HEAVENLY AIRWAVES Year 001 Issue 001
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God’s Only Law is Love! …………………………………….
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Get Out!
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Why Will Ye Die?
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The wonderful thing about witnessing is that it's not just a special activity for special people at special times, but it should be the normal activity of all Christians all of the time! - In the same way that someone talked to you about Jesus and led you to the Lord, you can do the same for others! "Go ye into all the World and preach the Gospel to every creature" ("Mark 16:15) is not an option!--It's a commandment to all true Christians! If we boldly confess Him and His name before others, Jesus promised He would then confess us before our Father in Heaven!--Matthew 10:32. So we must tell others how much He loves them too, and try to persuade them to ask Jesus into their hearts! That's the most wonderful, thrilling , satisfying experience you can ever have!-To find the love of Jesus and pass it on to your children, your parents, your loved ones, your relatives, your neighbors, your business associates, your friends, and even to strangers! Souls, not diamonds, are forever! Soul-winning has the biggest payoffs and the highest profits of any business in the World!--Eternal dividends' Eternal profits! Souls are the most valuable merchandise in the World! Even if you never accomplished anything else but won one soul for the Lord, you'd be so thankful when you see that soul in Heaven with you forever, that you'd be jumping up and down for joy, and feel that it was worth it all! And they'll be thankful to you for all Eternity that you told them about Jesus' love and won them to the Lord! So here are some soul-winning tips to help you in your witnessing for the Lord! God bless you! Happy witnessing!
THE FOUR STEPS OF WITNESSING!
1. Ask Questions!- Show them you are interested in them. If you understand them, you are much better able to witness to them and know what they need the most .-- How are you going to find out who the guy is, what he is, what he does, what his religion is, or anything about him at all unless you ask questions? You are a soul doctor and it's your business to gently probe and then listen to your patient so that you find out what his problems are!
2. Listen to the Answers!--Even if it takes an hour or all night! the first and most important thing is to show them that you love them! -And you can do this by showing concern and interest in them and being willing to listen! A lot of Christians talk too much! Whereas all some people need is for somebody to listen, somebody to talk to, somebody to pour their lonely hearts out to! So that's half the job of being a witness, to listen!
3. Give God's Answers!--Let them do most of the talking until finally something is said that pulls the trigger that opens the door for you to witness and give them God's answers to their problems.-The main one which, of course, is accepting the Lord! You sort of circle like a boxer, looking for their weak spot, not to hit or hurt them, but to find out where their need is, the real soft spot in their heart, where you can really touch them and reach them and pour on the balm of love and the oil of the Spirit to heal them!
4. Get a Decision! --No matter how good or poor your witness was, you can ask them to receive Jesus as their Saviour. Whether you think it's the best time or not, "be instant in season and out of season", (2 Timothy 4:2) Sometimes you've got to take a chance' "I may never see this guy again, so I'd better pop the question, 'Do you want to receive Jesus, or not?"--And you'll always get an answer-- either 'yes' or 'no' or 'maybe later' (and that's usually the same as a no). But always ask them! Always get a decision!
Here is a simple little formula: one of the simplest ways to do it is to say:
Try to stay away free controversial issues that you know they're going to disagree with! Preach love! If you preach hell-fire and damnation, it’s not going to appeal to people very much! It's better to tell them how wonderful it is to be a Christian, and what a wonderful Heavenly future they have to look forward to, ruling and reigning with Jesus! You have to have something to tell people that they'll want to do!
Give them your 0wn personal testimony! If they won't believe that, they won't believe anything! life stories are more effective in witnessing than theological arguments, and preaching sermons! When you start telling your life story, instantly you have their attention! They're fascinated! People are interested in people!
The moment they confess that it's possible for it to happen to you, then they have to confess it's possible for it to happen to others, which means it could happen to them! As soon as they admit that possibility, then a spark of faith, a little mustard seed of faith has been born!
Our job is to witness and show them the Word! Just give them the answers in the Scriptures, and if they don't accept the Word and the tug of the Holy Spirit at their heart with the Truth, they won't accept anything! We talk about winning souls, but we don't win them really, It's Jesus Who really does it! All we do is witness! What they do with our witness is up to them!
