PRAY FOR THE PERSECUTED!         DO 2868  6/93

(After police raids in France in which 120 of our Family Members and TRF Supporters suffered vicious persecution at the hands of the authorities:)
         1. Tribulation has begun!--Not the Tribulation, but tribulation, suffering, persecutions. The world has gone wild, insane! The devils are screaming and Satan is furious because we have triumphed over him and exposed him and his evil forces! He's raging, like those police did in France, screaming at our folks. They're demon-possessed, and we can expect no mercy from their rage! The Enemy is out to kill us and wipe us out, and only God can keep us. It's a time for miracles. We can expect no mercy and no sympathy from the System, only more persecution, more oppression, more cruelty, more atrocities.
         2. It's a time for prayer for the persecuted and the suffering who have no succor. They've taken away our children, treated them cruelly, torn nursing babies from their mothers' bosoms, handcuffed our people and cruelly made them sit in the cold for hours on end without even letting them get dressed! It sounds exactly like the kind of cruelty the communists used to inflict on the Christians in Siberia, and it will come to that. Man has not changed, he's more cruel than ever. The Devil is more furious than ever, trying to make us suffer all he can, throwing God's children in prison and treating them cruelly, just as badly under so-called democracies as under any inhumane dictatorships and cruel administrations and governments.
         3. Thank God the end is near, and it will soon be over and our enemies will get the judgments they deserve. We will roll over them and all the Earth, and "righteousness shall cover the Earth as the waters cover the seas" (Isa.11:9; Hab.2:14), and there will be no more wars, no more horrors of Satan and his devilish crowd! They'll all be in Hell where they belong and suffer what they deserve for the way they've treated us and other Christians! So hang on, it will soon be over!
         4. Don't expect things to get better. Things will get worse, but the message will get out better, and God will have His witness and reward the martyrs. So God help us! Let's pray for and sympathize with the persecuted, but "rejoice and be exceeding glad for them, for great is their reward in Heaven, for so the Devil persecuted the prophets which were before you!" (Mat.5:12).
         5. You are now in God's Hall of Fame, honored heroes of His Revolution and the victors of tomorrow, because you have survived defeat and triumphed through martyrdom! And you will wipe out your enemies in the triumph of His Kingdom to come! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord! "Here is the patience of the saints" (Rev.13:10). Here's how you shall triumph, through the blood and the word of your testimony (Rev.12:11). Hallelujah, thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord!
         6. The end is near! Be of good courage and ye shall soon triumph over all of them! And where they're going, there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for years to come. They will be sorry they ever laid a finger on you, for they will get the suffering they deserve and reap the rewards of cruelty they merit. The tables will soon be turned and our enemies will be crushed under them, much worse than they're now trying to crush us! Thank You Jesus!
         7. But pray for those who are now suffering and do your best to let them know that you love them and sympathize with them and are praying for them, and do all you can to help them. For our sufferings are not yet over, but will be soon, thank the Lord, and we shall triumph over our persecutors, and they shall be kneeling at our feet for mercy!
         8. Help them, Lord! Bless and keep Thy children, especially Thy little ones. You promised to care for Your Own and that You would not allow us to be tested beyond that which we are able to bear (1Cor.10:13). So continue to be with us, and bless and keep us and protect us from anything more than we're able to bear, and help us to rejoice and be glad! May every seeming defeat turn out to be a victory, in Jesus' name. Give us grace to bear it all, to triumph over it and be true to the testimony and victorious in battle, in triumph and in trials, even unto the death--the final triumph of the martyr! Praise the Lord!
         9. It's for Thy Word, so help us to march on, Lord, in glorious victory and triumph over our enemies and the forces of Satan, the accusers of our brethren! Thank You Lord! Bless and keep and make us a blessing everywhere until the end, in Jesus' name, amen.
         10. This is a prayer for the persecuted, and sorrow for the suffering, and a thanksgiving for the faithful and the triumphant, even unto death, our final victory forever! Thank You Jesus! May our prayers comfort and encourage those who are suffering, and may You bring great victories out of seeming defeats.
         11. We love you all and are praying desperately for you!--And we know the Lord will win in the end! So yet a little while, and it'll all be over, and we will be victorious forever, and our enemies will be in Hell where they belong and deserve to be!
         12. God damn CAN and ADFI! God damn every single one of those who raise their voices against us! God damn those cruel police in France and elsewhere who have persecuted us! God damn the media who have lied about us! God damn the Satanic forces who fight against us! Deliver us, Lord, and destroy them!--And we know You will, and the victory will soon be ours, and the horrible defeat will soon be theirs, and they will be sorry forever that they ever touched us! Thank You Jesus!
         13. And we shall have the pleasure of destroying them in the final Battle of Armageddon! There will be such a feast of their blood that You have issued an invitation to all the devourers of the earth, the fowls of the air and the scavenging beasts of the earth to come and devour much flesh, the bodies of captains and kings and potentates and persecutors, with which the world will be so cluttered there will not be time nor room to bury them! (Eze.39:11-12; Rev.19:11-18,21).
         14. The forces of Thy Kingdom shall triumph, Lord! So help us not to look upon defeat or dwell on it, as though it were the end, but to look forward like Moses did and have "respect unto the recompense of the reward" (Heb.11:26).--To look beyond these horrors to the glories of future victories when all of this shall have passed away and there will be no more pain, no more sorrow, no more crying or tears, but eternal Paradise forever for us!
         15. We just can't be thrilled enough by the future, when all the present will be over and there will be no more time, but only forever! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! (Crying and tongues!) "Hear ye the Words of the prayers of David and give honor to the pleas of your Father!" Thank You Jesus! Help them, Lord! Jesus, help Thy poor little ones, Lord! Alleviate their suffering, give them joy and rejoicing over it all, that they have been counted worthy to suffer for Thy name's sake (Phil.1:29; Acts 5:41) and Thy Word and Thy children, in Jesus' name. Hallelujah!
         16. I've been so burdened for them! It seems so cruel, but for every pain and every suffering there will be a much greater joy and rejoicing, that we will be counted worthy of suffering for His sake and their sake in the days to come. (See 2Cor.4:17.) The Last Days, thank the Lord, will soon be over! So take heart and comfort from the Lord.
         17. Bless our dear children, Lord, Thy dear people. And we know You are, in spite of their sufferings, Lord, and even because of their sufferings. They have gained the greater victories! Thank You Jesus!--In Jesus' name, amen.
         18. I just had to pray that prayer. My heart has been agonizing over them. I've been suffering with them and I know the Lord is going to give them the victory soon, and He's going to get great victories out of seeming defeats. Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord!
         19. Humiliate our enemies, Lord! Shame them! Defeat them! Totally defeat them, Lord! Totally frustrate them and give Thy forces the victory through these seeming defeats! May the message get out more than ever and may our witness be spread throughout all the world, in Jesus' name, amen! Praise the Lord!
         20. That's a prayer from the depths of my heart for all of our people, God's people, the Lord's children who are suffering for Him and His cause today, tonight, wherever they may be, to give them hope for the future that all is not lost, that we'll gain even greater victories!
         21. I'll tell you, things are getting bad, really bad, that the police in a supposedly civilized Western country like France would dare to do anything like that! It's getting like the Inquisition! The Devil and his people are still as evil as they've always been, and just as vicious and cruel, if they can get away with it! But God's not gonna let'm get away with it! They'll suffer for it!--You can count on that! You can count on His promises, so claim'm and get the victory!--In Jesus' name, amen! God bless and keep you! Thank You Jesus! Thanks! We love you! PRAY!


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