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T h e N a t i o n a l

M - a g a z i n e

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M B A

S S A D R C

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G

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vOL.-III,

N U M B E R

Trouble

behind

Iron

Curtain

where i s it

Zeading?

Growipig discontent in eastern Europe causes sacage Communis t

purges . S ta l in is slozuly losiizg his i r o n ri p. W h a t d oe s it mean?

H o w

will it affect

U S .

orezgn policy?

b y

H e r m a n

L .

H o e h

a .

ROM

behind the

Iron

Cur ta in , news

reports are bringing warnings of

F

ncreased dissens ion and s tr i fe in

Soviet-conquered nat ions . Eas tern Eu-

rope is being swept by

a

r is ing t ide of

res is tance which has provoked Stal in

into sending his cleverest representatives

to s trengthen Russ ias rule .

S ta lin needs the o rgan ized m anpo wer

and industr ia l potent ia l of his European

sate l li tes to con t inue his cold war agains t

the Wes i .

The

quest ion is how long can

he m a in ta in con t ro l? Wi l l d i s sens ion in

Com m unis t P a r ty ranks in Czechos lo-

vak ia , Hungary and Rom ania p roduce

new T i tos who wi ll repudia te

Mos-

cow

Is

the change in Am er ican fo re ign

policy going to a l ter pol i t ical condit ions

in Soviet countries?

WHY C o n q u e r e d P e o p l e R e s i s t

Russia

is

forcing her sa te l l i tes to

m ain ta in huge s tand ing a rm ies

as a

th rea t aga ins t the We s t i n the co ld war.

These count r i e s a re fo rced

to

bea r the

t rem endous expense of their armies a t

a t im e when m anpower cou ld be used

to

rebui ld their war-wrecked economy.

M u c h of the industr ia l and agricul tur-

al produc t ion of Eastern Europe is being

sent to Russ ia as

a

result

of

cleverly

planned one-s ided t rade ag reements be-

tween the Soviet and her sa te l l i te coun-

tries.

Living s tandard s have been great ly re-

duced. Private business has been system-

atically attacked. Land owners resent

having their es ta tes broken up. Parents

have their children forcibly rcmoved.

In order to retain their ecclesiastical

offices, the clergy has been forced to

swear to uphold the S tate .

Is

i t any wonder that the people re-

s is t , cut down product ion, des troy their

crops , refuse to obey government d i -

rectives?

F u r g e T r i a l s P r o v i d e S c a p e g o a t s

T o keep the peoples minds off the

decl ining l iving s tandard, Cornnitmis t

rulers are providing scapegoats. Party

leaders unders tand enough about human

psychology

to

know that people wil l for-

g e t m a n y of the i r p rob lem s

if

they have

someone else

to

blame for the poverty

that exists.

The only ques t ion is whnrn t h e

Cnm-

m unis t s

will

blame.

Com mun is t parry leaders are constanr-

ly jockeying for po wer a nd control .

AS a

rcsult

of

this

rivahy,

S U I ~ T eddcrs

arc

ab le

to

ga in enough power in the i r

hands

to

enforce th eir personal dic ta tes .

In order to l iquidate their opponents .

they accuse them o;

crimes

against tile

State,

of

treason,

of bribery

and fa i lure

t o

follow

the

p r r y line

Since

their

op-

ponents have usually held important

government pos i t ions

i t

is an easy mat-

ter to make the people bel ieve that

these deviationisis l i ~ i v e een responsi-

ble for the decl ine in product ion nnd the

failure of the

Comrnunisc

regiinc to fill

its promises.

This is what recent ly happened in

Czechoslovakia where fourteen

high

ranking Communis ts were t r ied and

eleven

nf

r h m i h a n g e d 111 P n n k r a c prison

in Prague.

I t

is hard

t c

i m a g in e m y t h i n g

mor e diabolical

t ha n the Communis t

lust

f o r

power which berrays even die closest

friendships.

Klem ent Gottw ald, t ie present dic-

tator of

Czec1ioslov;ikii.

ias inrroduced

an ent ire ly new

phose

in Com m unis t

plot t ing. Eleven o f :he fourreen oppo.

nents whom he arres ted o v e r

3

period

of

three years were Jews atid hence ac-

r.~rsed

o f Z ion i sm . While pre tend ing

t o b e a f r i end

of

the doivi i t rodden and

the persecuted, Gottw ald and other Com-

munists

have used the

Je w s

merely

as

cvnvenienc tools to be discarded when

they have served their piirposr.

In o rde r

to

keep himself in power,


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The GOOD NEWS January 1953

as puppe ts to fight our war against Rus-

sia. Countries which will be liberated

in Eastern Europe will pretend

t o

be our

al l ips on ly

as l o n g as we

h a m t he

m o n e y

t o

suppor t them.

By our new foreign policy, paradox-

ically, WE

A RE SEALING OUR

DOOM

Instead of remaining loyal to the

cause

of

democracy, the very Europe that

we are helping to unite will transform

itself into a third force in the world,

holding the balance of power between

East and Wesr-a force pro phe cy says

will suddenly attack and destroy the

Unit ed States and Britain-thc dcscend-

ents of the House of Israel (Isaiah

America to Be I n v a d e d

The coming Uni ted Europe that i s

goin g to astound and shock the world is

described in Revelation 17 as the beast

-the last revival of the Roman Empire .

It

will be a union of ten nations, dicta-

torships,

that will give their power and

allegiance to a supreme authority, They

will last until the second co min g of Jesus

Chris t (Revelat ion 17:

1 3 - 1 4 ) .

Notice that

a

woman r ides the

beast. Th is com ing uiiiuii iri Europ e

will be under the direction of a great

false church. In Ephes ians

5

and I1 Corin-

thians 11, a woman is symbolically

used to signify a church.

The coming union wil l be a revival

of FASClSM and N A Z I S M . Because this

United Europe will be ruled by the

church, called Babylon the Great, the

who le system-religious, political and

economic-is called Bab ylon in pro ph -

ecy

(Rev.

17

)

.

Now notice what God says through

the prophet Isaiah about Babylon: I

was wroth wi th my people ( th e Uni ted

States and Great Britain), and gave

them into thine (Babylons) hand: thou

didst show them no mercy; upon the

ancient hast thou v e r y heavily laid thy

yoke ( Isaiah

47 :6

)

This prophecy is not speaking of an-

cient Babylon of Nebu chedn ezzars time.

It is thc dazLghter- of that Babylon (verse

1) . IT IS ABOUT THE BABYLONISH

SYS-

TEM

THAT

GRIPS THE WORLD TODAY.

4 7 : 6 ) .

Read the entire 47th chapter and you

will see that

i t

is talking about todays

Babylon the Great Revelation 17

)

The soon-to-emerge Fascist United

Europe will attack Gods people Israel

and enslave them until Christ returns as

their Deliverer (Jeremiah 30:8 , 9 ) . If

Y O U

haven t yet read the am azing and

startling proof ~ l i a i America, Great

Britain and the Demo cracies of North -

western Europe are

the descendants

of

th e H o m e of I srael, be sure

you

write

immediately

for

the free booklet, U nit-

ed States in Prophecy, which explains

our racial identity.

Gottwald had

to

find somcone to blame

for the corruption in Czechoslovakia.

Since several of his Communist oppo-

nents were Jews, he perceived it would

suit his purpose to arouse anti-Semitism

among the people. Although only a few

Jews were Communists, the remaining

chousands are mostly business men. It

was

a

simple matter to propagandize the

workers into believing that the Commu-

nist Jews were collaborating with A mer-

ican capitalists and Jewish business men

the world over. This lie was intended to

cement Gottwalds hold on the masses

more firmly and make him appear

as

a

fr iend of the people.

It is

also

part of a direct a t tempt on

the part of M oscow to woo the Moslems

and keep Palestine and the Middle East

in turmoil. Stalin is trying his best to

divide and weaken the West so that he

can finally seize the world.

R e a l M e a n i n g B e h i n d C o m m u n i s t

Dissens ion

This s t ruggle for power wi thin the

Communis t ranks is far more ominous

than most

of

you realize.

It

is destined

to remake the map

of

Europe-and of

America

Th e mysterious controversy in Czech-

oslovakia is essentially between Com-

munist g c v e r n m e n t leaders and those

who control the

p a r ~ y .

Dictator Got t -

wald, the head of the governmenr,

emerged supreme. Rudolf Slansky, the

Secretary General of the Czech Commu-

nix Pa r ty and a close friend

of

Stalin

perished on the gallows along with ten

co-defendants.