Keep it simple! Giving just a few verses to someone is better than giving a lot! In fact, it's best to harp on one verse until it just burns itself into their mind! -Then they've got it! Like the old lady and the priest in the hospital:
He couldn't get rid of it! Finally, he realized that he didn't have to work his way to Heaven! As a result, he was finally saved and began to preach the Gospel! So there's tremendous power in the Word! Yo must pin their faith in the Word, because "faith cometh by hearing the Word of God"! (Romans 10:17)
The Word of God is "quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword! (Hebrews 4:12) No one can hear the Word without being affected in some way! The lord says, "My Word shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it !"- Isaiah 55:11.
You remember about 80% of what you see, but only about 40% of what you hear! So if you get them to read it out of the Bible themselves, they're twice as likely to remember it than if you just quote the Scripture to them! Besides that, it takes you out of the way as a target for their objection, and then they're going to have to argue with God, because they're reading it right straight from His Word, the Bible!
Besides that, it takes you out of the way as a target for their objection, and then they’re going to have to argue with God, because they’re reading it right straight from His Word, the Bible!
It 's important to be able to quickly find the verses that you want to show people when you're witnessing. If you don't have the key witnessing verses memorized, you can always use book markers, and have each one ready so that you can flip to the verse you want to Show them! It also helps to witness with your Bible upside down! Because if you have to turn the Bible around and start hunting for something, then they're going to start looking at the top of your head and start thinking about all the other things they ought to be doing instead of listening to you! So you’ve really got to keep them busy!
Like the cowboys in the U.S. say: ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!’ That's true of people too! You can lead them to the Truth, but you can't make them drink it! If they don't want it, you can't drink it for them! You can't make the decision for them! That's up to them. If they accept it, then the Lord gives them Salvation! If they reject it, He gives them Damnation! Your job is done whichever way they respond! Once you know they've heard the Truth you don't have to try to keep convincing them! The Holy Spirit is the Only One who can convince anybody. You obeyed God and did His Will and fulfilled your obligation to preach the Gospel! (Mark 16:15) You delivered your soul, so the blood of those who rejected you and wouldn't listen will not be on your hands! (Ezekiel 3:17-19) So don't worry! You can't win’m all! -But those you do are worth it all!
And if, after all your witnessing, they still claim to not believe in God, you can sometimes try this:
And if they really want to genuinely know if there is a God, then of course He will answer them! God's Word says that if they seek Him, they'll find Him! (Jeremiah 29:13) I've tried this many times, and believe it can help some people, and I've known God to do some miraculous, supernatural things to convince them!
If the person thinks he has already accepted Jesus, but he doesn't know for sure, then you can say, "Well, just to make sure why don't we pray right now?' And then let them follow you in a little prayer; -'"Dear Jesus, please come into my heart for sure, so that I'll know you're in my life! Forgive me for my sins. Help me to be good and to love and help others", and so on. "Make it so simple that a little child could understand. Jesus said, 'I came not to save the righteous' - those who claim to be so good, so beautiful, so churchy, when really they're rotten inside--"but to save the hungry, the empty, the sinners� who know they need help and are thankful for it ! (Mark 2:17)
So help us, Lord, just to try to find the little lost sheep, the hungry ones. Help us to do our best for them and not fail them in any way.--So that You can say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord'" (Matthew 25:21) We count it a privilege, Lord, that you've called us to be ambassadors for Thee! It's an honour and we thank You for it! Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord! God bless and keep you witnessing for Jesus! What a wonderful, marvellous ministry! What an eternal investment that will pay everlasting dividends in Heaven, souls forever and ever!--¡ Great is your reward in Heaven" (Matthew 5:12) You'll never be sorry, you'll always be glad throughout all Eternity that you were faithful to win others to Him! - Happy witnessing!
Courtesy of the Book TREASURES Edited by theaudiokey.com - January 2020
Daily Might 1 - January 2
God's only law is love!
The laws of Moses were too difficult to keep and couldn't save us! -It's the liberating law of love that gives life -- not the enslaving "letter of the law that killeth." -- This is why Jesus had to come with the love and the mercy and the grace and forgiveness of God which we could accept freely without any works or any law except love! Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to love -- to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ... and the second is like unto it," it's almost equal -- almost the same, "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." -- "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this: thou shalt love." -- "No greater love hath any man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends!" This is love, real love, true love ... supernatural Love, divine Love, God's Love, more than human! -- Against this pure Love, the unselfish sacrificial Love of God and your fellow man, there is no law! Are you so ruled by His Love that He can liberate you from the rules? The answer is up to you!
ML 805 - Compilation.
