GIVE US OUR SONS!--And We'll Give You Our Cities!        DFO 918  6/6/80

         1. IT WASN'T A VERY LONG DREAM, in fact it was quite short, but very impressive & with a very serious message: There was a war on & there was an army advancing towards this small city & apparently sweeping everything in its path victoriously.
         2. The city's army was evidently losing the battle, with many of its soldiers casualties, wounded, dying & dead, & its army being gradually pushed backwards toward the city & destroyed by the advancing enemy. Whereupon the elders & leaders of the city, apparently seeing that they were losing the battle & their army & their sons, came out of the city under a white flag of truce of virtual surrender & called to the advancing enemy in a plea for peace, they cried out with a very loud voice--& that was the most impressive part of the whole dream:
         3. "Give us our sons & we'll give you our city! Give us our sons, our wounded, dying & dead, & we'll give you our city!" I thought, "How wise! If you're losing the battle as a city, as a nation, how wise to sue for peace before you are completely destroyed, both your armies, your cities & your sons!"
         4. HOW OPPOSITE IS THE ATTITUDE OF SUCH COUNTRIES TODAY AS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Their call, their message, their challenge today to their enemies would sound more like this: "Give us our cities & we'll give you our sons! We would rather sacrifice our children on the gory grisly bloody altar of the gods of war than to give up our own selfish living & our wealth & our wicked abominable sinful filthy cities!"
         5. So their enemies are taking them at their word & are continuing to slaughter their sons & will soon slaughter them & destroy their cities as well, so that they will lose everything rather than make peace & surrender!
         6. God cried out to Israel, to the city of Jerusalem & its Jews as it was losing its battle to its Babylonian enemies--God cried out to them through the mouth of His prophet Jeremiah: "Why will ye die? Take the yoke of the King of Babylon & live! O why will ye die, O Jerusalem!" (Jer.27)
         7. They offered up their sons to the enemy in battle to try to save their own necks & their city, but instead they lost it all because they refused to seek peace! They flatly refused to surrender or make peace or even do a simple thing like pay their taxes, pay tribute to the World Power of the day, the great dominating Babylonian Empire which ruled the World like another great Empire is beginning to rule the World today--Russia!
         8. The West would rather sacrifice their sons & their daughters & their children & their little ones to the horrors of the Hell of war that the U.S. is going to create because of their resistance & their stubbornness & their rebelliousness & their refusal to make peace, to co-exist, to continue dtente, & to live at peace with their enemies at the mere price of surrendering their stinking cities & sacrificing their rotten wealth rather than their immortal children!
         9. And the result is going to be that they are going to lose it ALL!: Sons & cities & wealth & children & everything to the destroying power which will not brook resistance because God has ordained it! They'd rather lose it all than to plead, "Give us our sons, our wounded, our dead, our dying, & you can have our cities!" What a sad thought!
         10. HOW FURIOUS GOD MUST BE AT SUCH SELFISHNESS & WICKEDNESS, AMERICA'S WILLINGNESS TO THROW AWAY HER SONS & her children & her daughters & their babies in a horrible holocaust of Hell on Earth of atomic warfare rather than yield her cities & share her wealth with the poor of the World!
         11. What is YOUR country crying today? What is YOUR attitude toward war? Considering the kind of war that threatens the World today, peace would be worth it at any price!--Certainly it would be worth suing for peace to save our children & our lives & our peace & security & some happiness, rather than to throw them all into the jaws of war, the atomic holocaust! How horrible!
         12. But like rich besieged Samaria of old (2Kg.6:25-29), who were starving rather than surrender, who drank their own piss & ate their own dung & devoured their own babies like cannibals before they'd give in, America today is crying, "Give us our cities & we'll give you our sons!" (See also 2Kg.18:27 & Is.36:12.)
         13. They have already massacred millions of their children through war & abortions, the slaughter of the innocents, to selfishly save themselves!--How much longer can God tolerate such a wicked, selfish, destructive nation upon the face of the Earth that it threatens to destroy!?
         14. "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, & THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES!"--Rev.18:4!