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• Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family
  ...sting support from them. They feel that their parents made bad mistakes by joining, blinded themselves to the abuses against their children (and often contrib
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• Junior End Time Teen
  The starting age for joining the JETT group was raised from 11 to 12 in the mid [[1990s|90s]], prior to
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• Jeremy Spencer
  ...[[2007]]-02-09.</ref> Spencer was one of Fleetwood Mac's early guitarists, joining the band in [[1967]]. His specialty was the slide guitar and he was strongl
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• Thomas Mestyanek
  Mr. Mestyanek joined the Children of God in July 1970. Prior to joining the [[cult]], we worked as an accountant in Los Angeles, California for ove ...nst and Young, one of the largest C.P.A. firms in the United States. After joining the Family, I began keeping books in 1971 at TSC. I worked at the Office of
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• Babe
  [[Category:Joining]]
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• Watchman's Story
  ...here are also many distinct differences and that individual experiences of joining and leaving the Family vary greatly from person to person. Thus, as I've co ...e to take a definite stand and to do whatever I can to protect others from joining the Family and to help others, especially the young people, to find a way o
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• Babe's status
  [[Category:Joining]]
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• Stuart Harris Baylin
  ...is own account, he was violently abusive towards women and children before joining the Family. According to his stepchildren and other sources, this violent b
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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  It is not a surprise to me nor is it a surprise to the leadership that joining The Family is invariably greeted by the forsaken parents with nothing short Knowledge of NT's joining The Family was a surprise but NT's letters were loving and she seemed genui
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• Our Replies To Allegations Of Child Abuse
  ...s wife, Maria, to all of our fellowships, stating that no new adult member joining a community should be allowed to have any sexual contact with a regular mem
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• Daily Telegraph: They told us we might have to die
  ...it a "sex cult". It is the sort of group that parents dread their children joining, perhaps after being approached by one of the street musicians who act as r
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• Stay on the Wall!
  ...ions of souls saved and thousands of new members, co-workers and disciples joining our work for the Lord. The Enemy wants to distract us, to cause us to be do
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• Susan Claire Borowik
  ...nyway with him or any other minor at any period of my life, whether before joining the Family or after." [https://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/misc/borowik-2005
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• No Real Changes in the "Children of God" Cult
  ...than that many of us had been involved in and had experienced even before joining the group. I haven't heard and I don't expect any apologies about that sinc
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• I Almost Didn't Make It
  ...ven up everything, including our sexual freedoms we were practicing before joining the group, to follow Berg because we were motivated by a burning desire to ...gland on her story. A Bible school student in 1972, Sylvia thought she was joining a very strong Christian group but like the rest of us ended up living a lif
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• Which Comes First: The Revelation or the Artwork?
  24. Prior to joining the Family, while attending art school‚ I learned how much copying was ju
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• Choices and Consequences, Part 1
  ...ily less than two years, and she was struggling to survive. But instead of joining the ranks of the bold, brave, unswerving children of David, the kind of ran
  132 KB (24,228 words) - 23:43, 18 May 2005
• The Professionals
  ...have left. What this means is that well before you were born, people were joining and then choosing to leave the Family. Believe it or not‚ close friends,
  187 KB (34,397 words) - 00:24, 9 September 2005
• Manuel José Sabatasso
  criminal before joining the Family. When telling his
  2 KB (320 words) - 10:27, 4 June 2005
• Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman
  ...would have concentrated on getting his sister out of the group rather than joining it.
