IT'S TIME TO ATTACK!
DO 2872
7/93
--Given two days after "Fight or Flight!"
1. In praying further about the persecution in France, it comes to me that we're fighting a defensive warfare there, and as you know, there is no end to that. If all you're doing is defending yourself, your enemies can keep attacking, and choosing the time and the place for their attacks against you. It's a known fact that you can never win a defensive war if you're leaving the initiative and the time and the place and method all up to your enemies.
2. It's time we attack them! Where are we attacking our enemies instead of just defending ourselves? Disseminate complaints to the media everywhere and give France a bad name.--Make'm really stink! Every American and every Britisher and every other non-French Family member there who has been thrown in jail in France should immediately complain to their local ambassador or consul, and file legal complaints against the French government which is responsible for all this police brutality! Something like this should immediately get sympathy everywhere.
3. They should also contact the human rights commissions and Amnesty International and do everything they can possibly do to spread the word. Make complaints, file complaints with the news media, government, every kind of agency of any kind that could possibly help them. This is a particularly sensitive subject--foreigners from Western countries who are abused by other governments while they're abroad! They almost instantly get sympathy!
4. Have they done all they can along that line? Have all the Americans appealed to the American ambassadors and consuls, etc.? Have all the British also complained? (Maria: Yes, as far as I know.) And any other foreigners who are foreigners to France should do the same. They have rights, and they can complain! We need to go on the attack as much as we can and not just sit on our hands. Waiting for lawyers is apparently not getting us anywhere.
5. This is an all-out war! We need to go on the attack and not just let our enemies pick the attacks! Probably what they should have done was complain about the surveillance and all of that before the police ever had a chance to attack and raid their Homes! We should have started attacking them before they attacked us and raided our Homes! I don't mean we should physically attack them, but through the media and legal channels, etc.
6. Jesus, Lord Jesus, help us! You're our Advocate, Lord, You're our Defense Lawyer. The Devil is our accuser. You're the only One Who can really win, and You're the only One Who really knows how and can pick defenders. Lord, in Jesus' name, help our poor people there. Deliver the children and deliver Thy parents! Get our children out from under the evil influence of those devils of the System, those Systemite homes! Deliver them, Lord. Release them and return them to their parents, in Jesus' name!
7. Are we doing everything we possibly can for them? Are we here doing all we can for them? We don't want to be so busy with a little here and a little there that the children are gone! (1Ki.20:40). "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little more folding of the hands: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man!" (Pro.6:10,11).
8. We have to wake up and get busy and attack! We've got all the reasons and good ammunition now for an attack on our enemies, just to show how vile and how cruel and how abusive they are! The idea of them accusing us of what they are the most guilty of! They're the child abusers! They're the ones abusing the children while they're accusing us of it! Imagine! They've abused our people and our children worse than anybody!
9. Attack them on every front! In the media! Complaints to the governments! Complaints to government agencies! Complaints to international agencies! Complaints to the UN! Complaints to embassies! Complaints to judges! Let's raise a ruckus!
10. We need some people to get in there and really fight!--Who won't give them a minute's peace, who will just worry the life out of them!--Like the importunate woman did to the judge in Jesus' story in the Bible (Luke 18:1-5). She never gave the judge any peace until he finally did something about her case. Our people there should demand their rights!
11. This is a last-ditch fight, and it could be the last time you'll have any chance of receiving any justice before the Antichrist's own government, and then there will be no justice and no possibility of fight, only martyrdom! We can't just let them choose the time and the place and the circumstances! Let's sock it to them in every way we possibly can--all over the world!
12. Let's declare an offensive warfare against them! They have declared an offensive war against us, and so far, all I can see is that we are defending ourselves. It's time that we attack them, and I mean attack'm--in every possible legal way and propaganda way and media way! Let's do everything we can do!
Expose Who's Behind "Operation Moses"!
13. I think our lawyers in France ought to demand to see that paper "Operation Moses." (A secret plan for an attack upon our Family throughout Europe, which one of our brethren was able to catch a glimpse of.) I mean it! That would expose our enemies and show what they're doing, that it's an organized conspiracy and attack on us by our enemies. People usually sympathize with the underdog. They sympathize with the innocent, the weak, the helpless, and people who are being unjustly attacked and mistreated and abused by the police or governments. Usually there is nothing the media likes better than a story like that.
14. Our enemies have taken the initiative, they've gotten the upper hand. They're accusing us of all the things that they're now guilty of. We need to expose who is paying for their attacks--who is paying for their lawyers, who is paying for their witnesses!
15. Let's find out what this "Operation Moses" is and who is behind it! Let's find out who is paying their lawyers and initiating these attacks! Let's find out who has complained to the police! Who has complained to the government? Who has complained to the child agencies? Who is paying them? Who is shipping our enemy witnesses around from country to country and paying their fares? Who has gotten possession of the goods that they stole from us? Who is pushing that case? Let's sue them and take depositions and find out these things!
