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WORLD~
PEACE!
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HAVE
continually sa id
that Jesus
DIO NOT
come
the first time on a ..soul–
saving crusade." This is not
yet the time when God is try–
ing to save the world.
Rather, we are now near the
E
o of the 6,000 years during
which God sentenced the world
to go its own way, form its own
governments, its own religions,
its own ways of life.
The first man, Adam, rejected God
and God's government over him and
his descendants- this whole world.
God has INTERVENEO into this world
of man, swayed by Satan, and called
to Him a FEw- such as Enoch, Noah,
Abraham, Moses and Elijah. He sent
Christ to ANNOUNCE His coming
Kingdom. He sent His apostles to
proclaim that GOOD NEWS. In A.O.
31,
Christ raised up H1s CHURCH–
the CHURCH OF GoD-for the PUR–
POSE of standing back of the apostles
getting out the true gospel. But when
the gospel was suppressed after a few
decades, the Church met with such
violent persecution that it decreased
in size, and ever since has been what
Jesus called "the LITTLE FLOCK."
T he Cause o f Tod ay's Ev ils
In Ephesians 2:2, Satan is called
"the prince of the power of the
air." The human spirit in each
October/ November 1981
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
human person is directly IN TUNE
WITH SATAN's WAVELENGTH. Sa–
tan d oes not broadcast in sounds or
pictures. But through the spirit in
ever y man, he infuses ATTITUDES of
depression, discouragement, vanity,
lust, greed, competition, s trife,
resentment, discontent , rebellion,
frustration. He is WORKING IN
people in this way. H e is the
SOURCE and CAUSE of all of today's
evils.
But SOON NOW-in our living
generation-CHRIST will return as
KING of kings and LoRo of lords,
lO
RULE ALL NATIONS with the
GOVERNMENT OF Goo.
One of the very first things to
happen witl be the PUTTING AWA
Y
OF SATAN (Revelation 20:
1-3).
Now think- of it! SATAN will be
GONE! Christ will be here! Rivers
of living water (Zechariah
14:8)
will flow out from Jerusalem- that
is, instead of this EVIL spirit per–
vading the entire atmosphere,
affecting EVERvsoov, causing all
evil, the HOLY SPIRIT of God will
infuse the atmosphere.
Christ will be here in PERSON.
The government will be govern–
ment OF LOVE. People will begin to
love one another-t o help one
another. The GOVERNMENT of the
K INGDOM OF Goo will bring
WORLD PEACE!
Great supernatural physical
changes will happen to the earth.
Deserts will become r ich, fertile,
crop- rais ing soil. Even the topogra–
phy of the earth will be CHANGED;
great mountains will be leveled.
Beauty will spring forth every–
where, not only in nature on the
earth, but in people's lives-it will
show on their happy faces.
But will CHRIST rule alone, by
Himsel f- a ONE-MAN rule with no
one under H im?
Of course not. Let me explain.
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have said the first man, Adam,
REJECTED God's government over
him- not only for himself but for
the whole human race that sprang
from him. l t was MAN who made
the decision.
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nstead of accepting
Goo as RuLER, as the souRCE of
BASIC KNOWLEDGE, Adam decided,
for his famil y- which is all human–
ity- to produce his owN knowl–
edge of what is good and what is
evil. He took of the tree of THE
KNOWLEOGE of good and evil,
rejecting the "tree of LIFE" (the
" living waters") or the Holy Spirit
that would have impregnated him
with eterna! God-life.
And so, since that was MAN's
DECISION God SE TENCED the
human race that s prang from
Adam to
6,000
years of being cut
off from the possibility of receiving
the Holy Spirit that imparts life
eterna!.
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n effect, God said, " Go
forro your own governments, your
own religions, produce your own
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