But why should Slansky, who always

followed the party line from Moscow,

now be del ivered up by Stal in to Dic-

tator Gottwald? It was Gottwald and

not Slansky who often deviatcd from

the party and was accused of

NATION-

ALISM.

Here is what happened behind the

sceiies. S d i n k c e w t r o ub l e w as b r ew -

ing. No t daring to r isk th e loss of Czech-

oslovakias industrial p otential, he sent

a

representative to Prague to settle the

differences and ke ep the coun try behind

the Iron Curtain. Gottwald told him that

Czechoslovakia was in such serious

trouble that unless the Soviet would per -

mit a l imited nationalism, the country

could not be depended upon to support

Russia.

Stalin had to face realit ies. H e knew

he couldnt force the people to increase

economic and military aid while their

living standards sank lower and lower.

Got twald promised to keep product ion

at its present level so long

as

Stalin

al-

lowed

Czech

Communis ts to run the

country the way they wanted. The Rus-

sian dictator saw that his most gractical

choice was to accept the nationalistic at-

cicude of Gottwald and so Slansky had

to be eliminated.

Once again prophecy is being ful-

filled. NATIONALISM IS

R I S I N G

I N

R T J S -

SIAN-CONTROLLED EUROPE AND IS DES-

TINED

TO

BREAK THE IRON CURTAIN

Titos Yugoslavia has already escaped.

And now Gottwalds Czechoslovakia is

developing a nationalistic spirit . At the

present, Gottwald is content to string

along with Moscow. One might call his

brand of Comm unism controlled Tito-

ism-limited deviatio n from rhe abso-

lute rule of Moscow.

As

long as Gottwald keeps delivering

the goods to Russia, and as long as

there are scapegoats to confess plotting

against the people, the masses will yield

to the Czech dictators contro l and re-

main behind the Iron Curtain. But when

he cant keep production at i ts present

level, and resentment against Russia

builds up, there will be serious trouble.

How

N e w U.

S.

Fore ign Pol i cy Wi l l

Affect Europe

Th e new administ ra tion in W ashing-

ton is already planning a number of

vital changes in foreign policy for east-

wn Europe . U p to now thc policy

of

the government has been to

contdin

Russia-to keep her from spreadin g.

Our leaders have been on the defensive,

lt t t i i ig

Russia

make the first moves, and

then trying to block her. The conflicts

in Korea and French Indo-China are a

dire ct result of th is fruitles s policy.

Now all this is going to be changed.

Th e new Secretary of State, John Foster

Dulles, has a new policy planned which

will

roll hnrk

the Iron Curtain.

H e intend s to dislocate by

peaceful

measures the internal structure of the

Soviet Union. Through propaganda,

the rncuuragement

of

resistance and the

help of Radio Free Europe,

o u r

new ad-

ministration plans to liberate the coun-

tries of eastern Europe by peaceful

means.

Though i t may take a few years,

prophecy sh o ws thiJ p,olicy will succeed

There is to arise in Europe a union

of

ten nations-dictatorships-that will re-

store the Roman Empire for the last

t ime. (Rev. 17:12-14.) Since there are

not

ye t

ieri

antidemocratic nations in

Europe to form this union, some must

inevitably be liberated from behind the

Iron Cu rtain.

Europe Resent s U. S. In t e r fe rence

W h a t

our

leaders have not yet learned

is

r ha r

m a n y

Europeans resent Ameri-

can capitalistic domination. Tito is nor

a friend of America even though he

wants

our

aid. Francos Spain is still

fascist. Gerrirariy has not been converted

ro Democracy. European countries want

our money but think we are using them


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Who- W h a t - w a s J e s u s

before

His Human Birth?

Th is quest ion has puzz led theologians f o r centuries: W a s He Go d-

W a s

H e Ange l-Wa s H e Spiritual Essence-Did He Exist On ly in

the Plan, Th oug ht , and Purpose of G od?

by T ed Armstrong and D avid Jon Hi l l

I D CHR IST x i st p r ior to h i s Hu-

man bir th through the vi rgin

D M a r y ? W a s h e G o d ? W a s h e

actually born in HUMAN flesh? Or .

was he born of a divine mother , immac-

ulate ly conceived? W h at d oes the Bible

teach on this vital subject?

W e cannot know the answers to these

questions until we first realize just what

--or who-is God. Is Go d a Pe rso n. .

a n Essence . . . or only a Principle or

an Idea?

Th e word G od is gross ly misunder-

stood. Men have always liked to create

God in thei r own im age by put t ing

their own interpreta t ion on the meaning

of the word Go d. Here-from the

Bible

is

the real meaning of this word.

In Genes is 1 :

1

t he or ig ina l Hebrew

word translated G od is Elohim , th e

plural form of the Hebrew word El

or Eloah meaning mighty one. This

wo rd is plural-it me ans MORE THAN

ONE.

However ,

it

is not

a

plural l ike

boys or gi r ls but ra ther a un i-plural word

l ike church

or

family. Ther e is one G od,

but co mpo sed of MORE THAN ONE MEM-

BER.

Scr ip ture Revea l s

God

NOT O n e

P e r s o n

First, lets read Genesis 1:26 which

says wh at? Rea d it

And God said, Let

US

make man in

O U R image, after OUR l ikeness

. .

Do you think God was ta lking to

Himse l f? Not i ce wha t God cont inues

to say, And the Lord Go d said, Behold

the man is become as one of

us

to

know good and evil . Not ice it-

God said . . t he man

is

become as

O N E of

us

God could not have

said O N E of us

if

there were only one

person composing God.

Now, for the final clincher, lets turn

over to 1 Samuel 4 : 8 . The Phi l is t ines

had heard a great

c r y

which went up

f rom the camp of the Hebrews when

the ark of God had entered the camp

. and they were afraid-so read on.

Woe unio us w l i o shall

delivei

us out

of the hand of these mighty Gods?

These are the Gods that smote the

Egypt ians wi th a l l the plagues in the

wilderness. That certainly finishes it-

THESE AR E THE GODS Meaning plural

-not one person, but more than one,

fc rming and compos ing God who i s

a

KINGDOM.

Is

God a

T r i n i t y ?

If

the family

of

God has more than

one member does the Bible reveal just

how many persons are in this family?

Is it a trinity composed of three mem-

bers-Father, Son and Holy Gho st?

T o begin wi th , t he word Ghos t

should be t rans la ted Spir it . W he n the

Ki ng Jame s version of the Bible was

translared in

1611,

people firmly be-

lieved in ghosts. Due to this fact, the

words which should have been trans-

la ted Holy Spir i t were t rans la ted H oly

Gho st, thus g iving this m ost sacred

word a wrong connotat ion.

Christ himself, in unmistaka ble words,

reveals just how many persons there are

in the family

of

God.

No

man ( o r

person) knoweth the Son but the Fa-

rher; nei ther knoweth any man the Fa-

ther save the Son and he to whomsoever

the Son will reveal him. (M att .

:

7.)

How many persons ment ioned? Only

two, the Father and the Son. If there

were another mem ber of th e Godhead,

he would certainly know both the Father

and the Son, would he n ot?

N ow consider-is Chr ist the Son of

G o d ?

As

he is the Son of the Person he

called the Father, and if the Holy Spir-

it is a separate person, he couldnt be the

son of the Holy Spir i t could he? And

yet your Bible plainly says that before

Joseph and Mary came together

.

she was found with chi ld of the Holy

Ghosr . There it is

If the Holy Spirit

were a separate person in the family of

God, then Jesus is the son of THAT per-

son and NOT

of

the Father

The t ruth is that the Holy Spir i t i s

not one of the Persons of th e Godhea d,

but i s the substance of wh ich those who

are in t he G odhead a re composed . God

is u Spir i t . . ( J o h n 4 : 2 4 . ) There

is

only one Spirit which composes God

but God is a family of

m o w

than o n e

person. Just as we humans are composed

of flesh and blood (m ateri al substances)

so

the family of God is composed of

Spirit . . the Holy Spirit . Just as we

use the power of material muscle to

carry out o u r human plans so the family

of God

(

Elohini) uses the power of the

Holy S pir i t to carry out the d ivine plan.

If Jesus is now part of the family

of

God, when d id

he achieve

that status?

H o w J e su s B e c am e a S o n of God

Lets examine the statement made in

John 1

1.

In the beginning

was

the

Wo rd , and the Word was wi th God, and

the Word was God.

In

the original

Greek the

Word

is Logos which

me ans m e wh o spea cs-a spokesman-

one who personifies the very words of

God.

According to John 1 :3 , i t was the

W ord which m ade al l things . There-

fore he had to exist before anything else

( E p h .

3:9;

Col. 1:10-19). God created

al l things by Chris t , who employed the

power of the Holy Sp irit . Th e Father

gave the order to Chris t who spoke the

words which we re executed by the power

of the Holy Spirit .

