PROPHETIC MESSAGE FROM THE LORD

I Hear the Cries of My Little Ones

Millions of tiny children live in a prison of spiritual fear because their
parents are so eager to find reasons to beat them, in the name of
Christ. Proverbs stands alone in commanding children to be beaten.
But it also commands:
1. Fools must be beaten with rods (Prov.26:3) If your pastor got
caught making a fool of himself, would he literally be beaten with a rod
or just rebuked?.
2. A fool should get his mouth slapped (Prov.18:6). Do My people
literally slap each other when they say something silly?
3. Hold a knife to your throat if you like to eat a lot (Prov.23:2). Many
grown preachers do like to eat, as their expanding waistlines testify.
Their fork is always in their mouth, never at their throat.
4. Those who disrespect their parents will get their eye picked out and
eaten by a bird (Prov.13:17) How many of you have ever committed
such a sin and received My forgiveness for it afterward, while still
keeping both your eyes (because I mercifully set you free from the
curse of the Law)?
5. Thieves shall be required to pay back SEVEN times what they stole,
and fork over everything in their house (Prov.6:30-31). If the deacon
stole a few dollars from the church till, would the pastor force him to
donate all his belongings to the church? How many church members
enforce this scripture as rigidly as the spanking scriptures?
6. Simple people who dont have all the answers should get their backs
beaten (Prov.10:13). Jesus praised Me for revealing His teachings to
babes instead of wise men (Matt.11:25; Luke 10:21). Solomon taught
that the pursuit of wisdom should be the first priority of a righteous
life, but failed to use it himself sometimes, to his own detriment.
7. Fools should be beaten with a mortar and pestle (Prov.27:22) How
often is this enforced in church today?
Solomons tragic life left a legacy of cruelty, as when his son
Rehoboam threatened the Israelite people with scorpions instead of
the whips his father had used on them (I Kings 12:11). Solomon,
praised by spanking advocates and certain Christian family authors as
the worlds greatest child rearing expert, departed from Me in his
latter years when his multitude of wives led him astray into idol
worship. Solomon built child-eating idols (Molech and Chemosh) to
please these heathen women (I Kings 11:7). Children were literally
thrown alive into flames as sacrifices to these satanic gods (Lev.18:21;

20:2). Sacrificing your children to Molech was punishable by being

stoned to death. But this didnt stop Solomon from sponsoring Molech
worship (or worshipping heathen gods himself). So when it comes to
dealing with children (or people in general), who should you listen to,
Solomon or Jesus?
One Israelite Queen Mother lost her position at court because she built
ONE idol in a grove (I Kings 15:13 and 2 Chron.15:16). Solomon
sponsored the building of countless idols, as many as his wives
demanded. But he stayed in power, even though he never fully
repented of this sin.
Jesus said He was GREATER than Solomon (Matt.12:41; Luke 11:31).
Jesus quoted from Moses, the Psalms and the Prophets, but never
from Proverbs. Youll see not one reference to Solomon after Acts.
Stephen mentioned him in Acts 7: 47 as having built Me a house of
stone. But Stephen also added that I cannot be contained in the
structures of men, nor can I find rest in places constructed by men.
The works of human hands are imperfect. And so is the reasoning of
humans.
Consider how none of the apostles mentioned Solomon in their
epistles, in which they taught My ways to the church, and sought to
help My saints grow in wisdom. David was mentioned many times, as
was Abraham, Sarah, even the backslider Lot and numerous heroes of
faith in the Old Testament. These people definitely had flaws and
problems in their lives. But they did NOT sponsor idol worship or make
it easier for others to worship false gods. And none of them wrote
treatises in support of beating little children who dont know their right
hand from their left. Solomon, who wrote many proverbs on beating
fools and children, never once volunteered to be beaten for his own
idolatry!
There are multitudes of eminent men and women the Bible. But Jesus
alone is My beloved only-begotten Son. Hear ye him (Matt.17:5).
Aside from countless UNENFORCED, neglected, and seldom-preachedon verses in Proverbs, why arent these other Old Testament passages
enforced in church as much as the spanking proverbs?
1. Lev.20:27: Witchcraft is punishable by stoning to death. How many
Christians read their horoscopes or go to tea leaf readers with no fear
of the pastor stoning them for it (Deut.18:10-12)? Those activities are
sinful and need to be repented of if committed. But unlike ancient

