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T h e N a t i o n a l M - a g a z i n e o fA M B A S S A D O R C O L L E G E

VOL. 111 NIJMBFR 5 M AY, 1951

WHAT IS PROPHESIEDIVe u o u hat)e W O R L D REVOLUTION. W e riow halie theH - B o m b , w h i c h i f p r o d u c e d as a " r igged bomb" could urrrzihilatcall l i f e f r o m th is ea r th . N o w read wha t M O M E N T O U S ezlents

the immediate future holds

by Herber t W . r l rms t rong

HI? PRESENT is fea rfu l W ha t doesthe immedia te fu tu re ho ld? TheT isible fnrt r indicate a hor r i fy ing

future. But the invisible certainties ofPROPHECY assure a peaceful, prosperous,happy W O R L D TOMORROW

It ib often darkest just before dawn.M a k e 110 mistake, humanity still hasmajor lessons to learn, and this worldisnow being plunged into gross darkness.But even this rapidly appr oachi ng black-ness brings it closer to the dawn

Almighty God has decreed i t Th eMaker and Ruler o f the universe iswork ing ou t a Purpose Hi s purpose.rtu?zd.r, and is working out precisely onschedule An unbel ievable, wonde rfulWor ld Tornor row is almost here. Lifecould be such an e n oyable, happy,thrilling experience. It shall be, then.

It is only because humanity has violatedthe laws set in motion to produce thatjoyful life that we find today, instead,poverty, s ickness, famine, fear, empti-ness, crime, war and chaos.

Yes, humanity still has its greatestlesson to learn But as we now near th ecri.ris at the close of this age, this worldshall learn lessons fa rt l

T h e Awful O m i n o u s Present

The unseen factor is GOD Th e inv is i -ble Creator-Ruler is about to s tep inand intervene-suddenly-in our l i z ing

generation Now cons ider WHYThe visible signs all point to horror,

dis integrat ion, annihi lat ionLook for a br ief moment at the

world men can .reg What s ta r t ed in

1914 was world revolution. It setoff achain-reaction ot world political explo-sion. Kings have been dethroned,g o v -ernments have toppled, nat ions havebeen invaded and overrun. New i smshave appeared in fury bent on conquer-ing and ru l ing the wor ld. Th e wor ldto-day is in chaos, fearful of a far inorea w fu l Wo r l d W a r 111 already engage d i r irelentless cold war, spiced with hotwars in Korea and Indo China .

The he l l i sh Hydrogen Bomb is here-a living , terrify ing reality

Just h o w hellish is t hi s H - B o m b ? T h efacts defy imaginat ion . I t is the kind of

bom b that can be bui l tr o he a s powerfulas the na t ion cons t ruc t ing i t desires.Th e s ize mos t spoken of i s an H-Bomb1000 times as powerful as the A-bombsd r o p p e d on Japan. Bur i t coulcl bemade many t imes more powerful thanthat Th e process employed in the A-bomb is fi.r.rzon.T h a t i n c h e H - b o m b isfa.izon. ' l 'he reason the H. .bo mb was notproduced in rhe first place is that noway was known to exp lodei t . It is likeigni t ing a t remendous pi leof dry brushsoaked in gasol ine. The re was no k now n"match" to igni te and set off the terrific

super explosion of hydrogen.I t required a temperature equal to

[ h e fusion of hydrogen in the sun, 2Umillion degrees centigrade. But theh ighes t t empera tu re man knew how to

real ize on ear th was around 6.000 de-grees cent igrade. The re was n o "match"powerful enough to setoff the hydrogenbomb. But the scient is ts a t Los Alamosproduced n fission atomic bomb thatgenera ted a temperature of 60 milliondegrees cent igrade at the instant of itsexplosion Th is is three times the teiii-pe ra tu re of the interior of the sun

Th e a tomic bomb, then , produced the"inatch" t o ign i t e the 1000 t imes morepowerful Hydrogen bomb

H o w H e l li s h s t h e H - B o m b

Now consider the terrifying facts

American scientists have devclopcd anA-bomb s ix to e igh t t imes more power-fu l than the bombs d ropped on Japan.But thi.r j d?zld.rtic explo . i i i ,c mere lythe ' ~ R l t i t i E Hthat .setr off a n H-bonzh

Although a n H-bomb can be mademany times more powerful yet, let usconsider how hellish is the Hydrogenbomb generally nientioned- 1000 t imes;is powerful 21s the A-bomb.

To be most effective, i t would bedetonated a few miles in thc a i r abovethe target . In n millionth of a secondthe A-bom b t r igger would exp lode hor-


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which alone can UNTE such conflictingnation al interests-yet deleg ating, un-der the sponsorship, and religious a u-thority of the Ch urch , the organizationand executive power of the political,economic-military machinery toa greatleader in this field.

rifying fury three times hotter than thesun, causing the hydrogen atoms to fuseand instantaneously unleash imagina-

city below. Directly below, in a circleten miles across, everything would beinstantly vaporized Total destruct ionwould occur to everything in a circle

twenty miles across In an area40 milesacross the buildings would crumblein flames, and the people suffer horribleburns.

Heat would burst over the groundbelow first, ign iting instan tane ous fires3 5 miles away in all JirecLioris-overan area 70 miles across Everyth ing in-flammable would burst into flame. The rewould be a tapering off damage by fireas far as 20 miles farther out-coveringa total circular area 110 miles acrossPeople even in these farther-o ut poin tswould suffer lethal burns.

Then, almost immediately after thisburst of heat as if the sun had suddenlytouched the earth, theBLAST would rockt h e earth. Burning buildings would bepulverized or crumbled to the ground.The explosion would rock an area of300 square miles. On th e outskirtspeople and L uil~ i i igs hat w ithstood theheat would be crumpled by the imagi-nation-defying blast.

But this is not all Following this,allfury would break loose T he roaringheat churning the atmosphere wouldset off mighty hurricanes

How hell ish is the H- bo m b? I t ismore hellish than the human mind cangrasp Yet this is the comparative

peaceful form of the H-bom b. Thisiswhat is called the n on-rig ged bom b.A bomb constructed in the riggedform would liberate a huge cloud equalto 5 million pounds of radium. Thisradio-active cloud could be carriedthousands of miles, destroying all lifein its diabolical path Th is is wh atProf . Albert Einstein referred to w henhe said it is now possible to annihilatelife from off this planet

B u t W h a t W I L L H a p p e n ?W e have reached that stage of hu man

progress when, if God does not inter-vene, man would finally wipe mankindout of existence. But GOD WILL I N -TERVENE

W e are r ight now rapidly approach-ing the climax of this civilization builtby man. Man built it, in defiance ofGods inexorable laws. Man is now de-

S AVE US Here is what the SupremeKuler behind all rule says will happen.Here is a summary of world eventsfrom now

Summarizing a11 t h e prophecies ofthe Bible, in their correct time sequence,as outlined in the prophetic portions of

tion-defying destruction on t l ~reat

stroying it. GOD WILL STEP I N A N D

the Book of R evelation, and as ex-plained by Jesus Christ (Mat.24; Mark13; Luke 2 1 ) , and beginning with ac-tual conditions as they exist today, thisis the world picture:

Th e nations of Euro pe, directly in thevery shadow of the great Spviet menace,are disturbed, AF RA ID, distrustful of

America, fearfully anxious for a UNIT-ED EUROPE, yet too suspicious of oneanother to affect it UNLESS or until aSUPREME AUTHORITY shall appear,trusted by all, and with power and lead-ership to unite so many nations pos-sessing so many rival aspirations andconflicting interests.

The peoples of Europe as a wholewand such a united Europe. But theywill never permit America or Britainto bring it about.

Germany is the economic and mili-tary heart of Europe. Without Germanysuch a federation of nations is impossi-ble. Yet the other nations of Europewill not trust Germany or a Germanleader. Still, in spite of this, i1 is proba-ble that none b u t a German can pro-vide the dynamic, inspired leadershiprequired to organize such a politicalmilitary federation.

N e e d e d : A S u p r e m e A u t h o ri t y

As our own foreign correspondents,Dick Armstrong and Herman Hoeh, re-ported to you from Europe last summer,the only possible S U P R E M E AUTHORITYwhom all European nations and peopleswould trust to HEAD such a new-createduniversal Empire is a universal RE-

LIGIOUS power. And that is exactlywhat PROPHECY says sh dl happen (Rev.1 7 )

T he stage is already set Cond itionsin Europe are now ripe

All that is lacking, cow, is the newSU-PREME LEADER ut what must be per-fected is a political and a military fed-erat ion. While none other than a greatand aniversal acd international religiouspower can become the S U P R E M E AU-THORITY that can UNITE these na-tions and weld the m toge ther, with theirmany conflicting and competing inter-ests-yet LI C H U R C H cannot organize,and provide the executive political-mili-t m y ad7ninist~ation or a political-mili-tary EMPIRE

Actually the LEADER who sits in theexecutive office, whether called a Presi-dent , Emp eror, Fuhrer,or Dictator, can-not be a great religious leader-butmust, of necessity, be a man who is aleader in the political, economic, andmilitary fields.

Inevitably, therefore, the only mannerin which a United Europe may be ac-complished is by thc UNION of Churchand State-the CHURCH sitting at thetop as the harmonizing, unifying force

H I T L E R Probably AliveN ow consider a startling, yet most

significant possibilityIt is now definitely proved that

Adolph Hit ler did not die in his Berlinbunk er at the close of W orld W ar 11,as reported to the world. His death wasnever proved. But evidence, reportedin previous issues of this magazine, hasaccumulated to prove he d k i not die .Evidence points persistently to the facthe was flown by private plane to a wait-ing submarine, and taken to a fantasticShangri-la hide-out known to have beenprepared by Nazis in the wastes ofAntarctica.

And today startling new evidencecomes to light indicating that Hitlerhas left his Antarctic exile and is work-ing feverishly in Argentina, under pro-tection of Dictator Juan Peron. alongwith 75,000 other Germ ans known to beliving there.

It is now reported that American andBritish Intelligence Services have omi-nous evidence of these Germans plot-t ing in the Argentine to make thatcountry the springboard fora new Nazi-Fascist attempt to conquer the world.

