deserve it! You deserve worse! We're being very lenient & merciful not to do more. We could absolutely exile you & cut you off, excommunicate you for deliberately, defiantly, publicly breaking Family rules! And the next time you do it we are going to excommunicate you, period! So don't ever do such a thing again. The next time you wilfully, deliberately, publicly, rebelliously, defiantly disobey Family rules & my laws & my orders to you personally, you're fired!--Excommunicated! Those Family rules are to be obeyed by all--regardless of who you are. You can go back & join Deborah & all the rest of the backsliders & be a horrible dandy bad example!

         12. I WILL NOT PUT UP WITH IT! I will not tolerate her DELIBERATE disobedience! We're going to CUT OFF HER ALLOWANCE & immediately SUSPEND HER FROM HER JOB until she fervently & publicly confesses & repents of her defiant disobedience. And NEXT time she does it, she's OUT! It's a wilful, defiant disobedience of her father & Family rules! I want you to let the Family there know how SERIOUS I consider this.

         13. (MARIA: IT SHOWS THAT TRYING TO GET A TAN IS ALMOST AN ADDICTION! They get out in the hot weather on a beach & they just almost can't resist the sun! It's VANITY, of course, because people who sunbathe are concerned about how they LOOK & if they are dark enough.) Well, I thought she looked TERRIBLE when she & Abi came to visit us that time. (Maria: In the System, being tanned is considered a "cool" way to look!) Well, I thought she looked AWFUL!

         14. TO ME, A DARK SUNTAN LIKE THAT IS UGLY!--Of course, not if it's NATURAL, not for people who are NATURALLY dark-skinned. But to go out there & lie in the sun for hours just to get tanned & blackened & burnt is a CRIME in the Family! It is a CRIME according to Family law!

         15. I've heard other things about Faithy--her drinking & everything else--but she's also gotten some real good victories, thank the Lord. But she hasn't gotten the victory over that God-damned addiction to the sun! That's almost worse!

         16. SO THAT'S IT! Suspend her from her teaching job & completely cut off that allowance we were giving her until she really repents with strong crying & tears & asks the Family to forgive her for disobeying the rules. If she does that, she can have her JOB back, but NOT her allowance. She's going to have to pay SOME penalty that will remind her constantly of what she did. She'll just have to get her personal needs from the Home just like everyone else. (Maria: She doesn't need the allowance anyway. All her needs should be taken care of just like everybody else!) Well, it was just sort of an honorarium, but she doesn't deserve that honour any more, no more!

         17. (Maria: Faithy has been doing much better in many ways. She's made a lot of progress & she's been a good girl most of the time.) She'd better do better yet! She just can't be better, she's going to have to be good!


A Warning to Ho!

         18. And I want to warn you, Ho, that if I hear of any gross disobediences of Family rules & laws & wanderings from the way, I'll cut off your allowance too! And if it's very serious, a very poor example & a real forsaking of me & the Family & the Lord, I'll cut you off completely. So be warned!

         19. WE WON'T TOLERATE ANY MORE SPEAKING AGAINST FAMILY LEADERSHIP & CAUSING DIVISION. That's one of the deadly sins that the Lord hates!--Pro.6:16-19. You'd better not do it again or you're going to get it from me too! Stop speaking against Family leaders, Ho, & complaining against your treatment or whatever! We've been extremely GOOD to you & MERCIFUL to you, to let you have your farm back & your own job again--AND your WS gift! But if I hear of any more complaints about you that are serious enough, I'm going to REBUKE you for them & WARN you that if you don't stop it, you're going to be FIRED & EXCOMMUNICATED!


PRAYER FOR CHILDREN IN BARCELONA!

         20. GOD DAMN THY ENEMIES, LORD, IN JESUS' NAME! Punish them & judge them according to their works.--And judge those wicked officials in Barcelona that have held our children captive for so long & tried to pervert them. DELIVER Thy children, Lord! If You love them & they love You, DELIVER them, in Jesus' name! You've punished their parents long enough for their sins & failures. I think it's time. It seems like it to us, at least, that it's time to DELIVER them, as You've delivered our other children, Lord! REBUKE our enemies, Lord, in Jesus' name! DELIVER us from them! Rebuke them & give them what they deserve!


MORE ON FAITHY

         21. AND REBUKE OUR OWN CHILDREN WHO DISOBEY, Lord, & give THEM what THEY deserve! (Maria: I think she'll be very repentant, God bless her.) I just don't understand how she could have ever done anything like that, to be so absolutely, deliberately disobedient to Family rules & my own personal orders! I just don't see how she could have done it when I personally FORBADE her to sunbathe any more!

