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5- Are We in the Last Days?
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Mystery of Israel
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PERSONAL FROM

on the imparting of sex information toppled . An

Giving Sin Public avalanche of books, pamphlets, and newspaper

articles descended on the public. Yet in all this the
most vitally needed dimension of knowledge was

Acceptance missing .
My book The Missing Dimension in Sex
provides this missing dimension of knowledge. It is
offered, gratis, upon request.
Beginning the middle of the twentieth century,
the catch phrase "the new morality" was

"\Z'
completely changing public attitudes . Today
sexuality is openly discussed in the public media,
especially in television, turning promiscuous sex
into public acceptance. Today it may be questioned
early in 1927, when I was whether as many as 2 percent of young brides go
in my first biblical studies, leading to my to the altar as virgins. Marriage for much of
conversion, my wife and I often visited society is on the way out. In some areas divorces
various churches. I was searching for the virtually equal marriages. Family life is being
truth. broken down though the family is a basic building
block of any stable civilization .
One Sunday morning we attended a church
More and more, children are not wanted .
service at a leading downtown Baptist church Abortion is fast gaining public acceptance.
in Portland, Oregon. They were announcing God created sex, not only to keep humanity
the conclusion of a contest at which a very alive, but to bring delectable, joyfully pleasurable
handsome new Bible was awarded to the happiness in pure and wholesome love between
winner. The contest question had been, "What husband and wife, and as a means of binding
is the most universal sin?" tightly together a happily married couple. But
The winning answer was "Ingratitude." under modern attitudes, the cord supposedly tying
Assuredly that is a very prevalent sin . Another a husband and wife tightly together is proving to
very prevalent sin, and one of the oldest, is the be the cord that cuts the marriage in two.
misuse of sexuality. Indeed, prostitution is often It's time you knew the truth about the missing
spoken of as " the world's oldest profession ." dimension in sex. It is set forth frankly , fearlessl y,
Satan has seized on this sin to make it far more rationally and spiritually, as well as physically, in
universal than is generally realized . Satan sways my book mentioned above.
humanity into making sexual sins one of the most We commit individual and national sins and give
universal and destructive. such sinning wide public acceptance.
During most of the so-called "church age" in .God condemns homosexuality . He destroyed the
Roman Catholic teaching, and in England and the whole populations of Sodom and Gomorrah for this
United States since the Victorian age, sex was a sin . It is condemned in the first chapter of
virtually forbidden topic of conversation, seldom Romans , saying no such person can enter the
mentioned. Satan made sure sex was considered as kingdom of God. Then we try to change the ugly,
"shameful" and so evil it was not talked about. reproachful name homosexual, and call those who
About the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud, practice it "gays." The public media and the public
founder of psychoanalysis, changed all of that. Up in general are coming to make this perversion
until World War I it was illegal in the U.S. to acceptable by calling it "sexual preference. " We
publish, sell, or even loan a book containing sex are becoming nations of drunkards, and thousands
knowledge. After World War I the legal barriers are being killed on our (Continued on page 26)
March 1986
 BRITAIN
Trouble
Within and Without! by Gene H. Hogberg

Riots in the inner cities, the threat of civil war in Northern

Ireland, growing isolation within the Commonwealth- seldom have so many
. grave crises confronted the British people.

OKat what is happening newsletter: "A growing section of time, the Irish government, sover-
to Britain - at home British youth-black and white- is eign over Irel and 's 26 southern
becoming disillusioned with au- counties, will be granted an advi-
[ and abroad. Something thority of all kinds. " sory role in the affairs of Ulster's
has definitely gone British authorities are most con- minority Roman Catholic popula-
wrong in the "sceptered isle." cerned that professional agitators tion.
Hardly anyone, however , and outright revolutionaries are be- In return for this concession, the
seems to know the reasons why! ginning to make headway in the Irish government agreed to explic-
But there are causes for the ob- urban areas. Some militant organi- itly rec.ognize British sovereignty
vious effects. zations openly profess as their goal over Northern Ireland and to put
The tre asured civility of the the overthrow of capitalism and off indefinitely its demands for
British way of life is under assault "imperialism." They preach that unification of both parts of Ireland
as never before. the police are the "enemies of the under the tricolor flag of the Re-
people" and tools of the state in public.
Urban Crisis enforcing an "oppressive and A primary aim of both London
racialist society. " and Dublin is to cut the ground out
The picture of the unarmed bobby from under extremists, especially
is giving way to platoons of police Ulster's Cauldron the outlawed Irish Republican
officers dressed out in riot-control Troublesome as trends are in Army. The IRA's political arm,
gear. Britain's inner cities, they pale into the Sinn Fein, has been growing at
Crime and a rising drug traffic insignificance compared with what the expense of a more ' moderate
plague large British cities. And too could happen in Northern Ireland. Catholic political party in the
often now violence erupts in The latest round in the search North .
Britain ' s increasingly racially for peace in a m illennium of trou- The threat of terrorism from
mixed urban centers. In one out- bles in Ireland- troubles which IRA extremists on both sides of
break in late 1985, rioters used alone since 1969 have claimed the Irish Sea is real. An IRA bomb
firearms on police for the first time nearly 2,500 lives-took a dra- blast in 1984 killed several British
in British history. matic turn last· November 15. But Conservative Party members, nar-
Liberal sociologists blame the will the latest attempt be any rowly missing Mrs. Thatcher. The
turmoil on unemployment and po- more successful than the dashed Irish government fears that with an
lice "insensitivity." Yet there was hopes of the past? IRA beachhead in the North, the
far greater economic hardship in Meeting unexpectedly , near extremists, some of them radical
the Depression days of the 1930s Belfast, Northern Ireland, Prime Marxists, could undermine society
without such violent consequences . Ministers Margaret Thatcher of in the South .
Government spokesmen at- the United Kingdom and Garret The IRA "will not like this
tribute the violent outbursts to FitzGerald of the Republic of Ire- agreement, " admitted Mr.
"plain, unadulterated lawlessness land signed a pact incorporating a Fi tzGerald shortly after signing
and criminality." Adds a British historic compromise. For the first the accord. The IRA showed its
2 The PLAIN TRUTH
displeasure by initiating new ter- high-ranking Irish diplomat. He The meeting, according to Plain
rorist activity. warned, not long ago, that the Ul- Truth regional correspondent Stan
ster Protestants would turn vio- Bass, had been hailed for months as
Charges of Treachery lently against the British govern- a confrontation with Britain over the
The pragmatic Mr. FitzGerald has ment should they perceive the issue of apartheid, South Africa's
been willing to gamble for peace. government was in the process of policy of racial separation.
Some members of his main politi- handing them over to their "hered- Before her arrival in the Ba-
cal opposition , the Fianna Fail itary Catholic enemies." hamas, Mrs. Thatcher had written
Party, accuse him of compromising The Ulster Protestants, wrote letters to several African states
the Republic 's constitutional Mr. O'Brien, "mean to stay in Ul- outlining the British government's
claims to unity. ster." And their refusal to be incor- opposition to the threat of Com-
But it is Mrs. Thatcher who has porated in a Catholic-majority monwealth trade sanctions against
had to bear the brunt of the most Irish state, Mr. O'Brien continued, South Africa, a Commonwealth
outspoken reaction . From the ma- " is as stubborn as the refusal of the member until May 31, 1961.
jority of Ulster's Protestants came Israelis to be incorporated in an Mrs. Thatcher has repeatedly
charges of betrayal and treason,
even treachery.
Militant Protestant politician
and minister Ian Paisley, leader of
the Democratic Unionist Party,
pledged to destroy the agreement,
which he labeled a conspiracy. Ad-
dressing the biggest gathering in
Ulster's hi story, the fiery leader
boomed that "Mrs. Thatcher says
the Republic must have some say
in the running of this province. We
say never, never, never!"
So what looked so reasonable
and logical on paper to Mr.
FitzGerald and Mrs. Thatcher is in
danger of being overwhelmed by
the forces of conflictng national-
Isms.
Even moderate Protestants ex-
press doubts that the agreement Prime Ministers Garret FitzGerald of Republic of Ireland and Margaret Thatcher
can stick, despite Mrs. Thatcher's of the U.K. exchange documents after signing agreement on Northern Ireland.
resolve. Despite assurances from
London and Dublin that Ulster will Arab-majority Palestine." voiced her opinion that the princi-
remain a part of the United King- Ulster Protestants would never ple of sanctions is wrong. In the
dom as long as the majority wishes, turn toward a united Ireland, em- case of South Africa, she has said,
Protestant citizens, said one ob- phasized Mr. O'Brien. Instead sanctions would devastate the very
server, "feel a little less British "they would turn against Britain" peoples they supposedly are geared
today." Another drew analogy to and declare, if necessary, "an inde- to help, and only play into the
citizens of the United States being pendent Northern Ireland. " hands of extremists as well as make
asked to accept direct Canadian or Then, concluded this Irish the Pretoria government more re-
Mexican consultative input into statesman, the real trouble would sistant than ever to change.
how the United States is ruled. begin: "We shall have our Then too is the fact that Britain
Lebanon ." In other words, a civil is South Africa's largest foreign
A British "Lebanon"? war within the very confines of the investor and trade partner. Govern-
The Protestants in Northern Ire- United Kingdom! ment officials estimate a total boy-
land are not recent newcomers. cott would cost as many as 200,000
They trace their roots to Scottish Commonwealth Isolation British jobs . With arrow-sharp
Presbyterians who settled in Ulster But all this is not the end of the logic, Mrs. Thatcher told her Com-
in 1609--only two years after the story. For Britain, mounting trou- monwealth peers : "There is no
English established their first per- bles at home are matched by grow- earthly use. in creating unemploy-
manent American colony at ing challenges without.' ment at home in order to create
Jamestown. One month before the signing of unemployment there."
The Protestants express fierce the Anglo-Irish accord, Mrs. British officials also took excep-
loyalty to the British crown. But Thatcher endured virtual solitary tion to the irony of some African
this loyalty is conditional, wrote confinement at the Commonwealth governments calling for sanc-
noted British political commenta- Heads of Government Conference tions-while privately admitting
tor Conor Cruise O'Brien, aformer held in the Bahamas. they may have to circumvent the
March 1986 3
sanctions themselves, being so de- members, representing nearly a ward work and enterprise. He is
pendent on South African trade. quarter of the earth's population- disturbed over a deep-seated cul-
In the end, the Commonwealth a virtual "mini-United Nations." tural refusal to face the reality of
meeting ended with a patched- As the ranks of the new Com- the nation's relative economic de-
together-accord. It was arrived at monwealth members swelled, it cline.
by great political gymnastics. The was the new Third World nations Applicable is the prophet's warn-
accord announced agreement on that increasingly set the agenda of ing: " .. . gray hairs are here and
limited economic restrictions (gen- Commonwealth meetings. there on him, yet he does not know
erally already in effect) and added Today even the original domin- it" (Hos. 7:9, Revised Authorized
that "some of us would" consider ion states-Australia, New Version).
stronger steps in six months time. Zealand and Can ad a--often side Not that some of today's secular
Mrs. Thatcher told reporters that with the newer members, as they prophets can't see direct cause-
she very definitely was "not one of did at the Bahamas c<;mference. and-effect relationships.
the some." Mark this well! Do not be sur- "Britain's economic decline runs
Thus, Britain finds herself iso- prised if, at some future Common- roughly parallel with the creation
lated in her own house, the Com- wealth meeting, demands are made of the welfare state," wrote colum-
monwealth. That's because the to enact sanctions against Britain, nist Peregrine W orsthorne in the
shape of that house has changed rad- complete with threats to expel her June 16, 1985, Sunday Telegraph.
ically since the Second World War. from the very organization she And moral decline has kept pace.
The Commonwealth in its begin- founded. In an earlier column (February
nings was a club limited to a few 10, 1985), Mr. Worsthorne casti-
nations composed of people primar- A Shadow of Former Greatness gated British clergymen for not
ily of British stock. In 1867 the Britain in 1986 is but a shadow of speaking out against homosexuality
Parliament in London passed the her former greatness. With the em- and for not giving the moral dimen-
British North America Act, which pire gone and the Commonwealth sion to the AIDS epidemic. "Is it not
granted Canada dominion status. It often in opposition, Britain is in the time that the bishops brought God
was a concept that implied equality process of relinquishing two signif- into the act?" he demanded.
with Britain. Shortly after the turn icant pieces of overseas territory- Another journalist, Paul John-
of the century, dominion status was Hong Kong and Gibraltar. son, writing in the May 11, 1985,
conferred on Australia, New Hong Kong, Britain's prosperous Daily Telegraph, lashed out at
Zealand and South' Africa. Asian crown colony-the world's clerics who pontificate on political
At the Imperial Conference of third largest financial center-be- and economic matters, but not
1926, Britain and the Dominions comes a "special administrative re- moral ones, such as the epidemic of
were defined as "autonomous com- gion" of the People's Republic of children born out of wedlock-
munities, equal in status, united by China in 1997. "probably the biggest and most in-
a common allegiance to the Crown And Britain has at last agreed to tractable social evil we face today,"
and freely associated as members discuss with Spain the sticky issue he said, adding that the one-parent
of the British Commonwealth of of sovereignty in negotiations over family is a major cause of poverty.
Nations." the future status of Gibraltar----:-the "Yet oddly enough," said Mr.
But British worldwide obliga- impregnable western sea gate to Johnson, "it is a long time since I
tions covered a wide number of the Mediterranean, Britain's very have heard any clergyman, let
peoples and cultures, other than symbol of past imperial power and alone a bishop, preach a sermon on
just the commonly referred - to perseverance. the evils of fornication."
"white dominions." Scores of The British public, still enjoying Yes, there are definite, dis-
British possessions and protec- a fair amount of prosperity, seem cernible causes for the many prob-
torates in Africa, Asia and the not to be particularly perturbed by lems that Britain is confronted
New World were eventually to de- their nation's condition-by the with at home and abroad. The
mand independence-and their loss of power and prestige abroad, "Lord of our far-flung battleline,
own seats in the freely associated and the looming crises at home. beneath whose . .. Hand we hold
Commonwealth. The nation has been on, as jour- dominion over palm and pine," of
Beginning with an independent nalist Peter Jenkins described it, a whom Kipling wrote in his 1897
India in 1947, the British Com- slow but steady "dignified Recessional, is no longer blessing
monwealth became a multiethnic demise." This drift has been tem- the British people.
group of nations, sharing the com- porarily slowed by the firmness of You'll find even more answers to
monality not of _race but of the Prime Minister Thatcher-but the the reasons for Britain's current
English language and the various trend is still downward. In 1985 state of affairs in our book The
traditions received from its former Italy bypassed Britain in its stan- United States and Britain in
colonial ruler. dard of living. Prophecy . It's free for the asking.
The word British was dropped None other than Prince Charles It will open your eyes to the bibli-
from the Commonwealth in 1951. warns that Britain is doomed to the cal identity of the British and
The group came to be known as the status of, as he says, "a fourth-rate American peoples, and what is
Commonwealth or The Common- country" unless there is a dramatic prophesied to occur to them in the
wealth of Nations. It now totals 49 change in the public attitude to- tumultuous years ahead. 0
4 The PLAIN TRUTH
 by Herbert W. Armstrong

