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Democracv's FAT E in Prophecy! J

ETS try to clear the picture, Since war came to us, most Arne& L cans have been groping in confusion,

We wd, we hear, disjointed news dis- patches. We get a part af the pidurc at a time, But we usually fail to grasp the true conndoa to the whole,

What is the WHQLB picture? Let's 9 to get our perspective.

The truth is, America today is fighting for its life in a war that is world-wide, We woke up on the morning of December 7th to find outselves plunged suddenly into a taro-ocean war, with our one-ocean Navy reduced to secondary strength even before wc heard the astounding news.

Who Is Number One Enemy? Ever since our eyes have been centered

mostly on the Pacific. But let us get our bewings. Who is out number one epemy- Japan or Hitler with whom the United States also is at war?

Few seem to realize that a Japan in coa- trol of all Asia, the mighty base of S i n p pore, the South Pacific including Australia, and probably India, might rove a harder

mission than a Hitler io possession of all Bumpc. There is the probability that Hit ler's new Euorpe, in time, will disintqrate from within, But if China, cut off from supplies Etom the United States, is forced to give up the fight, we might find tbal the long-urpcded war between the Oriental and Occidental races has materialized, with Japan in possession of more than halE of the entire world population!

And we might PI well underitand at the outset that it will take a minimum of onc

enemy to dislodge and fina R y beat to sub.

Fortresses hold the fate of

Democracy and the world. Read what is prophesied

about them.

Here 1s an amazing analysis of the W B ; ~ at the mom- what now lies ahead, according to BIBLE PROPHECY.

STANDING of this war. rt wiii dve you UNDEF~.-

or two years to wrest back the Pacific terrl- tory Japan has taken in a few weeks.

Japan may well prove ta be the enemy of firs! importance to us on the Pacific Coast. For invasion may come to us thir year1 More, Inter, about that.

But we are M i n e d to believe, based upon prophecy, that Hitler remains the number one enemy of Democra-that the final afid really big battles will be fought in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and in E u r ~ p a

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America Does Not Reallze Our people do not Ft grasp the true

sitsation. We do nat seem to realize wr peril, Overconfidence, and its resulting semi-indifferencc, is our grcatast danger,

America has never taken a lidring. "he United States has won a e r y war. We haw grown rich - and soft, But we do not know that ~e are soft,

We are overcpnsciaus of our great wealth -our vast resources -our ~otmtld power, We have come to feel superior. \we take ir for granted i t is our divine destiny to win. Defeat never enters out minds. We fiave been inclined to $ay, " W h y wc can lick h a c six weeks, and then turn Hitler in six months," Indeed, reports have circulated that the Navy had assured the president that the fleet would conquer Japan in six weeks,

It has &en quite a little more than sh weeks since Rad Harbor-and let w f rahkly examine what happened.

What Ha8 Happened The first week of! the war 3n the PsCifiC,

we lost two battles, neither of which should have been lost-Pead. Harbor, and the val enga ement in which Britain's two Pa.

ihe Repulse, were sunk. That week we learned - or should have learned, that sco power without air power to ronrrof the air overhead, is not power at all.

The second week we lpst Guam, The third week Hong Song fcll and Wake wtu taken by tho Japo. "hir left us without a base from which to attack Jrpm doser than

cific batt f ed ips , the Prince of Wales arid

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Pearl Harbor or Singapore -much too far away for effective action.

The fourth week, MacArthur's men fighting a desperate defensive battle in the Philli pines, Jap hordes marched into the

Jap forces advanced in Malaya toward Sing a p r c The fifth and sixth weeks saw our men retreat still mote and more in the Philippines, the Japs advancing steadily thtovgh the Mafayan jungle toward Singa- pore, and Jap landings in the Dutch East Indies.

mat is the way we licked the despised Japs in just six weela!

And of course you know what happened since.

What was wmn 7 Thc answer may summed up in fhe

words of a British ' T o m y " fighting in the torrid Malayan jungle.

"I always said," was his comment, "that one Englishman can lick ten Ja s an day. But unfortunately, there are E && Japs foreach Eoglishman in this battle,"

u p i cap aty of Manila, while other superior

Facing the Plain Truth TNC, all these cumulativa defeats

caused our people some anger. Yet they b v e k n taken in America with relative complacncy, men yet ouz p p f c do not snm to full reaka we arc up against the real thing, f t does not yet seem to sink through to our American consaousness that, as atsted in the first- age headline of the ~ p t e ~ r - ~ t x r &AIN TRUTH, " h r i c a stands in Mortal DANGER, Now!" We have grossIp underestimated the

Japs. We have taken too much for granted. We have been so occupied assuming we coul4 lick the whole world, if need be, that we have aeglccted to PREPARE for the job, So we were caught flat-footed-- unprepared! We have d e r e d She conse- qucnccs of horscand-buggy-day planning by the old-school heads of the Navy. And never in all history have two nations becn SO thoroughly prepatrd as are the G e m s and the Japs today.

While we bavc been meeting these stipsing reverses in the Pacific, we have listened optimistically to exaggerated news stories coming out of Russia, and somehow formed the idea that the Russians have chased Hitler dear out of Russia and are now about to take Berlin from dlsorgaaized, and terror-stricken Germans. But if you will lo& at a mp and the facts, you will see that the Russians have retaken exactly TEN PERCENT-and no mors-of their own territory. The Germans have merely fallen, back a slight distance for the winter, whpe they arc preparing for the Spring offensive in which they plan to conquer all Russia,

!"he Hitler propaganda machine saw to 2 that confidential news happened to leak out of Germany to the dect that the Ger- man army w a crumbling-HMer about to be throws over, and a peace satisfactory to the Dmocada made by the German gene uals. Then Herr Goebells suddenly heard

of these rumors, and indignantly denied hem. And America - ot part of the Ameri- can public-fell for the German tridc, and was lulled into further overconfidence, be- lieving Hitler was about to collapse!

But the plain truth we published even before the war began: "America Stands in Mortal DANGER. Now!" It is time we faced the facts.

Six Vital Fortress-Gates But now to view the WHOLE picture

of this war - the objectives, the strategy, the situation at the momenr, the prophecy of the future.

The MANY battles being fought around the world fall into a slngle scheme.

The Democracies have a DEFENSE- LINE. It circles the globe, and hinges on SIX great and vital fortrer~cr. They are ALLimportant.

The six fortress-gates are: The British Isles, Gibralter, Suez Canal, Singapore, Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal.

On these six vital fortresses rests the fate of Demdcraq upon earth!

On these six strategic bases lies the abil- ity of the Democraclcs to help each other- to unify their efforts. They are the G A T E through which all world tratfic must flow, whether in peace-time or in wac. They are the CONNECTING LINK6 which alone can prevent the Demactacg nations from bchg severed, cut 08 from one another and from unified action together. m ] q are the key points to allied mobility. All the war effort must swing from them, and pivot on them, They are thc great bases nacssary both for defense, and for later A'ITAClS, They are the springbards from which any attack upon the enemy must be made. They are actually the GATES of our enemy na- tions,

!The Central Grand Stratgey of Each Side

And that is exactly the CRUX of the central grand strategy of each side In this war !

Remember, the h i s nations are the "Have-riots,"-we are the "Haves." Bri- tain and Amcrlca together possess more thao two-thirds of id1 the earth's wealth, resources, raw materials. That is the under- lying CAUSE of the war. The Axis powers are bandit cut throats now ganging up on us, attempting to take away from us this vast wealth.

So the Axis over-all OBJECTIVE is to din tbs ruw materials tbey lack 4nd must

8,ue to continue, and 10 win. Not yet quipped or pre ared to take

the Democracies must be a defensive war af attrition-a delaying action-an effort to prevent the Axis from acquiring additional sources of supply - especially oil -thus starving them into colla se, or weakening

able to launch an offmivc knock-out blow against weakened and economically starved

the offensive, the over-all 0 % JECTJvE of

them fot the day when tK e Democracies are

foes. That time, incidentally, cannot arrive before 1943; perha s 1944!

But the Axis Sh7'EGY, or amrtbod for worn lishing their objcetivc, has been -and stilris-to divide the enem nations,

time. To illustratc: Joe Louis is the prize-

fight champion of the world. One by one he has met and defeated 21 other fighten, each rated, at the time, as the best man in the world to opposc him, But if these fighters had combined forces, all twenty= one attacking Louis at once, you con ima- gine what a different story would hvc been written,

Hitler's strategy has been to meet dl one nation at a the, starting with the weaker nations, saving the strongest for the last. Thus he has k e n able to crush smaller nations, one by one, with overwhelming superior force, Jhh victorg ad& resou- and power to German arms. If Hitler i s allowed to carry this poli to b logical conclusion, he can e v c n d y conquer the world!

Why Churchill Flew to America

But now the Democtado think they lR! finding a way to stop Hitler and win the war. That way is the way of UNIFIED ACTION. The Democracies pro se to re-

and Japan to fight a mi J democratic dc-

unified command, at once. This strategy of UNITY rpns fitst pro-

posed, not by Winston Churchill nor by President Roosevelt, but by the very 6mt victim of A x i s aggression, Chiang KaiShek in Chungking, China. He proposed it just a few days after "Pearl Harbor."

And so you can well understand the dramatic flight of Britain's Prime Minister to Washington. As a result of the labors of Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt to. gether, complete unity of action is planned and operating. Twenty-six nations signed up for i t before Mr. olurchill left Wash- ington. The unified hi h command for every front, for every fepartmcnt of the war, has been appointed.

t A x i s strategy, to counteract and nulli this new unified action, is now to m through and take one, two, or more of these giant fortress bases. For the iucccss of this new supreme nrateky of the Dcmwr rades must hinge on their abiffty ta hold intact these six vital links io their world- chain of defense and attack.

By breaking any two adjoining llnla in this world-spanning protective chain, the Axis could sever allied unification -virtu- ally cut the Democracies in two1

Yet Pearl Harbor has been crippled, and Singa ore has been taken!

TKe week Singapore fell was the black. est week of this century for us! Not dncc the darkest hours of 1864 has the fate of the nation hung so pcrilouslp in the brl.

