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1f space stations and platforms
can be used for industrial por–
poses, they can ab1> be used for
warfare. Missiles, even tually even
lascr beams or exotic death rays.
could be directed back down to
eart h with pi npoint accuracy. O f
what value wou ld so-called early
warn ing systems inte nded to
detect the arrival of enemy mis–
siles from sorne place on earth be
if nuclear missiles could be ..sta–
tioned" a few hundred miles
above their targets?
Satelli tes able to inAuence the
weather o r in terfere wit h the
communicat ions of potential ene–
my nations have been suggested.
As have other fantastic weapons
straight out of Buck Rogers, such
as huge orbiting magnifying
glasses capable of concentrating
the sun's light into beams of sear–
ing heat.
To what incredible mili tary
uses blossoming space technology
can be put is limited solely by
human imagination. As
The
Plain Truth
has poi nted ou t
before, whatever man seriously
sets out to do, he can do unless
God intervenes to s top him! T his
was made evidl!nt <;hortly after
the Flood of oah\ day, when
humanity poolcd 1ts rcsources and
tried for the lirst time on record
to reach into the heavens. Men
started wi th a tower. Bu t they
would have equaled current tech–
nology long ago had God not
slowed tbem down by dividing
them, confusing thei r language
and scattering them over the face
of the ear th (Genesis 11:1-9).
God said at that time: ..Behold,
they are one people, and t hey
have all one language; and t his is
only the beginning of what they
will do; and
nothing that they
propose ro do wi/1 now be impos–
sible for them"
(verse 6, RSV).
T hat is a remarkable statement
concerning what humans working
together can accomplish. O nly
recently the same thought was
echoed by a N ASA official.
"'What the moon programme
showed,' says R ichard Thorn-
May 1981
burg, assistant manager of the
shuttle projects office at the Cape
[Canaveral]. 'was that man, not
through strokes of genius but
using the
teamwork
of ordinary
people,
can so/ve whatever tech–
nological problem he faces'
"
(Now!
magazine, J anuary 23,
1981-emphasis ours).
Man can do it. There is no
doubt about it. He can move into
space. But is he ready fo r it? He
hasn't learned to live peaceably
on earth yet. He carries into orbit
wi th him the same nature that has
caused aJI the mayhem, suffer ing
and wars down here. Already the
military emphasis predominates
in space endeavors. And the trend
is su re to escalate until war finally
does break out involving the
superweaponry on earth and in
the skies.
One can only wonder exactly
what part space warfare technolo–
gy and weapons play in sorne of the
end-time cataclysms described in
the Bible. A prophecy in Deuter–
onomy 30:4 seems to allow for cap–
tive slaves being sent ou t into
With all that
symbolism-who can
understand it?
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space. God
say~
· the time soon
coming, when h will gather his
scattered people, ' ' 1f your outcasts
are
in che uttermosr parts ofheav–
en,
from there the Lord you r God
will gather you" (RSV).
Could such fearful verses have
in part anything todo with man's
military space endeavors?
1f space warfare is to be a
majar factor in the ominously
approaching World War
lll ,
it
perhaps accounts for sorne of the
mys terious terms with wbich that
war is described in Revelation 9.
One thing is sure: Tbe build-up
of weapons on land , sea and now
in the skies is lcadi ng to the day
Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:22
when all human life would be
wiped out-except that God is
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