My oh my. Where are all these people coming from?
Rosie, Jim, FHB, Bystander, WWJD, Lee, tomatoe (I'm sure I've repeated some names twice in that list), I think it would be best if you guys have a conference with the chief. You know what Jesus said:
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace" (Lk. 14:28-32).
It's an impossible situation, and there is no way to win. The best course is to send up the white flag and beg for mercy. And I'm sure there will be as much mercy as possible.
"Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison" (Mt 5:25).
Even if there is criminal activity that makes you afraid to lay down your weapons lest that be revealed, looking at the entire situation, it's the best course for all concerned.
If only Chosroes King of Persia had been willing to call it quits after losing to the emperor of the East, but he just wouldn't. He fought to the end until both Persia and Byzantium were exhausted, and that is one reason that has been given historically for the emergence of Islam out of Arabia in the seventh century. No one was strong enough to keep them in Arabia anymore.
I'm sure we could find lots of examples from history like that. And surely if the Jews had been willing to surrender to the Romans in the first century, Jerusalem would never have been destroyed. And if Zedekiah had surrendered to the Babylonians in the sixth century BC, like Jeremiah told him to, Jerusalem would not have been destroyed then either.
Please, have a pow wow and consider these things. And may peace reign!