NEW BOTTLES!     DO 251   6/73

HOW DAD BEGAN THE REVOLUTION BY USING HIS CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE STILL YOUNG!

         1. We've all had to forsake something to serve the Lord! To forsake education would seem a handicap. Some of his formal education is one of the things Hosea, for example, had to sacrifice. But the Lord clearly spoke to my heart about it & said: "Yes, but what if he had NOT done so?" What if we had agreed that we shouldn't take our children out of school so soon. Because it was our children who started the Revolution! Of course it was our upbringing & training & faith & vision, etc., that helped inspire them to do what they did. It was sort of like we trained the little fighting cocks & then stood back & sicced them on the World & they went to it! Hosea had to be available & willing to give up his education in order to strike out on the road & go witnessing & invade those territories & finally invade Huntington Beach & the Club.
         2. It had to be done by youth! I could go in later & teach them, but if you kids hadn't gotten them together first with the Message & the method, it never would have happened when it did or the way it did. If you hadn't, probably God would have chosen some other way or someone else. But I don't know who else had the Message & the vision & the faith & the guts to do what we did & be the first fools to try it like we were! BUT IF THEY HADN'T BEEN WILLING TO GIVE UP THEIR "NORMAL" PURSUITS OF SO-CALLED "NORMAL" YOUTH, WHEN WOULD THE REVOLUTION HAVE STARTED, & in fact, who would have started it? YOU KIDS HAD TO BEGIN AT THE AGE YOU DID TO REACH THAT AGE WHO WERE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL.
         3. It would have been ridiculous for me to try to reach youth at my age at that particular time. I can reach them now that they know me & they understand, through the Letters. But really, if I tried to hit the streets now in person I wonder if they'd listen: "How could you know anything about our problems?--You are 3 or 4 times as old as we are!" So it took you kids to do it & get it started. YOUTH HAD TO REACH YOUTH, & HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE IT IF YOU WEREN'T STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO DO IT, & HOW COULD YOU BE YOUNG ENOUGH TO DO IT IF YOU HADN'T DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL?
         4. You had to set the example in order to persuade others to drop out!--Otherwise they would have always been accusing you of getting more education than they did.
         5. If we hadn't been willing to pay the price as parents first of all to train & to encourage you to do it & to risk our lives & reputations to encourage you to drop out of the System at Junior & Senior High School level, the Revolution might have been delayed or never gotten started at all! We old folks, Mom & I, first forsook our denomination & reputation & relatives & even our own former ways of thinking. You can be so thankful you didn't have all that System background to have to overcome! We'd had so much indoctrination to be brainwashed of, such as church doctrines, etc.--so much of it junk that wasn't even so & things they'd told us that weren't even necessary & things they failed to tell us to do that really needed to be done!
         6. So that was our big battle: To get rid of what you, thank God, don't have to go through--all that education & mental conditioning & church indoctrination! Forsaking all that was a real psychological & spiritual wrench. AND IT WASN'T EASY FOR ME TO DROP OUT OF MY JOB, MY WORK, MY CHURCH & ALL I HAD BEEN TRAINED FOR. But now I can see the LORD was training me, not the church or the school or the army or the government or big business. I had a lot of experiences in the System, but what I learned from them didn't do me much good except to teach me to hate it.

HISTORY OF THE FOUR GENERATIONS TO PRODUCE THIS REVOLUTION OF TOTAL DROPOUTS!

