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The INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL...
The Missing Dimension in Knowledge
lt~s
positively sstoundingl lt has remained undiscovered
by
sciencel No religion has revealed itl Higher education has never
taught
it!
ls
it
possible the whole w orld has been dcceived -
as to ths awesome
PUAPOSE
of human /ife - as to the
wAv
to
worldpeace and how
it
wi/1
come? And could
it
be true thst ths
reo/ gospel message Christ brought
lrom
heaven
REVEAt.EO
this missing dimension
-
but was suppressed? This is the
eye-opening story of the realgospel messageofJesus Christ–
of how this missing dimenslon was withheld, and the whole
world doceived.
PART 1
D
nE~
H c.:omc •u a.n aMomshing
shock
10
karn
thal
dle
most
tmponarn
dimens1<m
m all knowl ..
edgc \vas
~cnt
hy
Ood
lh~
F:uher
IV
ttU!o earch
by
Jc..,u~ Chri~t
-
hm th:tt
mc.ssage wa:-
!iiuppre!>Std
by
thO!loe
hveng
m thc very fW•I ccntury? Thnt
J6ui
himself
was
put to
dc:uth
(or
révealmg
lt~
That
his apostlc.s. wlth
onc
fK>S.\tbJe
r:xceptron.
wcn: .liso
murtyred
(or
procl.umll1~
11?
Yel
th • ~
mcssage
from
th~
ll\'rng
God,
tr
humilnn~
hac.l reccived
and
heeded
it.
would
hnve
savcd
th•"
worl<.l
from
ncarly all of its
trou–
bl~. ~uO'cringlo
and
ev1h.
The
véry
''ort.J
··gosp~ l " mean~;
"gO<.l\1
ncw,."
That
nlc-~gc.
whcn
Jull• ·
undct!ttnnd.
rtvc:ll~
H
human
potcn~al
so
-\1
upcndou.s. -
so ..twc–
~omc:
-
ll
appc~trc;
:u firsL 10 be:
lowlly bcyond bclocl'
Tho.t
mes~:Jse n'V(!;t l ~
nu:ts
obout
hufnamt)':
wh<tf
nwn
JS.
the
pur–
posc
for
which
m:mkind
"':t"
put on
earth. where
wc
a re gomg.
what
i"
tht way
to
world
pcace. h.lpp!Ot'.)"
:md
unsvcr~.al pro~pcnt)'.
what
ore
thc
truc
valucs..
what
is t11c
awe–
!.0111C
humotn
JX,h.:ntml.
¡md how
may
1t
be
uchievcd.
Án~we~
to
the5-C
qllcsuon!O form
the
most importotnt knowlcdge evcr
made
~cces.
...
iblc
to man. Yct
01.1n
!!opurncd
anO
rCJeCtcd
ll
• Chrisf, go:.pcl
m1."S~:..gc .
when
rully gmsped.
re\·ea l~
\\h;ll ...ctcnc-e
ha~
bcc:n uttcrly urmbh:
to
d1soovcr.
lt
reovcal...
what
rellglOI1
in
thi!>
\O.úrld
kOI)\\'"
nothJOg
t)f,
lt
f('\'C~Ih
wha t thíl';
wurld's
highcr
cducauon
has
ncvc.r lwown t>r taught.
lt
re'
cal~
the
rno~t
wonderful
TRtiTII
a human mmc.l
c:oufd
cver
cometo know' h
n.:vcul~
whatl
e-aH
thc
míssíng dimcn,it>J\
m
knowl–
edge.
the knúwledgc most
vll:tll)'
,,ttcc•ss<Jrl'
((l
kmw••
h was thc
most
monumcn 1al
goo<.l
news
<:ver revcalccJ
by
our
l\•haker
h.l rnnnkmd!
Wh1·
would
men have
wan1cd
to
rejecl
11 -
ha
te
u -
pul
U)
den1h 1hc mc&ocng.c;r
who
broughl
it?
Y
es.
" 'h,·
7
The
aJhwer
rs
thaL
me,
werc
OP~
t'fJVEO! And :.tll
nat1on:..
.m:
de.·
ccived today!
The
purpO!>é of
thts
á rlltlc
1s
to
rcvcal uow men were
dc~eived
and
to make
ph:un
WH.-\1
that good
new.s
realty
wus.
And
is.
Ncvcnhclcss. it
wa$
supprcsscd.