Israel, your secular government doesnt impose a death penalty for

these things.
2. All adulteresses must be stoned (Lev.20:10; John 8:1-11.) Notice,
Christ SPARED and REFUSED TO CONDEMN the woman taken in
adultery, even though others quoted Old Testament scripture to try to
persuade Him to carry out Moses penalty of stoning. Jesus didnt kill
her like the Law commanded. He didnt even paddle her!
3. Loud-mouthed, gluttonous, disrespectful teenagers are commanded
to be put to death (Deut.21:18-21) If church people literally enforced
THIS law, half the teenagers in church would die.
4. Sabbath-breakers must either be killed or cut off from the
congregation of My people forever (Ex.31:14). No Christian imposes
these penalties today for working on Saturday, the true Sabbath.
Adults go so much easier on themselves then they do on helpless
children who cant defend themselves from cruel, unjust or excessive
punishment. If a preacher commits adultery, he just might tearfully
confess in front of the church and ask forgiveness, and thats usually
the end of the matter, so far as other Christians are concerned. No
whipping is administered to reflect the seriousness of his sin against
Me, because the preacher (rightly) believes that if he confesses and
forsakes his sin (I John 1:9), that sin is now under the blood and he
shouldnt be spanked for it. Although, life itself spanks My people.
Even if they do repent, there might still be severe repercussions which
naturally spring from their gross sin. Such people might suffer financial
ruin, illness, broken relationships, etc.
An adulterous husband might end up having to support the offspring of
his affair, causing extra hardship to his lawful wife and their children.
The innocent wife, in turn, might be forced out to work herself to
replace the child-support money her husband must pay each month.
Her own children are deprived of some of her time, and others must
care for them, and they, in turn, might suffer from neglect. All these
spin-off ramifications might create resentment and marital strain, on
top of the hurt of being cheated on. If the wife cant handle the
consequences of her husbands affair, she might just end the marriage
altogether, take her children and leave. Then the man would have to
pay money to maintain two households in addition to maintaining
himself in some run-down studio apartment.
Or, if the wife is the one to commit adultery, and she has a baby from
the affair, even if her husband can forgive her, the temptation will
always be there to resent the child who isnt his own biological
offspring. In all cases of adultery, the children involved get hurt and

find it hard to maintain the same level of respect for the straying
parents.
An even more tangled situation happens when the wife of one man
commits adultery with the husband of another wife. In that case, two
whole families get caught in the crossfire of bad consequences.
Sometimes the effects
of sin are so devastating the affected
individuals never recover in an entire lifetime!
Sins like these happen on a REPEATED, WIDESPREAD basis in My
church, even among so-called leadership. Life itself punishes these
people financially, emotionally, even spiritually, because thereafter
they are prevented from ever reaching the full potential of ministry I
originally planned for them. Why? Because their good name in the
Christian community has been ruined. They have lost their shining
testimony of faithfulness before a critical world which watches for
imperfections in the saints, which would give them an excuse not to
turn to Christ. This sin gives My enemies ammunition to blaspheme My
Holy Name (2 Sam.12:14). The testimony of such people has been
ruined before baby saints who once looked up to them for guidance in
how to live a holy life. Prayer and spiritual warfare which might have
gone into ministering to the difficulties of others must instead be
directed to ameliorating the awful damage done by their catastrophic
sins of the flesh. This is the case even when such transgressors fully
repent before Me and have their sins washed away by My blood!
Adulterous preachers dont get spanked by other people. Not even
when their sins affect Me or wound other believers. Adults who cuss
and swear dont get spanked. Adults who gamble away their familys
grocery money dont get spanked. Adults who lose their temper on the
phone dont get spanked. Adults who yell abuse at other drivers dont
get spanked (though they might get hit if theres a confrontation).
Even Christian drivers sometimes act inconsiderately on the road
without getting spanked. Yet these same self-righteous hypocrites
demand perfection of a tiny child barely out of its mothers womb!
Even if a Christian child who is otherwise obedient and blameless
accidentally spills his glass of milk, he is in danger of being beaten
with The Rod as part of his training. If a child is tired and sulky, or
even looks at his parent the wrong way, hes in danger of getting
worn out with a switch, paddle, or belt. Why the double standard?
Why must every imperfection, every misstep, be answered with such
cruel consequences? Dont these misguided parents fear Me, and how
I might treat THEM if they fail to live up to MY expectations?

