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the following BULLETIN, early next month, I shall take up this
subject more fully. And perhaps a series of articles dealing with
it still more fully in coming issues of The PLAIN TRUTH.
First, it is important to realize that most of the
PROPHECIES of the bible were inspired, written, and preserved thru
the centuries to reveal the events of NOW--and the IMMEDIATE FUTURE
--our GENERATION! Few have ever realized that--but it's TRUE! We
have now reached that period called by Daniel (Moffatt translation)
"the CRISIS AT THE CLOSE." We are the very last generation of this
age! An AGE is ending before our eyes! The ways, the customs,
that have developed the present civilization upon earth--all ways
and customs contrary to GOD'S LAW--are climaxing in one grand final
crisis of CHAOS, DESTRUCTION, and DEATH!
For nearly 6,000 years Satan has held this earth under
his invisible sway! Originally his name was LUCIFER--meaning
"Shining Star of the Dawn"--and archangel, perfect in wisdom and
beauty. But he reasoned that God's Law--the principle of LOVE--of
love toward God in humility, obedience, and reverence as Superior;
of love and service toward fellow-creatures--was all wrong. He
exalted himself. Pride entered his heart. He said, "I will
ascend. I will exalt MY throne above the angels of God. I will
RIVAL the Most High." Lust for GETTING--the spirit of RIVALRY--
COMPETITION entered his mind. So his name was changed to SATAN--
meaning ADVERSARY, or COMPETITION. And so God gave him ONE
MILLENNIAL WEEK to prove thru human experience that his theories of
competitive GETTING--of greed and vanity--were wrong. "Six days,"
said God, "thou shalt labor and do all thy work (of deceiving
humans by his philosophy); but the SEVENTH millennium is the
Sabbath of the Eternal. In it thou shalt not do any work."
For six millenniums the world has been under his sway.
A competitive-type civilization has been built. Men have turned
from God's Law--Satan has convinced them it was "done away." Men
exalted themselves and one another. Men sit in authority over
their fellows. Lust, greed, selfishness, is the activating
principle of life. Competition has become ORGANIZED. And now we
behold the fruitage of this way of life--the grand smashing chaotic
CLIMAX OF 6,000 years of this type civilization! Yes, "sin is the
transgression of the LAW" (I John 3:4), and "ALL have sinned."
Look and BEHOLD THE RESULT!
And so, where are we now, and what lies ahead? In His
Olivet prophecy, Jesus listed six general events to occur at this
end-time (Mat. 24): 1) False christs and false prophets preaching
false christs, throwing a fog of deception over the world as a
smoke-screen for events to follow; 2) wars, climaxing in WORLD WAR,
of which we now are in the second phase; 3) famines; 4)pestilences;
5) the GREAT TRIBULATION when the saints shall be persecuted and
martyred, followed immediately by 6) the heavenly SIGNS of darkened
sun and moon, and falling stars, together with the SIGN in heaven
of Christ's coming, and, 7) the actual SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
But when Jesus comes, every prophecy describing the
condition of natural ISRAEL shows the Israelites in a condition
of CAPTIVITY and slavery, scattered among nations all over the