We have some people in the Family who have actually developed asthma, tuberculosis and other lung diseases because of their over-devotion to their daily work and their failure to take proper daily exercise in the sunshine and fresh air. They will probably protest that they are too tired and haven´t got energy enough to get out for a daily walk. But that´s why they are tired! It will probably be hard for them at first because they are not used to it, but I can almost guarantee that exercising is the cure!
You have got to set aside a certain time every day to get out, an hour or two every day of fresh air and vigorous exercise and sunshine if possible. I just insist that our whole local Family stop and get out at least once a day, for an hour or two -- vigorous walks, swim and play ball with the kids and whatever, to get some good healthful fresh air and sunshine and exercise. Your body was built for vigorous activity!
You secretaries and typists and mail experts and bookkeepers and artists and printers and layout men just must realize you cannot hover over a desk scrunched up, bent nearly double over your work all day long and half the night, and nearly every day of the week, and think you are going to get away with it! You just are not! Sooner or later you’re going to come down with a cough, asthma, bronchial trouble, spitting up blood, tuberculosis, you name it! You just are not going to get away with abusing your bodies like that! (1Co.3:16,17; 6:19)
There’s no excuse for it,just no excuse for it! If you obey God’s laws and rules and my advice, you will stay in good health, just like Maria and I do, but you’ve gotta do it. You’ve just gotta get out every day whether you like it or not, whether you want to or not. -- Just stop and get out!
If you want to be any good to the Lord, you’d better stay healthy! The recipe is the same as it always was: Good rest, good exercise, good food and good living. If you violate these rules, then you’re going to have bad health and bad living and quick dying!
You don’t even necessarily have to have direct sunlight to stay healthy; too much direct sunlight is not even good for you. But you guys hovering over a desk working by electric light 50-60 cycles going off and on that many times a second - don´t notice the effect on your eyes, but it does affect them, and no matter how good the electric light is, it is not daylight. You’re far better off working near a window and daylight if you can.
You guys have got to realize that you are not your own: You’ve bought with a price (1Co.6:19,20), and you can’t do as you please! You just can’t sit around doing the work you love to do all day and all night and all week long, and never get out! You cannot abuse your body like that and not get any exercise or any fresh air or any vigorous regular activity to exercise your muscles and heart and circulate your blood and flush out your lungs and your bloodstream and keep all your bodily functions in repair.
And if you can possibly walk where there are woods or trees or grass --plants that God made to give off oxygen in the daytime -- you’ll get nice pure fresh air, full of oxygen! Of course, if you live in the heart of a stinking city you don´t have much chance, but even the New Yorkers survive by all that running around they do in the subways and some air! But you have to do it every day, every day, every day, regularly, and live regularly, and have good diet, good exercise, good hard work, good rest, good elimination lots of liquids and water to keep the juices flowing, and keep going for God! Praise the Lord? Get out for God! -- Or get in your grave! -- Which’ll it be for you? -Get out! Edited by theaudiokey.com - 2020
WHY WILL YE DIE? Better Russians or Dead? The Message of Jeremiah for Today 2020! ML 911 - 21 April 1980 --By Father David AS ALWAYS, THE EUROPEANS ARE SMARTER THAN THE AMERICANS, they know they can't win, they know Russia's got the arms. America & Europe together haven't got the arms, the power to do it, they haven't got the will nor the spirit to do it, because God is not going to give it to them because they're guilty. They can't feel just & righteous in such a cause because they're just as guilty if not more guilty than Russia. Apparently right now GOD CONSIDERS RUSSIA LESS GUILTY & MORE RIGHTEOUS IN MANY WAYS THAN AMERICA & the West, so He's letting Russia win... IT'S PRETTY CLEAR ALREADY TO MOST OF THE WORLD, & CERTAINLY THE THIRD WORLD & TO EUROPE, WHO'S WINNING! (N.of the E.- Even now 40 years later!) Even America's beginning to be afraid that maybe they're not going to keep on always winning.--They just lost one war! I was thinking this morning, "Blessed are the dead!"‌ just from the common sense standpoint! THE ADVICE THE LORD & HIS PROPHET JEREMIAH GAVE THE JERUSALEMITES WHEN THE ENEMY WAS OBVIOUSLY WINNING & when they couldn't possibly win, it was an impossibility, was to surrender! Well, in the first place, the smartest thing they could have done was not to rebel against the power. That's what caused them all the trouble, that's why the Babylonians were down there looking for them & besieging the cities, because they had flatly refused to pay tribute & refused to obey the World power which God permitted to rule the World & keep some decency & order. ... Let's face it, in every war, that's the only decision you've got. Let's say you're in a duel, let's say you & your adversary have got your guns, both pointed at each other. You're holding a gun on each other deciding what you should do now. "We've both got our guns on each other. He's going to pull the trigger, & just from natural reaction if I pull the trigger I'm going to get killed! But if I don't pull the trigger then maybe he'll kill me." That's one way to look at it. But there's one almost positive way to survive. Is that to pull the trigger or not pull the trigger?