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy (Matt.5:7). The
flip side of the coin is this: Unfortunate are the unmerciful, for they
shall NOT obtain mercy! The same mercy you show others is what you
get back from Me. I take grave offense whenever well-meaning but
deluded parents tell the child: JESUS told me to do this to help you
grow up to love Him. If anything, such a cruel approach to parental
discipline will DRIVE THE CHILD FAR FROM ME when he/she gets old
enough to make up their own mind about continuing in the faith.
Gentle admonition should be tried first. Jesus Himself commanded the
disciples to FIRST admonish an erring brother before taking stronger
measures to correct the problem (Matt.18:15-17). No mention of
spanking the offender (presumably an adult). If he repents at the
first, second, or even the third (and last resort) admonition, the
problem is solved and he is to be totally forgiven and restored to
fellowship. No mention of other church members waiting at the church
door with paddles to correct the repentant member! Why should a
tiny child be treated more harshly than an adult Christian who sins
against his brother?
The church at Thyatira had a woman who was teaching Christs
servants to do abominable things. Jesus gave her and her followers
space (time) to repent before casting her into a sickbed as punishment
(Rev.2:20-22). Christian parents dont follow Jesus example in this.
They dont give their children space to repent so they can avoid
punishment. Instead, they fly off the handle and start hitting before
they admonish their children in love and try to win them back to the
paths of righteousness. Often, Christian parents will even lose their
temper and start beating their child before they even get the full story
of what happened!
In many cases, that amounts to a sick power game to exert authority
over the smaller and the weaker members of the tribe, not unlike
savage treatment jungle apes give each other to establish the pecking
order. Other times, the parent is really mad at someone else, or just
embittered about how hard life is and so theyll take it out on someone
who cant defend themselves!
I promise in My Word that if you consider your ways (judge yourself)
that I wont judge you and chasten you for your bad behavior (I Cor.
11:31-32). Why wont Christian parents be just as merciful toward
their own little children, who are not yet mature and sometimes make
mistakes?