         7. SO MOM & I HAD TO MAKE THE FIRST BREAK & BECOME THE FIRST PRODUCTS, but by the time we had made it, it was too late for us to carry it out & reach others. Like Karl Marx: By the time he got his book on Communism all written down, he died & OTHERS had to carry out his plans. Nearly everything I'm teaching & writing now I already taught my own kids, with a few exceptions, & they already HAVE it. SO GOD HAD TO USE THEM--YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAD RECEIVED THIS REVOLUTIONARY TRAINING, WHO WERE NOT CONTAMINATED BY THE SYSTEM OR EDUCATION OR CHURCHIANITY. WE, MOTHER & I, HAD TO BE THE FIRST DROPOUTS!
         8. But then to reach the younger generation we had to rear our children from scratch the revolutionary way, because we were too old to get the job done ourselves personally. So we had to REAR some little revolutionaries to lead & witness & be a sample & reach THEIR generation with what WE had TAUGHT them. THAT was the education THEY received--the kind of education I wish I had received!
         9. This Revolution literally took four generations to develop the FOURTH generation at a YOUNG enough age to get it started! My GRANDFATHER was a radical rebel revolutionary for his day, but he just took a FEW steps in the right direction, so that when my MOTHER came along he trained her to go on a little FURTHER, & then she got so far out, it got him scared! He thought she'd become a real religious fanatic!--And by the time I came along with the good training they'd given ME, they were too old & they hadn't gone far enough & it took ANOTHER generation--ME. So that by the time my Mother was ready to pass on, SHE thought I'D gone too far!--I'd gone beyond her.
         10. It took three generations of older people to produce this revolutionary generation, each generation coming a little further out. My Grandfather with his radical ideas & different ways of doing things shocked his own denomination. Then my Mother & Father dropped out of that one to join a NEW & MORE fanatical denomination. Then Mom & I came along & dropped out of denominations ENTIRELY, in fact, finally out of CHURCHES altogether!
         11. But it took that long to rear children that were not even brought up in church except when they were very young.--And Ho never had a job except selling newspapers. I don't think he ever worked for money in his life except when he was nine years old!
         12. So don't ever be sorry when once in a while you feel a little handicapped because you don't know much about this or that. My Lord, if you'd gone on in school you would have MISSED this generation! You'd just now be finishing college & going on to your post-graduate work & you'd be an old HAS-BEEN, too OLD for the Revolution! So don't ever be sorry. Be thankful you don't HAVE to go through what former generations went through for you. You got the kind of training you needed for YOUR JOB & you can't have everything. YOU got the kind of knowledge of tactics & methods you needed to know to do the job the Lord has given YOU.--And that's all you need to know. But even YOU had a little bit of church & school business.

OUR CHILDREN--A NEW, MORE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION!

         13. DO YOU REALISE WE ARE NOW PRODUCING ANOTHER NEW, MORE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION? YOUR children haven't the faintest idea of what CHURCH is really like! Some of them don't even know what a SCHOOL is like! They've never been! And they'll probably never hold a JOB of any kind & never earn a DIME! They're going to be, I hope, the purest generation of all, TOTALLY REVOLUTIONARY from the very BEGINNING. They will never be sorry they had to LEAVE the System, because they've never been IN it! They won't have to drop OUT because they've never been IN! They've never known anything ELSE but commune life, hippies, radicals & revolutionaries & long-hairs & Bible & witnessing & passing tracts!--100% revolutionaries from the time they were born!
         14. The fact is that OUR kids, YOUR children, THE LITTLE ONES BEING BORN NOW WILL NEVER HAVE KNOWN ANYTHING BUT OUR KIND OF LIFE! I'm hoping that these little children are going to be really PURE REVOLUTIONARIES from BIRTH & so far it looks like they are! If we ever let them go to school or church at all, it will be to give them a TASTE of it so they'll HATE it! That's not to say they won't ever be tempted, just as my own children were. But apparently they didn't LIKE it, because they're still WITH us! YOUR children will be TOTALLY revolutionary, NEVER knowing what churchianity & System jobs & education are like & will have virtually NEVER known ANYTHING but revolutionaries!--BORN with them, EAT with them, SLEEP with them, PLAY with them, & WITNESS with them! And when they see a Systemite they know one! In fact they embarrass their parents by blurting out to their face, "You're a Systemite!"
         15. Our little kids will have never known anything else! We hope they'll NEVER be contaminated by the System! Our little kids have never known ANYTHING but the REVOLUTION for JESUS! So I think we've just about done our best. Each of these generations of my family did their best. Each generation of Christians, at least some of them, have made some progress--bringing a little greater purification. Each denomination brought a new & needed thing--something the church needed. WE'RE ABOUT THE ONLY GROUP WHO REALLY HASN'T BROUGHT ANYTHING NEW TO THE CHURCH, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT EVEN IN THE CHURCH--or churchianity so-called! We haven't brought anything TO the church system; we've at last come completely OUT of it!
         16. You should be very thankful you missed whatever you did miss, because it's all a part of the old System that you don't need & which we're trying to sweep away! Now, what about your CHILDREN?--Won't they be better than YOU, MORE revolutionary, an IMPROVEMENT on the stock? I can already see some signs of it in our old bottles, that even in our own ranks we've got people who are becoming old bottles & who are living in the past, which means they are part of the OLD system which existed two or three or five or more years ago & therefore they are OUR old systemites of OUR new system! And I'm wondering: Are YOU going to try to do what WE did in this respect?

LET THE NEW BOTTLES GO FURTHER!--DON'T LIMIT THEM TO BE OLD BOTTLES!