THERE'S ONE MORE OPTION: YOU CAN DROP YOUR GUN! The other guy will then get his way & you may become his servant & have to do what he says & cough up your money & other valuables, but he has no further reason to kill you because he has no further fear of you because you have surrendered. So why should he kill you when he can use you? I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE RUSSIANS WANT TO WIPE OUT THE CITIES OF EUROPE & AMERICA. They'd be absolute idiots, fools to want to! Why, they'd like to have those cities & those populations. Nobody in his right mind would want to actually totally contaminate the World! What's the use of running the World, what's the use of dominating the World if it's become nothing but a cesspool & a radioactive contaminated wasteland! Who wants to rule that? THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE PEOPLE TO RULE OVER & the cities & the wealth & the industry. Just look at it from the plain selfish practical standpoint if you were to put yourself in Russian shoes:‌in plain common sense selfishness, you don't really want to destroy the World, especially when you're probably going to get destroyed too! SO THE SMARTEST THING A COUNTRY CAN DO WOULD BE TO DO WHAT?--IF IT WANTS TO LIVE, IS TO SURRENDER, OF COURSE! As sure as shootin', as they say in the West, as sure as shootin', whether you pull the trigger first or he does, you're going to die! As the Lord said to Jerusalem, "Why will ye die, O Jerusalem." What do you want to die for? "Get out!" He said, "Or surrender!"--One or the other, & live! As the old saying goes that the Americans hate, "Better Russian than dead!" Well now, that depends on how much you hate being with the Russians & what kind of conviction you've got against it or what's your objection. THE WHOLE AMERICAN ATTITUDE IS THAT "I'D RATHER BE DEAD THAN RUUSSIAN!" Like the good old song, "No, no, a thousand times no!--I'd rather die than say yes!" Now if that's what you prefer, go ahead & die then! "Blessed are the dead!" It's in the Bible: "Blessed are the dead." (Rev.14:13.) The time is coming when it'll be more blessed to be dead than alive, when you think of the holocaust, the horrors of that atomic warfare, atomic bombs & the fallout & radioactive contamination, & know it's one way or the other you're going to get it, if it ever starts! ONE OF THE SMARTEST THINGS YOU CAN DO, if you really prefer to live, even if you have to live under a regime that you don't like--which nearly
all Christians during all ages have had to do--is to surrender! I don't think they ever liked any of the regimes. They were always persecuted, they were always in the minority. They were always mistreated, they were always oppressed. The true Christians were never truly in World power, they never will be until the Lord comes. SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE, WHETHER WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE AMERICANS & THE CAPITALISTS OR WE'RE PERSECUTED BY THE RUSSIANS …?--We're still persecuted one way or the other. "Well," they say, "it's going to be worse in Russia & so & so & so & so!" Well, I don't think it'll be worse in Russia alive necessarily, in some ways at least, than it would be in America dead from an atom war! On the other hand, maybe that's better: "Blessed are the dead!" … She (Europe) fought two World Wars to protect America. You know, we don't read the same kind of history in the States: We fought & died for dear Europe!--So we say! WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WAS DEAR EUROPE FOUGHT & DIED FOR US & saved our skins, & we knew it, & that's why we did everything we could to keep the war over in Europe, so it wouldn't get to the U.S. ... Well, now we've got the kind or wars they can't contain in Europe, but they're still trying: The more warheads they can keep in Europe, the more they're going to be shooting at Europe instead of America! The smartest thing Europe could have done is what I told them to do almost 10 years ago in "The Meek" (No.205): KICK OUT THOSE NUCLEAR BASES & THOSE ATOM BOMB BASES & MISSILES & GET RID OF THEM!--Because if you don't have any, they are not going to be shooting at you! What's the use of wasting your ammunition on somebody that hasn't even got a gun?--Huh? The Europeans are smart in some ways--politically, diplomatically, I think they far surpass the Americans--but for some reason or another, I guess because of that American pressure & money & all the rest, THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST TO STILL HOLD UP THE WHORE (USA) BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID IF THEY JUST COMPLETELY BACK OUT & refuse to support America anymore, then the Russians will take over, which of course they're going to do anyway, shootout or no shootout! So, which is better?--To go ahead & have the shootout & leave 2/3 of the World dead & the other 1/3 dying, or to surrender, like the Lord advised Jeremiah to counsel the people, to take their punishment that they deserved?