How can you know whether we are

near "the end of the world"? Can we prove it?

X
E we now in the bibli- government is to appear. But do tence about correct, the first hu-
cally prophesied these prophecies imply that our man, Adam, was created nearly
present living generation is the one 6,000 years ago. The Bible shows
"time of the end"? to live into that time? that God's Master Plan for work-
President Reagan, Even the original first century ing out his purpose here below is a
of the United States, spoke of apostles expected this end of the 7,000-year plan-with some 6,000
world conditions seemingly indi- world as we know it to occur in years allotted to this world of Sa-
cating we may be nearing "Ar- their lifetime. Individuals in every tan, followed by 1,000 years of
mageddon." century since have believed the Christ's reign over all nations of
The atomic scientists some time world was at· "the. time of the the earth. Somewhere around
ago set the doomsday clock one end "-that "Armageddon" was 1,600 years from Adam's creation
more minute forward from four to near. came the earth wide Flood. How
only three minutes till "midnight." But how may we know? How civilization developed prior to the
An editorial in a major American may we be SURE? Or can we Flood we do not fully know. But
news magazine referred to this know? we may assume the materiai civi-
seemingly imminent time, saying it Jesus said in Luke 21:28: "And lization progressed no further than
would seem that the world's only when these things begin to come to in a similar span after the Flood.
hope now lies in the sudden ap- pass, then look up, and lift up your So far as we know, therefore, the
pearance of "a strong hand from heads; for your redemption development of human civilization
some place." draweth nigh." These things he continued on a comparatively even
Time was, when only a wild-eyed was talking about include many keel until about 150 years ago.
freak shouting a "doomsday" prophesied events now occurring There was little major advance-
warning was ridiculed as "off his for the first time in history. ment in human knowledge and ma-
rocker." But today serious world One cannot look at one or two terial progress until after the in-
leaders and scientists are saying superficial signs or events and vention of the printing press about
grave things about the current drift jump to any sure conclusion. We 1450. Printing made possible the
in world conditions. Some promi- must comprehend God's overall spread and diffusion of knowledge.
nent scientists have said the world's PURPOSE and how he is working out This diffusion expanded slightly
only hope now rests in a single that purpose. Many prophecies until the middle of the 19th cen-
world government, with only one must be considered. We must not tury. Most modern inventions and
military force, yet in . the same guess or surmise, or jump hastily to facilities have appeared since 1850.
breath they admit the utter impos- conclusions. Knowledge and invention of me-
sibility of mankind being able to chanical facilities have since multi-
form such a one-world super gov- The Modern World plied with constantly increasing
ernment. The modern world really began momentum. It is almost as if
Strikingly, biblical prophecy only about 150 years ago. If we mankind first appeared on earth
says just such a super one-world have the chronology of human exis- about 150 years ago and has been
March 1986 5
learning and progressing more and called the "Dixie Highway," from the days of these toes, now just
more rapidly since. the Gulf to Canada, to go through ahead of us, a stone supernaturally
their township. It was not a paved is to come from heaven, smite the
End-time Prophecies highway. It was gravel and dirt. ten-toe nations, replace them, and
Now consider some end-time bibli- Paved highways had not yet come. rule the whole earth forever after
cal prophecies. Today people are traveling to and (Dan. 2:34, 44). This stone repre-
The longest prophecy in the fro by automobile, railroad and air- sents Christ's Second Coming to
Bible is Daniel 11. The 10th chap- planes. Modern airports are set up the kingdom of God and
ter is the prelude and the 12th the jammed with people "going to and destroy all this world's govern-
completion. In Daniel 11 :40, the fro." ments-setting up the government
prophecy comes to the "time of the of God over all nations. That will
end" and continues in chapter 12. World-ruling Kingdoms be the end of this world-the end
The prophet Daniel did not under- In the second chapter of Daniel is of this man-made civilization as we
stand what he was being told to a prophecy reaching till the Second know it.
write. The angel said the words of Coming of Christ. King Neb- Full understanding must include
the prophecy were closed up and uchadnezzar had formed and ruled Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 and 17.
sealed until the time of the end, the first empire of nations in world These show the Roman Empire,
when knowledge would be in- history. He saw in a dream a most . falling in A.D. 476, replaced by
creased, and people would be trav- astonishing statue of a man, incred- three kingdoms that disappeared,
eling "to and fro." ibly high. God revealed the mean- the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, and
That time has come. ing to Daniel. The image's head the Heruli. They were the first
Knowledge has been increased at three horns of Daniel 7 that were
a breathtaking rate in the last 150 "plucked up by the roots" (verse
years. Indeed, it was claimed, for 8). In other words, these three peo-
example, that the world 's fund of
Scientists have said the ples disappeared from history and
knowledge had doubled during the world's only hope rests in we have no historic record of what
1960s-although this increase was a single world became of them. There were seven
largely in the areas of medicine, more of the ten horns on this beast
science and technology. Also, peo- government ... yet they yet to follow. The first of that
ple are traveling "to and fro" on admit the utter seven was the restoration of the
the earth. The mode of travel from Empire in the West. This hap-
the beginning of civilization until impossibility of mankind pened when, at the behest of the
150 years ago was indeed very forming such a super Pope at Rome, Emperor Justinian
slow. Few people traveled more at Constantinople reestablished
than 50 or 100 miles away from government. Imperial authority throughout
their homes. Travel for millennia Italy in A,D. 554. Historians record
was by foot, horseback, camelback, this as the restoration of the Ro-
ox cart, rowboat or sailboat. man Empire. There followed a se-
Construction on the steamboat ries of political valleys and peaks in
was not begun by Robert Fulton was of fine gold, breast and arms of Europe. It reached its next peak in .
until 1806. Then came the railroad. silver, belly and thighs of brass, A.D. 800 under Charlemagne, the
Travel by automobile has all come legs of iron, and feet and toes of Frankish head. It reached another
within my lifetime. I well remem- iron and clay mixed. The head rep- peak about the tenth century with
ber that when I was eleven years resen ted N e buchad nezzar's Otto the Great of Saxon Germany
old automobiles were called horse- Chaldean Empire. The silver repre- at the helm . At this time it was
less carriages. "Horseless car- sented the succeeding world king- known as the Holy Roman Empire.
riages" were quite a sight. I re- dom, which proved to be the Per- The Holy Roman Empire reached
member, at the time, when I was sian Empire. The brass represented another peak with the Habsburg
eleven, my father calling out, "Oh, a third world kingdom, which dynasty in Austria. This was
come to the front window quick, proved to be the Greco- Macedo- followed by another peak under
there goes a horseless carriage." nian or Grecian Empire; the Napoleon, who fled into exile in
We all rushed to the front window fourth, represented by the legs of 1814.
to see the sight. Sure enough it was iron, proved ~o be ,t he Roman Em- In 1929 Mussolini arranged a
a "horseless carriage." It was a car- pire with capitals in Constantinople Concordat with the Papacy. Then
riage being pulled by a mule! and Rome. about 1935 Mussolini, having
When I was twenty-three years The feet and toes represented united Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Ital-
old, as assistant secretary of the succeeding smaller empires to fol- ian Somali land to Italy, proclaimed
Chamber of Commerce of South low, leading to the toes represent- it to be the reestablishment of the
Bend, Indiana, I was given the ing ten kingdoms in Eastern and Roman Empire. I announced the
assignment of persuading the farm- Western Europe. The prophecy news of this ninth restoration my-
ers in a township south of the city dates the time in which we are self on radio at the time.
to sign a petition agreement allow- living now. We await. the appear- We are now looking for the
ing a new cross-country highway, ance of those ten-toe nations. In tenth and last resurrection of the
6 The PLAIN TRUTH
Roman Empire-the seventh head sus knew, of course, the end of the the 11 th chapter. To the church in
of this Beast of the 17th chapter of world would not occur for more the very first century, he wrote:
Revelation (Rev. 17:12), which is than another 1,950 years. So he "But I fear, lest by any means, as
also pictured by the ten toes of answered only their first question the serpent beguiled Eve through
Nebuchadnezzar's image of Daniel first, for the Temple was destroyed his subtilty, so your minds should
2:40-44. Since these toes were on in A.D. 70. be corrupted from the simplicity
the two feet that represented East- Jesus then said, "Take heed that that is in Christ. For if he that
ern and Western Europe, there is no man deceive you." He Was cometh preacheth another Jesus,
strong likelihood that this final res- speaking to his own disciples about whom we have not preached, or if
urrection of the Holy Roman Em- being deceived in their lifetime. He ye receive another spirit, which ye
pire will include Iron Curtain na- continued, "For many shall come have not received, or another
tions of Eastern Europe as well as in my name, saying, I [Jesus] am gospel, which ye have not accepted,
nations in Western Europe. (Write Christ; and shall deceive many." ye might well bear with him"
for our two booklets The Book of How could they be deceived by the (verses 3-4).
Revelation Unveiled ai Last and teaching that Jesus was the Christ? Of those false prophets claiming
Who or What Is the Prophetic Many did come in his name claim- . to speak in Jesus ' name, Paul
Beast?) They will form a third ing to represent him, saying that added: "For such are false apostles;
gigantic world power probably as Jesus was the Christ, and they de- deceitful workers, transforming
great or even greater than the ceived the many even in that very themselves . into the apostles of
U.S.S . R . or United States of first century. Let me explain a very Christ. And no marvel; for Satan
America. important fact here. Soon after himself is transformed into an an-
These ten toes of Daniel 2:40-44 gel of light. Therefore it is no great
will be destroyed by Christ at his thing if his [Satan's] ministers also
Second Coming and will be re- Individuals in every be transformed as the ministers of
placed by the world-ruling govern- righteousness; whose end shall be
ment of the kingdom of God, with century since according to their works" (verses
Christ at its head and all the resur- the first have believed the 13-15). These were actually the minis-
rected saints also ruling under
Christ. world was at "the time ters of Satan the devil, but came in
of the end." Jesus' name, saying that Jesus was
Jesus' Principal Prophecy the Christ. However, they misrep-
Now consider the principal But how may we know? resented Jesus, so that in fact they
prophecy of Jesus Christ himself. How may we be sure? were preaching about "another Je-
It is found in Matthew 24, Luke 21 sus"-a different Jesus (verse 4) .
and Mark 13.
But we quote from Matthew's Just What Was Jesus' Gospel?
account. Jesus with his disciples Jesus came as a messenger from
had just come out from the Temple God bearing a message about the
(verse 1). He and his disciples were coming kingdom of God to take
looking at the buildings of the Christ's ascension to heaven and over and rule all nations. That was
Temple. the founding of the church in A.D. Jesus' gospel. Notice the gospel
"See ye not all these things? ver- 31, a violent controversy arose, ac- that Jesus proclaimed.
ily I say unto you, There shall not cording to · church history, as to Mark 1: 1 begins to relate the
be left here one stone upon an- . whether the gospel to be pro- beginning of the gospel of Jesus
other, that shall not be thrown claimed was the gospel OF Christ, Christ. It mentions how John the
down." That event happened in or a gospel ABOUT Christ. The lat- Baptist prepared the way, and how
A.D. 70 in the lifetime of thos.e ter won out. False prophets did Jesus was baptized by John. Then
disciples. arise in the first century, saying in verse 14: "Now after that John
Then, a little later, as .Jesus sat Jesus was the Christ, but omitting was put in prison, Jesus came into
on the Mount of Olives with some altogether Jesus' gospel, which was Galilee, preaching the gospel of the
of his disciples, they asked him, the message of the coming world- kingdom of God"-what gospel
"When shall these things be?" ruling kingdom of God to rule all did Jesus preach?-"the gospel of
They referred to the destruction of nations after Christ's Second Com- the kingdom of God. " That is the
. the Temple, which, I repeat, actu- ing . gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the
ally did occur in their lifetime in gospel proclaimed by the apostle
A.D . 70. But then the disciples
Different Gospel Preached Paul to gentiles (Acts 20:25;
added another question : "And In . Galatians 1:6-7, we see they 28:23,31) .
what shall be the sign of thy com- were already preaching a different Mark this well. That gospel was
ing, and of the end of the world?" gospel than Jesus' gospel of the not proclaimed to the world for
The disciples expected the end of kingdom of God. 1,900 years. In the very first cen-
the world in their own lifetime, so The apostle Paul also spoke of tury, they turned to a different
they connected this question with these false prophets preaching a gospel-a gospel about Christ, but
the destruction of the Temple. Je- different gospel, in II Corinthians, (Continued on page 18)
March 1986 7
Careless words do tled-by such careless and harmful depression, mental illness or sui-
statements? cide. "Death and life are in the
enormous damage. But Or by these: power of the tongue," warns Scrip-
you can root them out of "If you're so smart. ... " "All ture (Prov. 18:21) .
you ever do is . .. !" "Why can't
your vocabulary! you be like ... ?" "You look like Parents to Children
a .. .. " "You'd forget your . . . if it Children too frequently bear the
by Donald D. Schroeder
wasn't ... !" brunt of put-down statements or
These and many similar put- demeaning words from parents or
HAT'S the matter downs seem automatically to pop others. Such words turn some