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• FSM 352
  the Family in 1970. Before joining, I had graduated from university and was an After joining the Family, I began keeping books in 1971 at TSC. I worked at the
  123 KB (23,099 words) - 15:15, 5 June 2005
• FSM 354
  doctrines are so weird today, that no one is joining up anymore, and that that I knew and lived with prior to their joining WS, and they are still the
  115 KB (22,268 words) - 08:32, 27 October 2010
• FSM 355
  <p>joining the FM Family wouldn’t into joining the Family. Oh yes, I forgot, </p>
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• FSM 356
  her: It was to dictate a tape of all the bad things I’d done before joining the Family and all I could think of after joining. Well, since I had a natural bent
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  "I thought I was joining a normal, dedicated Christian missionary group," he said. "I really believe
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• Dallas Morning News: Area watchdog groups say families torn apart by sects' control of members
  ...people from Dallas homes are alienating themselves from their families by joining cults.
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• My experience with Children of God/The Family
  ...aw him falter. Then all of a sudden we had two other boys sitting down and joining in the discussion. By that time Marylin and I were outnumbered. You could s ...it, from Genesis of course. She liked the people but was not interested in joining.
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• Vivian Shillander
  ...to join as a full-time member.<ref name="vls-saffidavit19871116" /> After joining the [[cult]],<ref name="vls-saffidavit19871116" /> she married [[Richard Ha
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• Daily Intelligencer: Dear God, Please give me back my son!
  ...the cult. Barnabas and Rebecca repeatedly referred to the idea that those joining the group would have to live with the group to be a Christian. Neil said he
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• Mansfield News Journal: Children of God Reject Everything in Modern Society
  ...in the sect as Bishop Joshua Levi. (All members adopt Biblical names upon joining the sect.)
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• Nevada State Journal: Teen flees cult, says mind was kidnapped
  ...ly from parents charging their children were programmed or hypnotized into joining the cult.
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• New York Times: Ill Winds Buffet Communal Sect
  ...is a member of the sect, believes all of the members were "hypnotized into joining" and charges that drugs are common in the group.
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• New York Times: Lefkowitz Lists Charges On Sect
  ...are obliged to surrender all worldly possessions to the organization upon joining, generally rely on donations from sympathizers and parents and spend much o
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• Oui Magazine: Murder Most Foul
  ...all Children of God, he abandoned his worldly name for a Biblical one upon joining the sect.) He was dark-haired, medium-sized, slim, mild-mannered, carefully
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• Manly Daily: Colony Comes to Town
  ...ir hair and unmade up face, was fresh, innocent and charming. Like others joining the colony, she brought her clothes, packed them in a communal cupboard- an
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• The Mirror: How we escaped the clutches of a cult
  ...ey were so charismatic and dedicated that they bullied and charmed us into joining them. Within ten days, we gave up our whole life in Costa Rica and moved in
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• The Mirror: Real Lives: 'I was forced to have unprotected sex with 50 men'
  “Shortly after joining I met David. I was 19 and he was 28. I was incredibly attracted to him. He
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• Oakland Tribune: Covina Man Still Tied to Church Suit
  ...en the generations and usurping control of "worldly goods" of young people joining communes in the [[United States]], [[Canada]], Europe and South America.
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father"
  Many of the disciples I have encountered came to know Jesus before joining the Family, through the witness of Campus Crusade, Presbyterians, Lutherans
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• The One That Got Away! Part 1: On Unsuccessful Flirty-Fishing
  ...ING</u>! It's almost like joining the Family.) After all, Arthur is really joining us in <u>spirit</u>,
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• America The Whore!
  ...ing more alone all the time! Even her former friends are deserting her and joining the world Socialist community, leaving America tottering and reeling on the
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• Strange Fire: Inside the Camp
  hypocrisy of the traditional church. In joining the COG I hoped to do talking to my friend Andy about joining the COG. I could see that
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• Geraldo Rivera: Former cultists comment on requirements made of them by their leaders
  joining this group?
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• Confidential Questionaire!
  .... WOULD THE SYSTEM HAVE SAID YOU WERE <b>"<u>GOOD" OR "BAD</u>"</b> BEFORE JOINING? <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;56. AFTER JOINING THE FAMILY DID YOU <b><u>EVER LEAVE</u></b>? WHEN? FOR HOW LONG? WHY?