READ THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, IT'S ALL THERE: "Now you've sinned against Me. Now you've got to be punished. What do you want? I'll give you a choice." That's what the Lord literally said to the Israelites. That's what God's saying to the World today: "OK, you've all sinned against Me & I'm going to punish you. I'll give you a choice: What kind of punishment do you want? Annihilation, hell on Earth, or surrender to the power that I have put in charge of the World, & to be its slaves & take your punishment & live? Which do you prefer?--Russians, or dead?" That's the only choice they've got, because that's God's Will! THE BIBLE SAYS, BEFORE YOU GO TO WAR YOU'D BETTER SIT DOWN & FIGURE OUT & COUNT THE COST if you've got what it takes to win it; otherwise, you'd better send emissaries of peace & sue for peace, in other words, surrender, make peace. Now that's what Europe's been going for the last several years: They see they can't win. They couldn't possibly win any kind of war no matter what, because Europe will be gone within the first few days.--And maybe America too! EVEN IF IT'S A CONVENTIONAL WAR, IT'S ALL THE MORE SURE THAT EUROPE WILL BE GONE. The Allies, NATO, America, they haven't begun to have enough force in Europe to keep the Russians from rolling right in & taking the whole thing over within the first few days just with tanks & plain ordinary guns, planes & bombs!--Even if they never use one nuclear tactical weapon of any kind!--And they know that. LIKE SCHMIDT OF GERMANY SAID, "I CAN'T HELP BUT REMEMBER THAT MY HOME WHERE I'M LIVING IS ONLY 30 MILES FROM ALL THOSE RUSSIAN TANKS!" How's he going to keep them out? He isn't, it's impossible! Europe will fall within the first few days. There's nothing in this World that America or Europe can do to prevent it. It's just a matter of plain simple logistics, & the Europeans know it. And some smart people are thinking, "WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT BEING WITH RUSSIA? Maybe it's better to be with the Russians than dead!" But I'm sure there are quite a few Americans who would rather be dead, & that's what it looks like, & they're about to pull the trigger.--And they're going to be dead! Well, every man to his own taste, his own choice. They've that much pride! Pride is what has caused most wars, fomented them, started them & fought them & ended them!--Pride, just plain damn pride! There're some people who would rather die than surrender!
BUT GOD IS GIVING A CHOICE TO THE WORLD: He told me that the message for the World today was the Message of Jeremiah. He just as good as said to the people of that day through Jeremiah, "You've sinned against Me & now I'm going to punish you. I'm going to bring down upon you the heathen & your enemies & they're going to win. Now which way would you rather they'd win?" He said, "If you fight & resist them, 1/3 of you will be destroyed by fire, 1/3 by the sword & pestilence & 1/3 of you will go into complete slavery, chains!" BEFORE THEY HAD HAD A CHOICE: If they had yielded & honoured the king of Babylon & paid their duties & taxes & the tribute which he demanded, his armies never would have come a thousand miles across the desert to put down their rebellion! They could have remained on their own, more or less. But it just hurt their Jewish pride to be paying tribute to a foreign power! IT HURT THEIR PRIDE THAT THEY WEREN'T RULING THE WORLD & BABYLON WAS! So they simply refused to pay!--And boy!--Did they pay! They paid, they lost everything! Even at the last minute God still gave them a chance so they wouldn't have to pay such a heavy price: He said, "Even though they are now surrounding your walls out here, if you'll surrender & take the yoke of the king of Babylon upon your necks & be his servants, you can still live." He probably would have left them right there if they would've surrendered. BUT NO, THEY WERE STUBBORN JEWS, typical, just as Ezekiel said of them! The Lord was the One speaking through all those prophets: He said they were a stiff-necked & rebellious people! He told Ezekiel to go speak to them, but He said, "The House of Israel are a hardhearted people, a stiff-necked & a rebellious people, & they will not hear you. They won't listen. It doesn't matter how much you tell them, they'll die, they'd rather die first"!--Pride! (Eze.3:4-7.) THAT'S THE WAY THE ISRAELIS ARE RIGHT NOW: THEY'D RATHER TAKE THE WORLD DOWN WITH THEM THAN GIVE UP! So the Lord gave them a choice: He said, "Well, if you will surrender even now with our armies outside your walls (& it's obvious that you're losing, you can't win), you can still save your lives. Take the yoke of the king of Babylon & live! O why will ye die, O Jerusalem?" That's the stupid idiotic insane thing about America & even Western Europe now! You look at television. You see all this stuff about atom bombs & everything‌
