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T h e N a t i o n a l M a g a z i n e o f

A M B A S S A D O R C O L L E G E

What Is

the

MILLENNIUM?

T h o u s a i d s

of

y o u

have heard

of

the mil lennium.

But

d o

y o u

kn ow wh at i t i s , wh en i t wi l l occur , and where i t wi l l take place?

B y Marion McNaiy

M

L L I O N S

today are under a

curse because they are believing

a counte rfeit gospel. Th e apostle

Paul pronounced a double curse

on

any

man

or

angel who would preach

any

other

gosF:l

than the one which he

preached (Galat ians 1 :8 ,9) .

The t ruth about the mil lennium is a

part of this ONE true gospel (Ac ts

28 :3 1) . I ts vital ly important that we

understand the meaning of the millen-

nium lest we be under this curse.

Some say we will spend the millen-

nium in heaven. Others say we will be

on

earth, during which t imes the dead

are resurrected. Many large church de-

nominat ions bel ieve the mil lennium to

be this church age. In the Middle Ages

i t was believed that the millennium was

nccurring because Christ, they said, was

ruling in the persons of the Pope and

the Emperor of the Holy Roman Em-

pire.

Am id this confusion-for these doc-

trines cant all be right-we need the

Bible answer. Just wh at does God reveal

about the mil lennium?

Where

I t Is Meniioned

in the

Bible

Im sure that yau have never seen the

word millennium in your Bible. YOU

see, the word millennium is derived

from the Latin and French and simply

means a thousand years. Instead

of

find-

ing the word millenn ium, you will read

in the scriptures of the thousand years.

The

only scriptures in all the Bible

mentioning this specific period of t ime

are in Revelation 20:

1-9.

Here we mus t

find the answers.

The apost le John

sees

a n angel

who

laid hold

on

the dragon, that old ser-

pent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and

boun d him a thousand years and set

a seal upon him, that be

~ b o u l d

eceitf ie

the n4wz.r n o

~ Z O Y L ,

+ill the thousand

years jbould he fulfilled. ( R e v . 2 0 : 2 - 3 )

Did you notice that? Dur ing the mi l -

lennium, the devil does not deceive the

nations. This church age couldnt be the

millennium, because the devil IS STILL

DECEIVING THE NATIONS

The mi l l en-

nium must yet be in the future, and its

a t ime when the devi l wi l l not be de-

ceiving people any longer.

Notice what else the apost le John

says about the thousand years.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part

in the first resurrection: on such the

second death hath

no

power, but they

shall be priests of God and of Christ,

and

shall reign with him a thousand.

years (Rev. 20:6).

So

the m illennium is also a t ime when

the saints reign with Christ .

WHEN

the

M i l l e n n i u m

Will

Occur

D i d

you

ever notice before that those

zn

the

first resurrection will reign with

Chr ist a thousa nd years (R ev .

20:4 .

This means that the millennium canr

begin unt i l AFTER the first resurrection,

because it is those in the fir.rt rerurrer-

t i o n

who d o the rul ing.

Now when does the first resurrection

occur? i Thessalonians 4:14-17 and I

Corinthians 15 52 declare that the first

resurrection occurs at the second com-

ing of Chris t. Th e Lord himself shall

descend from heaven with a shout, with

the voice of the archangel , and w ith the

trump of God: and the dead in Christ

shall rise first: Then we which are alive

and remain shall be caught up together

with them ir, the clouds to meet the

Lord in the air. The first resurrection

occurs

at

t h e last t r u m p : for the t rum-

pet shall sound, and the dead shall be

raised incorruptible, and we shall be

changed.

Since the saints

do not

rise

until

the

second coming of Christ, and since t h e y

rule with Christ during the millennium,

then the thousand years must occur

after the second coming

of

Christ, and

NOT before. This is vitally important

because there are some who teach that

Jesus does not come until the end of

the thousand years. But your Bible says

Jesus comes at the beginning of the

thousand years.

But what e lse happens when

the lajt

t rump sounds?

In

Revelat ion 11:

15-19,

when the

last

or

seventh trumpet blows, the dead

are raised

AND

the kingdoms

of th i s

world are become the kingdoms of our

Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall

reign forever and ever.

This is when the millennium begins

Christ is starting to reign and the saints

are already resurrected to rule with

Christ.

But

where shall w r

ru le?

WHERE Will the

M i l l e n n i u m

B e S p e n t ?

The last phrase of I Thessalonians

4 :17 tells us that after we meet the


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Lord in the ai r we shal l ever be wi th

the Lord. Since we shall always be

wi th Jesus Chr is t , then any scr ip ture

that tells us where Christ will be. will

also explain w h e w

we

shull be dur i ng

the thousand years. Also a verse that

says where the saints shal l ru le dur ing

the thousand ycars, explains the place

where Chris t must be ru l ing,

too

Now consider th is . In order

to

reign

dur i ng t he mi l l enn i um, t here mus t be

someone for the saints to reign

over .

Over whom does Chr i s t g i ve t he sa i n ts

power and author i ty to ru le?

Not i ce Revel a t i on 2 :

26-27.

Jesus

promises: And he that overcometh

will I g i ve power o w r

t h e nations:

and he shal l R U L E t hem wi t h a rod of

iron.

So

thc saints

will

ru le o w r the

nation. And these nat ions

will

be ruled

wi th a rod of i ron.

In the last days of the k ings or ru lers

of this present civil ization. shall the

G o d

of

heaven set up

a

k i ngdom, wh i ch

shall

never be dest royed: and the king-

dom shal l not be lef t to o t her peop l e

( n o t to human beings, but to the sons

of G od ) , bu t i t sha ll b reak i n p i eces

and consume al l these kingdoms, and

i t

shall stand forcvcr. ( Dan. 2 :4 4 )

Not ice, that it is in the days

of

these

kings, not

a

thousand years later that

Cod se t s up Hi s k i ngdom under Chr i s t

-pictured

by

t he s t one t ha t smot e t he

i m a g e ( D a n . 2 :

3 4 , ; )

--wiiich becrime

a g rea t moun t a i n , and F I L L E D THE

WHOLE E A R T H . I t doesnr fill heaven

How absu rd t o say that these nations

are in heaven Are there such sinful na-

t ions in heaven that the saints have to

ru l e t hem wi t h an i ron rod? Of course

no t. These a re t he na t i ons

of

thiJ

earth.

If we are ruling the nations of th i s

ear t h , t hen Chr i s t mus t be ru l i ng on

this ear th too because we shall always

b e w i t h H i m .

Now let s f ind scr ip tures tel l ing

us

where Chris t wi l l ru le. In Rev. 3 :21,

Jesus said this:

To

h i m t ha t overcom-

eth wi l l

I

g ran t t o s it w i t h

m e in my

throne.

even as I also overcame, and

am

set dow n wi th my F ather in His throne.

So we wi l l s i t wi th Chr is t ON HI S

THRONE

whi le ru l ing the nat ions.

At the present moment Chr is t i s s i t -

t i ng on Hi s Fa t her s t h rone i n heaven .

( R e v .

3 : 2 1 )

H e is NOT s it ti ng o n H i s

own throne. But when Jesus leaves

h e av en ( A c t s 3 : 2 1 ) to c o m e f o r t h e

saints , we are promised a p lace wi th

H i m on His throne . Jesus does not

promise us a place on the Fathers throne

in heaven, but a p lace on His own

throne,

f rom wh ich we shall ru le the na-

t ions wi th a rod of iron.

BUT IT IWES

1 i I . I .

THE EARTH.

W he re wi l l Jesus t h rone be?

T h e t h ro n e

of

Jesus Chr is t could not

be

in

hevclen. If Jesus throne were

t he Fa t her s t h rone . i n heaven , t hen H e

would not need his

own t h r o n e

because

He is already si t t ing on the Fathers

&one.

But what throne wi l l Jesus

have?

Gabriel said , as recorded in Luke

1:30-33, that Jesus shal l be great , and

shall be called the Son

of

t he Hi ghes t :

and the Lord God shal l g ive unto him

the

thron e of his father

Davzd:

a n d h e

shal l reign over the house of Jacob for

ever ; and of his k ingdom there shal l be

no end.

So

Jesus throne wi l l be t h e t h r o n e of

Dmd . Davids throne i s on th is ear th

( Jer . 33 : 17 . ) The Fa t her s t h rone i s i n

heaven. Dur ing th e mi l lennium, we shal l

s i t w i t h Chr i s t on t he t h rone

of

Davi d

and rule the nat ions of this earth.

Not only wi l l Chr is t ru le over the

house of Jacob forever,

as

Gabriel said,

but i t i s also wri t ten: Tho u ar t my son;

this day have I begot ten thee. Ask of me,

a n d I shal l g ive thee

t h e heathen

for

th ine inher i tance, and the ut termost

parts

of

the ear th for thy possession.