"W with you?" "How

. many times do I
have to tell
you .. . ?" "The trouble with
you is ... !" "How dumb can
out of many mouths-perhaps
yours-in some frustrating mo-
ment or difficulty with others.
Sarcasm, name-calling, put-
downs, accusations, sweeping nega-
tive overstatements are all too com-
youths into totally crushed, in-
warding-looking persons. They feel
worthless.
Other youths try to protect their
tender egos from the hurts of such
statements by hardening attitudes
you be?!" "Can't you ever do mon. Others do it. Perhaps we of disrespect to adults or shouting
learned to do it too. Maybe they more demeaning insults to other
anything right?" "You al- are such a habit, we don't even children. The vicious cycle prolif-
wa y s do that!" "You realize their harmful impact. erates.
never . . . .I" What we're really saying is: "I The habit of saying, "You al-
How often do we hear per- don't respect you. I don't care for ways do something wrong!" or
sons demeaned-belit- your feelings as a person. You' re "You'll never learn!" can turn an
below me! " The attitude behind able, talented child into & youth or
put-down, belittling words is adult of stunted intelligence and
pride. It's human self-exalta- achievement; an individual with lit-
tion! tle confidence.
Cutting, belittling words Dr. Selma Fraiber in her book
and phrases need to be The Magic Years says, "A child
rooted out of our lives. needs to feel our disapproval at
Repeated often enough, times, but if our reaction is of such
demeaning put-downs get strength that the child feels worth-
through the toughest skin less and despised for his offense,
and cause anything from a we have abused our powers as par-
distorted sense ents and have created the possibil-
of shame to ity that exaggerated guilt feelings
blind rage . and self-hatred will playa part in
Or men tal this child's personality develop-
ment."
Words That Help
In your next aggravating situation,
instead of spurting out a harsh,
cutting or demeaning response to
someone, put a governor on your
mouth . Instead say: "Please . . . ."
"Please hold the door wider .... "
Please be neater. ... " Please be
more careful. .. ." Please let me
show you."
Please is a word that helps us
show respect. It puts our minds in
a more constructive frame. We
The PLAIN TRUTH
deal with others in a more positive others, stop and ask yourself if you The uncontrolled tongue, said
and beneficial way. would like them said to you. Of the apostle James, "is an unruly
Maybe a child accidentally course you wouldn't. evil, full of deadly poison. There-
knocks over a glass of some drink But if you now stop expressing with bless we God ... and there-
(and who hasn't?). An uncaring hurtful words to others there may with curse we men, which are
person might respond: "You care- be some delay in favorable replies made after the similitude of God.
less kid. Watch what you're do- to you . People you've offended Out of the same mouth proceedeth
ing!" What's so damaging about want to know if you've really blessing and cursing. My brethren,
such a statement is that we are changed. It may take time to heal these things ought not so to be"
branding a child with a characteris- old wounds. If others respond with (Jas. 3:8-10).
tic (carelessness) that may not be cutting words, resist the tempta- Jesus Christ said: " ... for out of
true at all . Maybe the parents have tion to retort. the abundance of the heart the
failed to set the table properly for Break the vicious cycle of care- mouth speaketh. A good man out
children, or have failed to train the less put-downs. Show respect and of the good treasure of the heart
child to be more careful. care for the feelings of others. In bringeth forth good things [includ-
How much more helpful to qui- time others will show more respect ing good words]: and an evil man
etly say in such a situation, "Now and care for you. out of the evil treasure bringeth
go get a sponge and clean it up. "A soft answer turneth away forth evil things [including evil
And please do be more careful." wrath: but grievous words stir up words]. But I say unto you, That
The child isn't branded as totally anger" (Prov. 15:1). And, "Heavi- every idle word that men shall
inept; instead we express faith in ness in the heart of man maketh it speak, they shall give account
the child's ability to solve the prob- stoop: but a good word maketh it thereof in the day of judgment"
lem and be more careful. glad" (Prov . 12:25). "He that (Matt. 12:34-36) .
We're more apt to spout out keepeth his mouth keepeth his Strive to make your words, words
some curt or hurting words when life . . . " (Prov. 13:3) . . that help - not
we' re tired or emotionally upset. What about you? Do your words words that
The children run up and shout, wound and hurt others? Or do they hurt! 0
"Read us a story!" Or a wife says, help and
"I need your help." Instead of a edify?
barsh "No!" or "Don't bother me!"
say, "I am exhausted and upset.
Please wait awhile first, OK?"
You've explained your feelings
without putting someone down in
the process. And you have not closed
the door to positive help later.
Rather than responding to some-
one's mistake with a demeaning put-
down, we can show disapproval but
still be respectful by saying, "I don't
like what you did." Be specific about
the situation. Don't label the person
with damaging names or shoot out a
clever put-down. You only create or
compound bad feelings, or another
problem.
The key to saying helpful rather
than harmful words to others is
always to show respect.
Break the · Cycle
If you've been guilty of expressing
demeaning, put-down statements to
March 1986
 AG
Mystery of
Israel
We continue, with this seventh installment, the serial
publication of Herbert W. Armstrong's latest book Mystery of the Ages.