Again-we read in Malachi 3 : 1. Be-

hold,

I

will send my messenger. . even

the messenger of the cov enant. A mes-

senger is one who brings

a

message-a

spokesman-a Logos.

W he n this promised Messenger came

he was called Jesus. That was his human

name just as John or George

or

James

might be your name. However whi le

your parents might have named you any-

thing that sounded good, there was a

reason for the name Jesus. The angel

told Joseph that he should call his name

Jesus because he should save his people

from their s ins (Mat t . 1 : 2 1 ) .

God always names people what they

are. Wh en the Devi l was a shining arch

angel his nam e was Lucifer which m eans

Light-bringer or Shining s tar of the

dawn. Wh en he rebelled, his name

was changed to fit his new character so

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IS

aZZ ANIMAL

FLESH

good f o o d

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EUITORS NOTE: Th ou gh w e occas ional ly publish articles on

this subject , hundreds

of

let ters continue

t o

ask

for

the p la in t ruth

cibout C r c l e a n

nd

unclean m eats f o r th is p resen t t im e . Ther efore

w e reproduce be low an a rt ic l e f rom the October , 1948, issue of

T he P la in Tru th

by Herbert

W .

Arm st rong

FTER thousands of years of h u m a n

expei iet ice on earth i t seems there

A

till is no th ing people know less

about than food.

Observe a little baby. It seems to

think that anything and everything i ts

l i t t le chubby hands can get into i ts

mouth is

good

to

eat-and everything

hnhy gets his hands on

goes

s tra ight to

his m outh Ho w often m us t young pa r -

ents take things away, and t ry to teach

the lovely little bundle of hum ani ty tha t

wer yrh ing ones hands can touch is not

necessari ly good for the diges t ion

W e r e J u st G r o w n - u p B A B I E S

W e l l , o n e m i g h t w o n d e r

if

any of

us

has

g r o w n up M o v

of

u s a d u l s s ti ll

seem to think that an ythin g we can s tuff

in

our mouths s gcxid

f o r

food.

A b o u t

the only difference between

LIS

and the

baby is tha t baby pu t s in to h i s m outh

whatever

l ooks

good , and we em ploy

the

sense of taste in deciding what goes

in to our m ouths .

Your s tomach is your fuel tank. Your

automobiles fuel tank is its stomach.

You wouldn t th ink

of

pouring jus t any

old thing that wil l pour

i n to the s tomach

o f your car . You know that your car

was

not

macle r o consume and diges t

fuel oil, water, m ilk, o r kerosen e.

Yes , we ar e very careful wha t we

feed ou r autoniobile-anti totally care-

less and indifferent what we feed our -

selves and o u r children

W h a t

hnppe?z.r

to the food YOLI eat?

I n

t h e

s tomach the diges t ive process takes

place. An d, onc e digested-if you have

eaten

fit

and diges tible food-the es-

sential minerals, vitamins, and carbon-

die l i fe-giving propert ies in the food-

filter thru the inrestinnl lining into the

blood stream to replenish and build

up

decaying cells, to provide energy, body

warmth, good he:tlth.

Your body is

W O N D E R F U I . L Y

MADE

It is the mos t wonderful mechanism in

the

worlci.

But , just as you must use rhe r igh t

kind of gasoline i n the gas tank and

the r ight kind of oils and greases in

the other parts of your car

or

im pa i r

i ts performance,

so

you m us t pu t the

r igh t k ind of food into the most del icate

mechanism

of

al l , y o u r body.

If you try

to

oil a fine watch with axle

grease you wouldnt expect the watch to

keep good t ime.

And wlirii

yuu put into your s tomach

al l kinds of foul things which the Great

Arch i tec t who designed your hum an

mechanism never intende d, you foul up

your body and b rin g o n sickness, disease,

aches, pains, a dulled and clogged-up

mind, inefficiency and inability-and

y o u commit suic ide on the ins ta l lment

plan by actual ly shortening your l i fe

The God who des igned , c rea ted , and

mad e your body has revealed som e essen-

ria l bas ic knowledge about what meats

wil l keep that body funct ioning in t ip-

top shape. W h y wil l we refuse His in-

s truct ion?

You a r e E a ti n g P O I S O N

You dont eat every plant that grows

out of the g round . S om e th ings tha t g row

are POISON,not food.

But did you know there are many

kinds of poisons? Potassium cyanide

will kill you very quickly. Some poisons

wil l resul t in death within a few hours

o r a few days. But very few seem to

know there are other pnisons people

mis takenly eat as foods which resul t in

premature death after cont inuous usage

for, say, ten, or thirty, o r fifty years.

Thc only difference between these

poisons we falsely call foods and potas-

s ium cyanide is the re la t ive number

of

minutes , hours,

o r

years ir takes to ac-

complish its killing mission.

Just as every vegetation that God

caused to grow out of the g round was

not designd

f o r

food, so i t is with an i

inal flesh. Some will say, W el l, if

swines flesh isnt supposed

to

be eaten

as food , wha t d id G od c reate swine

for?

YOU

migiii as well ask, what did

God

create weeds and poison vines for?

Everything may have been created for

a purpose, but n o t e v e r y th in g fop t h e

o n e purp,ose of eating.

No w som e be l ieve tha t in th e o r ig ina l

creation-in the Ga rde n

of

Eden-God

did not intend any animal f lesh to b e

eaten. Gods revelat ion o n tha t poi nt is

vague, and many have argued i t both

ways. However, God has revealed that

certain animal meats are to be eaten as

food now, in this age, and Jesus who

c a m e

to

set us an example did eat flesh

as well as vegetables and fruits, and

so d o I.

W h a t t h e G r e a t A r c h it ec t of Your

S tom ach

Inctructs

W he n the very f irst wri t ten revelat ion

cam e f rom Go d to m an th ru Moses, God

instructed man as to which kinds of an i -

m a l f l esh m an ough t o r ough t not to eat.

You will find this list in Leviticus 11.

This is not a ceremonial, ritualistic, or

sacrificial law later done

away

a t

the

crucifixion of Christ.

Th is is a basic law-a revela tion fro m

G o d

to

ins truct man which kinds of

flesh will properly digest and assimilate

in the human sys tem, and which wil l

not . I t is not a part

of

Gods grear

SPIRIT-

UAL

LAW, sum m ed u p in the Ten

Com-

m andm ents .

It is necessary to understand that God

is the author of

A L L

law, and there are

countless laws

in

m ot ion . There a re l aws

of physics and chemistry. You know of

the law of gravi ty. There is the great

im m utab le

S P I R I T U A L

law to regulate

mans re la tionship to G od and to fe l-

lowman-the law of LOVE-the T e n

Com m andm ents . God gave His na t ion

Israel civil statutes and judgments-

NATIONAL 1 laws for the conduct of

the national government. Israel was also

His church, under the Old Covenant .

A n d for thc dispensatioil ilieii present

God gave Is rael r i tuals and ceremonial

laws for th e conduct of religious services,

laws relating to typical and temporary

sacrifices, meat and drink offerings-

temporary

SUBSTITUTES

for Chris t and

(P le ase c on t inue on page 14

)


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Is CAPITAL

PUNISHMENT

Gods Way

W h y doesnt God s t r ike down ev i l doers and Punish them?

I s

it

His

will tha t cr iminals escape punishment?

b y

R o d

C .

M e r e d i th

R.

J. EDGAR

HOOVER,ead of the

F.B.I.,

in a discussion o n Crim e

M n America, reveals these

shocking facts:

ONE MILLION

Amer-

ican girls have venereal disease;

100,000

girls disappear every year into white

slavery; a major crime is committed

every twenty- two seconds; a m urde r

every forty minutes. Crime and vio-

lence of every kind are increasing by

leaps and bounds in spite of the fact

that America is spending millions

of

dollars for law enforcement.

W hy? W hat s wrong wi th the Amer-

ican system

of

law enforcement that

crime i s

not

discouraged?

Instead of ig nor ing this pro blem , its

time to face it. Jesus faced it

C h r i s t W i l l S t a m p O u t C r i m e

Christ is going to return t o th is earth

to rule the nations. H e promised H is

followers-you and me-that if we

w e r c o m e sin we will rule with Him-

we will have authority over the nations

(Rev. 2:26-27;

19:14-16).

You will be

carrying out

Godi

gov e rnm e n t

and will

need to know Gods way of preserving

or de r - of t each ing people the r igh t way,

of PREVENTING crime.

How

H e W i l l Do It

To unders tand

Gods

government , we

must first study His way of governing

people

in

the past.

