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WHY does God allow it? Why did He allow Stephen to be
stoned to death? Why did He allow the apostles to meet violent
death in martyrdom? You know He DID allow it--and they were MEN OF
GOD, killed because they were willing to be in God's service! Let
me tell you, dear Co-Workers, every minister in this great work of
God realizes fully that he may at any instant be called upon to lay
down his life for God's Work. I did not know until after my son
died that he had an abiding premonition that he was going to be
called on to glorify God, in furtherance of God's Work, as a martyr
by violent death. He confided this to his wife before marriage,
and mentioned it a number of times after marriage. He didn't
know HOW, or when. But he had given his life to Jesus Christ who
bought and paid for his life (and ours) on the cross, for God's
service in whatever way God chose to use it--and he was willing to
give up his life.
We are now in the VERY LAST DAYS of this evil world. I have
said that God will soon intervene in world affairs. Co-Workers,
God began intervening in world affairs 24« years ago in the
smallest and least-noticed manner--proclaiming over merely a part
of one county in Oregon the GOOD NEWS of Christ's coming and the
KINGDOM OF GOD to rule the earth and bring us PEACE and salvation.
Satan didn't pay a great deal of attention to it then--it was too
small to notice. But like the grain of mustard seed, it grew and
grew, and multiplied in scope and power. At the end of a 19-year
time-cycle, the first week in 1953, it was covering the entire
United States--and that very anniversary week God opened the door
for His Gospel to leap over into Europe. The early Church was
given exactly two 19-year periods to carry the Gospel to the world
in an organized manner. God has allotted two 19-year periods to US
WHOM HE HAS CALLED AS CO-WORKERS WITH CHRIST to complete the
shouting of that Gospel to the whole world as a witness before
there is a FAMINE of hearing the true Word of the Eternal. WE ARE
NOW DEEP INTO THAT LAST 19-YEAR PERIOD.
Today Satan is getting mighty disturbed. He knows how this
work is growing with increasing acceleration. This year it has
taken on greater expansion than ever before. Satan is AROUSED, and
"as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (I Pet. 5:8), is
attacking this work and those of us in it. Today Satan is WROTH
with us in God's Work, and is striking out to make WAR with this
very LAST GENERATION of God's people who keep His Commandments and
have the testimony (Bible) of Jesus Christ (Rev. 12:17), because he
now knows he has but a short time (verse 12) until Christ is coming
to depose him entirely.
Brethren in Christ, these are the days when God is ALLOWING
us to go through a terrible time of TRIAL and TEST (Dan. 12:9-10).
Prophecy says plainly THIS IS THE TIME! This is the time of James
1:1-4; I Peter 1:3-9; and 4:12-13 PLEASE OPEN YOUR BIBLE AND READ
THESE. But, as God tells you and me in Heb 12:4: "Ye have not yet
resisted unto blood, striving against sin. We MUST now put on the
WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD (read Eph. 6:10-18) or we shall be helpless, and
fall, and fail to attain salvation in God's soon-appearing Kingdom!
We must press on and fight harder than ever!
If we sometimes cannot understand WHY God does not heal now,