YOU SEE HOW IT'LL BE A MIRACLE IF ANYBODY SURVIVES! BUT SOME PEOPLE WILL, THANK GOD! I guess the Lord wants to make sure somebody's here when He finally comes! There are going to be some anyway, even some of us. Although I would say, "Blessed are the dead!" I think you almost have to have a special calling to survive what's coming, like you'd have to have a special calling to stay in America when you know it's sinking. … THE SMARTEST THING THEY COULD DO IS DUMP ALL THOSE MISSILES & kick out all those atomic submarines & strip themselves of all those atomic weapons & say, "Look, we're not going to shoot you: We don't even have any anymore!--So why shoot us? We may keep a few little conventional weapons to try to keep the populace in control, but we're not going to shoot any atom bombs at you, so leave us alone!" What would be the point of shooting atom bombs over there at Britain & destroying the whole place & making it absolutely a useless atomic wasteland, if the Russians could save it for their own use? ...Why the hell would they want to blow up the place?--Right? It's the stupid idiots that are trying to please the Americans by having all those atom bombs there that are crazy! I warned them then when I was there, in "Blessed Are the Meek" & "The Rape of England" (Nos. 205 & 204). THE SMARTEST THING THESE COUNTRIES CAN DO IS LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS & SAY "WE SURRENDER!"--When they see they can't win! Europe is saying that with its mouth & talking, but letting the U.S. slip in arms under the table; in the last months they didn't even put them under the table, they shoved them right across the table in plain view!…You read the story about Israel's last days, they were besieged by the Babylonians: The Babylonians begged them not to fight & die, but to live! EVEN THEIR ENEMY SAID, "WHY DO YOU WANT TO GET DESTROYED?--YOU CAN'T WIN! And if you don't surrender, we're going to destroy you!" So what did they do? Did they surrender & live & preserve their city & their beautiful temple & their culture & their religion & stay a subject people, a conquered, surrendered people, but in their own city & their own country? What did they do? They were just as stupid as America is today, that's exactly what the Lord told me!: He said, "THE MESSAGE FOR AMERICA TODAY IS THE MESSAGE OF JEREMIAH!: 'WHY WILL YE DIE, O JERUSALEM? Submit your necks to the yoke of the king of Babylon & live!'" (Jer.27:13,17.) But
did they? Well, a few of the poor headed for the hinterland & headed for the hills & ran out into the country & hid in the bushes & the forest, & nobody bothered them! In fact, after the conquering armies of Babylon took over, they released Jeremiah from jail & paid him a good sum of money & said, "We'll take you anywhere you want to go!" (Jer.39:12 & 40:4 & 5.) THEY REDISTRIBUTED THE WEALTH & THE LAND TO ALL THE POOR they had left! They weren't fighting them, so they took care of them! But those city people who decided they were going to fight & die, did!--Two-thirds of them were slaughtered, slaughtered by the sword, by fire & by pestilence! And the other third were taken as slaves in chains to Babylon where they were slaves for 70 years.--And their city was totally destroyed & their temple demolished & even the walls were torn down! So what good did it do them? THE LORD GAVE THEM A CHOICE OF PUNISHMENTS, JUST LIKE HE DOES US SOMETIMES.--Just like He did King David once when David did something to displease the Lord. He said, "OK, now what do you want? I'll give you three choices: Either you suffer at the hand of your enemies, be defeated by them, or you suffer pestilence & plague or suffer famine." David, I thought, gave a very wise answer, & I think I would have done the same: He as good as said, "Well, Lord, I'd sooner trust Your bugs than my enemies.--Send the plague!" IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID, "I'D RATHER PUT MYSELF & MY PEOPLE IN YOUR HANDS, so lay on the plague!"--In other words, at the hand of God. "I can sooner trust Your Mercy than the mercy of my enemies." He said, "Send the plague!" And thousands of them died by the plague, but it was, of course, only as many as God chose.--Whereas the enemy might have completely wiped them out! God sometimes gives choices. (2Sam.24:12-25.) HE'LL PROBABLY GIVE YOU YOUR CHOICE IN THE COMING HORROR THAT'S GOING TO COME: Whether you want to die, you prefer to die, or whether you prefer to survive & live in the horror that's going to follow, which is going to be worse than the war! The war's going to be quick & sudden & all in a hurry & sudden death, sudden glory! You can be thankful if so, but pity those who survive! DON'T BE TOO WORRIED ABOUT TRYING TO SURVIVE: YOU MAY WISH YOU HADN'T! Don't be too worried, in other words, if you've got to go by camper & you can't carry too much survival food & a few other things; you may be thankful you didn't survive! In other words, we have a