Add to this the fact that Germanyactually started its comeback twelve

years sooner than after World Wa r I.This time their plans for staging theircomeback and launching World W arI11were methodically begunduring Wo r l dWa r 11. The day that war ended theNazi organizat ion went underground.Their plans for coming back to powerand world domination have been pro-ceeding for nearly eight years

WHO Is the Beas t?

Now, with this in mind, let us ask,WHO could possibly be the evil politi-cal-economic-military genius w ho, und erand with rhe blessing of the SupremeReligious Power, will be able to or-ganize and head such a gigantic Empire-to SWAY the peoples of all Europewith his oratory and knowledgeof masspsychology into a whipped-up fanaticalfervor for a new Fascist attempt to con-quer and rule the world?

THIS MAN, called the Beast in Bi-ble prophecy, IS ALIVE A N D PLANNING THIS VERY THING TODAY, as yetunknown to the world WHO C A N THISMAN BE?

There is no known figure in Europe,already popular and p romin ent, with

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Life a t Ambassadorby Rod Mered i t h

MBASSADOR COLLEGE wil l su m be-

gin its seventh year. Just whatA oes the day-to-day life of a stu-dent a t Ambassador consist of? Are thestudents here so religious-minded thatthey have no time for recreation andfun? W hat i s the ou t lookfor an incom-ing student a t Ambassador College?

As a graduate student, I am going torecall those never-to-b e-forgotten ex-periences at Ambassador, and will tryto give all interested readers a com-pletely frank idea of how the collegeatmosphere here a t Ambassadorstacked up to me.

Typical Collegiate Skepticism

Four years ago I was a freshman stu-dent a t m y home-town junior college inthe medium-sized midwest city whereIhad grown up. I was active in stud ent af-fairs and had been all through highschool where I had excelled in suchsports as track, football and boxing.

But now I was in college taking aphilosophy course and becoming skep-tical of the world as a whole.

Yet I was somewhat interested in re-ligion, and had been encouragedby myuncle to listen to The Wor ld Tomor-row program over XEG. I found thatMr. Armstrongs sermons made myplace in the world seem more real thanthe abstract philosophies I had beenstudying. H e made G od seem moredefini te and genuine to me than theidealistic speculations and political non-sense I heard in the big Protestantchurch I was attending.

God had always seemed real to mebecause my parents had taught mc topray when I was a small child. But, asI pored over my philosophy books, dis-turbing thoughts came into my mind.Iearne stly desire d to find out-some way,some how-what life was really allabout.

T h e n I C a m e to AmbassadorDuring the next summer a series of

circumstances together with a letter ofencouragement from my uncle made m cdetermine to come to Ambassador Col-lege.

Immediately I began to wonder,W ha t will my friends think Mostofthem had gone, or would go, to thenearby state university. I had plannedto do the same.

At Ambassador I would probably missa lot of college l i f e , -o r would I? I

asked myself if the students out there

would be like the Bible college stu-dents I had known in the past. Wouldthey all be either sissies or Intel-lectuals? W ere they a lot of timidpeople just hiding behind their Bibles,or did they live a full and purposefullife? I wondered-

After I came to Ambassador thesequestions began to clear up-and howhappily

Because of the small student enroll-ment that year, I was thrown into inti-mate contact with every other student.Most of the men students lived on thethird floor of Mayfair, our wonderfulstudent residence.

I had the privilege of rooming withHerman Hoeh, then in his junior yeara t Ambassador. I found h im to be abrilliant student, but also the kind ofguy you like to be around. There werealot of other fellows like that, too. Someof the other students had been onathletic teams, and oneof me other newstudents and I enjoyed telling one an-other about o u r mighty deeds in theboxing r ing.

And, as in every dormitory, we hadsome practical jokers around. Yes,most of us were still green in Bibleunderstanding. But beside our desirefor fun and laughter, we all had aserious purpose in coming to Ambas-sador.

Pre t ty Nice , Af te r Al l

W e let the older students sort of setthe pace around the campus. W e newerstudents were inclined to wastea lot ofour t ime at first, but we soon learnedthat we would have to keep busy inorder to make the grade here at Am-bassador. I found the courses were morerugg ed here than in collegeat home.This was partly because of the smallsize of th e classes, the daily personalized

instruction, and consequently t he neccs-sity of prep arin g ones lessons for eachclass.

The academic standards at Ambassa-dor are maintained at a high level, andevery professor is of unusual calibre.But I soon discovered another uniquething about our faculty; every professorhas a heart. I began thinking thatcollege life here was pretty nice afterall.

T h e coiirse in Bible under Mr. Arm-strong was of primary interest to metha t first year. T he class was somewhat

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informal, and all the students really got

to know Mr. Armstrong. Also, we wereable to discuss freely what the Bibleitself said about various points-andnot be contradicted by a lot of man-made teachings.

It was a pleasure to know that wecould accept the plain, simple state-men ts out of the Bible. W e went intoastudy of the theory of evolution in class,and learned BOTH sides of the question.After s tudying the TRUE Bible story ofcreation, and then reading and discus-sing the theory of evolution, we agreedunanimously with th e apostlePaul whenhe warned Timothy to avoid the vainbabblings and oppositions of sciencefalsely so-called ( I Tim. 6:20).

The n e w students soon found thatMr. Armstrong was nei ther a wild-eyedreformer, nor a sanctimonious person.He i s a profound student of the Bibleand a man of action. H e strives to beado er of the law, and no ta hearer only.He believes in seming God and his fel-low man with all of his might andstrength-and not bein g sanctimoniou sabout it, but wearing a smile wheneverpossible.

Indeed, this is the attitude of thechurch and college here in Pasadena.W e try to give God the credit for whatis accomplished, though, because weknow that it is the power of GodsHoly Spirit which enables his servantsto perform the great work that must bedone.

Li fe a t M ayfa i r

Our life at Mayfair was a lot differentthat first year than it is now. Since therewas only one girl student, Betty Bates,who has since become Mrs. Gene Mich-el, the fellows all cooked their mealsin a separate kitchen that year. Bettyate with Mrs. Mann, our house moth-e r. W e h ad a lot of fun at mealtime,

and fixed some marvelous concoctionsto eat. W e tried to buy health foods,though, and seemed to get along well.Paul Smith from Louisiana was ourchief cook and turned out to bea goodone.

All the students were working theirway through school. so we had to keepbusy in order to work, study, washdishes, eat and sleep. W e all workedaround the grounds here at Mayfairora t the college doing such jobs as paint-ing, trimming trees, transplanting treesand bushes, and cleaning up the grounds


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and buildings. Most of the fellows havecome from farms,so we had a lot of funseeing what the farm boys could doand what they l iked as compared withus city boys.

Why We r e H e r e

O n c e I got adjusted to my new en-vironment, I began to realize more thanever that al l the s tudents were hereforan underlying serious purpose. We allwanted to learn more about the Bible,and about the Go d w ho c rea tedus, andour relat ionship to H i m .

W e were a ll in dead earnes t aboutthis, yet we didnt want to swallowanything. So we studied and discussedthe Bible and tried to grow in t rueChrist ian l iving; but we were carefulnot to go off the deep end on any-th ing . Some of us were baptized earlythat fall . Others waited until later. Noone was pressured or even asked whyhe didn t accept the t ruth, repent , accept

Christ as personal Saviour, andbe bap-tized.l ha t i s one un ique th ing about Am-

bassador College-everyone is recog-nized and respected as a free moralagent and allowed t n make his n w n de-cisions completely in such matters.

I was rather skeptical at first andwanted to check up on M r. Armstrong,,ind thc w o r k and college. But I YUUlearned by the frui ts that this inst i tu-tion is wholly dedicated to AlmightyGod. and a l though human e r rors a resometimes made, they are admit ted andcorrected whenever they are discovered,

I also learned that this work is basedupon the W n r d nf Thrl a n d is not sub-ject to the error of m odern ch urchia n-ity. I was baptized in December.

O l d e r Students Example

In the meantime, the older s tudentshad been set t ing a wonder fu l examplefor the newcomers.

They put into pract ice the principlesof Christian living, day in and day out.They were diligent students of the Bi-hle, and were glad to discuss Bible sub-jects with LIS.Also, we began to realizethat they were keeping close to God inprayer.

Follow irig Clirists exam ple, they m adeno effort to pray openly. Rather, it wasa very private affair. Sometimes we new-er s tudents would waken in the veryearly morning to find our roommatesgone for no apparent reason. Often Iwould accidental ly see some studentr , m r r g i n g from an empty closet or store-room. Nothing was ever said, but Iknew that they had an int imate rela-t ionship with God which I lacked.

Tlieir exariiple helped me a lot, andI in sure it helped others . This articlemay make some of o u r students self-

Baptizing Tours

At least two baptizing tours willagain be sent oui this xiiiiiiier. Yuuwho have come to r epen t of trans-gressing Gods ways, to accept JesusChrist as your personal Saviour fromsin, and to g ive your life to God-

that He may fashion and mold yourcharacter and beget you as His sonthrough the Holy Spkit-BE SURETO WRITE MR. ARMSTRONG IMMEDI-ATELY to have your name pu t on thebaptizing list.

We shall be looking forward tothe privilege of meeting yo^^.

conscious f o r a little while, but I wantto give you co-workers a really inti-mate knowledge of them. I am proud ofAmbassador College and of o u r studentbody, a d k n o w you will be when youlearn more about them.

Campus L i f e To d a y

Now that we have a much larger s tu-dent body, campus life at Ambassadorhas grown in interest and variety. Butthe sincere desire of the s tudents tolearn and to lioe God s way still makesAmbassador, in my opinion, the mostunique, worthwhile , and wonderful col-lege on this earth.

In the athletic sphere, we have hadmany unusual advantages. Some seasons,we had a swimming class at the which was a great source of interest andenjoyment.