Please rontinrrs on pago six

keep them separated, revent uni K ed action 01: command, and to 8 ght on one front at I!

vent any further division-to r p ore Witler

fensc - to fight ALL tht 6 emocarcies, under

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Does EASTER Really Commem- J

orate the RESURRECTION?

I T is commonly supposed, today, Jesus was crucified on ERIDAY, and that the resurrection ocurred about swrisc

ZEaster Sunday morning. It w d d seem that no om, until re-

ccntly, ever thought to question or to

tion. Yet the Bible telk us to PROVE all things,

For PROOF there is but one dependable rutbority; a sole historical record - the Bible.

PROVE this "Good-FridapEastCf' tmdi-

Tradition No Evidence Thcre were no eye-witnesses to the res.

urrcctioa Even so-called "apostolic fathen" had no source of information save that rec- ord which is today available to US. Tradi- tioa, then, must be dismissed.

What are the recorded facts? The doubting Pharisees were asklng

Jesus for a SIGN--& supernatural evidence -in proof of His Messiahship.

Jesus answered: "An evil and ladulter- ow generation seeketh after a sign; and thcrc shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so Iball the Son of mm be THREB DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the heart of the earth." (Mat. 12:38-40).

Now coasider, lease, the tremendous

of Jesus' statement I He expressly d d a r e d that the ONLY

SIGN He would give to rove H e was the

DAYS AND THREE &-hewn sepulchre in "the heart of the e'

The Significance of the Siga Thae Christ-rcjKting Pharisee de-

manded PROOF. Jmw offered but one evidence, Thatevidence ws not the fact of the rcsurreaioa itself-it was the LENGTH OF TXMR He would repose in His grave, before being resurrected.

Think what this means! Jesus staked His Claim to being your Saviour and mine upon remainhg exactly THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS in the tomb. ZP He w i n e d just three days and three nights inside the earth, H e would PROVE R h l f the Saviour-if He failed in this sign, He must be rejected as an imposter! No wonder Satan has caused unbelievers

to scoff at the story of Jonah and the 'Whdc!" No wonder the Devil has set up

import- tho oyem Re Iming significance -

Messiah was that He shoufd

W A S Jesus three dape and three nights in the

grave, as He said in Matthew 12401

Can you figure this between sunset "Good Friday" and 8un- rise Easter Sunday?

Here is an astonishing Bible TRUTH 1

a tradition tbat DENIES Jesus is the Mes. siah!

The Dilemma of the Higher Critics This one and only supernatural PROOF

cver given by Jesus for His Messiahshi has greatly bothered the Commentators an$ the higher critics. Their attempts to explain away this sole proof for Christ's divinity drc 1udiLrms in the urtrcrnc. For. them away they must, or their ' G o ~ ~ ~ K day Raster tradition collapses!

One commentator says of course we know that. Jesus was actually in the tomb only half as long as H e thought Ha wouId be! Same expositors impose upoa our cre- dulity to the extent af asking us to believe that "in the GREEK language, in which tho New Testament was written, the ex- pression 'three days and three nights' means three PERIODS, either of day or of night!"

Jesus, the9 say, was placed in the tomb shortly behre sunset FRIDAY, and rose At Sunrise Sunday morning - two nigbls and one day,

The BIBLE Definition But the BIBL'B definition of the dura-

tion of "nights and days" Is simple. Ever\ these same higher critics admit

that in the HEBREW language, in which the hook of Jonah was written, the ex- pression "three days and tlireo nights" means a period bf 72 hours-three twelve hour days and three twelve-hour nights,

Notice Jenah 1:17: "And Jonah was in the belIy of the fish THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS." This, they admit was a period of 72 hours. And Jesas distinctly said that AS Jonah was three days and three nights in the great fish's belly, SO He would be the same length of time in His grave!

As Jonah was in the "GRAVB" (scc marginal reference, Jonah 2:2)" 72 h a after which he was supernatural1 mu- sected by God, by beiag vomitedup, to become a saviour to the people of Nineveh upon roelaiming the warning to them, SO shoula Jesus be 72 hours in His grave, thereupan being resurrected by God to be- come the saviour of the world!

Did jesus know how much time wps ia a day" and in a "night"? Jesus answered, "Are there not twelue bows in a day- but if a man walk In the NIGHT, he shun- bleth." (John 11:9-10).

Notice the BIBLE DEFINITION of thc expression, "THE THIRD DAY," Text after text tells us that Jesus sose THE THIRD DAY. See how the BIBLE defines the time required to ftilflll ''THE THIRD DAY."

In Genesis 1:4 God "divided the LIGHT from the DARKNESS, and God called the the LIGHT Day, and the DARK- ness He called Night. And the evening (darknass) and the morning (light) were THE FIRST DAY . . , end the wenhag (darkness) and the morning (light) were THE SECOND DAY, , . , and the eve ning (now three periods of darkness called NIGHT-khrrte nights) and the morning (nov three periods of light called DAY- three days) were THE THIRD RAY'' (Gen. 1;4.13),

Here we have tlu ONXY BIBLE DEPI- NITION which explains and COUNTS UP the amount of time involved is the ex-

cession "THE THIRD DAY." It induda P htee dark eriods called MGH1; and thrce light per iog called DAY- three days and three nights, and Jesu said thy contained TWELVB HOURS for each p o d - B total of 72 hours I

year old, near the end of the seaon

truths ace revealed UNTO His BAB $lain S, asd hidden from the wise sad prudent!

What Is Wrong? What is wrong with these plain, simple

words of Jesus? How do thc wise and pru4 dent theologians JCNOW JCSUS WHBS cr~& fied "Good Eriday" and rosa "Easter Sun- day" ?

The sim !c answer Is THEY DO NOT mow If-for IT 1s NOT TRLTBI It is mere1 TRADITION-a traditlaa wo PLQ contjnue on p a p four

That ought to be condurivcl

could figure it easily. We

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A Heart to Heart Talk with the Editor

In this coIumn, written just for true believers, I wrote in the September-October number of the terrible persecution-even martyrdom-that impends for God's really converted people.

In Revelation 6:9-11 we are told that the plagues of God's judgment on "Baby- lon" will not be poured out until the fel- 1ow-serpaat.s of those middleage martyrs shd have been killed a :bey were!

The very qext PtpphHied event now to occur, according to Jesus' Ollvet prophecy, is that "they shall deliver yorr (true Chris- tians) up to bc af3icted, and shall kill you." [Mat. 24:3=9).

Bat, the pmphery of Revelation 12 shows that, as many of thc saints known in historg as "the Wddcnses" fled to a place of safety, to a mountain wilderness com-

letely bcpnd thc bounds of the Roman knpire, b cscnpe the middle-age e r s m

faith, so also are many of God's peopIc to bo Mkrn now, SOON, to I place of acnpa and protection.

tion when millions were martyred P or their

Those who escape the frightful pew cution to come will be those who heed Jesus' prophetic warning: "'lVutrb ye, therefore, and PRAY ALWAYS, thd ye may be accownted worthy to escape ALL ,bere thin s that shall come to pass, and to

21 :36) , This prophecy shows it is those who

"keep the commandments of Gad and have the testimony of Jesus Christ;" (Rev. 12: 1 7 ) , some of whom shall be taken to a plam of divine protection, and some of whom shall be killed in religious martyr- dom.

flee for refuge -WHERE? And HOWE"shd1 they go? and wben? These questions onlg those who are praying earncsJy, sincerely, constantly, wirborrt ceasing, fully wren- dered to God - and WATCHING/- shall be able to answer. Will pw be in that num- ber?

We may be sure that God will reveal the place in some prophecy which was to be closed and sealed until this "time of the END,"-a prophecy now to be opened clearly to those thoroughly consecrated and close to God through prayer, but which no unconverted mind will understand,

Some of u9 believe we are beginning to receive, rays of light on this vital subject. Light on the PLACE we shall go-HOW we shall get there, as revealed in these mar. vrlous propliccics. When God iemoves thase accounted worthy to e ~ t u p ~ , there shall come a time of FAMINE-not of bread, but of hearing the words of the Eternal! Then men shall travel from one end of the continent to the other seeking the Word of God, but they shall not find it!

We have it, now! Do we value it? Are we grateful? Do we study, reverence, OBEY it? In the meantime, God has a great work for us to do. "This Gospel of the KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world for u whneq . . . and then shall the end come." Yer, we have WORK to do!

stand be B ore the Son of man.'' (Luke

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Does EASTER Commemor- ate the Resurrectson

continued from p a p tbme have been taught from childhood Md cam lessly ASSUMED! Jesus warned w against making "the Word of Gad of none c k t through y o u TRADITION. (Mark 7~13).

We have examined two scriptural wit- n-a, in Matthew and in Jonah, both &= ling the duration of the body of Jesus in the tomb as three days and three nights, which the Scriptures lainly define as 72

other Scriptural witnesses that PROVE "HE S A M E THING.

Notice Mark 8:31. "And He began to tea& them that the Son oP man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elden, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and bc killed, and AFTER threcr days rise again."

Our yourre; second grader can figure this. IF Jesus had been killed on Friday, and then AFTER one duy H e had risen, the resurrectian would have occurred on Sat- urday evening, IF AFTER TWO DAYS, it, would have occurred Sunday evenin AFTER THREE DAYS, it would ve oc- curred MONDAY EVENING!

Examine this text carefully. You cannot, by any process of arithmetic. figure any less than a full 72 hours-three days and three nights-in a resurrection which occurred three days AFTER tho crucifixion! If Jesus was in the grave anly from Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise, then thb text too, must be torn out of your Bible or else you must reject Jesus Christ as our Saviour! If He rose AFTER TI-IREE JAYS, it might have been MORE than 72 hours, but it could not have been a second less!

rba4 kill him; and AFTER that he ir k%d he shall rise THE THIRD DAY." The dur- ation ex ressed here must be between 48

PAST 72 hours, and Jesus still rise 'IHB THIRD DAY." And it could not be Friday sunset to Sunday sunrise, because that is only 36 hours, carrying us into the middle of the second day, AITER Hc was killed,

In Matthew 27:63 Jesw is quoted u saying "AFTER THREE DAYS I will rise again." This cannot possibly bc figured as less than 72 full hours.