W e also need

to

learn how God deals with us

n o w ,

and

what He w i l l d o

in

t h e

future.

R e m e m -

ber, you are going to

need, and use ,

this information

The adminis t ra t ion

of

the civil gov-

ernm ent in ancient Israel reveals G o d s

method of dealing

dir rc t ly

with

rrnc.on-

verted , f lesh ly, s innin g people.

Th e governm ent of Israel had church

and state combined. I t was a physical,

flesh-born church

or

congregation. The

administration of civil and religious

statutes and ordinances was combined in

ancient Israel.

Bear in mind that ancient Israel was

not promised salvation at that t ime.

All the promises under the old covenant

were material, for this life (Lev.

2 6 : 3 -

1 2 ) .

Since those Israelites were not

con-

verted and did not have the Holy Spirit ,

they could not understand spiritual

things. They were like most people

today. God dealt with them in a pzcrely

physical manner, punishing them for

their crimes.

T h e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n of Death-

W h a t W a s I t?

Almost no one really understands

the meaning of the ministration of

death written and engraven in stones

I1

Cor.

3 ) .

Lets study it.

W ha t is this ministration-adminis-

tering or executing of the death penalty

-which was engraved on stones?

W a s Paul rcferring to ilie Tcii Com-

mandment s? Were the Ten Command-

ments engraven in

w h o l e

stones?

No

The ten commandments were

written on two tables of stone , but n o t

in whole stones.

Then what was written in whole

stones?

Norice

Deuteronomy

27 : 1-6.

Moses commanded the children of Israel

to set up grea t whole stones, and plas-

ter them with plaster,

and wri te

upon

Lhem

all the words of

THE CIVIL LAW

which he had just repeated to them.

THE

ADMINISTRATION OF THESE LAWS

EMBODIED

THE

EYE FOR

EYE,

TOOTH

FOR TOOTH PRINCIPLE (.Dew. 19:2 1 .

The p unishment fo r breaking many of

these civil codes was

DEATH.

T h e

carrying out of these laws was thc MIN-

ISTRATION ,of

death. This was what

Paul spoke of-not the ten com mand -

ments

The ten commandments are an en-

tirely separate and distinct law code.

The ten commandments are spirituul

laws

which last forever Ps. .11:7-8).

Because the

principles

of

the ten com-

mandm ents formed the bas is of the civil

statutes and judgments, a violation

of

these principles

was

punished by

civil

authori ty

ONLY INSOFAR

as they were

later repeated in the civil statutes and

judgm e n t s .

THE ADMINISTRATION O F DEATH WAS

THE CIVIL EXECUTION

OF

PUNISH-

MENTS FOR VIOLATION OF THIS CIVIL

LAW CODE WIIICH MOSES SPOKE TO

THE PEOPLE.

Perhaps some of these punishments

seem rather harsh to

us. Rur a

careful

study will reveal che all-wise purpose

behind them. Such things as murder,

kidnapping, and adultery were punish-

able by

DEATH.

How well calculated these judgments

are. They show evildoers the enormity

of sin and crime

A

Lesson f o r Us

Many people today take such things

as divorce and remarriage very lightly.

Their

human

reaJon sees very little

harm in it. So people are rushing to the

divorce courts to seek an easy way out

of any marital disagreement that may

arise. Thus, the home and family, which

are the foundations of all decent and

really happy society, are being under-

mined by millions

of

thoughtless, selfish,

misguided people.

Today,

God

calls divorce and remar-

riage adultery (Mark 10:2-12).

In an-

cient Israel adultery was punishable by

immediate death (Deut . 22 :

22

) .

This same provision to protect the

sanctity of the home and parental au-

thority

is

set forth in the law regarding

a

rebellious son. If he obstinately refused

to

obey his parents,

his

life was forfeited

( Deut . 2

1

20-2

1

) A stern measure?

Yes, but this prevented children from

growing up w ith an a t t i tude

of

contempt

and rcbrllion against every thing good and

decent. Others would hear and fear. Too

many young people in America dont

respect parental and government au-

thority. And

too

few paren ts ever bother

to exercise authority

or

to teach or train

their children.

Taking the life of one rcprobatc

often

saved

the lives

of

many decent

people. People today take sin-crime

-lightly, but Go d wants us to FEAR to

do wrong

Remember chat the fear

of

the Lord

is the beginning of wisdom (Ps. 111:

l o ) . W e must f irst learn

to

reverence

and fear our Creator and His Laws.

The n, when we come to know G od as

our Father, l ov e will cast out that kind

uf fear which would separate us from

God.

God gave Israel these penalties to


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Lord

provides.

Address comrnunica-

teach them the azufu1nes.r of sin, and to

show them that they must reap what

they sowed.

T he j udges were

t o

adminis

ter DEATH-not l i fe.

It was a purely

physical matter. Those Israelites did not

understand spiritual things-and there

was n o opportuni ty of eternal life for

them at that t ime.

Judges Respons ib le

to God

The laws in ancient Israel were not

to be carried out in accordance with

hum an reason and influenced by unjus-

tified anger. They were of God. In I1

Chronicles

19:4-7,

Jehoshaphat , the king

of Judah, made the

judges

realize they

were not judging for men, but f o r

G o d .

They were responsible to God alone

God promised to be with them, guid-

ing them in their decisions when they

were executing His laws.

So

we see that the judgments in Israel

were

NOT a

matter of men judging one

another according to human reason.

Rather, they were determined by the

laws f r o m God. And in carrying them

out , the judges were to be guided and

inspired

by

G o d , w e r e act ing under His

authority, and w ere responsible to H im

alone

These judgments were also given as

an

example

to other nations of the bless-

ings of a law-abiding society under God.

Th i s was Gods way of showing t he

unconve, t -zed ,wo,tld the / y p e u i,iuil l a w )

it needs to have. I t was a witness to the

heathen nations of the wisdom and jus-

tice of the God of Israel. (Deut.

4 :

5-8) .

Do

you see the vast difference between

this and mere human government?

H o w

quick

and

efficient

was the pun-

ishment of evildoers

T h e

administration of death

was in-

stituted to show Israel the result

of

wrong conduct. It was

part

of the law

code which was

d d e d

because of trans-

gressions (Gal. 3: 1 9 ) . Yes, this law

was

added

to Gods immutable , spi r i t -

ual law-the ten com man dm ents. Bat

i t was only to last till the seed (C hr ist)

should come.

The T en C ommandment s were never

added because of transgressions. If the

ten commandments were not already in

existence there would have been no

transgression-Where no law is, there

is no transgression (

Rom.

4 :1 5 ) . Abrd-

ham obeyed them long before Moses

was born (Gen. 2 6 : 5 ) . They stand fast

forever and ever ( Ps. 111 8 ) .

Sacrihcial laws for sins committed in

ignorance and this civil administration

were added because carnal-minded

Israel didnt i i n d ersrn n d and

wasnt

able

to keep the spiritual principles of the

Ten Commandment s . Wi thout imme-

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wrong-doing, cr ime and anarchy might

have resulted

These fleshly people needed physical

judgments wi th teeth in them. And

thats just what God gave them

Remember that these Israelites were

iinconzierted and had no promise

of

the

Holy Spirit

or

of eternal life under the

Old Covenant .

Th ey

could not earn

salvation by

w o r k s , any more than we

can today All their prom ises were only

material promises for this l ife. The

judges administered

death ,

not life, to

ihe people. As long as the nat ion as a

whole obeyed God, there were no long,

drawn-out trials, no newspaper pub-

licity, bu t the speedy operation of J U S -

Two witnesses were required to con-

vict a man of any cr ime (Deut . 19:15-

2 1 Th e punishm ent for false witnesses

was made

so

severe as to effectively

discourage that practice.

Israelites did not pay taxes to keep

convicts alive in association with other

hardened criminals. Ho w much our na-

tion could learn from the wisdom and

justice set forth in these laws Americas

complicated, bungl ing

system

of law en-

forcement seems rather pitiful when we

compare

i t s

actual effectiveness to that

of Israel. God s laws wh en enforced pu t

a s top to cr ime and made men

fear

to

do wrong

Gods Warning

TICE.

God warned Israel that if they refused

to practice His laws, they would be

scattered am ong the heathen (Lev.

26:

3 3 ) . After Judah and Israel separaied

into two kingdoms,

every one

of the

nineteen kings of Israel refused ta en-

force Go ds laws.

Lawlessness increased. Human reason

supplanted strict enforcement of Gods

laws. The nation was suffering terribly

from its refusal to ohey God when i t

finally went into prophesied captivity in

721

B.C.