Thou sha l t b reak t hem wi t h a r o d o f

iron; thou shal t dash them in pieces

like a potters vessel . (Psalm 2:7-9)

Here the Psalmist says that Jesus

Christ , the So n of Go d, wi ll d o the very

same th ings that

He

promi sed we shall

do.

Of

course, for we shall rule WITH

HIM

and carry out

His

will and author i -

cy over [he natio:? This i s the t ines of

rest i tu t ion of a l l t h i ngs [Act s 3 : 21 ) ,

when bl indness wi l l be removed f rom

I sr ae l ( R o m a n s 1 1 : 2 5 - 2 6 ) , a n d w h e n

the Eternal sets h is hand the s e c o n d

tinhe

to

recover the remnant

of

Hi s peo -

ple. (Isaiah 1 1 : l l ) Thi s i s when the

Kingdom wi l l be restored to Israel and

when Chris t shal l ru le the house of

Jacob on t he t h rone of D av i d . (A ct s

1 : 6 j .

If al l these scriptures are not proof

enough that we shal l reign wi th Chris t

o n thi.r earth, and not in heaven, dur ing

the mi l lennium, then turn to Revela-

t ion

5:

10. Here a song i s sung abou t

the saints. Christ has redeemed us-

you and me--out

of

every kindred, and

tongue, and people, and nat ion; an d hast

m a d e UJ un t o our

God

kings an d pr iest s :

A N D

WE

SHALL R E I G N

ON THE

EARTH.

H e r e i t is in the plainest

of

language.

W e s h al l r e ig n , n o t in heaven, but on

the ear th . Do you bel ieve wha t the Bible

says?

HOW and W H E N J e su s Re t ur n s

to

E a r t h

In Act s 1:9 11 he account of Jesus

depar ture n ineteen hundred years ago

i s g iven. Whi le they beheld , he was

taken up; and a cloud received him

ou t of thei r s ight . And whi le they

looked steadfast ly toward heaven as he

wen t up , beho ld , t wo m en . said. Ye

m e n ot Gal i lee, why stan d ye gazing up

into heaven? This same Jesus, which is

t aken up f rom you in to heaven, shall

so

c o m e in

l ike

m a n n e r

a.r

y e

have reen

him go

in to

heaven.

Ho w d i d Jesus l eave? H e ascended

f rom t he Moun t of Olives and was re

ceived by the clouds of heaven. And IIe

i s going to return

in l i ke manner .

Let

find a scriptu re explai ning this.

I n R e v d a t i o n 19 we read that , at the

second co min g of C hrist , all nations are

gathered to batt le against Jerusalem

This same t ime, the second coming of

Chris t , i s descr ibed in Zecha r iah 14 :1-3

It is in the day,of the Lord when all na-

t ions are warr ing against Jerusalem.

THEN shall the Lord go for th , and

fight against those nations .

AND

HIS FEET SHALL STAND I N TH AT DAY

UPON THE MOUNT

OF

OLIVES. (Zech

14:

3 ,4 )

Not ice i t , Jesus i s coming in the

clouds

of

heaven (Re v . 1 : 7 ) and shal

fight against the nations

A N D

HI S

FEET

THE MOUNT

OF

OLIVES which is o

this earth.

It does

n o t

say that Jesus wil

s tand on the Mount a thousand year

latcr, but in thut d u y as Hc rcturns to

receive the throne of David and to rul

the nations with a rod of iron.

SHALL STAND IN THAT DAY UPON

I Ie

R e m a i n s ON T I I B E A R T I I

W he n Jesus i e t u rns t o ear th ,

we

wil

be wi th Him-we wi l l ever be wi th

rhe I n r d . H r

comes

in t h e

clouds o

th is ear ths armosph ere wherein w e mee

H i m a n d t h e n w e a c c o m p a n y H i m L

this

carth. That i s where

rue shall be.

But s ~ n i e ontend

that we return t

heaven i rnmediatcly . T he Bible n

where teaches any such doctrine. Ixt

cont inue reading what Zechar iah wrote

A n d it shall be in that clay (not ice

it is st i l l the same day, not seven year

or a thousand years la ter ) , that l iv in

waters (salvat ion) shall go ou t f rom

Jerusalem

.

i n summer and i n

P I

inte

shall it be. And the Lord shall be kin

over A L L THE E A R T H . . and the lan

shall bc turncd as a plain AND I N

H A B I T E D

A n d men sha l l dwe l l

i

it, and there shal l

be

no more u t t e r de

structio n; but Jerusalem shall be safe

inhabited.

(

Zechariah

14:8-11

1

In the day that Chr is t returns, not

thousand years later, but in that ver

day,

when the nat ions that bat t le

against Jerusalem are subdued , the lan

shall be inhabi ted and MEN S H A L L L I V

THERE.

And the Gent i le nat ions af te

their cntirc armies have been dcstroyc

(Zech .

14 :12 - 15 ) ,

shal l come to serv

Jesus Christ . And i t shall come to pas

that every one

that i s

le f t of all the n

tions which ca me against Jerusalem sha

even go up f r o m year t o

yeur

to warsh

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What

Will

YOU Be Like

i n t he Resurrection

?

W h a t k i nd of body wi l l w e have? I t will be of

a

d i f f e r en tT Y P E a n d f o r a d i f f e r e n tPLJRPOSE

than you have probably imagined

By Dr. C . P . Mered i th

F Y O U

could examine the kind of

body you will have when y o u are

I esurrected LO i i i rmortali ty, i t would

clear up a great many quest ions in your

mind, would it no t ?

S O M E O N EH A S A L R E A D Y A C Q U I R E D

WIL L H A V E a n d that person is JESUS

C H R I S T

Fami l y of God

GOD,

the

F A T H E R ,

has desired to

f o r m f o r himself, and f r o m his v e ry

L.rLwg

a F A M l L Y

of im m or ta l c h i ld re n

who will

be

partabers of h is own d i? ine

nature

I1

Peter 1 : 4 and Psa l ms

17: 15 ,

and who can

be

t rusted wi th great power

and on whom he can lavish his love by

sharing with them all that he has cre-

ated. THIS F A M I L Y wil l compose the

KINGDOM O F GOD because you must be

horn of God t o

enter i t .

Being

a

Go d of o rder, he has estab-

l i shed laws which mankind must obey

i r i

order

co

be admi t ted to th is fami ly .

We

must show. in advance, our wi l l i ng -

nesJ

to be obedient

t o

H i m by having

these laws wrirten in

o u r

hearts and

minds

I1

Cor. 3: 3 )

I f we are not obedient , then we sin

( I John

3

: 4 ) , nd the wages of sin

is

established as death (Romans 6 : 2 3 ) .

Eternal death AL L have s inned and

come short of the glory of G o d ( R o -

mans 3 :2 3 )

-ALL

of mor t a l mank i nd

that God ever made were doomed to

die

Most certainly there could be

no

FAMILY of GOD formed f rom these mor-

ta l people if they were to be dead f o r -

ever

It was at this point that the WORD,

who was soon

to

become t he

SON

of

GOD,sacrificed the GL OR Y of b e i n g G o d

to BECOME FLESH

A N D BLOOD J U S T

L I K E YOU

A N D

I , ( H e b r e w s 2 : 1 4 ) ,

so

he could d ie in place of u s for our sins.

N o w o n de r w e o w e so much to Chr is t

F a m i l y B e g i n n i n g

Now not ice, very carefully, t he BEGET-

T A L of the FATHER S VE R Y

FIRST

SON, who would later , af ter h is physical

i lenth, be born ifzto t he

FAMILY OF

GOD

Th e angel, speaking to Mary concerning

Christs future birth, said, The

HOLY

THE S A M E

TYPE

OF

B O D Y

THAT YOU

S P I R I T shal l come upon thee, and the

POWER

of the highest shall over-shadow

thee:

therefore that holy th ing which

shall

be

born of thee shall be called the

SON OF GOD. (Luke :35 ) .

The angel said to Joseph, Marys hus-

band : . . . fear not to t ake unto thee

Mary thy wife: for that which i s CON-

CE I V E D ( o r BEGOTTEN)

is

of

t he HOLY

SPIRIT.

Two th ings happened here: Chr is t

was begotten as

a

mor t a l man and

PHYS-

ICAL BIRTH

took place shortly thereafter

HOLY S P I R I T

at

that t ime.

At t he end of his physical l i fe he died

a

PHYSICAL

D EA TH in the place

of all

mortal men who would have died

for

thei r own sin , BUT-ut

hi.

resurrection

he

was

born AGAIN-Lhir t i m e a sPI.-

ITUAL BIRTII bccausc he hod been be -

g o t t e n by the Hol:; S f ?it This r ime he

was born in to t he SPIRIT F A M I L Y of

GOD with a SPIRITUAL BODY ( I Cor. 1 5 :

44,

45

)

-Except a m an be BORN

A G A I N

he

cannot see (or en t er ) t he k i ngdom

(or

f ami l y )

of

G o d . ( J o h n

7 : 7 ,

5 ) .