         22. I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S ONLY BEEN SUNBATHING FOR JUST FIVE MINUTES UNCOVERED, it's against the rules & it's too long! And all of this holds effective no matter what! I wouldn't even put it past her to try to get some suntanning in while doing things outdoors that need to be done, like lifeguarding at that pool. I'll bet when she's lifeguarding she doesn't wear proper clothing & a hat. How could she do such a thing & think she could get away with it?

         23. I WANT HER TO WRITE ME PERSONALLY A VERY REPENTANT CONFESSION & plea for mercy before I'll forgive her! I love you, Honey, but if I catch you out sunbathing I'm going to sock it to you!--Or any member of our personal staff & Family. I mean it! I'm very much AGAINST suntans & sunbathing. It's very dangerous & harmful, & worst of all, it's against the rules of the Family & MY rules & GOD'S rules! TYJ! PYL!

         24. Knowing how I hate that & that I have personally warned you not to, I'm absolutely furious that you would have gone ahead & deliberately done it! Getting too much sun is an absolute forbidden no-no in the Family! It's dangerous, it's against our rules & it's in defiance of me & God both! Anyone who defiantly, deliberately, rebelliously disobeys any Family rules is going to get a serious reprimand! You've been reprimanded many times, but you still insist & persist on disobeying!--And that's defiance & rebellion & we can't put up with that! And if anyone persists in disobedience of Family rules, they're to be suspended from their job, fired, & excommunicated! Now is that severe enough?

         25. I DON'T WANT GOD'S BODY, GOD'S PROPERTY, LYING OUT THERE being destroyed by the ultraviolet rays of the sun & their own disobedience! The Lord promises "the sun shall not smite us by day" (Psa.121:6), but that's only if we do our part. Timothy, who deserted us & his own daughter & the Family & went back to the World, undoubtedly sunbathed too much & got MELANOMA, & is now DEAD because of disobedience, his forsaking the Lord's Work & his king & his queen & even his own daughter! Pitiful, pitiful! Oh, the fate of these backsliders is so PITIFUL! "The way of the transgressor is HARD!"--Pro.13:15.

         26. May this be a warning to the errant & those who are tempted to backslide! Here are two cases: One who went ahead & backslid & the Lord killed him, & one who is in the process of backsliding if she doesn't repent! Amen?


"WHO ARE MY MOTHER & BRETHREN?"

         27. I THINK THIS WHOLE TALK WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE FAMILY, to show that I spare not my own children if they're disobedient. As Jesus said, "Who is My mother? Who are My brethren?--They that DO the WILL of My Father."--Mat. 12:46-50. Who are those that really LOVE me?--Those who OBEY me & BELIEVE in me & do God's Will.--These love, honour & obey me, thank You Lord! Lord bless these who most of all do Thy Will & honour Thy little father, respect & obey him, in Jesus' name, amen.

         28. Just think, they told Jesus, "Your mother & Your brethren want to see You!" And He said, "Who is My mother? Who are My brethren?--These who do the Will of My Father." In other words, He gave His mother & brethren no special place or no special preference. Just those who really loved Him & followed Him & had faith in Him, they were His brethren. TYJ!--In Jesus' name, amen.

         29. THIS SHOULD ENCOURAGE ALL THOSE WHO LOVE & OBEY ME, that "flesh & blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, but only they that do the Will of My Father which is in Heaven."--1Cor.6:9; 15:50; Mat.12:46-50. That is SO true. NOT those that are born of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of Man, but he that is born of the Spirit of GOD, these are they who inherit the Kingdom of God! TYJ!

         30. (GBY Sweetheart, I'm sorry I had to scold you, but you deserve it.--But remember, I love you, "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth!" You've stuck with me through thick & thin! You've always pulled through, & I trust the Lord will help you to again. You can be just as much a daughter of the Spirit as anyone else, if you obey. ILYAPFY!--Love, Dad)
         (Please understand, dear Family, that we're not saying that you can never enjoy a moderate amount of sunshine when swimming or gardening or taking a summer stroll, etc. The thing that Dad was so upset with Faithy about in this Letter is her purposely trying to get a tan, in direct defiance of Family policy & correction given personally to her years ago. So of course, you should try to avoid the harmful rays of the sun when possible, & certainly don't sunbathe or purposely expose yourself or your children to hot summer sunlight for extended periods of time. But please don't go to the opposite extreme either & forbid all swimming or outdoor activities just because the sun is shining! "Let your moderation be known unto all men!"--Phil.4:5.) (--Amen.--D.)


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