If gentle admonitions fail and punishing your child IS necessary, all

penalties for disobedience or other offenses should be carefully,
prayerfully tailored to the offense, without causing harm to the child.
Christians are to be both holy and HARMLESS (Matt.10:16; Phil.2:15).
Be harmless as a dove. Do doves go around hitting people?
In I Tim.3:3 and Titus 1:7 Paul taught that Christians are not to strike
anyone. NO exception is made to allow for the corporal punishment of
children. In the Old Testament, where you find the ONLY support for
corporal punishment of kids, youll find no such universal ban on
believers striking people. Instead, the Old Testament abounds with
warriors who shed their enemies blood in battle.
Many contend theyll feel guilty and disobedient toward God if they
dont spank a child for every offense, just because spanking is
mentioned in the Bible. Yet these same people dont feel guilty for
disobeying other Old Testament passages. They dont feel guilty for
working on the Sabbath. They dont fear any consequences for eating
pork and lobster, both forbidden under the Law. They dont observe
ceremonial washings commanded to the Jews. They dont worry Ill be
displeased if they dont roast animals on the church altar.
Just as Paul warned Christian slaveholders that they also had a Master
in heaven to fear, so do I warn Christian parents that they also have a
Parent in heaven Who is watching their lives to see if My fruits of
kindness and mercy are blossoming in their lives as they deal with
their own tiny little children. Christians WILL have to give an account
of how they raised the most vulnerable members of their family when
they finally stand before Me (Rom.14:12).
Take a warning from the Unmerciful Servant (Matt.18:23-35). That
man was forgiven a debt so vastly huge, it was a miracle he got
forgiven at all. Then he turned around and abused somebody else who
barely owed anything. If a Christian parent comes to Me time and
again asking forgiveness for REAL sins, and then goes and whips his
tiny toddler for making a mess in the kitchen, hes in BIG trouble with
Me.
If you withhold mercy from the least of these My little ones, I will also
withhold it from you, saith the Lord. Hurt one of My precious babies
and it would be better if a millstone were tied around your neck and
you were drowned in the depths of the sea (Matt.18:6). So many
young people in these tyrannical Christian homes leave as soon as

theyre old enough to land a low-paid job and live on their own. Some
desperate kids, twelve or barely older than that, might flee in the dead
of night and hop on a bus to go somewhere, anywhere, to get away
from the beatings and verbal abuse they suffered at home.
Some survivors of religious child abuse grow up to be agnostics who
arent quite sure about Me anymore. Others turn into hardened
skeptics and atheists because they want nothing more to do with the
faith (empty, legalistic religion) of their parents, or anything associated
with it. All those castaway kids know is they never were treated with
tenderness or understanding, just spanked and shouted at like a dog.
If these abused kids manage to survive these rough years, they will be
emotionally scarred for life. They will have trouble forming a family of
their own or even showing affection toward others, because
gentleness, an essential fruit of the Spirit (Gal.5:22), was not shown
toward them by misguided Christian parents whose only way to teach
their kids was with a strap. Only by a restorative miracle in their souls
can such injured children be made whole and free to love and know
the REAL Christ of the Bible, Who is meek and lowly in heart
(Matt.11:29).
You get the same measure of mercy you mete out to others. No more,
no less (Matt.5:7;Luke 6:38). Treat these tiny precious ones with rigor
and cruelty and I must also withhold My grace and mercy and kindness
from you. I wont literally reach down from heaven with a giant paddle
and beat your backside, but I WILL allow painful trials and tribulations
to come into your life to correct you and wake you up to realize how
much it hurts to live without love, kindness and patience being shown
toward you. Why do you eagerly look for the tiny speck of dust in your
childs life and refuse to see the giant oak tree in your own (Luke 6:4142)?
And how do I feel about these so-called experts on the Christian
family who push the paddle as THE means of remedying all problems
in their childs life? These wolves in sheeps clothing sell the Christian
quackery that their readers (who are ALREADY doing it anyway)
exactly what they want to hear: that its perfectly fine to whip little
babies and toddlers who are barely aware that theyre alive in this
world, who only want to be cherished and loved. Children who are
trying to find their feet to stand, and only want someone to show them
the way.