I t

is

sown a natural body; i t is raised a

spiritual body. ( I Cor.

5

:4 4 ) Flesh

and blood cannot inher i t the k ingdom of

God

( I Cor.

1 5 : S O .

That wh i ch is

born of flesh i s fEesh; and that which is

bo rn of Spir i t i s spirit. ( J o h n 3 : 6 ) .

Christs physical body, whic h did not

corrup t, was changed inro spiri t l ike that

of the Father . Go d is s p ir it ( j o h n 4 : 2 4 ) .

Chr i s t Our B r o t h e r

I t was the HOLY

SPIRIT

of GOD, put

there by the Father at Chr is t s human

beget tal and dwe l l ing in Chr is t , by which

the

FATIICR

rcsurrccted him wi th

an

ammortal SPIRITUAL BODY and, he has

promised to g i ve y ou and me t he same

reward IF w e now l e t God beget

us

wi t h

the impregnat ing germ of eternal l i fe,

His Holy Spi r i t

. i f the Spiri t of him that rai sed

u p Jesus f rom t he dead

dwell

i n you, he

that raised up Christ f rom the dead shal l

also quicken your mortal bodies by t h e

Spirit that dwel leth in you. (Romans

8:11).

To

quicken is to make eternal -

ly alive

By repenting and being baptized, YOU

-AND-he was also BEGOTTEN

BY THE

and I, who are m a d e of t h e

r a m e

M O R T A L

FLESH which C hris t took o n himself by

having Mary as h is mother ( H e b .

2 :

1 4 ) ,

may also receizje the gi f t . or, in other

words, R E

BEGOTTEN

OF, the

Holy

Spir-

it

W H A T

DOES

THIS

MEAN

IT MEANS

that when Y O I ~ nd

I

are resurrected,

CHRIST

B E C O M E S

OLiH E L DE S T LIKOTHER

ill the S P r R I l FAM1I.Y of GO[). or u i / have

the same

F A T H E R ,

~ i l i a r e begotten of

the same

SPIKIT--GOI)S

SPIRIT-and

d

are born into [he same F A M I L Y

(

K o -

mans 6 : 2 0 ; Hebrews 2 : 1 1 . 1 2 )

1.1- M E A N S that as Christ will be our

elder brother the? / ,

YOU and I

W I L L

HE H A S We shall be l ike him.

( I

John

3 : 2 )

New

B o d y

for

New

W o r k

tween the body we

n o w

have and the

one we ~ i i l lhave is that while chis one

is

a natural or mortal

body

t he one we

shall have will be a different, a SPIRIT-

UAL BODY: It is sown a natural body;

i t

is raised

a

Spir i tua l

body.

( I

Corin-

th ians 1 5 : 4 4 ) . If we are alive

a t

the

t i me of the resurrection, our mortal

bodies will be changed jusr like an

egg

becomes, or is changed into a chick.

If

we have died, our character comes for th

out of the dust in a spiri tual body which

Go d gives through His H oly Spi r i t f rom

heaven ( II Cor. 5 :

2

) . This is a different

kind of resurrection than to mortal l ife

as described in Ezek.

37.

Also we read: Th e wind bloweth

where

it

l isteth, and thou hearest the

sound thereof, but canst not tel l whence

i t cometh, and whi ther it goeth; so i s

everyone

that i s born

of

the Spi ri t . (Jo hn

3 : 8 ) . Spiri t is not subject to physical

laws because i t is not matter .

Jesus Chris t could

S U D D E N L Y

A P P EA R:

-and as they thu s spoke, Jesus him -

self stood in the m idst of th em a nd saith

unto them, Peace be unto you. But they

were terrified.

(Lukc 2 4 : 3 6 - 3 7 ) .

H e

also

had the abil i ty

to V A N I S H

after he was resurrected: . and he

vanished out of sight. (Luke 2 4 :3 1

We

shall be able to

PASS

THROUGH

BARRIERS or walls as Christ did:

T h e n

the same day at evening . . WHEN

H A V E T H E S AM E K I N D O F B O D Y THAT

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ples were assembled for fear of the Jews,

came Jesus and stood in the midst .

( J o h n Z O : 1 9 ) .

W e w i ll b e a b le to

T R A V E L

RAPIDLY

through space. In John 20:17 Chris t

says: Touch m e

not

for I a m not yet

ascended

t o n q Fccther. . I

N o w n o t e

that on. the s a m e day Christ had been

ab e to t ravel to t he Fa t her and r e t u rn :

And as they

went to tell

his disciples,

behold; Jesus met them, saying All hail .

And they came and held him by the feet

( M a t t .

28:9).

T h e e a t i ng

of

FOOD will not be neces-

sary al though we may eat for p leasure

as d id Jesus wi th h is d isciples (Luke

2 4 : 4 1 - 4 1 ) , a n d , of Course.

N O SHELTER

will be necessary.

When des i r ab l e , we wi l l be ab l e t o

C H A N G E

i n t o

a BODY of PHYSICAL F L E S H

A N D BONE so

mortal eyes can see

us:

Jesus himself stood in the midst

of them (af ter the cruci f ix ion)

. .

but they we re terr i fied and supposed that

they had seen

a

spi r i t

.

and he said

Behold my hands and my feet , that

it i t I mysel f : hand l e me and see ; fo r

a spirit bath no t /lf.rh m d bones . AS

y e

see me have. (Lu ke

24:

36-39) .

A

spi r i t

has flesh and bones, but

it

is spiritual

flesh and bones, composed

of

spi r i t , not

phy.ricccl AS

the disciples sa w Jesus. Since

man i s i n t he i mage of G o d , b o th m a n

and God must have form and shape,

hence flesh and bone; but one physical ,

t he o t her sp i ri tua l. W e wi l l no t change

into flesh and blood because the l ife we

shal l have i s not f rom the blood but

from t h e Spir i t of G o d . ( L e v . 1 7 : l l ;

John

6:63;

11 Co r. 3 : 6 ) .

N o w , w h a t a b o u t t he W O R K we are

to d o i n t h e

1000

years of Christs and

lation

2 0 : 4

and Isaiah

11

chap t er ) , i n

relation to these new, powerful bodies

which are l ike Jesus and the Fathers.

W e k n o w t h a t w e s ha ll b e J U D G ES

(Revel a t i on 20: 1 - 4 ) , a n d PRIESTS

(Revel a t i on 20:6), and R U L E R S ( R e v e -

lat ion

2 0 : 4 ) of

God and Chr i s t

on thiJ

earth (Revel a t i on 5 : 1 0 ) .

To

govern al l

t he g rea t number of huma n be i ngs , who

at that t ime wi l l need guidance ( Isaiah

2 : l - 5 , 9:6-7; Jeremi ah

3 1 : l - 9 )

so that

they can also be begot ten and be

born

i n t o t he F A M I L Y OF GOD, we will cer-

tain ly need the kind of body that Chr is t

and the Father possess ( Isaiah 4 0 : 2 8 and

3 1 ) .

This cer tain ly does not say that , at

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go

at once

t o heaven,

and l ie

around in idleness and ease,

does

i t ? NO

And the Bible WES NOT teach it

( Z e c h a r ia h 1 4 t h C h a p t e r ) . W e w i ll

h a v c work to

do

according

to

t h e

PLAN

REVEALED ONLY I N THE

BIBLE We

shall be teachers visibly manifested to

human be i ngs ( I sa i ah 3 0 : 2 0 ) . W i t h

bodies that can d o wi thout food or

shel ter and which can t ravel

so

rapidly

those cal led now can accompl ish an im-

mense amoun t in gu i d i ng l a rge numbers

of

people

and i n govern i ng t he un i -

verse wi th God

Gl or i f i ed Bod i es

We

have now seen that

O U R

BODIES

are to be resurrected as

SPIR ITUAL

bodies

( I

Corinthians 1 5 : 4 4 ) , nd that w e wi l

be ab l e

to

change in to physical

FLESH

a n d BONE (Luke 2 4 : 3 9 ) in differen

f o rm s ( M a r k 1 6 : 1 2 ) .

But there i s something else that is

go i ng to happen t o OUR

S P I R I T U A L

BODIES-something tha t Ch ris t cons id

ered

VERY

IMPORTANT Not ice what

Christ said to t he F Ar HE n in finishing

Hi s work here on t h i s ear th

I have glorified Thee

on

the ear th :

I have f in ished the work which Thou

gaves t me t o do . And now,

0

Father

GLOR IFY THOU ME

WITH

THINE OWN

S E L F

wi t h t he

GLORY WHICH

I HAD

WITH THEE

BEFORE

THE

WORLD

WAS.

( J o h n

7 : 5 ) .

Christ said I have

GLORIFIED

THEE

.

How?