And in John 2:18-22, "Jesus auswcrcd and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and IN lhree duyi I will raise it u . . . but He spake of the temple of His tocly," To be raised up IN tbrer, da I after belag destroyed, or crucified, couldy not possibly be in a day and a half-it could not bc J e s ~ than 72 hours,

hours of time. Now P et us cmunine four

Yd if

Notice now Mark 9:31. " . . . th

and 72 E ours. I t could not be one second

Jf we 0re to accept all the THE BIBLE, we must was exactly three three full 24hour Btrvc or tho only rupornrturrl p m i Ha gave must fail.

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The TIME OF DAY of Resurrection Now notice carefully this fact: Jn order

to be t h m days and three nights-72 hours -in the tomb, o w Lurd bad to be resur- rected a1 exatlly THE SAME TIME OF DAY that His body was buried in the tomb!

Let us realize that vcry vital fact,

If we can find the TIME OF DAY of the burial, then we have found the TIME OF DAY of the resurrection! I P the burial, for instance, wa9 at sunrise, then in order to be left an even three days and three nights in the tomb the resurrection likewise had to occur at sunrise, three days later. IF the burial was at noon, the resurrection was at noon. If the burial was at sunset, the res- urrection was at sunsel; three days later.

Jesus died on the cross soon after “the ninth hour or three o’clock in the after- noon. (Mat. 27:46-S0; Mark 15:34-37; Luke 23:4646)

The crucifixion day was called “the prep- aration,” or day M o r e ”the sabbath,” (Mat. 27:62; Mark 15:42: Luke 23:54; John 19:24). This day ended at sunset, accord. ing to Bible reckoning (Lev 23:32).

Yet Jesus was buried before this same day ended-before sunset, (Mat, 2 7 3 7 ; Luke 23:52.54). John adds ‘’There laid they Jesus, therefore, because of the Jews prep- aration day.“ According to the laws ob- served by the Jews all dead bodies must be buried before the beginning of a Sabbath or feast day. Hence Jesus wits buried BE- FORE SUNSET on the same day he died. He died shortly after 3 p, rn.

Therefore --notice carefully,'- the BUR- IAI, OF CHRIST’S BODY WAS I N THE U T E AFTERNOON! It was between 3 p, m, and sunset as these Scriptures prove.

And since the RESURRECTION had to oeeur at the S M TIME OF DAY, three days later, THE RESURRECTION OP C H R I P OCCURRED, not at sunrise but JN THE LATE AFTERNOON, near sun- ~ c t ! Startling as this fact may be, it is the PLAIN BIBLE TRUTH!

If Jesus rose at any other time of day, Hc could not have been three days and three nighk in Hir grave. If Hc rose s t any other time of day, He failed to prove, by the only sign He gave that He was the true Messiah, the Son of the living Creator! Either He rose near the END of a day near sunset, or else He is not the Christll! He staked His claim on that one and only sign!

So a time-honored tradition must be shattcd! k t us praise God for His TRUTH which has been preserved through the dark ages, so that the true light may now shine forth, if our hearts and minds are still willing to receive it! Praise His name! Do you LOVE the TRUTH as it is revealed, or despise it and love the tra- ditions you have heard? “Whosoever de- rpiseth the Word shall be destroyed!” Let us say wlth David, “How praclouo also are THY thoughts unto me, 0 God!

What Day Was the Resurrection? Now which DAY OF T H E WEEK ws

the resurrection day? The first investigators, Mary Magdalene

and her corn anions, came to the sepulchre

early, while it was yet dark, as the sun W ~ S beginning to rise, a t dawn. (Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1),

Now here are the texts most people have SUPPOSED stated the resurrection was at sunrise Sunday marning But they do not say that!

When the women arrived, the tomb was already OPEN! At that time Sunday mom- ipg-while it was yet dark-/BUS WAS NOT THERE! Notice how the angel says “HE IS NOT HERE, BUT IS RISEN!” SCC Mark 16:6; Luke 24:3; John 2 0 9 ; Mat, 28:5-6.

Jesus was ALREADY RISEN at sun- rise Sunday morning! Of course H e was, He rose from the grave IN THE LATE AFTERNOON, near SUNSET!

And since we know the resurrection was just shortly prior to that Sunday morn- ing, and that it occurred in the late after- noon of the day, we now may know THE

RED LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON -NEAR T H E END OF THE SABBATH!

The Sabbath day ended 8t sunset, It was late on that day, before the beginning of the first day of the week, It was not, then, a Sunday resurrection at all-it was a Sab- bath resurrection!

Did Christ ]Fulfil HIS Sign? Now all this Is based on the supposition

that Jesus did fulfil His only SIGN of being three days and three nights in the grave. All our evidence is based on the claims of Jesus BEFORE His crucifixion. But some of the higher critics and doctors of divinity tell us that Jesus made a mis- take-that He was only in the tomb HALF AS LONG as He ex ected to be. Let us

the exact amount. of time in the grave Hc said He would.

Notice that in a t . 28:6, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD gives this testimony, which we now present as EVIDENCE! “He is not here: for He i s risen, AS HE SAID.” A n d He certainly did not rise AS HE SAID unless He rose a t the precise TIME that He had said! So we have the proof of the AN- GEL OF T H E LORD, recorded in the sa- csed WORD OF GOD that Jesus did ful- fil His Sign-He was three days and three nights in the cadi-He did rise Sabbath afternoon, and not Sunday morning!

Now notice carefully one more text, Matthew 28:l-6. “IN the end of the Sab- bath, as it began to dawn TOWARD the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see thq Sepulchre.” And a t that time the angeI told them “He is not here: for He i s risen as Me said,” If we accept this as a correct translation it places the time of resurrection directly JN

on the first B ap of the week (Sunday) verg

RESURRECTION OF CHRIfl OCCUR-

have PROOF as to w f: ether H e did spend

THB EM3 OF THB SABBATH, or LA73 QN THE SABBATH as it is worded in the American Revised translation. In the end of anything is still TN it. S a w modern translations render this text BS “AFTER the Sabbath”-or at dawn the first day of the week. However, wen if we acc t thrt rendering, this text becomes a f o 3 wit- ness to prove that at sunrise Sunday morn- ing H e was NOT THERE - HE HAR RISEN prior to that time. But if you accept this translation, as it i s in your Bible, you have a direct statement that Jesus’ resurp rection was before the ending of the Sab bath.

Which Day Was the Crudfition? It i s not difficult nopr to dcterminc thc

day on which Jesus was crucified, C0unting back three days from the Sabbath, when He rose, we come to Wednesday, the fourth, or very middle, day of the week.

Jesus was uucificd on WEDNESDAY, the middle day of the week, He died on the, cross shortly after 3 p. rn. that afternoon, was buried before sunset Wednesda eve-

and THREE NIGHTS. His body wU Wed- nesday, Thursday and Frida NIGHTS in

there througk~ the daylight parts of Thuf~- day, Friday and Saturday-THREE DAYS, He rose Saturday- the Sabbath-late after- noon, shortly before sunset, at the same TIMH OF DAY that I-Ic WIU buried! Aad Sunday morning at sunrise He F Y ~ J NOT THERE-HE WAS ALREADY RISEN!

It i s significant that in Daniel‘s proc phecy of the “Seventy we&” (Dan. 9; 24-27), Jesus was to be cut off ‘in the midst of the week” While this propbecg has the applIcatian of a day for B pear, so that this 70th week became a literal seven years, Christ being cut off’ after three and a half year’6 ministry, as He was yet it is significant that He was also ”cut off’ b~ crucifixion ON THE VERY MIDD DAY OF THE LITEML WEJEK!

WHAT Sabbath Followed the Cruci Won?

Now we come to an objection some m y raise, yet the very point which PROVES this truth! Perhaps you have noticed that the Scriptures say the da AFI’ER tho crud-

ies, people hava blindly assumed thc crud. fixion was on Friday!

Now we have shown by all four Ga= pels that the crucifixion day-Wednesday- was called “the preparation,” The repar- ation day for THE SABBATH. €&t fw WHAT Sabbath?

John’s Gospel gives thc defioite answer: “It was the preparation OF the PASS OVER,”

“For that sabbath day was an HIGH, DAY.” (John 19: 1431) .

Just what is H “HIGH DAY”? A& my J e q ! Me will telI you it i s one of the annual holidays, or feast days. The Jsraelita ob. sewed seven of these every year-c~ery one

ning. Now COUNT b e THREE LAYS the grave-THREE NIGH 4 S, It also wag

fixion was a SABBATH. T Hence, fat cmtur-

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&led SABBATHS! Annual Sabbaths, fall- ing on a certain annual calendar date, and on different days of the week in different years, just like the Roman holida s now ob-

day, on Thursday, or on knday. If you will notice the following texts,

you will scc these annual holidqs were all called Sabbath days: Lev. 23~24; Lev. 16:

Notia Matthew 26;Z: "Ye know that &ftcr two days is tbs parwvur, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified." And if you will fallow through this cha ter you

served, These Sabbaths mi ht fa P 1 an Mon-

31; LCV. 23:39 : Lw. 2 3 ~ 1 5 : Leo, 23:26-32,

will see that Iews WAS crucified B N THE Ph'SOVER I '

And what was THE PASSOVER? It was the ancient day of Israel comernorat- ing their deliverance from E turing to them the crucifixion o Christ and their deliverance from sin. In the twelfth chapter of Exodus you will find the story of the original Passover. The children of Israel killed the Iambs, and struck tbe blood over the door-posts and on the side- osts

been spplied the death-angel PASSED OVER that house, sparing it from death. Following the Passover, W;LE a holp-cOnvW- tion or annual Sabbath.

temtb day of the first month is THB PASS- O m of the Lord. And in tbs bft.mtb day of this month is the FEAST." (Num. 28;16.17).

year on the 14th of the first month dleT"Abib," an2 a type of Christ, the Iamb of God that takcth away the sin of the world, Wit is OUR PASSOWR, sauifiad for us (I Cor. 5:7).

