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their slaves, were taken with them. The Assyrians stopped in the
land we call Germany today. The Israelites journeyed on into
western Europe, and the British Isles. Ephraim-Manasseh settled in
Britain. The name "ISRAEL" was to be named on THEM (Gen. 48:
10-16).
Now the man Ezekiel was a prophet. He wrote down the
prophecy. But he was not the "WATCHMAN" -- and HE never delivered
that warning. Notice, Ezekiel 3:1, 4-5. His message and warning
was to the house of Israel -- NOT Judah. But Ezekiel never went to
or saw the House of Israel. He lived more than a hundred years
AFTER their captivity. He was among the JEWISH captives, in
Babylon. The House of ISRAEL had migrated northwest toward the
British Isles before he wrote. He merely WROTE the prophecy.
The prophecy was not for his day. Prophecy is a history
of FUTURE events -- to happen after it is written. God was to
raise up a 20th-Century "Ezekiel" -- a different person -- not a
prophet writing FUTURE events to occur, but A SPEAKER to SPEAK and
PROCLAIM this Warning, AT THE TIME when the event prophesied is
about to happen. God is using THIS WORK, of which He has drafted
YOU as a PART, to proclaim this vital warning.
God is using THIS WORK -- us -- as His instruments. But
as individuals, we do not all have the same part in the whole Work
(see I Corinthians 12). First, God called me, then others in this
great world-wide Commission. In earlier life God took me through
the newspaper and magazine field, giving me training as a news
reporter, and magazine writer. Through these years, many others --
graduates of Ambassador College -- have been trained for their
active parts in this Work.
So, dear Co-Workers, God has set us as His WATCHMEN. We do
watch world events. A few days ago, Garner Ted Armstrong, with
Lyle Christopherson, our PLAIN TRUTH photographer, flew down to
Cape Kennedy to WATCH the blast-offs of the TWO huge rockets.
These men were the eyes and ears for YOU and me -- and for some two
or three million PLAIN TRUTH readers, and THIRTY-FIVE million who
have heard my son's vivid "WORD'S-EYE VIEW on radio. These men,
at that spectacular and significant world event, were our WATCHMEN.
They gave us what we could not get watching on T.V. -- what no
newspaper or other magazine did -- its MEANING, fulfilling
prophecy!
And now TODAY Mrs. Armstrong and I are packing our
luggage and preparing to start, early tomorrow morning, on a jet
flight around the world, to observe and WATCH -- but also to expand
this Great Work of God still farther. We fly first to Sydney,
Australia -- clear down on the other side of the world. I hope
there to arrange for the use of full-page or double-page
advertising space in the widest-read magazines, to PUBLISH Christ's
Message on that continent, continuously. We maintain a large
office staff in Sydney, and we look forward to meeting again many
graduates of Ambassador College now stationed there.
Next we fly on to Manila, capital of the Philippines, to
visit our staff in our Manila office. After three days there, we