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Section Three
EAGLE WINGS: SOME BACKGROUND
So this plan that the Lord gave me is a very far-reaching plan and
all we’re going to get down here is a beginning, an outline I guess,
and I need to get into that.
In order to do that I just wanted to touch on the passage in
Revelation chapter 12.
It speaks of the woman who is given two wings of a great eagle that
she might fly into the wilderness.
The dragon was wroth that she had escaped, and so he spewed
out a flood of water and the earth helped the woman and opened up
and swallowed the flood.
And so that was something that for several years, actually when we
moved out from Denver in ’97, my prayer was to go into the
wilderness. That didn’t
really happen. We ended
up in a small town of 200, which compared to Denver and the front
range population base of 2 million people is certainly wilderness,
but we knew fairly soon that it was not where we wanted to be and
that we would be moving.
So coming into ’97 I felt that this would be a time to move.
A cycle of 4 years in Denver of teaching and educating and
waking people up and then we moved, and we’ve been here 4 years,
teaching and educating and helping people and holding meetings and
training and providing people with stuff and I felt it was time to
move, and the case is turning out that it is, and that it is
happening very suddenly, 11th hour.
So my prayer was to go out into the wilderness, that’s where
my heart is to be- out into the woods, in the wilderness and to live
close to the earth. The
Lord put that desire there.
For many of us it’s in our blood, if you would rather live
out in the country than in the city, it’s in your blood.
It’s a Celtic or ancestral thing with the Israelite people.
COUNTRY VS. CITY
We need to be out in the country where we can be survivors, and not
in the cities where we are merely survivalists.
In the cities, many people who consider themselves
survivalists may have tons and tons of goods.
I believe a lot of them will have to leave those supplies
behind, and they will be scavenged, or salvaged or stolen by other
people. But a lot of
those people eventually - and I’m looking at a 3 year time period
here- that at the end of that time period people will be on foot,
with the shirt on their back and that’s all.
It’s sad but true and it’s always happened.
We’ll just be seeing history repeat itself.
Think about the history cycle of Beirut.
When you think about it, it’s a bombed out city, a war torn
city and has been for many years.
Was it always that way?
Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East.
Sarajevo, site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, was once a
beautiful city. Now it’s
a bombed out and war torn town, also.
It used to be called the Beirut of the Balkans because it was
so picturesque. Beirut
was the Paris of the Middle East.
Both cities are now full of craters, shelled buildings and
human misery. There has
been incredible destruction of medical and educational facilities
and historical monuments.
The point here is that throughout man’s history, war comes,
civilization breaks down, and people are refugees.
They are pushing carts, they are pulling wagons, with bird
cages hanging off the side of the cart.
You know they are taking whatever they perceive of value and
they are going out into the country to try to find sustenance, to
try to find food. There
is no food in the cities, none.
THE TRIGGER EFFECT
When war hits bad things happen.
When food supplies are interrupted in this country, people
will very, very quickly become violent.
There is a movie called The Trigger Effect.
The question in the movie was how soon after the power goes
out in a city will people become violent.
How long will it be before they begin preying on one another
through theft, and burglary, even to the point of committing murder?
The conclusion of the movie is: not very long.
There is going to be a breakdown in this country.
It may be precipitated by an economic collapse.
It may be any number of catalysts - drought, disease,
invasion, or internal strife.
Most likely it will involve a combination of many factors.
We are seeing several at work already.
We have the threat of “terrorism” doing incredible damage to
the airlines, as well as the economy in general.
What is happening is the judgment of God.
It would be well to prepare ourselves ahead of time.
WHAT KIND OF HOME SHOULD WE LIVE IN?
So the idea that the woman fled into the wilderness and the dragon
poured out a flood and the earth absorbed or swallowed that flood,
so what I’m leading up to here is a concept, a way of life, a
building of homes that will “swallow” the cold, and “swallow” or
absorb the heat and swallow or absorb radiation.
Well, what is your best defense against radiation?
The answer is “three feet of dirt.”
Gary North wrote a book, With Enough Shovels, which gives
this answer.
So if we were to live in earth sheltered, or underground homes, we
would be able to live more comfortably year round, zero dollars paid
out for cooling in the summer and virtually no money paid out in the
winter for heating. We
have lived in a COB HOUSE as well as an EARTH SHELTERED HOME.
In both, we did not fire up our wood stove until months after
other people had their furnaces on.
When we did, the wood provided free heat.
Thus we’ve been dealing with designing simple, free, cheap
easy ways to build these homes and the heating systems.
So this is the area where the plan begins and revolves
around: mortgage-free housing.
Eliminate completely the “death- pledge”, or mortgage.
Eliminate completely any expense in the area of cooling.
Virtually eliminate heating costs.
So I’m going to go into that at this point.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
One Statement That I have kept in mind for about 30 years is that
“It is better to be a year too early than a day too late.”
The core of the idea of the plan, which I’ll call Eagle Wings
(because there are believers in the cities and they need two wings
of a great eagle to help them get out into the country), began with
a short dream, or vision.
I want to say that I am by putting this on tape and then
putting this in print and putting it out on the Internet -
encouraging people to take part in it and to be a part of it.
By doing this we are speaking this plan into existence.
It’s going to happen, it has to happen, it will happen, to
what extent it’s going to happen I can’t say.
I feel driven and pushed to get this done as soon as possible
because we do not have any minutes, hours, weeks, months and
definitely not years to spare.
At the very, very, very outside I believe we’ve got three
years to see all this come to pass and then the door is going to be
shut. A friend of mine
was given a poem back in early December of 1998 and it says in part
and I’ve rewritten and taken on a little bit of poetic liberty here:
2001 it's just begun
2002 they break the golden rule
2003 we are not free
2004 God shuts the door
2005 Whose left alive
2006 pick up the sticks
2007 God’s glorious heaven
I think that’s about as accurate a time sequence as I can imagine,
so 2004 God shuts the door, my sense is we better plan on being done
by 2003. Even at that
time, going into that time period people are going to be refugees.
I have had, call it a vision, just a sight, a picture burned
into my mind for twenty years of a tent city.
So it was put onto my heart.
Back then I thought well, I’m crazy, but I was driven to buy
tents, and sleeping bags and blankets, sweaters, boots and gear to
provide for those people that I saw in that vision.
So here twenty years later we are going out into a community,
out in the wilderness and at some point of time I do believe that
we’re going to have that tent city.
It’s going to happen.
There will be many, many refugees.
MY DREAM / VISION
This is how this plan began for me. I had visited my wife down in Missouri, she was down there waiting for a friend to have a baby, and I visited her. Early in the morning, I was sitting up in bed about 3 am. I was awake, I wasn’t sleeping so it wasn’t a dream but, I had this picture in my mind, but a moving one, it wasn’t a still thing. I’m facing toward this home; it’s an earth bermed home. All I could see was the front of it, the rest of it was just hill or into the earth. A young family comes walking toward the woods toward me, to the right of the home; I’m facing the front of the home so they are coming up on my left. They come around and they don’t see anything or me, and I’m watching. They curl around and see the home and the door’s there, and it’s a wooden door with a welcome mat out front and, it’s their home. There is bedding in there, a stove with wood in it ready to light up. A few utensils in the kitchen and some food, and it just broke me up, I cried. My wife kept asking what’s wrong, she thought something was physically wrong and for a long time it just tore me up inside; I could not talk to see that something that beautiful could happen, that this young refugee family, on foot is coming into this area with no food, two small children, nowhere to go, they’re homeless, and for a home to be waiting for them, and it just spoke volumes to me about the capability that we do have to see that happen for a large number of people.
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