And I don’t talk about it much but we had a very difficult time a few years ago when the social welfare people attacked us. They said they were after a man who was staying in our home at the time who had become an unwelcome guest to us, but who refused to leave, and when we prayed God moved to expel him. It was very dramatic.
However, the social welfare people got involved and began to persecute EVERYONE, including us! This particular gray haired lady said she would come to our home to have a routine ‘inspection’ but brought armed national police with her and took all the kids and even several adults into protective custody, basically armed detention and then proceeded to ‘interview’ them without parents or lawyers looking for things to accuse us of. There was nothing obviously but part of their ‘interview’ was harassing the kids to demand to know why they are no longer Catholic. They cannot leave the mother church she insisted! It came out that the whole thing had nothing to do with child care or welfare or anything they are supposed to care about–-it was pure persecution of Born Again Christians and Foreigners. Unrighteous and Counter-productive was what Jesus had to say of their actions. And his view is not tainted by fear, factions or short-sightedness.
At one point there was a single mom who they refused to help so we took care of her, a very hard case, incest rape, but when she began to blossom because of our prayer and genuine love, they took her into their protective custody–-five years after the assault, and after refusing to help her several times when we asked them to get involved before. Now it seems her life was in danger, and what she needed was to be placed in confinement and have all contact with the outside world cut off. Why? To protect her from her father who is insane, ran off five years ago and is some 200 miles away? No, it was to protect her from becoming a Christian. They also said it was wrong to have a foreigner help her, and the best thing was for her was to get rid of her baby. But it’s ok, they had a solution to help her take care of her young child … have him adopted … by a foreigner! Obviously someone they knew personally and chose for private reasons. This girl was now stuck in a tiny room for two years with another incest-rape case and these two girls came out of solitary confinement as lovers obviously. Today they are both prostitutes. Congratulations Social Welfare department!! Job well done! No wonder the kids in this town suffer so much with the people in charge of their welfare care NOTHING for child welfare but are only acting to protect the ‘mother church’ and stopping Christians from having any positive influence at all.
Other Christian charities told me they had the exact same experience before. Raid, detention and then when the false accusations fell apart the social welfare agents produced some administrative form that needed to be filled out correctly and then they were left alone. It’s a kind of rite of passage he told me. If you have ever done Christian charity work in a non-Christian country you know exactly what I’m talking about. We don’t have it that bad, it gets worse in many places! I can’t really complain.
So at that time the social welfare people under this gray haired lady detained not just kids but several adults as well, even though their jurisdiction does not cover them, but they needed to investigate they said and so it would take two weeks to find out what was what, so yes everyone they choose was under their jurisdiction. And when we produced actual birth certificates for our own kids, which proved their identify and required them to return them to us, they flat out refused to accept the certificates, flat out refused to acknowledge us and give us back our own kids, even one who was over 18, and even one who was a 34 year old mother, all completely illegally. I figured it was a lot of pride and incompitance. In front of the prosecutor they read the law that governed the case they had initiated for the first time. They were accusing the American of awful, heinous crimes, and then finally read the law and requirements of these crimes and none of it matched their accusations. They made up accusations to justify a raid and had no complaints, no evidence and just wanted an excuse to attack and harass him.
So when I tried to break through the impasse, humble myself, and try to talk to these social welfare workers, parent to parent, to beg them to release our own kids since obviously they are not part of their case against that American guy, we have paperwork, we’re just caught up in it all innocently, but instead of obeying the law, their guidelines and common sense they threatened to investigate me next if I didn’t leave. The investigation was their weapon, no crimes were reported to them, but they raided to look for evidence of something to accuse this man in my house of, and then to attack me next.
When it came out their accusations against the man who was staying in my house were 100% fabricated … fabricated by them without even a complaint, the case was very embarrassing for the local police. They finally released the American but still took away all the kids in his care.
It’s very convoluted actually but my perspective is prophetic. Jesus said the American man was a deceiver, and he would punish him for attacking us himself and not leaving our home when Jesus asked me to ask him to leave. Instead of leaving he began to try to kick me out of the house, back stab me, slander me and look for ways to accuse and destroy our ministry. Not a nice house guest really. And no, I didn’t orchestrate the raid, we were also victims of it! But God did say he would BLAST that man out of my house, and wow, he certainly did!! The illegal raid was the means of God’s punishment and his eviction. That confused me for a while. Like I said, Jesus said the actions of the social welfare department were both UNRIGHTEOUS and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE and we had to walk through a very hard valley, but God had several purposes in that trial for us as well … but it seemed like God calling the Babylonians to come and punish Israel. The Babylonians were a demonic people!!! Their name ‘chaldeans’ actually means ‘demons!’ Would God use a demonic horde to achieve his will? That seems unlikley, but evidently it’s true! It’s confusing, but that’s the biblical fact! So in our case, God raised up an unrighteous social welfare agent to attack this man in my house and to punish him for his deception, attacks against us and other things God had mentioned.
But one of the things I often forget is that we had seen a vision of evil in the local government. When I saw a vision of thousands of worm-like black snakes infesting the local government I began to pray to cleanse this infestation, and the attack came soon afterwards. So there is also a thread of causality maybe that leads back to the warfare to cleanse the town and prepare it for revival. How so? Well, obviously what this attack did was make the warfare over the town PERSONAL. The corruption, unrighteousness and sinful ineptitude of government agents was the basis of their assault and attack on me, Ann and our family personally, and that means it was suddenly and painfully no longer a theoretical exercise in exorcism … we were now praying with full passion and fervor to protect ourselves and destroy evil in government … and free our kids from their unlawful detention.
But the story does not end there …