Vol.

VIII

- NO.2

Published by THERADIOCHURCH GOD OF

November-December, 1943

R U S S I A andthe WAR at the Moment

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W H A T ' S happened
HIS W u may end, in Europe, before the year b over! As this is written that becomes a startling possibility, though it is not probable. Events, now, may happen suddenly, unapectedly, which will rock the world! The whole complexion of the war may be cbangcd in astounding manner, even while t h e e lines ire being set in typebefore you r a d this number of the PLAIN TRUTH! We do not mean that Germany is virturlly defeated. Such an assumption is mere wishful-and dangerous-thinking, W e do not imply an imminent military victory over Germany, ending in unconditional surrender. There has becn entirely too much undue optirnism over rehtively minor victoriU.

But something, not yet d a , or evident er on the surface, is going on inside Germany. Something which might suddenly, in most unexpected manner, terminate the war in

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Gemnam May Sorrender to RUSSIA Gxuider a COmbinntIon aEcimm&mm. At this moment, as this i s written, a new md pcculipr type of ropaganda b k i n g fromemy avenue the German r o p
p d . mvhilv'rrsidc G m n, rncffrrm e mr neutral points i Sweden, Portugal and Turn key. T h e German le are being told d the frightful G c r 3 on the Rurrion f r o a t d the impoesibiliq of ueming the tide d Russian power. > R e d m y is bein8 punted as a power 10 vast md overw h e h n g that resistance agsjnst it is folly.

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It's strength and numbers are being rnapified. WHY? At the same time, the Germans m f& ing back at the Dnieper line in a manmer hard to understand, especially when Germany is known to have thrown in maximum about the war and world reserves for this battle. Certainly the b events at the moment! man armies could stand up on the west banks of the Dnieper far stronger than they (Editor's note: This article is have been doing. They appear to be ghh8 really part of, and should be read in ground they do not need to give. conjunction with the following article on page 5 . ) WHY? T h e German armies are far stronpr still than most people in America realize. They are not yet near actual military deRADIO BROADCASTS feat. There can be but one of two possible "The WORLD TOMORROW" explanations, then, of this new ropaganda Broadcast Every Sunday being suddenly broadcast eve$v!ere by the WOAI. San Antonio, 1200 on dial, 11 Germans. Either they are panning to atp.m Central war time. Heard on tempt o separate peace with Russia, by NCoast, 9 p.m.; Mountain states, 10 rendering to Russia on what they conceive p.m.; Eastern states, midnight. to be Russia's terms, or they are attempttq a clever ruse to lead the allies to bdiwr KMTR, Los Angeles, 570 on they are doing this, dial ____....__._.__.__._.-.--.-....---.-. and their military powcr 9:30 a m . KXL, Portland (750) .....8:30 a.m. is crumbling, when actually they are rb ..... tempting to lay a tra by inritin a pnmaKVI, Tacoma (570) ...__._-. 8:30 a.m. ture invasion across English & m n c h KRSC, Seattle (1150) ____..._ a time when the Russians are dmanding 8:30 am. KGA, Spokane (1510) ..._-.. 8:30 am. this second front. A second circtunshnce b the Lsllurc d KRNT, Des Mdnts (1350) ..-........--...-.-10:15 . u. x mysteriau reports that mmc drastic, sbztHIMA, Shemandoah Central) lina world-r&nq duke-up will oaar (960) .__......._.......War Time within Germany insidc two week. KNE", Paleethe, Texas Mussulfni a Trial Ballaon (1450) .,....,9 .,-. :30 m. Consider, now, thc nn?anlng o f

to HITLER? Will Germans get a seyerate peace with Stalin? Will Russia fight Japan?-Here's the Plain Truth

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issued from Moscow certainly had Stalins approval, or it never could have been issued at all. And it proclaimed it is not OUK dm to destroy Germany, or even to destroy all military force in Germany. This implied that if the German army would retire to its own borders, throw out Hider and overthrow the Nazi regime, they could gain a peace with Russia short of military occupation of Germany--r peace that would permit Germany to regain her strength and again become a military power. And if the army has actually taken over in Germany, reducing Hitler to a mere figurehead, then we may be sure the Germans are going to continue to retreat! And IF the Germans are completely out of Russian territory before an allied invasion is launched in France and the lowlands, let us ask ourselves frankly what possible reason wosrlJ Russia have for continuing an offensive war against Germany?

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see the outcome, but its somethi to think about in the meantime! But to underrtand this tense, situation, fraught with strangest an most unex ected possibilities, we need to understnnfcertain facts about the Japanese ribation, and the Russian position.

wbat happened to Mussolini, and of the Iblian surrender to the allies. On July 4th we outlined for listeners of The WORLD TOMORROW program an astonishing, almost incredible possibility, the first phase of which actually happened thm weeks after the broadcast, when Mustolini and Fascism were kicked out of Italy. The possible plot, as then outlined, was that the German army generals saw clearly thrt Germanys chance of military victoryof conquering the world-was gone ; that the best the Germans could hope for now was a long drawn-out war of DEFENSE, hoping to achieve a stalemate and gain some final negotiated peace short of unconditional surrender, Therefore, if they could scheme to bring about this best-hoped-for result quickly, and without further losses, why not try? The military clique in Germany-the Rcichswehr-were anti-Nazi at the beginning. They regarded Italy as a liability in the war. W h y not try out their scheme on Italy, uld if it worked, try it in Germany? The scheme, then, was to maneuver to Qmthrow Mussolini and Fascism in Italyrrplace Mussolini with an ANTI-Fascist teader, and appeal to the allies for a soft acgotiated peace, or even an alliance, (we b y e rctully given Italy a co-beligerent staty0 on the grounds that the Italian people ue d y our friends, and the real enemy, FuCism, has been kicked out. Then if the ruse worked in Italy, it might be tried in Germany. Hitler personally lost so much prestige with the defeat at Sblingrad and in North Africa that it has freely been rumored that the army generals could take over in Germany, if indeed Hitler had not already been either deposed or reduced to a figurehead.

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Japs Dispersing W r Industry a

Consider, first, the situation in Japan,
China and Asia.

The Moscow Conference

The main purpose of the Moscow conferences between the foreign secretaries of the Big Three nations was to iron out this difference of opinion. Very possibly this meeting was merely preliminary to conferences between the real Big ThreeRoosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin-and very possibly it was rushed at a time sooner than the three top leaders could get together for the very purpose of heading off any such premature peace ruse on the part of the Germans. As this i written this preliminary cons ference has just closed. The United States, Great Britain, and Russia will stick with the allies in forcing the Nazis to unconditional surrender. They have agreed in this conference to act together in all matters relating to the surrender and disarmament of their common enemies. This is construed to mean no one of the nations will condude L s p e arate peace. However, supposing the Germans try their peace scheme anyway? Supposing they withdraw from Russia, giving Russia everything she wants-including Latvia, Esthonia, part of Poland, etc.? Supposing they throw out Hitler and Nazism? What, then, would RUSSIA do? Would she continue to sacrifice the lives of her men in fight? Could not Russia ke at this conference, an her stick withmade the allies, and act together with then in regard to the surrender and disarmament of Germany, just diplomatically-the Red Army merely taking up a defensive stand at the German borders, without continuing any active fighting? And if they did so, what could we doand could we, then, w t all German forces ih released from the Russian front and available for the Italian. and Western E~::ope fronts,-covld we, then, conquer Gcrrnany? O would we find ourselves forced into a r negotiated peace along the lines agreeable to Russia? We wont have long to wait and

Youve heard about the tinder cities T k o Yokahama, Kobe, oy, of Japan-how Osaka, could be bombed and reduced to ashes in a few days. If we had had bases in Russias f u eastern Siberia eighteen months ago, with the air-force we have now, we might have knocked out Japan kithin six months. Btrt, tho Stalin has cried for a second front in Europe, he has given us no help-not even the usc of bases for b o m b i n k i n the war against Japan. Without Russian help there has been no direct way to get at Japaa Meanwhile, a fact few Americans falize is that the Japanese are rapidly & centralizing their war industry. They ire moving it, scattering it, into Manchukw, North China, Korea, Shanghai, Manila and Singapore. They plan to scatter their war Industry over so wide ~n area, and into 10 many places, that even if we finally within bombing range it will be almost possible to destroy Japanese war production. Inside another three to six months our job will be ten times harder than it would haw been six months ago. There is even talk now of moVi.8 the Japanese capitol from Tokyo to some puC of the mainland!

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The Free Germany Manifesto But as events developed it became evident that if the Germans attempted this ruse
at all, they would attempt it on Russia, not rn the allies. Grtain differences began to appear between the Russians and the allies, respecting their war and peace aims. Russia came to be known to desire a strong, friendly, but ANTI-Hitler and DE-Nazified post-war Germany. On the other hand, the United States and Britain called for unconditional surrender and a weakened, occupied postwpe Germany. Its merely a matter of which is the more effective way of preserving P U C E after the war-f preventing Germany from again plunging the world into
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Japan Has

WON Her War!