SAMB DAY THE PASSOVER HAD

aurificd on the 14th Abib, the first Hebrew month of the year! And this day, the PASS- OVW, was the day before, and the prep aration for, THE FEAST day, or annual hi&day Sabbath, which =red on the rSth Abib. THIS Sabbath might occur on ANY day of the week Frequently it occurs. cvcn today, and is celebrated by the Jews, on THURSDAY. The Jews observed this "high-day" Sabbath on Thursday this year, 1942 I

And the Hebrew calendar shows that in the year Jesus was crucified, the 14th Abib.

the day Jesus was crucified, ~ % k $ k S D A Y , And the annual sab. bath was THURSDAY. This wo) the Spb bath that drew an as Joseph of Arimathea hastened to burg the body of Jesus lato that Wednesday afternoon.

Honest Objections Examined S o w n e is s u n to n& Mark 16:9,

t h i n g this tcxt says the resurrection was upon Sundap, But if you read the whole sentence. i t does hot say tha t at all. T h e cxprcssion w a ~ risent' is in the perfect tenae. W h a t worl Jetw' condltlon early the fist day of the week? Docs it say he "was

Tt, and pic-

of their houses, aod wherever the bkao a had

Obscr~e the data: " h d in the OW-

Thc Ppsovcr Iamb, killed eve

JESUS WAS SLAIN ON T H E VERY

SLAIN EVWY YEAR! He wag

rising" or that He "did rise" from the grave? No, early the first day of the week, at the time when He appeared to M a 7 Magdalene, He WAS RISEN. Qf course He was! Me had risen the late afternoon befare, so naturally He WAS RISEN Sunday morn- ing. The text does not in any way refute the scores of other texts we have given.

Another passage that might confuse, is ~ u k e 24:21: I' , , . and bcsides all this, today is the third day SINCE THESE THINGS WERE DONE." ''Thew things" included all the events pertaining to the resurrection - the seizing of Jesus, delives ing Him to be tried, the actual crucifixion, and, finally the setting of the seal and the watch over the tomb the following day, or Thursday. Study verses 18-20, telling of "these things." and also Mat, 27;62-66. 'These things" were not completed until the watch was set, Thursday, h d the tea says Sunday was the third day SINCE THESE THINGS were done, These things were not done until Thursday, and Sunday truly was the thud day since Thursday. But it was not the third day since FRIDAY, so this text could not proye a Friday ma- fixion.

The Final Proof There is yet one final diaching PROOF

of this amazing truth. According to Mark 1&1, Mary Magda.

lene and her companions did not buy their s i c e to annolnt the body of Jesus until &lTR TwE SABBATH WAS PAST. They could not prepate them until A m R this -yet after preparing the spices THEY RESTED THE SABBATH DAY A G CORDING l"C) THE COh.LMANDMENT! (Luke 23:56).

ible explanation. After the annual high- 8" ay Sabbath, the feast day of the days of unleavened bread-which was Thursday - these women purdrased and prepared their spices on FRIDAY, and then they rested on the Weskly Sabbath, Saturday, according to the Commandment (Exodus 20;8-11) !

A comparison of these two texts PROVES there were TWO Sabbaths tbat we& with A DAY IN BETWEEN. Other- wise, these tats contradict themselves.

The PLAIN TRUTH concerning the crucifixion and the resutredion of Christ i s fast sweeping the world. Thousands are coming to see it, This truth has been pub Iished In the Sunday School Times, The Oxford Univmitv Press. in their Com- panion Bible," publish a table proving this newly-revealed truth of the Bible.

W e praise God that though the truths oP His Word became trampled upon and LOST through tbe dark ages of supersti- tion, apostacy, and counterfeit doctrines, that the ORIGINAL TRUTH has been are- fdly preserved io THE B1BI.E ITSELF. Wc can STUDY Yo show ourselves a proved unto God, md seek out and PIN 6 these long-hidden truths IN THB BIBLE.

Study these two tern carefully. There is only one

What 0 wonderful study it is! How precious i s HIS WORD! All the Truth hps not YET been brou&t to light, Let US tess

us feed upon the pure WORD OF GOD! Let us not reject the true light, or God will cartainly reject us! Let w rejoice in it, with praise and thanksgiving!

on, and seek and find more and more, P Let

Democracy? FATE FPtIlirlu#d from p a p cur0

ff me! The disaster of that week-indudin the ccape of the Nazi battleships throug the English channel to Helgoland, giviag Germany virtual naval parity in the Adw- tic; and the capsizing of the giant French liner Normandie, slmost equal to the OM of a battleship-were probably o f cvcn greater consequence than the fall of Ftlacc and all western Europe in the summer af 1W1

The fall of Singapore meant that the mighty six-fortress chain had been broken! More, It meant that these giant fortresses are not so impregnable as we h d s a p p e d It shows that the others COVJS be lost - that we CAN lose this war! It meant that any hope of allied victory must now bs postponed from one to two more yun, Singapore is the KEY to the whole Atlantic and South Pacific campai - the GA'IB

It left the Allies with only shreds of hop. in the Far East! Arc we AROUSED to out plight?

Our Amazhg National Identity Amazing as it seems, the story - and drc

thousands of y m s ago in Bible r p h q . The story in full is bein to d in the

series of artides in The P d M "RUTH eaptianed "The United Stata in Ptophoeg, !

In 4 nut-shell, the amazing truth la this: The J e w are not, as commonly ou posed, the Hame of Israel at all. TI$ twelve tribes of Israel were divided into TWO NATIONS. One tribe, Jud off from Israel in the days of Re= son of Salomon, Then the tribe of Bcnja- min joined them, and they went under the national name, "House of Judab'' The Ten Tribes setained the name "Hawe of ISRAEL,," and set up their capital at Sa. maria. The Hause d ludah became howa as "JEWS." Their capital remained at Jcru- salem, N e w were the eoplc of ten-tribcd ISRAEL called ''Jews.-p?h, term merely a nick-name for the tribe o Judah. The House of Israel was driven out to A$= syria 131 pears before the Jews wetc carried to Babylon, From Assyria they migrated north and west, bat ly arriving 3 the Brit. ish Isles.

The strange story dates from the time of Abraham, Because of his obedience, God made unconditionally dual promism to Ab. raham -material and national promises of RACE as WEII LI the aptritual prarnbea of

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What iS it to be "SPIRITUAL"? OW often do we hear om say, "He is 30 SPIRITUAL;" . . . or, H "I'hwe peo lc are not very spirit-

d?J What ir it to "spirituaf'bdo p u

We nced, Just now. to be warnrd agalnst being deceived i n b a false standard of spir- ituality. We need to examine the true scrip turd standard.

Four Things Usually Accepted As Sure Evidence

There arc four things g e n e d g regarded as sure evidence of a spiritual mind.

1. Speech, noise, emotioq, demonstra- tion.

2. Knowledge of the Scriptures.

4. Rigid standud of rightcorwness, It will prow interesting, and

to takr a brief look at each, an measure according to the scriptural standard.

1. The most commonly accepted mi- dencc of s irituality is the way people tallr.

Some p p l c have deiiberately cultiva- ted spiritual-sounding language. Or, per9 haps, they have unconxiously acquired the habit of using "spiritud" sounding phrasa through their association with others wbo do it.

Theit speech and their writing is pm- Iifk with spiritual-sounding espressiorp. People say, "My, isn't Brother soatd-so zpirilgd Y'

hiany think a meeting d w not amount to aayth&g unlcss thcrc h w r c oc lesj naise, mass enthusiasm, and B great deal of emotion worked up and visibly expressed. They neVa enjoy a sermon, no matter how dfying , unless the preacher is full of certain c m o t i o d enthusiasm, fluent in the accepted spiritual hraseology, and able to

tcadions and outbursts expected in this of meeting. If such things are present,

these f o b enjoy themselves immensely, whether they leans anything d y worth while or not,

U d I y the adaance announcements of such meetings ussure the people of the "big time!: they are p i n g to have. And they go w a y talking about the ' ' h a time" they

Qettlng a Right Balance This b not to discount or tp crltl-

&c the nahval emotional expression re- sulting spontaneous1 from a genuine s irit-

cxperiencc, or Yhc tnit spiritual E.g- uage springing n a t u d y from an hanest heart. Ear from it.

Some people arc naturally emotional. Some arc net. We shall bec from the Suip- hucls that emsttan md rpfrltunl phruer of themselves arc not the essence of spiritu-

h Q W ?

3. "Faith"

Bmfitab*el

write, or B emonstrate.

peratc in his au b! ieucc thc usual emotional

CnlQyed,

aIity. They may be the natural result, the honest and spontaneous e ression of it; or, if deliberately genera t2 and "worked up," put on for show and effect, the be only its counterfeit. And the SJ Fi is that those who deal in countecfeit a1- ways inrir; they haw tbe genuine. "By their fiuh," Jesus said, we shall 'KNOW.

It is important we get a right balance. Other Snares and Pitfalls

2. The second class is well indoctrin- ated. Usually these folks do not believe ia much, if any, noise or any spiritual ma& festations. They have a great deal of head knowledge, but most of this dass have a great deal of misunderstanding, and often they have queer personal theories and hob- bies resulting fram mlsapplicd, wrongly- divided Scriptures.

They love to try to tra and corner others with the Scriptures, anlapeciauy d~ they delight in it if they are able to cob ner some minister. Arguin Scripture is their one great interest in li f e.

These misguided folks believe their ar- guments, contentions, and beliefs will win their eternal salvation, without real repen- tance, or living a surrendered, righteous life in Christ Jesus, showing the fruits of the Spirit in their lives,

Saved by Faith Alone And then there is the ''faith''

group, These folks say they are saved "by FAITH, and faith ALONE?' They arc not so much concerned about the Holy Spirit$ and seldom mention such things as repen- tance, utter surrender, or any need of s u b mission and obedience to God's will.

