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individuals are facing severe personal trials in health, marriages and family
troubles. Countless letters addressed to me show a sense of futility,
frustration--some on the brink of suicide.
You can see that I am not only deeply concerned over published news, but
deeply touched personally by personal reports and appeals coming to me daily.
Dear Subscribers, I simply have to tell you what this sudden heating up
in
personal and world troubles really means.
In the coming 50th Anniversary issue of The PLAIN TRUTH--the February
1984 number--will appear a very sobering article I have written, captioned "A
WORLD HELD CAPTIVE." It is the first of a series of three or four articles which
will be published in a new book by the same title.
People simply do not understand the world we live in--how it got
started--what has caused and led up to the frightening BAD NEWS you read and
hear daily through the public news media. God Almighty the Creator reveals this
entire TRUTH in his Word, the Holy Bible--but it seems even the theologians
have not seen the REAL MESSAGE that is there revealed. ONLY in The PLAIN
TRUTH and accompanying available literature--all absolutely free--can you find
a true UNDERSTANDING. That is why The PLAIN TRUTH has become one of the
largest mass-circulation magazines on earth today--now published in six
languages, and beginning the 50th Anniversary number, seven--English, French,
German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and soon Norwegian.
The PLAIN TRUTH is unique--it gives you the MEANING of what is
happening in world news, the MEANING of human life--the CAUSES of personal
and world troubles which seem unsolvable.
Millions, besides yourself, look forward eagerly for each month's issue
of
The PLAIN TRUTH. Millions write to me--many about their own personal
problems--many requesting additional literature I have offered (FREE) in these
semiannual letters I write personally to our subscribers. I have just received a
tabulated report from our Data Processing Center, which reveals that since 1955
more than four million subscribers have written to me in response to these
personal letters from me. Most of those have asked for additional booklets or
books--all sent free, and with no request for money or contributions. But many
tell
of their own problems and trials, and I am deeply touched and moved by the
conditions these millions of our own subscribers are facing.
Now WHY all these seemingly unsolvable problems that cause so much
suffering and anguish? What CAUSES all these troubles we have to struggle and
wrestle with? Your Bible says, "For we wrestle NOT against flesh and
blood"--that is, other people--"but against principalities, against powers,
against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places" (Eph. 6:12). And a better translation is "against wicked spirits"--
meaning
Satan the devil and his demons who do RULE this world and hold it
captive--although even human leaders in the world do not realize it.
Now WHAT ABOUT THIS SATAN THE DEVIL? Did GOD create a devil to