These heartless authors of religious child abuse techniques teach you

that babies need to be spanked even before theyre out of diapers.
They teach you to use paddles of all sizes, belts, switches, and your
hand to strike fear into children of all ages, for each and every offense
or dish-washing accident that occurs. They teach that all other ways
to discipline are forbidden or of the devil because they arent
mentioned in Scripture. Then why on earth dont they tell adults that
it isnt okay to pay a traffic fine with a Swipe Card, that instead they
ought to let some judge spank them with a paddle?
Their
inconsistency is glaringly obvious.
Those child-beating ministers of darkness hide behind the exalted
priesthood of the father as a cloak for their sins of abuse and spiritual
pride. They insist that the child CANNOT reconcile with a Holy God
without the mediation of the dad offering up strong, tearful (often
crocodile) prayers on their behalf. The child is NOT encouraged
(allowed) to pray for forgiveness until the father okays it, always
AFTER a sufficiently hard beating with the implement of his choice! In
his darkened heart, hes afraid I might forgive that child first and wash
his sin away (if it WAS a sin instead of an accident). Then hed feel
like a cruel creep if he was to take a child Id just spring-cleaned inside
and beat the stuffing out of him to correct him. By dictating just
WHEN Im allowed to forgive the child for wetting his bed or leaving
the cap off the toothpaste, the father is overstepping the bounds of his
paternal authority and intruding on My territory.
What crass presumption! Paul writes in I Tim.2:5 that there is only
ONE Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Fathers
who tell the child theyve got to wait until their backside is blistered
before they pray are really saying, Move over, Jesus, Ill be the
mediator, and the paddling hasnt happened yet, so God isnt allowed
to forgive this child yet.
Nowhere do you read of Temple priests assigned the ministry of
paddling offenders. There were teaching priests, priests in the musical
ministry, priests who offered up the incense of praise and worship.
BUT NO PADDLING PRIESTS!
Even when corporal punishment was necessary, it was the ELDERS OF
THE CITY who would administer the beating (Deut.22:18). In this ONE
reference, its an adult man who gets whipped for claiming his wife
wasnt a virgin when he married her. The burden of proof is on the
accused wife to prove her innocence, and if she cant, she gets stoned
to death for playing the whore in her fathers house (verse 21).

When the girls father brings the bloodstained honeymoon sheet to the
elders, the elders are convinced the girl was intact on her wedding
night. So her husband gets punished for bringing disgrace on an
innocent Israelite girl in a society where premarital purity is
commanded by law. Its all in My Written Word! If you insist PART of
the Old Law is binding on New Testament believers, then its ALL
binding on you (Gal.3:10). And if you dont keep ALL the Law, youre
under its curse.
So if ALL the Law is binding, why dont you see more Christian men
taking whippings for questioning their wives premarital virginity? Why
arent the couples wedding night sheets saved by the girls father as
proof of a girls innocence (verse 20)? Youre all gung-ho about using
a paddle on your child, but where is your feces paddle to use for
personal sanitation when you go out (Deut.23:12-14)? Thats the
ONLY paddle mentioned in all the Bible, and only in the KJV! Why
isolate just ONE precept out of ONE lone book out of the Old Covenant
as perpetually binding, and discard all other Old Testament laws and
admonitions? You who insist that Christians MUST spank children and
discipline them no other way, you cherry-pick just ONE isolated verse
here and there out of ONE book of the Bible, Proverbs. You selectively
apply the scriptures that agree with you just so youll feel better about
venting your ungodly wrath on your own precious child who sometimes
makes your life a challenge!
Even the self-righteous Pharisees enjoyed watching other Jews fall
short in their lives, just so they could claim superiority over them and
rebuke them for being imperfect. And as for YOU being the one to
decide when to allow your believing child to pray for forgiveness, HES
ALREADY FORGIVEN! As your Christian child walks in the light as I am
in the light, he or she enjoys fellowship with Me and other believers,
and the precious blood of My Son washes ALL his or her sins away (I
John 1:7)! So why should a Christian dad want to hang onto their
childs faults long enough to carry out a paddling and do other things
to prove what a wonderful priest he is? Ego gratification has no place
in My church, or in the homes of its members!
Beware that you do not seek to supplant My position as High Priest in
the life of even your tiniest members, or youll be guilty of causing a
little one to stumble. Your trusting little child, who knows no better
than to believe every word you say, will see YOU as the god-figure in
his life, an angry bear whos always watching him like a hawk for slipups, poised to pounce on him with a paddle. For that youll fall under
My wrath (Matt.18:6). I will NOT tolerate any rivals in My position of