Their religion nevec works any rnirade changes in their lives, Since "Jesus died for aur sins," we do not have to obey, Just BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt bc saved is their sole condition to salvation, The invitation of the ministers of this group is "Give the preacher your hand, and the Lord your heart.

cow ~er t s " what they did-what really happened --when they "gave the Lord thcic heart." they usually just look blank. They do not know, It really did not MEAN anything, It was merely a P O W . The churches of this class should be called social: clubs- they arc not soul-saving institutions.

The Self-Righteous Christian 4. Finally, there are those whose spir-

ihality consists of a rigid standard of right- eousness, In fact they usually are so strict about following God's commandments that they fall into the error of keeping the st& LEITER of rhc law in their own strength, They aro m u ulously honest, severely

And when, later, you ask such

punctual, critic a! 1y exact. But, like Ewl

said of the strictest sect af his day, thg are "goi~g about to establish their OWN ri&t eousness," and have not "submitted them selves unto the righteousness of God, . And they are usually harsh,

not live up to their particular id- of the standard of righteousness,

The True Scriptural Standard of Real Spuituahty

Now, let us turn to God's Word, and reverently and humbly seek to learn what is GOO'S standard of s iribality.

us, through Paul, "Let this mind be in y q which was also in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 2 5 )

But HOW can you have the mind that was in Christ Jesus in YOU1 Jesus, rap] "Behold, 1 strnd at the door (d g ~ l t heart) and knodc: if any man h e u my voice, and OPEN thc door, I ulill come in to him." (Rev, 3:ZO). And Je3us meant exactly what Ha said1 Hc will came in, through His Spirit, and literally LIVE His life of true righteousness in you, if only you will surrender all of SELF and lct the blessed Saviour IN.

"For to be carnal1 minded is dcath." That is, ha turd -minLd, actuated by sel=

Jp,iriwd/y-minded is LIFE and peace . . But ye are not in the flesh, but In the S irk,

you, Now if any rnan haw not the Spirit of Christ, HE IS NONE OF HIS?' Unlcsr His S irit abides within ciu, living. His nQt a real Christian! "And if Christ b0 IN you, the bod is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is rife because of righteousness." (Ram. 8:6-10).

When God hst takca w 85 His Chid- ren, He takes us who have been worldly, sensual, disobedient His u timata aim is to make us like unto H h I f . This transformation (not r+wdtion) ia 8 trc mendous undertaking. It requites a micacle. But God stands pledged, upon real tbor- ough xepentance, and faith in Christ (A& 2:38) to start the pcrformance of this tre- mendous miracle by putting His Holy Spirit literally WITHIN your But God will work the complete change in your life ONLY if ou are willing t0 SUBMIT to the proccwl & he FIRST condition is real, dac thor.

ough repentance, You will have ta %le will, ing to accept correction and repeated &as, tiscments at His loving hands, for "whom the Lord lovtth Hc chasteneth." (Hcb. 12:

The S iritual mind i s the r r r r r d ~ 0 d , yielded mgd. It fs the mind that has given up a11 wanting its own way. It Is the mind that has beco thoroughly CQNQUERED

stern, (Ram* critica, intolerant of thosa who do

Of the true spiritu a r mind, God any 40

fish impulses an B a love of self, "But to b

ZP so be that the Spirit of God dwr K IN

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in its rebellion against God, It is the mind that, henceforth, is willing to obey God, no matter what the cost, and which continu- ally studies God's Word, not to argue and strive and tamer others, but to learn more of God's will, and to WALK in it! It is I mind FILLED to overflowing with real LOVE for God and all fellowmen-even one's enemies- and which has sympathy, patience, and kindness for others in their ideas and belicfs, their faults and mistakes, which speaks softly, gently, kindly; which seeks only to help and to serve. It is the mlod that has DIED to SEZJ.

True Spirituality The real spiritual mind can say w ~ t h

the Apostle Paul: "T am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet HOI I , but CHRIST LlVETH IN ME," (Gal. 2:20). When you can say that, then you have the mind that was in Christ Jesus.

The real spiritual mind is a SOUND mind! "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of A SOUND MIND." (I1 Tim, 1:7).

To those being carried away with a falx and pseudo-spirituality, where real manifestations of the Spirit were being counterfeited by DEMONSTRATIONS of SELF in a fanatical emotionalism, Paul, correcting them, said: "Brethren, be not children in lrndefftdndhg," (I Cor, 14:ZO) .

True, Paul said to these same Corin- thians, "I would that ye all spake with tongues, BUT," he added, "rather that ye prophesied (preached): for p a l e r is he that prophesieth (preaches) than he that speaketh,with toagues," ( I Cor, 143) .

Twu, PauI said to these overly-emotion- rl Corinthians "I s eak with tongues more than you all, YET, ' he continued, "in the church I had rather speak five words with wy rmderstrmding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." (verses 18=19), And also he said, "God is not the ruthor of confusion,'' and "Let all things bc dons decently and in order." (Verses 33, 40).

Let us get a proper balance. Let us get io the position of their relative rcrip-

"By their FRUITS," not by their tongues, their laaguage, their cmotiorr. theit ability to argue, their empty profession of faith, their self-righteousness, said Jesus, shall we KNOW their true s iritualiy.

And the true FRUIT of &'s Spirit is "LOVC" fiEst of all, then "joy, peace, pa. tien#, gurtIeness, goodness, faith, meek. ness, taperence." T h e n thingr, expressed in living character determine true spirit- uality,

arc the expression of "the

by the Holy Spiric" (Ron). >:>),-and than thc Holy Spirit in UJ i s simply GOD'S LAW in a c h r , i4 OUT lives; for LOVE is h e fulfi1Unfi of the Law. And that, and thrt done, i s true Christian spirituality.

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These tbin LUVH of Go r , shed abroad in our bearts

The Four Substitutes REAL Spiritual-rnindedness is tba mind

of LOVE for God is LOVE. So let us review our four SUBSTI-

" E S for spirituality in the light of God's Word.

1. "Though I speah with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a ti&- ling cymbal." {I COK. 1 3 : l ) . Did you ever hear one speak with the tongues of AN. GELS? Spiritual TALK, "tongues," "manifestations, are only a lot of wind, or a noise like beating old tin pans, if you h v e not LOVE.

2. "And though I have the gift of pm- phccy, and A U KNOIYLEDGE:" and,

3. "though I have ALL FAITH SO that I could removc mountnins, nnd have not LOVE, I am NOTHING." (v. 2).

4, "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LQVE, it projjteth mu (v. 3 ) .

What is it to have LOVE? The next four verses tell. Here is TRUE spiritual- rnindedness: "LOVE is very patient, very kind." Are

YOU? "LOVE knows PO jealousy; l o ~ e makes no parade, gives itself no airs, is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; love is neves gladdened when others go wrong; love is gladdened by goodness, always slaw to C X ~ O S C , al- ways eager to believe the best, always ho e. ful, always patient (I Cor. 13:4.7: df- fat's translation) ,

Read those three vetscs again, substi- tuting your own name wherever "LOVE" appears. Try it as a test on yourself, It will tell you how truly SPIRITUAL you are. Let us seek more real, genuine SPIRITUAL UINDEDNESS I

Democracy's FATE. . . continued fmm p q e six

GRACE. The material promises thc Bible terms the "birthright" - meaninf RIGHT of birth. Grace means undeserve free gift, not right by birth. The two sets of Abra- hamic promises are as far apart in nature IU the two poles. It is well understood that the "Sceptre" promise- the spiritual prom- ise of GRACE, including a line of kings culminating in Christ, through whom grace was to come to all nations-went to Judah. Consequently Jesus said "Salvation is of the Jews:" and Paul used the ex resslon 'TO the Jew first, end also to the &ntile." BUT, the Birthright UJUS JOSEPH'S, (I Cbron. j : ~ ) , whose desrendenlr W B are! It was handed down through the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh ( oslrph's two

ISRAEL. And today the British are EPH- FUIIM, and tho United States is W A S - SEH I

Thls "Birthrf ht" (which Jacob took from Esau), inctded material dominance;

sons), who headed the ten-tri I, ed House of

of the world-vast national resources, wealth. and power.

These 6 Fortreas-Gates in Prophecg Among the promises of material pos-

session -promises which are ours today- is this very significant detail;

"By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for btcuus# t b o ~ bat donu tbh tbh

son that fa blessing 1 w i t bless thee; , - , and thy segd shalt poneis the g d e pf bir enemits." (Gen. 22:16-17).

Notice, the tornise is unconditional, It is BECAUSE *graham had already obeyed. '"he promise of control of the world tc is repeated in Genesis 2460, where Re&- ah's brothers, Imbued with a spirit of pro- phecy in their parting blessing to her a!i she WRS leaving to become the wife of Is- aac, said:

"Be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed , b a r r ~ tbr gdt of those :ha! hate tbem."

Today we8 Abraham's literal racial dcsc cendants through Isaac and Jacob and JO- seph, are in actual possession O f the mt wealth and resources promised Abtaham for his future descendants. Today we own and control between two-thirds and three fourths of all the wealth, resources and raw materials of the whole round earth -the British and American peoples. Today we have what the Axis "have-nok" want. To- day we HAVE-or did have until Singa. pore fell-these GATES" of all enemy nations,

And WHY do we have thew th ing?

WHY We Have These Things "Because that Abraham obeyud m

whe, and kept my charge, M y Cod MANDMENTS, my statutes, and my laws," says the Eternal God, (Gen, 26:5).

To our forefathers, Abraham's children in Moses' day, God said:

"IF"- note the "if'--"JP ye walk in my statutes and keep my commnadmcots, and do them, then I will give you rain in due scasou, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trecs of the field shall yield their fruit,. , . and ye shall chase our enemies, and they shall fall befare you 6, the sword. And 6vo of you shall chase

an hundred, and an hundred af you shall put ten thousand to flight." (fxo. 263-8).