Ms Americans seem to feel we have ot

this whole war just about won. b y be-

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister

Churchill issued their Unconditional Surm d e r declaration at Casa Blanca without consulting Joseph Stdin. It was issued at a time when the Russians were loudly demanding the second front,-before this nrmmeri Russian gains had gotten under way-in M effort to reassure the Russians, But it later became apparent the Russians did not want an unconditional surrender. The Free Germany manifesto

lieve German military power is almost gone and once Germany crumbles it wont take six months to finish off Japan. Our do not seem to realize the true FA The astounding truth so few AmCd~rnr seem to realize is that Japan bru a l d y W O N her war1 Japan already ~ I U pccopD. plished her objectives for this prcsent NU -all she planned ur intended-for tbe present. In a former number, and in broadasb, you have been told how Japan hns been planning, for 350 ycarrs, to conquer id rule the world. But Japan has not beea planning to do this with one big puff. h Japs well know a11 such efforts have always failed. They have planned it by stages, T e hy have been following a dcfinltc strategy for fifty yeara-alwayr mirrersfdl I In 18944, Japan attacked and defeate the g ntic i Manchu Empire- catching that C&cu government unprepared, corrupt, disunited. Ten years later, 1904-5, JaFan attacked and defeated Russia. Exactly ten yearn later, 1914-18, Japan was one of the allies against

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Gemung in World War 1,gaining still nore tcrritoty vital ta ber long-term PLAN, la 1931 the Japs invaded and took Manchuria, In 1937 they invaded China And on Dccanbet 7th, 1941, g ~ u ' l R E m E R , they l struck their surprise blow at PEARL HAL BOR ! Quickly, inside six moaths, the clcvcr, wily Japs had conquered their Pacific Empire! T h q took the rest of China's Coat, the Philippines, Maylaya, Singapore, and D t h East India. They drove us out of uc Wake, Guam, and began developing their vat spider-web defense sptem stretching a third of the wa BUOSS the Pacific-a defensive webyinci8entally,into which we have in one hard year managed to make only two or three and, virtually insignificant DENTS! Thete, again, we have magnified md attached undue importance to relatively minor victories. We seem to love to indulge in wishful thinking! W e fail to grasp HOW MUCH Japan hu conquered! -how GREAT an empire the now controls! Japan enlarged her territory more than ten times OVW in just one short year, They have taken Chinese territ r , British territory, Dutch territory, oy Amencan territory. They now rule THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! "hey started out in this present war with rome nincty millioh And because we are forced to fight

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Hitletism, too, is largely a religiaw &,

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the Unls m d t Pscifk, is in excejs a$ k

in which Hitler h a attempted to stnmp out Christianity, exterminate the Jews, and dcify himself as a god.
But this also has been partly a RACE wnr. Hitler has employed the "race" ar ment continually. The Japs justify their p and religion by saying: "It's the destiny o f our RACE." And so the "RaccWar" ides has been introduced, and will become the main idea in the still biggv war of the future. Mussolini's idea was that of inciting 1 people to fight for the mere glorp of EMPIRE. T h a t conception is dead and gone. The Ja nese war-lords, as well as Hitler, realize they could not stir their people U p to world-war on the mere appcal of empire, or of booty, or of nationai ambitions, 01 even of religion. Sounded But the new a-p p d of scientific. And so now the Japs have WON their war! Their plan for &is present war is now to drive us completely out of Asia and the Pacific-to sacrifice more t a we are willhn ing to sacrifice in order to w a us down er and cause us to give up and let them keep it. Thus they plan to force w into a final peace that will cause us to grow steadily WEAKER, shorn of our hiatic resources, investments, and trade, while thq exploit their new Empire and grow constantly

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TWENTY MILLION1 T h a e twenty million arc trained workers, skilled farmers. In a shod while cities, an im r e d r e war industry, br sprung up in ar-eastern Sikrii. Sconr d landing stations have bcen built there. A fully trained army of thousands, f mechanized fot modern war, could k

lized quickly. Russia well knows her strnteglc p i h a in the far-east!

The RACE for the Racewar Mastery

Now see what M arnazing possibdutl this all leads to! We think of China as one pert united people of some 4S0,000,000, united under Chiang Kai Shek. not the true picture at all! When Ja an invaded, Chin8 wu d b l ih united, tom r y revolution, w t countb bandit armies looting here and thm. TCW Chiang Kai-Shek accomplished h o s t mh. adcs, the circumstances considered. But there also is in Chin8 8 COMMUNIST Party! Thr bavr b r a P#uas of Chiang Kai-Shrkl $or SO^ t b after the invasion of China he continued #O blockade them. The Soviet Union bu d been giving active help to the Chinese Rodr during the last few years, but on the othar hand Russia has refused to interfere spinrt them. And so what does all this boil down to? Simply this: It offers Russia the 0pp0ZtuBity of entering a competition with J a p fa the CONTROL OF ALL ASIA-forth leadenhip of the RACE-WAR Of f ~ ture, which, if mcccssful, will man WORLD RULE! It's a question of whethe R - 4 ff Japan, is able to gain control Of the d h r d ganitcd 450 million Chinew, ta or& them and become the h t e r of 8u h &If i the Russians can maneuver to bat J8 her own game, then they con, SOW completely propapndislng and orww China, and India, and all tbc popula~r Om mtal peoples, ultimately raise M

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to dig i n 4 0 exploit and dcvclop these vast new resources-resources w i h once dehc, veloped, can make Japan :be most powerfffr nmion on earth-the world's greatest power I The J a p would be perfectly willing to all off the war now-to stop with what t h have. They have taka all they lamed ~ or mtended, for tbs pre~entlThey uUy believe they tun, and WILL, be able to DEFEND w a t h q have won. They say they ht arc prepred to sacrifice TEN MILLION MEN, if necessary, to prevent us from taking it @wayfrom t h e q - a n d they ask if we u e prepared to sacrifice TEN MILLION AMERICAN LIVES in order to drive them out of their *'own Asiatic Co-Prosperity 8phere." They believe they am make it JO tough, md JO cosrly for us to drive them out that we shd become discouraged. They believe and hope we shall begin to figure that all we're fighting for over there, anyway, is just the interests of some of our big corporations, m d to decide we'd bcttet I JAPAN d rule Asia, and remain in o w back yard.

PH, are giving the laps TIME we

STRONGER--masters

over

300,000,000

people already, and potential masters o v a all Asia, India, and the far-Pacific! Then they plan to E D U U m the% vast hordes of Orientals in a dastardly propganda of RACE HATRED-ttain than to be soldiers, stir them up against the white man, so that ultimately in the noxt stage of their world-conquering plan, t l x y may &r&e at us in a RACE WAR with a breathtaking force of ONE BILLION! Already Japan has put in affect a most intensive propaganda effort to educate the 300,000, 000 already in her power with an insidious RACE HATRED toward us! The Japs arc planning to make themselves the U S = of Asia-with its 450,000,000Chinese, its 350,000,000 in India, its other hundreds of million-and then to make the Asiatics supreme over the rest of the world. THAT'S the Jap Plan to conquer and rule the world !

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ONE BILLION SOLDIERS,

The RACE WAR of the mJTUREI

Thii present world war is largely a reout their longplanned campaign to estab lish their little mikado on the throne of the world-to vrcldiate their religion based upon a conception of him as the "son of haven"---as their GOD-who, to br God would have to demonstrate ability to conquer and rUrc the world.

ligioxr w r The Japs we merely carrying a.

What RnssIa Is Doing i Siberia n And what dots all this have to do with RUSSIA? And will Russia help us fight and conquer Japan ? We give you now some more Jtarlliag FACTS you probably didn't know. Before the war there were about six million people in all Siberia. But Stalin has been moving Russians wholesale across tbe vast expanses of Siberia to ib Pacific Coast, as a war measurc--and because he foresees, perhaps more shrewdly t a we, Japan's hn ultimate plan! T d y the Siberian population, between oa

finally to conquer the world for Comnnm= ism! This is possible only by women, BS well as men, into the services and war production. But thc Ru+ sians are the ones who SIartrd that p and even we are naw adopting it I

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Will Russia Attack Japan? Finally, will Slolin help us fisht J a p ? Will he give us bosa from which t bomb o
Ask these questions of any Soviet offb ad, and he will shut up like a dam. First, be sure the Russiuu feel no obu.
gation to help YS whip Japan! Second, the Russians have 8 nice nabaggression pact w t Japan, which baa been ih Please continre on pagr four Japan

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truth, Here it is: Sin is tbinking tbougbtr

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you ought not to be thinking about things you ought not to be doing while you are thhking those kind of thoughts.

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A Heart to Heart Talk with the &d;tor

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How To PREVENT Sin

a certain thing,

Do you realize that if it is wrong to do

it is wrong to harbour

All have sinned, says the scripture. What ir sin, anyway? Satan ought to know-and he is the invisible influence who sways the course of this world. Hollywood is considered by many the worlds mecca of sin. On the newsstands in Hollywood may be found a very worldly booklet, written in a very Llght, breezy, and satirical vein, titled How to Sin in Holl ood, It Bives a very worldly definition 0%-perhaps the definition of the verp devil who devotes his time to enticing people into it.. The definition is expressive, and not far f o the rm

THOUGHTS of that thing in your mind?