And
thal
all-importam
revelation
from
lhe
living God was n01
o.gam
proel.1imed ltl thc world
until
our
prcsent ccntury
Even today. most of humanHy
hr\S
ncvcr
heurd
lhe
g_Jorious
/Ntt!
gospcl.
And
evcn
thosc millions
who
do hear it have been so
druggcd nnd 51Upified by fa lsc rcli–
g_ions
and false
"gospcls"
that they
6
by
Harben
W
Armslrong
only hccomc
conruscd.
Thc
TRl!TII.
tndccd.
is
s1rnnger tha 11
<tny fktion!
Prepare
yourscl f to
rcad
lJSforwdmg
truth
hard
w
bc1icve,
)'CI TRVt!
Tht
Arch·D(·-c~h·er
IL
1$
not
mu:llectuoilly f¡tshion·
ablé
t<K,t:'ty
10
bclievc
m
thc ac1U:t l
existcncc
of
a
de
vil Bíblica!
rcvcln~
tu>n cxplai1l!; lhi,..
llthlic.al
prop-1ccies
say
plainly
thnt
10
our tune.
today. the Wt-tOI,r.
WORI.D
would
be
dec:etvcd.
Notccc
o nc
.;uch
prophe<.')'
in
thc
book
t.>f
Revelttlu,n.
chaptcr
12. verse 9:
..And thc
greo.Jt drag:on wa!\ ca!it
l\ut. thoct
u ld
scrpcnt, c:•llcd
thc
Dcv•l. omd Saum.
\\'hidt
dt"UIW!tll
tht?
Wht¡fr •o ur/.l"
Thh
Sttl.tn
l'i
rcvcalc:d :•s
thc
arch·dcc..-civer
who
has
dcccivcd
thc
whole
world . HUI
lww
did
he man–
age
to
decewc che human
r.u:c?
Jn lhe
lhtrJ ch:IJllCr
or
GcnC..'\IS
he
is
!~ohVwn J.~
the
deceiver uf
rnother
Evc:.
Through her . he
c.:auscd
thc
fi r!\t nwn. Adum. (0
commi1thc fírst
..;jn
by
n
hunvm.
\Vhcn
Je:.us
was born
in
Oechle·
hcm.
Sawn
wa.s.
~titl
hc:rc on eanh
as lhc god or this world
(11
C'Qr.
4:4),
lie is a lso 1he
~·princ~
of rhc
po"cr of lhc a ir" (Eph .
2:2).
hold–
mg sway
ovcr
thc
whotc: or !fiJO·
kind.
Chn~t''>
rnC.'i..'\ug_c
rc\·calcd
1hc
ad·
vanee news of
thc
total
abolition
nf
S:tt<ut's power over
the
world a1'd
hts
banishmcnl from thc
carth,
lt
rcve.a.lcd that
Chriq
wa~
oomulg as
his
~uCC'C:':St)r
t()
take ovcr
thc RVU
of
01 1! n1;1tions
In SnHm'" mind. i1
wa:o;
ncoecssary ror him
to
go
all
ou1
10 pre"cnt tha1
messagc
from
goíc1g
lo
thc world.
But
hnh'
Cot1ld he
do
it?
First. he
moved
LO
dcsrrOy
the
Chtisl cluld and thul; prevent
l11s
growing up co
prodnim
that mes·
sagc. He
i
nfluenced
Kmg
Herod.
the
Roman
provincial ruler over
1h• lund of ISrael. and Hcrod
causcd all infants ' " Bcthlehcm
and
~un(Jund•ng atea~
two
yc:t~
old
or under
w
be
pUllO dc:ath. But
God
warncd Joscpb
~nd
Mar)'.
movulg them 10 nec m Egypt
wllh
the
mfant
Jesus unlil
Herod was
dcad.
Again. when Jcsu.>
wa~
about
thirty
ycars o ld. Sntan sought ro
dcstroy him sptritually bcforc he
qualified
to preach
í.l
word
o(
h1s
m~~
..
~~ge.
But
the s upreme
temp-W·
tton
with which
Satan
planncd
to
cnsnn:r~
Je.c;us
became
the
very
t~.s1
which
qualified
('hrist ro
dep<>se
Satan
and ro
bccome
rulcr
over all
nations. Jesus thus qualificd to
re~
store the
government of
úod
on
the eanh and toser up the kingdom
of God.
Howevcr
il
was
not
in
God•s
master
plan for C'hnsr to
be
irJductcd
lnto
that office until
thc
end
of
.nankand's.
firs1
6.000
yeaD
on carth.