It's Time to Stand Up and Attack!
16. So come on! Let's fight! Let's do it! Let's spread the bad word about our enemies! Let's get the lawyers we need. Let's fight these cases! Let's attack them--even before they attack us. Let's expose'm!
17. That's where David Koresh and the Branch Davidians made their mistake--they didn't go on the attack against their enemies with publicity and legal procedures before their enemies attacked them. The government was doing all kinds of illegal things against them, but they didn't get up enough gumption to fight until after the dastardly deed was done! Then it was too late to cry out against their persecutors, too late to fight; the Devil had wiped them out!
18. Is that what we're going to do? Are we going to wait until the dastardly deed is done and they've wiped out some of our folks before we've really stood up and fought and attacked them?
19. You tell them I said attack! God wants them to attack! There's no more time for fleeing and running and turning the other cheek like we have for years. It's time to stand up and attack wherever we possibly can!
The Time for "Taking It" Is Over! Let's Fight!
20. Our people have not been aggressive enough! (Maria: For many years our Family wasn't used to fighting; they were more used to fleeing. However, in recent years we have waged some major persecution and media battles and have won some wonderful victories as a result. But it is true, we could stand to be more aggressive and on the attack!) They've not been forceful enough. They've been used to just taking it. Well, the time for taking it is over! It's time to stand up and fight with every weapon you've got, every legal weapon. And use every lawyer you can get! (Maria: And every friend you've got.) And every investigator who will investigate our enemies and look into what they've done to us there!
21. I want to hear of some more fight, I mean real fight! And if it comes to violence and our enemies illegally assault us on the streets and they initiate it, then I believe the law permits us to defend ourselves. And there is nothing that the media loves like a fight!
22. All right, let's give'm a fight! Let's give them controversies! Let's put on a show of force, legal force. Let's rally our forces and attack! Are we doing everything we can, to the greatest extent we can? We can't be satisfied with mailing out a few little packets and a few little Statements. Go in person, complain in person! Make official protests everywhere we have justification. We certainly have justification in France right now. We need to expose the French and the French government and how wicked it is and how anti-Christ it is!
23. (Maria: We want to embarrass France by showing what hypocrites they are in signing worldwide human rights agreements that they're not keeping, and that they're breaking left and right!) Right, exactly right.
24. And pray like mad for God to attack them! Not just to defend you, but to attack your enemies! Pray He'll give them grief. Pray He'll give them disaster, catastrophe, like those floods and heat waves in the U.S. right now! The U.S. wiped out David Koresh and his people, now God is wiping them out! Pray He'll give France the same or even worse!
25. Stand up for Jesus! Stand up! Get out and fight! Write your congressman or representative, write officials, pay them personal visits. File official complaints, legal complaints. Get lawyers that are willing to fight.
Expose Our Dirty Enemies!
26. Let's go after our enemies, and I mean after them! Go after them for libel and slander and theft and everything else! And find out who their backers are. Who is paying their bills? Who is shipping backsliders from country to country to be witnesses against us? Let's expose our enemies! That's one thing they're trying to hide, and keeping it well hidden! Let's bring'm out in the open screaming!
27. The media people love controversy, they love fights. So get out there and show them that you're carrying on a fight. Get out on the street with placards! Get out on the street in demonstrations. Get out there with your children and baby buggies! Show them what the evil people who hate us and persecute us are doing to us and our children. (Maria: Yes, who are the real child abusers! The police abused our children.) Even specify which police if you can. Be sure you attack the right people, or rather, the "wrong" people who have wronged us!
28. The mother who had her nursing baby snatched away from her and then later had it given back to her ought to be out on the street with the baby in a baby buggy and with a sign saying, "They attacked my baby! The Aix police attacked my baby! And dragged me in the dirt and the cold, handcuffed, almost naked!" Let's be specific! And if the French government has a blackout on publicizing the evil actions of their French police, call in the international news media. Let's demonstrate in front of the UN and the French embassies worldwide with signs saying: "ADFI cult in France guilty of child abuse! No religious liberty in France! France violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child! Police brutality in France! Let our children go! Give our children back! Human rights violations in France! Child abuse by French police and Social Services! Cruel treatment of foreigners in France! (Americans, British, Spanish, Dutch, etc.; i.e., if demonstrating in the U.S., you'd put "Cruel treatment of Americans in France!") Children ask for Bibles!--France says no! Nursing babies snatched from mothers' breast! French police use Nazi tactics!" Let's tell and show the public what they are doing to our poor people! Let's hit back at every possible opportunity!
Attack Back!
29. Let's sue for millions in Australia! Let's sue them wherever we can. Let's attack them! Let's keep them busy having to pay lawyers and foot the bills involved in shipping around their God-damned false witnesses, those evil liars who testify against us!