Gods definition is: Sin is the transgression of the law, (I John 3:4). The law is LOVE, as defined by the Ten commandments. Jesus said: That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness (violations of the law-the Ten Commandments) .(Mark 7:20-22), ALL have sinned, says the Scripture. And what man-especially what Christian, is there who has not time and again experienced the struggle against sin described by the Apostle Paul? What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that I do For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. Who is there who has not LOST that struggle, perhaps many times? Of course no man, of himself, can live above sin. With men it ir impossible, said Jesus, but with God all things are possible. And Paul continues (Romans 8) to show that the only DELIVERANCE from this body of death is thru Jesus ChAst, and the indwelling power of Gods Holy Spirit-that the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit , , for as many as rtze led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Yes, but we have OUR part in it,too. And it a11 centers in the MIND. REPENTANCE of sin means, literally, to change ones mind in respect to sin. If we repent, and accept Jesus Christ as Saviour, the promise is we SHALL receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and be renewed in the Spirit of your mind (Eph. 4: 23)-the presence of the Holy Spirit is the RENEWING of the mind. How does sin actually happen? Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust (desire), and enticed. Then wheq lust ( the desire IN THE MIND) hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:14-15). The TEMPTATION is i the mind. n When you think about the thing that tempts you-let your mind dwell on it-turn it over in your mind-whether it be a desire to GO someplace, to DO something, or to HAVE something you know is wrongthat thinking about it finally conceivesleads to action-and breeds SIN. You finally DO the thing you kept thinking about, wanting to do. If you kee thinking about it, after a while youll be h A B I . 1 to resist it. Thats why youve lost so man of these struggles against sin-you Kcpt thinking about it, desirng it, wanting it, The way to prevent sin is to let Gods Spirit fill the mind. Set your affection on

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things above, not on things on the d ((31. 3:2). m e way to put a thing OUT of the mind is to put an o posit8 thought I th N mind. So often I ave noticed pnnb d babies strive so hard to ShuJh up the h f b whm it is crying in church. Theres 1 thing in the babys mind that is causin its crying or fretting. Just saying Shushft a commanding the baby to stop fustbg doesnt usually get very good results. We have raised four children, and Ion ago I learned the trick of quieting the Lb getting its mind on rdmethin,q elr0. Insterd of commanding it to stop crying, attnct i ts attention with some new object-@ it &= terested in playing with that object (I br*a often used my fountain pen with excellent results)-and before you know it the child will forget all about its crying. Try using this same method on yourself. But instead of material or worldly things, a mature person should use self-discipline d set his mind on Spiritual things. Open foot Bible. Put the study o some rphjtud mb. f ject in your mind. Nx time YOU M et tempted, try it, Pray over it. Ask God t~ help you. See how rapidly you be a to whr the victory over tem tation a n t s i n , 4 how marvelous will your spiritual md CHARACTER growth.

R USSJA and the War

Continued from pagr the0
to their interest, and which they are not 1p ing to break unless it is to their advanhgel Third, you may be sure Russia NEVER open u any of her air-fields In Siberia, or elsew ere, for the usc of hdcan bombers in the hands of the herb Air Force. They have never opened up aay of their Russian air-bases to our men on t b

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German front, as the British have donc in England. The Russians will accept aa planes for their me& but only ..RUSSIAN forcer eve^ nse Rxrrsiun bases1

Will Stalin attack Ja an? That all & pends! Certainly not to he p UJ win o w w u against Japan, For the present Stalin w a sit tight-go on preparing in S i k r i s - b e ready for every eventualitg--and watch & velopments. But Stalin haws of Japans plan t o become Master of the Orient, and then con uer the world by using this vast Orienta power. Hes quietly but smooth1 and rapidly moving men, equipment anc r s p u plies to Siberias Pacific, just Not& of Japan and China. Hes building populrtioa, cities, war industry, and pre iring 8 bQ army there, Hes getting fen yl Is he preparing to run a RACB lsrftb Japan to see which shall sit in the dri&a seat in the vast RACE WAR of the f u w ? Bible prophecy tells! And its a c p I a i i in another article in this number.

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Whats Prophesied About RUSSIA!

Will Stalin Double-Cross and Invade Britain and America?
more widespread interest and attention than that of Ezekial 38 and 39. As usual there are various interpretations. Those most popularly believed and expressed arc: I) That the prophecy pictures Annageddon-with Russia the aggressor in this final Armageddon battle, 2) That Russia will conquer Germany, become the Beast of Revelation with Germany merely one of her satellites, and thus become the leader atArmageddon; or 3) That Russia, either alone, or by conering or allying with Germany, will %ble-cross her Anglo-American allies and, during this war, invade Britain and America. But this prophecy does not suy what most people have supposed, and carelessly taken for granted! What it DOES say, when we understand it, becomes a prophetic BOMBSHELL! What IS Armageddon? First, what is Armageddon? We devoted an entire article to this subject in the March-Amil issue, Lets review it very briefly. The word Armanedd~n.~ believe it or not~occurs only oncewin all h e Bible. It is in Rev. 16:13-16: ARMAGEDDON. is the place of the BATIZE of that Great Day of God Almighty, which is the Day of the Lord. This is the coming time of Gods WRATH, climaxing in the seven last plagues and the Second Coming of Christ. The Battle at Armageddon is piduerd i Rev. 20:lg-20 and Rev.17:14. It is a n battle i which European AXIS powers, n symbolically represented as The BEAST and ten federated European dictatorships w i v e the Roman Empire, which fight @ s t Christ and His Angels, contesting IS right to rule the world. But Ezekiel 38 speaks of a different power altogether-GOG in the land of MAGOG, numerous Allies -all descendants of JAPETH, father of the yellow races. The BEAST power, or Roman system, is primarily descended from HAM --Q different branch of the human family altogether. Countless erroneous doctrines have come f o imputing a meaning to some passage rm taken out of its context. To understand the

ERHAPS no prophecy has received

phetic BOMBSHELL!..,The plain truth about Russia the astounding prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39!

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those of JUDAH-but the mwug0 of warning of punishmrnt is to the HOW# of

ISRAELI
Notice! Beginning chapter 3: After the prophet eats the roll-that is, receiva the prophetic warning message-he is to go speak unto the HOUSE OF ISRAEL--nd to the Jews among whom he dwelt. Remember he is already among the uptives of JUDAH. But the Eternal says to him: Go, get thee unto the Hue of os ISRAEL. (Verse 4 ) . Surely we do not need to pause here explain to readers of the PLAIN TRUTH that the twelve tribes of Israel had long before this divided into two n u t i o n ~ - t h ~ ta Tribes being the House of ISRAEL, while Judah and Benjamin composed the HOUK of JCTDAH, who, only, were nicknamed Jews. For the benefit of those readers who do not understand this vital distinction-a veritable key without which the prophecies cannot be opened to understanding-a third edition of the 8 i d booklet The United States in Prop cqf will shortly be published, and upon s p d request a copy will be sent free. There you will find this most thrilli and important truth fully explained an conclusively proved. The Jewish people of today are descended from the H u e o os f JUDAH. But the white, English-opePking people of the United States and Grut Britain are the leading birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, heads of the ten-tribed HOUSES OF ISRAEL. Ezekiels Message is for our dd+d it is, therefore, u messdge for Ammca and Britain, NOW! Ezekiel is made Godr watchman to warn ISRAEL -which means Britain and America, TODAY! Notice chapter 4. The prophet is to place before him a tile, and trace upon it the city of Jerusalem, and lay xige against it. The sins pictured are those of Jerusalem, capital of JUDAH. But this ( v e w 3) shall be a sign to the HOUSE of ISR,AEL, Then follows the well-known key t the o day for a year method of redtoning prophecy. Continue chapter 5. For, comes the warning Message from the Eternal, thereof l SHALL a fire come forth into d the HOUSE OF ISRAEL. (Verse 4 ) . Notice, this is to vividly portray a warning of lomc FUTURE destruction upon the H u e of os ISRAEL! Not upon Judah, already con= quered by Nebuchadnezzar and in the midst

time, the place, and all the facts of the prophecy of Ezekiel 38, we need to begin at the 1st chapter of Ezekiels prophecy and read the book clear through. When we do this, we find a TIMESEQUENCE flowing thm the Book. Let us skim thru it very briefly. Notice, in the very first verse, Ezekiel was among the Jewish captives who had been taken in the captivity of Judah to the River Chebar. It was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachins captivity that dais prophecy began coming to Ezekiel thru visions. It is a PROPHECY. Ezekiel was being shown things far into the FUTURE. Notice, the prophecy was inspired and written after JUDAHS captivity-more than 131 years after the House of ISRAEL had been taken captive to Assyria. The advance-guard of the House of Israel already had begun to arrive in the British Isles before Ezekiels vision and writing. Yet, Ezekiel is a prophet to the HOUSE OF 1SRAEL.His prophecy applies to the far f u t u r e n o t to the captivity of Israel which had occured 721 B.C.-more than 130 years before he wrote. Remember that! Notice, Ezek. 2:3, and 3:1, 4-7, Ezekiels message, a PROPHECY for the FUTURE, is for The HOUSE OF ISRAEL, not the House of Judah. In chapter 3, beginning verse 17, Ezekiel is set a watchman to WARN the House of Israel.

