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This world, with its nations, its societies, its ways of life,
is fast coming to ITS CLOSE. We are at the END of this present
evil world.
Do you realize WHY God has held world events up, delaying the
coming of CHRIST, of the GREAT TRIBULATION, and the DAY OF THE LORD?
It is clearly apparent now -- though we could not have realized
it three or four years ago. THIS WORK is PREPARING THE WAY for
Christ's coming and the PEACEFUL WORLD RULE of the KINGDOM OF GOD.
And in the first FORTY YEARS of this Work that Christ is doing
through us, we have gotten His final MESSAGE over to only those
nations from the "lost" House of Israel -- that is, the United
States and Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, South
Africa, and Western Europe. But we have not been able to get this
GOOD NEWS of the coming KINGDOM OF GOD into these BIG-population
countries where God is now opening the doors for me.
I want you to notice this. First, notice the prophecy in
Malachi 3:1: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant...."
It is a prophecy, not only of Christ's coming to earth, but
of a Messenger with a MESSAGE, preparing the way immediately ahead
of His coming.
Now a number of New Testament passages refer to John the Baptist
being that messenger. And, indeed, he was, with the message of
REPENTANCE, preparing for Jesus' coming more than 1900 years ago.
But Christ is COMING AGAIN, very soon now, to RULE and set up
the KINGDOM OF GOD on earth.
Now go back and read the rest of Malachi's prophecy. That
prophecy speaks primarily of His SECOND COMING IN POWER! Read it!
Beginning with verse 2: "But who may abide the day of his coming?
and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's
fire, and like fuller's soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and
purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge
them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Eternal an
offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Eternal, as in the days of old, and
as in former years. And I will come near to you to judgment; and
I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the
adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me,
saith the Eternal of hosts" (Mal. 3:2-5).
Jesus did none of these things when He came as the meek "Lamb"
to be slain for our sins. The whole prophecy speaks primarily of
His SECOND COMING in POWER to RULE.
Who, then, is even NOW preparing the way for His second coming