ID IT EVER STRIKE Israel is a mystery totally unknown Man of Destiny

D you as most unusual

that the Great God
should have raised up the
by any religion-by Christianity-
by even Judaism!
It is indeed true that the nation
Israel was God's chosen people. But
Abram, as he was originally named,
was not seeking God. But God
chose to call and test Abram. This
ancient patriarch, later in Scrip-
ancient nation Israel to be his understand: They were not chosen
ture, is called the father of the
chosen people? as "teacher's pet" nor for special faithful. God was calling him for a
Consider these seemingly favors. They were chosen for a spe-
very special purpose. That purpose
paradoxical facts: cial PURPOSE preparatory to the
was not to "give him salvation" or
ultimate establishment of the "get him into heaven." God was
God says he is not a respecter of kingdom of God!
persons. Is he, then, a respecter of calling him because he had seen in
It is an intriguing story! The
nations? Does he have a favorite? this man the potentialities of obe-
answer to this chapter title, "Mys-
Did you ever realize that God dience to God and of leadership.
tery of Israel," has great significance God was calling him to be prepared
denied his chosen people salva- in God's PURPOSE for all peoples!
tion-sav9 only their prophets? for special service and ultimately
One cannot understand the real pur-
That the chosen nation was given high position in the kingdom of
pose and incredible potential of man
only material and national prom- God-the coming world tomorrow.
without this vital knowledge.
ises-that God's Holy Spirit was I quote now from a book I wrote
inaccessible to them? Supreme Master Plan more than 50 years ago, The
United States and Britain in
Did it ever occur to you that the The Creator God is reproducing Prophecy, 1980 edition, commenc-
Holy Bible is the book of and con- himself in and through man! God's ing with page 16:
cerning only that one people Israel? ultimate transcendent PURPOSE is To this man, Abram, God com-
And that other nations are men- breathtaking beyond words. The manded : "Get thee out of thy
tioned only if and as they came into establishment of the ancient nation country, and from thy kindred,
contact with Israel? Israel is an integral part of the and from thy father's house, unto
And here's another shocker!- supreme master plan. a land that I will shew thee: and I
almost totally unrealized today by Seven generations after the will make of thee a great nation"
Christianity-even by Judaism and Flood, the Eternal found a man (Gen. 12: 1-2).
not recorded or understood by his- who would obey him. His name was Here was a command, which
torians! The northern kingdom of Abram. He lived in Haran, in was .a condition and a PROMISE ,
Israel was not Jewish! The first Mesopotamia. This man was to provided the condition of obe-
dience was met.
place in the Bible where the word become a type of God the Father. And so now, as God had
Jews occurs is in II Kings chapter It was from him that the nation started the whole world with one
16 and verse 6, where the nation Israel descended. Through this man, he started his own peculiar
Israel was at war, in an alliance nation God raised up his prophets, nation in the world from one sin-
with Syria, against the Jews! and in due time God's own Son, gle man-Abraham . As the
The truly amazing truth about Jesus Christ. world, which has strayed far from
10 The PLAIN TRUTH
 God and the blessings of God's earth. This was not his world: known by the most superficial
worship and rule, was started "These all died in faith, not having Bible students. They know that
with one man who rebelled received the promises, but having God gave the spiritual promise to
against God and rejected his rule, seen them afar off, and were per- Abraham of Christ to be born as
so God's own flesh-born nation, suaded of them, and embraced Abraham's descendant-and that
from which is to be reborn the salvation comes to us through
kingdom of God, was started with them, and confessed that they were Christ. But-and this will sound
one man who obeyed God with- strangers and pilgrims on the earth. unbelievable, yet it is true-
out question, and accepted his For they that say such things almost no one knows what that
divine rule. declare plainly that they seek a salvation is; what are the prom-
Did Abram stop to argue and country [a different civilization]. ises of salvation we may receive
reason? Did he say: "Let's reason And truly, if they had been mind- through Christ; how we may
this out a bit first; here I am in ful of that country from whence receive them, or when-incredi-
Babylon, in the very center of all they came out, they might have had ble though that sounds! But that
this world's commerce, society opportunity to have returned. But truth belongs in another chapter.
and gaiety. Why can't you just as now they desire a better country, What is essential to the theme
well give me this promise right of this chapter is the fact that
here, where everything is pleasant that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
God also made another entirely
and alluring? Why must I leave is not ashamed to be called their different, most amazing national
all this and go over to that unciv- God: for he hath prepared for them and material promise to Abraham
ilized land?" a city" (Heb. 11:13-16). Seeking a which has been almost entirely
Did Abram quibble, resist, better country, a heavenly country, overlooked.
argue, rebel? which will be the kingdom of God Notice now again how God
He certainly did not! filling the earth. 'first called Abram, and the two-
The inspired Scripture account And God established this man fold nature of his promises :
states simply: "So Abram de- [Abram], whose name he later "Now the Lord had said unto
parted." There was no arguing changed to Abraham, as the Abram, Get thee out of thy coun-
with God. There was no human father of his nation, Israel! To try, and from thy kindred, and
reasoning that God was all wrong. Abraham and his descendants from thy father's house, unto a
There were no foolish questions: were all the promises of God land that I will shew thee: and I
"Why must I leave here?" "Can't made. And we must become like will make of thee A GREAT
I do as I please?" There was no Abraham, and through Christ, NATION .... and in thee shall all
stopping to say, "Well, here's the one of his children, if we are to families of the earth be blessed"
way I look at it." inherit the promise of eternal life (Gen. 12:1-3).
"Abram departed." Just plain, in God's kingdom. Notice the two-fold promise:
unquestioned obedience! Of his peculiar flesh-born 1) "I will make of thee A GREAT
Here again we see the principle nation, Israel, the Eternal said: NATlON"-the national, material
of duality. Abram was in the very "This people have I formed for promise that his flesh-born chil-
center of this world's developing myself; they shall shew forth my dren should become a great
praise" (Isa. 43 :21). That prophe- nation-a promise of RACE; 2)
civilization. Remember, it was a
cy shall yet-and soon-be ful- " ... and in thee shall all families
world held captive-a world devel- filled! of the earth be blessed"-the
oping on Satan's pattern. God had spiritual promise of GRACE. This
chosen Abram to become the Dual Promises to Abraham same promise is repeated in Gen-
patriarch of his nation Israel, the Few have realized it, but a duality esis 22: 18: "And in thy seed shall
congregation or Church of the Old runs all the way through the plan all the nations of the earth be
Testament. The principle of duality of God in working out his pur- blessed." This particular "one
is interwoven all through the work- pose here below. seed" refers to Christ, as plainly
ings of God in fulfilling this great There was the first Adam, affirmed in Galatians 3:8, 16.
purpose through humanity on material and carnal; and there is Right here is where those who
earth. Th~re was the physical con- Christ, the second Adam, spiri- profess to be "Christians"-and
tual and divine. There was the their teachers-have fallen into
gregation of Israel -under the Old error and scriptural blindness.
Old Covenant, purely material
Testament and the spiritual and temporal; and there is the They have failed to notice the
Church of God under the New New Covenant, spiritual and two-fold promise God made to
Testament. The word church as eternal. God made man mortal, Abraham.· They recognize the
originally written in the Greek of physical, of the dust of the messianic promise of spiritual sal-
the New Testament was ekklesia, ground and of the human king- vation through the "one seed"-
which means (an assembly of) dom; but through Christ he may Christ. They sing the hymn
called-out-ones. be begotten of God to become "Standing on the Promises"-
As Israel of the Old Testament immortal, spiritual, and of the fals.ely supposing the promises to
was the physical forerunner and kingdom of God. be going to heaven at death .
And in like manner there were This is a pivotal point. This is
, type of the Church of the New
two phases to the promises God the point where professing
Testament so God now called out made to Abraham-the one pure- "Christians" and their teachers
the progenitor of the nation Israel ly material and national; the other jump the track of truth. This is
from Satan's world. Abraham later spiritual and individual. The spir- the point where they switch off
regarded himself as a stranger, a itual promise of the Messiah, and the track that would lead them to
sojourner and a pilgrim in the of salvation through him, is well the missing master key to the
March 1986 11
 prophecies. They miss the fact The Church, it is true, is spoken of Moses was not seeking God. But
that God gave Abraham promises as "a royal priesthood, an holy God had caused Moses to be
of physical RACE as well as spiri- nation" (I Peter 2:9) , but Christ's trained specifically for this com-
tual GRAC E. Church is not divided into " many mission by having him reared as a
But the plain fact that the nations ." This is speaking of race,
"great nation" promise refers not grace.
prince in the palace of the Egyptian
alone to race- not the "one seed" "And I will establish my cove- pharaoh. So now again, after Moses
of Galatians 3:16, who was Jesus nant between me and thee and thy . had been specially trained for lead-
Christ the son of Abraham and seed after thee in their genera- . ership, God called him out of the
the Son of God, but to the plural, tions ... " (Gen . 17:7). The "seed" world to lead the descendants of
multiple seed of natural fleshly is plural-"in their generations." Abraham, Isaac and Jacob out of
birth-is made certain by God's "And I will give unto thee, and to Egyptian slavery.
thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a Why a Chosen Nation?
stranger, all the land of So now again we come to the ques-
Canaan [Palestine] , for
an everlasting posses-
tion, WHY did God raise up this
sion; and I will be THEIR special Hebrew nation as "the chos-
od says he is not a God" (verse 8). en people"? WHY , when God never
made accessible to them his Holy
respecter of persons. Is he, Notice, the land-
material possession-is Spirit?
then, a respecter of promised to the plural
seed, of whom he is
One point to notice here. The
probability is that these people
nations? "their," not " his," were all-or nearly all- of the
God . The plural pro- white racial strain, unchanged since
noun "their" is used creation .
again in verse 9: "and
thy seed after thee in their gener-
After Jacob and his sons and
repetItIOn of his promise In
families had come into Egypt at
greater detail later. ations ."
But now examine this PROMISE Joseph 's behest, they were kept in
Israel to Become Many Nations carefully! the locale of Goshen-geographi-
Notice carefully! Understand The future of great nations cally separated from the major pop-
these promises! rests on the promises the eternal ulation centers of Egypt.
" And when Abram was ninety Creator made to Abraham . The In this connection, go back
years old and nine, the Lord only hope of life after death for momentarily to Abraham. He pre-
appeared to Abram, and said unto anyone- regardless of race, color vented his son Isaac, born of Sarah,
him, I am the Almighty God; walk or creed-is dependent on the from intermarrying among the
before me, and be thou perfect. spiritual phase of these promises
Canaanites then in the land. He
And I will make my covenant to Abraham-the promise of
grace through the "one seed" - sent his chief servant to his own
between me and thee, and will family in Mesopotamia to find a
multiply thee ex ceeding- Christ the Messiah!
wife for Isaac . Abraham said,
ly . ... thou shalt be a father of How Much Land-What Size
MANY NATIONS. Neither shall thy
" ... thou shalt not take a wife unto
Nations? my son of the daughters of the
name any more be called Abram,
but thy name shall be Abraham; These are not casual, incidental, Canaanites, among whom I dwell"
for a father of MANY NATIONS have unimportant promises. '-These are (Gen. 24:3) .
I made thee" (Gen . 17: 1-5). basic- the foundation for the The next generation, Jacob mar-
Notice, the promise is now establishment of the greatest world ried Leah and Rachel, daughters of
conditional upon Abraham's obe- powers; the basis for any personal Laban, nephew of Abraham, who
dience and perfect living. Notice, salvation spiritually; for any hope lived in the land of Haran, brother
the '·' great nation" now becomes of eternal life for humans. These
are stupendous promises . The of Abraham. The whole communi-
many nations-more than one ty of Haran, where Laban lived,
nation . This cannot r~ fer to the future of mankind is based, by the
"one seed," Christ. The following Creator God, on them . was of the same family ancestry as
verses prove that. Jesus Christ came "to confirm' Abraham .
"And I will make thee exceed- the promises made unto the Jacob had six sons by Leah, two
ing fruitful . and I will make fathers" (Rom. 15:8)-Abraham, from Rachel-all of the same origi-
nations of thee, and kings [more Isaac and Jacob . These same nal racial stock, and two each from
than one] shall come out of thee" promises were repromised to the maids of Rachel and Leah-12
(verse 6) . Notice, these nations Isaac, Abraham 's son, and to in all. Even the maids of Leah and
and kings shall come out of Abra- Jacob, the son of Isaac.
Rachel undoubtedly were of pure
ham-physical generation-mul- After 430 years, God raised up Hebrew stock. These 12 became
tiple seed, in addition to the one his nation Israel-descendants of the progenitors of the 12 tribes of
descendant through whom scat-
tered individuals may become Abraham, Isaac and Jacoli, whose the nation Israel.
Abraham's children by spiritual name God changed to Israel. But God specially prepared from
begettal through Christ (Gal. To lead these people out of birth and called Moses, with Aaron
3:29) . The scattered, individual Egyptian slavery and to the Prom- hi.s brother to assist as his spokes-
Christians do not form NATIONS. ised Land, God called Moses. man. (Moses stuttered.)
12 The PLAIN TRUTH
 In the plagues God caused paring for the ultimate KING- tists today, they were saying, "Give
against Egypt, God was turning the DOM OF GOD-when the GOV- us sufficient knowledge, and we will
Egyptian gods and objects of wor- ERNMENT OF GOD would be re- solve all problems and eradicate all
ship against them to show them established over all the earth, and evils-we will create utopia!"
that these were not gods. Even the spiritual salvation would be offered Up to that time, mankind had
plagues were sent in LOVE for the to ALL! been denied spiritual knowledge and
Egyptians. Undoubtedly, one reason was to fulfillment from God . God now
The final prague followed the preserve the original physical strain decided to give them knowledge of
sacrifice of the Passover on the of Shem's line. But there was much his law-his kind of government-
14th day of the first month of more. his way of life! He was going to
God's sacred calendar-starting in Nations had developed knowl- prove to the world that without his
the spring. The Israelites went out edge. Mankind was limited, after Holy Spirit their minds were incapa-
of Egypt during the night part of Adam's rebellion, to the acquisition ble of receiving and utilizing such
the 15th. They reached the Red of physical and material knowledge. knowledge of the TRUE WAYS OF
Sea. But pharaoh had meanwhile But, like educated men and sci en- (Continued on page 20)
changed ~is mind and, with his
army, pursued them.
The children of Israel had
reached the Red Sea, and they
were stopped as if dead . There was
no bridge. It was too far to swim,
with their women and children.
Behind them the pharaoh's army
was in hot pursuit. There was noth-
ing they could do. They were
stopped-HELPLESS! At that point
they had to rely on GOD!
In Egypt God had caused their
release from slavery by a series of
supernatural plagues. Now God
caused the waters of the Red Sea to
roll back to form a watery WALL on
either side, with a wide path on the
dry seafloor between.
The Israelites walked on
through. On the opposite side they
looked back and saw the Egyptians
entering the seafloor path. When
the Egyptians were all within the
seawall passage, God allowed the
waters to flow back, drowning the is nearing
Egyptian army. the brink of
World War! Despite
Broken Promises disarmament talks-
In due time the Israelites pitched despite warnings from
tents at the foot of Mount Sinai. statesmen and scientists- the
God did not make them his world situation continues to worsen.
nation, under his theocratic rule, Bible prophecy identifies both the
without their consent. United States and British Commonwealth
and reveals cataclysmic events about to
Through Moses, God put to envelop our nations.
them his proposition. If they would This master key of
obey his laws of HIS GOVERNMENT, prophecy-our national
he would prosper them, and make identities-has been lost
.them the wealthiest and most until this time, . but is now
powerful of nations. explained in our free book
Yet God's birthright PROMISES The United States and
were of a national and material Britain in Prophecy.
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The people agreed. Thus they address nearest you.
became God's chosen nation. BUT
WHY?
This we know: God's purpose for
them had a definite relation to pre-
March 1986 13 .
 How America
Brought
Ellropeans Hope by John Ross Schroeder