At the college we have facilities forvolleyball, badminton, tennis, track, andtable tennis available t o our physicaleduc ation class and all interested stu-den ts . The musc lemen even have aset of barbells in the basement at May-fair

W e are especial ly proud of o ur re-cently built tennis courts. Since thecollege is rapidly growing, these arenecessary to provide the right k i n d ofexercise and recreation foro u r students.These two courts are among the finest inthe country since they incorporate allthe best features and l ight ing improve-ments. Go d has certainly blessed us withthese outstanding facilities for tennis.

O u r student council is the source ofmany social occasions. It has sponsoredmany enjoyable beach parties, mixers,and other student activities.

Every year we go on several fieldtrips which are highly interesting aswell as educational. They take LIS tosuch places as Hollywood, Mt. Wilson.Griffith Park, and other points.

These activities all help t o developpersonality and poise and are an integralpart of a students t raining here at A m -bassador. Although these are only a

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few ( I f the aspects of srudent life hereat Ambassador, I hope this will giveyou a good picture of our college ac-tivities.

A n I n v i t a ti o n

As one who has been through themil l here a t Ambassador, I would liketo say to all prospective students: Ifyou like good , clean fu n, if you arentafraid of work , and if youre sincerelyinterested in learning about the Bibleand about the God who made you, i fyou earnestly want a good education,then be sure to come to AmbassadorCollege next fall.

Don t get the idea that all the stu-dents are going to be preachers. Werenot. Ambassador is a liberal arts college,and fellows and girls alike come hereto acquire an all-around education basedon sof4nd principles.

But Gods work is growing, the endof t h i s age is drawing near, we need to

uurn this world of its wrong ways. Sointerested students should realize thatthis college provides training not onlyfor this life, but helps you to understandthe ineuning of life, and to prepare forthe Wo r l d 7omorrow. where we shallspend the next en bi l l ion years Isntthat important?

All of you listeners should pray withme, as Christ said (M at . 9 : _ 5 8 ) , Prayye therefore the Lord of the harvest,that he will send forth labourers intohis harvest. Gods work is now goingaround the world. W e n e ed t h e rightRind o f God-called, thoroughly trained

help. Whether in the office here orabroad, in speaking, wri t ing, or what-ever, Gods work is going to need youngpeople who are wil l ing to give theirliieJ to God, and let Him work throughthem.

This work is hard and taxing. It re-quires self-sacrifice and a willingness tog i i w u p a few of our personal plans andpleasures. But it can be adventurousand exciting, and the results will lastforever.

Regardless of y o u r motives in corn-ing, remember that Ambassador cannotbe compared with other colleges. Theymay have more buildings and physicalequ ipment , bu t y o ~ i l l et more personalinstruction here. Most important,though, this is the ONLY college whereCods t rue Z L ~ f l i f e is taught andpracticed.

If you have personal q uestion s aboutthe col lege, be sure and wri te to Mr.Armstrong, Box 11 1, Pasadena, Cali-fornia. Or, if you wish, write to me ort o any of our students at 182 SouthOrange Grove in Pasadena.

If youre really interested, thenby allmeans come to Ambassador next yearYoull always be glad you did


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What Shall We Eat?A N Y of us are unnecessarily ill

and weak because we arentM eat ing the r ight foods. It hasbeen over one year since the first articleon foods appeared in the Good News .So many have asked quest ions that wewant to have a series. Here are someof the questions sent us.

Are D r i e d F r u i ts Good Food?

A common idea is that sulphur-driedfruits should not be used because vita-mins have been destroyed by this meth-od. Yoti probably know that sulphurfumes are used during the drying oflight colored fruits such as peaches,apricots and pcars to preserve the na tu-ral color. This affects vitamins A andC

only slightly, but vitainin B1 is entirelydestroyed.Since prunes, raisins and most figs

are naturally dark , they are no t processedwi th su lphur bu t a re d r ied in the sun .Sun-drying does l i t t le harm to the Bvitamins, but the vi tamin A is largelydestroyed by the exposure to heat andair as it takes longer to dry frui ts in thesun. Sincc y o u need all these vi taminsfor a balanced diet a frui t com pote con-sis t ing of both types of dried frui tswould therefore provide a suitable bal-ance of these vitamins.

No dried fruit need be cooked. Justwash the frui t in lukewarm water onceor twice to remove any foreign matter,place them in a container for whichyou have a l id , pour on enough boil ingwater to cover the frui t , cover with thel id and let remain overnight . They wil lbe p lump and soft , and wil l keep severaldays i f placed in the refrigerator. Al-though most need no sweetening, brownsugar or honey may be added r o thefrui t before the boil ing water is pouredon.

How to Cook F r o z e n Food

Have you wondered why the cookingdirections for frozen food say to boil

the water before placing the vege-t ab les in the pan? Heres why. Wa tercontains some air. W he n i t is heated,this air is driven off. If the food is placedin the water before the air has beenel iminated, some of the vi ta mins thatdissolve in water, especially vitamin A,are carried off with the air as the waterapproaches the boil ing point .

So boil the water before you cookfrozen or fresh foods in it. Use a smalln i n o ~ i n r o f wacer for most foods-only as much as is necessary to s teamthem tender. A container with a t ight

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lid is always the most satisfactory. Ifyoti dont have such a container, put aheavy object on the lid to prevent i tf rom l if t ing and let t ing out the s team.

After put t ing the frozen or fresh foodinto the boil ing water, br ing i t to a boilas fast as possible. T he n reduce the heatso that i t s immers, and do not l i f t thelid tiiitil you ale fair ly sure the food iscooked. Avoid stirring vegetables andfrui ts during cooking as this mixes airin again and wil l cause loss of m o r evitamins during the rest of the cookingperiod.

Reheating any leftover food destroyseven more vitamins, especially vitaminA, so try not to cook any more thanwill be used at one meal. If food is leftover, it can be used in healthful saladsinstead of being thrown into the gar-bage can.

Sha l l We Ta k e Vi t a m in B ?Some people who have an inadequate

diet are afraid to take V itamin B supple-ments because they fear they will be-come overweigh t due to an increasedappetite. Nutritionists tell us that whileB vitamins will restore an appetite tonormal, any amount above the bodysrequirement will not create a n excessiveappeti te . On th e contrary, an inadequatediet often is the reason why peoplecrave something more.

Adelle Davis in her book Lets HaveHea l thy Ch i ld ren , page 260, states: Acraving for sweets almost invariably in-dicates a deficiency of pro te in or of theB vi tamins. When these nutr ients aresupplied, the desire for sweets dimin-ishes or disappears.

However, t h i s ho lds t r ae o n l y f o rconcentra ted vi tam ins you may obtainin a N AT U R A L f o r m as in w h e a t g e r m ,brewer s yeast and rice polishings be-cause tbese contain other necessary fac-to r s bes ides t he v i t amins fo r wh ich theyare taken. Some of these factors are

iodine. calcium, protein and various en-zymes. From laboratory experiments ithas been learned that these other con-stituents are necessary to enable thebody to use the vi tamins that are knownto be present.

There fo re , v i t amin t ab le ts wh i ch con-tuin only cer ta in pure oatamins witho utthese o the r f ac to r s , do no t p rodwe assatisfactory results as N AT U R A L supp l r-ments.

Blackstrap molasses is a good sourceof all the B vitam ins exce pt one-thia-m i n or B,, which is destroyed by heat.

S h o u l d P r o t e i n a n d S t a r c h B e E a t e na t t h e S a m e M e a l ?

It is becoming a common belief thatwhen starchy food and protein foodsare eaten together, neither one digestswell because different secretions areneeded to digest each one. Is this neces-sarily true?

Have you ever considcrcd thc factthat both protein and starch are foundtogether in individual foods? W e al lknow that wheat , corn, dr ied beans andpeas, nuts and milk contain both pro-tein and starch or sugar. There is scarce-ly a protein food we eat that does notalso contain some starch. Possibly theonly available foods that do not containstarch are muscle meats-roasts andsteaks, for example. But even thesehave calorics in the form of fat.

Just to set t le the quest ion, an experi-men t was conducted in which threegroups of healthy adults were used. Onegroup was given both meat and starchyfood, another group only starchy foods,and another group were given onlymeat. By various tests it was determinedthat there was no difference in thelength of time which each of thesegroups required to digest its mealor i nthc thoroughness of its digestion.

W he n certain food faddists learnedof this experiment, they said that theyhad advised non-mixingof protein andstarch on ly f o r p e o p l e w h o w e r e illSo the same procedure was t r ied ongroups of people suffering from manytypes of illnesses. Amazingly enough,the results were the same:No differencewas noted either in the efficiency of di-gestion or of the t ime required whenstnrches were combined with proteinsor eaten separately.

But, as a note of warning, most peo-ple know only the w r o n g kind ofstarches-white br ea d, spa ghe tti, mac;L-roni, potatoes peeled before cooking,not to mention a host of breakfast

cereals-and i t is little wond er they havetrouble.

In her book L e t 5 Have Hea l thy Ch i l -dren. page 266, Adelle Davis says: Eventhe poor starchy foods, such as poratnesand cereals, have sometimes been slandered. As long as a food is unrefined a ndis prepared in such a way that the nu-tr ients God put iritu i t are largely re-tained, it usually remains an excellentfood regardless of how high its starchcontent.

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gies in the wrong direction. But now,Adolph Hitlers eyes have been opened.H e has been converted in purgatory, andconsidered now worthy to be broughtback to life and restored to leadership

He would be painted as GODS M A N ,specially resurrected toSAVE Europe and

the world from atheistic Communism,with the full endorsement and approvalof the great Religious Leader.

Suppose that, now having divineguidance, Hitler announces he nowSees that CO-OPERATION, and UNIONof Europes nations is the right way,instead of con quer ing them and hold-ing them by the throat captive under theheel of his Gestapo, as he did before

WHAT WOULD BE THE EFFECT? Canyou picture the impact of this on Eu-rope?

The Colossal LIERemember, it was Adolph Hitler who

said that if you can tell the world a liethat is big enough, they will swallow itwholly H ere would be the colossal lieof modern times

Germans would go M A D with frenzy,with emotional fervor, and would fall inline with total blind obedience. Thehour of their deliverance and revivalwould have COME Their beloved Fuhrerhas returned from death by divine actof G od to save them Can you imaginethe effect of this?

