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PERSONAL FROM
Therels a
Way
of
Escape
T
TELEVISION
movie on
nuclear war,
The
Day
After,
has shaken a
world from its complacent indifferent
slumber. Too many people were getting used
to violence and war and threats of war.
The world was too busy pursuing material
goods to be muc h concerned about the
oncoming
NUCLEAR
Wo rld War
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that
W!LL,
unless prevented by Almighty God , simply
e rase human life from this planet!
Soft words and pretty speeches did not arouse
people out o f this pleasant dream. l t took a
jolt!
When we at tempted to warn our readers with words
strong e nough to arouse, 1 received letters saying:
"Cancel my subscription! That article frightened
me." Yes, IF YOU ARE TO CONTINUE TO
LIVE,
you
need
to be frightened- enough to take the
action
that will
SAVE YOUR LIFE!
But, you say, what can 1 do? Well , there is
something you
must
do
rF
you are to escape the
agonies of and probable terrifying death in, the
coming prophesied G reat Tribulation!
VES, YOU CAN ESCAPE ALL THIS!
That is what we are trying to make our readers
understand!
God Almighty
wi/1
intervene. He
wi/1
prevent
entire cosmocide! But he wi ll
not
intervene to stop
the carnage
until
man has come to the very end of
his rape! So long as man thinks he can save himself,
without God, the Eterna! will let him go on trying.
God will not intervene until man's last hope is gone.
God will never allow man to accuse him, saying:
March 1984
"Your intervention was unnecessary and tyrannical!
We could have saved ourselves if you had not used
your arbitrary God-power to intervene."
God 's final last-minute intervention will
FOLLOW- not
prevent- this
Great Tribulation that
will be World War Ill.
But,
1
repeat, YOU CAN
escape
ALL THIS!
l t is only those who
will not
heed who must go
through its agony. And remember- God is not going
to CAUSE it! MAN HIMSELF will bring it on. But God
will protect his own from it!
J esus' young students- his disciples-came to him
privately and asked
when
the end of the world would
come, and what would be the s ign of his return IN
POWER to rule all the earth, in peace.
These things, J esus repl ied, must come first : a
false "Chr istian" religion, whose ministers would
falsely claim to be Christ 's ministers, coming in his
name, deceiving the MANY. Then wars, climaxing
finally into world wars; then famines and disease
epidemics and increasing earthquakes.
Just before
the end, he saíd , his true Gospel of God's kingdom
would be preached in all the
world- not
to convert
the world, but "for a witness"- AND THEN, he said,
shall the END of this world come!
All these things already have occurred-except
that we are now in a recess dur ing the world
wars- between World Wars
11
and
11 1;
and that we
have so far had only the first forerunners of the
famine and disease epidemics and earthquakes.
These shall increase g reatly.
And, although Christ 's own Gospel of the
kingdom of God
has been going out
s ince 1934,
through this very magazine and the
World
Tomorrow
broadcast, this message is just now
approaching the climactic world-shaking POWER that
evidently is implied by the prophecy.
Then wh.at?
"Then ," continues J esus, "shall be GREAT
TRIBULATION," a time of violencc, destruction and
death greater than anything t hat ever was, or ever
shal l be! Jeremiah foretold it ( Jeremiah 30). He
identified the nations primarily affected. [t will be
those whom God caused to be named after
J acob-or ls rael- the nations descended from the
two sons of Joseph. And those are the United
States and British
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