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Now notice a most significant fact-one which has gone utterly unnoticed by commentaries and expositors of this prophetic Book! In chapters four and five, the city of Jerusalem is viewed as the focus of Judahs life-and the sins committed therein by the leaders in JUDAH held to light. In the sixth chapter, the prophetic eye is turned to the land-the mountainous land of Palestine upon which the sins had been committed and which, therefore, must suffer punishment. The sinr here viewed are primarily

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d his Sieges against Jerusalem. But upon ISRhEG-the ten-tribed nation who had e into its first and original captivity one undred thirty long years before! T h e wuning is not of the captivity already so fuback in history. It says thereof S H A U ifire COME upon Israel! It is a pro hecy dating to a FUTURE destruction anjcaptivity. Nosuch destruction and captivity has ever yet come to the House of Israel since

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moved: their silver and their g d d shall not be able to deliver them in tho day of tbr WRATH OF THE LORD. (Ezek. 7:19). Now compare that with Zcph. 1:14-18: The great day of the Lord is near .That day is a DAY OF WRATH , .And I (the Eternal) will bring distress upon men , Noither their silver nor their gold &all be able to delivrr them in the day o thr Lords Wvatb. Both are speaking o the same time , , .a time shortly ahead of us now, in

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fxyIc-IN OUR TIME!And it is a warnr n to Britain and America-NOW! ~ A Captivity of Israel Y t Future! e Notice more of this grim wuning! A third part of thee (Israel) shall die crrith the pestilence, and with famine shall tbq be cauumed in the midst of t e and h : 1 third part shall fall by the sword d h t thee; and I will scatter a third part iota d the winds (in captivity being removed from OUT own land and scattered over thc wocld). (Vene 12). comiag to chapter 5, the I scene of d the visim shifts to the mountainous land of Prlatine-but Ihe MESSAGE is intended for AMERICA AND BRITAIN, b h y ! Will we heed it? God help us to wake

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Listen! &hold I, even I, says the Bttmrl God (verse 3 ) , will bring a sword

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muad about your altars. In d your dwelli t t ~places the ritier s M 1 br Idd (bombing) , and ye shall know that I am the Eternal. (Vures 5-7). Just a Smau remaant s h l l escape and be soared (Verse 8). These arc described in S h e 21i36. Continue: Thus saith the Eternal God; Alas for d the evil abominations of (not Judih, but) the HOUSE OF ISRAEL! for they SHALL (not did, in the captivity 130 years before Ezekiel wrote, but SHALL) *fail by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.D(verse 11).

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T h e TIME Is FUTURE!
This is not a popular message. You probably have never heard it before. The preachers and teachers of prophecy b t unanimously will rise up to deny this warning Messagdo apply it to a different time or people. But the warning k from the Eternal God, and it is srrr! The reader will do well to hecd ! Notice the T W ! Allhands shdl be feeble, and all knees dulI be as weak as water. (cha ter 7 verse 17). Compare: Howl ye; &r tbe DAY OF THE LORD b at hand;, therefore shall all hands be faint, and every mans heart shall melt: and they shall be afraid, (1% 13:6-7). Plainly, the T = I is the Day of t h Lerdl-yet hi tbr insnu-

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rophcts, that fallow their own spirit and L v e ~eea nothing! 0 Israel, thy ropheb are like the faxes in the deserts. !e have not gone u into the e s neither made op p, the hedge !r the HOUSE OF ISRAEL b o stand in the battle in tbr DAY OP THE LORD. ( V e n e 2-5). It k SPedChg Of tht soon-corning Day of the Lord,cnot RMC ancient time! , .They have acduccd q people, saying Peace; and there w u no peace. (Verse 10). this present generation ! Certainly the popular ministry 04 tothy Wherefore, continues verse 24 (Ezek. is saying to the people that we shall ~lm 7), I will bring the worst of the heathen, be defeated in war, brransr, say thoK who and they shall possess their houses: and I understand our national idcntiq, we u tbe e will also make the pomp of the strong to chosen people of Israel! But we were not cease. , .DESTRUCTION cometh; and chasen for special favors. W were Jwrren e thy shall reek peace, md chrre rbull bs f o r 0 service and righteous life we hrrt song , then shall they seek a vision of foiled to perform! Ere7 timo Israel d dd the prophet; but the law shall perish from dirobcyed God, departed from Hs h m md i the priest. (Verses 25-26). ways, and went into the pm customr (m g Yes, when this comes, our people finwe have done today, actually daceivink our= ally will cry out for a true prophet or minisselves by d i n g those custana chrirhm!) ter of the h r a l God-but it will be too they were invaded and conquered. Xu G d late! Pot. tbon shall have m e the time changed? spokes, by the prophet Amos, when there s M l b e a FAMINE of HEARING THE Ezekiel catalogs our sins--our WORDS OF THE ETERNAL(Amos imd ways w i h seem right in o eyes but hc w 8:11)-an END of true Gospel reaching! which are contrary t Gods lrwa rad u o a Already the people and their pd ministers rbomindion in H S right. Some of them k I have turned their eyes and cars from Gods mentions in the 8th chapter. law ! In chapter 22: Thou hast d u p i d Notice chapter 11 of Ezekiels prophecy. mine holy things, and profaned my rrb. os It is a Message addressed to the H u e of bths, says the Eternal (verse 8 IYaou ISMEL-vcrx 1. I will bring the sward hast taken usury and increase, an thou inst upon you, saith the Eternal God. And I will greedily gained of thy neighbors bring you out of the midst thermf, and d0tion, and hrst forgotten me, a i h z at k liver YOU into tbr hands of ~trangrrs, and nol. , .And I will (not did, but &I) will execute judgments among you. Y c scatter thce among t e heathen, and dirperrs h shall fall by the sword. (Verses 8-10), thee in the countria, and will consume tby WHEN? It is frtrro from the time Ezekiel filthiness out of thee. (Ve- 12, 15). wrote, and it ha, not jet happened since then! GOD SAYS IT WILL HAPPEN! Her priests (prophetidy apeakin8 of modern Israel) have violated my law, Chapter 12, verse 11: they SHALL reand have profaned mine holy thinf: they move, and gu into captivitj. It is yet fuhave put no difference between thc 017 md turc--and it is t e House of ISRAEL! N t h o rofane, neither have they shown difucace Judah. &tween the unclean and the dern (Lev.11) m When? And the shall know I a the and have hid their y e s from my Eternal, when I s d scatter them among and I am profaned among t e . (Verac hm the nations, and disperse them in the coun26). Our people toda cnnt see where tries.* (Verse 15). The expression They those things make any Jffcrence! But Bta shall know that I am the Eternal is used kiel says the preachen have deceived tbe repeatedly thru the Book of Ezekielalways referring to the time of the SEC- people, and led them astray. T h q have condoned dl these things, until the peopk OND COMING OF CHRIST,and Israels find restoration back to the land of Pales- have lost Gods p e TRUTH! tine, Many prophecies show Israel is to be And so the p r o p h q coatinuer on thru scattered in this latter-day cn t i v q w h the Book. Ezekiel digresses thru eight c a hp a i s t comes to USTORE bd to a ten, 25 thru 32, to prophesy against 8 num Palestine. ber of foreign Gentile nations who hive come in direct contut with Israel. In dmp People Wont Beieve It1 ter 33, the prophet returns to pluding witb the House of Israel. Turn ye, turn y ~ Always the true prophets and ministers of God have stood almost alone, and op- God pleads, from put evil ways; for wby posed by the overwhclming majarity in will ye die, 0 House of IsnelY He,too, Israel. That is Israels history of old. It is Ezekiel is again set a watchman to WARN Israel--MdERICA AND BRITAIN TO. true today. The 13th chapter shows the dedaratioas DAY!-at the time when this rophesied of the popular ministry of this day in foreign sword is coming1 Ezckie wrote tho Israel-in America and Britain, Message-but it r d a s far w b whom Son of inan, prophecy against the God has revealed it toddy to actual1 shout prophets of Israel. .Woe unto the foolish and prodaim it t the people. God o cu

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commission ! In the 34th chapter, God tells him to q h e c y against the ministers of our land. have fed themselves and not the f& l. They have preachell what people wanted to hear (I1 Tim. 4:3-4) ib order to

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Both Houses U i e i Pahxitine ntd n
In cha ter 37, the first part pictures the valley o r dry bones. This represents, (Verse 11), the whole House of Israel-induding Judah. It has a dual significance. It pictures the re-birth and resurrection of Israel a a nation, from captivity, dispersion r and slavery. It pictures, too, the literal bodily resurrection of the individual who has long since died, after which the knowledge of the Truth-spiritual knowledge-shall be revealed, and he shall be converted, and Gods S irit shall enter within, and he shall be savedI Beginning the 15th verse, the illustration of the two sticks shows the two Houses, or nations, Israel and Judah, being once more united, under Christ at His second coming, in the land of Palestine. Thus saith the Eternal God; &hold I will take the children of Israel from(from the British Isles, and America, from a paition of wealth and affluence, rcccnt victors in, the world war? No, but) from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be King to them all: :boy shall be no more two nationr, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols. nor with their detestable things, nor , And with m y of their transgressions t h q sball dwell in the land tbd I have given rrnto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt , they, and thet: children, and their childrens children fortver. Moreover, I will rnde 1 covetrant of peace with them; it shall be an EVERLASTING COVENANT. (The NEW Covenant). (Verses 21-26),

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The Coming of Christ! And now the Eternal inspires the prophe to come to the solution! t Thussaith the Eternal God: Behold, I
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rnr flock 8t their hnnd, and cause them to ceve from feeding the flock , .Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out. , .and will deliver them out of a11 p l x o w h they have bccn scattered in the doudyiad darkday (theDAY OF T H E LORD-yet future). And I will. gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own land (Pdestine), and fcod them (spiritual food) upon the mountains o f bnel the riven, and in al! the inhabited PIUCS of the C O U ~ ~ . (VCM 10-14). Christ Himself-for He is the Eterndcome and r m e our pco le, not only fnw the coming captivity an{ dispersion, but from the false Babylonish teachings which have bem palmed off to our people cloaked 1s Christianity. He will then Kt His hand again the second time to recover tbc remnant of Hlis e I r d (I=. 11:11). spiritual Iindness shall then k removed, and all Israel shall be saved! (see Romans I1:2S:26). The KINGDOM OF GOD shall be established. Men shall be tired of their own ways, and seek Gods ways-and His law shall go forth of Ziw ( M i d 4:2-3). And the nations shall find PEACE! The 35th chapter reveals the end of the e Turkish nation, to occur at this time, b a w e of their treachery against Great Britain-all yet to be fulfilled. This ties up with the prophecg of Obadiah. In the 36th chapter, the Eternal addresses Palestine: Prophesy unto the momhim of Israel , Thus saith the Eternal God to the mounhins, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the d m late wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken But ye, 0 mountains of Israel, ye dud shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit t my people of Israel; for they o arc nt hand to come . . . And I will multiply men upon you, all rho HOUSE OP ISRAEL men ALL of it: and the cities shall bc inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: and I will multiply upon you man and b~east. (VCKSCS1,4,8,10-11). Yes, the House of Israel is pictured returning to Palestine, not from a condition of wealth and prosperity from Britain and Arnericr--not in the positlon of a people victorious in a great world w l r - b u t as a dave and a tive peo le, scattered thru the oations of ! world. ALL prophecies pice t l turing this rescue and re-gathering of Israel a Christs coming give us the same propht etic picture! W h y be blinded to the truth?