Then, coo, i t would multiply the pres-tige and power of the Religious Leader.Most of th e peoples of Euro pe would

now say that he is, indeed,very God onearth-holding the very power of lifeand death H e would be elevated inesteem, WORSHIPPED in blind, obedi-ent, devoted ardor as no human ever wasbefore

The nations of Europe would fall inline. Here, a t last, would be the SU-PREME AUTHORITY whom they couldtrust. Here they would believe they seethe H and of GOD In blind devotion andobedience, in frantic frenzy and zeal, anew spirit would seize the peoples ofEurope, sweep them instantly intoU N I T-ING in the new RESURRECTED ROMANEMPIRE, all giving their military, eco-nomic and political power from alten nations joining, to the NEW RESUR-RECTED LEADER-nOW the FUHRER OF

I do not say this will happen. Re-member PROPHECY does not name theman. It tells what he shall do. It revealthat there will be ihe U N I O N of Churchand State, the religious leader being thfigurehead who apparently sits on topas the unifying agent, but TheBEASTactually RULING, and then, with histen lesser Dictators, hating the Churcthat sponsored them to power, turning

tO SAVE THE WORLD FROM COMM UNISM.

AI.1 FUROPE

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Whats Prophesied?(Cont inued f ro m page 2 )

any such qualifications-unless pos-

sibly it might be Tito. Tito is rapidlyswinging from Comm unistlcft to Fascistright. It is inevitable that Tito shallbring Yugoslavia into this mighty newEmpire. Tito had the personal power,mass psychology, and oratory to swaythe various nationalities that composeYugoslavia behin d him-he has hadpower to hold them, unify them. anddefy Stalin and the Kremlin. But doeshe have t he great personal magnet ismand power to sweep the other nationsof Europe off their feet, and into f a -natical zeal for this new united militarycrusade? It is doubtful-yet I havewarned you repeatedly, keep your eyeson TITO

Of course, it is entirely possible thatsome German, or other man in Europe,at present virtually unkn own , might sky-rocket to great public popularity andpower like a comet, and attain the nec-essary popular prestige and followingwithin two or three short years.

A Fake Re surrec t ionYet, consider this most intriguing

possibi l i ty : That Adolph Hitlcr is stillalive, and actively plotting with these75,000 Germans in Argentina. Many of

these aides are able to travel at will toEurope and back. They are able to holdsecret conferences with religiousor po-litical leaders as often as such leadersmight desire.

NOW uppose a great, supreme re-ligious leader, with vast influence innearly all European nations, who neveras yet. has professed ability to performmiracles, suddenly startles the world bythe proclamation that G od has now co n-ferred upon him full power and authori-ty to perform MIRACLES (Rev. 1 3 ) , andthat, as his first great world-shakingmiracle, b e bas raised ADOLPH HITLERf r o m the deud Th e world believes himDEAD

Suppose this religious leader shocksand stuns the world with the announce-ment that Hitler has been in purga-tory-that in purgatory Hit ler saw, con-fessed, and repented of his great mis-take and sin in opposing the greatuniversal church of this world during

W orld W a r 11-that Hit ler now sees thatwas his one terrible mistake that led tohis downfall--that H id er was, after all,a MAN OF DESTINY, just as millions ofGerm ans believed, but, being human , hemade this mistake and directedh i s encr-

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on this Church and destroying it (Re v.1 7 ) .

Remember, PROPHECY does not tellus HOW this man will rise, or who he is.But the FACTS of the moment simplysuggest what MIGHT happen. Time (anda short time) shall tell us whether thisis merely a possibility seen humanlywhich will never materialize, or whether

God opened our minds to see it.But This IS Prophes ied

But regardless of WHO shall becomethis Beast, or HOW he shall appear,we summarize for you now what all theprophecies reveal S H A L L soon occur.

Suddenly the world will behold aUNITED STATES OF EUR OPE Some ofthe Balkan nations which have beenun-der Russias boot will be mem bers of itT E N dictators in Europe will unite, in agigantic European COMBINE, turningtheir united rriilitary power and re-sources over to the new LEADER of Eu-

rope No t only this, but a great RE-LIGIOUS LEADER will also emerge, in aworld-shaking pact with the militaryleader which will far overshadow theeffect of the H itler-St alin non-aggres-sion pact of 1939

It will be a UNI ON of Church andState. The RELIGIOUS influence willbe used to cement together, and unify,these ten nations in Eurape. These willinclude Germany and Italy, probablySpain and Portugal and France, Greece,and probably some of the Balkan na-tions from among Yugoslavia, Austria,Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria,

Rumania, or others.I cant tell you now zubirb nations.But in all probability Belgium, Hol-land, Denmark, Norway, Sweden andSwitzerland will NOT join this federa-tion. Definitely Britain will not be in it.And definitely, the whole thing will beFASCIST-and its well to bear in mindthat Nazism is merely the Germanformof FASCISM-SO it will be in fact aNAZI revival.

Th e Beas t EmergesOnly this time it will not be Ger-

many ALONE, first attacking and con-quering and occupying other Europeannations. THIS time ten powerful Euro-pean nations will COMBINE their forces.It will be a gigantic, powerful EMPIREIt will field the combined armies of tennations totalling 250 to 300 millions ofpeople.

It will comprise the resources of mostof all Europe It will resurrect onceagain, and for the last time, theR O M A NEMPIRE t will be able to field an armylarger than RUSSIAS-larger th an thecombined forces possible for the US.,Britain, and the democratic nationsofnorthwestern Europe combined

Rut , MORB than that-the GER-MANS are the only nation who havedone actual work on the HYDROGENBOMB prior to 1945. Undoubtedly theywill liavr tlir super-Hydrugeii LUIIILLUgether with rocket weapons for deliver-ing it

The Nazi scientists are A T WORK,undergroun d, on these very weapons.

It will take a few years for all thisto deveIop to a point where this Nazi-Fascist rebirth of the ROMAN EMPIREwill be ready to STRIKE with the mosttremendous power ever conceived byman. It could require ten,or even twentyor more years. But its already develop-ing-and FAST Mu ch more rapidly tha npeople know Most certainly it is easilypossible the thing could be developedand ready to strike in five years Yes,

A N D WERE TOO SOUND ASLEEP TO

The sole PURPOSE in the diabolical

minds of the LEADERS of this greatpower will be to CONQUER AMERICA,

But the FIRST blow will be delivered,suddenly, one night without warning,at the CITIES of America and the BritishIsles

TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON US, FAST,

R E A L I Z E IT

BRITAIN, AND ULTIM.4TELY TO CON-

Q U E R A N D R U L E THE ENTIRE WORLD

A Su pe r-Drough t ComingBy the time this European colossus

has emerged and is ready to STRIKEwith hydrogen bombs, we shall havedrifted into depression-and we shallbe suffering the most overwhelming

tragedy of our history in FAMINE, anduncontrollable epidemicsnf ISF FA SFIt may come from intense DROUGHT.

It may come from a combination ofDROUGHT in some parts of theU.S. andfloods i n others. Were in the beginningof a famine right NOW and we dontkn ow it-a fam ine of th e needed M I N -ERALS and VITAMINS which no longergrow into our foods because our soil isWORN OUT, and our food FACTORIESare removing much of what thereIS

And all this BECAUSE M A N IS I NDEFIANCE AGAINST HIS MAKER What -ever mans hand comes in contact with,he pollutes, perverts, and ruins Ma n re-fuses to conforrii toANY of the laws theETERNAL has set in motion God hasrevealed that the land needs to lie idleevery seventh year but man thinks hesfound a BETTER way.

At the same time this dread plagueof FA M I N E and DISEASE strikes us, therewill be another epidemic of locusts andcrop-destroying bugs and insects thatwill make the invasion of 1934 looksmall

O N E T H I R D of our people will diefrom starvation, malnutrition, and epi-demics of disease in the greatest na-

tional tragedy ever to hit the world upto that time An d this is not a fancifulfairy story-this is PROPHESIED, andCERTAIN-and in th e next FEW YEARS

Hydrogen Bombs to H i tUsWhile we are stricken with this great

tragedy, people dying in nearly everyhome, the Nazi-Fascist colossus willSTRIKE SUDDENLY, unexpectedly, ut-terly destroying our major CITIES,striking furiously a t our sources of rawmaterials-oil, coal, iron-destroyingour great industrial plants, renderingus incapable of fighting back or win-ning any war, THIS time And A N -OTHER THIRD of our entire population-FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE-will bekilled by this lightning and unparalleledH Y D R O G E N bom b attack

I know this is not pleasant to con-template 1 know well it wont be be-lieved 1 know well that this nationwill heedlessly and foolishly refuse to

take WARNING ut I also know this isas certain to strike us as tomorrowssun is to rise and set-unless this ent irenation W I L L heed the warning, REPENTof its ways, R E T U R N to its God and HISL AW S A N D WAY S OF LIFE An d there-fore, KNOWING this unbelievable thingis coming, I HAVE TO WA R N Y O U

Only ONE THIRD-a bare 50 millionout of our 150 million populntion willbe LEFT ALIVE Tw o thirds of thepeople YOU know-of YOUR FRIENDSacquaintances, relatives, members ofyour family-will be killed

Americans to Become SlavesAnd the remaining third willbe UP-

ROOTED from their homes, and trans-ported as SLAVES to Europe, possiblysome to South America. There they notonly will shine Nazi BOOTS, and do thework of slaves un der lashes of cruel taskmasters-but they will be forced toGIVEUP any belief in real BIBLE Christianity-they will be he ral ly FORCED to ac-cept the PAGAN beliefs and customs thatwill masquerade as Christianity,or statepolice will arrest them and TORTUREthem until they either give in,or finallyDIE under the inhuman fiendish tortures

It will be the sup reme time of trouble for Americans arid British-andfor real and true Christians. This fanatical and unheard-of persecution and martyrdom of all true Christians will continue three and a half years-and THENI T WILL B E S U D D E N LY CUT SHORT

During this time, there will be N ORELIGIOUS FREEnoM-the entire wnrldwill be under this revived ROMAN em-pi,re, and un der Russia-and neitherwill permit any real GOSPEL preachinguf a n y kind whatsoever Yes, theie willthen be an entire FA M I N E of hearing the

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O N THE CAMPUSFOLLOWINGre articles written by students on student activ-

ities t o giue y o u the >Lory of our jam-packed lives on the campus. W e hope you wontmind if w e occasionally pok e a lit tle fun at ourselves-striving human being are alujaysfrmny-mzd no matter bow serious minded our frailties w i n k , The Campus Editor

SHOWER FORMr. and Mrs. Ted Armstrong

by Driiirl o i l H i l l

Outstanding among campus act ivi t ieso f late is a wedciing shower given bythe srudtnts of Ambassador for Mr.and Mrs. Garner Ted Armst rong . Teddecided, u p m meet ing a very interest-ing and beau t i fu l gi r l f ro in Texas somemonths ago, that he had been a bachelortoo long. Being a n ian of action, it wasnot long unt i l the vows had been takenant1 he was no longer a free man. Ofcourse, h l ~ r . ed Arniscrong, formerlyMiw Shirley Hammer of Gladewater,Texas, would have a inore lengthy anddetailed story t o tell of their romance,but this will have t o suffice for now.