         17. DO YOU KNOW WHY THERE IS A JESUS REVOLUTION TODAY? IT'S BECAUSE WE TAUGHT YOU NOT TO DO IT THE WAY WE HAD DONE IT, because your Mother & I were HAS-BEENS & had spent nearly all of our own lives in the churches! BUT WE TAUGHT YOU to do it the way we WISH WE HAD DONE IT & the way in which it was TOO LATE for US to do it! We taught OUR kids to do what we wish WE had done & what was really TOO LATE for US to do! We taught you NOT to do it just like we always did it.--SOME things, yes, but MOST things, NO.
         18. We really just did the best we could for you & then turned you loose to find out how it needed to be done NOW for your OWN generation by going out & FINDING your own generation & what they NEEDED & what they will ACCEPT & what would REACH them & doing it in ways we NEVER used!
         19. We tried not to be old bottles to hold you back & make you do it the way WE did it in church, but to turn you loose & by the Spirit of God learn how to do it NOW! EVERY NEW DAY WE NEED TO KNOW & LEARN & FIND OUT HOW TO DO IT TODAY!--And for God's sake & the last generation's sake, your children, for the sake of the End, I HOPE YOU WILL NOT TRY TO LIMIT YOUR CHILDREN EVEN TO THE WAY YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT, much less the way I've been doing it, but THAT YOU WILL LET THEM DO IT THEIR WAY, THE WAY GOD SHOWS THEM TO DO IT IN THEIR WAY & THEIR DAY FOR THEIR GENERATION!
         20. Otherwise, if you try to make them conform to yesterday, they will also become old bottles & an old system & a thing of the past! Let's face it: You are already old bottles in a sense!--Because your children are going to have to do it DIFFERENTLY from the way YOU'RE doing it, with NEW methods under DIFFERENT conditions & THEY'LL HAVE TO ADAPT THEMSELVES TO THE NEED OF THE DAY. So for God's sake, I can't tell you how to do everything, because I don't know, except as God by divine revelation shows me! Look at all the farout revolutionary things the Lord shows me! But GOD HAS TO SHOW ME WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS & YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PRAY & ASK GOD TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO EACH DAY!--And when it comes time for your CHILDREN to do it, THEY'RE going to have to get it from God THEMSELVES too!
         21. Don't hand me that old stuff, "This is the way we USED to do it!"--DAMN the way we USED to do it!--How do we need to do it NOW? ALL I CAN TRY TO DO IS TEACH YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW THAT'LL BE HELPFUL TO YOU, ALONG WITH WHAT GOD REVEALS TO ME DAY BY DAY, BUT THE REST YOU'LL HAVE TO LEARN FOR YOURSELF FROM THE LORD & your generation & YOUR situation, because I'm not THERE. I'm not one of them & the only thing we can have in common is the fact that we've got the same SOURCE, the Lord, for our information & revelations. But you're going to have to find out how to do it in your place with your generation & your situation from the Lord.
         22. So don't hinder your children from finding out how to do it in their generation, as long as you teach them what will help them. They're further ahead already than any one of us! The older generation, our critics & enemies, are waiting to see how our children turn out that are born in the Revolution, expecting them to be all kinds of kooks & maniacs & neurotic from not being reared the System way under "proper" conditions. I grant you we'll have some problems because it's so un-System, because we're having to start from scratch.
         23. But thank God I had the faith to just turn you loose & tell you to just follow God! Because if I'd tried to tell you everything, I'd never have thought up one fraction of what YOU'RE thinking of, new methods & tactics. I haven't got enough lifetimes to live to think of all those things! That's where faith in God comes in. Even some of the things we told you to do last year are too late & we've changed tactics. As we make progress, we have to do NEW things in NEW ways as each year goes by, as each month goes by.
         24. For God's sake & our sake & your sake & the World's sake, let's continue to be revolutionary! Don't limit yourself just to what I tell you or the things I've ALREADY written for LAST year & not THIS year. When you tie yourself too much to ME, you may be tying yourself down to your OLD leadership so you can't get any FURTHER, when you should be raising up NEW leaders with FRESH ideas for a NEW day! The minute you start living in the PAST, watch out! WE CAN LOOK ON ITS RECORD TO SEE WHAT WE CAN LEARN, BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T LIMIT YOUR CHILDREN!
         25. The greatest thing we can teach our new disciples & children--& each new generation has to learn it for itself--is to follow God & hear from Him fresh every day! Moment by moment learn something NEW every day, because only GOD is way out there in front & knows what's going to happen & is able to lead you & guide you & show you what to do.
         26. So don't get stuck with either a name, a method or a message that you can't change from day to day with whatever God has for you that's NEW, NEW wine, NEW message, NEW method, NEW way! Because if you do, you're sunk & you're broken because you've become an old bottle!
         27. So let's not try to force the new bottles to be like us! We tried to teach YOU children to be like we HAVEN'T been but we SHOULD have been. Now, if we can KEEP THIS REVOLUTIONARY WHEEL TURNING, MOVING, REVOLVING, REVOLUTING, IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A REVOLUTION WITH EVERY TURN AS LONG AS IT KEEPS UP ITS RPM--revolutions per minute! But unless it keeps revolving & turning & revoluting every minute, it won't HAVE any RPM's & it's not going to get ANYWHERE! The minute it STOPS turning & changing directions & stops moving it'll be DEAD!
         28. Real revolution is not simply the overthrowing of one system & the establishing of another system! All things change, but they don't change once & for all! They have to KEEP CHANGING every minute with something new or it's going to come to a stop & get nowhere & be dead still!