In r a i s i ng peop l e f rom t he

dead, healing, and per fo rmi ng miracle

he had

G L O R I F I E D GOD

by showi ng

to

m a n

ONLY A PART

of

GODS GREAT

POWER

Soon Chris t was going to

be

back wi th the FATHER agai n and h

looked forward to bei ng

RESTORED

to

t he

GR EAT POWER

HE ONCE HAD

TO

ER A N D GLORY

BE G L O R I F I E D MEANS

TO

BE GIVEN

POW

BUT what has that to do with us?

GOD IS

G O I N G

TO

G L O R I F Y

YO U

and

ME

ALSO-going to

GIVE YOU

and

M E

G RE A T POWER T he Spiri t i tself be ar

eth wi tness wi th

our

spi r i t , that we are

CHILDREN OF G O D

and

i f

children, then

heirs of

God

and JOINT-HEIRS

WITH

CHRIST; if so be that we suffer wi th

h i m t ha t WE You and I )

M A Y BE ALSO

G L O R I F I E D

TOGETHER. (Romans 8 :1

and I1 Cor. 3 : l S ) . Th is prospect leave

us breathless,

yet

there i t i s in your

own

BIBLE

Read i t

God

has promised i t and

HE WILL DO IT

( I Cor. 1 5 : 4 3 ) .

T h i s power we shal l have wi l l be so

great that i t wil l M A K E OUR

SPIRI

BODIES S H I N E as

t h e

SUN

and our rai

men t be w hi te as the l ight. Jesus gave

u

a

f leet ing gl impse of th is fu ture condi

t ion when he was t ransf igured whi l

Peter , James, and John looked on:

till they see the Son of man comi ng i

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5/16

The

History

and Truth

A

bo

u

t Pen tecost

Wbat

is

the

REAL ORIGIN

of

Pen tecos t? Where did Cuthol ics ,

Lutherans and others get the

c u s to m

of

obsert ing Pentecost

Sunday each year? Does God command us to observe Pentecost?

B y H er m a n L. H o e h

T

IS A N almost universal belief that

the

New

Tes t amen t Church was

I ounded

on

Sunday. Probably each

of us has heard fr om childh ood, too, that

the com ing of the Holy Spi r i t originated

the day of Pentecost .

Ha ve you really investigated the Bi-

ble and history to see if these doctrines

really came f r o m Scripture:

Did t he New Tes t amen t Church

really

begin

on

S u n da y ? W h a t d o e s t he

Bible say about th e origin of Pe nteco st?

Here fu r

chc

first t i me are t he s t a r -

t l ing facts which prove that the New

Tes t amen t Church was

NOT

founded on

Sunday, that P entecost d id NOT or iginate

when t he Ho l y Sp i r i t came i n t o t he

disciples, that the day of Pentecost d id

NOT occur fifty days after the resurrec-

tion

of Jesus.

In this art icle you wil l learn that the

inspi red t rue church, under the guid-

ance of the apostles, observed the cor-

rect

day

of Peiitrcosr annually ; and how

the apostate universal - church thought

to CHANGE THE DAY

OF

PENTECOST

which most Protestants have totally

for-

got ten .

Yes, I know you haven t heard the

t ruth about Pentecost f rom the average

pulpi t , but i t s t ime for you to

get

t he

chance to l earn the t ru th whic h has been

hidden f rom you for centuries. So lets

understand the real meaning of Pen t e-

cost which is part of t he fa i th once de-

l ivered to the saints.

Pen t ecos t Cen t u r i es Befo re

A.D.

31

In wr i t i ng t he book

of

Acts, Luke

gives

us

th i s s igni f icant s tatement : And

when the day of Pentecost was ful ly

come

they

( t he

disciples) were

all

with o ne accord in one place. Not ic e

that in this first verse of Acts

2,

the day

of Pentecost

WAS ALREADY FULLY

COME and the disciples

WERE

ill

one

ac-

co rd

BEF O RE

the Holy Spi r i t descended

into them that day.

This account proves that Pentecost

existed B E F O RE t he Ho l y Sp i r i t came

o n

that

day

i n A.D.

31.

Also notice that

there were thousands of devout Jews

gathered together in Jeriisalern

for

this

day. (Acts

2 :5 - 12 )

These Jews did nor

come to receive the Holy Spir i t . They

were unconver ted, but devout men , who

were not as yet the disciples

of

Jesus

and who did not yet know the way of

salvation. They had to ask Peter , What

sha l l we do? (Act s 2 : 3 7 )

N o w , WHY were all these people

gathered together

o n

this day

T o under st and , we mus t

know

the

meaning

of

the word Pentecost . It is

f rom a Greek word and means count

f i f ty.

All scholars and Bible students

know that kn tec ost -co mt j ifty-is

merely the Greek name for one of t he

annual holy days God revealed to the

children of Israel. Peloubets Eib lc Dic -

t ionary says: Pentecost , that is, the

fiftierh day . . . or Harvest Feast , or

Feast of Weeks. It was

also

called tile

Festival of First Frui t s and was appoint -

ed each

year by

L-ozui f iug f i f i y days from

the day the wave sheaf was offered. (L ev.

23:11,15)

So the or ig in of Pentecost was not at

the corning of the Holy S piri t in A.D.

31, but over fifteen hundred years be-

fore that t ime

It

was to celebrate this

festive day, that devout Jew s f rom many

lands, as uiell as t h e disciples

of

Jesus.

had assembled at Jerusalem.

Instead of abolis hing the day of Pen-

tecose,

or

feast of first fruits,

or

H i s

death,

as

you have been falsely told by

many churches, Christ told His disciples

to be in Jerusalem t ha t

day so

that they

might receive the Holy Spi r i t , the d i -

v i ne power of God . (Act s 1 4 ) G o d

honored Hi s day of first fruits (Ex.

23:16; Deut .

16:lO)

or Pentecost , by

g i v i ng t he

f irst fruits

of Hi s Sp i r i t to

those that obey Him. (Acts 5 : 3 2

We

shall

soon

see the special reasofz

why God sent the Spi r i t th i s day and

also the special m e a n i n g

of

the day

of

Pentecost FOR U S

TODAY

Pen t ecos t i n t h e N e w T e s t a m e n t

C h u r c h

When or ig inal ly g iven by God, the

day of Pentecost was commanded to be

observed forever. (Lev. 23 :2 1 Jesus

never abolished Pentecost- nor any of

the o ther

annua l

Hol y Days . The day

of Pentecost nIn OCCUR after

C h r i d s

death that year as Luke records.

N o n e of these annual fest ivals had

burnt offerings or sacrifices on them

when originally insti tuted. (Jeremiah

7 : 22 ,23 ) The

sacrifices were added to

these days and to every day of the year

(Exodus

2 9 : 3 8 )

as

a p a r t

of

the service

of the Levit ical priesthood.

When the sacrifices and offerings

were consumated in the death of Christ

oncc

for

all, these us ua l oner ings ceased

t o be made

f o ~

he c-o?z.rrience ( H e b .

9:

13,14)

by those who were converted

and who believed in Christ . But the

command that Pentecost be observed

forezaer as ;L Sabbath and convocat ion

sti l l remained. (Lev.

23 :21 )

That i s

why the apostles and disciples were

gathered together wi th al l the devout

Jews on th is occasion.

If the

disciples

had not gathered on th is day which

was

sacrtcl t o G o d . the ,

fdd

? J O G

have

b e e n

e ibc.

ai f i

of G o d , His

Spirit .

Even af ter rhe Holy Spiri t came,

Pentecost did n o t cease. Instead of be-

ing a memorial of the mater ial harvest

of the first fruit of the land alone, Pen-

tecost, or the Festival

of

Harvest

or

First

Fruits, had now a greater meaning.

It

became a memorial also of the f i r s t fruitr

of the Holy Spiri t which makes possible

the first h a w e s t of human beings for

the Kingdom of God.

Not only did the Jewish Christ ians

know this, but also Paul, the apostle to

the Genti les, understood that this an-

nual Sabbath was s t i l l commanded by

God fo r Hi s spiritual church. He de-

termined to sail by Ephesus, because he

would not spend the t ime in Asia: for

he hasted, if

it

were possible for him,

to

be at Jerusalem t h e day

of Pente-

cost.

(Act s

20:

16

Paul) the teacher of the Genti les,

wanted to keep Pentecost thirty years

af ter the death of Christ

At another t ime Paul spent the day of

Pentecost in Ephesus, a Genti le ci ty. ( I

Cor.

16:8)

Yes, Pentecost , together

with the other annual fest ivals, was oh-

served by all those of the true original

church which was under d ivine inst ruc-

t ion f rom the apost les . (Acts

18:21;

12:3; 20:6;

27:3; I Cor. 5 : 8 ;

11:20-

3 4 ) Gentiles received the praise of

Paul for fo l lowing the churches of God


6/16

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The GOOD

NEWS

May, 1952

in Judaea-the Jewish breth ren. ( I

Thess.