message for everybody, take your choice: You can either die or survive, whichever you prefer!--A little bit like the old joke about the three Allied spies of WWI that got caught, a Britisher, a Frenchman & the American Jew. THE GERMANS SAID, "YOU MUST DIE NOW BECAUSE YOU'RE SPIES."--And during war times, spies were executed. "So how do you want to die? We'll give you a choice how you want to die." The Frenchman said, "We've been a warlike people, I'd prefer to be shot."--So they shot him. The Britisher said, "My people have always been a seafaring people, I'd prefer to be drowned."--So they drowned him. And the American Jew said, "Well, we Jews have always been a very peaceful peace-loving people, I yust prefer to die of old age!" THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THAT'S NOT SO! ... [The Americans] feel justified in attacking the Russians & justified in attacking the Arabs & grabbing the oil fields & saving Israel! ...THE JEWS WANT A WAR, because if they can't have their way in peace they'd rather bring the whole thing down on their heads & ours too, in war, rather than submit, rather than lose. They'd rather everybody would lose along with them! Well, it just isn't common sense. I don't think it's very smart. When people see they can't win, the smartest thing they can do is real quick surrender, … QUIT LOOKING WESTWARD!--START LOOKING EASTWARD TOWARD THE POWER THAT IS GREATEST, & IS GOING TO CONQUER THE WORLD! It is better to get off the sinking Western ship & start climbing on the Eastern ship that's not sinking & that's taking over. That's just plain common sense. Self-preservation, they say, is the first Law of Nature. It's not the first law of Love. To lay down your life for someone else, that's the Law of Love, that someone else can live. But to lay down your life so everybody can die, that's not going to do anybody any good! That's even contrary to the Law of Nature, self-preservation, that if you can't live, you don't want anybody to live! THAT'S SELFISHNESS!--BUT THAT'S THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE: IF THEY CAN'T LIVE, THEY DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO LIVE!… ...the World's way of honoring things, respecting things, admiring things, the World admires force, power, cleverness.
"THE RUSSIANS OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE GREATEST FORCE, the greatest power, are the cleverest, they're winning the World, why shouldn't we join their side?" … Why trade all that for the ship that's sinking?" So it's pitiful! The smartest thing these little European countries can do--especially the little ones that couldn't possibly survive--would be to say, "Don't shoot! I don't have any guns! No bullets! No weapons! Why shoot me? I'm not your enemy, I'm not hurting you, I'm not going to do anything to you, I haven't got anything to do it with! I don't mind serving you, just let me live!" FROM THE LOOKS OF THINGS I DON'T THINK THE AMERICANS ARE EVER GOING TO WAKE UP, of course, & they would rather die than give up their pride & their possessions. And they've just about persuaded the Europeans to take the same attitude, so it looks like they're all going to go down, because nothing's stopping the Russians & nothing will. Only God can stop the Russians, & He doesn't want to, because He wants to punish the rest of the World by using the Russians! He's made them smart enough now & strong enough to do it, & they're doing it! AND HE'S PUNISHING THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN WORLD FOR THEIR SINS & THEIR HYPOCRISY & UNRIGHTEOUSNESS! He always takes it out on His own people first, because they know more & they know better. You punish your own kids first, … & that's what the Lord always does. HE ALWAYS PUNISHES HIS OWN CHILDREN FIRST, then He turns around & slaughters their enemies! He sends their enemies in on them to punish them, & then He turns around & punishes the enemies after His kids have had enough. And that's exactly what the program is, & that's what the Bible predicts: The U.S. is going to get it first, the Western World is going to get it first, the Great Whore is going to get it first, & then the guys that gave it to her are going to get it next. THE KINGS THAT JOIN THE ANTICHRIST ARE GOING TO DESTROY HER & BURN HER WITH FIRE!--Then it also says God is going to turn around & destroy him & burn him with fire in the end, so they all get it.--And we're the only ones who don't get it, because He saves us. Not necessarily by survival, but a lot of us are going to get saved by death, thank God! ...
THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE (what they’ve got) ANYHOW, BUT THEY'D ACTUALLY RATHER GO WITH IT, even though they can't take it with them! It's insanity! Atomic war's insanity! How those people can be insane enough & monstrous enough to even manufacture those things, knowing the horrors they're going to bring, even one of them is almost unbelievable! How can they make them? HOW CAN A PRESIDENT CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN & advocate the horrors of Hell to be manufactured to dump on the Earth indiscriminately on whole populations of men, women & children & babies? I don't think it's possible for a genuine Christian to be President of the United States! How could he be? First of all, you've virtually got to be crooked to get there--& even crookeder to stay there! And how could he go ahead & promote spending billions of dollars every year to make more of them! IF HE WERE A REAL CHRISTIAN, WHAT WOULD HE DO? HE'D SAY, "LET'S DUMP ALL THIS STUFF!" (Though I don't know where they'd get rid of it all!) "And let's tell the Russians: … we'll work for you. Let's just spare the World & its population & babies & the children & the women & the old people & the workers, & get rid of all the armies, & let's try to make it a better World.'" Hmmmmm? Sounds nice, doesn't it? But it's ridiculous wishful thinking, because of course the U.S.'ll never do it! BESIDES THAT, THE U.S.'S TOO WICKED & THEY'RE SINNING TOO MUCH AGAINST THE LORD FOR THEM TO GET OUT OF IT NOW, it's too late! It's what the Lord told the Israelites, "It's too late now. I told you before if you'd obey & be subject to the king of Babylon, why, I'd spare you. But now you've insisted on doing what you're doing. But I'll give you one more chance: Surrender! You can still surrender, even the King of Babylon's telling you to surrender. That way you'll spare your city & your people." But they still wouldn't do it. THEY PREFERRED TO FIGHT & DIE & THEY DID! And the city was destroyed & 2/3 of the people, & the rest made slaves! And that's exactly what America's headed for & wants to do! And that's why the Lord said His Message for America today is the Message of Jeremiah! It hasn't changed any: "Submit yourselves & your necks to the yoke of the king of Babylon," obviously the Russians…, "& live! Why will ye die, O Jerusalem?" And so the Lord's merciful, really merciful! EVEN AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE HE STILL GAVE THEM A CHOICE, & THEY STILL MADE THE WRONG ONE. ... I think some of the common people, especially of Europe, are more sensible. They've known all kinds of
tyrants & regimes, & they've found that it doesn't make much difference, one government or another, they're all bad! So what's the difference? "At least we'd just rather you'd go away & leave us alone & let us live at least, than be absolutely annihilated by a war!--Or worse yet, live through it!" I BELIEVE THE RUSSIANS ARE SENSIBLE PEOPLE… (The Americans) WOULDN'T MIND A BIT LAYING DOWN THE LIVES OF THEIR FRIENDS, THE EUROPEANS, FOR THEIR OWN LIFE! But this time the Europeans are not so anxious to do it! They did it twice & they don't want to do it again! ... The Americans are not about to begin to quit or stop from going into the war, & are willing to sacrifice Europe in their own defense! SO ALTHOUGH THE OUTLOOK IS AS BAD AS EVER, EVEN GETTING A LITTLE WORSE EVERY DAY, WE'RE IN YOUR HANDS, LORD! And whether we die or whether we live, we live or die unto Thee, Lord, & it makes little difference except that we obey Thee & do Thy will & help others & accomplish Thy purpose, whether we live or die! Thy will be done, You know what's best, in Jesus' name! Thank You for this beautiful day! We ask Thee to bless us now & help us to think of the good things & not think too much on these bad things. BUT THE SOLUTIONS ARE SO SIMPLE, LORD! IF THE PEOPLE WOULD TURN TO YOU, REPENT OF THEIR SINS & ASK YOUR FORGIVENESS, YOU WOULD LIFT THE CURSE, LORD, & You'd remove the whole thing, but they won't! So You have to punish them & You have to let the war come & all the horrors of man that man is bringing on himself, to show what a mess he is without You, before You can save him! Bless & keep us & continue to make us a blessing & to speak Thy truth… THE BEST THING (your children) CAN DO, LORD, IS TO KEEP OBEYING THEE…going into all the World preaching Thy Gospel of Love to others. That's the best preparation for eventual ultimate survival!…In Jesus' name, amen!
(Edited by theaudiokey.com - January 2020)