Thc wrddirig rook place in Glade-water, and within a weeks t ime thebride and groom were here in Pasadena.The g roup who gave the shower sen tout invi tat ions which they themselvesp r i n t e d ( w i t h the help of the p r in t ingdepar tment of the col lege). Scheduledfor r h r night o f the 21st of March a t7:OO P.M. in Mayfair s tuden t residence,the shower went off withou t a hitch.

Th e excited hum of conversat ion th atprevails x i a l l garherings such as thisrang tlirti the halls of Mayfa i r. P rompt -ly a t seven the honored pair arr ived,and the proceedings of the even ingstarted. First, there was the flow ofheart-warming congratulat ions to thenewlyweds; and then the punch andcookie l ine t O start everybody off. How-ever, the ant icipat ion of the crowd andthe curiosity of the couple soon broughtall to on e central room where sat a tableladen wiit i the g i f t s of a l l wh o came.

As each present was opened, a waveof ohs and ahs would wash over thecrowd, Shirley would givea little squealof de l igh t and Ted would fumble fo rthe next package. Just their act ions andthe look on t heir fac-es told each andevery o n e o f us of t h e i r g r a t e f u l a p p r e ~ciat ion; but as a t rue Texan Shir leyadded a warming ep i taph o f thanks toeach gif t , and Ted, pract ical ly s tunnedL y i t all , well-managed h i s thank-yous.Th e event was o ne grand success

* + + *W hos o f indr rh 2 wife findeth a good

thing, and obtaineth favorof the Lord.( P r o . 1 8 : 2 2 . )

Lure of theCamellia Garden

by I o Ann Fel t

If you were to strol l away from themain col lege bui lding here at Ambas-sador anA walk down the wind ingsteps toward the beaut iful lower gar-dens, you would along the way haveto pass by the Camell ia Garden. ButWOUWyou pass? Could you pass thisinspir ing set t ing, par t of the c harm of

the Ambassador campus?Or would you be magnetically forcedby the ever-present powers of naturet o .rtop? No w, i f you s topped, as thewri ter has of ten done, you would prob-ably step of t he original pa th into aparadise of magnificent camellia trees.

Skipping to one t ree covered withcamellias, you spy one-a luscious flow-er in f u l l bloom. Up on your tip toesBend at the waist Tak e a big breathH u m , t h a t i s strange; it doesnt smell.But you are not disappointed, for youreal ize that God made the Aower.so ex-quisi te to the s ight that i t did not needto affecr the sense of smell. One moreglance, and t h e n off you go to aiivthertree to find, surely enough, camellias,but the blossoms are al together differ-en t in appearance f rom those on theother t ree. In fact , a lmosc every t reein the garden is of a different variety.Such variety Such beauty

At your finger tips arc some of theworlds most exquisite flowers. Youmeditate , Should I pick o ne ? If youare like me, you will find it quite diffi-cult to leave every flow er in its place.

Man , even if he were to t ry for cen-turies, could not begin to imitate any-

where nearly the perfect ion and thebeauty of a single petal of a flower.Remember wha t Chr i s t sa id abou t thel i ly: Solomon i n all his glory was notarrayed like one of these.

After viewing every last camellia treein the half-shaded, half-sunny plot ofgrass-covered ground, you reluctantlytake your departure. O n the way back tothe main path, your head inst inct ivelyturns to look over your shoulder for onemore wistful look. Never wil l you for-get the lure of th e Camell ia Garden.

Festivals Heldin Pasadena

by C h m l r n e G l o w r

Here in Pasadena as in every placewhere G ods people have gathered, thePassover a n d Fcsrival of UnleavenedBread were observed . On the eveof thePassover day with 118 present f rom Cali-fornia and Washington, the Passoverwas conducted with solemnity and rev-erence by Herman Hoeh assis ted by

Raymond McNair, recent ly ordainedministersAgain i t was brought forcibly and

vividly to our minds by this comniem-orat ive service how great is the compas-sion G o d liad for rhe physical and spir-itual welfare of human beings when heal lowed His Son to be beaten withstr ipes and lef t to die for our s ins onadespicable cross. Each of us con imem-orated again, not o nly his death, but a lsothe excruciat ing pain he suffered whenhis body was broken open with s tr ipesto pay the pena l tyof our physical trans-gressions so we migh t be fo rg iven andhea led . What a blessing and rare pr ivi-lcge given LO a diseased and afflictedhumanity. As a final par t of the Passoverservice, Mr. Eckert f rom Hondo, Cal i-fornia , read many of the insp i r ing wordsof Jesus in those last hours of His Pass-over.

The fo l lowing even ing , the n igh tofthe festival of iinleavened bread, we rejoiced with about 140, including chi l -dren. There was a short explanatoryservice and then we conversed with oneanother over the Iest ive banquet tablesabout the many wonderful inarer ial andspiritual blessingsGod has give n us.

Since we are a physical and material

creation yet, our physical health deter-mines to a very great extent our spir i t -ual growth. Raymond M cNair , in hissermon the next morning explained thenecessity of our pract icing and main-taining sound heal th habi ts to theLIP-building of our bodies which are thetemplcs of Gods Huly Spirir. A posi-tive, confident mental attitude towardlifes responsibilities is of immeasurableimportance to your heal th.

There were ga ther ings dur ing theweek for those who could assemble.

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Which Is the TRUE Church?The re ure more thuui 300 denominutions in the U ni ted Stutes. Couldall of these conflicting sects be the O N E T R U E C H U R C H which

l e sus founded?

by H e r m a n L. H o e hPART VII

ESUS promised that he would bui ldHis church . H e prayed tha t Hischurch would be one , not many

divided and confused denominat ions.But he also warned that there were

to arise inany false teachers and minis-ters, deceiving the MANY, founding d i f -ferent churches which would profess tobe the churches of Chris t .

John , one of the twelve apost les , sawthis very thing happen in his l i fe t imcH e said many went ou t f rom th e t rue

church ( I John 2 : 19) . I n I11 J o h nverses 9 a n d 10 he warned against falseelders or bishops who were thrust ingthe t r u e members of Gods church ou tof the local congregations.

Jesus Chris: the Revelator mad eknown to John tha t the t rue churchwould be a scattered and persecutedchurch that would have to f lee for overa thousand years from the pe rsecu t ingsword of a great false church. CompareRevelation 12 and 17.

The church tha t Jesus p romised tobuild, iihiih zs cortipised of those w h oare filled and led by the Spir i t of G o d ,i s t o be gu ided in to t ruth t h rough allages desp i te enemies f rom wi thou t andapostates from with in who wouldprofe.rsto teach the t ruth.

Hi s church i s a command ment keep-i n g church, not a pol it i ca l o igan iu t iu i i .It faithfully retains the testimony ofJesus Chris t recorded in inspired Scrip-ture ( Rev. 1 2 : 17 ) . This church recog-nizes Christ as its head and i t is subjectto His government .

CHLIRC:I I ihat i r t o continzLe throughd l age a d ex2.rt.r today teaching andpwacbing the .same truth thdt Christum1 t h e apoj t ler commanded?

How W e C a n Know W h i c h Is t h eT R U E C h u r ch

The t rue church mus t be t h e church:bat J c ~ r u rfouni led. I t must have beenfounded w h e n H e founded it. A n d i tmus t have bccn founded wbeve H efounded i t .

Now lets not ice rhe plain facts .Almost all Protestant churches-as

their ow n membe rs admit-were foun d-ed t o o late. lhey were not founded byJesus Chr i s t but bj Ttzeiz at least 1 Jcenturie r after lcc rn r founded H i s c b i m h .

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The cause for placing Pentecost onSunday is based on the error of countingSaturdays instead of weeks . Pentecostis not the feast of Sa turdays but thefeast of weeks. (Exodus 3 4 : 2 2 ) . Mosessays to count seven full WEEKS (Deu t .1 6 : 9 ) and the day after that is Pente-cost. This feast is not in the end of theseventh week, but after your weeks

be out, the f if tieth day ( N um . 28 :26 ).I t was numbered from the DAY thatIsrael f irst began to reap the g a i n( D eu t . 1 6 : 9 ) . This day is specificallymentioned in Lev. 23:15. Ye shallcount unto you from the morrowa f f e rTHE sabbath, from the day that yebrought the sheaf of the wave offering.So God wants us to count f r o m a S u n -day, the day the sheaf of grain was cut.

How to Co unt Pentecos t

Now lets count. On e dayf r o m todayis not coday, but toinorrow. One dayfrom Sunday is Monday. Tw o days from

Sunday is Tuesday. One week fromSunday is Sunday. Seven weeks or forty-nine days fro m Sunday is Sunday. ButPentecost is A F T E R seven weeks or forty-nine days. It is FIFTY days from Sun-day. Therefore it MIJST AT.WAYS F A T 1O X A MONDAY

Th e mistake of co unting Saturdaysinstead of w e e k s is based on an incor-tcct translation in the common versionsof Leviticus 23:15,16. It reads sevensabbaths shall be complete: even untothe morrow after the seventh sabbathshall you number fifty days. Th e wordhere translated sabbath can also meanrest or seven or WEEK. Thereforewe need to let the Bible deter minewhat is the proper meaning in thisplace.