2 : 14)

Pentecost Centuries After A .D.

31

With the death

of

the apostles,

a

great chunge occwred,

which most

of

you have never been told about. A ter-

rible apostacy set in among the churches

of God. Paul warned the Ephesians with

whom he observed Pentecost, as we

have already seen, that after my de-

parting shall grievous wolves enter in

among you, not sparing the flock. Also

of your own selves shall men arise,

speaking pertterse things,

to draw disci-

ples after them. (Acts ZU:29,30) For

the time will come when they will not

endure sound doctrine; but after their

own lusts shall they heap to themselves

teachers, having itching ears; and they

shall turn away their ears from the truth ,

and

shall

be

turned unto fables.

( 2

Tim.

4 :

)

Here is the place Paul warned Chris-

tians about the very fables that most of

you have been taught since childhood

by an apostate Christianity.

By the time Jude wrote his epistle,

the fables of which Paul warned had al-

ready

srnrted.

He exhorts:

YOU

should

earnestly contend for the faith which

was once delivered unto the saints. For

there arc certain mcn crept in un-

awarrb. ( J u d e

3,4

There were

both

lewish and Gent i le

deceivers as we

shall see.

Almost every church history will con-

tain the information proving that many

Christians of Jewish paren tage returned

to the

tradition

of the elders. (Tit us

1 : 10) This t radi t ion was not the t rue

Old Testament practice, but the fables

and errors of the uninspired Jewish

teachers who made the law of God of

no effect

(Mark

7: 13) Because of tra-

dition, the Jews kept the passover

a day

late,

as they do to this day. (John

18:28) The Jews ALTERED the day on

which Pentecost should fall, making it

always the sixth day of the third month

of the sacred calendar. Later they also

altered Pentecost into

two

days. The

Jewish Encyclopedia

gives

all

the infor-

mation on the beginnings of these

feasts

of

the Jews as the apostle John

spoke of th em.

Since the Jews attempted to pervert

the days of God by

their

traditions,

W H A T A B O U T T H E G E N T I L E S ? Di d

they adhere to the truth of the Bible,

or did they corrupt the teachings of the

apostles and

change

the day

of

Pente-

cost, too?

Remember, the Gentile Christians in

the original inspired church observed

Pentecost

as

we have seen. Therefore,

we will naturally expect some

PR OOF

IN LATER HISTORY that the church

either kept this day pure or changed it.

If

the Genti les NEVER kept this day,

as you have so often heard from the pul-

pits of the land, then we should

NOT

expect to find any record of Gentile

churches

observing

a Pentecost. W h a t

are the facts?

H o w P en t ecos t W a s C h an g ed

The following extracts from histories

obtainable at most libraries

PROVE

D I D K E E P

PENTECOST

These records

speak of keep ing Pentecost-a Pen te-

cost that was

changed

in the immediate

years that followed the death of the

last apostles. This Pentecost, so-called,

had become corrupted with

SUN

WOR-

SHIP. It always fell on Sunday, the same

as the

pagan Easter substituted for the

passover. (For the truth about Easter,

write for Mr. Armstrongs free booklet

Easter Is Pagan.)

Here is a plain statement of Hastings

Dictionary

of

the Bible ,

article Pente-

cost:

In the Christian Church the impor-

tance of

Pentecost

was

continued

and

its significance emphasized by the out-

pouring of the Spiri t on that day (Acts

2 ) . The day of the week on that oc-

casion is TRADITIONALLY represented

as Sunday .

.

Wieseler (Chron. d .

Aposl. Zeitalter, p. 20) plausibly sug-

gests

that t he festival was fixed

on

S u n -

day by th e later West ern Church t o cor-

respond with Easter.

Among the early Jewish Christians

observance of the Hebrew feasts con-

tinued, doubtless with fresh significance

derived from the new revelation.

Lets notice these statcmcnts. Pente

cost was continued

in the early true

Christian Church. It is TRADI TI O N, not

Revelation, that places Pentecost on

Sunday according to Wieseler. Later in

this article we shall prove

from the Bible

that Pentecost can NEVER occur on Sun-

day

Now let us also take note

of

the

Catholic Encyclopedia,

Whitsunday,

or

Pentecost, a feast of

the universal Church which commem-

orates the Descent of the Holy Ghost

upon the Apostles, f i f t y

days after the

Resurrection

of Christ,

on

the ancient

Jewish festival called the feast of

weeks or Pentecost

. .

Whitsunday,

as a

Christian feast,

dates back to the

first century, although there is no evi-

dence that it was observed,

as

there is in

the case of Easter; the passage in Z Co-

rinthians

(16:8)

probably refers to the

Jewish

feust.

Her e is

one

of the plainest admissions

that the Pentecost observed by Genti le

converts, as

the Bible records in I Corin-

thians 1 6:8, was N O T T H E S A M E

as

the

Christian feast w hich later developed

in the universal church. It was the

Bibli-

TH A T TH E EARLIEST G ENTILE CH URCH ES

c d

Pentecost incorrectly namcd Jew-

ish because most authors dont know

that Jewish tradition has altered and re-

jected the true Bible Pentecost.

Anothe r fact we glean from this state-

ment is that there is NO RECORD OUT-

SIDE THE BIBLE that Gentiles contin-

ued to observe the true day. But

t h e

FACT that there are records of a

false

day corroborates the Bible by indicating

that

the Gent i les or iginal ly kept the

true,

but aft cr the death of the apostles,

it was perverted. If no day had been ob-

served originally, there would have been

no Pentecost to alter.

Before w e proceed further, we want

to catch the

erroneous

statement that

Pentecost occurred fifty days after the

resurrection We shall later notice ex-

actly how many days later Pentecost

really did occur.

Ear ly Confus ion A mon g Catho l ics

Abo u t Pen tecos t

As usual, with the introduction of er-

ror wholesale, there is always a period

of

adjustment until the error is finally

established. W e notice just such a situ-

ation in early Catholic records before

their Pentecost or Whitsunday was firm-

ly established. Binghams

Antiqui t ies

of

the Christian Church,

page 1157, 1158,

says:

The iiex[ great festival was that of

Pentecost, which is taken in a

double

sense among the ancients. For some-

times it signifies

the whole space

of

f i f t y

days

between Easter and Whitsun-

tide

.

. In the former acceptation Ter-

tullian speaks of it, when he tells the

Christians

. .

That Pentecost was

a

large space of time

A P P O I N T E D

BY T H E

CH URCH for adm iniste ring of baptism

. . .

And hence

it

became

a

standing

rule over the whole church to read the

Acts in these

fifty

days

cf

Pentecost, as

appears from many other places of

Chrysostom, Austin, Cassian, and the

fourth council of Toledo.

In his

On FaJting,

Chapter XIV, Ter-

tullian says this: Our solemnities too

will be bound to be new: else, if the

apostle has erased

all

devotion absolute-

ly why do we celebrate the pass-

over by

a n

annual rotation in the first

m o n t h ?

Why in the

f i f t y

ensuing

days

do we spend our t ime in all exultation?

(F ro m

Ante -Nic ene Fathers , Vol. 4 ,

pp.

111-112.) Obviously, Tertullian recog-

nized that the Apostle Paul did NOT

abolish

all

these days.

A t

other times, Pentecost was used to

mean

the

spec+ duy tllai

eiidcd

the

season of

fifty

days, during which the

newly-baptized wore their white and

shining garments-hence, Whitsun day.

At one time the confusion over the day

of Pentecost led the Council of Elvira,

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4


7/16

I s

W a t e r

Baptism Necessary?

4re there

couditinris

thut

w e

must

p e r f o r m

be fo re cc2ti re ce iz v t h e

gift

of eternal life.>

H A T

shall

1

do

ro

have my

sins

forgiven aiid t n be ircon-

w

iled

to

Go d? That quest ion

is being asked

us

by hundretis of people

who never before have been mentally and

spiritually at ease. Perha ps y o u

al.ro

have

come to this place in life where you s in-

cerely desire to be reconciled to God

and to learn His way? Just

HOW

to be

forev er relieved of t he cru shing load of

past mistakes in your life

What you need to do is free your

mind

of

prejudice and

open

yo ir Bib le.

The apostle Peter was nnce ;.sked:

What sha l l we do to be forgiven?

W here did he find the will of G od ? In

the teachings of the sects of his day?

Not at all. Peter went

to

the teaching

of Jesus and thats exactly what you will

have to do.

Be not unwise, but understand

what

the udl of the Lord

i s

(Ephesians

5 : 1 7 )

His

w i l /

is expressed in all the

Bible. Christians are to live by every

word of

God.