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• Good Morning America: Family International Cult Under Scrutiny After Murder-Suicide
  ...ly International and many other alternative religious movements. And he is joining us this morning from San Francisco. Don, this group, now called The Family
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• Answers To Your Questions! No. 1
  ...UESTION</u></b>: I received a tape from my first mate. She was planning on joining us & we were looking forward to it, but she sounded bitter & self-righteous
  37 KB (7,028 words) - 22:02, 14 October 2006
• Fresno Bee: NY Accuses Cult of Sex Perversion
  Members generally give up their material possessions to the organization upon joining, the report said, generally relying on donations from sympathizers and pare
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• Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
  Welcome, and thank you so much for joining us today. You know, the [[Ricky Rodriguez video|video]] that you are about
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• New Times: Where have all the Children of God gone?
  ...he family" on weekends to take Bible lessons. He has been on the brink of joining, forsaking everything &ndash; his clothes, his stereo, his plan to go to bu
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• The Age: Taxi! Hailing the drama of a lifetime
  ...n I met my wife, Joan. She was from Los Angeles and had been thinking of joining the group but she wasn't quite sure. Anyway, she came to the commune one n
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• Let Our Children Go!
  ...make conversation, just to test them, asked them what they had done before joining. They could only answer in Scripture, or with quotes from Berg, or parrot b
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• The Guardian: After the 'Family' broke us apart
  ...s Jez, and Fleetwood Mac was just getting under way. "We blame acid on Dad joining, and Mum was just so young."
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• Ted Patrick
  ...nt and later began to receive complaints from parents about their children joining the group, he became increasingly concerned about the organization and deci
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• Constant Vigilance is the Price of Security!
  ...u>6. IT CAN START OFF WITH ONLY ONE PARENT GETTING MAD ABOUT THEIR CHILD'S JOINING US</u> & raising such a fuss & even going to the newspapers & howling so lo ...tle prayer & come right in. We had agents of the FBI & state agents, etc., joining the Family, some of whom got saved! One girl I know of in the Northwest cam
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• Uncut: Walking With Demons
  .... Two years later, Arlyn and John changed the family name to Phoenix after joining the [[Children of God]], a secretive religious cult led by "Moses" [[David
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• Why The Family? NRS5
  ...e to join the Family to find the <u>Lord</u>. So, what was the point in <u>joining</u>? (Peter: To get training.) Right!
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• Dateline NBC: Losing Faith
  ...SON: (Voiceover) To Donna the new family structure her parents craved when joining the church years ago now seemed to be backfiring on their own daughter. Non
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• London Times: Hunt for the lost child of God
  You later discover he is joining the [[Children of God]], whose main means of proselytism is to offer sexual
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• Boston Globe: A Family Argument
  But tragedy intervened. Ruth Ann disappeared in [[1972]] after joining a religious [[cult]], the [[Children of God]], during her first year at Bra
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• HomeARC ML 0641
  ...made a mistake in joining the Family, in which case you'd have to say that joining the Family at all would be a mistake, and you know that's not true.
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• HomeARC ML 0651
  ...ut the significance of that before! Their joining would almost be like the joining of two worlds!--Two different races and cultures!--Like the <u>Southern</u>
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• HomeARC ML 0656
  ...47. WOULD THE SYSTEM HAVE SAID YOU WERE ''"<u>GOOD" OR "BAD</u>"'' BEFORE JOINING? <br>       56. AFTER JOINING THE FAMILY DID YOU ''<u>EVER LEAVE</u>''? WHEN? FOR HOW LONG? WHY?
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• HomeARC ML 0734
  ...e for a personal visit</u> with his parents to explain what he is doing in joining and why.57 "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves!58
  68 KB (11,891 words) - 03:16, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0752
  ...e to join the Family to find the <u>Lord</u>. So, what was the point in <u>joining</u>? (Peter: To get training.) Right!