The same Hebrew word that Mosesused in Leviticus 2 3 : 1 5 and 16 was alsoused by the apostles and disciples in itsGreek for m to mean week, as in Mark1 6 :2 and I Cor. 16:2. Here i t would beas foolish to render the word weekby sabbathas it is to tran slate Leviticus2 3 :16 by sabbath, because f i f ty daysfrom Sunday is a Monday-the morro wafter the seventh w e e k .

Both JEWISH A N D CATHOLIC VER-SIONS OF THE BIBLE RENDER THISWORD CORRECTLY AS W E E K . T h eDouay or Catholic Version for Leviticus23: 15,16 reads: You shall count there-fore from the morrow after the sabbath,wherein you offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven ful l weeks. even unto themorrow a f t e r the seven th week be ex-pired, that is to say fifty days.

As absolute proof that this verseshould be translated after the seventhweek, turn to Deut. l 6 : 9 and Num.28:26 where the word w e e k is translat-rd from a different word-shabua-which N E V E R mea ns sabbath, but always

w e e k . Since in these verses the Hebrewwords used never mean the sabbath,and since seven weeks-forty-nine days-from a Sunday isa Sunday, the fiftiethday must be Monday. Hence, the realmeaning of Lev. 23: 16 is the morrowafter the seventh week as any othertranslation would necessitate a contra-diction of scripture.

Some also do not quite understandthe meaning of counting f r o m one dayt n another. A week from Sunday is theNEXT Sunday, and seven weeks from aSunday is seven Sundays away. But weare to count t o the fiftieth day, that is,t o the comple t ion of Monday so wehave the ful l fifty days.

This is explained in Leviticus 23:27,32 where one counts f r o m t h e e n d ofthe evening-not the beginning-of theninth day t o t h e c o m p l e t io n of the eve-ning of the tenth day, making onewhole day. Thus we are to count fiftydays from the end of Sunday, the daythe wave sheaf was offered, to the endof a Monday, which is the day of P ente -cost. Pentecost is the last or fiftieth day.

Yes, the church that Jesus built wasnot founded on Sunday, but on Mon-day. Catholics and the Jews k n o w thatPentecost is to be numbered htty daysor seven full weeks from Sunday, theday the wave sheaf was offered. YetNEITHER of them knows how to figurecorrectly

The Exact DateNow remember that the Passover

upon which Jesus died occurred onWednesday, April 25, A.D. 31. There-fore the weekly Sabbath would havebeen April 28 and the day upon whichthe wave sheaf was offered in31 A.D.was the 2 9th. Th e first of the fifty dayswhich we count would then be April30. Add to this the 31 days of May and18 days of June and you have fifty daysin all.

Pentecost in 31 A.D., the exact dayup on wh ich th e trzle church was found edby Jesus Chris t , was June 18. This daywas u MONDAY , hich you can prove inyour own home if you check on Web-ster s Collegiate Dictionary under per-petual calendar.

Gods true church-the church thatJesus built-has been observin g thet rueday of Pentecost to this day. That is whyit has not forgotten the right year inwhich it was founded. All other churcheshave resulted from apostacies and haveaccepred pagan doctrines. They have for-gotten the right. year and the right day.They are not the churches that Jesuspromised to build and w h i c h H e p r o m -ised t o guide into all truth Only thetrue church which has kept the t rue dayof Pentecost could remem ber whe n Jesusfounded his church.

HOW lain it isTh e T R U E church which Jesus built is

not an organized denomination whichyou join. T h e TRUE church is composedof those indzviduals who submit them-selves to the authority of God, who re-pent and believe in Jesus and the gospelof the kingdom which He preached.The T R U E church is that body of individ-

uals filled and led by the Holy Spirit-it is the body of C hrist, a scatteredchurch which kecps ALL the command-ments and believes the gospel of thekingdom (Rev. 12:17) .

Now let us notice the special reasonwhy God sent the Holy Spirit that dayand also the special meaning of the dayof Pentecost FOR us TODAY

W h a t Pen tec ostMeans in t h eP l a n of God

T o keep us in mind that this presentage is only the preliminary or first har-vest of human beings, God took theyearly material harvest of Palestine asthe picture of the spirkual harvest. Asyou probably have already learned, thereare t w o harvest seasons in the PromisedLand. Th e first small harvest is producedby an early rain, the second great harvestby a l i ter rain.

Pentecost was ordainedforever at theend of the spring harvest season,so thatwe mi ht remember year by year and

age is not th e great day of salvationfo r all the world, but th e day of salva-t ion for only the f ew who are called outof this present evil civilization andgiven the Spirit of God. InI Corinthians

I:2 6 we find that not many of thegreat in this world are called. Every-wher e, the Christians are spoken of ascalled out from the world. Notall arebeing called today. It is the elect orchosen who are called in Israel today;the rest are blinded so that God couldI N THE FUTURE have mercy upon A L L .( Romans 11 3 2

Th e harve sting of human beingswho are called in this church age to beheirs of the Kingdom of God is ex-plained in Leviticus 2 3 beginning verse9. He re the material harvest of grain wasoriginally used as a type of the spiri-tual harvest.

The Israelites were not permitted toharvest their grain until the day thewave sheaf was offered. (Le v. 23:10 ,11;Deu t . 16: 9 This ritual, given to theLevitical priesthood to perform andtherefore not practiced today, picturedthe resurrected Christ being acceptedby the Father as the very first humanbeing to be born of God.

W h y Pen t e cos t onMonday?The wave sheaf did NOT picture the

resurrection of Christ, but the resurrect-ed Christ being accepted of the Father

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of keep ing Pentecost-a Pentecost thatwas changed in the immediate yearsthat followed the death of the lastapostles. This Pentecost, so-called, hadbecome corrupted with SUN WORSHIP.It always fell on Sunday, the same asthe pagan Easter substituted for thepassover.

Her e is a plain statement of HastingsDictionary of th e Bible, article Pente-cost:

In the Christ ian Church the impor-tance of Pentecost was continued andits significance emphasized by the out-pouring of the Spirit on that day (Acts2 ) . Th e day of the week o n that oc-casion is T R A D I T I O N A L LY representedas Sunday . . . Wieseler (Chron . d.Aposl. Zeitalter, p. 20) plausibly sug.gests that the festival was fixed on Sun .day by the la ter W est ern Church t o c o y .respond with Easter.

Among the early Jewish Christiansobservance of the Hebrew feasts con-

tinued, doubtless with fresh significancederived from the new revelation.Lets notice these statements. Pente-

cost was continued in the early trueChristian Church. It is TRADITION, notRevelation, t h a t places Pentecost o nSunday according to Wieseler.

Now let us also take note of theCatholic Encyclopedia.

Whitsunday, ur Penrecost, a feast ofthe universal Church which commem-orates the Descent of the Holy Ghostupon the Apostles . . Whitsunday, asa Christian feast, dates back to the firstcentury, although there is no evidencethat it was observed . . the passage inI Corinthians f 1 6 : 8 j p n h a b l j i refers t othe Jewish feast.

Here is one of the plainest admis-sions that the Pentecost observed byGentile converts, as the Bible recordsin I Corinthians 16:8, was NOT T H ESAME as the C hristian feast which laterdeveloped in the Catholic church.

T h e FACT that there are records of afalse day corroborates the Bible by indi-cating that the Gentiles originally keptthe t rae, but after the death of the RQOS-tles, it was perverted.If no day had beenobserz,ed originally, there would havebeen no Pentecost t o alter.

Ear ly Con fus ion Amo ng C atholicsAb out Pentecos t

As usual, with the introduction of error wholesale, there is always a periodof adjustment until the error is finallyestablished. W e notice just such a situation in early Catholic records befortheir Penrecost or W hitsunda y was firmly established. BinghamsAntiquities ofthe Christian Church, page 1157, 1158,says:

The next great festival was that of(Plense continue on page 1 2 )

on Sunday, the day after His resurrec-t ion. Compare John 20:17 with Mat-thew 28:9 to find the time when Christfirst ascended to the Father to be ac-cepted of Him.

Because, since the resurrected Christis the first of the firstfruits and was ac-cepted by the Father on the Sundayafter his resurrection-portrayed by thewave sheaf offered on the first day ofthe week-then we who are second inorde r to be reaped--afterwards theythat are Christs at his coming-arepictured by having the feast of first-fruits or Pentecost fall on theSECONDDAY OF THE WEEK or Monday.

But notice this, the wave sheaf wasmerely the first part of the first harvest.It was a sheaf of the first fruits of theharvest. (Verse 10) Thus Christ is thefirstfruits of them that slept. ( I Cor.15:20) And Christ ians who are cal ledin this age are also said to be thefirstfruits. ( James 1 : 18; Romans 8 : 2 3)

Christ is the f irst of t h e f i r s t f r u h ofGods harvest of h uman beings. Pen te-cost pictures, then, the coming of theHoly Spirit and the ripening of the restof the firstfruits for harvesting at th eresurrection ( I Cor. 1 5 :2 3) . Thischurch age is merely the first harvest.

P e n t ec o s t i n t h e N e w Te s t a m e n tChurch

When original ly given by God, theday of Pentecost was commanded to beobserved forever. ( Lev. 23 :2 1 Jesusnever abolished Pentccost nor any of[he other annual Holy Days. The dayof Pentecost DID OCCUR after Christsdeath that year as Luke records.

N o n e of these annual festivals hadburnt offerings or sacrifices on themwhen originally instituted. (Jeremiah7:22,23) The sacrifices were added tothese days and to every dayof the year( E x od u s 2 9 : 3 8 ) as a part of the serviceof the Levitical priesthood.