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and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. Notice it! rt This pro hecy docs not picture the B i ish Isles ancfArnerica! It pictures the land of PALESTINE. It pictures o w peope having been taken there from a disperuoa and captivity and slavery, gathered att d the nations where we had been scattered, now once again rich and increued with goods! Notice it! The TIME of this prop AFTER-not before, but AFTER tbe ond Coming of Christ-AFIER the Gmt Deliverer has come and rexued our and restored us to PalestineIsrael and Judah are re-united! Certainly thb latter years (Verse 8). The PLACE of this battle is not & 4 1 ain or America-it is PALESTINE! Thou shalt come into the land that & brought back from the sword, and i @tb s ered out of many I , against dam c MOUNTAINS OF I&&., which b m been always waste (once a perpetual WWIS -Moffatt translation) (Vem 8). I r b mountains of Israel is i erpmrion UICd m all thru the Book of Ezekiel, and r l w q refers to the literal mountainous l a d d Palatine. Our people shall have regained so mrrb wealth that Gog and allies-Rwaia and numerous Gentile allies-shall come 0 take a spoil ( V e m 13), to ca silver and gold, to take away cattc 8w d goods, to take a GREAT spoil.

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But this very fact-that this innrloa will not come until .fin the Second of Christ-will seem prepastrous to mrg, at first thought. That is because we have bcen saw= tomed to merely ASSUME things that U I not true. We have blindly ASSUMED thrr when Christ comes, there will be no o p p sition. Every person and m e t on eudq we have thought, will simp y submit medJy and instantly to Him and Hs power. But i that is not true! The very battle at Armageddon is 8 ktle between the BEASTand Christ. Thc power who undoubtedly quer and disperse Israel, coming-the power who the mark of the Beast and martyr mmy saints ( Mat. 24:9; Rev. 6:11)-thh last coming European revival of the Roman Empire by a federation of European natiaor, will fight Christ. The Beast and lUe Prophet who heads the o r p i z e d religb Christ shall abolish, shall both CONTEST Christs right to rule. Israel will turn to Him immediakl because Israel s h l l have lost all her c o t sol wealth and power, been reduced t a slavery, scattered and dispersed thru the SM. tions, When Christ coma H will fiid b e . rael humbled, repentant. Jeremiah s p Irnaf a and Judah together shall , WEEPING, and seeking the Eternal, a n r d i n g the Pleare centha0 0s p4g0 twelrr

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And Now Comes Gog! Notice, now, the story-flow-the timesequence! The prophet has carried us thru the sins of Israel, the coming invasion and captivity and dispersion, the terrible yet-future DAY OF THE LORD, the Coming of Christ as DELIVERER, to RESTORE the fortunes of Israel. We have come to the time when both Israel and Jpdah shall be re-united into one nation, rescued from captivity and dispersion, and re-gathered again in PALESTINE, once again made prosperous, having learned our lesson, now living Gods way, under His laws, enjoying His richest blessings, both material and spiritual! And now we come to chapter 38 ! And this chapter finds Israel restored in Palestine,-the land that is brought back from the sword, (Verse 8). We find Israel now at rest, dwelling SAFELY, yet totally UNPREPARED for war-having neither ban nor gates (Verse 11) ; in the desolate places of Palestine, now Inhabited, (verse 12)-ycs, inhabited (same verse) by the people that are gathered out of the nations --and now once again restored to great material prosperity--which have gotten cattle,

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PREDESTI NATION.. Does the 73ible Teach It?

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tively into the real fighting in this war, casualty lists, of necessity, mount, The very fact of these casualties is beginning to cause a great deal of added WCCOW and grief that is entirely unnecesa+f we UNDERSTAND! Many will p i m e in the belief that loved ones died tarf-when, if they understood the truth, these probably were not lost at dl! So here is a message of hope and cheer d to those who have not undery go~ thing we call predestination.

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is now about over. Probation i s about bo close. Soon it will be too late.

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What of the Ignorant Heathen?

We know, of course, the Bible phi* says there is but one name given under bven among men whereby we may be adthe name of Jesus Christ! Over in China, India, Japan, ather pub of Asia and Africa, many islands, are dlions upon millions-probably at last a billion souls-who, in spite of the compizl. tively few missionaries sent to h b lands, have newr so much as HEARD tbd ONLY name! T i k of it! A billion d 8 hn -half the earths PO ulation-have a e ~ r beard of Christ! T ey simply do aolt KNOW about salvation from sin--(;Sd% Plan for eternal lif-have never HEARD the true Gospel! They cannot be SAVED! And now Ist us ask, can we believe that a God of fffta brought these souls into the world withoot their knowledge or consent, permitted thenr to live and die without ever having HEARD the precious Gospel-that God has sim ly consigned them to eternal punishment cause they never HAD A CHANCE? O , do we believe that in some mrnna r God saves them, if they live up to the best they know, WITHOUT having known .nd accepted Christ-without having been converted? Is there, then, some OTHER D M ~ -some OTHER way to salvation and life ctcrnal, than through esus Christ our L d ? Certainly we can fin no such tcrching h the Bible. Then what is the TRUTH?

Here, for the first time, many will read the astonishing Truth, so plain all can understand.

The Common Conception

Several years ago a man, quite worried over the subject o predestination, went to f a certain minister. Do you believe in predestination? he ukcd. The Bible teaches it, brother, was the ministers reply. The minister tried hard to explain. But that docsnt really mean, he said, that you have nothing to do with your own salvation. It doesnt mean that it is all setyour decision and eternal fate all determined for you in advance. You are to make your own decision. But God knows all things, even in advance. And so He knows beforehand bow you ore going to decide. Ti didnt satisfy the troubled man at hs lll. If God knows beforehand how I am ming to decide, he reasoned, then it is all predetermined. If He knows in advance I a to be LOST, then thats the way Ill m have to decide in the end. And since IU lose out anyway, WHY TRY? On the other hmd, if He knows now Im going to ret and accept Christ and be saved, Ill to do it in the end anywa , whether I try or not. Then my ultimate ate ir pre. determined. Isnt that what predestination mew-hat the ultimate fate of each one JHU.dcstincd--dcstincd, or determined, IN ADVANCE? And if thats so, then We Simply ore not free m o d agents, and have nothing to say about it. The poor man Was more discouraged than ever, And no wonder. Neither could convince the other, became both were arguing from a f a h predsc-that predestination has to do with whether each individud shall be l s , or saved. ot Does the Bible teach that your ultimate

fate is already predestinated? Neither the preacher nor his perplexed questioner had read carefully what the Bible does say. What confusion we are in today-what BABYLON! Lets UNDERSTAND this!

All UNsaved Not Finally LOST

Bur all this perplexity and worry has arisen from another general assumptionone of the greatest errors of this time, yet almost universally taken for granted without so much as a thought to inquire into it. That is the assumption that there are only two classes, living or dead the SAVED, and the LOST. How many sermons have you heard based on the theory there is no middle-ground! Either you are this minute SAVED, or youre a LOST soul! This teaching has led to untold suffering and unnecessary grief. Thousands are rieving over departed loved ones who ha never made a profession of Christ. Perhaps over one who really lived wickedly; perhaps over one who lived a good life in the worldly sense, but still had never accepted Christ or been converted, Still others grieve because of a doubt-they are not sure whether some loved one died saved. If this article does no more than dispel some of this needless grief, and bring a little enlightenment and COMFORT to some of our readers, it will have been worth while.

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Not the ONLY Day of Salvation? The amazing, startling TRUTH is that
tbis is NOT the age in which God & trp, ing to save all :be worldl It is no: the ONLY day of salvation! Rather, we are nearing, now, the cnd of the six wmking days of the week allotted to Satan! Scripture plain1 reveals Satan as the GOD of this w o r d d b i s AGE: the prim of the power of the air; the actual spi& RULER of this present world! H is I e N POWER1 H offered to ttm over thL e power to Jesus, if H would only worship e Satan. Jesus actually won the RIGHT t o that power-to dethrone and re lace Satan in power-by resisting him in &t tcmpta-

portant that you UNDERSTAND ! Supposing this universal assumption were true. See where it leads us! This teaching comes from the supposition, also generally taken for granted without question, that this is the one and only age and time when God is trying desperately to SAVE the world-that the mission of the Church is to save the world-that this is the ONLY day of salvation, and it

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in parables to HIDE His real rneaning-to cover it so they a u l d not understand! After Jesus had spoken the parable of the sower and the seed, notice: Mark 4:lO-12; Mat. 13 :10-1 3. Notice, Jesus plainly said that except to His disciples whom He had called, (it ix not given to even KNOW of the Kingdom - m e n to them who actually saw Jesus and heard Him speak in person! They were noit permitred to rmderstand! Thats astonishing! But there it is, in your own Bible-READ IT!