It was a bench- record happenings between 1493 called America (the name courtesy
and the Day of Judgment. of a German geographer in honor
This particular edition gloomily of Amerigo Vespucci, another ex-
forecast the end of the world soon! plorer and a contemporary of
Such was the state of Europe in the Columbus).
early 1490s. Financing the first voyage did
not come easily. Columbus and his
Four Voyages West brother Bartholomew spent eight
Things always are darkest just be- long years trying to sell his vision
fore a new light dawns. Enter to the royal courts of Europe. His
Christopher Columbus-a man im- persistence paid off. Queen Isabella
bued with a unique vision . A of Spain got a glimpse of Colum-
Spanish-speaking Catholic from bus' vision. She and joint ruler,
Christendom was in bad shape. Italy, having Hebrew ancestry, he King Ferdinand, agreed to under-
The Papacy hit bottom in 1492 didn't exactly find what he was write the enterprise.
when the notorious Rodrigo Borgia ' looking for. But it turned out all Armed with a letter of introduc-
became Pope Alexander VI. the better for the flagging Eu- tion to the Emperor of China,
The Nuremberg Chronicle ropean spirits. Hjs vision was to Columbus set sail in command of
talked about "the calamity of our find a shorter route to the Indies in The Nina. The Pinta and The
time .. . in which iniquity and evil Asia. What Columbus found was a
have increased to the highest large body of land that came to be
pitch." This respected newspaper
gave its readers six blank pages to
Santa Maria. The date was Au- World. There was the much-earlier mainly religious and economic. In
gust 3, 1492. Leif Ericsson of Norway, and the 13 colonies they built together
But do not think this voyage was many later adventurers. . what has come to be known as the
without its problems. In spite of The sailing hazards were many. American Dream. The losers of
good sailing weather almost all the There was no modern navigation Europe would make good in Amer-
way, a crisis occurred on October equipment. No steam power. No ica.
10. Only Columbus' powers of per- auxiliary engines. No easy-to-han- The Irish came in the wake of
suasion saved the day and his dIe crews. They possessed no mod- the potato famine. Many Germans ·
sailors agreed to travel west for ern yachts. came in the 1890s. My own pater-
three more days. Brave men were charting new nal grandparents emigrated from
Near midnight the very next day territories and new harbors-never Oldenburg, northern Germany, in
Columbus spotted a dim light before occupied by European ships. 1892. The U .S .A. came to be
ahead. Just what the light was (this Some paid with their lives. As one called a "melting pot."
was befor.e electricity) has never eminent historian expressed it:
been fully explained. Possibly it "North America became a grave- The Great Purpose
was a brushfire. Nonetheless, on yard for European ships and Four hundred years after Colum-
October 12, 1492, the island of San sailors." bus made his epochal voyage to
Salvador in what is now the Ba- Both those who discovered and America, Plain Truth editor in
hamas was discovered. those who' emigrated had to pay a chief Herbert W. Armstrong was
Columbus made three more voy- high price; and not to be forgotten born. In the late 1920s of our
ages to the shores of America. To is the high price the native Ameri- present century Herbert Arm-
sum up in his own words: "Over cans paid. But the discovery, de- strong came to understand the
there I have placed under their spite human tragedies, was worth true significance of this Euro-
highnesses' sovereignty more land it. All of Europe was to benefit- American story. We know those
than there is in Africa and Europe, immensely! who discovered America. But the
and more than 1700 islands .. . . In question remains: .What was the
seven years I, by the Divine Will, Many Make Good real reason a land of promise-
made that conquest." 1607. 1620. These are dates every now the U.S.A. and Canada-was
With nearly 500 years of retro- Nor.th American schoolboy and pioneered and developed by
spect, who can· doubt that his mag- schoolgirl is asked to commit to courageous northwest Europeans?
nificent discovery was by the Di- memory. Other less-well- known ,Was there a great purpose behind
vine Will. More about that later. dates are equally significant in the whole episode?
American, Canadian and Latin Herbert W . Armstrong has writ-
Bought with a Price American history. ten it all down in a book entitled
Of course, Columbus was not Wave after wave of northwest The United States and Britain in
the only discoverer of the New European pioneers set sail for Prophecy . Your free copy is on
American shores. They left their reserve in our mailing room. All
homelands for various reasons- you have to do is pick up a pen .. . .
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INCREASE YOUR BIBLE IQ

Evidence human being during the early days of the Roman

Empire? Matthew 1:16, 18, 21; 2:1-6; Luke
20:20-25; John 11:47-48 .
COMMENT: The New Testament is a record of the

that Jesus Lived life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the Church he
founded. The written accounts-or gospels-of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (Jesus' disciples and
apostles) clearly show that Christ was born during
the closing days of the reign of Herod, king of Judea,
and that he lived during the time of the earlier
Roman Caesars and the Roman occupation of
Palestine.
2. Was Christ's birth in the town of Bethlehem of
Judea predicted hundreds of years earlier? Matthew

SOME atheists say: "Jesus never

lived!" Others think he was an historical
1:22-23; Matthew 2:4-6; Micah 5:2; Isaiah 7:14.
COMMENT: These latter scriptures are merely two
of the dozens of prophecies and references to a
Messiah in the Hebrew Bible that are mentioned in
figure. the New Testament as having been fulfilled by Jesus
Have you ever proved whether the Christ of Christ. These Hebrew prophecies, as historians and
the Bible really lived? If he performed those linguists admit, were all written hundreds of years
astonishing miracles of raising men from the before Jesus was born! '
dead, healipg the blind and lame, and walking on 3. Did Jesus point out that the Scriptures of his
water? day (now called the Old Testament by Christians)
Did Jesus really walk the dusty roads of Palestine spoke about him? John 5:39; Luke 24:25-27, 44.
during the time of the Roman occupation more than Also read Matthew 26:55-56 and Luke 4:17-21.
1,900 years ago? ' 4. Let's notice several more Old Testament
The New Testament, of course, bears record of a prophecies about the Messiah and see how Jesus
man named Jesus Christ. But is there evidence fulfilled them. Was the Messiah or the Christ to be
outside the Bible that he really lived? That he ' betrayed by a fri,e nd for 30 pieces of silver? Psalm
performed miracles? That he was condemned to 41:9 and Zechariah 11:12-13 compared with
death by the Roman governor Pilate as recorded in Matthew 26: 14-16.
the New Testament? 5. Would the Messiah suffer a painful and
That Jesus did live and was crucified is described agonizing death, with his hands and feet pierced?
in detail within the pages of the Bible itself. But can Isaiah 53:7-9; Psalm 22:14-17; Zechariah 12:10
it be proven from the words of Roman historians and compared with Matthew 27:31; John 19:1,34 and
others who wrote about him? 20:24-29.
6. And, yet, would the bones in his body not be
The Biblical Evidence broken? Psalm 34:20 compared with John 19:33, 36.
This brief study presents only a fragment of the 7. Would lots be cast for his robe? Psalm 22:18
evidence from both secular and biblical sources. But compared with Matthew 27:35.
before examining the secular historical evidence, let's
first notice ,some of the details the Bible itself has to Jewish Historical Evidence
offer. So before we go any further, be sure you get 1. While on earth, what miracles did Jesus perform?
your Bible. Read the verses that answer the Matthew 11:4-5;' 15:30-31; 14:25-27; Luke 17:12-16;
questions asked in this revealing study. (This is the John 11:11-14, 38-44.
same method of study used by the Ambassador 2. Did the religious leaders in Judea, who were
College Bible Correspondence Course, which you can envious of Christ's miracles and fame, claim that his
study, free, in your own home, upon request.) power was from a source other than God? Matthew
1. Does the Bible record Christ's existence as a 12:24.