W he n the sacrifices and offeringswere consumm ated in the death of Christonce for all, these usual offerings ceasedto be made for the conscience ( H e b .9:13,14) by those who were convertedand who believed in Christ. But thecommand that Pentecost be observed

Jorever as a Sabbath and convocationsti ll remained. (Lev. 23 :2 1) That iswhy the apostles and disciples weregathered together with all the devoutJews nn this occasion. I f t h e discipleshad n o t gathered on this day which wassacred t o God, they would not have beenthere t o receive the gif t of God , Hi sSpirit.

Not only did the Jewish Christiansknow this, but also Paul, the apostle tothe Gentiles, understood that this an-nual Sabbath was still commanded byG o d f o r H i s spiritual church. He de-

termined to sail by Ephesus, because hewould not spend the t ime in Asia: forhe hasted, if it were possible for him,to be at Jerusalem the day of Pente-cost. (Acts 20: 16)

Paul, the teacher of the Gentiles,wanted to keep Pentecost thirty yearsafter the death of Christ

At anothe r time Pa ul spent the day ofPentecost in Ephesus, a Gentile city. ( ICor. 16:8 ) Yes, Pentecost, togetherwith the other annual festivals, was ob-served by all those of the true originalchurch which was under divine instruc-tion from the apostles. (Acts 12:3;2 0 : 6 ; 27:9; I Cor. 5 : 8 ; 11 : 2 0 - 3 4 ) G e n -tiles received the praise of Paul for fol-lowing the churches of God in Judaea-the Jewish brethr en. ( I Thess. 2 : 14)

Pentecos t Centur ies Af te r A.D.31With the death of the apostles, a

grea t change ocrm~ed ,which most ofyou have never been told about. A ter-rible apostacy set in am ong the churchesof God . Paul warned the Ephesians withwhom he observed Fentecost, as wehave already seen, that after my de-parting shall grievous wolves enter inamong you, not sparing the flock. Alsoof your own selves shall men arise,rpeaking perverse things, to draw disci-ples after them. (Acts 20:29,30) Forthe time will come when they will notendure sound doctrinc; but after theirown lusts shall they heap to themselvesteachers, having itching ears; and theyshall turn away their ears frwrn the truth,and shall be turned unto fabLes. ( 2Tim. 4:3)

Here is the place Paul warned Chris-tians about the very fables that most ofyou have been taught since childhoodby apostate churches.

By the time Jude wrote his epistle,the fables of which Paul w arned had al-ready started. He exhorts: you shouldearnestly contend for the faith whichwas once delivered unto the saints.Forthere are certain men crept in un-awares. (Jude 3,4)

Remember, the Genti le Christ ians inThe original inspired church observedPentecost as we have seen. Therefore,we will naturally expect some PROOFI N

LATERHISTORY

thac the churcheither kept this day pure or changed it.If the Gentiles NEVER kept this day,

as you have so often heard from the pul-pits of the land, then we should NOTexpect to find any record of Gentilechurches observing a Pentecost . W ha tare the facts?

How P e n t e c o s t Wa s C h a n g e d

obtainable at most libraries PROVE THATT H E EARLIEST GENTILE CHURCHES DID

The following exrrscts from histories

K E E P PENTECOST hese records speak


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A t other t imcs, Pentecust wab u x dto mean the sper i f ic day tha t ended theseason of fifty days, during which " thenewly-b;iptizeci wore their white andshin ing garments"-hence, Wh itsunda y.A t one t ime the confusion over the dayof Pentecost led the Counci l of Elvira,Spain, in 305 A.D. , to condemn the t en -dency t o celebrate i t f o r t ? dayr afterEaster.

T he reason for the preservat ion ofpassover and Pentecost to a grea t ex ten tin the apostat iz ing church was themeaning these two annual holy daysoriginal ly possessed. O ne pictu red th edea th of Chr i s r, t he o the r the comin gofthe Spir i t of God to r ipen the FIRSTH A RV E S T of human beings.

Since, however, the apostates of theuniversal church were almost whollyGenti les , these men gradual ly developedtheir own customs to dis t inguish t h e m -selves f rom the Jews, 2nd yet to retainthe Chr i s t i an o r Jewish names . Bo th thePassover and Pentecost were TRANS-FERRED G R A D U A L LY TO SUNDAY. A n dthe name Passover was a t last droppedfor Easter. Even Pentecost has beengreat ly obscured by the nam e W hit sun -day. And along with the pervers ion ofthese two clays, the apostate church

THE T R U E P L A N O F G O D which thesedays picture.

Th e Reform at ion fa il ed to restore theHoly Days of God. All the mult ipl ic i tyof churches today ei ther fol low thep a g a n cus tom of observing Pentecoston Sunday or else N E G L E C T the day al-together. The t ime has come for us toget back to the fai th ONCE DELIVEREDto [he saints . I x r ' s beg in to keep holy,the days God v ~ u d e oly. I t is t ime wequi t this Babylon of re l igious confusionand hunian t radir ion a n d follow thepa ths of the sainrs through al l ages whohave remained fai thful to the t ruth ofG o d .

How to Observe Pentecost

For those of you who may not knowhow Pentecost is to be observed, hereis a brief summary. It is a n annual ah-bdth a n d occurs on May 2 5 this year,beginning ar sunset the previous even ing .

Be sure to remember thar the day o ;Pentecost varies from year to year because it is t o be coun ted . Th e p repara -t ion of food ( Exodus 12:16 is theon ly l abor God pe rmi t s on an annuasabbath . W he re possible this day shouldbe kep t by ;issenibling with others oflike faith since i t is a commanded as-sembly. ( Lev. 2 3 : 4 ) Otherwise i t canbe kep t in your own home. Th i s yea rle t ' s fol low the example of the pureoriginal cIiurch of God by k e e p i n g holythis day God r t ~ u d e oly.

( 7'0 be continued )

LOST A L L R E M A I N I N G K N O W L E D G E OF

I Apologizeby Rod Meredith

IMAD^: a defini te error in the January,195.3, issue of the G o o d N e w s w h e nI wrongly ; i t t r ibt i ted a s ta tement

of crime sratistics contained in my ar-tic-le, "Is Capi ta l Pun i shment God'sWay " t o M r. J . Edgar Hoover, directorof rhe F.H.I. 1 obta ined th i s quore f romanother re l igious publ icat ion withoutthoroi igl i ly checking the source given.

So I apologize t o you readers , andto Mr. H oover, fo r incor rec tly a t t r ibu-t ing tha t s ta tem ent of s ta t is tics t o hi in .

However. the facts which these s ta-tistics were inte nde d to show-that thisuiiiioii i.r ree th ing ii,itli cri?tLe a n d cor-vuptio?z--still ho lds tru e. I t is a n u n -den iab le FACT

T h e I953 Wodd i l l ~ t ~ u w ~ ~onta insr ie fol lowing c r ime scntistics: "On theaverage day during rhe f i rs t s ix monthsof i95 2, one larceny was cornmit tedevcry 26 seconds, an auto rhef t every2 . 5 minures . an aggravared assault every6. 33 minutes and a rlipeEvery 4.6 miniires there was a cr imeof iniircler, man slau ght er, rap e or as-sault tu kill.

Yes, the fruits of o u r socicty are E V I I .They lend to ~ i ~ h i i p p i r / c . i;ind dcath.

This cr ime report goes o n to say,"Cr ime rose 6.4(.; th roughou t the LJ Sduring the f i rs t h l f of I 9 5 2 as c o n -

pared with the firsr half of 1951 . . .Morc pcrsons .iy,cJ 18 were arrcstcdduring the f i rs t half of 1952 than MZJ'

Truly, this shows t l i n t c r ime i J 012r b c iuci'e'uc' and t t ia t the moral de-cadence of o u r youth has approachedthe d o z g c r p i n t .

131.1- for the spii-iiiiat welfare of ournntion i e / ' i i / c , d 'Tile professing min-isrers of Jesiis Christ absolutely R E -

othel- Lige p o f L p . * '

Those \vhO1iI God holds RFSPONSI-

FUSE to keep and to preach G ' o d ' ~ aw.They resort to every flimsy excuse imag-inable to t ry to u n d e r m i n e t h e rules ofl i f e giver1 by our Creator.

Yet , don ' t they profess to know Chr i stand to do good works in His n ame?

Yes. And Jesus Ch rist clearly in -dicted these fa lse minijiers i n M a t t h e w7 : 2 3 . H e te ll s these men w ho g ive h i inlip service and claim to do good worksin his name, "I never knew you : depar tIruiii i i i e ye tilac work LAWLESSNESS."Most modern Bible t ranslat ions havesubst i tuted the word iniquity fo r theGreek word mean ing 1awles.rne.rs. Butany reliable interlinear or Greek t ex twil l show you that Christ u ~ a s e fe r r ingt o false nLini.ster.r w o teach disobedi-ence to God? law

Th e word i s Lawle.rsnes.rGod holds these very law-breaking

false ministers responsibk for them o u n t i n g cr imc, co r rup t ion , u n h a p p i -ness, and wretchedness in this world.LET'S WA K E UP

I apologize for rhe oversight inquot-ing those cr im e s ta tis t ics in my previousarticle: But the ionclusioiz r emains thesame.

N o w i t ' s t ime for these lawlerspreachers to apologize , to REPENT ofbreakin g God's e ternal , spir i tuallaw and

thereby leading orhers to cr ime, de-pravity, tnisery, and denth.Yes, God will carry out the final

punishment of the wicked which ise te rna l death.

Yozt need to s tudy God's word foryourself and "pr ove al l things." Quitfol lowing false teachers and teachingswhich produce a society filled withc r ime and 1azule.rsness.

. . . Choose y o i i this day whom yewill se rve ( Joshua 2 4 : 15 ) .

appears f rom rnmy other places ofChrysostom, Aust in , Cassian, and thefourth counci l of Toledo."which s True Church?L o 7 1 ~ / 1 l / / c ~t , ~ t t p d g c 1 1

In h i s On Fasting. Chapte r XIV Te r -r i i l l i a n says this : "Our solenmit ies toowill b e b o u n d t o be new: else , if theapostle has erased all devot ion absolute-l y . . why do we celebrate the pass-over by an annual rotat ion in the f i rs tmo,n.lh? Wliy i l l tl r f i j ~ ; ~n s u i n g ~ U ) Jdo w e s p e n d our time in all exultation "( F r o m Ante -Nicene Fa the r s , Vol. 4 , pp .

