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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
You live in a world of awesome progress, but paradoxically of appalling
evils.
WHY?
It's a world held captive, loving its captivity.
T
HE NEWS
has been
replete with stories
of kidnappings and
aircraft hijackings.
Bi zarre among them was the
Patty Hea rst kidnapping, in
which the victim was bra in–
washed into preferring the
criminal life of the kidnap–
pers to the respectable status
of her parents. Happily, Pat–
ty's mind later became
cleared of the delusion.
But most astonishing of all is
the actual fact of the colossal
kid n app ing of all time- in
which the captive for
6,000
years has willed to pursue the
life and evi l philosophy of the
archkidnapper Satan the devil.
The willing victim in this case
is the world that inhabits this
planet earth!
Y
et th is wor Id
has been so completely de–
ceived that it cannot realize
what actually has happened to
it.
In this 20th century a world of
February 1984
awesome progress and material
development is so blinded by the
deceptions of tbe superkidnapper
that it cannot understand the para–
doxical fact that its progress is
accompanied with appall ing and
still escalating evi ls inflicting inde–
scribable suffering, frustration and
death.
1 have enjoyed prívate conversa–
tions with many kings, presidents,
prime ministers, the great and near
great of industry and education.
I
have discussed with them national
and world problems, personal ,
social, economic troubles. They are
faced with crises, fears and worries
completely beyond their human
abilities to solve. There seem to be
no solutions to the human dilem–
ma.
In a famous law school a profes–
sor of Jaw devoted 30 minutes of a
speech explaining that lawmaking
bodies, judges and supreme courts
are unable to determine right from
wrong on many knotty problems
before the courts.
WHY?
You live in a world almost 6,000
years along on its course of history.
You see the world as it is today at
this advanced stage of civilization,
with its systems of organized socie–
ty.
It 's like coming in on a motion
picture already far along on its
sequence of events. Not under–
standing what led up to the present
sequence of tbe story, you find
yourself perplexed to understand
what you are viewing.
If
we are to
UNDERSTAND
what
ÍS
happening in
this world- and WHY-we must
backtrack 6,000 and more years.
We must bring into view the ori–
gins, the causes, the events that
went before and led up to the per–
plexities of our day. In no other
way can we understand the present
and look into the future.
Overview in Retrospect
We look back far into prehistory, at
the beginning of life and all
things.
There can be no understanding
of the present without a right
knowledge of origins. There is no
greater cause to present-day per–
plexity than the false premise now
holding universal acceptance in
modero education- the theory of
evolution .
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have learned, in a lifetime now
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