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 COMMENT: Although religious leaders were jealous historian, priest and general Flavius Josephus, who
of Jesus and cast doubts as to whether he was the was born about A.D. 37. Writing about the deat'h, in
prophesied Messiah, they were forced by the very Jerusalem, of James, Josephus casually speaks of him
fact of his miracles and influence among the people as "the brother of Jesus who was called Christ"
to give recognition to hini. in their records. (Antiquities of the Jews, XX: 9, 1).
Jesus is referred to in the Talmud. The Talmud is The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, as
a Jewish record of debates, doctrines, stories and well as the Jewish historian Josephus, were not
traditions covering a period from before the birth of Christians. Therefore their writings can be
Jesus to the centuries immediately following . In the considered neutral historical evidence of Jesus' life
Talmud Jesus is referred to as "that man," "dead and of his crucifixion by the Romans.
dog," "the hanged one" and "the sorcerer." (The 2. Before his crucifixion, did Christ predict that
Jewish Encyclopedia lists the places where Jesus is his followers would suffer severe persecution and
referred to in the Talmud.) martyrdom for their belief in him? Matthew 5:11-12;
The Talmud records Jesus' healing of the blind, 24:9.
the lame and the leprous. It also mentions his COMMENT: During the later first century and in
walking on the sea! But the Talmud also speaks of the second century A.D., persecution of the Christians
Jesus as having learned sorcery in Egypt (recall was common in the Roman Empire. An early
Matthew 12:24), in an attempt to discredit his reference to Christ was made by Pliny the Younger,
miracles and his claim to being the very Son of God. who was governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor. He
The Talmud also records a list of references to wrote letters to Emperor Trajan inquiring about how
Jesus' mother, Mary, but in a noncomplimentary Christians should be dealt with. One such letter,
sense. written about A.D. 111-113, shows both Caesar and
governor accepted that Jesus Christ lived and that
Non-Christian Historical Evidence his followers, when publicly accused, were to be put
The envious religious leaders finally succeeded in to death if they did not renounce their belief in
having Jesus arrested by the Roman authorities Christ and curse him.
under charges of treason and other false accusations. In this letter, Pliny describes Christians as coming
1. Did Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea, find together at fixed seasons and singing a hymn to
Jesus not guilty of the charges after examining him? "Christ, as to a god." This phrase clearly indicates
Luke 23: 13-23., Nevertheless, did Pilate give in to that Pliny, in writing to Caesar, considered Christ to
those who demanded his crucifixion? Verses 2.4-25. have been a historical figure . Both leaders knew that
COMMENT: The crucifixion was recorded by the Jesus was a real person who lived and taught in the
Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote less than a Roman Empire less than a hundred years earlier!
hundred years after Christ. Writing about the . -Richard A. Sedliacik
Roman Emperors from Nero to Trajan, Tacitus
mentions the Great Fire of Rome in A .D. 64 and
Nero's attempt to place the blame for it on the
Christians. ENROLL NOW IN
Tacitus then wrote that "Christus [the Latin
spelling of Christ], from whom the name FREE BIBLE COURSE
[Christians] had its origin, suffered the extreme
The short study you've just read is a sample of what
penalty [crucifixion] during the reign of Tiberius at
the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, you'll find in each 16-page, monthly lesson of.the
Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course.
and a most mischievous superstition [referring to
There are topics on world events, family, the purpose
Christianity], thus checked for the moment, again
of life, the nature of human nature, and much more.
broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the
This course can help you begin to understand the
evil, but even in Rome . .. " (Annals, XV, 44).
Bible as never
Here is historical evidence Jesus lived! This was
before. Interesting topics are
not a Christian writing, but a Roman historian who
presented step by step.
abhorred things Christian! Tacitus had access to the
Periodic quizzes help you
government records. He had the proof Jesus was
evaluate your progress.
crucified!
There is no tuition fee or
Suetonius, another Roman historian and a
obligation. You can
contemporary of Tacitus, tells us that about A.D. 49
enroll by mailing the
the Emperor Claudius banished all Jews from the
request envelope in
city of Rome (an incident also mentioned in Acts
this issue or by
18:2) : " He expelled the Jews from Rome, on account
writing to our office
of the riots in which they were constantly indulging,
at the instigation of Chrestus [generally understood nearest you.
as a misspelling of the name of Christ]" (The Lives
of the Caesars, Book V, 25).
Reference to Jesus is also made by the Jewish
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 gospel Jesus and the apostles
LAST DAYS? preached began going out in the Basic Law of Coming World
(Continued from page 7) Plain Truth magazine, which now Government
not the gospel OF Christ. Read, that has reached into every nation on At that time, Jesus Christ will
again. To this very day, nearly all earth with a circulation of more come iIi all the supreme power and
churches and evangelists preach than eight million households ev- glory of God to sit on earth's
their own gospel ABOUT Christ, but ery issue. Notice, now, what Jesus thr'o ne and rule over all nations. He
not the gospel OF Christ about the said in verse 6: "And ' ye shall will then set up the kingdom 'of
coming kingdom of God to rule the hear of wars and rumours of God, which will be the government
world. wars: see that ye be not troubled: of God (not of Satan) in the hands
For 1,900 years traditional for all these things mu's t come to of the born family of God under
Christianity has failed to preach pass, but the end is not yet." In Christ, ruling all nations with the
about Jesus as coming KING and other words, the end of the world government of God.
world ruler in the coming kingdom was not yet in their lifetime. Con- All governments are based on
of God to replace Satan on the tinuing, in verse 7, ' "For nation foundational , laws. The founda-
throne of the whole earth. A FALSE shall rise against nation, and king- tional law of the government of
GOSPEL has been universally pro- dom against kingdom: and there God over the whole world will be
claimed. shall be famines, and pestilences, the law of God. That law may be
Now with all this in mind, re- and earthquakes, in divers expressed in the one word "LOVE."
turn to Jesus ' prophecy in places." Verse 8, "All these are Jesus magnified that law to mean
Matthew 24. He was warning his the beginning of sorrows." love toward God and love toward
own disciples about false prophets All these things have continued neighbor. This, in turn, was magni-
coming in his name saying he, Je- from the first century. Verse 9, fied by the Ten Commandments-
sus, was the Christ, and deceiving "Then shall they deliver you up to the first four giving four broad
the MANY-not the few, but the be afflicted, and shall kill you .... " principles defining love toward
MANY. That started in the very These things did happen to those God, the last six commandments
first century soon after the church very disciples. Most or all of the defining in broad principles love
was founded and has continued to apostles were martyred except the toward neighbors.
this very day. It is true almost apostle John. This very work of God is one of
universally in a professed Chris- the evidences that the end of this
tianity to this minute. The Sign of the "End of the World" world of Satan and civilization as
Then in verse 14 Jesus comes to we know it is very near its end.
True Gospel Withheld 1,900 Years answer his disciples' second ques-
But in January 1934, Jesus Christ tion: " ... and what shall be the The Great Tribulation
began proclaiming through me for sign of thy coming, and of the end In these days, after the proclaiming
the first time in 1,900 years the of the world? " (verse 3). In verse of the gospel of the kingdom of
true gospel of the kingdom of God. 14 he answered that question, Je- God, " . .. shall be great tribula-
It spread coast to coast across the sus himself knowing it would not tion, such as was not since the be-
United States and Canada. Nine- happen until some 1,900 years ginning of the world to this time,
teen years later, January 1953, that later. Here is Jesus' own answer to no, nor ever shall be. And except
gospel went out on the world's when the end of the world would those days should be shortened,
most powerful radio station, Radio come. there should no flesh be saved
Luxembourg, to all Europe and "And this gospel of the kingdom [alive]: but for the elect's sake
Britain, and almost immediately af- shall be preached in all the world those days shall be shortened"
ter that on other radio stations in for a witness unto all nations; and (Matt. 24:21 -22).
Taiwan, on Radio Ceylon, on Ra- then shall the end come." That Many other scriptures show that -
dio Monte Carlo, and on stations in gospel was not preached to the conditions will become more
South America and elsewhere . world from about the middle of the frightful than ever before or ever
Soon it was , going to Australia, first century until near the middle shall be again on earth. Such con-
New Zealand and many other parts of the twentieth century. ditions are rapidly escalating at this
of the world. Jesus was speaking, not of the moment. Person is against person,
And now, at last, we can say that end of the earth's existence, but of even within a large proportion of
gospel has gone into every nation the end of this world-:-this age- families. Group is against group.
on earth. this present civilization in a world Nation is against nation. Violence
Now proceed with Jesus' ruled by Satan, who still sits on the is escalating as never before in his-
prophecy, Matthew 24:5. Jesus throne of the whole earth. How- tory. Terrorism is throwing fear
had said many would come in his ever, remember Satan sits on that and consternation into people all
name pretending to be his minis- throne only because God allows it. over the world.
ters, yet deceiving the many. That But God shows us in Bible prophe-
did happen in their lifetime in the cies, not the date or the year, but Apostle Paul's Warning
first century and has continued the approximate time when he will Truly we have come to the time
even since our program went on send Jesus Christ to end this warned of by the apostle Paul, in II
the air in 1934, and the same world. Timothy 3: "This know also, that
18 The PLAIN TRUTH
in the last days perilous times shall have had to admit their utter fail- of the same great tribulation-a
come. For men shall be lovers of ure in providing peaceful, happy time of trouble greater than ever
their own selves, covetous, boast- and useful lives on this earth. Even before or ever to come. "And at
ers, proud, blasphemers, disobedi- today, most people in the Western that time shall Michael [a great
ent to parents, unthankful, unholy, world do not want to hear much archangel standing against Satan]
without natural affection , truce- about God. They want God to stand up, the great prince which
breakers, false accusers, inconti- " keep himself out of their lives.;' standeth for the children of thy
nent, fierce , despisers of those that The very first man God created, people: and there shall be a time of
are good, traitors, heady, high- Adam, rejected the tree of life, trouble, such as never was since
minded, lovers of pleasures more which meant reliance on God and there was a nation even to that
than lovers of God ; having a form the gift of eternal .life from God. same time: and at that time thy
of godliness, but denying the power Instead he chose to rely on himself people shall be delivered, everyone
thereof .. . ever learning, and never and his own mind to guide his life that shall be found written in the
able to come to the knowledge of and solve all his problems. To this book. And many of them that sleep
the truth" (verses 1-5, 7) . very day, the nations and the lead- in the dust of the earth shall
This is a prophecy, as it plainly ers of this world still try to rely on awake, some to everlasting life ... "
states, for the last days . When I themselves and human attempts at (Daniel 12:1-2).
was a little boy, ninety years ago, solution of their escalating prob- This is speaking of the Se~ond
those conditions were not true or lems. The world still refuses to rely Coming of Christ when the dead in
escalating as they have been within on God. Chri,st shall rise first. "For the
the last twenty or thirty years. It is only when the world and its Lord himself shall descend from
Now notice again, Jesus said in leaders have come to the place heaven with a shout, with the voice
Matthew 24 :22, that except these of the archangel, and with the
terrifying days should be cut short, trump of God: and the dead in
no flesh would be saved alive. Not Christ shall rise first: then we [the
a human being would survive. This work is one saved of God's true church] which
A prophecy in Ezekiel 6:6 states, of the evidences that this are alive and remain shall be
"In all your dwellingplaces the cit- caught up together with · them in
ies shall be laid waste, and the high
world and civilization the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
places shall be desolate .. . . " That as we know it air: and so shall we ever be with
prophecy is speaking of this same is very near its end. the Lord" (I Thess. 4:16-17).
time. The weapons have never ex-
isted in all history that could have Meeting Christ in the Air-
laid all cities waste until the hydro- Where Then?
gen bomb of some thirty years ago. And where do we go from there?
How significant that this became In that same day Jesus' feet will
possible only during the time while descend on the Mount of Olives
this gospel of the kingdom has overlooking Jerusalem on the east
been going from nation to nation (Zech. 14:4). (Write for our free
into all the world for a witness to where they have to realize their book The Wonderful World To-
all nations. utter helplessness before their own morrow-What It Will be Like ,
problems and that their only hope which explains -in detail the world
Great Tribulation Cut Short from there on is reliance on and to come.)
But, here comes the world's one and obedience to God, that God will We read in R·evelation 20:1 -2
only great and supreme hope. Jesus intervene and bring about the end that at the time of Christ's coming,
said in Matthew 24:22 that " .. . for of this world by sending Jesus Satan shall be removed from the
the elect's sake [his one true church] Christ. throne of world rulership. Jesus
those days shall be shortened. " In When Jesus does come in all the Christ will then sit on that throne
other words, God will not move to dazzling splendor and the power over the whole earth. In Revelation
cut short the continuation of this and the glory of the great Creator 3:21, Jesus said to those in his own
present civilization as we know it, God, as the King of kings and the true church that if we overcome
until humanity has come to the very Lord of lords, humanity is going to Satan and the evils of this world,
brink of its last gasp. If God delayed be forced to realize that only re- he-Jesus-will grant that we will
longer, human science, technology, liance on God by an obedient few sit with him on that throne.
engineering and government would saved humans alive and brought in Jesus also said in Revelation
be the Frankenstein monster that peace with happiness, joy, and in- 2:26-27 that if we, his own people,
would blast every living person out vigorating productivity. overcome, we will be given power
of existence. over the nations and we shall rule
God is not going to intervene or Also Foretold by Daniel them under Christ. In Revelation
send Jesus Christ to set up a better N ow once again back to the 12th 5:10, he says that we who are true
civilization and the wonderful, chapter of Daniel. Just after he believers in his own church shall be
happy, peace-loving world tomor- spoke of the time of the end priests and kings, and we shall
row, until humanity and its leaders (Daniel 11 :40), Daniel spoke also reign on the earth. 0
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 prepare and raise up this nation . doubtedly he, with his sons Isaac and
Israel Israel? Israel, shall, in the resurrection and
(Continued from page 13) Consider WHY God created man- kingdom of God, occupy a position
LIFE. He was going to demonstrate to kind in the first place! GOD IS next under Christ himself. The king-
them that the mind of MAN, with its REPRODUCING HIMSELF THROUGH dom of God will be a spiritual king-
one spirit, and without the addition MAN! He is creating in MAN God's dom including both church and
of God's Holy Spirit, could not have own perfect, holy and righteous state-earth wide. These, as a team,
spiritual discernment-could not spiritual CHARACTER! And that, in probably will be next in line of
solve human problems, could not turn, is purposed to restore the authority under CHRIsT-and over
cure the evils that were besetting GOV'ERNMENT OF GOD over all the both church and state.
humanity. The nation Israel would earth. And, further, to create BIL- Of the nation ISRAEL, Moses,
be his guinea pig to demonstrate that LIONS OF GOD BEINGS TO FINISH whom God raised up as their leader
fact. God had chosen a nation of THE CREATION OF THE VAST UNFIN- and lawgiver (though God the
almost perfect original strain in its ISHED UNIVERSE! And, beyond Father is the original real Lawgiv-
generations-its ancestry. Also they that? er), in all probability will be under
had the quality heredity of Abra- Ah! God has not as yet revealed the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob team,
ham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). what he purposes beyond that! but head over the national govern-
So God entered into a covenant Everything God has done, since ments of the world during the com-
with them, making them HIS the creation of the first humans, ing millennium. And probably
NATION. It also represented a MAR- has been another progressive step Joshua, who succeeded Moses, will
RIAGE covenant, with Israel the in God's overall supreme PUR- be Moses' assistant in that office of
wife, promising obedience to her POSE! worldwide national governments.
husband-GoD. It was the physical What of the nation Israel as a
type of the yet-to-come spiritual Type of the Kingdom of God whole?
NEW COVENANT. The immediate purpose, so far in They, despite their favorable
And what did it prove? the history of mankind, is to pre- heredity, failed utterly to qualify.
pare for THE KINGDOM ' OF GOD, When God put the proposal of their
Israel's Heredity and Environment which will RESTORE the GOVERN- formation as his nation before
Here was a people of almost clear MENT OF GOD EARTH WIDE! them, they replied, "All that the
racial strain, and the God-believing The kingdom of God is the actual Lord hath spoken we will do" (Ex.
heredity of Abraham, Isaac and begotten and born FAMILY OF GOD, 19:8). But they utterly broke their
Israel. Two requisites make a which will first actually appear by a word and rebelled.
human whatever he becomes in life: resurrection and instantaneous They were, in a "husband-and-
heredity and environment. Heredi- translation at Christ's Second Com- wife" relation with the Lord God.
ty involves what has been inherited ing! And by begotten and BORN sons But the Lord said later of them:
by birth in such areas as health, of God, emphatically I do NOT mean "Surely as a wife treacherously
intelligence and character tenden- those deceived into the current departeth from her husband, so
cies. Environment includes all "BORN-AGAIN" teach-
external influences and self-deter- ing-that anyone who
mined motivations-whether good "professes to receive
or evil. . Christ" is already, in this
Heredity-if of good and high present human life, "born
quality-may start one off at an again." THAT IS A PARA- he future of great nations
advantage. An inspiring environ- MOUNT DECEPTION by
ment, uplifting influences and right which Satan the devil has rests on the promises
self-motivation may further im- DECEIVED those (the many the eternal Creator made
provement. Such environment may in a so-called "Christian-
turn one of inferior heredity into a ity") who have "accepted" to Abraham.
real success in life. a false conversion. They
But a discouraging environment, may be well meaning-but
evil influences and misguided self- nevertheless DECEIVED! And of have ye dealt treacherously with
motivation may turn one of excel- course a deceived person does not me, 0 house of Israel ... " (Jer.
lent heredity into failure and an know he is deceived-he may be 3:20).
evil nature. \ wholly sincere! The nation Israel under Moses
God started his chosen nation But now THINK! HOW does the was one people divided into 12
off--even though brought out of Old Testament nation Israel playa tribes.
slavery-with all the natural advan- part in progressively preparing for The Promised Land was then
tages of a superior heredity. God the KINGDOM OF GOD? called Canaan. Canaanites had set-
pulled them out of slavery and gave tled in the land. But God had given
them a new and fresh start. One Government in the Kingdom this land to the descendants of
might say they had everything of 'God Abraham BY PROMISE! It did not
God-given going for them. First, Abraham was a man of very belong to the Canaanites or other
But now WHY? Why did God so outstanding qualifying abilities. Un- national groups settled there.
20 The PLAIN TRUTH
 When God moved his two mil- wives, to increase the trespass of once it gains control of the earth,
lion-plus Israelites in there, he Israel. Now therefore . . . separate will solve all problems and evils.
commanded them through Moses: yourselves from the people of the But many kings, emperors, presi-
"When ye are passed over Jor- land, and from the strange wives" dents and prime ministers I have
dan into the land of Canaan; then (Ezra 10:10-11). conferred privately with now real-
ye shall drive out all the inhabitants Jesus was born of the tribe of ize the problems are beyond human
of the land from before you, and Judah, and it was necessary that HE ability to solve. And this I said
destroy all their pictures, and be of the original genetic strain, plainly to many leaders of the
'des troy all their mol ten even as Noah was. People's Republic of China.
images ... and ye shall dispossess BUT-nevertheless, the
the inhabitants of · the land, and Old Covenant with Israel
dwell therein: for I have given you at Sinai was a type and
the land to possess it. ... But if ye forerunner of the NEW
will not drive out the inhabitants of COVENANT. It will be
the land from before you; then it made with the New Tes- his nation Israel was
shall come to pass, that those which tament CHURCH, which is
ye let remain ot them shall 'be the spiritual Israel and God's nation. But
pricks in your eyes, and thorns in
your sides, and shall vex you in the
Judah (Jer. 31:31; Heb.
8:6, 10) .
they were a physical, not a
land wherein ye dwell" (Num . Meanwhile, an individ- spiritual nation.
33 :51-53 , 55). ual few in Old Testament
Israel did obey God and
Nationally- Religiously Separate 'by becoming God's prophets, they The problems and evils are of a
It's time we UNDERSTAND THIS! became part of the very foundation spiritual nature. And a carnal mind
. This nation Israel was GOD'S of the New Testament CHURCH OF without God's Spirit cannot come
NATION. But they were a physical. GOD. The Church is built on the to grips with spiritual problems.
not a spiritual nation. Yet God solid FOUNDATION of the prophets The many decades and centuries
gave them HIS Church, as well as (Old Testament) and apostles of ancient Israel PROVED THAT!
national government and religion. (New Testament) , Jesus Christ Until Israel, God withheld knowl-
GOD INTEND ED TO KEEP THEM himself being " the chief corner edge of the right ways of human
PHYSICALLY SEPARATE from other stone" (Eph. 2:20) . living from mankind. To Israel God
nations-both nationally and reli- Among them, Elijah probably gave his statutes and judgments, as
giously. will be head, under Christ and well as his spiritual law. But these
For them to intermarry with Abraham-Isaac-Israel , over the perfect laws did not, without God's
other neighboring people would Church, worldwide. John the Bap- Holy Spirit, solve the nation's prob-
result in two things: It would lead tist may be under Elijah. There are lems!
them into other idolatrous religions indications that the prophet Daniel God could say: "I am GOD. Take
and alter their cultural and national will be head over all gentile nations, my word for it." But God gave
heritage! and under Moses and Christ. PROOF, through Israel, that WITH-
The Israelites DID NOT OBEY · OUT the Holy Spirit, MAN IS HELP-
Fulfilling Their Role LESS! They even had GOD to appeal
GOD!
Much later, after the captivities Despite Themselves to. But they did not have his Spirit
of both Israel and Judah, God sent But in what manner did the ancient within them.
a colony of Jews from the Judahite nation Israel playa part in prepara- Let this point be emphasized.
slave population in Babylon back to . tion for the KINGDOM OF GOD? When the first man, Adam ,
Jerusalem under Zerubbabel as I have already mentioned how rejected the tree of life, and took to
governor of the colony, to build the the intellectuals and scholarly of himself the knowledge of good and
second Temple. this world feel that, given sufficient evil, he limited his power and abili-
Among this colony were the KNOWLEDGE, human carnal MAN ty to do good to the level of his
prophets Ezra and Nehemiah. could solve all problems. human spirit. There is good as well
Against God ' s command , the God let many generations of as evil in human nature. Good is a
people of the colony began to inter- ancient Israel and Judah PROVE by spiritual attribute, not a physical or
marry with Canaanites, Hittites, hundreds of years of human experi- material action. Had Adam taken
Perizzites, Jebusites and other ence, that the best of humanity, of the tree of life, the Holy Spirit of
races, "so that the holy seed [of without God's Holy Spirit, CANNOT God would have entered him and
pure strain, for they had not the SOLVE HUMAN PROBLEMS AND joined with his spirit, uniting him
Holy Spirit] have mingled them- EVILS! with God as a son of God. The
selves with the people of those I have spoken, during the past 20 Holy Spirit meant more than spiri-
lands . .. " (Ezra 9:2). years, to many heads of govern- tual knowledge of good. Not the
The prophet Ezra was ANG RY! ments over Europe, Asia, Africa, hearers of the law (good) but the
He stood up before the congrega- South America. In China, I believe doers of the law are justified (Rom.
tion and said : "Ye have trans- the Communist heads of govern- 2: 13) . Love is the fulfilling of the
gressed, and have taken strange ment believe that communism, law-but not human love. It
March 1986 21
requires the "love OF GOD ... shed Of course, in this world, every withholding the promised bless-
abroad in our hearts by the Holy nation has enemies. What if ene- ings for 2,520 years! For that is
[Spirit]" (Rom. 5:5). my nations attacked? Verses 7-8: precisely what did happen!
God revealed his law to the "And ye shall chase your ene- That national punishment-the
mies, and they shall fall before withholding of the birthright prom-
nation Israel. One of the purposes you by the sword. And five of you
of this nation was to prove by ises of national prosperity and dom-
shall chase an hundred, and an
human experience that man with- hundred of you shall put ten inance, applied only to the house of
out the ' Spirit of God within him thousand to flight. .. ." Israel headed by the tribes of
cannot be righteous. . Since many nations in this Ephraim and Manasseh.
So, at this point, let us cover a world always have been aggres- How these promises were actual-
brief synopsis of the actual history sors, Israel would have been ly fulfilled at the precise time of
of the nation, and of the gentile attacked. A nation ,with the mil- 1800 to 1804 is one of the most
nations of the world. itary superiority to defeat all amazing fulfillments of prophecy in
A most important declaration and attackers would soon become the the Bible and in the history of man-
dominant, most powerful nation kind. This fulfillment, step by step,
promise was given to the people of
on earth-especially with re- is vividly revealed in our. free book
Israel, as recorded in Leviticus 26. sources and great wealth from
Again I quote from my book The the ground. Verse 9: "For I will The United States and Britain in
United States and Britain in Proph- have respect unto you, and make Prophecy.
ecy, starting page 110: you fruitful, and multiply you, This nation Israel promised to
and establish my covenant with obey God. But they never did. Even
The Pivotal Prophecy you." while Moses was with the Eternal
In this central prophecy, God re- atop Mount Sinai receiving further
The Great Big If instructions, the people melted and
affirmed the birthright , prom-
ise-but with conditions-for But here comes the alternative- fashioned a golden calf to worship
those of Moses' day! The birtl;l- IF the conditions are not met: instead of the Eternal God.
right tribes of Ephraim and " ... if ye will not hearken unto Because of their grumbling, their
Manasseh were then with the me, and will not do all these lack of faith and their disobedience,
other tribes-as one nation . Obe- commandments ... I also will do
this unto you; I will even appoint
God did not allow them to enter the
dience to God's laws would bring Promised Land for 40 years.
the vast national wealth and over you terror, consumption,
blessings of the birthright not and the burning ague [fever], At the end of the 40 years Moses
only to Ephraim and Manasseh, that shall consume the eyes, and died. The Israelites were led across
but the whole NATION would cause sorrow of heart [RSV: the Jordan River into the Promised
automatically have shared them waste the eyes and cause life to Land under Joshua. During Josh-
at that time. pine away]: and ye shall sow ua's life they obeyed God more or
Notice carefully that two of your seed in vain, for your ene- less but not fully.
the Ten Commandments are mies shall eat it. And I will set After Joshua died, every man
mentioned for emphasis. These my face against you, and ye shall did what seemed right in his own
were the main 'test command- be slain before your enemies:
they that hate you shall reign
mind. These people through dis-
ments! They were the test of obe- obedience to God would fall cap-
dience, and of faith in and loyalty over you ..... (verses 14-17).
to God. God said: "Ye shall make They would be invaded, con- tive to surrounding kings. Then
you no idols nor graven quered, become once again they would cry out to the Eternal
image ... to bow down unto it: slaves-as they had been in and he would send a leader to free
for I am the Lord your God. Y e Egypt before God freed them. them. Again and again this pro-
shall keep MY sabbaths ... " cess was repeated.
(verses 1-2). The Seven Prophetic Times
There was a condition-a great Now continue in Leviticus 26: Israel Demanded Human King
big "if"---;-to their receiving actual "And if ye will not yet for all this After some generations God gave
fulfillment of this stupendous hearken unto me, then I will pun-
ish you seven times more for your
them a prophet to lead and rule
birthright promise in their time!
God said: "If ye walk in my stat- sins" (verse 18) ... . them, the prophet Samuel. But in
utes, and keep my commandments, Now when we come to the due tiq1e the people demanded a
and do them; then I will give you expression "then I will punish human king to rule them, as other
rain in due season, and the land you seven times more for your nations were ruled. God said to Sam-
shall yield her increase ..... sins" in Leviticus 26, it is evident uel it was not him that they rejected,
(verses 3-4). All wealth comes out both by its manner of wording in but God. Samuel had ruled only as
of the ground. They would enjoy the sentence and by the fact of God's servant, and actually it had '
bumper crops the year round, one actual fulfillment that it was been God's divine rule.
harvest on the Ihee1s of another. speaking of a DURATION of seven God gave them what they
Verse 6: "And I'will give PEACE in prophetic "times," or YEARS. And
wanted, King Saul, a tall and tow-
the land ... and none shall make on this "year-for-a-day princi-
you afraid ... neither shall the pie," it becomes seven 360-day ering leader. But Saul disobeyed
sword [of war] go through your years-a total of 2,520 days. And God and the Eternal replaced him
land." What a blessing! What when each day is a year of pun- with King David. (The surprising
nation enjoys continuous peace, ishment . . . the punishment be- conclusion of this chapter will
without fear of invasion.? comes the withdrawing of and appear next issue.) 0
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"THE WORLD TOMORROW"
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG analyzes today's
news, with the prophecies of the world tomorrow
on TELEVISION ·and RADIO.

