<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-12-4 That's where General Custer made his fatal mistake. General Custer, as I understand, had orders from the government not to go into the land of the Sioux, because it was a religious time for them. It was a time of worship; they were having a feast. But Custer got drunk, and he thought that he would just do it anyhow. He would cross, whether it was orders or not orders. And then they actually shot some innocent men--shot at them. I think they hit some of them. It was scouts out hunting for food to feed their--their people while they were in worship. And Custer, crossing seen them and thought they were after their side, and so they shot into these scouts. And these scouts escaped and got back. What did they do? They armed themselves, and here they come, and that was the end of General Custer, because he didn't set down and think first.
He had no business there. He had no right to be there. He'd pushed the Indians from the east coast all the way across the west anyhow. And they had a treaty, but he broke the treaty. And when he broke the treaty, then he lost the battle.

L-12-6 And so, a army, first in getting ready for a battle, first it's got to be a--select some soldiers. They've got to be dressed for fighting; they've got to be trained for fighting. And I believe that the greatest battle that was ever fought is now ready to go in action. I believe that God has been selecting His soldiers; I believe He's been dressing them, training them. And the battle front is now set, getting ready to start.

L-13-1 This great first battle that was ever fought begin in heaven when Michael and his Angels fought against Lucifer and his angels. It first started--the first battle was in heaven, so sin did not originate on earth; it originated in heaven. And then it was thrown down from heaven, cast out of heaven to the earth and fell on human beings. Then the battle from Angels become human battles. And Satan come to destroy God's creation. What God had created to be for Hisself, he had (Satan), come to destroy this. That's what his purpose was, was to destroy it.
Then the battle begin here on earth and begin in us, and it's been raging ever since.

L-13-2 Now, before any battle can be put in array, they first have to choose a meeting ground or a place where the battle is to be fought, a selected place. In the First World War it was so placed in no-man's-land and places where they fought, and there's got to be a place selected.
Like when Israel went to war with the Philistines, there was a--a--a hill on each side where they gathered. And that's where Goliath come out and called to the armies of Israel. That's where David met him in the valley, when he passed over the little creek that run between the two hills, he picked up the rocks. There has to be a place selected.

L-13-4 And in this, there's a--a mutual ground, "no-man's-land," and they fight here at this place. They just don't one fight over here, and one down here, and one right over here; there's a battle front where they meet and test their powers, where each army tests its strength against the other army--a mutual meeting place.
Now, don't get--miss this. When this great battle started on earth, there had to be a mutual meeting place; there had to be a place selected for the battle to begin, and for the battle to rage; and that battlegrounds begin in the human mind. There's where the battle starts. The human mind was chosen for the place of the battle, where it was to begin; and that is, because that decisions are made from the mind, the head.
Now, they never started it from some organization; they never started it from some mechanical affair; the grounds never started there; therefore, that organization can never, never do the work of God, because the battlegrounds, where you've got to meet your enemy, is in the mind. You've got to make your choice. It meets you.
I want this little girl here that's very sick to be sure to listen now to this real closely.


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