1 1 - 1 12 . Obviotisly , Tertiillian reco g-nized that the Aposrle Paul did NOTabolish all these days.


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Is Tithing in ForceUnder the NEW TeJtament?

Here is an eye-ope ning article on a mu ch misunderstood subject. Some a s k ,rrWasnt tithing j u s t f o r the ews of a long-dead past? Others, r rWasnt i th-ing done away? Or, Wa s it a form of na t iona l t axa t ion i n ancient Israel?Or, Wa s it to s u p p l y material needs to t he poor? Here i s t he N E W Tes ta -

ment teaching. Youll find this article interesting, enlightening, plain

by Herbert W . Armst rong

o w SHOULD Gods work be f i -nanced? Does God have a defi-

. nite system? Is tithing obliga-tory in NEW Testament t imes? Or hasGod left us to our own devices-forchurches to resort to the old-fashionedoyster supper and ice cream socials, orto bazaars, entertainments, dances andchurch movie shows to raise money Ordid God perhaps leave i t for each oneto giv e wh at he feels like-if he feelsl ike giving i t ?

Did Christ intend His specially-se-lected and called ministers to be direct-cd and controlled by boards of laychurch members not called of Christ tothe ministry? Or did Christ Himselfordain a system providing for His w ork,leaving His true called ministers, likeprop hets of old, free to serve Go dalone?

A Stern PROPHECY for TodayLet me repea t briefly a stern prophecy

for our day-a WARNING from God to20th century America and Bri tain

T o us, God says: I will come near toyou in judgment . . . Even from thedays of your fathers ye have goneawayfrom m i n e ordinances, and have not k eptthem . . . Y e mre cursed with a curse:for YE HAVE ROBBED ME, even this wholenation (Malachi 3 :5-9) . Thats not amessage for ancient Israel. Its aprophe-c y, warning America and Bri taintoday

Other prophecies scattered all thruboth Old and Ne w Tesraments show the

J U D G M E N T to be sent on LIS, for robbingGod among other sins-the com ing in-vasion and utrer defeat in atomic-rocketWor ld War III

But why? But y e say, continues theEternals warning, W her ein have werobbed Th ee? And God replies, InTITHES and OFFERINGS

Notice, we are not robbing Him intith es alone-but also by neglect ing toput into His work OFFERINGS besides

But weve been taught t i thing wasdo ne away-merely for Israel of old.Its about time we got back to theFaith

onc e delivered Is there a definite financ-ing plan ordained in the New Testa-ment?

God Working Out a PURPOSE

Man was placed o n earth for a PUR-POSE. And always, from the very begin-ning, God has had on ear th a PRIEST-HOO-a mi nis try rep res ent ing HIM,making known His revelat ion, His wil lto m an, carrying out Gods mission.

It does cost money to carry on Christsministry. And today with super-poweredfacilities of radio and printing press, ofrapid transportatinn to every par t ofthe world-facilities mak ing it possibleto reach vast masses over great distancesin sho rt time-the carry ing for th ofGods LAST WARNING MESSAGE to a de-ceived world is a herculean task of gi-gantic proportions requiring large sumsof money.

Has not God, in H is wisdom, pro-vided for this financing? And in suchmanner that His t rue called ministersmay be free to servc H i m alone, carry-ing H is Message BOLDLY? If so, the planwill be revealed in Gods W ord .

Christs Office, NOWIt is well recognized that the people

of Israel, during Old Testament times,were required to pay tithes. Th at is, one-ten th of income-whether livestock,grain, or money. But the NEW Testa-ment teaching on tithing is not gen-

erally understood.Yet the subject is mentioned manyplaces in the New Testament. But, sincei t is a priesthood subject-the financingof Christs minis t ry its well to lookfirst at the priesthood Book-Hebrews.

You hear a great deal of a crmifiedChrist-much preaching abou t a deadChrist. But you hear almost nothingabout the Messuge He brought f romGod, and even less about the functionof the resurrected l iv ing Christ of TO-DAY

Th e Book of Hebr ews reveals the

Christ of the Twentieth Century-thework and office of our ChristTODAY-Christ the Hig h Priest of God And itcontains GODS INSTRUCTION for f inancing the ministry of Christ Th e 7thchapter is the tithing chapter.

Speaking of the Christian HOPE ofeternal life (which hope i s JesusChr is t ) , we are told, beginning verse19, chapter 6, this HOPE ( C h r i s t ) hasentere d w ithin the veil-that is, thevery throne of God in heaven--whitherthe forerunner is for us entered, evenJesus, made an H I G H PRIEST for everafter the order of Melchisedec.

T h e N E W Te s t a m e n t P r ie s th o o dJesus Christ is HIGH PRIEST now.

Lets understand it. J e w s of Nazarethcame as a Messenger, sent from God,bearing a MESSAGE to man. His MES-SAGE is H i s GOSPEL-the Go sp el ofJesus Chrisr-the G u u d N e w s ol theKINGDOM OF GOD.

Af ter finishing H is mission as Mes-senger, Jesus took on Himself the mis-sion of Saviour, paying in our stead thepenalty of our sins by His death on thecross. But i t requires a living Saviourto impart to us the gif t of eternal lifeSo God raised Jesus, by a RESURREC-TION.

And thereupon Jesus ascended toheaven, to rhe very throne of God,where H e sat down and continues to-day as our Everlasting H I G H PRIEST.

Th at is His office, now. Soon H e shallassume still another office, returning toearth in all the power and gloryof God,as K I N G of kings-continuing Hispriesthood office as Lord of lords.

It is in His office as High Priest thatJesus sits as litzing Head of The Churchof God, the true Body of Christ in thisage . He is H i g h P r i t x fur ~ l i i s d illsucceeding ages.

And as Hig h Priest H e holds adefinite r a d - a rank that outranksevery priestly office--After the orderof MeIchisedec--or, in the plainer Eng-


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l ish of the Moffatt rranslatinn, withthe rank of Melchisedec.

And who is Melchisedec? This is oneof the intriguing mysteries of the BibleSuffice ic to say here, Melchisedec . wasthe High Priest of God during patri-archal times. And Christ occupies thesame office now, holding the same rank.

But the Mosaic dispensation was apurely materialistic, fleshly dispensation.The GOSPEL was not preached in Israel,nor did their ministry carry it to othernations. Israelites formed a flesh-borncongregation, not a Spirit-begottenchurch. Th e ministry consisted of rituals,carnal (fleshly) ordinances, substituteanimal sacrifices and burnt offerings.This required of the priests much hardphysical labor.

During those years a different priest-hood of lower rank was in office-merehuman rank, vastly inferior to the spirit-ual and divine rank of Mclchisedccand of Christ. The priests were of the

tribe of Levi. It was called the LeviticalPriesthood.

A Tithe-Receiving PriesthoodYet this lower-level priesthood had to

be financed. Gods financing Plan fromdim antiquity, thru the MelchisedecPriesthood, was the tithing system. Thissystem was continued thru the years ofthe Levitical Priesthood.

Now coming to the 7th chapter ofHebrews, Gods financing plan is ex-plained. Notic e the coniparison betweenthe two tithe-receiving priesthoods.

First read the first five verses, He-brews, chapter 7: For this Melchisedec,king of Salem, priest of the most highGod, who met Abraham return ingfrom the slaughter of the kings, andblessed him; t o w h o m a ls o A b r a h a mgave a tenth part of all . . . abidcth apriest continually. Now consider howgreat this man was, u n t o w h o m evenAbraham gave the t en th of the spoils.And verily t hey that are the sons of Levi,who receive the office of the priesthood,t5az.e a commandment t o take tithes ofthe people according to t h e LAW.

Lets understand it. This vital passageof S cript ure begins to compare the twopriesthoods. Notice, back in patriarchaltimes, TITHING was Gods system forfinancing His ministry. Melchisedec wasHigh Priest. The patriarch Abraham, itis written, knew and kept G ods com-mandments, His statutes and laws (G en.2 6 : 5 ) . And he paid tithes to the HighPriest

T h e n t h e statement is made i n thispassage that, during that dispensationfrom Moses until Christ, the priests ofthat time, the Levites, took tithes fromthe people BY LAW. It was a LAW, starxedin the beginning, continued thru theMosaic dispensation.

Ti t h i n g , then, did not st t &tbMoses

It is Gods system for financing Hisministry, which BEGAN from the B E G I N -NING-from the dim antiquity of pa-triarchal times. It was a LAW. It did notstart with Moses, it was merely con-tinued on THRU the Mosaic period

Ti th ing a LAW f rom Dim Antiqui tyMany excuse themselves from tithing

today on the false impression tithingpertained to the Mosaic period only.They think it was for Israel,alone. Andthat illusion has brought a CURSE onthis whole nation

The Old Covenant is gone-thatstrue. But its ending could not take awaywhat it did not bring Tithing wasGods law hundreds of years before th eOld Covenant started.

TITHING is revealed as Gods systemfor financing His earthly ministry. Priorto the Levitical Priesthood and the Mo-saic dispensation, the ministry was underMelchisedec. And we see that ministry,from thc bcginning, was financcd by thetithing system.

Melchisedec, having neither begin-nin g of days, nor end of life. . . abidetha priest continually (Heb. 7 : 3 ) . Yes,He was Hig h Priestf ro m the beg inn ingEven from Adam And the ancientpatriarchs from Adam down thru Abra-ham, Jacob, and on to Moses, financedthis ministry of God on earth by theTITHING system

Merely CO NT IN UE D in I s rae lSince tithin g is Gods perman ent, con-

tinuous financing system, it had tocon-t inue thru the Mosaic dispensation. Du r-ing that period when the Levites werethe ministers, their work and labors hadto be financed. But when the priesthoodwas changed, God did not changehis financing system. The Levites had acommandment to taket i thes of the peo-ple according to the LAW.

And notice, the very subject of this7th chapter of Heb rews is theTITHINGLAW

Now continuing the 7th of Hebrews,the teaching concerns which of the twopriesthoods-Melchisedec, or Levitical

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