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Satans Millennlel W e ek Satan retains that power only by Godr m p r s s pmnission! God has, in effect, turned over ONE WEEK-a millenniel week, each day an actual thousand yean -to Satan. A day is as a thousand yean with God, m d a thousand years us a day, It forms a complete period of time. Gods principles never change. Applied t this millennial wek, God has said to o Sahn, in effect: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy GOD; in it thou shalt not do any work! Satans WORK is a labor of deception - o f deceiving mankind upon earth-of turning Gods TRUTH upside down-causiog honest sincere people to accept a counterfeit for the genuine-deceiving people into SIN! And how successfully he has worked at his occupation for six thousand long yeas! We are nearing, now, the END of the h t six days of Satans week. And the coming SEVENTH millennial day shall be the Sabbath of thr Lord our GOD! The first six days God has turned over to Satan, and given hm free reign to influi ence and to deceive, wherever man would
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Not ALL Called NOW

But there is no injustice with God, He denies no one an opportunity of salvation. These many are simply called N O W 4 this time-in this, Satans age! This is simply not the TIME when God is trying to save everyone. If He were-and of course we know Satan is trying to deceive people into loss of salvation-then Satan surely would be getting the better of the contest. But it is NOT a contest between God and Satan, at all. God alone rules in high heaven, and what Satan does he does not do in competition or in spite of God, or contrary to Gods will-he does it only by Gods express permission-and God gives that permission for an express and wise PURPOSE. Some day we shall understand! But God denies no one a chance. There is no injustice with God. Everyone is to have his full chance. But God does things HIS WAY and in HIS TIME, and in HIS PLAN all arc not being called now. Millions who have died w i t k t a chance shall be resurrected and GIVEN their full chanct-and without a devil to tempt them! The space of this article does not permit a full explanation of this, but the 37th chapter of Ezekiel is one very definite revelation of this fact. Notice, I Corinthians 1 :2#-26: But unta them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of G o d is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that NOT MANY wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, ARE CALLED. Notice, unto them which are calledl Some are called. All are not called, at this time-during this age of Satans dominion! For ye see YOUR calling, BRETHREN -Pad is speaking only to those he calls brethren-those who had been calledhow that not many-notice it, NOT MANY wise men after the flesh-and are not most eople wise after the flesh today does g a t not indude MOST? not mmy mighty, no1 muny noble NOT UAM! of these in the world ARE

of the Kingdom shall be preached i d n the world, for u w1tner.r unto all nrti and then shall the end come.-thc end the AGE! Then follows the NEW when the reign of Christ shall replace that of Satan ! While, during the present age, m a q in number arc called, yet it is but a FEW comparitively. And those who are called are called to a calling, and what is it? F a a calling to a than d 1 ea life of ovctcoming sin and selI !An notice what Jerrsr ! said of those now called, who do grow io grace and in knuwledge, who endure unto the end, and who overcome! Ntc chdr oie ultimate calling! Rev. 2:26-27: And he that OV~KOPD. eth, and keepeth my w r s unto the cnd, ok to him will I give pown o v n tbr n d i o n ~ and he shall rule them with a rod of k When Jesus w s here on earth it wa$ a His custom, as recorded in Luke 4:16, t@ PREACH THE GOSPEL every Sabbdb day. And when this great Millennia1 hb bath dawns, Satan will be imprisoned, md Christ will come not only to rule-He dull also PREACH! The worldly PhuiKcs thought it wrong for Him to HEAL on the Sabbath-and the religionists of this h* mostly, seem to believe it would be wfoly~ for Him to heal sin-sick souls duria tbe millennial Sabbath! But He shall o it, just the same!

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HIM. In it, Satan shall not do ANY work

-he shall be chained, restrained, thrown into the symbolic bottomless pit, (Rev. 20:14)-he shall not deceive a single soul! That day shall not belong to him, thank God!-it shall belong to GOD, who shall rule through CHRIST! Jesus plainly said He is LORD of the Sabbath. And as this millennial Sabbath dawns,Jesus shall return to earth IN PERSON-as King of kings not only, but LORD of lords! He is coming not only to reign and to rule, as King of kings. But u LORD of lords, He is coming as High Priest to SAVE! The fact we must now see the ASTOUNDING fad, almost unbelievable in the light of erroneous traditions, yet TRUE-is that we have been living in the rgc of SATANS DOMINION-while Satan, with Gods ex ress permission, has been RULINGan! NOT in the age when Gad has set His hand to SAVE the world !

When MOST of Is~aelShdl Be Saved!

One of the most wonderful chrpan & I the Bible is the eleventh of Romans. P ~ u seem to understand it-yet its plain! Saanc, today, say God has rejected and utterif cast away the Jews. They suppose the Jare Israel, whereas actually thq IUC IIX of the House of Judah, which from Israel in thc days of Kings and Jeroboam. Nevertheless, RO~MN 11 speaks undoubtedly of ALL the tribes o f Israel. This marvelous &a ter says God bu not cast away Hs peop e Israel. But it R i veals that only a small portion of l[Jncf (and our white, English-s caking p p h are the Birthright tribes o Israel) UIC of the election of GRACE at lhir time. The rest are blinded spirituaUy, md GOD blinded them-deliberately and for a purpose-not permanently, but vntil the fullness of the Gentiles be come h, -and then what? Then, we read in Romans 11:26, ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED, aa 3t is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer-CHRIST, at His second coming-and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Israel is s irihully blindrd, now. God blinded them. hey are not now being called, to salvation. Tbey are not bein given any chance, now, at dll Th wonierful opportunity that shall come to them after the fullness of the Gentile bu come in-after the Deliverer comes, md they are no longer blinded-shall not bc 8

Not Given to Many to UNDERSTAND Notice carefully, now!Shocking as this h t h may come to many, yet it is the PLAIN TRUTH. During this time while %tan has been permitted to reign, it is simply not givrn to all to understand Gods
truth!

CALLED!
Gospel Preached for a Witness Did Jesus say the Gospel was to be preached to CONVERT all nations? No, only FOR A WITNESS ! And this Gospel

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SECOND CHANCE--theg have never yet had ANY chance! And, if we can but uadentand, this chapter dealing with national fleshly Israel refers to our own race-our American and B i i h peoples, as well as to the Jews! It rts includes MOST of our American people! It indudcs, undoubtedly, most of these den parted loved o e who died without having accepted Christ and becoming converted! T e may have HEARD the name of hy Christ, but they did not understand! God never culled them, during this life-time in THIS AGE! Of c o m e they did not die but, on the other automatically saved hand, neither did they die LOST! That's the comforting TRUTH! The overwhelming majority of our American people, today, are neither saved nor lostthey simply have not, yet, been called!

The PLAIN TRUTH

Great Haneat of Heathen 80~1s But now, how about the hundreds of
millions of heathen who never head? Will GENnLES-heathen GentiIcshave a chance of salvation after Christ returns? -after the KINGDOM is set up to rule over ALL NATIONS ? Flesh and blood, remember, cannot inherit the KINGDOM. Only those finally born again-born of the Spirit-thox who shall have become Spirit, and no longer flesh and blood (John 3:1-8) shall be in the Kingdom! And they are the saints of this time, NOW called, changed, then, to immortality. (See 1 O r . 15:50-54). They are those called during this dispensation who have endured unto the end, and proved over= comers. And they shall rule, and teach, the nations (Rev.2:27 and 3:21, Daniel 7:lS, 22, 27). They shall reign on the earth, not up in heaven (Rev. 5:lO). They shall rule THE NATIONS-ordinarg mortals of all races, on earth (Rev. 2:27). They shall thus rule, and teach, for one thousand ~CUSChrist's rnilleniel 'Sabbath.' (Rev. 20:4,6). Thaw now d e d , during this h e , arc called to a life of TRAINING--spiritual character-training,--to fit them for positions of high responsibility in the Kingdom. The one, for example, who multiplies ten times over m spiritual character what God giva h m at conversion, shall be qualified to rule i ten cities. The one who overcomes, and grows in grace and knowledge only five times, shall be qualified to rule over five cities. The one who thinks he 'got SUUP~' merely by 'accepting Christ' and, deceived r by the 'no works' teachin did not grow o develop in his christian life at ah, will have taken from him even the salvation he h thought he had! Sec the parable ot t: 'pounds,' Luke 19. But who shall these converted immortals reign over? One glimpse into this millenniel rule is found in Isaiah eleven. It portrays Christ d i n g the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS. It is a time when wild animals are tamed. Babies arc being born, and nursing babes and weaned babies shall be playing with w l animals and deadly snake~-now id tamed and harmless. Now notice: Isuiah l l : l O , l l : "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse (Christ), which shall stand for an ensign of the p p l e ; and to it (the Root--Christ) sbull t h Gentiler .reek; , , and it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lard shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people (Israel),' To Christ, 'then ruling, shall tbr GENTILES reek! And then, as the returned DBliverer, shall He set Hs hand again the i second time to RECOVER ISRAEL AND DAH-the time when the spiritual lindness is rcmwedl Notice, again: Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, 'Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Eternal, and the houseof the Godof Jacob (the

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Kingdom of God), and He wl tucb I il of His ways, and w wl trnlk h f& e il paths., And now what ofthose h t h w b @ NEVER HEARD? Notice! Isaiah 66:15,19: 'For behold the nal will come with fire, and with Hs b i iots like a whirlwind, to render Hs r n p i with fury ( last plagues) hnd I will a sign among them, and Iwill send thorr that escape of them unto the NtIbo Tarshish, Pul, and Lud (Gentile nationr), and Javan, to the isla afar off,#batbuvr Ad heard my fame, neither seen my glolp; md they shall declare my glory among tbr G* tikr.'