  27 KB (5,297 words) - 03:20, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0770
  <br><br>       51. ''<u>NOBODY IS JOINING A NEW CULT OR MOVEMENT BY THE DROVES WHILE THEY ARE UNDER HEAVY PERSECUTION
  27 KB (4,985 words) - 03:22, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0791
  ...! THANK GOD FOR THE NEW BOTTLES</u>''!--All you newcomers who are just now joining, as well as all you old-timers who are <u>rejoining</u> under the IRF! We h
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• HomeARC ML 0808
  <br><br>       2. ''<u>THEREFORE, THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN JOINING THE IRFs</u>'' even though it is simpler, easier & cheaper, because they ca ...ws</u>, those people aren't getting the <u>Ads</u> & therefore they're not joining the <u>IRFs</u>. That's why our IRFs are so low in Iberia & Latin America,
  12 KB (2,115 words) - 07:43, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0828
  ...oined the Family & their history in the Family, & finally their history of joining us!
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• HomeARC ML 0841
  ...life insurance etc. It would be purely voluntary, of course.--Only members joining would contribute & benefit.
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• HomeARC ML 0848 02
  ...  78. ''<u>IT'S A MATTER OF EITHER WINNING THE VICTORY OVER THE ENEMY OR JOINING THEM</u>''! You can either <u>fight</u> & get the <u>victory</u> & <u>not</
  38 KB (7,025 words) - 07:51, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0911
  ...erican States with the lead of Bogota, Colombia, are seriously considering joining together & passing laws to make marijuana legal in their countries. Instead
  43 KB (8,067 words) - 08:01, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0957
  ...based our school time on the Word most of all, & especially with Techi now joining our team--well, we should say since we joined <u>Techi's</u> team--we've in ...then Montreal where I joined the Family. Mainly what I'd been doing before joining the Family was studying in college & working here & there, having lots of l
  100 KB (18,044 words) - 08:12, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 0977
  ...rs & ours & others in many different areas. What a blessing they can be in joining our hearts & faces in fellowship & giving us a real insight into each other
  31 KB (5,715 words) - 08:17, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1010
  ...u>IT HAS TO DO WITH A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE</u>'' I had a few months before joining the Family & resulted in my being sealed, if you will, with the seal of God
  10 KB (1,947 words) - 08:39, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1050
  ...so</u> if you can, at least this <u>1st time</u> while so many are moving, joining Fellowships, Video Clubs, etc. Its info could be a great blessing to you &
  7 KB (1,231 words) - 08:45, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1055
  ...ng a little bit sad, not getting very many converts, not to many disciples joining, & it looked a little discouraging that things were not progressing too wel
  49 KB (9,189 words) - 08:45, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1066
  ...a today, & Israel--& Egypt who made the mistake of making a wrong choice & joining the wrong side, the losing side. So God decided to take the fiendish, devil
  76 KB (14,168 words) - 08:47, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1083
  ...gone down a little because some people now moving & going to the field are joining co-ops. They're moving in two or three families in a Home, which is then on
  72 KB (12,768 words) - 08:49, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1097
  ...in ecstasy, thrilled & happy & joyful that I had proven my love for you by joining you & sitting there with you holding your hand,
  30 KB (5,265 words) - 08:51, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1121
  ...to correspond with him in regard to any of your needs in that area such as joining the IVY League for the videos or Circulating Video Libraries.