Ncvcrrhc:Jcss.,
Jcsu"
procccded
Wllh
1he
tnÍ.S.'iiOn
ror
WhtCh
he
had
come
to
e:~rth
al
that
úmc. He pro·
dauned
hi~ me~age
and t:n•ghl
it
w
hts disc1plcs.
Su tan.
however. sllll
wa!lo
in
power
w
~wa)'
thc
worfd.
Evcn
though
man)'
of thc
Jews
10
whom
Jcsu~
prcachcd
be/Jc..,i!d un
him
as
thc
promiscd
Messiah. they wete
swayed
against
belie"•ing
his
me~­
sage -
his gospe:l
1/ow
did.
and
does.
Satan dc:–
cctve.
move. and
sw3y
humanüy'!
The
:lma~mg
answcr
wilf
be
given
In
ter.
His Gospel
Rcj~tcd
Notice how
1t
happened.
In the 8th chnp1cr of John.
"erscs
30
lhrough
46.
you will rcad: "As
he spal..c
tht!\C
wort.J!', many be·
l ic:vcd
Qn
him.
ntcn
said
J~u.li
to
tJtO.lC Jé"tt'l
whu·h
helí~•'t!d
011
Mm.
lf
ye
continuc
in
n~•·
word.
lhis
mes·
sagelthen
~re
yc
my
disciples in·
dccd:
and
ye
~hall knm~
the truth.
and lhe
truth c;hall
make
yoo
free.-_. bul yc
scck
lo
kili
me. be–
C\Iuse
my word jhls
go.tp-el
me.s.J'age)
lrmh nd plau i n
you . . ..
6ut
oow
ye
sc~k
10
kili
me. a
msn
thal huth
tc\fd
you
•he
•ruth.
which
1
have
henrd of God . _ . for 1 procceded
forlh and
caote
from
God:
neither
came
1 of
mysclf.
but
ht"
unt
me..
.
And
bccause
1
tcll
you
the
truth,
l't'
bebt"•·c·
ni("
not. .
And
if 1
say thc
truth.
whvtlo
)'t'
mJI
believe
•nc?..
In úuc
tune.
thc; Romuns cruc•·
lled
J c...\us.
Bul he
rose f rom thc
de,ad
and
ascended
into
heave11.
f
rom thcre. he
"ene God's
Holy
Spirit
fo r
his
di)Ciplcs.
C hrist's
apostl(:;) wcnt
ou1. as he
commassaoned 1he1n.
to
proclatm
his
mess.agc
to the
world.
God's
chur<:h
wos
raiscd up (A.D. 31) to
bdck
thc
proclnimu\g
Of the tnC!>·
sagc.
The church
began
to grow.
thcn
caught
"tire." and mulhplicd.
Sat.in
connived to
sct up a
pow.
erful GerHt le
relig•ous
le<tdcr wilh
a
oounterfe1
religion -
thc
3nc1cnt
Bnbylonhm
mystcry religion. He
hatchcd u coun1erfeit "gospel.' ' He
even
appropriated the nnme
or
Chri.st. caJimg his
rchgíon ..Chris·
tianity."
Tha
t. [
know.
IS
a
brcath43lang
rcvclation.
diiTicult
today.
1900
years
l:ucr.
10
bclieve.
But
none
thc
lcss. it is
true!
The
Counteñeit
"Gospcr•
In Samana.
north of
Jcrusafem.
lived
~
GcnHic
pcoplc
whom
the
Jews of
Chri.s t"s
day
spurned,
caiJ.
ing lhcm "dog.,," Thcy had becn
moved
thcrc from
a rc-as
of the
Bubylomnn Emptre aboul 700 B.C.
by Shalmaneser of Assyria ( 11
Kin_g< 17 : 18. 21-24). T hcy had
brou!-hl
with
thcm intó tht'
land
or
S3mnna their own
Babylonian
mystery
religíon.
In the: 8th
chaprer
of
Acts
you•IJ read of their
religious
lcadcr
in
fhc
rime
of
ChrisL
Simon
the sorcerer.
Christ rnised up rhe
church of
God
lOstand bad: or
the
procJaim~
~ng
of his go.<pel me.<.<age by his
apos1les in A.D. 31.
By
A.D. 33.
aner a mo...
t
<IJ11d/.tng
tnitkd
growch.
a
great
per~ccution
!>C:1
m
aganbt
God'• church (Ac15 8: 1). Al thol
cime,
A.D. 33. this. Sirnon lhe
s.orccrer
had
h1mself
bapt1z.cd
along with muhuudec;
of orhers.
fie
thcn tried
10 buy
un
<tpostleshlp
m
God'g
church
from
the
apostlcs
Pe·
ter
ancl John with
money -
bu1
or
c:ourse wns
rcfused
and rebuked.