that ONE High Priest in heaven Who ever lives to make intercession for
My people (Heb.7:25).
I will NOT share My glory with anyone
(Isa.42:8). Least of all a pretend priest who cant wait to get to the
BOTTOM of the matter because his heart isnt right with God. King
Herod tried to steal some of my glory and he ended up as worm food
(Acts 12:22-23).
When someone says, I am Christ to you, or You can only reach
Jesus through me because Im your covering, that is the ANTICHRIST
(instead of Christ) spirit at work, not the Holy Spirit. The only mention
of any creature being a COVERING is a very negative one
(Ezek.28:14). The devil was once a covering spirit, as an anointed
cherub in heaven. Beware of casting off the garment of humility and
portraying yourself as a godlike figure to be feared and fled from by
your own loved ones.
Beware of forgetting that you are yet
unperfected and still in need of My grace and mercy. Do NOT fall for
this lie that your leadership role in the family exempts you from having
to receive My rebuke or correction. Beware of demonic deception
which comes in the form of deeper life teachings in books, DVDs,
seminars, and videos.
Spanking teachers resort to hidden mysticism interpretations of
various scripture passages where they appeal to the believers
obligation to grow by suffering like Christ did. And theyll tell you that
you must deny yourself by never objecting to anything authority
figures teach or tell you to do. Children arent supposed to even
question any order daddy gives them, contrary to I Thes.5:21 which
tells believers to PROVE ALL THINGS. Children are supposed to obey
their parents IN THE LORD, and you cant do something IN THE LORD
if My Word spells it out as a blatant sin. Obviously, if the childs
parents tell them to steal a candy bar, the child is free to consult Me
about it to see if I approve. In such a case, the child is free to disobey!
Christian dads who listen to spanking teachers do their utmost to force
their children, sometimes even their wives, to share in the sufferings
of Christ. Theyll impose over-regulated living semi-ascetic lifestyles
on their family, which causes weariness, fear, tedium and exhaustion.
The professed priesthood of abusive Christian men makes them feel
far less guilty about inflicting pain on their own loved ones! And they
claim to be leading their family in The Way of the Cross by having to
suffer with them!
You appropriate My forgiveness by faith. Forgiveness, like every other
benefit of the Cross of Calvary, was provided long ago. Colossians

2:13 reads HAVING FORGIVEN you all trespasses. That denotes a

perfectly completed forgiveness already accomplished in the past! If
your child is a believer, or under the age where theyre aware of sin
and its consequences, that child would pass right into heaven if they
were to die. I am far more merciful than bullying Christian priests
who pick on kids who cant flee their terror.
Some Christians find the ministry books, C.D.s and videos of
spanking authors titillating because they dont know the wickedness
that is in their own heart.
This stuff comes close to Christian
pornography, for it puts undue emphasis on punishing certain areas of
a childs body to turn him into a holier person. Colossians 2:23
teaches that severity on the body does NOT instill holiness into a
person. That is a doctrine of the devil.
Neither Jesus nor any of the apostles EVER taught anyone to strike
anybody else for any reason. If spanking were so important, why is
this doctrine missing from the gospels and the epistles? Jesus taught
that little children are the essence of His Kingdom (Mark 10:14).
Despite the fact that Christian family experts demonize little children
as tiny imps who need to be frequently beaten in order to crucify their
fallen flesh and grow more Christlike.
These authors are raking in a big pile of money off the misery they
impose on little children through their rigid, twisted teachings. They
have gotten rich by promoting Old Testament doctrine at the expense
of the grace and mercy taught by Jesus Christ Himself.
One day these cruel, money-hungry authors who got rich from these
evil doctrines of devils (I Tim.4:1; 2 Pet.3:2-3) will appear before Me
and see their dirty, dangerous work go up in smoke. I will say to
them, Depart from Me, ye who work iniquity.
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Psalms 103:10: The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 HE HATH NOT DEALT WITH US AFTER OUR SINS; NOR REWARDED
US ACCORDING TO OUR INIQUITIES.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that

fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.