  51 KB (9,525 words) - 08:56, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1163
  <br><br>       ''       <u>HERE WAS GOD'S KING, GOD'S MAN, JOINING FORCES WITH THE DEVIL & THE WORLD!</u>'' And it made the prophet mad! When
  45 KB (8,474 words) - 09:02, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1197GOE
  ...br>There's only One WAY you can be ready--NOT by trying to be good, NOT by joining a church, NOT by attending a synagogue, NOT even by praying five times a da
  87 KB (15,270 words) - 09:07, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1244
  ..."a great nation," which Eastern nations will join, & in fact, are already joining. And what power in this World, what nation on the face of the Earth could b
  100 KB (17,531 words) - 18:22, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1254
  ...>QUESTION</u>'': I received a tape from my first mate. She was planning on joining us & we were looking forward to it, but she sounded bitter & self-righteous
  38 KB (6,995 words) - 18:24, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1286
  ...D ONES WAITING FOR US</u>''! We were so happy & so excited about this girl joining us & introducing her & meeting them, that we had forgotten something, & all
  38 KB (7,056 words) - 18:30, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1334
  ...perience that all of us had, the real Acts 2:44-45. There are older people joining now who have much more than what we as younger people had. Perhaps the Home
  43 KB (7,389 words) - 18:37, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1358
  ...taught all ages of children, even college-age kids my own age just before joining the Family. Took piano lessons while I was growing up, which I never really
  99 KB (18,249 words) - 18:43, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1361
  ...ur room, as I have sometimes, but I much more enjoy eating here with you & joining you for Family dinner, fellowship & the children. It's not just the food, w
  141 KB (25,256 words) - 18:43, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1365
  ...I met Mr. Storey, who was playing the piano. We talked politics, Mr. Moore joining it later. While he cut Mr. Storey's hair first we discussed religion. Then
  270 KB (45,305 words) - 18:45, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1378
  <br>       31. I'VE BEEN THANKFUL THAT MOST OF OUR CHILDREN BEFORE JOINING THE FAMILY HAD GOOD TRIPS because apparently the hand of the Lord was alrea
  53 KB (9,343 words) - 18:47, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1383
  ...    ''89.'' IT LOOKS AS IF IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE CONDITIONS OF JOINING THE CHURCH IN THAT DAY--that they had to give up everything! Maybe they wer
  53 KB (9,428 words) - 18:48, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1409
  ...tion & consecration rites which is nothing in the World but just praying & joining hands & then asking the Lord to dedicate it all to His use & sanctify the p ...imes we have, or marched around the house, at the first dinner we've had a joining of hands & praying over the house, that the Lord would cleanse it & dedicat
  50 KB (8,923 words) - 20:03, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1418
  ...t because that was the way it was mostly supported in those days.--By kids joining that had something to contribute!
  58 KB (10,147 words) - 20:04, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1422
  ...amalgamation nationwide, renouncing assassination & the use of firearms & joining in a defensive, non-violent alliance, with the country divided into spheres
  74 KB (12,058 words) - 20:05, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1438
  ...& the whole story from start to finish of how Jeth had fought her coming & joining the Revolution, how Jeth had fought her tooth & toenail the whole time!
  96 KB (17,503 words) - 20:08, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1473
  ...ur room, as I have sometimes, but I much more enjoy eating here with you & joining you & the children for Family dinner & fellowship. ''&#91;DELETED]''
  47 KB (8,655 words) - 20:14, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1498
  ...5. <u>YOU SAY, "WELL, HOW CAN YOU TALK SO FAVOURABLY</u> & talk about even joining with him & helping him win & all that?" Well, I mean it's always nice to be
  97 KB (17,764 words) - 20:20, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1505
  ...sn't that a bit embarrassing? Isn't that a bit risqué to have this sudden joining with our Bridegroom right in the air before the whole World?" Well, that's
  89 KB (16,328 words) - 20:22, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1506
  .../u>! It's called a rapture because it's rapturous, it's ecstatic! It's the joining of the Bride to her Bridegroom. It's almost like sex, in fact, that's what
  49 KB (9,081 words) - 20:22, 27 July 2006
• HomeARC ML 1510
  ...r in the Temple? Well, after that you don't hear much more about thousands joining them! They reaped a tremendous harvest! It was the Day of Pentecost, it was
  51 KB (8,984 words) - 20:22, 27 July 2006

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