They might have enjoTed the wealth and power of the "Birthright" in the domioant world-ding power, ha thq kept God's commandments,

"But," continued the Eternal, "if ye will not hearken unto ma and will not do all these commandments, , . , they that hate you shall reign uver you . . , I will punish you yet suven timer for pour sins." (verses 14-28), The expression 'bwen times" i s a prophetic term meaning seven years of days-a literal 2,520 long carst

IP our forefarlien had obcyc% God, they could have had the birthright blessings then. But they disobeyed God utterly They

Pieare coniinlre OR p a p ren

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The United States in Prophecy PART FIVE

Israel's New Lanil We are read now, to search out the

cast Housc of Israel. We know they exist today as a nation, and a company of nations; powerful; looked upon as Gentiles. And when we h d them, we shall find a kin stilf today occupying the throne of Davif!

M a y passages of prophecy tell of these peo fe iu these latter days. Prophecies not to !c understood until this %me of the end." Prophecies containing a Message to be carried to these people by those to whom God reveals it!

P i it is necessary to 6x in mind these fasts:

The prophet Amos wrote, in the d a p of the 13th of the Xg kings of the House of Israd, (Amos 1:I) : "Behold the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom (How- of Israel-Judah had not yet sinned), snd 1 will destroy it (the kingdnm, or government, not the people) from off the fare of the carth, For, lo, I will corn- rmnd, and I will sift the H o w of Israel among d nations, like as corn is sifted in I Sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.'' (Amos 9:8-9).

Tbis prophecy usually is applied to tho scattered condition of the Jews. But it has nothing to do with the Jcws, or the House of JUDAH,, but refers to ten-tribed House of lSRAEL- driven to Assyrian captivity, then migrating from there and scattering moag other nations BEFORE the Jews were taken to Babylon. This prophecy says that ISRAEL, (not Judah), was to be sifted among other nations- these Israelites losing their identity-yet God has protected and kept them-"not the least grain shall fall

Jt was durh this time that the children.

days without a king," (Hos. 3:4). That the people did sift thru all nations is clear, Many New Testament passages indicate this. Although many of them still were scattered among various nations in the first centuq, A, D., a portion of them had become estab lished in a definite location of their own by Jeremiah's time-131 years after their orig- inal captivity.

But these Israelites who possessed the Birthright eventually were to come to a new land of their own, Jehovah says, in II Sam uel 7:10, and I Chron, 1 7 ~ 9 ; "Moreover, I w;U ap int a place for my yplt and w f P L A " f THEM," ( eremiah was commissioned to do the PWNTING of the throna among rhccq,) ,"that they may dwell In a place of their own and move no more," The context of the whole passa e shows this

whcrc these wttcred Israelites werc to

actual location o p1 the lost tribes of thc out-

upon the cart4"

of the HOW o fB Ism1 were to "abide many

refers, not to Palestine, but a % ifferent )and

What Has Gone Before: W E R E is the United States mentioned

in nible prophecy? To answer we must first go back to the beginning 04 the stran- gest, most fascinating story ever told, that of God's chosen people, Israel.

Few have noticed that the promises God made unconditionally to Abraham were TWO-fold: First, material promises of RACE. "Thou shalt be the father of MANY NATIONS," God promised. The Jews are but one nation. These material, national promises of RACE the Bible calls the "BIRTHRIGHT," nn inherited right by birth. Under the BIRTHRIGHT, God prom- ised Abraham for his fleshly descendants the nptional wealth, resources, and great- ness that have become ours since 1800 A.D.

Second, God gave Abraham apidtua! promises of GRACE - E dynasty of kings, culminating ~ I I Christ to become Kin of kings-the "one seed" (Gal. 8:8, l6), !hru whom ALL hations a m to be blessed-sal- vation, eternal life. Thie promise the Bible calls the SCEPTRE. The SCEPTRE was given to JUDAH, of whioh tribe Jesus was born, (Gen. 49:10), but the BIRTHRIGHT was JOSEPH'S! (1 Chron. 5:2 . two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manas- seh, (Gen. 48), Jacob said: "Let my name (ISRAEL) be named on them , , . and let them mow into a multitude." (the "many

In passing the BIRTHRIG €4 T on t o the

nation;;), When .the tweIve tribes had become a

nation, God made an UNconditional, unal- ternble covenant e t h King David (tribe of Judah), guaranteemg a perpetual dynasty thru all enerations FOREVER. The world believes &at dynasty ceased in 685 B.C.

Later the BIRTHRIGRT and SCEPTRE were divided into TWO NATIONS. Israel rejected King Rehoboam of David's dynasty. Two tribes, JUDAH and Benja- min only, split off from Israel, remained under Jerusalem rule of Rehoboam, weru called "The House of JUDAH," nicknamed "JEWS," possessing the SCEPTRE. Of them Christ was born, But the ten tribes, headed bv Ephraim and Manasseh, possess- inR the BIRTHRIGHT, retained the name "House of ISRAEL," never were called "Jew8." Thev were cafiied captive to As- Syria, 121 B: C., later migrating north an;

Afterwards JUDAH sinned woree than west, known as "The LOST TEN TRIBES.

Israel. The prophet Jeremiah was divinely commiesionqd as mediary, to tear down in Jerusalem, then BUILD and PLANT else- where, David's throne. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Judaea killed all the sons of King Zedekiah and a11 princes and nobles o f Judah. Zedekiah died in Babylon leadng:, as the world supposed, no heir to David'# throne. Then Jeremiah, performing the sec- ond half of his divine commission, went to King Zedekiah's daughters. With Baruch, his scribe, they were taken captive to Egypt, where they escaped, returned to Jerusalem, and from there . . . "the rem- nant that escaped of the House of Judah shnll AGAIN TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD, AND REAR FRUIT UPWARD," said the propheoy of Isaiah 87:3281. "In ISRAEL will I plant it." (Ezek. '17:23). WHERE was ISRAEL thenl and where now?

Pthcr, after being removed from the prom. iscd land of Palestine, and while that land wa lying idlo and In possession of Gentiles,

Notice carefully! After being removed from Palcstine, being sifted amm all nations, abiding many days without a%n& losing their identity, they are to be "planted" in a far-away strange land now to become their own. And, NOTE 'IT!-&r caching this placs, /hey brs t~ mow no morel That is, of caurssc, during this prcmt world.

While dhcr Prophecies Indicate thesc Birthright holders were to become a coIon. izing people, spreading around the world, it is plain that the spreading out must be from this appointed place, which mrtst re= main the "home" scat of government for David's throne.

Mark this cleady! Once this "place of their own" was reached, and the thronn of David planted there, THEY WERB TO MOVE NO MORE, Therefore, tbe lordion of ibis eo le TODAY is thr place where

2500 yean ago1 Therefore prophecia pertaining to r4b

day, or the location of this p p l c ot Brist'q return, will tell us the locat~on of Juemiah'r planting. The House of Israel b yut to IC- turn, at Christ's coming, to Palestine -yet ta plant grapes in Samaria their origid caun- try. Prophecies telling where they shall in that future day, migrate FROM, will reveal the location of "lost" temtribcd IS-1 The two sweeding ~*overtums" of tbc throne, too, must be located in this sama plase.

Lost ISRAEL Located! Without further suspcnac, let us

where prophecy locates these Birthtlght holders, now possessing the throne of David and earth's richest national blessin

Remember they arc dirtinyisfkj from Judah - the Jews - by various names, "E h. raim," "Joseph," "Jacob," "Rachel," b e mother of Joseph), Samaria, thelr former home, "Israel," etc.

According to Hmea 12;11 "E hmim followeth after thc cast wind" A D S " a t wind" travels vest. Ephra-m must have gone w~rl from Assyria.

When the Eternal swore to David to perpetuate his throne, He said: "I will Jet his hand (sceptre) in lhr sea,'' (Psalm S9: 25). T h e throne is to bc "set," planted, "in the sea,"

Thna Jeremiah the Eternal raid: "Back:' sliding Israel hath 'ustitied herself more than treacherous Ju ah. Go and proclaim these words toward ths NORm and rap, Return thou backslidia Isracl, ~4th the Lord." (Jet. 3rll-12). finel ir clcrrly dip tinguished from Judah. And iR these Jut d s messengers are to 80 "toward thc NXRTH" (of Jerusalem 1 in ardcr ta loe

leremia lf p anted Dauid's tbrone more than

d B

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otc lost lsmI and prodaim this warning. 50 the location, we now find, is toward the no& alsa west, and in the sea.

those days the how? of Ju c r ah sh a r I walk ,'In with the house of Israel, (margin, :a the Hoax of Israel), and they shall come to-

ther out uf thg land of tbs norrh to the Ed that"1 have iven for an inhcritancc unto your fathers.' At the future Jlxodus, at Christ's coming, they arc to return ta Palestine out of the land of the NORTH!

After saying, "How shall I give thee up, Ephnim?" the Eternal, speaking thru Hasea, says; "then the children shall trem- ble from :be WEST." (Hos. 11 :R,I 9).

Again: '"Behold, I will bring them from tbr no& co#n:ry, and gather them from tbe coar:s of :he earlb." (Jer, 31:8), This prophecy is for conslderation In the "latter days" (Jer. 30:24; 31:1), and is addressed 10 "Israel," (verses Z., 4, 9,) to "Ephraim," (versus 6, 9 ) , and "Samaria," (verse 5) . Here is added another hint- "the coasts of the ulrlh"-midently they are dominant at SCa.0

Referring to the House of JSRAEL {not Judah), (Is&& 43:3,6), God sap: "Behold these shall come from far: and lo, these from :ha NORTH and rom :bs WEST:

12). In the Hebrcw, the laoguage in which this was ori iaally Inspired, there is na word for "NORhT," but this term is des= ignsltd by the phrase, "the north and the west." It means, literally, the NORTH- WEST! The VuIgata renders "Sinim" as "Austmli," or "Australia." Sa we now have the location NORTHWEST of JERU. SAUM!

Hence, Israel of TODAY-Israel of the day of Jeremiah'$ "planting" of David's throne-is located specifically as NORTH, WEST of JEFWSAtEM, and M THE SEA!

Let us h t c this land more spedhcaJly! The m e 49th chapter of Isaiah begins

with this: "Listen, 0 Zrlcr, w t o me" The people addressed Israel, arc called "0 Isles" m the first verse a d "0 Israel In the 3rd

Thc 3lst chapter of Jeremiah, locating Israel in the "north country," say: "I am a father to b r a d and E hraim IS my first born . -, Hear the wor8of the Lord, 0 e

date it h t c i s k afar off." Jer. 31 $-lo), lands . . . thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob whom I have chosen." (Ise 41:S,8).

