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too soon cool down in our LOVE for Christ and HIS WORK.
Those brethren I came among were humble, sincere, strict
Sabbath keepers, but as a whole, spiritually DEAD--especially their
ministers. Still there were some among them who had that first
love of the TRUTH. But they did NOT proclaim Christ's Gospel of
the KINGDOM OF GOD, nor even understand what it was. They were
bent on preaching a "third angel's message."
God allotted 6,000 years for humanity to go its own way--
following Adam's example. Men organized their own societies,
governments, forms of education and commerce, not realizing they
were being swayed by Satan in the process. Man is writing the
lesson by EXPERIENCE--going Satan's WAY--the way that can only
bring evil results.
Now that 6,000 years is almost up, the KINGDOM OF GOD is about
to take over and GOVERN this earth. The time has arrived when God
wants the imminency of His KINGDOM to be ANNOUNCED to all the
world.
The living Christ trained and chose me to carry out that
staggering and tremendous GREAT COMMISSION.
Brethren, NO MAN, of himself, could have decided to do this,
and, on his own human ability and power alone, have RAISED up this
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD, have developed the facilities and
machinery
for BROADCASTING THAT ANNOUNCEMENT--by radio, printing press,
television, personal preaching to THE WORLD. This WORK OF GOD has
grown into a great, powerful WORLDWIDE and WORLD-KNOWN work.
There is but one answer. No one can believe that I alone had
the ability and the power to accomplish something that never before
in the history of man has been done! GOD DID IT, though He used me
as a human servant. NO MAN BY HUMAN ABILITY COULD HAVE ACHIEVED
IT.
Yet God always has worked through ONE MAN, surrounded by
helpers.
Early in my studies--1926-27--God opened my eyes to the fact
that, while Revelation 2 and 3 covered the conditions in the WHOLE
CHURCH from its beginning to Christ's coming, these two chapters
also
represented successive ERAS, with a certain characteristic
dominating
each. WE are the Philadelphia era at the specific TIME when
God is having to OPEN DOORS to nations where those doors have been
CLOSED to Christ's message.
Another vital NEW TRUTH God revealed to me was our
identification as the lost sheep of the House of Israel (Matt.
10:6)
--as distinguished from the Jews (see booklet, United States and
British
Commonwealth in Prophecy). Another was the fact that ANGELS first