NEW BOTTLES ARE WHO WE MUST REACH, WIN & TRAIN TO STAY ALIVE & GROWING!

         29. I HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN SOME OF THESE NEW BOTTLES THAN THE OLD ONES, because they're new & fresh & right out of the younger generation! Where are the Junior High & High School students? Does anyone in our outfit know where THEY are at & what THEY are doing & thinking & needing & how to go out to reach them?--Or are you ALL just a bunch of OLD BOTTLES? Where are the NEW bottles? What are they like? What are they doing? What are they made of? What kind of new wine do they need?
         30. We had better be getting some new bottles & reaching some & talking to some & getting in touch with some or we're all going to be old bottles! But IT'S DANGEROUS BUSINESS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE AGE THE DEVIL PROTECTS THE MOST & over which the System gets the most furious if you get close to them or give them any new wine! "They're OUR children! Don't touch them! Stay away from them! Don't you dare suggest they drop out or leave home!" So watch your step! Be wise as serpents & harmless as doves!
         31. His Word never changes, the Lord never changes, the Gospel never changes, Salvation never changes, Christ doesn't change, but God keeps MOVING every day! YOU may be the same person basically, but YOU'VE got to keep moving to stay alive & get anywhere! IT MAY BE THE SAME MESSAGE, BUT IT IS VARIED EVERY DAY TO SUIT THE NEED & ADAPT TO THE SITUATION. The tactics & the methods definitely will change day by day & moment by moment to have RPM--movement! A MOVEMENT IS NO LONGER A MOVEMENT IF IT STOPS MOVING!
         32. I look around & see plenty of old bottles & read the reports & hear them rattle like dead men's bones! But where are the NEW bottles, where are the reports of how we're reaching the High School Kids & Junior Highs? THOSE are the kids we began the Revolution with in Huntington Beach, along with a few already dropped-out hippies. But some of our old hippies are such old bottles now they've dropped out of us & gone back & backslidden, even some of the Junior High & High School students we had then!
         33. About the only new bottles are the new disciples & the newborn children who are our hope of the future! I don't think we're having ENOUGH babies, unlike some others! We need as many as we can get, because we need NEW bottles & VERY YOUNG ones that are pure & fresh & TOTALLY REVOLUTIONARY, born & bred in the Revolution & who won't even be old bottles like YOU, much less ME! So where are your children? Where are your new disciples? Where are your High School students? Where are your new bottles?
         34. It may be hard to contact them in person, they're so well protected, but we can reach them through the literature! So where are your new bottles? We've talked about OLD bottles & lamented over them, FOR GOD'S SAKE, LET'S FORGET THEM IF THEY INSIST ON BEING OLD BOTTLES LIKE THE CHURCHES! Let the dead bury the dead & let them stink themselves to death & be old broken bottles that can't hold the wine, but God help us to find NEW bottles!
         35. If we don't reach the new bottles, we're dead! If we don't start reaching some of the younger generation, we're a has-been!--We're a bunch of old bottles!--A bunch of old married folks with children! WE NEED NEW BOTTLES & WE'D BETTER GO OUT & FIND THEM OR WE ARE DEAD!--We'll be just like all the rest of the churches who died that way, by failing to reach the next generation, while they hardly tried to even reach THIS generation!--They committed GENOCIDE by their STERILITY!
         36. For faith without new bottles to put it in is dead! Faith without new bottles is dead & will die with the older generation of old bottles!--That means YOU! YOU are the old bottles; & I'M a very old bottle! We've got to get out & start reaching CHILDREN or we're DEAD!
         37. Now which would you rather do: Get killed by trying to reach them, or die by NOT reaching them! It's dangerous to reach children, but I think I'd rather DIE TRYING than of OLD AGE! Some of our old bottles are dying of old age--old rockin' chair's got'm! They're sitting there rocking back & forth & dreaming of YESTERDAY! If YOU rock back & forth dreaming about yesterday, do you know what happens?--You go to SLEEP like all old bottles!
         38. But somebody's got to be up front!--We can't all stay back in camp hearing about the glorious victories of the past & being shown how we USED to do it. Somebody's got to be OUT THERE! Thank God they ARE!--Some are doing it TODAY the way we know to do it NOW, like the lit on the street & LEARNING how we're GOING to have to do it TOMORROW, so we'll be READY to do it THEN!