In ]a. 31:7, tha message to be^ dcclnred "in the isles afar off' (verse lo), is to be ohouted Ia 'the C€€IEF OF THE NA. TIQNS."

So, hdly, today, a~ in Jeremiah's day, tho.House of ISRABL, Is IN THE ISLES, wblch otc "in tbs mu,') the CHIEF of thc aatioas, NORTHWEST of Jerusalem! A coastdwelling, and therefore sea- dominant people!

Cucprdp there c ~ n be no mistaking that idend I T~!L a map of Europe, hy a line due

The 18th verse, same cha ter, sa

and these from the land o f Sinim." (Isa. 49:

W E .

nrtions*'-~Ephraim, Manass&)-"and (P o Again: 'Xeep silence be z ore me, 0 is-

SCIENCE and the SPADE For years learned men of Science main.

taincd that the art of writing was not h o w ? until long after the days of Moses. This provad, they argued, that Moses could not

ossibly have written the Pentateiuh. "here- fore the Bible, which claims Moses wrote these Books, could not possibly be true,

Even Jesus said lainly that Moses wrote these Books (Mar! 10:5; John 5:46). Science answered that Jesus merely shared the ignorance and prejudices of His day1

But the spade has since dug up the

PROOF, out of the ground, that it ppu these "scientists," and not Jesus, who werc full of ignorancr and prejudice. In the British Museum today you can see the Teld Arnarna tablets containing writing in thc cuaiform inscriptions dating 100 y a be- fore Moses! In another part of the Mosnrm

u will now scc the huge black stone eight Ee t high discovered by M, de M O C ~ .t Suss in December, 1901. It contains the mitten laws of King Hammurabi, who lived $00 years before Moses!

NORTHWZST of Jerusalem, across the conitnent of Europe, until you come to the sea, and then to the islands in the seal

This line take you direct to the BRITISH ISLES!

In the next number we continue this seriw, with amazing proof of Israel's iden- tity today.

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turned from His comandments, took up with the ways of the Gentiles around them They were righteous in their own !yes- even as we today. But evil sinners in the sight of God-even as we today! So the House of JSRAEL-the ten tribes who carried the Birthright-were driven into captivity, taken by Shalrnanezer to Assyria, in 721 B.C. For 2,520 Iang yms the Bkth- right inheritance was denied our race- because of disobedience.

But God had promised Abraham m ronditianally. The remise must be kept. That is wh God knited the punishment during whicK the material blessings should be withheld. T h e 2520 year limit expired in 1800 A.D, Beginning that year two little insignificant nations began suddenly to spurt to riches and material possessions in a manner unparallelled in all history. By 1804 London had become the finanual hub of the world, We grew rich and powerful. In war we always blundered, the Britisb always "muddled through"- but somehow things always seemed to "break" for us- and we aIways WM that last battle!

Birthright fathers 2520 Iong yeats because they dis- obeyed the Eternal God, WE are disobey. ing His commandments as grievously as any generation of the past!

How We Break God's Laws Today we are a self-righteous nation,

We exhalt ourselves fat our righteousness, look with contempt upon "the poor hca. then." We boast of the missionaries we

send to other lands tho number of Bibla we print. Our laad is full of churches- &) it is full of idah, tool And today we are AT WAR, facing HARD TIMES just ahead!

Here is our prophetic desctiptlon, Paul wrote it to Timothy:

"Mark this, there arc HARD TIMES coming in the last days. For men will be selfish, fond af money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, um grateful, irrwerent . . they will be treach. erous, reckless and conceited, prrfming p7mur8 to God-for though t h y keep nb 4 form of rejigion, they will have nothifig to do with it as a FORCE." (I Tm, 3:l-5) a

Yes, our land is full of churches. SO people join a church, and think they have it aU fixed with Gad! Then they go ahcsd and siill have other gods before the 6 ~ - ator-stiU put worldly pleasure, material desires, their business, profession, ~odd or worldly interests FIRST in their h- and relegate the Kingdom of God to ondary interest. It is not the M4IN thing in their lives,-just a formal and ocE1siod incidental. They still worsh1 at the shrine

of idalatry by idolizing their particular dc- nomination.

They itit! take God's name in rtrtn- yes, even in their churches, by calling u p His name while their hearts #re far from Him. "in vain," Jesus said, "do they worm ship me teaching for doctrines the corn

commandment of Gad of none c ect by your tradition," (Mark 7r7; Mat 19:6), Such worship is actual profanity! (See also rim 1216 ,and I John 2:4). They nill profane God's hol Sabbath-MI dishonor

envy, resentment, hatred, which the Bible s a p i s the spirit of murder-sM divorce and remarry and thus Ibe in addte au cordfng to God's commandments (&ark

this, far more than that of "a wicked and adulterous

generation ! They still are seIhh, eve0 dishancst 'ta

business dealing taking advantage where osible; still steaf God's tithe whfch rightly

k long to God's work (see Mal. 3:8) They s:dl carry tales and bear false wit& against their neighbms--:ill covet the ma-

of materialism, and even u cp d a ncw form

mandments of men," thus "tho

their patents - ~ t d P harbor jealousy, rpalicc,

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terial tbings and pleaswes of this world! And thus is EVER-Y commandment, &at- tered - men by the Christ-professing church- ing people of this land!

Anyno wonder! For these are the days when the congregations demand of their pastors "preach not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things!"--a people in these last days who will not hear the law of the Lord (Isa. 30:8.10). And so the pastors, feeding themselves instead of the fle. (Erek. 342-lo), are preaching from the pulpits of the land, 'The LAW is donu aWuy!" "Christ nailed His Father's Corn. mandments to the Crass! But I Jahn 2:4

the lie!

Our Certain Fate-UNLESS! Has God changcd? We have enjoyed, till now, the greatest

wealth, prosperity, material luxurg, ever cajoyed by man. No other people does now, or cvcr did, enjoy the rich material bless- ings God has lavished upon us-all be- cause ABRAHAM kept God's comrnmtd- mmkl God withheld these material bless- ings from our forefathers 2520 years bc- muse they refused to k p His command- ments. Now God has KEPT His promise to A b b Do you think He will now bless this nation IN WAR-permit this nation to CONTINUE in the peaceful posscssioo of thesc riches, while we continue to defy Him and His law? TODAY, God says, m l m wo now re-

pent and turn quickly to Him, He will take from us ALL thee giant-fortress- g a t e s - A u this vast wealth with which He has blessed us!

Hue it is! Read, ponder, study this rophccg! For it involves the fate of yow

Lme, our family, YOUR COUNTRY! It ING GOD!

"And the rsmnun::of Jacob (the last generation-us today) shall be among the Gentiles in fhe midst of many people as a lion amon the beasts of the forest . . . adversaries, nnd all thine enemies shall he cut off," (Micah 5:s-9) . Here is pictured our condition in prosperity and power- from 1800 until now!

But wait! Notice what nQw shall befall us in tbir Jarnu day when we have been so

"And it shall come to pass in :bd day, &UTH THE LORD, that I will cut off thy horses (war horses, Moffatt translation) out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: (not only war vehicles, but our automobiles are being taken away from us-no more arc being manufactured) : And I will cut off the cities of thy land (already this has happened in England by

and we have lost Manila), and %$%wn ALL tby strongbold?' (FORT- RESSES, Moffatt translation), (Micah 5 : 8-11).

There it is! Gad Almighty says in pldn hgurge that He will tnkc rwar ALL thoac "gates" now fortified. Arid if you will

is the L O I ~ OF THE BTERNAL LN-

thine han f shall be lifted up upon thine

powerful !

study Jeremiah 30 and 31, you will see that in this wry day our people-ISRAEL- are to be punished by the Almighty thtsugh the sword of invasion-at the hand of a

SINS WERE INCREASED!" says God. UNLESS America quickly WAKES UP,

repents, turns to God and puts her faith in Him, the punishment we already are suffering in greater and harder doses from week to week shall continue until there is invasion, defeat-and utter SLAVERY!

It i3 prophesied. It is in the BIBLE! GOD HAS SPOKEN!

America is being warned -through The PLAIN TRUTH - through the Radio Church of God-as Nineveh was warned by Jonah. Nineveh repented - and was spared. Oh, America- God's chosen people Israel-awake today, repent, and be s ared!

Today we are not blundering an%mud. d ing our way to victory, BUT TO DE- FEAT! Week by week it is happening! As a man said recently, "I can't understand it, It seems that everything we do goes wrong." Always it is the same story, "Too few2 and too late!"

CRUEL ONE -why? '"BECAUSE THY

WHY the Germans and Japs Are PREPARED!

T h i s is not "just another war." Presi. dent Roosevelt has told the nation that this war is utterly unlike any war before,

No, THIS THING IS OF GOD! It is a JUPGMENT SENT FKOM GOD!'" He i s now using the heathen and the Gentiles to PUNISH us for our sins-our hypo- critical, sanctimonious etended Christian-

see the handwriting on the wall, heed thc warning, and repent? Or must we suffer MORE ?

"For, behold, in those Jays, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivi of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather AL NATIONS, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat." (Joel 3:l-2) Nottce, the time is NOW!

And now notice verses 9-11: "Prnclaim ye this among th8 gentile^, PREPARE WAR , . . beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into s ears: let the we& (the 'have-not nations$ say, I am strong, Assemble yourselves and come, all ye heathen."

And so the Ja s and the Germans are

Gad ordained. We have sent repeated ship- loads of our old plowshares-dd junk and scrap iron-over to Japan. She has beaten it into implcmcnts of WAR-and the first bomb lobbed by a Jap sub over California soil was filled with old rusty safety-razor blades, and other sctap of American manu- facture, We are beginning to get our scrap- iron back! It i s bappsning'exactly a j GOD SAID I

Armies Do Not Win Ward And now America speeds frantically

her effort to arm, We have been forced to

ityl Already we are SU k FERING! Can't we

r p Yes, this is af GOD!