30. I'm sick and tired of just hearing about their attacks! I want to hear about us waging war on them and attacking them! I'm sick and fed up with lying here all night praying for our Family and hoping somebody will get in there and fight and win!
31. For God's sake, let's not hear any more about people anywhere who sit around and find out too late that they should have complained about this to the judge, or they didn't visit the judge, or they didn't ask for the children, or they didn't even ask to see their children when they could have legally done so. Our people everywhere need to stand up and fight! I'm sick and tired of hearing about any of our people anywhere who are not fighting all they can.
Teaching Our Children When to Fight!
32. (Maria: We need to teach our children to fight if they're taken like that, to resist, to not be so obedient any more and yielded like they're taught to be all their lives. There is a difference between being yielded and obedient to their Godly parents, and being submissive to evil anti-Christ enemies who are trying to destroy them, destroy their faith, deprogram them and take them away from their families. They need to know that that's the time that they've got to switch and they've got to start fighting. They've got to start screaming, they've got to start yelling. "I want to go back to my mother and dad!" They've got a right to stand up and protest and demand to be with their parents, to talk to their lawyers, etc.) Right!
33. They can't throw children in jail for resisting arrest. I don't think that there's a law on earth that would put a child in jail for resisting arrest. (Maria: Yes. They say Family children are too good. We've got to teach them that when they get in that kind of situation they've got to be "bad," that they've got to fight and scream and put up a real fight to get back to their parents.) Right! Kick! Hit! (Maria: Because nowadays the laws are all in favor of what do the children want? And if they show enough that they want to be with their parents, that's what the law says they're legally supposed to have.) Right!
34. And they need to tell the public that being in these foster homes and other so-called childcare institutions is not good for them and they don't like it and they are being abused there. They're being neglected, they're being injured, they're being mistreated. Let's get the testimonies out about how the Family there has been mistreated and abused, victims of police brutality. Don't wait too long to where the media doesn't even want to handle it because it's old news. You need to react immediately to every attack. (Maria: Yes, and also get the dirt on the anti-cult groups, on CAN and ADFI and all of those that are involved.)
The Only Way to Win Is to Fight!
35. Exactly! We should be publicizing all these recent victories in which their deprogrammers and people have been put in jail. They don't want that kind of thing exposed, so let's publicize it! That's the thing they hate the worst, being exposed as to how evil they are, how brutal the police are, how neglectful the laws and the judges are. (Maria: And how prejudiced the Social Services is.) And how self-righteous the governments are--what liars and deceivers they are!
36. We need to get in there and fight in every legal way that we possibly can! Let's publicize their wickedness! Let's publicize their crimes! Let's publicize their sins and make their charges against us look ridiculous alongside their crimes against us! Let's get to work and fight! Get up off our rear ends and quit this sleep and slumbering and folding of the hands and get out there with fists and fight--legal fists! And all the legal fists that we can possibly get and use.
37. I'm tired of taking it. I'm tired of lying down and taking it on the chin, and even worse. I want to see our people get up some fight!--Get the courage and guts to be martyrs, if necessary. But to get in there and fight and expose our enemies and give them all the trouble we can possibly give them! Keep them so busy with our attacks that they haven't got time to attack us. In Jesus' name, Lord help us!
38. I'll tell you, fighting is the only thing that wins in this world! The Lord wants the message publicized. He wants us not just to defend ourselves, but to go on the attack! I'm tired of us getting hit all the time and not fighting back! Now I want to hear that we've done some fighting and not just sitting around chatting with lawyers. I haven't heard of a lawyer's chat yet that has made the news on television. (Maria: And the lawyers in France at first gave us a bum steer because they didn't want to upset the judges in the case and they told the Family not to publicize it to the media and not to blast the judge, to be careful, not to picket. But the Family finally went ahead anyway and started going to the media and started picketing, and they got good results from it!) Thank the Lord! Of course the Enemy didn't want us to fight! The Enemy didn't want us to expose or complain or upset the status quo of the System!
39. This whole fight is giving us a chance to publicize their wickedness and their hypocrisy! The idea of their attacking us and our poor little children, blaming us for child abuse, when they're the worst child abusers of all!--Taking babies from their mother's breast! Throwing their fathers in jail! (Maria: And the French social workers are now trying to deprogram our children--telling them how horrible the Family is and how they shouldn't want to be in it, and all the bad things that are going to happen to them if they go back to the Family. They're not allowing them to have Bibles or even to pray out loud!) Let's expose those things! Let's expose the fact that they're doing those things! Let's expose and publicize the testimony of our children.
40. (Maria: Our kids in captivity get sick and the social workers neglect them and they don't even take care of them!) Let's get out there and fight! Let's rescue our children. Let's complain to the government! Let's complain to the law! Let's complain to the agencies! Let's even complain to the police! There must be some good police, some good lawyers, some good judges, even a few good governments.
