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second, gamma radiation would kill everything within six miles. In 10 seconds
the
fireball would consume everything within 280 square miles. The following blast
wave would flatten remaining structures within four and a half miles. Radiation
fallout would render drinking water unfit in streams and lakes. In a word,
civilization as we know it would disappear over areas covered. Imagine one such
H-bomb dropping on each of the following cities: New York, Washington, D.C.,
Boston, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City,
Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. The United
States
would be DEVASTATED!
Bible prophecies say it will happen! Listen: Most religious leaders do
not
understand these prophecies. Speaking of OUR PEOPLES--the United States,
Britain, Canada, Australia, "In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid
waste" (Ezekiel 6:6). "And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,
and
the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Eternal" (Ezekiel
12:20)--and the latter part of that verse speaks of a time immediately prior to
the
second coming of Christ.
Jesus spoke of this same time, as recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and
Luke 21. "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should
be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved [alive]: but for the elect's sake
those
days shall be shortened" (Matthew 24:21-22).
Not only will that unthinkable time be cut short, there is a promise to
God's
own people--his Church--"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I
also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the
world, to try [the Great Tribulation] them that dwell upon the earth"
(Revelation
3:10). Also (Revelation 12:14), "And to the woman [God's true Church] were given
two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her
place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time [3 l/2 years] from
the
face of the serpent" [Satan the devil].
Also the promise: "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at
thy
right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee" (Psalm 91:7).
We are living in the most tremendous days of world history--the very END
TIME, the END of this present evil, unhappy, violent world--just prior to the
second coming of Jesus Christ in supreme almighty POWER and GREAT GLORY,
as KING of kings to take over RULE OVER ALL NATIONS in a new ONE-WORLD
GOVERNMENT establishing PEACE, righteous living, with eternal salvation
offered to ALL!
God inspired a prophecy in Malachi 3:1-5, saying he would send a human