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Section Eight
MOTIVATION MUST BE SPIRITUAL
Now we need to just touch base back on the philosophical side of
this, the hows and the whys a little bit.
What is the motivating factor, which is going to make this
work? It will work
utilizing those people for whom the desire to come out of Babylon is
greater than their love of the world.
It will work if you who are listening right now- if your
desire to come out of Babylon is greater than your love of the
world. If you love the
world, the city, system, money and jobs; if you love that greater
than you love your Lord and greater than you love obedience to the
scripture and the law; if you love Babylon more than Jesus Christ,
and your heavenly Father, then no it’s not going to work for you.
But, if you do indeed love them, and Jesus said if you love
me you will obey my commandments, if you love Him, then this will
work for you, but it means making decisions and getting out of the
city as soon as possible.
We must get rid of the entanglements and encumberments, “the
weight, which so easily besets us” which is holding us there.
CUT YOUR LOSSES / BURN YOUR BRIDGES
For our entire married life, as much as possible I never worked a
“real job” we tried to be self-employed.
We did not store up any 401K or IRA, or anything like that.
We have lived without insurance since my very first child was
born; we have not had any medical insurance.
We have not owned a house except for a very, very brief
period of time. We were
actually forced into a situation, the thing we found was a mobile
home and we bought it but, that didn’t last very long, that was
before our first child was born so that was 20 years ago.
We did that for a reason.
Do you own the house or does the house own you?
You have to repair it, you’re committed to it, you’re worried
about it, there’s a lot more concern there and I’m not saying that
this is right for everybody but if you combine that with a good job,
a professional job, it gets to the point where you have too much to
walk away from. For 20
years and better we intended to walk away and when the time came, we
did, we burned our bridges and cut our losses.
At that point in time we left a considerable amount of stuff
behind and Oh well, life goes on.
SUMMARY- IN A NUTSHELL
I need to get back to the overall plan, the idea.
Let’s say we get one home built like this and I call around
and I find a family that really would like to get out of the city
and like to get back onto the land and let’s say someone who’s going
to plug right into the system and be able to help me, maybe someone
in construction or who is an organizer, or someone who will go out
and promote the idea or raise funds by meeting churches and farmers
and just explain that we will build you a garage farmer John if you
will give us 10 acres of land that you will set aside for this
program and we’ll try to get people in here that you like, that you
appreciate, and that can work for you, so you’ll have a workforce.
So it works both ways, it would help the farmer or the church
or whoever owns that land.
There are churches or communities around that have more than
1,000 acres. I know that
there is at least two.
There’s a possibility of helping them build and increase.
I’m not asking them to bring in riff raff or people who are
not of their kind.
They would build homes on property that they have; let’s say they
have 1,500 acres. If
they set aside 150 acres that’s 15 families and they would have the
ability with the manpower that they have to build homes and bring in
15 more families. So
that’s a very feasible, very workable thing, So now I bring in
somebody that can help, so now they have 6 months to a year or so to
live in that home until they help me or help the construction
company arm of this program to build 2 more homes, then they help
get their home built. So
now they know how to do this, the man or his sons have built 3
homes, their own and 2 more.
Now they're free to go ahead and move into their home and
that first home is freed up.
But, now we have 4 homes where we initially had one.
But, let’s say that we can just geometrically, progressively
double. You have one
home, you bring in a family, they build themselves a home, now you
have two homes, you bring another family into that first home and
they build their home and the first family helps build so a
geometric progression of building these homes occurs.
Now my belief is
that we have at the very outside three years.
I think toward the end of that time we’re going to see a
breakdown of transportation and communication.
We’ll be hoping that we can ride a horse or a donkey.
At the end of that time people are going to be on foot also,
but let’s try to get as much of that done beforehand as possible.
I’m looking at 3 years on the outside and I’m looking at an
area of about 180 mile radius around Springfield as a safe haven or
a refuge, based on George Washington’s vision of people being driven
to the interior of the country, and the Corey Ten Boom/Nora Lam
vision of the circular area with a wall of fire around it.
It’s not a huge area of the country.
But, it’s rich enough to support many, many people.
10 percent of that landmass equates to 300,000 homes in
10-acre increments. So
it’s plenty to do what needs to be done in the amount of time that
we have to do it, but it’s going to take a lot of work, bringing
people in to the idea of the system to help out.
There are a lot
of people out there I know for a fact who want to get out of the
system, the city, the trap, the rut, the rat race of Babylon, Rome
and Egypt. We’re only
one of probably 1,000 companies that sprang up during the Y2K thing
and every one of our customers were saying the same thing, that
they’d love to get out of the city but didn’t know how.
They were wonderful people; I had conversations that lasted
an hour, 2 hours with some of these people, so we know there are
people out there with a desire to do this, so it’s a matter of
contacting people like this, and beginning this system.