PREPARED-whi P e we are not! Just as

8 DEFENSIVE was of dttfition - which means a war in which we fall back, In- tending to inflict heaviest possible l o w 00 the enemy while we retreat,-- thus crippling the enemy men io his victo causing him to pay too high a price for% gains, hop ing to weaken him for the day whm wr war production can reach the proportions that will permit this nation to take the af- fensive, and then ta win.

But now it appears this Ii annot win-may cum lose tbr war I YEAR, unless som change is made! For to deto the Japs have conquered an Empire of fm- mensc riches - have became a self=refirnt Empire holding much former American wealth-and Jap losses in proportion to

ins have k e n extremely rmall! Instead of Eing weakened, Japan is growing stmngcr every day. The question of the hour now is, does America yet DARE to take the affen- sivc? It begins to appear that only by talc* ing the offensive, AT ONCE. can we prc- vent disaster. But we atill lack the trained men, the tanks, thc supplies, the planes, the ships, for this! In men, e m tmb, planes, and gwu we arc outnumbered by the ratio of 13 to 5.

Yet America appears to bc placing AEl her faith in MATERIAL armament-and in men. General MacArthur has done I heroic job, and so now many bqin to make him their gad "Madrthur will saw Australia," many have said, on hearing of his dramatic escape from Bataan.

But ARMIES DO NOT WIN WARS! Listen! "The Eternal wrccks the pur-

pan, of pagans. He brings to nothing what the nations plan . . . "he Eternal looks down from heavan . . , from where He sits, H e scans all who Inhabit the world; ARMIES DO NOT BRING VImORY TO A KING, the warrior is rescued by sheer strength, cavalry are in vain for vic- tov, them ir no winn?nng by the rtrun h 4 rhr/ NQ, thc Eternal's y e rests on $is worshippers, who rest their hopes u n His kindness, that HE may mc## 1 r 8m from dsuth." (Psalm 33:lO-19, Moffatt translation.)

What We Lack America today needs TOTAL defense!

And that means more than material wea ons and men--it means thc WHOLE A t MOR OF GOD-it means SPIRITUAL rearmament.

Today America lurks thr SPIRIT! The Germans are fighting as impired men with a loyalty to their "fuehrer" wc cannot seem ta understand. But all true Bible rtudenb aught to understand. For Hitter Is the "Beast" of Revelation -supernaturally in- spired by Satan (Rev, 13:2,4). The Japs fight as fanatics, bs a result of hundreds of yeas of heathen religious teaching, Ameri- ca, outnumbered 13 to 5 in physical arma- ment cannot con uer that satanic super-

merica nerds a HIGHER su ernotural pow- er-tJiat of the Creator G o ~ H i m e l f ! And

natural power by 9, uman e80i-t alone! A-

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without Him, and His power, America cannot win this time1

Yet America has forgotten God! We hava turned from Him and His command- ments. We ding to mere empty FORM of nligion-but Gad Is not the empowerillg FORCE in our lives! Today America is taking one lidring

after anothur. Today this nation stands in h r deadlier pcd than the people realize, pr even deram of! The hour of God’s judgments has come! Our ways have not brought happiness to our people. In love, God is now taking measures to bring us to repentance and a different way of life that will bring happiness to all.

This nation -including ~ Q H , ersooall -MUST SHORTLY NOW s& Cod QvaRao! In one of two ways this shall happen. Either we must immediately sur- tender to God and His laws, or, week after week, the material pressure will be iocrcascd. Wcck after wcek we shall con- tinue to !ox battles, Week after week God will continue to takc away from our people the automobiles, the radio sets, the electric refrigerators, the gadgets, the fine clothes, the luxuries we have placed as other gods before Him! We shall be utterly stri ped

or not! Yes, finally, even the necesiirieJ we shall lose GOD IS DEALING WITH US NOW!

God will not force you as an individual, nor the nation as a whole, into spiritual surrender to Him But He will permit these mi1ltai-y defeats and disasters to con- tinue week after week until a stronger mili- tary power does force us to physical sur- render, unless we will voluntarily surrender to God before that. happens!

America‘s Way to Victory! The way to victory for America i s

open- and there is now only one way! A loving God, whose chosen people we are, pleads with us;

“IF my people, which we called by my name,” He pleads, “shall humble them selves, and ray, and seek my face, pnd

hear from heaven, and w d forgive their #in, and WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.” (11 Chon, 7:14 . Can’t we see that God is gradu y taking fm w, througlx priorities and war re- striaians and lack of materials, all the material luxuries we have placed ahead of Him in our lffections? Can’t we see that we ~ s e lasing DUT sons .. and will lose them ~ t h rapidly increasing momentum in the weeQ and months ahead? Can‘t we see that the vast wealth and resources God bestowed upon us, BECAUSE ABRAHAM KEFT HIS COMMANDMENTS, are now being taken from us? Art we so blind that we can’t see that those giant fortress- tes u n which our matedd scar1 rcsts,%av;

this is a JUDGMENT FROM GOD?

of these material gads, whether we li R e it

(urn from c R eir wicked wa $, then will I

“hem is Go cl, s plea- and His rornirel alp

b c p n ta go? Am we blfn 3 to lea that

If America will repent-will throw the stiff formalism and sacial emptiness out of its churches -will quit turning God‘s hdp Word upside down, and acknowledge that sin is the transgression of God’s laws - and change her WAY OF LIFE to coo- form to God’s commandments - if America will now plunge her whole heart and soul into an inspited TOTAL DEFENSE- putting on the WHOLE ARMOR OF THE LIVING GOD, as outlined in Ephesians 6:IO-lS-then you are promised on the authority of Jesus Christ that the Japs and the Germans will fall befora us.

But if America refuses and rebels, America must learn that the Eternal God brings to NOTHING what. the nations plan-that God in heaven contfols and guides the destiny of nations. Then Ameri- ca shall go on sufTering, suffering, suffer- ing. Week by week OUR punishment shall now be increased! Yes, week by week until SUnJ3ENI.V,“thovgh w e little e x F i!, we shall be conquered by those Go 1n HIS prophecies said should be PREPARED to conquer !

M U S T America learn he lesson the bard way?

But, men SO-sea the LOVE of God toward us. Our ways have not brought happiness to our people. In defeat, if we must finally LOSE this war, as the sIaves of a cruel and despicable enemy, our people finally will come to their senses. And, fi- nally, stripped of our foolish pride, our vain intellectual false teachings, our sel- fish possession of wealth we did not put to a right and good use our people shall then be HUMBLED, and in their humility, their poverty, their slavery, they shall corn$ to their senses, and REPFiNT, Then they shall ABHOR themselves for their former evil ways. The shall then begin to seek the Eternal their dod. They shall, even in theit gross darkness, grope after HIS ways and desire to do them.

The Final END bf It All And then, while jn slavery our people

are learning this bitter but profitable les- son, God will pour out the vids of His wrath upon our conquerors, that they, too, may bc btought to the Truth. Then He shall send again JESUS CHRIST, whom the heavens have received until the Times of Restitution of all things. {Acts 3: 20-2 1) ,

Hitler’s pro osed New World Order

SPACE Hitler shall be permitted to rule.

the one HOPE of all the nations-shall END the Nazi dream of world-rule! Yes, then CHRIST shall ieturn to earth

-literally and in perion! As KING of IUngs, and LORD of lords, He shall rule ALL nations sternly, et justly that they may find-PhACBI Ht coming will Le.98 cue our repentent peoplc - scattered, then, as helpless 51aves around the world. His

shall never stao B ! For lust a very SHORT

The SECOND COMING OF CJ3RIST-

comiqg shall XIBERATE them from their cap tad

Then, to OUR people, God says: “all that devour thee shall be dmonrcd-

and all thine adversaries, me on8 of them,

thee shall be a spoil , . , for 1 will re- store HEALTH unto thee, and I will heal thee of ihy waunds, saith the Lord . + in t b latttrr days ye sbafl consider it,” (jer

Then our people shall be taken back 0 the land of our forefathers-Palestine, There, living God‘s Commandments, wc shall be blessed-our land shall yield vast riches-our wealth shall be restored, a d multiplied-but then we shall know how to use it! We shall find happiness. and PEACE!

And Christ shall reign, and we shall reign with Him-for ONE THOUSAND YEARS! W e shall know that GOD IS LOVE, and His ways ate RIGHT ways for usf

But, in the meantime, WHY MUST WB SUFFER SO HORRIBLY TO L W ? America need not suffer this horrible iml pending defeat. But ONLY GOD can 8 a v ~ America now1

And so, finally, we plead with each reader, won’t you do two things2.

1. PRAY for America, our beloved country that we all love! Not a stiff formal prayer that God will be on our side-but R heart-broken, deadly-earnest prayer that our people will WAKE UP, and REPENT, and “URN TO GOD, before it is too late! Pray for President Rogsevelt-that he will realize more sdemnly his great need of God’s wisdom guidance, and power, and that God will bless him with It abundr antly.

2. Give your heart, unreservedly, to God, NOW! Let this national revival be. gin with YOU. And wen though the nit- tion QI a whole zefuse to bend its stubborn will to God, you, personally, need not suf€er the terrible things ahead. God offers per- sonal protection to YOU-if you will now surrender ALL the way to Him! But it means SURRENDER, utter, full, complete! It means a CHANGE in your Iik-a change from the ways of those about you - from the customs and ways of this time, It means a change to GOD’S WAYS u outlined in His Commandments 1 Through Jesus Christ as Saviour, find your way to God. Paur your heart our to Him in prayer. STUDY your Bible, as the guide to yout new way of living-through the living faith of Christ, L M i the way you see ru- vealed in those sacred, inspiring pages, Do this, and yau shall be accounted worthy to escape ALL things now soon to come to pass, and to STAND before the Son of man! (Joel 2:11-22; Luke 21:36).

shall go into captivity, and % 7 that spoil

30:16-L7, 24).

Tell your nd hbon, friends, telatka, they too can sccefvvc the PLAIN l”PH aach issue, fre0, if they will request it fot themelves.