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WHAT A PARADOX! No nations ever so rich! None ever so blessed by Almighty
God! Now we stand condemned to total disaster!
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
T
HIS IS the most seriously–
in-earnest a r ticle
L
have
ever written for
The Plain
Truth .
Our beloved country–
yours and mine- now faces TO–
TAL DESTRUCTION!
l t wi ll come soon! Not this
yea r . Probably not next-but
much sooner than anyone thinks!
We o ur selves alread y have
CAUSED IT!
Today, nations are interre–
lated. What happens in one
nation affects a nother. Events
now are moving with fast and
increasing momentum! This na–
tion is now heading rapidly into
the most terrifying havoc t he
mind of man could contemplate.
LISTEN! This is no pipe dream!
lt
is the TRUTH from the God of
all creation!
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wi ll give it to you straight
first- then I wi ll give you the
CAUSES and the AUTHORITY by
which
1
speak. Take time to read
it a ll! lt 's a serious matter of life
and death- and eternity-for us
all!
a..
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A third of ou r people-white
English-speaking people and mi–
norities with us-will die in a
di sease epi demic sucb as the
world never experienced-result–
ing from imminent FAMINE!
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do
not know whether in two or three
years-or in a nother decade or
more-but sooner than people
think!
Our cit ies wi ll be destroyed,
a nd with them another third of
a ll our beloved peoples! This was
a ll prophesied-as 1 shall show
you- more than 500 years before
Christ.
But the world- its theologians
a nd religionists-have been blind
to these words of God for nearly
2,500 years! This military de–
struction, of course, means NU–
CLEAR d estruction- hydrogen
bombs!
The third of our peoples left
a live will be taken away from our
June/ July 1980
country as slaves to enemy lands
overseas!
Polltícíans, Theologíans Won't
Tell!
Candidates for President KNOW
many of the CAUSES drawing us
now rapidly into the vortex of
utter disaster! W hy are they
a fraid to tell you the REAL TRUTH
about inflation, balance of pay–
ments problems with other na–
tions; dollar devaluation- many
other evil CAUSES whic h they
knowingly perpetuate?
Why do not theologians, doc–
tors of divini ty a nd of theology,
eva ngelists, religious leaders
shout this warning to you? THEY
SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND
God's prophecies! They do not
preach what God's Word says–
they take a piece of a sentence or
a paragraph here or there out of
context-yet leave about 98 per–
cent of the Bible unread a nd
unpreached!
WAKE UP! Readers of
The
Plain Truth!
l f they have not the
courage to tell you, I HAVE!
First let me tell you WHY
1
am
now sounding this warning! I t is
not of my own will! Most of you
readers will not believe it. BuT
LET ME TELL YOU WHY
J
MUST
GIVE YOU THIS WARNING ANY–
WAY!
One of the major prophets of
God, prior to the time of Christ,
was the prophet Ezekiel. Please
read carefully. Please bear with
me. After a ll it's
your
life we' re
concerned a bout. 1 want every
one of you to know what's going
to happen to you, your town or
city.
Ezekiel, under the Old Testa–
ment priesthood , had been a
priest. But he had been taken a
captive by Babylon with other
Jews in the captivity o f King
J ehoiachin of Judab. He was a
prisoner, by the river Chebar in
Babylon.
In a vision it seemed to him the
heavens opened. He recorded
what he saw.
The first chapter of the book of
Ezekiel records a very mysterious
sight he saw in the heavens in this
vision. While this is d ifferent to,
and centu ries before the apostle
John saw the heavenly t hrone of
God in
his
vision, the similarities
indicate strongly that Ezekiel was
seeing the heavenly throne o f
God in his. He was to write a
MOST IMPORTANT PROPHETIC
WARNING FOR YOU ANO ME IN
THIS LATTER PART OF THE 20TH
CENTURY!
The voice of God said to Ezek–
iel:
" 1
send thee to the chi ldren of
Israel, to a rebellious nation that
hath rebelled against me: they
and t beir fathers hath tra ns–
gressed agains t me
even unto this
very day"
(Ezekiel 2:3). The
"children of Israel " could, and
here did, include a ll 12 tribes.
However, Ezekiel was
sent
especially to "the HOUSE OF
Is RAEL"-a term which refers
ONLY to the people of the north–
ern 10-tribed kingdom, often re–
fe rred to as the " Lost T en
Tribes." They were never called
Jews.
The first place in the Bible
where the name
Jews
is used is Il
Kings 16:6, where Is rael, all ied
with S yria, is at war AGAINST
THE J Ews! The southern kingdom
had retained Jerusa lem as its
capita l, but had seceded from
Israel. They were led by the tribe
of Judah and were called Jews.
But none of the northern 1
O
tribes, with the capital at Samar–
ia, were ever called Jews. The
term "house of Is rael" in the Old
Testament
always
refers to those
o f t hese 1
O
tri bes. The te rm
"children of Is r ael" quoted
above, refers to all 12 tribes–
both nations, the house of Israel,
and the house of Judah.
The more speci fic commission
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