Israel and Judah were never again

united. Even afier

a

p a r d re sto ra tio n

of Judah under the government of Ezra

and Nehemiah, those Jews began to

apostatize. Once again, human reason

tried to circumvent Gods laws

This was the era in which the Talmud

was written by Jewish scribes. They

began

tn add

and improve upon the

laws of God. They did what seemed

right to human reason. When Chris t

came, He had to do away with the

tiacl ir iui is

u l ilir

r l c l r r s .

Th e Jews made a pretense

of

carrying

ou t some of Go ds civil laws. But Christ

showed that

they perverted these laws

even wh i l e t hey c laimed

t o

fo l low

Moses

( M a r k 7 : 13 . They replaced Gods

spiritual and civil laws with the tradi-


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T h e GOOD

NEWS

Page

7

tions of men. They freed the guilty

and punished the innoce nt.

In Christs time, the Jews were living

in

a state of

subjection

to

the occupying

Roman armies. Henceforth, they, and

converted Christians, have lived in sub-

jection to the worldly governments and

rendered tribute to Caesar (Lu ke 20:

2 5 ) .

W h y t h e Ad m i n i s tr a t io n of the Sp i r i t

It was Gods purpose to replace th e

administration of death. It was only

to last till the seed should come. After

Israel and Judah were scattered and

driven into captivity, the administration

of Israels civil government was impos-

sible. There was no organized civil gov-

ern me nt in Israel-no law-enforcem ent

machinery. In Christs time, the Jews

were l iv ing under

a

Roman governor

and had no authority

to

administer

Gods civil laws.

At this t ime

God

sen t Chr i s t to in t ro-

duce a new administration-THE AD-

Why? Because the first administration

gave only death for disobedience. Hu-

man judges could not impart eternal

life, they could only minister death.

What was needed was a new adminis-

tration which could give pardon and

eternal life to those who repcntcd and

wanted to obey.

The p romise

of

the Holy Spirit-the

only hop e of etern al life-was give n to

all believers for the FIRST TIME (Acts

2

:

37 ) . Instead of administering the

death penalty

for

sins, Christ, the Apos-

tles, and his min i s te r s today t each the

p e o p l e t h e w a y t o eternal lif,e. Christs

ministers adminis ter l i fe to mortal

man.

All

men are born mortal, subject to

sin. W e are in need of the H oly Spirit,

the begettal of eternal life. W e also need

to quit sinning-breaking Gods law.

W e need th e love that fulfills the law

( 1 John 5 :3 ; Rom. 5 :5 ; 1 3 : lO ) . Unless

we have that love which only the Holy

Spirit can give, we sin, and the wages

of s in i s dea th -(Romans 6 : 23 ) .

But what is sin Sin is the

trans-

gression of the law ( 1 John 3: 4 ) . T h e

law here spoken

of

is

n o t

the administra-

tion of death that was written

in w h o l e

stones.

Th e ministrat ion of death lasted

only as long as the civil government

of Israel.

This law which John mentions i s

t h e T e n C o m m a n d m en t s

which were

wri t ten

on

t w o t a b l e s of h e w n s t o n e .

These are the commandments which

stand fast

forever and ever ,

and are done

in truth and uprightness (Ps. 111

8 ) .

This law will last longer than heaven

and earth (Mat.

5 :18)

If

you are a Christian, you are being

MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT.

judged by this perfect and just law

So

speak ye, and so do, as they that

shall be judged by the law of liberty

(James

2:12) .

This is the law which

liberates

us

f r o m s in ;

but if we break

one po in t of it, we are guilty of all

(v e r s e 1 0 ) .

T en C o m m an d s NOT Engraven

o n W h o l e S t on e s

Notice that Christians are to have

Gods spiritu al law-the ten com ma nd-

ments-written in

their hear ts ,

no t on

tables of stone as under the old cove-

nant Paul shows right here that Gods

law is not abolished-that it is w ritten

not with ink, but with the Spirit of the

living God; not in tables of stone, but

in fleshly tables of the hear t (I1 Cor.

3 : 3 ) .

Go ds law is to be in our hearts-we

are to l i ve it by the power of Gods

Spirit.

The ten commandments were not

written on stones, nor abolished. Paul

says that they were on tables of stone,

but the laws for the admin is t ra t ion of

the death penalty

by civil judges were

engraven

w h o l o

~ t o n e s .

Since we by nature violate the ten

comm andme nts, we certainly need

par-

don-GRAcE-and the supernatural pow-

er

of the Spirit ol

God

i n us ro

fulfill

them. Christ died to pay

for

our sins.

He made it possible to receive the Holy

Spirit from the Father. His ministers are

to teach the people how to quit sinning

and to gain etern al life-by adm inister -

ing

or

teaching the people how to be

reconciled to

the

Father and receive the

Holy Spirit.

Di f ference Between Admin is t ra t ions

Now do you sce thc difference? An-

cient Israel under the Old Covena nt only

understood the letter of Gods law. Be-

ing unconverted, most

of

them didnt

even obey that. So God gave them civil

laws and prescribed punishments, or

judgments, based upon the prAcip1e.r

of H is spiritual law.

Israels judges punished transgressors

of this civil law code

by

fines and death.

Thus, it was called the administration

of death. It was necessary becausc Israel

was a nation of unconverted people.

However, i t

was

only to last till Christ

should come,

who would introduc e the

spiritual administration to reconcile

us

to God.

Today, Christians are to

forg ive

men

of

their trespasses (,Mat.

6: 14-15

1 W e

are not to avenge ourselves, but to rely

on Gods righteous judgment

to

punish

those who violate His laws

or

harm us

(Rom. 12:lS-21).

Not knowing anothers thoughts

or

intentions, it would be impossible to

judge or condemn another (M at.

7

:1-2

)

Authority of

Civil Government

Go d is perm itting the worldly govern-

ments to rule this world now to keep

order so we can live in peace. W e are to

be subject to the civil rulers, and to

realize that they hold their authority

f rom God

to

carry

out

the enforcemept

of law and order (Rom. 13 1-8).

No

nation is carrying out the right-

eous judgments of God, but it is His

will that they administer civil govern-

ment to maintain law and order. Chris-

tians are to pray that they will so rule

that we may lead quiet and peaceable

lives (

1

Tim. 2 : 1 -2 ) .

Th e Bible teaches that God has turned

over the task of civil government to

the unconverted people

of

this world-

until they learn that human government

cant bring peace and happiness-until

Christ returns to rule with us over all

nations with a rod of iron. W e who

overcome

this world will help rule. W e

will carry out G o d s g o v e r n m e n t and is

laws.

As Christians, we can have no part

in these worldly civil governments. Rath-

er, we are commanded not to be yoked

together in association with unbelievers

( I1 Cor. 6 : 1 4 . Christ said in John

lS :36 , My kingdom is mo t of

this

world:

if

my kingdom were of this

world,

t h e n

would my servants fight, that

I should not be delivered

to

the Jews:

but now my kingdom is not from

hence.

T h e Dea t h P e n a l ty

But are the .civil authorities sinning

when they condemn a criminal to death?

The Bible answer is that these men

are respons.able t o God for the way they

use their office. The apostle Paul said

of civil authorities, , he beareth not

the sword in vain: for he is the

minis te r

of

God

t o e x e c u t e w r a t h u p o n him thu t

d o e t h

evil (R o m .

1 3 : 4 .

Being human, civil officers sometimes

execute a man who is

not

guilty. But it

is Gods responsibility to judge their

misconduct. Even if they have misused

their office, they may be forgiven if they

repent when God opens their minds to

His t ruth .

But they will be held

acc.ountable

if

they wi l l fu l l y abure the authority God

permits them to wield. Theirs is a most

serious responsibility

Penalty for Sin Is S t i l l D E A T H

The penalty of

D E A T H

is still in effect

for those who break Gods law It is

time for professing Christians every-

where to wake up and realize that

God

means business

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T a b e r n a c l e s

preaching, of student teams conducting question-and-answer

periods, of other delightful experiences. You certainly wont

want

to miss

the wonderful services and the opportunity to

meet with hundreds of Gods own people this coming Feast

of Tabernacles.

In the kitchen at Seigler Springs is Mrs. Annie Mann, who

by her untiring ond efficient management mode the serving

of 450 people a grea t success.

Every afternoon many

o f

the brethren gothered to hear their Bible ques-

tions a n s w e r e d by young ministers and graduate students of Ambossodor.

Marion M c N a l r and Herman Hoeh d i s c u s s questions in the recreation hall

D O L ~ I I ,

f plutes o r e being tilled wi th he althf ul foods. They

were then corried on trays by the servers ond placed on the

dining tobles.