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ARIZONA KMAU, Wailuku - 12, II :00 am, Sun WPBN, Traverse City - 7. 10:00 am, Sun
KNAZ, Flagstaff - 2, 9:00 am, Sun
IDAHO MINNESOTA
KNXV, Phoenix - 15, 8:30 am , Sun
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KTVK, Phoenix - 3. 7:00 am, Sun
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KVOA, Tucson - 4, 9:00 am, Sun ILLINOIS KMSP, Minneapolis - 9, 7:00 am , Sat
KYEL, Yuma - 13, 8:30 am, Sun WCIU, Chicago - 26, 10:00 pm, Sat; 12:30 pm, WUSA, Minneapolis - II. 8:30 am , Sun
Sun KNMT, Walker - 12, 9:30 am, Sun
ARKANSAS WGN, Chicago - 9, 10:00 am, Sat MISSISSIPPI
KTVE, EI Dorado - 10, 7:00 am , Sun WAND, Decatur - 17, 7:00 am, Su n WLOX, Biloxi - 13 , 8:30 am , Sun
KPOM, Ft. Smith - 24, 9:00 am, Sun WQAD, Moline - 8, 8:30 am , Sun WCBI, Columbus - 4, 10:30 am. Sun
KAIT, Jonesboro - 8, 10:00 am, Sun WMBD, Peoria - 31, 10:30 am, Sun WABG, Greenwood - 6, 8:00 am, Sun
KATV, Little Rock - 7. 9:30 am, Sun KHQA, Quincy - 7, 8:30 am, Sun WLBT, Jackson - 3, 9:30 am, Sun
WTVO, Rockford - 17, 9:00 am, Sun WTOK, Meridian - II, 10:30 am, Sun
CALIFORNIA
INDIANA MISSOURI
KBAK, Bakersfield - 29 , 9:00 am , Sun
WTVW, Evansville - 7, 7:30 am, Sun KRCG, Jefferson City - 13, 10:30 am , Sun
KIEM, Eureka - 3, 9:00 am, Sun
WKJG, Ft. Wayne - 33, 9:30 am, Sun KODE, Joplin - 12, 9:30 am, Sun
KMPH, Fresno - 26. 9:30 pm, Sun
WTHR, Indianapolis - 13, 8:30 am, Sun KSHB, Kansas City - 41 , 1:30 am , Sun
KHJ, Los Angeles - 9, 12:30 pm, Sun
WLFI, Lafayette - 18, 8:30 am, Sun KOLR, Springfield - 10, 10:00 am, Sun
KTTV, Los Angeles - II. 9:30 am, Sun
WSBT, South Bend - 22, 10:00 am , Sun KPLR, St. Louis - II , 10:30 pm, Sun
KTVU, Oakland - 2, 8:00 am, Sat; 6:30 am, Sun
WTWO, Terre Haute - 2, 10:30 am. Sun KSDK. St. Louis - 5, 9:00 am, Sun
KESQ, Palm Springs - 42, 10:30 am, Sun
KRCR, Redding - 7, 7:30 am, Sun IOWA MONTANA
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WNEW, New York - 5, 6:30 am, Sat KACB, San Angelo - 3, 10:00 am , Sun CKMI, Quehec City (Fr) - 5, 12:00 noon, Sun
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KLTV, Tyler - 7, 6:30 am, Sun
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WDAZ, Devil's Lake - 8, 10:00 am. Sun KVEW, Kennewick - 42, II :00 am, Sun WIN6, Bega - 8:30 am. Sun
WDAY, Fargo - 6, 10:00 am, Sun KIRO, Seattle - 7, 7:00 am, Sun CWNIO, Cobar - 8:30 am, Sun
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NEWS OVERVIEW