( Lukc 4 : 4 )

So

you can know what you MUST do

to

be saved from sin and to inherit eter-

nal life, lets begin with the inspired

words of Peter

i n

Acts

2 : 3 8 ,

39. H e was

asked, What shall we do: by honest,

sincere people who were re gretting their

evil deeds and who wanted tn

he rpcnn-

ciled with God. Then Peter said unto

them, rtpent AND BE BAPTIZED every

one of you in the name of Jesus Christ

for the remission of sins.

Heres the answer. The Bible makes

baptism, together with repentance, one

of the essentials to conversion and

sal-

vation. It is

a

commanded outward sym-

bol of your inward faith and belief in

Jesus Christ who reconciles you to the

Father. Other texts say

it is

also neces-

sary to believe that Jesus Christ is the

Son of Go d who died in your stead for

y o u r

sins. (Acts

8:37)

M e t h o d

of

Baptism

Jesus Christ set us an example that

we should follow in H is steps ( I Peter

2

:

2

1 Although Jesus had never sinned,

H e wa.r baptized

by John in the river

Jordan t o set us

an

example. A nd Jesus,

when he was baptized,

went

u straight-

way

out

o f

the water.

(Mat thew

3 :16)

Notice that Jesus went

up

out of the

water. He had to be

in

the water to

go

up out of

it.

It

is absurd tu think

of a

person com ing

up out

of a sprinkle

Common sense, a little studious ef-

By Burk

McNair

fort, and

HONESTY

will show us that

baptize doe5

not

mean sprinkle or

pour. J.ook up the word in any reli-

able concordance that lists the Greek

meanings. Baptize is a Greek word

that literally means:

to IMMERSE,

to

plunge into,

to

put into.

It has

no

re-

semblance to sprinkling

or

pouring

whatsoever

If y o u have been sprinkled

or

pou ied, you have NOT been baptized.

Thes e two false substitutes for baptism

are both meaningless. The true meaning

of baptism has been perverted and sub-

stitute methods are being employed

which do not in any way symbolize

Gods purpose. Roma ns

6 : 3 - 8

shows

us

the symbolical meaning of true baptism

-that we are burie d with Christ by

baptism. Sprinkling and pouring are

false, counterfeit forms because they do

not picture a burial.

The foregoing passage shows that we

are to bury our old self when we

arc

baptized. Our

former selfwill is to

be figuratively crucified with Christ

(verse 6) , that henceforth

we should

not serve

sin.

If you would like the en tire subject

of baptism completely explained, write

for the free booklet W ate r Baptism.

Some may think they have been quite

righteous through their own

human

power. But Romans 3 : 2 3 tells us, For

all have sinned and come short of the

glory of G od. W e should realize that

our human righteousness will never stand

up under severe trial and test. W e

must

have

the character of

our

Heavenly

Father.

Repen tance Befo re Baptism

So as Peter said, baptism

IS

a pre-

requisite

to

salvation. But before you are

to be baptized, you must repent. What

is repentance?

It

is

wholehearted turning away from

sin-forsaking wha t you naturally wa nt

to do, and to go, instead, in the direction

in which Go d is going, which brings

happiness. Most people refuse to repent

until they have become sick of th e way

they have been living and thinking. In-

stead of refusing

to

change your ways,

do as Isaiah said: Seek ye the Lord

while

be may be found,

call ye upon him

while be i s near:

Let the wicked for-

sake

hiJ

way, and the unrighteous man

his

thoughts: and let them return unto

the Lord . . for he will abundantly

pardon. (Isaiah

5 5

:

6,7

)

You are to repent

of sin, so

you must

first know what

in is. In I

John

3 : 4

we

read that

SIN

is the transgression of the

law. Thats what sin

is

It is breaking

Gods

commandments, not

men.r

cnm-

mandments

nor

the teachings of church

authorities.

T o repent of sin, you must turn away

from human traditions which violate

Gods laws and which have

so

much

weight of unh appin ess upon yourself.

Your conscience will probably not al-

ways agree with God about

sin

because

your conscience hurts only when you

have done what

you

think

is

wrong.

Not by conscience, but b y

the

law is

the knowledge of sin. ( R o m .

3:20)

The consciences of men differ and change

with time and place according

to

the

ideas

of a

society w hich

is

C UL uff from

God. It is not the standards you have

learned from society but the standards

of G o d that you must follow.

Hreaking the Fathers laws has caused

the very things that have brought you

unhappiness and suficring to this very

moment. Thats why Gad

in

His love

wants you to quit travelling the road that

in the end leads to sorrow and finally

death. Perhaps for years you have

un-

knowirtgly been

a

slave LO

sill.

Bur

now

if

you

REPENT,

and are

BAPTIZED, you

can receive the very nature and love of

God by the Holy Spirit which will en-

able you to live a happydnd more abun-

dant life. Even though you may meet

opposition and troubles outside, they are

not to be compared

tn rhe

peace

of

God

and inward freedom from sin that comes

from repentance, belief, and baptism.

How to

Become a

Son

of

God

You must be

totally

willing to sub-

mi t to Gods perfect will

as

expressed

in His laws-willing

to

serve Him as

a

loving Jon each time you come to

u n -

derstand His will. But you cant be

a

son of the Heavenly Father unless you

are led by the Spirit

of

God.

(Romans

8:14) The Spirit will lead you accord-

ing to the Bible, not contrary to it. It

will open your mind so you can grasp

the meaning

of

Scripture as never be-

fore. But you cant receive the Spirit of

God unless

you

are

FIRST

baptized.

Be

baptized . .

and YOU

shall

receive the

gift

of

the Holy Spirit. (Acts

2 : 38)

The Holy Spirit is a

GIFT. You

need

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Here Are Facts

about Our Radio

Studio

B y Norman A . Smith

O U

LISTEN

to Mr. Armstrongs

voice. But how m uch do you

Y

now about the actual means by

which

i t

reaches your ears?

You probably never thought about

the mechanical operations involved. Your

mind

is

on wha t he

is

saying. I would

like to introduce you to the operat ion

of a vi ta l department here from which

you

have been benefiting. It transmits

Mr. Armstrongs voice to you.

This is not

a

technical exp lanat ion of

how radio works. It is merely a little of

the funct ion

o f

our broadcast studio in

br ing ing The Wor ld Tomorrow in to

your home.

As Mr. Armstrong explained in a re-

cent prograin

he

first started broadcast-

ing on a small station in Eugene. Ore-

gon. Only

a

very small numbcr

of

peo-

ple conld hear him. But today, by this

miracle

of

radio, millions

of y o u

receive

the true Message of Go d s imultaneously.

4 od er n Wonlfcr

Tod;ly modern electronic equipment

amplifies, records, nnd re-creates his voice

in its exact true sound,

so

the millions

hear it

a t

once.

I t

I S truly

a

modern won-

der .

After

a

period

of

broadcasting only on

t h i s small

station

in

Eugene, Oregon,

the very smallest network was arranged

to broadcas t the program over equal ly

small

stations in Salem and Portland,

Oregon. Then th is ne twork was extend-

ed to include stations in Seattle and Spo-

kane. From that very small 100-watt

s ta t ion, in Port land the program went

o n

a

1,000 wat t s ta t ion, then la ter

to

Oregons most powerful s ta t ion, 10,000

wat ts of power . Meanwhi l e the program

went

to

o n e

of

the s t ronges t s ta t ions

in

Seattle. In 1942 a Hollywood s ta t ion was

added, then af ter a year of broadcasting

o n

WHO

in Iowa, and two years on

WOAI

in Texas , both 50,000

watts,

t he

great , giant 150,000-wat t super-power

Mexican s ta t ions were added. Today,

Th e Wo r ld Tomorrow program is one

of the most powerful and far-reaching

radio programs on the a i r .

M a n y U n s e e n H a n d s

To transmit Mr. Armstrongs voice

with Go ds Message to so many millions

of you, in all parts of North America ,

is in

itself a

largc

enterprise. W h i l e i t

is only Mr. Armstrongs voice you hear.

many other men are having an unseen

a nd

unheard part in bringing that pre-

cious Message

to

so many ears.

So

I

thought

y o u

would be interested

in having me take you

behind the scenes

and show you what goes on that

you

never hear o r see.

First,

I

might expla in tha t i n

a

sense

you never hear the actual voice of

a

speaker

or

singer over the radio-al-

though in another sense you do. The

speaker is talking in front of

a

micro-

phone, which

is

super-sensitive

to

t he

vibrations of sound. From the micro-

phone in the studio these vibrations

which we call the voice are .transmitted

instantaneously over wires into the con-

t rol -room panel in the adjoining room,

separated f r o m the s tudio by double-

glass windows. The voice is amplified

(

made louder ) and t ransmi tt ed th rough

and from this e lect ronic equipment in

on e of two ways-either direct

to

radio

stat

ions over special broadcast l ines and

out

over

the airways

or

into electrical

transcriptions and xxind

tape

where i t

is recorded.