To aid in the serving o f meals, young people of high school and college

age worked with Mrr. Monn. Here are several of them using a large dish-

washing machine which war vitally needed to save hand labor.

The dining room. Combined with the wonderful spiritual

feost war this material feast-one o f Gods many bounteous

blessings

for

which we were al l thankful.


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The

GOOD

NEWS

January, 1953

Wbo WasJcsus?

(

Cont inued f rom page 3 )

he was called Satan which means an

adversary. In the same way the Savior

was called Jesus because that name

shows what he is . Th e nam e Jesus means

Y H W H ( T H E E T E R N A L )

saves

or

Y H W H

( T H E

E T E R N A L )

is the Savior.

Jesus Himself said that he existed be-

fore Abraham (J oh n 8: 58). And accord-

ing

to

the first chapter of John, he had

existed from the beginning of creation.

Did he then exist bcfore this begin-

n ing?

To determine the answer, let us ex-

amine

a

little-understood passage in the

Bible. The sixth chapter of Hebrews

states that Christ has been ordained a

priest forever after the order of Mel-

chisedec. W h o was this mysterious fig-

ure, mentioned only twice in the Bible?

Was he man

.

. .

angel

.

or

what?

Melchisedec first being by interpreta-

tion K i n g

of

righteousness, and .

also

King of Peace. H e was not hum an but

D i v i n e - o n e

of

the

G O D

Family He-

brews

7 : 1

reads as follows: For this

Melchised ec, kin g of S alem, priest of

the most high Go d Notice he

was priest

of

the most high

God.

W i t h -

out fa ther , wi thout mother , wi thout de-

scent, having neither beginning of days

nor end

of

l i fe but m ade l ike unto the

son

of G o d ;

ABIDETH A PRIEST CONTIN-

U A L L Y .

Notice carefully. H e was not the

F ATH ER

of the Go d Family-He was

the Priest or Representative of the Fa-

ther. H e was like the SON-He was

Chris t the Eternal before He became

human flesh by birth as the Christ child.

Melchisedec abideth a Priest continad-

dy-He was, at th e tim e Heb rew s was

wr i tt en , ab id in g- re md in ing cont inu-

ally High Priest. At that t ime Jesus

Christ was the High Priest. There is but

ONE Hig h Priest. There fore Melchisedec

was the Logos-the

Y HWH-who

was by hum an birth made flesh-He and

Chris t are one and the same Person. And

He existed as much from eternity as H e

shall fo r eternity--having neith er be-

g inning

of

days no1 end

of

l iJe. He

always existed, the same

as

the Father

The final clincher to this whole dis-

cussion is Micah 5 :2. But thou, Bethle-

hem Ephra tah out of thee shall come

unto me he that is to be ruler in Israel,

whose goings forth have been from

of

old, from

EVERT

S T J N G . Jesus existed

from all eternity before being born into

human flesh. He is one of the persons

in the ,eternal family of God . H e was

not a created being of the Father.

Since Jesus is divine, then was he ever

born into HUMAN flesh av al l? W as M ary

a

divine person, immaculately conceived,

according to the doctrine

of

the immac-

ulate conception?

Immaculate Conception a Fable

This doctrine teaches that M arys par-

ents were so perfect that God changed

them into

a

holy, sinless divine flesh. It

was while they were in this state that

Mary was conceived. If this were true,

then Mary was not composed of mortal

flesh as w e are.

In I1 John

7 ,

we find what God,

through His apostle, labels this idea:

For many deceivers are entered into

the world, who confess not that Jesus

Christ is come

in

t he flesh.

This

is a

deceiver and an antichrist. It is a doc-

trine of antichrist

Before Jesus was born in Bethlehem,

he was

a

member of the e ternal God-

head. When he was born he was a HU-

MAN being who could be tempted, suf-

fer, bleed and die (Hebrews 2 : 1 4 .

After his resurrection he was again an

immortal member of the family

of

God.

Yes-its all very easy to understand.

A lot of Bible quotatio ns and leng-

thy references are not necessary in or-

der to

get

a clear picturc of the OVCI-

all meaning

of

Bible Scripture. Rather a

summing up of the important points on

any one subject, adding the TOTAL to-

gether, accepting each verse

for

what it

says, and not attempting to make one

fit

the other-that is the pro per way to

arrive at the answer.

Capital Punishment?

(

Continued from page 7

)

Hebrews

10:26-31

teaches us clearly

and unmistakably that a far worse pun-

ishment will befall those w h o willfully

trample on Gods law than that which

was visited on the fleshly Israelites. That

punishment is eternal, everlasting

Th e m inistration of death in Israel

was only a lesser, physical ty pe of th e

eternal punishment- ( eternal

D E A T H )

-for refus ing to obey Gods la w -o n ce

the knowledge has come.

Now we can see plainly revealed how

Christ, as the World-Ruler, will stamp

out crime and lawlessness in all nations.

God says

I

change not. Christ is the

rame yesterday, today, and forever. H e

was the God of Israel who enforced

C A P I T A L PUNISHMENT in national,

fleshly Israel. The nations of this world

will become the kingdoms of Christ.

They will still be human, carnal, ruled

over by Christ and the saints then made

immortal divine members of the King-

dom, or Family of God. There wi l l be

strict law-enforcement It will be swift

and certain Jud gm ents will be rendered

DEATH.

by Divine Ones, able to read human

minds and hearts. There will be no

escape for the guilty. There will be no

miscarriage of justice. Men will have

such FEAR to do wrong that crime will

disappear No one will fear thieves,

murderers, gangsters. There will be

PEACE

and SAFElr-and the only fear

will be the fear to break the law H u -

manity will come to realize the enormity

of sin, and will live the way of Gods

Laws of Love.

But we, whom God now calls to sal-

vation, are to teach Gods laws then, and

enforce them. Our life now

is

the train-

ing ground to educate and prepare us

for that grave responsibility and won-

derful opp ortuni ty.

Let us learn the lesson from these

examples that God intended, and quit

trying to use human reaJon to justify

our

wrong deeds. Then we will reap the

blessing of keeping Gods laws, and live

the abundant lives that He intended

( J o h n

10:

10) .

Be

not

deceivcd;

GOD

IS NOT

MOCKED: for whatsoever a man soweth,

that shall he also reap (Gal .

6 :7 ) .

DO YOU

believe Gods word?

Many of you have been trying to hide

your eyes from Gods law. You spend

much time and effort in a vain attempt

to excuse

or jus t i fy hreaking

one

of

the

commandment s (Mat . 5 : 17-20) .

Remember , (Mat . 5 : 17-20) t h a t even

the least commandment is still very

much in force

Hav e you been postpon ing obedi-

e nc e t o G o d ? W h y ?

Do you think that reason will stand

up in the judgment?

,Gods word says that your reward for

sin is

DEATH

( R o m .

6 : 2 3 ) .

Yes,

in

this

case

the Bible teaches

C A P I T A L P U N

IS H M EN T. Remem ber that this t ime

God

himself will carry out that punishment

if you don t repent

If you havent done so already, youd

better take Peters advice to Repent,

and be baptized every one of you in the

name of Jesus Christ for t h e remission

of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of

the Holy Spir i t (Acts

2 : 3 8 ) .

Y O Uwill have to

REPENT

of breaking

Gods law. You will need to be bap -

tized as an outward symbol of your will-

ingness to bury your old, disobedient

self. Then God will give you the Holy

Spirit , through which you will receive

the love to keep His law.

God loves you. He wants to give you

eternal life

But, in His wisdom, God has decreed

that you must first learn to live th e right,

the sensible, and the happy kind of life.

Go ds eternal, spiritu al law-the Te n

Comm andments-is the basis of that

sensible way of life.


11/16

Heres WHY this World

SUFFERS

by

Richard

D.

Armstrong

W

RS,

misery, poverty and in-

justice; these are the chronicle

of this w orlds history. Chaos

blankets the world today, and

yet

it is all

a part of thc plan being worked our here

below by Almigh ty God , the Creator.

God did not create the earth and then

g o

off

and leave it

to

let man work his

way to his own destruction. Indeed he

has

a

plan that he is working out here

below and all of the wars and suffering

of mankind are

a

part

of

that purpose.

God has a thousand-year plan for his

coming rule on this earth, known

to

Bible students as the Mil lennium,

The

devil has his rhousand-year plan

too. The devil is known as the great de-

ceiver. One of his most cunning ways of

deceiving people has been to counterfeit

Gods teachings.

W H I C H I s t h e G o v e r n m e n t

of G o d , T o d a y ?

Some people believe that the govern-

ments of this earth are the governments

of God, or that a part icular go vernment

or

regime in power on earth today is

the t rue government of God. Th e Bible

says that Christ is to brin g G ods gov-

ernment to earth wi th him at his sec-

ond coming (Danie l

2 :

; uke

19:

1 2 ) .