41. Come on, let's fight! I'm tired of taking it! And if you don't do it, if you won't get out there and fight, I'm going to get out there and do it myself! I'll probably die a martyr anyway, but why not make it pay? If you want to keep me hidden, you guys had better get out there and fight! You'd better get out there and do it! Fight! Now! Do it yourself!
Pray and Fight--Only the Lord Can Win the Victory!
42. And pray like everything depends on prayer while you're doing it.--Because it does. Everything depends on the Lord! All the fighting in the world won't do any good unless God is in it, and you're in it, and prayer is in it. First you pray, and then you get out there and do what God tells you to do, fight! And that's the only thing that will win. But just sitting back and letting them walk all over you is not going to win anything!
43. Have we lost our fight? Well, I know we've counseled you and advised you for years to flee, run, turn the other cheek, etc., but there comes a time when you need to turn the other cheek and then sock'm one! Jesus and His disciples took it for a long time, but they finally stood up and fought and resisted, and were jailed and beaten and killed! But they got the message across, and the people followed them and followed their teachings. And they have spread it around the world!
44. Now we need to do the same: Preach, witness, testify, demonstrate, picket, complain, protest, get out there and fight!--Whether it's with personal appearances, demonstrations, letters, legal complaints, whatever. Let's get out there and fight now! This may be our last chance to expose the Enemy so that the Christians and those who ought to be fighting alongside us will have no excuse; they will have been told. And the world will have no excuse; they were told how wicked that System is that is so cruelly mistreating God's children. And then God will have no excuse for not doing something about it!
45. So you do your part and I'm sure God is going to do His, and eventually He is going to do them in! You can count on that! But in the meantime, let's make it count! Let's make it pay! Let's expose the wicked and our evil enemies! Let's expose the vicious, wicked anti-Christ forces that are preparing to enthrone their Antichrist and give him the world which they've just about won. Let's be witnesses to the end like the two famous witnesses in Revelation, even if it kills us! (Rev.11:3-12). That's worth dying for! And "great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted they all the prophets that were before you" (Mat.5:12).
46. The prophets stood up and fought! The patriarchs stood up and fought! The Apostles stood up and fought, and it counted; it counted unto them for righteousness. And God vindicated them, if necessary by their own blood, with their final testimony which impressed the world and won many to the Lord! Eventually God's martyrs overcame the biggest system that had ever existed, the Roman Empire. And who knows how many of the undecided, the wavering, the potential anti-Christs we may yet win. We've won plenty of them already.
This Is Your Last Harvest, So Stand Up and Fight!
47. This is the last harvest. This is your last chance to stand up and fight! So let's go! Let's get out there and demonstrate, protest, witness, complain! Make a big noise! Fight! "If God be for us, His banner o'er us, we'll sing the victor's song at last!" (Sings:)
The fight is on, O Christian soldier,
And face to face in stern array,
With armor gleaming,
And colors streaming,
The right and wrong engage today!
The fight is on, but be not weary;
Be strong and in His might hold fast;
If God be for us, His banner o'er us,
We'll sing the victor's song at last!
48. That's a good old Salvation Army song. They are another bunch that need to be stirred up and reminded of how they were once persecuted! Let's remind all those groups who have been persecuted in the past: The Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Salvation Army, etc. Make them ashamed of not sticking up for you. At least let's try to get their sympathy and their prayers and their cooperation wherever we can.
49. If you get out there and fight, you may wind up in jail, but Jesus will be with you. He was in jail, too. He was tortured, beat up and crucified as well. And they'll get around to that with us sooner or later. But let's give'm a run for their money, give'm a fight for their money. (Maria: Yes, sir! Whoever makes the biggest noise gets the most attention in this world!) Right! And whoever puts on the most action will get the most attention from the media and television. So let's give'm some action! Let's give'm some noise! Let's show them that we're not going to take it any more, we're going to fight! Now! Let's go! (Maria: Amen!) March! In Jesus' name! Amen!
50. Because if you don't, I will, and that'll be the end of me! If you want me to stick around, you'd better tell the Family to get out there on the front lines and fight the battle, or I'm going to have to do it for them. Let's go out fighting, amen?--So we can come back fighting at Armageddon and wipe'm all out! Praise God! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus!
51. The victory will be ours!--But we've got to fight for it now and not just wait until then. Now is when it counts, and we can win some if we really fight! We're destined to win in the end. We will be the final victors, praise God! And our unsaved enemies will all go to Hell where they belong, and they won't be able to fight us any more.
52. Okay, let's go! God bless you all! I love you! Bye bye! See you in Heaven! But don't go down without a fight! Give'm a good fight! Fight, team, fight! Whether you win or lose, fight!--In Jesus' name, amen!
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