We need to build, starting with one, then build two, build
four and bring in people to help them extricate themselves from the
clutches of the system and the trap that they are in.
NOW DOWN TO BRASS TACKS
It should be apparent by now that this plan can work if we will work
it together. During the
Mormon trek west, Brigham Young proved to be an inventive genius,
capable of “thinking outside the box.” He helped many of the poorer
families by designing carts with which they could walk the 1300
miles at very little expense; they needed to purchase no wagon or
oxen.
We had best, as a people, learn very quickly, to think outside of
our box, or we will suffer immeasurably because of it.
I see thousands of believers duplicating the Mormon saga,
however without the benefit of a handcart, help from supposed
brethren, farming or house buildings skills or equipment.
We need to pull some pages out of history and out of other
organization’s practices.
The Amish method of collecting monies for land purchase is
one, which I believe we must begin immediately.
WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW
If we will put together a coalition of people who are already where
they believe they are to be, and together with those who are still
in the cites, begin a tithe and offering system of collecting money
for land, supplies and housing purchases, we could begin this plan.
IF WE CONTINUE TO WORK ALONE, WE HAVE ALMOST NO CHANCE OF
SUCCESS. IF WE POOL OUR
KNOWLEDGE, OUR RESOURCES, OUR TALENTS, OUR SKILLS, OUR TOOLS AND
EQUIPMENT, OUR MONEY, AND OUR VERY LIVES, WE HAVE ALMOST NO CHANCE
OF FAILURE.
In the book of Acts, people sold their land, and gave the money to
trustworthy leaders, the apostles.
This was to help the ministry to the sudden massive influx of
believers to the faith.
At this point in time, I believe the opposite needs to happen; those
who are of the believing remnant, need to sell out their city
holdings, and buy land in the country.
Why? Judgment is at hand, and we are told to “step back into
the cleft of the rock and wait for the indignation of the LORD to
pass by.” A lion is
coming down the path. We
would be wise to get out of the way.
What is the number one rule of survival? GET OUT OF THE
CITIES!!! What is the number two rule of survival? GET OUT OF THE
CITIES!!! And now, class, what is the number three rule of survival?
REMEMBER, THERE IS GOING TO BE A TEST!!! GET OUT OF THE CITIES!!!
Remember Ezekiel 7:15-16 “The sword is without, and the pestilence
and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the
sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall
devour him. BUT THEY
THAT ESCAPE OF THEM SHALL ESCAPE, AND SHALL BE ON THE MOUNTAINS LIKE
DOVES OF THE VALLEYS...” In cities, with no sewage control, power,
or trash pickup, disease and pest(rats, possums, mice, snakes, wild
dog packs, etc)-ilence will run rampant. (In case you think that is
not serious, consider that birth to breeding age for a rat is 2 to 3
weeks. Gestation is 2 to
3 weeks. A litter is 7
to 14 young who will be able to breed in, guess what?
2 to 3 weeks!!!
And when can momma rat have her next litter?
You guessed it; 2 to 3 weeks.
If you are just outside the city, there will be open warfare in the
fight for food, shelter, and perceived wealth, and killing will be
common. Where should we
be? “On the mountains.”
WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD:
WILL YOU ACT NOW, OR SIT LISTLESSLY WAITING FOR THE COMING
DESTRUCTION?
Too many believers are described by the following parody of Onward
Christian Soldiers; if you are still one of them, get off the
fence!!! You have
talent; use it!!! You
have wealth; spend it!!!
You have land; make it productive!!!
You have tools and equipment; build homes and greenhouses!!!
You have farming experience; grow food!!!
Those who bury their talents will be called “wicked and
unfaithful servants.” Be one of those to whom it will be said,
“welcome good and faithful servant.”
BACKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
1. Backward Christian soldiers,
Fleeing from the fight,
With the cross of Jesus,
Nearly out of sight.
Christ our rightful master
Stands against the foe
Onward into battle, we
seem afraid to go.
Chorus:
Backward Christian soldiers,
Fleeing from the fight,
With the cross of Jesus,
Nearly out of sight.
2. Like a mighty tortoise
Moves the church of God.
Brothers we are treading,
Where we've often trod.
We are much divided,
Many bodies we,
Having different doctrines, but
Not much charity.
3. Crowns and thrones may perish,
Kingdoms rise and wane,
But the cross of Jesus
Hidden does remain.
Gates of hell should never
'gainst the Church prevail,
We have Christ's own promise, but
we think that it might fail.
4. Sit here then ye people,
Join our sleeping throng.
Blend with ours, your voices
in a feeble song.
Blessings, ease and comfort
Ask from Christ the King,
But with our modern thinking,
We won't do a thing.
-George Verwer
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