The Mil lennium wil l be

a

thousand-

year reign o n earth by Christ as the King

of Kings,

as

the head of the governm ents

of this earth and the ruler of

all

man-

kind.

In this day and age when men have

departed so far from the ways of God

and have forgotten the meanings of his

laws which would lead

us

to a happy

life, they grope in the darkness to de-

vise

a

plan from their own m inds to end

the destructive conflicts and unhappi-

ness of t he ir fellow men.

Great scholars and scientists look at

the history of mank ind and, seeing all

of the suffering and woe that the gov-

ernments of men have brought to man,

philosophize to find a better way to rule

the earth and bring the peace that is

earnestly desired and sought after by so

many.

In their quest for

a

peaceful way of

life they leave ou t God-the only means

of bringing

a

TRUE peace to the earth.

T h e

reason

for [his is

rhar

chey see the

sorrow and misery that

religion

has

brought to men. They fail to see that

man has twisted the truth of the Eternal

God into something it was never meant

to be and thus caused his own suffering.

These Rel ig ions Are Not

Gods

Religions of this earth change their

doctrines and form to suit the societies

they serve. Christianity, H indu ism, Co n-

fucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islamism

and the other largely followed religions

of the world have all changed a great

deal from their first conccption by their

founders. But, the greatest changes have

been made in Christianity. The differ-

ence between these other religions and

Christianity is that the others were

all

manufactured

by

men while Christianity

has become a perverted, degenerated,

paganized counterfeit of t h e original

t ruth of God our Creator.

True Christianity as taught in the

Bible and inspired by God was revealed

by

the

Cr c a to r

ol

h e earrh--our Cre-

ator-and

is

a

way

of life

here on the

earth at the

present time

to prepare one

for a life to come-living und er Christ

when he comes to take over the govern-

men ts of the earth.

Today many eminent scientists are

completely disgusted with religion. They

say that it imposes a code of l iving on

men that no man can hope to l ive up to,

therefore encouraging hypocrisy. They

say

that it is

a

belief in superstit ion,

fables and fairy tales which their science

discredits and proves impossible. But

only their

speculations

oppose th e Bible.

Actually the things these men of science

discover-when science is held pu re and

true and is not speculative-prove the

existence of God and prove the greatness

and glory of the laws he set in motion.

T h i s T h e y H a v e O v e r l o o k e d

There is one thing that our scientists

and economists who scoff at religion

have overlooked. Man

MUST HAVE

SOME

THING O R SOME ONE TO WORSHIP.

Adam w orshiped G od , then the devil,

but he worshiped some being of

a

higher

order than himself.

T h e scientists

who

belicvc in cvolu-

tion of mankind tell us that the remains

which they find of what they call pre-

historic men are accompanied by the re-

mains of i tems used in the worship of

some kind or kinds of god

or

gods. If

there is no such thing

as

a god-if man

has no need

of uiie

and there never was

a god who created the earth in the first

place then just where did t h e idea of a

god s tar t? W hy have men even from

earliest history worshiped g ods? Th e

truth is the Creator revealed Himself to

such men as Adam, Noah, Shem. Men

once had knowledge of G o d ( R o m .

1

2

1

) , but, rejecting His rule, degener-

ated into false conceptions and worship

of imaginary gods.

Again

the fact

is

that man

MUST

wor-

ship some being or some thing It is as

much

a

part of his nature as his eyes and

ears are a part

of

his physical makeup.

Within the past few generations the

world has seen the rise of these scientists

and economists who believe that religion

is the d o u w f a l l

of

man, holds him

back

and keeps him f rom social progress.

They see, for example, the unwillingness

of the Hindus to kill the monkeys which

ravage their crops yearly while thousands

are dying of starvation. T he re igious

belief is that they would blacken the

soul of an ancestor

if

they killed

the

sacred cows which would furnish meat

for the millions who die

of

starvation

every few years in oriental countries.

I g n o r a n t of t h e T r u e G o d

They see also the religious bigotry and

strife which has risen up within Chris-

tianity, die hypocrisy, error and self-

contradiction of those who profess to

know the teachings of the Bible. They

are disgusted with religion, say it im-

poses

a

code of living on men that no

man can hope to live up to, that i t is

a

belief in sup erstitio n, fables and fairy

tales which their science discredits and

proves impossible.

In their pseudo-super educated minds

they are able to see the error and fault

but are unable to replace

it

with the bar-

est truth because the error that they see

makes them throw religion out of their

minds altogether and discredit it com-

pletely.

Great scholars, liberal thinkers, and

able men keep philosophizing on this

and that way to bring pcace to the

earth, leaving God entirely out of their

plans.

Such a man was Marx who devised

Communism. Marx

was

not

a

mad fiend

who wanted to enslave the world

for

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12/16

ON

THE CAMPUS

F O L L O W I N G are articles written b y

students

on

Jhdent activ-

ities to give you the

s tory

of our jam-packed lives on the campus. W e hope you wont

mind

i

we occasionally poke a little

fun

at ourselves-strivin g human beings are alwa ys

f u n n y - a n d n o

mattpr h ow

serious minded, our f r ai l it i es w i n k . Th e

Cunipus Edi tor

Studmts Take Field TY I

b y

1

Ann

Felt

O n a c r i sp , b r igh t morn ing no t l ong

ago, the s tudents

of

Ambassador

Col-

lege climbed into

a

chartered bus which

was to take the group on a surpr ise

tour.

Unt i l the group was wel l on i t s way,

a lmost no one but Professor Walk er ,

who planned the excursion , knew the

destination

of

the day. Each student was

delighted to discover that portions

of

t he

tour would be spent v iewing educa t iona l

spo t s i n

Los

Angeles and tha t fabulous

city, Hollywood.

A most in tc rcst ing place was LIE

irsr

stop By a specially trained guide, the

students were taken on a tour throu gh

the new, ii l tramodern CBS Television

City. Indeed if one d idn t ha ve some one

to escor t h im through th is immense

bui ld ing (400,000 square fee t of

floor

space) . he would quickly be lnsr i n t he

labyrinth o f rooms, halls, and corridors.

I n o n e of the s tage contro l rooms, i t

was

a

surpr is ing th ing to see n ine te le -

vision machines

w hic h ,

when

they

a r r

used for special observance purposes in

tone color, clearness, and the like, are

used al l a t one t ime T o give you an

idea o f the expense tha t goes in to a

television show, i t migh t be in te rest ing

to note tha t a ha l f -hour show

of

minor

importance costs no less than 37,000

to produce.

Afte r spending a most de l ightfu l hour

in Te levision Ci ty , the group st ro l led

next door to the or ig ina l Farmers Mar-

ke t. The re t he s tude n t s a t e l unc h a nd

looked through shops

or

stalls which

conta ined hundreds

of

impor t e d a nd

domestic i tems ruits, vegetables,

cheeses, glassware, clocks, clothi ng, bir ds

to enumera te only a few

Several stu-

dents were fasc ina ted wi th

a

beaut i fu l

parro t which a t t imes seemed to blur t

out qui te an in te rest ing conversa t ion .

A f t e r t h i s , one g roup of students

visi ted the Ci ty Hall uf Los Angeles,

whi le another toured the Los Angeles

Times Bui ld ing . From the twenty-f i f th

floor of t he City Hall , the ta l lest bui ld-

ing in

Los

Angeles, we could view the

g re a t pa no ra ma

of

cities and mountains.

It is certainly a w o n d e r

to

se e f rom the

air

t h e

r ibbon-l ike

highway

and railway

systems in te r locking the com merc ia l and

industrial areas.

I n t h e Los Angeles Times Bui ld ing ,

w e sa w hund re ds

of

volumes

of

past

articles and pictures for references and

the ma c h ine s t ha t p roduc e d the m. The

Uni ted Press Te le type machine was an

eyecatcher. One could see the keys

of

t he t ype w r i t e r j ump up a nd dow n w i th

a ppa re n t ly no one i n t he room direc t ing

those keys. T he mac hine was automat i -

ca l ly contro l led f rom New York. But ax1

e ve n more a ma z ing , s t a id ing s igh t a p -

pe are d w he n the g roup c a m e

to

t he e nd

of a long stairway

to

find a large press

room f i l led wi th monstrous machinery

which roared and boomed so loudly that

our ancestors

of

a hundred years ago

w ou ld p roba b ly ha ve jumpe d o u t o f the i r

shoes wi th f r ight Abo ut twenty-six tons

of newsprin t paper

is

used da i ly in the

machines for about

450 000

interested

people who buy or subscribe LO t he

paper. It is a striking fact that only six

per cent

of

the income in the newspaper

business comes from the consumer, and

the remaining n ine ty-four per cent

of

the revenue comes from advert isements

in the newspaper . Few American s rea l -

ize the important contr ibut ion tha t ad-

vertising has made to our l iv ing stand-

ard.