Two Ways

of

Transmis s ion

I said that in a sense you never hear

the actual voice

of

t he speaker . Wha t

you hear, technically, is the vibration

which was caused by the human voice

before the microphone as this vibrat ion

comes out of the loudspeaker on your

radio set . This vibrat ion takes on other

forms than that

of

an audible voice be-

fore

i t

reaches you, forms that you cant

see or hear. The voice may have been

recorded and broadcast a week 1

so

after the words were actually spoken,

but i t makes no difference. The same

voice is reproduced by your radio wheth-

er i t comes live

or

transcribed. Th e

marvelous methods of recording sound

so

that i t can be sent to powerful s ta-

t ions and beamed al l over the North

American cont inent

is

why you people

are now permit ted

to

read The Good

News and to h e a r T h e W o r l d T o m o r -

row program.

We

use two methods

of

recording,

electrical transcriptions and tape record-

ing. Electrical transcriptions are record-

ings

made

o n a large acetate disc .

Jr

looks l ike an overs ize phonograph rec-

ord. As the disc turns, a cutting needle,

vibrat ing with the sound picked u p by

the microphone, cuts away

a

thin s t r ip

of the acetate leaving a groove in which

the playback needle can fol low. When

the transcription is replayed for broad-

casting the playback needle follows the

groove an d rccrcatcs the sou nd, br inging

Mr. Arm strong s voice with those dy-

namic Messages of Truth to you exact-

ly as it sounds in the studio. From

;1

recording, an almost worthless piece of

mat ter put together and formed by men,

you are able to hear those priceless

words . Wil l you le t them guide

y o u

and

show you the way to giving yourself to

God, to be used of h i m ?

The newest and best means of sound

recording is that of rape. Small, niic io-

scopic, metallic particles are affixed on

a

plastic tape with an adhesive binder.

As the tape passes over the recording

head

of

the tape machines these metal-

lic particles are magnetized in accord-

ance with the vibrat ions picked up by

the microphone. This method

i c

cnn-

sidered superior to that of electrical

transcriptions. Th ere is no needle scratch

and the recording o n the cape can be

erased

or

dcmagneciLed, peiiniiiiiig it

to be

used over and over again.

O u r O w n S tu di o

A t first Mr. Arms t rong went to a com-

mercial recording studio to have record-

ings

of

the broadcas t made. Due to the

expensive electronic equipmenr and the

technical skill required, this was becom-

ing a mo st ex pensive process .

As

a

result of the careful planning

and G od-inspired vis ion that h as hclped

this work to advance as i t

has, a

modern

radio studio was designed and construct-

ed in the Classroom building of Am-

bassador College. Th e finest professiona

microphones , program mon i toring equip-

men t and recording la thes were insta lled

Dick Armstrong, who had s tudied sound

recording, was given the position of Ra-

dio operator and technician. Dick was

able

to

produce

a

better quality record-

ing at a fract ion of the fo rmer cost . The

money saved in this manner,

as

well as

that of office rent, is more than the pay-

ments on these beautiful properties

where the Radio Studio is located.

We

are actually being paid to occupy them

Today we use a l l three methods of

br ing ing

Gods

Word

to

your

ears.

T h e

program is aired live daily, by direct

wi re

to

the radio s ta t ion.

Many of you are hearing Mr. Arm

strongs voice at the precise instant he

is speaking in our studio. But

to

con

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9/16

What Is the Place

Jesus

Is Preparin

Here

is

a thorough, God-inspired explanat iort

of

a greatly

misunderstood

t e x t .

D id Jesus say Christ ians

g o t o

heat,len?

By H e r m a n

L . H o e h

M

N Y pwple today believe Jesus

told

His

disciples that Chris-

tians will spend eternity in

mansions in heaven. They quote His

words in John

1 4 : 1 - 4 .

Did Jesus really say that our reward

is a mansion in heaven? Lets see.

W h a t Is t he Fa the r s House?

I n His

Fathers i n i iw , Jesus said ptain-

ly,

thcre we re many mansions. If

i t

had

not been true,

He

said, He would have

told us. Th e Greek word translated m an-

sion iic; >11 i iwre modern English,

rooni . a $lace

of

.Ttaying n abode, a

chamher . So in the Fathers house there

were a number of rooms

or chamberJ.

But what is the Fathers house? Wh at

docs the Bible declare the Fathers house

to

be?

W h e n

in the

templc, Jcsus h i d to h e

Jews who were selling doves and cattle

therein: Make not my

FATHERS

HOUSE

an house of merchandise. (John

2:

16)

Here is the simple Bible definition of

the Fathers house. It was the

temple

which stood in Jesus day at Jerusalem.

Luke 19:46 and Isaiah 5 6 : 7 mention

the same thing.

But did the temple have many man-

sions or rooms and chambers in it?

Certainly. In turning to Jeremiah

35:2, we read this: Speak unto them,

and bring them into the house

of

the

Lord, i n to one of the chambers. In the

fourth verse of the same chapter, we no-

tice that different chambers were for

persons of different rank. Han an, a man

of

God, had his chamber

or

room

by

the chamber of the princes . which

was above the chamber

of

. t he

keeper of the door.

So

the various

chambers

or

mansions corresponded

to the ranks of the persons residing in

them. Each room of the temple, the Fa-

thers house, not only designated the

reszdence

of

each official, but also indi-

cated his position or of ice , whether he

was a doorkeeper

or

prince.

Even the Bible commentator, Adam

Clark, notes in his commentary:

Our

Lord alludes here to the

temple ,

which

was called the

hoase

of

G o d ,

in the pre-

cincts

of

which there were a great num-

ber of cham bers. See also I Kings 6 :5 ;

Ezra 8 : 2 9 and Jeremiah 36:lO.

N o w here does the Bible call heaven

the Fathers house. Heaven is never said

to have mansions. The ancient taber-

nacle had two compartments, the inner,

called the Holy of Holies, being an ex-

act picture of the throne of God-f

heaven, itself. I t had no

manrionJ.

Read

Hebrews 8:5 and 9 : l - 7

to

see exactly

what the pattern uf heaven is like.

No , Jesus was not referring to heaven,

but

to

the temple,

long

since destroyed,

which was called the house of God. The

temple was a t y p e of the House of Isra-

el,

of the Kingdom of Israel under the

Old Covenant. It is also a physical type

of

the r f ih i turn l temple, the family

or

Kingdom

of

God. (Heb.

3:6; I

Peter

2 : 5 )

What IF

t he P l a c e

Prepared?

Now we should consider the remain-

der of Jesus conversation w ith th e disci-

ples. H e said: I

go

to prepare a place

for you. W e learn

from

other scriptures

that Jesus did go to heaven, to the right

hand

of

the Father, where H e now acts

as our High Priest. (Heb. 9.11)

While functioning in this office for

us, Jesus is obviously preparing a place

for each of us as He promised the disci-

ples. Now notice this carefully: the

preparation of each place is occurring

in .heaven, but Jesus did not say that the

places were a part of heaven. A wife

may

prepare

her meals in the ki tchen,

but the meals are not a part of the kitch-

en.

Since heaven, the place of Gods

throne, does not have abodes

or

man-

sions, just what are the places that are

being prepared? Does the Bible give

any texts telling us

what

is being pre-

pared?

There are

only

two texts in the Bible

which tell

us

what is being preparcd.

The first is in Matthew 25:34. Here

Christ said: Come, ye blessed of my

Father, inherit the kingdom, prepared

for

you from the fou ndatio n of the

world. The other text is in Revelation

21 :2 : And I John saw the holy city,

new Jerusalem, coming down from God

out of heaven,

prepared

as a bride

adorned for her husband.

The Bible says the only places that

are

prepared

are the Kingdo m of G od

and the new Jerusalem. Since it

i s

the

kingdom and the holy city that are final-

ly prepared for us all, then what Jesus

is preparing for

each

of us must be our

own

posi t ion in the

k i n g d o m

and the

new

Jerusalmn.

No w its plain why Christ alluded to

the

temple

as an example of the King-

dom of God and of the new Jerusalem.

The temple had rooms which served as

nfices for t h e

various residents holding

different ranks. In the same way, each

of

us

will have our own personal place

in the holy city, in accordance with how

w e l l we use the talents God has given

us in this life. The more we overcome

in this life, the more honorable will be

our place in the new Terusalem and the

greiter will be our of-ficeo f responsibili-

ty in the kingdom.

Revelation

2

1 2 plainly proves that

the holy city is

one of

the two tliiiigs

that Jesus is preparing now in heaven.

It is prepared by God. Both God the Fa-

ther and His Son have been fashioning

it, since what ever the Father does,

the

Son does likewise. ( J o h n 5 : 19) Since

the city comes down out of heaven fully

prepared, then it must have been pre-

pared in heaven, jus t as Jesus said.He

would

do. Notice, too, :hat the city

comes out of heaven.

I t does

not

say

that we g o t o heaven.

No w lets understand what the B ible

says about the kingdom which is in

preparation

in

heaven, and which will

come to earth.