Understandi World Events and Trends

of an overall Western fertility rate of only 1.8 as a
Western European pattern . whole . Concerns for the
Europe's The reason for the
declining fertility rate is
future include aging
populations , fewer
Population economic: Most Western conscripts for the military
Europeans would rather and a tough choice between
Implosion pursue a career or acquire greater tax burdens or fewer
more material possessions social services .
y the year 2020 , West than have more children. Many Western European
B Germany will have a
population of 49.9 million,
A fertility rate of 2.1 (an
average of 2.1 children a
nations are hoping finan cial
incentives will encourage
down from its present 61 family) is needed to replace parents to have more
million . West Germany 's one generation with another. children . Already· France
shrinking population is part Western Europe has a offers couples about
US$200 a month for up to a
year to encourage parents
Growth to have a third child .
More About
Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's Halley
government in West
Germany wants to raise the amous for calculating the
in
Millions Fertility
(2020) Rate*
income-tax exemption level F orbit of the comet that
for children, and allow either bears his name , Edmund
341.4 336.8 1.8
9.9 9.2 1.6 parent to leave work for up Halley (1656-1742) was also
5.1 4.6 1.4 to 10 months and receive a elected to England 's Royal
France 55.0 57.5 1.8
Germany (West) 61.0 49.9 L3 monthly subsidy of 400 Society at age 23 .
Greece 10.1 11.6 2.1 marks (about US$190) along Halley strongly supported
Iceland 0.2 0.3 2.2
Ireland 3.6 5.8 3.0 with a guarantee of getting the publication of Sir Isaac
Italy 57.4 54.8 1.6 one's job back . Newton 's Phi/osophiae
Luxembourg 0.4 0.3 1.6
Netherlands 14.5 14.0 L5 So critical is the issue that Natura/is Principia
Norway 4.2 4.1 L7
Portugal 10.3 12.1 2.0
Horst Waffenschmidt, West Mathematica in 1687. Many
Spain 38.5 43.4 2.0 German Parliamentary consider this the greatest
Sweden 8.3 7.4 1.6
Switzerland 6.5 5.9 1.6 Secretary in the Ministry of work on physics ever
United Kingdom 56.4 55.9 1.8 Interior, has called upon his produced.
nation to again become a Named Astronomer Royal ,
number of children born to each woman between
woman were to live through her child-bearing years. society that wants Halley published more than
children. _ 80 scientific papers. _

protected from direct light to 54 percent of babies of

Protecting considered a cause of
retinopathy of prematurity with a filter similar to that identical birth weight in the
Infants' Eyes (ROP), which impairs vision , used in sunglasses. The protected group .
but nursery lights have now other 74 were exposed to The only significant
ntense lights in hospital been linked with the normal lighting . The difference in the treatment
I nurseries may lead to
impaired vision in premature
condition. Nursery lights are
at least five times brighter
incidence of ROP was
highest in babies weighing
of the protected and
unprotected groups was the
infants, according to medical now than they were 20 the least. In the unprotected light intensity. Adequate
researchers. years ago. group, 86 percent of babies lighting is necessary in
Exposure to too much In a study of 228 with the lowest birth weights hospital nurseries, but how
oxygen has long been premature babies, 154 were developed ROP , as opposed intense must lights be? _

March 1986 27
 Manfredo: Canal ownership the number of U.S. citizens administrator of the canal.
could ruin his nation. in t.he canal work force Panama can do little to
dropped from 26.4 percent prepare itself for the
ownership may outweigh the to 18.6 percent Many of the financial liabilities of
benefits, according to remaining U.S. workers are ownership . Instead of solving
Fernando Manfredo , deputy expected to depart by 1990, the country's financial
canal administrator. when Mr. Manfredo takes problems , the canal could
The United States now over as the first Panamanian ruin Panama . _
defends the canal ; the canal
and U.S. military bases smuggling , the danger, the
employ some 12,000
Designer cops and robbers, when a
Prospects Panamanians and contribute Drugs: Cheap, sharp chemist with a good
more than US$470 million cookbook can do it all? "
for Panama's annually to the Panamanian Deadly- said Robert Roberton , chief

Canal
economy.
Mr. Manfredo worries that
and Legal of California 's Division of
Drug Programs .
without U.S. money, Panama Chemical designers can
t midnight on December may be unab.le to guarantee hemists are now mimic or even "improve "
A 31, 1999, Panama will its Panamanian employees C creating powerful , the effects of existing drugs.
assume full responsibility for the benefits to which they heroin-like drugs by slightly One heroin substitute , China
the operation, maintenance have become accustomed . altering the molecular White, is up to 5,000 times
and defense of the aging Thus the best may join the structure of legitimate more potent than morphine
Panama Canal. So said a exodus of U.S. workers from chemicals . It 's inexpensive , and 200 times more toxic .
1979 treaty with the United the canal. deadly-and legal.
States . But the liabilities of Since October 1, 1979, "The clandestine labs can
always stay beyond the
being discovered. reach of the law with a
Functional " Millions of employees slightly different compound
Illiteracy with varying degrees of that is not yet on the
illiteracy cost their schedule of controlled
man says he forgot his companies daily through low drugs ," said U.S. Senator
A glasses, so his wife fills productivity, work-place Lawton Chi les.
out the form for him. A accidents, absenteeism, Officials fear that
young woman bandages her poor product quality and lost underground kitchen
hands and lies about an management and laboratories in the United
injury. A father tells his supervisory time, " said States may soon replace the
children he is too busy to William Woodside , chief opium and coca fields of With greater potency
read them a story. " You get operating officer of the Asia and South America . comes greater risks . A
pretty good at faking when American Can Company. " Theoretically, a single contaminant found in one
your life depends on it," one Why so many illiterates in clandestine lab could heroin substitute left some
woman says. nations where education is produce enough synthetic users with irreversible brain
They are functionally stressed from early heroin to meet the damage. As use of these
illiterate . childhood? Reasons include worldwide demand for drugs spreads, fatalities and
In spite of what many poor parent-child and heroin-like drugs without a disorders snowball.
believe , illiteracy is not student-teacher relations, single opium' poppy being " I believe that anyone
limited to Third World dropping out of school, harvested ," commented who is taking a street drug
countries . The illiteracy rate learning disabilities, Charles Rangel, chairman of these days is playing
in such developed countries television 'dependency, the U.S. House narcotics Russian roulette ," said J.
as the United States and illiterate parents and committee . William Langston , chairman
Australia is probably emotional problems. Designer drugs give drug of the neurology department
between 10 and 20 percent, In the United States, pushers new incentive . at Santa Clara Valley
and the number of functional volunteer organizations have ' 'Why go through the Medical Center. _
illiterates is even higher. been established to combat
Functional illiterates have the problem. The Coalition is similar. Jill Gillespie , who Eye, published by Editorial
received some schooling, for Literacy, a group of such works with a literacy Experts, Inc ., many
but have not achieved a organizations, has launched program in Sydney, said companies are being forced
minimum standard of a nationwide advertising Adult Literacy Board to provide in-house training
literacy. In other words, their campaign with a national representatives were to establish an adequate
limited ability to read and literacy hot line. It is also unsuccessful in lobbying the work force . " AT&T alone
write makes it difficult and struggling to raise needed federal government for spends $6 million a year to
often painful to function in funds . funds . provide basic skills for
society. They live in fear of In Australia, the problem According to The Editorial 14,000 employees " _

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hast not lied unto men, but apparent to myself or any of crisis, and actually have been
Television Program unto God." the people I have shared the in one ever since World War
I've been watching Mr. periodical's information II. And there are only few
Armstrong's program for the Arabic Translation with-they were equally that really believe in a strong,
last few weeks now, and I'm This is the first time I surprised. unified Europe. The national
very impressed. Some people have written to you and The I look forward to reading egotisms are simply too big,
told me not to watch him Plain Truth. I like your many fascinating facts and most people think. And, of
because what he says is not subject "Personal from" and I ideas found in your magazine course, having the largest
true. But I don't believe would like to congratulate the in the year to come. By economic power, West
everything I hear, so I editors, who write about child reading these articles, I hope Germans are not too fond of
decided to watch and find out rearing. They are great. From to gain a clearer image of the paying everybody else.
for myself. that point, I have started to world around me, as well as There's no quick solution at
Anthony E. Mark translate this subject and the importance God's hand, and there can't be. In
Pottsville, Pennsylvania other subjects into the Arabic presence is to mankind. the meantime, I'm watching
language and it will be Jason A. Craybeek carefully world's politics, and
Nature of God published in our church Omemee, Ontario prophecy.
In October issue of The (Coptic) magazine free to all Ronald Fleming
people-you have given us · Correspondence Course Hamburg,
Plain Truth on page 20, it is
pointed out that the Holy the example. I am a stroke victim West Germany
Spirit is not God . The Bible I would like you to write slightly housebound but not
as much as you can in the helpless, living in a country Superstition or Authority?
says the Holy Spirit IS God.
If you look at Acts 5:3, we field of social problems. district and enjoying nature at The article "The Bible:
find the Holy Spirit lied to! M.G. Ishag its best. I am a regular Superstition or Authority?"
In the next verse, Acts 5:4, Khartoum subscriber to The Plain caught my eye. I looked up
we read (KJV) "Thou hast Truth and have been since the scriptural references in
New Subscriber my service days in 1950. It my Bible. Having read The
not lied unto men, but UNTO
GOD"' ....
One month ago for the has been a great comfort to United States and Britain in
If you are honest you will first time I sat down and me all these long years . Prophecy I understand the
admit your error. listened to your message on I have just received my use of Leviticus 26:14-39 to
Reuben D. Lane television. In that short thirty first lesson on the Bible establish that Judah's
Phoenix, Arizona minutes you said more to me Correspondence Course you punishment would be for
than any speaker had said to offered. That will give me a 2,520 years. But the article
• It would appear that the me in thirty years . bit of spiritual thought in the goes on to say that the 2,520
reader did not clearly Many things, though not next few months as I have years began on the 24th day
understand what the editor all, that you believe in match plenty of time to myself. Do of the ninth month in 604
wrote. The Holy Spirit many of, though not all, of keep on with the good B.C. The scripture cited to
emanates from God and the things that I believe in . work-this crazy mixed-up support this was Haggai
Christ and is, therefore, The very next day I picked world we live in badly needs 2:20-22. I fail to see the
divine in nature. The point up your May issue of The it. connection.
being made is that the Holy Plain Truth . I found it to be David T.B. Small R. Lucia
Spirit is not a separate one of the most informative Rochford, Essex Pasadena, California
person in the Godhead as is magazines that I have ever
read. Minerals • One of the keys to
commonly taught .
You ask how it is possible Robert C. Robinson The article of particular understanding biblical
to lie to the Holy Spirit if Toronto, Ontario interest to me in the prophecy is duality. This day
the Holy Spirit is not a November-December issue is God singled out for the
person (Acts 5:3). Ananias I picked up a copy of The the article on minerals by rebuilding of the Second
and his wife had been Plain Truth two days ago at Gene Hogberg. I also have Temple (verse 18). He also
speaking to human beings. [aJ shop. The magazine was been stressing the importance singles it out for an event
Peter was emphasizing to sitting on a rack marked of strategic and critical yet future (verses 21-22).
Ananias that. although the "Free-Take One," so I did. rriaterials and why we must Similarly, because Bible
lie had been spoken to men, I greatly enjoyed the import so many of them from prophecy is often dual this
in reality it had been spoken . articles that were to be found South Africa. same day was chosen of God
to God because these men inside. This is the first time I Harold Carlson for the surrender of
represented the government of have ever seen the Bible Consulting Engineer Jerusalem in 1917, which,
God, which is directed by interpreted into the present Lakewood, New Jersey through the Balfour
God IN MEN through His time. The fact that much of Declaration, opened the doors
Holy Spirit. Therefore, in the Bible pertains to events Identity Crisis for the formal return of Jews
verse 4 Peter says, " . .. thou happening today was never Germans are in an identity to a homeland.

March 1986 29
 ·IN THIS ISSUE: ARE WE IN
THE LAST DAYS? ·
How can you know we· are near "the end
. of the world',? Can we prove it?

WORDS THAT ·H URT,

WORDS THAT HELP
Careless words do enormous damage.
G.A BELl,UCHE. JR .-PT

HOW AMERICA BROUGHT

EUROPEANS HOPE!
.,

Those who discovered .and those who

~niigrated to ~he New World paid a high
price-but all Europe benefited.
NORMAN MERRITT

MYSTERY OF ISRAEL
Did you know that when Jews are first mentioned in
the Bible, they are at war with the nation of Israel?

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