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The Great FALL HarPest When Jesus, the Great D E -

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Calling

But if God is not trying to save the whole w d d now-if most are not now d l e d , or given opportunity for salvationWHY does God call any, during this age? What's the PURPOSE of calling, so= now 1 That great purpose is to be trained to RULE with Christ, and to TEACH, under Hm WHEN HE COMES I HIS K N i , N IG DOM--WHEN all Israel SHALL BE SAVED! We are being trained, prepared, fitted, thru trial and test, thru hardship, thru persecution, thru tribulation, with CORtinual Bible study and PRAYER, growing in grace and in KNOWLEDGE, to be able, THEN,to fill the high office of a king or 8 pricst-eithcr to NIC in the civil sense, or to preach GOD'S TRUTH when the time coma that ALL may be privileged to underStnnd, and to be CALLED. What a glorious mission is the true
Christian LIFE!

So DON'T GRIEVE over departed ones p~ felt were LOST. The chances arc have
they were simply not now called-it was not GIVEN tothem to undentand-their chance had not yet come. But they shall

moved, and, if YOU are one of the called, and if YOU arc faithful and finally CHOSEN, Y0UhfA.Y BE USED THENTO MINISTER TO THEM, AND TO LEAD THEM INTO SALVATION AND LIFE ETERNAL Oh, wbd a GLORIOUS HOPE! What truly GOOD N E W S , is the true Gospel of CHRIST, which m s people today simply ot have NEVER HEARD, T e arc hearing a hy FALSE gospel today ! But Paul in Rom. 11 shows that salvation has come to the FEW, the ELECT in Israel, and to some of the GENTILES,And WHY? He ex lains it i Verse 31. They n arc blinded, N&W, that, thru OUR mercy who ARB now d c d , THEY may obtain m e ~ ~ r salvation T H E N - w h e o Jesus and comi as the great DELIVERER! How PLAIN. and how WONDERFUL!

be resurrected, the spiritual blindness re-

have been called, and who have octepkd t h call and been finally saved,) shalt be ZCBW tected out of their graves immortrl (1 COC, ~ : > 0 - 5 3 ) ; and together they shall k caught up into the air to mrrt the King, witA whom t h y shall reign. Thus they shall be S E P A R A m f m all earth's mortals-mark that! The tion between mortal and immortal & & before Christ evH touchs tbir #a&/ They meet the King E t e d . u p h thr clouds. Wherc do they go from there? Tbr first four verses of Zechariah m a thrt L el tbd same d a y n o t a thousand YM rm f ward-Christ's feet shall stand u p rbr Mount of Olives, from whencc H I. e I cended! Then, upon this earth He shall bke HIS thronc-the throne of His frtbrJ David. (Luke 1:32) That, the4 & r)w throne on which the saints made iaun0.d shall sit with Kim (Rm.3:21). And then what shall happen, d u h g th thousand-year r e i p from then 0n7 Matthew 25:31-34: 'When the d man shall come in His glory, and d t l b holy angels with Him, then shall H e upon the throne of His lorp: and b m d Him shall be gathered dfndionr (hth# and Israelites): and he sbdl SEPARA"# them one from another, u a shepherd 6b vidcth his sheep from the p a : m d Eh shall set the sheep on Hs right hand, bat i the goats on the left. Then shall the r(i0lt say unto them on His right hand, 'Come, y8 blessed of my Father, inbarit :be K b g d W prepared for ou. Then s h d H S8y Irolrrr e them on the i f t hand, ' ~ e p e a from me, p cursed, into everlasting fire.' " Notice, all those called and saved pkr to Christ's second appearing on #rth brb been SEPAIUTED from the unsad before Christ stood upon carth-whib still in the clouds of the d~--befwrHc Irt upon the throne of His glory! The SEPARATION going on lie sits upon that throne rulin over TNU NATIONS, therefore, is a cdferent, md succeeding separation ! Here are earth's natioru--cuth'r cals--all nation's! And now begins a pzo

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QSI of SEPARATION. It i according to s the decisions they make, and the actions they take. Those who turn to a life of RIGHTEOUSNESS are set on the RIGHT hand. They are converted-given IMMOR-

The PLAIN TRUTH

sistencc-THAT MAN IS THROUGH! He has had his chance! He shall have no other, during the coming millennium! Thosc who shall then be saved are those who have not, until then, been CALLED! They are those who NEVER HAD A PREVIOUS CHANCE! In Gods own time, according to Hs i Plan, all shall have their chance! But each in his order. Those who were born and lived first receive theirs last. And those born last come in first! The illustration of the Valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 shows the whole House of Israel-those spiritually blhzded who lived and died without a chanceresurrected in mortal bodies to mortal life, as before. It shows their understanding being opened the KNOWLEDGE coming to them for the first time, Then God puts His Holy Spirit within them, and they are saved!

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word predestinated occurs in the Authar. ized version. Romans 8:28-30: And we know thrt all things work together for g d to that love God, to them who are called 10 cording to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, he also did PREDESTINATll to be conformed to the image of His SOS, that He might be the firstborn m n 0 brethren. Moreover whom He di DESTINATE, them H e also called: rad whom He called, them He also urtificd: and whom He justified, them He a so g l d fied. Ephesians 1:4-5, 11-12: According He hath chosen us in Him before the foum dation of the world, that we should be hdf and without blame before Him in love: having PREDESTINATED US unto the adoption o children by Jesus Christ Co f Himself, according to the good pleruum d His will , , , in whom also we brrp obtained an inheritance, being PREDESII. NATED according to the u r p % of Hi0 who worketh all things a ter the d of His own will: that we should be to tBc praise of His glory, who jrrt trusted kk Christ. Notice, none of the places in the Bibls where predestination is mentioned s p o thing nbout anyone being predestinated & be LOST-predestinated to reject Chrht, N o one is predestinated to make a Certrin decision-to accept or reject Christ40 b8 saved o lost. But some have been r nated to be called to salvation, b ? c W !

TALITY-beause Christ says to them: Inherit the Kingdom !-and mortal flesh m d blood cannot inherit that Kingdom! (I G r . 1 5 3 0 ) . Those who do evil then receive the full penalty of the law-DEATH! They arc sentenced to depart into the lake of fire ! Certainly this passage pictures nothing but a process of salvation going on, after W i t s return. DURING His millennial Sabbath Day. That is the meat FALL Harvest of
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Those Who Died Unsaved! And so it follows, now, that most of our loved ones who have died unsaved in all probability did not die LOST! In all probability they were not called, during this age. But their call is coming later! They shall be resurrected back to life, and given their fair chance! Axid you, if you are called - if God reveals this wonderful TRUTH to your mind-are having YOUR one and only chance NOW-your chance to prepare and fit yourself to be used of Christ in the loving labor of helping to save them, then! Oh, what great MEANING we begin to see in the Christian life! What glorious Not a SECOND Chance! PURPOSE ! What grave responsibility ! Will you make yowr calling and election SURE? But, some will say, is not this the doc. And now, in the light of this wondertrine of a SECOND CHANCE? ful revelation of truth, we should be able Absolutely not! to UNDERSTAND this matter of PREOne text ought to make that Hebfewr 10:26-27: If we sin wilplain* DESTINATION. fully, after that we have received thr knowledge of the truth, there remaineth NO MORE What Predestination Is NOT SACRIFICE FOR SINS, but a CERTAIN Very few understand what predestinafearful looking for of judgment and fiery tion is. First, consider what it is not. There indignation. is no teaching in the Bible that says the Those to whom it has not been given derision you are to make-your final fate to understand-those not now CALLEDof becoming either saved or LOST, is have not received the KNOWLEDGE of already pre-determined, and that you are the Truth. They may have heard it preached. H n u - DESTINED finally to arrive at that fate! dreds of thousands hear it every week Absolutely N O TEXT anywhere in the through The WORLD TOMORROW Bible says unyone is predestinated to be broadcast. But most of them do not really LOST! grasp it-they do not really UNDERBut doesnt the Bible say anything about STAND! Because the TRUTH is zpirjtud predestination? Certainly. But it doez not knowledge, and spiritual knowledge cannot say what people Jeem to thin)! People be transmitted naturally to a mortal human seem to IhinR it says we are predestinated mind! Spiritual truth is revealed! None reto be either saved or lost, Some to be ceive it, though their ears hear the words, saved-others to be lost. or their eyes read them, except as GOD Let us read the only texts in the Bible opens their understandin and by His s eaking about predestination. And see Spirit rrvral~to them the %RUTH! if you can find anything in any of them But, if one has been truly callrd of about anyone being predestinated to bc God, convicted by Gods Spirit, his mind LOST. The difficulty is that people have 0 ned to the precious s iritual knowledge assumed and taken for granted what is not o p t h e Truth, then if gat man sins wilthe. full^, deliberately, intentionally, without reThere are just FOUR places where the

The astonishing fact is that the present d - h a r v e s t corresponds to the early Spring pin-harvest of Palestine. It is so pictured in the annual round of festivals Gad gave to Israel to keep His people continually in the understanding of His PLAN! This is the preliminary harvest of souls! This is the time of SATANS dominion. And out of it God is calling a people for His name, that through o w mercy who now are called, the great majority not now called may, then, obtain mercy! Those now c d e d to salvation are merely the firJt-fruits of Gods salvation- (Jas. 1:18), They are called, now, to prepare for the office of king or priest, to become the instrumentality &ough which Christ will really save the world, when HIS time comes! What a glorious PLAN, and GOSPEL!