Jesus

returned to heaven

to receive the kingdom. (Luke

19:12)

He must be preparing it while acting in

the office of Hig h Priest. Since the king-

dom is prepared for

all

of

us

to inherit ,

then the particular place Christ is pre-

paring for each of us must be our own

positioii

or

office in that kingdom.

Place

means position, o f i c e , rank,

as well as

geographical location. Our place

or

posi-

tion in the government of God will de-

pend on the office we hold. Christ has

first

place,

as H e is king of kings. W e

shall all have secondary

places,

lesser po-

sitions

under Him.

The k ingdom

of

God is the govern-

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Y o u r questions answered

in

these columns Yo ur oppor tu v t ty to hut^

those puzzling queries, needing only a short reply, solved. I f y o u n are not

here,

then write

the m

to 14~ As space permits they will be printed

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answer

i s

possible.

Of

course, questions demanding lengthy

replies

carlnor

be placed in these columns.

Edited by th e S tudents .

A r e Those S a in t s Who A r o se A b o u t

t h e T i m e

of

Chr i s t s Resur rec t ion

Stil l

A l i v e ?

I t i s a com m on concep t ion , o f t en

taken fo r g ran ted , tha t the s a in t s wh o

arose shortly after Christ are still alive.

But what does the Bible say?

First

of

al l , le t us get the pic ture

clearly in mind. This incident is record-

ed

i n

Matt . 27:52,53 which reads as

fo l lows : A nd the g raves were open ed ;

and m any

bodies

of

the s a in t s which

slept arose, and came out of

the

graves

after

his resurrect ion, and went into the

holy c i ty, and appeared unto many.

These were not the f i rs t

nor

the on ly

pcoplc LO be restored to

life

from

the

dead. In I1 Kings, the four th chap te r ,

we read the s tory of El i sha and the

S hunam ni te s

SOP,

whoin h e rai sed to

l i fe th rough the power

of God.

This

young m an was re sur rec ted m any hun-

dreds of years before Chris t and yet

Paill says in I

Cor in th ians 15 :22 , 23 tha t

Chris t is t he f i rs t frui ts

or

the

first to be

made immortal

as the S on

of God

(

Rom an s 1 4 ) , and tha t the re is a

defi-

nite order, Chris t f i rs t , then afterward

-not

those saints-but they tha t are

C h ri st s a t H i s c o m i n g . N o w

God

i s no t

the au thor of confus ion . H e would no t

set a defini te order of resurrect ions and

then viola te that order.

And ye t, wha t about the S hunam ni te s

son , and wha t ab out Laza rus ( Jo hn

11:5

) ,

and the widows

son

m e n t i o n e d

in Luke 7:14,15? These were a l l ra ised

before Chris ts resurrection. W h a t hap-

pened to them ?

If we cast out preconceived ideas,

and merely take the Bible as i t

is,

t h e

answer is very clear. They were not

made immortal because Paul s ta tes in I

T i m o t h y 6 : 16 that Christ alone, of all

m en who have eve r l ived , has im m or-

tality.

I

Cor . 15 :2 2-21 says fu r the rm ore :

For

in Adam al l die ,

so

also in Chris t

shal l a l l be made al ive . But each in

h,is

orrn

order: Chris t the f i rs rfrui ts ; the?,

r h c y

that

arc Christs AT

s

COMING.

NO ONE BUT CHRIST HAS BEEN

RESURRECTED

TO

IMMORTALITY TO

THIS DAY-but those in Ch ris t will

be

raised NEXI

at

H i s

second coming:

Je-

sus

said that as the Fath er ra ised the dead

a n d m a d e d i v e ( q u i c k e n e d ) w h o m

He

would,

so

a l so would the S on do

l i k e

wise. (John

5 :

2 1

) .

The answer is s i rn-

p ly tha t these peop le , f rom the S hunam -

nites son down to those ra ised a t the

t i m e of Chris ts resurrection were m ade

physically alive, undoubtedly healed of

the afflictions that might have caused

their deaths prematurely, th en they l ived

ou t their lives-human flesh and blood

livcs. Sincc they were

on l y

mortal , and

now al ive , they must have died.

THUS

we conclude that those people

merely l ived out a natural human l i fe

which had been c u t shor t , then d ied and

are even now await ing the resurrect ion.

When

S h o u l d C h r i s t i a n s B e g i n S a v i n g

a Third T i t h e ?

In

[he December Issue

of

T h e G o o d

N e w s a n art ic le appeared explaining

to m a n y of you the

three

different tithes

mentioned in the Bible . The f i rs t t i the ,

of

course , is Gods and

He

directs that

it

be used for the work of the minis try

in spread ing the gospe l . The s econd

ti the , as that art ic le thoroughly ex-

p la ined (Deu t . 14 :21-27 ;16 :9-15) is

w yozh so

tha t you can keep the

annual

fes t ivals which God has commanded

H i s p e o p l e

to

observe.

But the th i rd t i the i s for anyone who

is poor and in need. In ancient t imes ,

when Gods peop le were an o rgan ized

nat ion, the t i the was la id as ide within

the ga te s of each city so tha t the m in-

is ters , the s t rangers , the fa therless and

the widows would be adequa te ly p ro-

v i d e d f o r ( D e u t . 1 4 : 2 8 , 2 9 ) .

Of

course.

the

poor

people who needed i t were

n o t c o m m a n d e d

to

lay aside a third

t i the , a l though they could do

so i f

they

wished.

In

the New Tes tam ent Church . l ay-

ing as ide help for the needy was

also

pract iced. Paul ins tructed the churches

to

take up a col lect ion

of

f ru i t

so

tha t

o n the first day of the week when he

would a r r ive eve ry th ing would

be

in

readiness to rake the liberality

of

the

Gent i l e s

to Jerusalem.

S ee Rom ans

I S :

2 5 - 2 8 w i t h I Cor in th ians 16.1-4.

The th i rd t i the i s to be saved every

thi rd year-the year

of

t i th ing fo r the

poor

( D e u t .

2 6 : 1 2 ) .

Since

Gods

peo-

ple

a re to work the i r l and

for

six years

a n d let it lie idle

or rest

the seventh

year

( l x v . 2 5

:

4- 7 , i t

becomes obvious

that the years for saving the third t i the

are the third and s ixth out of ezery Jer , .

en.

Otherwise

I

conflict would occur

when the year

of

t i th ing would be a

sabbatical year.

T h u s

the third t i the

should be saved the third and the s ixth

year oiit

of

every seven; thnt

i s ,

the

third an d s ixci i, the tenth an d thir teen rh,

the seventeenth and twentie th and

so

o n .

To m:ike everything as practical n s

poss ible for everyone, God made this

he lp

f o r

the poor

a

tenth or t i the every

third year. However, according

to

the

spir i t

of

the law,

if you

are in such cir-

cuins tances , that you need to support

continual ly needy members

of

your

family, the church or s t rangers . i t m ight

he m ore conven ien t

to

lay aside about

th ree

and

one-third percent s ix out of

seven years.

fL,ncient Israel did not give this r i the

r o foreign nat ions a l though

it

was given

to s trangers dwell ing within the nat ion.

In

the same way, we should save it es-

pecial ly for the church, for poor meni-

bers

of

o u r family ( I T i m . 5 : 16) and

for the unconverted whom we see have

need. I t should not be spent prorniscu-

ciusly on worldly charities.

M a n y

o f

you readers have written

us

reqiicstiiig IO i n o w

whcn to

s tar t sa\=

ing ttiis

t i thc . S incc ancient

lsrael was

to rcckon

the pears from the t ime they

en te red the land (Lev. 2 5 : 2 ) ,and as we

have

f o u n d NO KNOWN

A N D

PR OVAB LE

WAY to determine exact ly how many

years have elapsed since that event,

w e

ought

f o

v e c k o n

our

third year f r o m the

t i m e

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w e r e converted. T h i s

is

very

wise , because now, when the church is

not an organized nat ion, we need to

have various individuals saving

a

rhird

t i the i n diffcrcnt years to take care of all

the needs of newly converted individu-

a l s . Al though God does no t requ i re to

m ake up fo r those pas t yea rs where in

we fa i led to save a third t i the s ince

convers ion, we should repent for

hav-

ing failed

to

d o so.

What Is the

Millennium?

Continued from page 2

r h e

King,

the Lord of hosts, and

to

keep

the feast of Tabernacles . (Ze ch. 14 :16)

T h e p e o p l e

that shall

be

left

are go-

ing

to

worship the Lord year by year in

Jerusalem, which

is

on this

earth,

not

in

heaven. T h e Lord

shal l be king

over a11

the

e m t h .

(Zech .

14:9

Th e nex t ve rses

show Him punishing nat ions for diso-

bed ience. W e a re a l so go ing to judge

and

correct the nat ions as we s i t with

Jesus (111

His th rone .

N o n c of

these events can occur be-


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