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When Christ Himself comes, as reported in advance in the
l9th chapter of Revelation, and in verse 19: "And I saw" (the
Apostle John is here reporting what he saw in vision was going
to happen), "the beast (Roman ruler over a re-united Europe),
and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together
to MAKE WAR AGAINST" the descending Glorified CHRIST!
If the governments of MAN, and their armies are going to
FIGHT AGAINST CHRIST HIMSELF at His coming, HOW MUCH MORE must
we expect that Satan would lead human political powers to fight
against Christ's ADVANCE-AMBASSADOR ANNOUNCING HIS SOON COMING!
And the prophecies show WHY they object to Christ sending His
Apostle now to Kings, Emperors, Presidents and Prime Ministers
around the world in order to open the doors of those countries
so we may carry Christ's last GOSPEL MESSAGE INTO THEIR COUNTRIES
TO THEIR PEOPLES, and they call such expenditures "siphoning off
millions of dollars" for our personal pockets.
I say to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, there has been
NO "siphoning off" of ANY monies. But there has been the expenditures
of what in our judgement, based on years of experience, is needful
for Christ's purpose! And, of all departments of God's Work--radio
broadcasting, television production and broadcasting, magazine
publishing, books and booklets--the ministry to local churches
around the world, the College, the expenditures for this purpose
(Christ said "GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD with HiS Gospel MESSAGE")
have been the LOWEST of all phases of the whole great worldwide
Work! It has cost around $1 million per year out of the Work's
total expenditures of $70 million! Yet this has been THE MOST
IMPORTANT PHASE OF THE WORK, AND COST THE LEAST!
NOW TO BIBLE PROPHECY!
Where are we, right now, in the time-sequence of Biblical
PROPHECY? We are at the very first beginning of the period called
"the DAY OF THE LORD." The DAY OF THE LORD is a prophesied time
spoken of in more than thirty different prophecies in both Old
and New Testaments! We are in the time, right now, when the Living
Jesus Christ is sending through us, WORLDWIDE, His last and final
Message of LOVE, PEACE AND HOPE to a hopeless and dying world.
This is the very first PRELIMINARY beginning of the DAY OF THE
LORD.
And what is "THE DAY OF THE LORD?" It follows the
six-thousand-year period that might be called the "DAY OF MAN"
--but more accurately, the "DAY OF SATAN." This day of MAN,
swayed by Satan as the "god of this world" (II Cor. 4:4),
began when God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden,
placing arch-angels with flaming swords to prevent thereafter
mankind entering and taking of the "tree of life"--symbolic
of God's Holy Spirit. For 6,000 years now, MAN has been CUT
OFF from contact with GOD--except the comparative FEW God has
called and chosen for special service preparatory to the
coming KINGDOM OF GOD! But Satan has swayed mankind his
way this 6,000 years!
The "DAY OF THE LORD" is that space of time when GOD will