         39. But how are you going to learn unless you find a few new bottles who can teach you how to reach them? WE didn't go down to the Club & teach those HIPPIES how to reach hippies.--They taught US!--Everything we did we learned from OTHERS! We went out & found the new bottles & poured out the new wine, but THEY'RE the ones who fermented & foamed & worked & produced the spirit that they poured out in their OWN ways & methods to make their OWN generation go wild for the Lord!--WE JUST TOOK WHAT WE COULD TO THEM THE BEST WE COULD & ASKED THEM HOW WE SHOULD DO IT!
         40. I think what's wrong with a whole lot of our Homes right now is that they're very busy trying to make old bottles out of new bottles, when they should sit down & let the NEW bottles make NEW bottles out of OLD bottles, like WE did! WE became NEW bottles, DIFFERENT from the way we were. The only way you reach NEW bottles is by BECOMING ONE, not by trying to make THEM an old bottle like YOU!
         41. Go out there & find them, talk to them & let them teach you what to do & how to do it!--That's what we did. When we went to Huntington Beach we didn't have the faintest idea of how to reach the kids except by playing & singing like we always had. Not one of my kids had ever been in vice, drugs or crime--they'd never even been hippies! They had to LEARN how to be hippies! From WHOM? From ME? I wasn't even a BEATNIK, much less a HIPPIE! They had to learn from the HIPPIES! So they could at least TRY to be hippies to reach MORE hippies--BECOME ONE!
         42. I think that's one reason why some of our kids have gone back, because they couldn't teach the old bottles anything about how to reach new bottles, because the old bottles didn't want to learn from the new bottles. After all, they were indeed the people.--"WE were there at the BEGINNING!"--And that's just what's wrong with them! They were THERE in the BEGINNING, but they're NOT HERE in the ENDING!--And they're STILL THERE in the BEGINNING!
         43. So for God's sake & the kids' sake & the sake of the future, let's get out & find some new bottles!--Let's us old bottles get out & find new bottles, to learn HOW to be new bottles to reach new bottles! (Prays:) We thank You Lord, for the burden, the way You show us what is wrong with us & what is the matter. We don't want to make the same mistake the church has made, clinging to the old & inflexible, unadaptable, unwilling to become new bottles. As the old bottles crack & go to pieces, they're dying out until they'll soon be no more!
         44. Help these old bottles to get out with this new wine & find new bottles to put it in before it causes them to crack & break! Some of these old bottles aren't going to be able to take what's coming. We're going to need NEW bottles to HOLD it. It's going to be so HOT & so STRONG the old bottles are going to be exploding, popping, breaking! We've GOT to find NEW bottles to put it in that can HOLD it & TAKE it!
         45. If it breaks anybody's bottle, it's just going to prove they WERE an old bottle & that they resist change & anything new & different & more shocking & more revolutionary than what they've already got. Lord, You know that WHENEVER WE FEEL WE HAVE BECOME REVOLUTIONARY ENOUGH, WE HAVE CEASED BEING REVOLUTIONARY, BECAUSE WE HAVE STOPPED REVOLVING, CHANGING. Whenever we get to the point where we say the old wine was strong enough & the new wine is TOO strong, You know, Lord, WE'VE become an old bottle!
         46. So Lord, please help us to find some new ones so You can give us new wine, ever new & stronger for newer & stronger bottles, lest You stay the wine for our lack of flasks in which to place it! Lord, forgive us!--I just had a picture of that Scripture where the widow was out of oil & the Lord started pouring Heavenly miraculous oil in the vessels. But when she couldn't find any more & they were all full, then God's Word says the oil was stayed: It stopped flowing because there were no more new bottles to put it in!
         47. We are a new nation, but like others we already have our conservatives & our liberals, our old guard & our young radicals, our old preservers of the old status quo & the old system versus our wild young new rebel revolutionaries who want & need change, our old bottles versus new bottles! We need the cool heads, but we also need the hot heads. THE COOL HEADS GIVE STABILITY, BUT THE HOT HEADS GIVE DRIVE! Old bottles or new bottles--maybe we need some of both.--BUT WHERE ARE THE NEW BOTTLES?--GO OUT & GET'M! AMEN?