WHEN We W r called ee Of those called NOW, i thh n notice WHEN we were died! I1 Timoth 1:9: God, who hith Y

us, and ralledrw with an holy calling, Wt according to our w r s but =ording 00 ok, Hs own purpose and g m e , Which will i given us in Christ Jesus befor0 thr W& began, And, as in Ephesians I, uoted notice carefully what it SA S: God chose us in Him, whn? * O W N the foundation of the world! s-& Having PREDESTINATED U& for? TObe LOST?No, unto the rdoptiaa of children by Jesus Christ. Being PREDESTINATED accordin4 to the purpose of H m who worketh all the i after the counsel of His own will. Wae any predestinated, then, to be LOW? li it GODSWILL that any be h t ? He UP it is not! Then cant we see that nation has nothing to do with we shall be lost or saved--With OUT dccisior, -with our ultimate fate? Notice carefully, now! Being PREDESTINATED , , thrt we should be to the praise of His BIT, who PIRST trusted in Cbris:P Those p m destinated are the FIRST to trust in Qvlrt -mere1 the first preliminary roul-hrrvutl A n z n o w do you begin to see the lorious truth-that predestination has n d h q to do with your making a decision, or porv fate-it has only to do with the TIME of

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But cur p p h shill not knr t fight h o that httle. We shall have leuncd thar thnt God fights our battles for uel Notice it in the w g in Bomrns e And it r h l l come to PL# rt tkt t h 8:28-300; when Gog shall cane agailut the land o f For whom H e did forelnow. H w e Israel (Palestine), saith the Eternal God, GREAT i God! If you are one now called, s Gog Is Russia that M y FURY shall come u in my fur. God fo&ew ~ O U - ~ ~ C W thou~lnds YOU It is conclusively proved, as dl students (Verse 18). So that rlfthe men that o years bcfae you were born! And whom f HCdid fortknow, He rlso did PREDESTI- of prophecy know, that Gog in the land are upon the face of the earth rhrll rhrke rt of Magog b RUSSIA. Mesbedr i MOP M y PRESENCE. (Versa 20.) s It L N A T E 4 be l a t ? No, to be conformed cow. Tubal is Tobolsk. T e margin says h AFIER Christs coming! Note it! 1D the image of His Sea, that HE might Prince of Rosh which is R w i z k the firstborn ammg mony brethren. I will summon M utter p i c against Notice the allies who come with A m h Moreover, whom He dtd PREDBSTIhim (Gog), says the Lord the Etcrd, till o il NATE, than He also CALtED. Not will in this future battle. Y u wl find "Gamer," every mm in his host shall drrn the #wad Togamah, Magog, Mc~heh, Tub- against his fellow: I will punish him nirb all in the f u ~ d l r d now, in thh age. l al, identified in Genesis 10 1s the sons of There it is! Note it! pestilence and blood-shed, I will ~ a I I JAPETH, father of the yellow races. Ethiobun He did prcdestinPte, them He him and his hordes and d the h pia and Libya (or Phut) are descended his train an overpowering flood, With h J l o CALLED! d from Ham. Any Bible map will show that Predestination hu to do with BEING stones, fire, and brimstone. I will let CALLED. Not with being saved or lost. the descendants of Japeth migrated north THE NATIONS Jet MY MIGHT AND and northeast into the territories occupied DREAD DIVINITY-to t d them t&t I Those now being called, Gi this age, were today by Russia, and the Oriental races. foreknown, m d PRE-destinated to be alled am the Eternal! (Verses 21-23, lbffrtt). Therefore, this prophecy of Ezekiel 38 ~AOW-~O be the FIRST to put their hope Notice, these heathen nations do nat shows that it is RUSSIA, not Japan, who in (Juisl. A l othen have their call later! l shall finally succeed in marshalling al the x e and recognize the dread DIVINITY, God d o e not decide for you, in adyellow races into a gigantic invasion upo the MIGHT, and POWER of the E h d vance, whether you shall be saved or last. Christ, even after He hu returned. H bu e H DID decide fpr in advance which ones OUR people-but Russia shdl never rttadc to TEACH them that HE is the ETERNAL! e us mwl He would a l l in this FIRST d i n g , to be The 39th chapter shows in more decrfl Russia shall never invade the United a priest or a king in His Kingdom-to States or the British Isles. There need be no the RESULT of this great battle, h whidr have part in tbe saving of OTHERS! Christ, with supernatural power, CUIICI fear of Russia double-crossing and invading How WONDERFUL are Gods ways, us now. Russia will not ally with Germany fivesixth of these heathen W&S to bs when He opens our understanding to re-unless, after the Germans are defeated at slain in this battle. V a l them to w ! Notice, again, the time: NOWl I wl i Armageddon, they later line up as one of Let us rmke o w d l i n g and final elecbring again the captivi of Jd, md brw the allies of Russia. SURE! Let US not grieve over dcpsrrted Russia is a Communist nation. Commu- mercy upon the wbc% House of a d laved m s who probably were not called, e (Israel and J u d h ) , and will be jeplour fop nism is atheism-it fights God! When God in this life. God is able to raise them up rules the world, thru Christ-with His cho- my holy name; , when I have brought w i n . They will come up in the Great sen people restored to great weaIth in Pal- them again from the people, md g d b n r l White Throne Judgment. And in that judgestine, the very CENTER of the land sur- them out .rf their ENEMIET LANDS,md ment, the BOOK OF LIFE shall be opened, and many shall then find it. Judgment, now, face of the earth (verse 13, Moffatt trans- am sanctified in them in the sight of lation), Russia shall finally rise up with the nations; then shall they KNOW that I AM is upon the true Church of God-those now called (I Pet. 4:17). And WE are most overwhelming armies ever assembled THE ETERNAL! (Ch.39:25-28) by man! Notice again! At Christs Second Corn. liter to JUDGE THE WORLD! The mighty air-force of Russia in that ing, He shall gather Israel-our British and The overwhelming majority on earth day will make those of this war look puny. American peopIt-out ..of our mtrird today are neither saved nor lost. Their Thou shalt ascend, the Eternal says of chance has not yet come. This is not their lands, not out of our own land of w d t b Russia. and come like a storm (in the air), and power, North America and the British time, But it is coming as certainly as Gods thou shalt be like a cloud TO COVER T H E Isles ! Word is TRUE! LAND. (Verse 9 ) . There shall be SO This is NOT the age when Christ is But then we shall be thoroughly ch88= many planes then that they will hide the sun desperately contesting Satan 8s to whether an~d. W shnll have learned our lersar. e off the ground below, like a huge dark We shall live by GODS rules, and obey all humanity shall be saved or lost. If it shadow ! warel as most seem to believe, B controHis Law. For I have poured out M y versy for sods now, between Christ and SPIRIT upon the Hduse of Israel, saith tke The END of World Conquest Satan, then Satan surely is winning the This will be the final effort of rebelliEternal God. (Verse 29). contat, m d a one-sided contest it is! ous, God-resisting man to conquer the And then, beginning cha ter 40, the reBut Satan is not more powerful than world in the lust for power and material mainder of the Book of EzeEiel reveals the Godl We near, now, the dose of tlie sixth wealth, ideal THEOCRACY-Gods NEW ORworking day of Satans week. S w will o Our eople Israel shall not be armed or DER of divine government upon earthcome the Sabbath of THE LORD THY preparec! When my people Israel dwellcth the permanent forms m d institutions which GOD. %tM hall be chained. Christ h a l l safely, shalt thou not know it? asks the shall express the i d d relition between God de.-AND PRHACH, M d SAVE! Eternal. And thou shalt come from thy and rmn! phce out 4 thr mrth parts (Russia is due In the meantime, oclz job is to WApN north of Palestine), thou, and many p p l e America and Britain of what lies ahead! T IVbats Trophesied About o (allies) with thee . . , a mighty army: and shout the warning to come a t of BABY. Russia a a thou shah c ~ m e against my p c o ~ ~ l0~ LON (Rev. 18:4)-that up e thaw who M Contkord from p q r H w n Israel, as a cloud to cwer the h d ; It &d.l may find God Hew,- may come un& to sdvrtlon. (Jet. 50:4-6), Ezeklel says the In thr h t e r h J, and I will bring thee divine protection (Palm 91), and by shall loathe themselves for all the evii w i n s t my h d , d i t the hathm ITU know Spirit-filled life obedient to GODS W A ~ they hive committed ( 2 0 : 4 2 - 4 4 ) . (note the p u r p ) , when I be and 1 1 te ~CCOIW a ruler (y But the Gentile nations who have sanctified in t e 0 Gog, before their a teacher bc~ p-rd h , in Christs m - c m i n B g l w i m ,r:.bmd to conquer and rule the worldeyes. (VCKeS 14-16), Kingdom !

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