O n W ilsh ire Boulevard-the next

stopping p lace , we dincd at a cafeteria

where one could have

all

the food he

w a n te d

to

ea t for only a l i t t le over a

dol la r . Surpr is ingly enough, though, no

one went back to the l ine for more tha n

a second helping

To

help the d igest ion

of

the meal , we

were taken to see f i rst -hand the produ c-

t ion of a comedy radio show. And to

end the evening perfec t ly , the group

went to see

a

deiightful television pro-

duct ion . Unt i l we had seen these LW U

product ions, many

of

us hardly realized

the a moun t of labor and equipment nec-

essary for every broadcast and telecast.

ew Athletic Field

f o r

J

Am

bassador

College

b y G a r y

Sefcak

A n u m b e r

of

the

men

s tude n t s at A m -

bassador College have been busy for

a bou t t he l a s t mon th w ork ing

to

con-

ver t what was once a bare p iece of

gruurid

into

an a th le t ic f ie ld . Al though

no t as la rge as most b ig col lege or uni-

versity athletic fields, i t will provide

ample room for the track and field

events, p lus two la rge ten nis courts . On e

of the tennis courts will be ready for use

in a short t ime .

The re wi ll b e a one-e ighth m ile t rack

c irc l ing the f ie ld . The running surface

will be comparable to tracks n many

major universities. There will be e nough

room to permit four runners abreast

ar one t ime.

The tennis courts have been bui l t

inside the circle

of

the t rack . The courts

wi l l not face due nor th and south but

will angle

to

the east just enough to

prevent the sun shin ing in e i ther p lay-

ers eyes during the afternoon . Because

the weather condition was almost pcr-

fect when the courts were poured, they

will be of the finest professional quality

plus having extra width . Both a re

offi-

cial championship size courts .

The pole vaul t and broad jump wil l

be bui l t beside one another and wi l l be

located to the east of the tennis courts.

The runw a ys for the p i ts begin a t the

north end of rhe field parallel to t he

east straightaway of the t rack . They

m a k e a slight turn w i th

the

t rack and

then become straightaways to the p i ts .

Th is provid es sufficient track space for

the pole vaul t and broad jump events .

T h e

high

jump and shot-put wi l l be lo-

cated on the north part of the field.

Bleachers are going to be constructed

on th e west side of th e field which will

provide a perfect view of the main

tennis court besides a l lowing the t rack

events to s ta r t and f in ish in f ront

of

t he

spectators.

Th e g round no t be ing u se d fo r a th -

letic activity will be covered by a beau-

tiful lawn. There will also b e a he dge

around the ent i re a th le t ic f ie ld .

There a re severa l reasons why an

athletic field of this

type

is more suitable

than one for footba l l and baseba l l . The

present Ambassador campus in Pasa-

dena wi l l never be la rge enough to com-

pete with large universities in these

sports. If the student body were allowed

to become as numerous on t h i s c a mpus

as is the case in many colleges, we w ould

lose the effect nf persona l contact wh ich

is so essent ia l i n d eve loping wel l - round-

ed character. Ambassador cant become

a mass product ion inst i tu t ion for lea rn-

ing.

Also many sports inspire compet i t ion

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HOW

Israel

Changed Gods

Sabbaths

His tory

Proves

tha t th e Genti les

LOST

t h e k n o wle d g e o f t h e S a b ba th

shortly

after the flood. Thats

why

G o d h ad t o

reveal

His

Sabbaths

to Israel. Now read how lsrael CHANGED Hi s Sabbnths-how

the le w s inven ted the ir ow n t rad i t ions wh ich Jesus condemned

by H e r m a n L. H o e h

Par t 111

OD

CHOSE Israel for a special mis-

sion they have failed to pe r fo rm.

G

He revealed to t he m H is sa bba th

as a s ign so they would never forge t tha t

H e

is

the Crea tor .

He

also gave Israel

annual Holy Days,

mernorzals,

to

commemora te Israe l

s

del iverance f rom

Egypt-a

p i c t ure f o r

His

church

of

t he

p l d n

of

God

ila dslitering the

world

f r o m

sin.

But d id Israe l remain fa i thfu l t o these

God-given Fest iva ls? Did they invent

days

of

t he i r ow n?

D i d G od e ver say H e w ou ld a bol ish

the days tha t He orda ine d?

WHOSE

Sabhachs D o e s God H a t e ?

H u n d r e d s

uf

pamphle ts have been

w r i t t e n in a n a t t e mp t

to

expla in tha t

God

a h d i s h a t

His sabba th and feasts

in an c ient Israel . Yet inany

of

these same

trac ts a t tempt to prove tha t God crue l ly

pun i shed

Israel for breaking these days.

Stop

to t h ink H e re is an obvious

contradiction. Bot h ideas cant be right.

W hy w ou ld G od pun i sh a na t ion

for

re fusing to observe days tha t supposedly

had already ceased

to

exist? That just

doesn t make sense , does i t?

I t s t ime we examined the h istor ica l

evidence of the Bible instead o f

asyzm -

ing f a bl e s. D id G o d ha t e t he da ys H e

o rda ine d

or

did H e punish Israe l for

b re a k ing the m?

Scveral chapte rs are devoted by the

prophet Ezekie l to a

condemnat ion of

Israel f or breaking th e Jabbath. (

God

had

g i v e n . This is historical proof that those

days

w e r e t h e n

in

exis tence

a nd tha t

God grea t ly d isapproved the i r t ransgres-

sion . Take spec ia l note o f Ezekiel 2 0 :

12-26 a nd

2 2 : 2 6 .

T h e p u ni s h m e n t i n -

f l ic ted upon the House

of

Israel was

for desecra t ing the sabba ths wi th idol-

a t rous prac t ices

.ranctionecl by t he i r

owi i

h x n z m

1uwJ

iliac w e re no t good.

W ha t w a s the e x tre me e v il of this

sin: By breaking t he sab bath, Israel was

re jec t ing the only sign be tween them

a nd G od w he re by they migh t know tha t

He was indeed the Lord

of

a ll . W i th t he

desecration of the sabbaths, idolatry was

a natural consequence, as centuries of

Iwarl s h is tory demonstra ted .

Ezekie l wrote th is under the inspira -

tion

of G od . The re fo re it couldnt be, as

is often falsely preached, that other in-

spi red

puphers

before

him

such as Isaiah

w ro te t ha t G o d ha t e d H i s sa bbath s.

T h e n

w h o s e

feasts d id God ha te?

YOUR Appointed F e a s t s My

Soul Hateth

The re i s no t e x t i n all t he O ld Te s t a -

me n t w he re in t he

Lord

says

my

sab-

ba ths

and

festivals I hate. Critical

comm enta tors over look t he p la in s ta te -

m e n t of Biblical history. The E te rna l

said:

1 hate,

I despise

your

feast days,

a nd

.

y o w solemn assemblies.

No-

tice it. Y o u r ne w moons a nd your a p -

pointed feasts my soul ha te th : for they

a re a t roub le un to me . (A mo s 5 : 2 1 ;

8:lO;

I sa ia h 1 : 10 - 1 5 ; H o se a 2 : l l ) .

These were not d iv ine inst i tu t ions,

bu t

m an- agpo i n t ed

days ohserved

in

Israel.

T h e s e

days God despised . An-

c ient Israe l d id

n o t

cont inue to observe

the holy days of God. They re fused H is

judgments and scarutcs (Ezekir l

2 0 :

18).

They copied the hea then idola t rous

feasts of surrou nding na t ions. History

proves this fact

The chronic le r of ancient Israel pre-

served a record of just such

a change

in

t he l aw s

of

C o d ,

w h e n t h e H o u s e

of

I srael se f iarated f rom ludah.

A n d Jer-

oboam ordained a feas t

in the e ighth

m o n t h ,

on

the fifteenth day of t he

month , l ike unto the feast tha t is in

Judah, and he offe red upon thc a l ta r

. . sacrificing unto the calves that he

had made

.

. the f i f teenth day

of

t he

e igh th mon th , e ve n in t he mon th

w h i c h

hs had devised

of

h i s ow n hear t _

( I

K ings 1 2 : 3 2 , 3 3 ) .

This was the in i t ia l s tep by which the

H o u s e

of

Israe l depar ted f rom Gods

good news 1953 (vol iii no 01) jan

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