Basic HTML Version
"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Jerusalem, Israel May 8, 1956
Dear Co-Workers with Christ in America:
GREETINGS, from JERUSALEM! These past three weeks in the
ancient lands of the Bible have been the most eventful---the most
eye-opening---of my life!
This has been a very necessary---a most important,
experience. It has made the Bible an entirely new and different
Book. It certainly ought to make a dynamic change in my ministry,
and the pity is that this trip could not have been made at least 15
years ago. But today this land is the very center and erupting
point of world disturbance and prophecy fulfillment. So it seems
this is the time we were destined to come!
Always before the events of the Bible---the places, the
people, seemed mystic, far-off, unreal. The people of the Bible
didn't seem like OUR people we all know at home. These lands
didn't seem real---but like some far-away mystic land that was not
like our earth, and not REAL like the earth in America. It didn't
seem as if Abraham, Moses, David, Soloman, Elijah, Jesus, Peter or
Paul actually walked on the very same earth---on ground that was
just like OUR ground.
But now I have walked where Jesus walked. I have been to
the places where He went. I have seen where He was born, and where
He died, and where He was buried and resurrected from the dead. I
have walked to the garden where He walked and where He sat and
talked with His disciples, and have been on the Mount of Olives
from where He ascended to heaven. And it's all the very same kind
of earth, the same kind of ground we have in California, and other
parts of America!
We've been down in Egypt where Joseph was Prime Minister,
and where Jacob's children later were slaves. We've crossed the
Nile in a boat, and seen the bull-rushes along its banks, just like
those where Moses' mother hid him when he was a baby.
AND IT'S ALL REAL!
We have been over the same trail the children of Israel
wandered for 40 years---and it IS a wilderness of desert and barren
mountains. The difference is, we were privileged to FLY over this
route from Egypt to Jerusalem in comfort in around two hours,