Thercupon
this
Si1non
appro–
priated
the
NAME
of
ChrisL
calling
h•s
BabyJontaJl
my~tery
relig.ion
' 'Chn~11amty~ "
Saum
swayed this
man and
use<!
this
instrumcnt
Lo
pcrsecute
a.nd
;tlf
but
destroy .thc
true
church
or
God.
Before
lhc
end
of lhc firM ccntury
probably
by
A. D. 70,
he manag•d
10
suppres.<
lhe me<>age Christ hod broughl
from God
There
ensued ..
the
lost
cenwry"
in thC'
hiSIOI)'
Of thc true
churth
of
Go<J.
There
wa.s a wi:ll-ol'gani:t.ed
conspira,CY,
to
blot out
all record
of
chun:h
hi:.-cory during
that
pcriod.
A
hundred years
later. histoty re–
vea~:)
a "Chrisuamty..
u ttcrly unlike
lhe church Chrisl founded.
lt
had
taken
1he
NAMF.
of
Christ
and
arptied
11
(O
the
Babylonian
my~tery
religion. IL had
replaced
thc
ME.'iSAGF. Jesu'i
brought
from
God "''tth
a
''gospel..
aboru
thc
per
4 •
son
of
Christ
prodaiming
the
messcnger but
suppre.llsing
the
en·
llre
missmg
dimen.ston
from
h1s
me¡;sagc.
Andfor
at
lrast 18
1
1!
rt•JUtmt.f
the
lftu!
gospcl
wdS
no/
pro(/aimetl 10
tht
"·orld.
"'Another
Go~pcl
.. (;ain..
Acc(:pfance
By
about A. D.
58,
when che
aposlle Paul wrote his lcuer
co
thc
Gulatians,
nlany alrc:ody wcrc IUm·
mg to
~h 1s
now oew
oountcrfctl
•·go;pel."
Paul
wrote:
"1
marvelthat
yc are
so
soon
removed
from
h1m that
colled
you on1o 1he
grnce
or Christ
UIIIO
OJIOtfl~r
gospt!l:
which
IS
not
another
(it
wa~
nor
gvod newsJ:
bul
there
besome that troublc
you.ond
would pen<efl
tht go:,JU'-1
of
('hn'.tl ..
(Gal 1:6-7).
To
the
Thcssalomans.
a~1ut
A.D. 54.
Paul
wroLe...
For
the
~~~·s·
tery
qf
uuqu111·
doth
alrca<.ly
wor·k ..
:•
( 11 The.).
2:7)
lt
was
1he
Babylonian
my~tery
rcligion.
stnrted
by
this Simon
the
sorcerer
(Act\ 8). a rcligion
Qf
miquity -
jawleS$ness -
a
religion
rcje-cting
the
law
ofGod. Much
more
of 1h is
later.
Thc True and
The
False Church
ln
Revclation
are
pactured
IWO
churchcs.
e:aeh
of
which
go
under
thc
NAME
of
Christ. Onc.
pactured
in the
12th
charter.
pnnrays
1hc
true
church
of God.
small
in
num·
bcr.
rcduccd through pcrsccution
and
martyrdom.
but
obedient
tu
God's law. ha1ed by Snlan. The
othcr .
10
thc
17th
ch:tptcr.
called
..Mystery. Babylon
Lhc Gre;u. the
Mo1her
of
Harlot.s and
Al'KH'nina·
Li0 1~
of
lhe
Earth" (ve
~'$e
5). 1n
other words.
the
Babylonian
mys·
tery
relig.ion
stccpcd
in
"in•quitf'
- abolishing God's law.
Ouñng the time
of
Paul'~
minis·
try. these samc
Símon
Magus mm·
isters
wer~
ttoub lin g 1he
Corinthians.
Paul wrote
10 the Co–
rinthians: "1 am
jealous
ovcr you
Wtlh godly jcalousy: fo r 1 have
es–
poused
you to
onc
hu~b~nd.
that 1
-
..
may
prcsem you as a
~;S'le
vl(gtn
~~s;~~~:or~~le,su~oc ~~~~dt~~
Chri ~ t . spirituallyJ~
8ut 1
fear.
lest
by :.my
mc"ns, as
thc
s~q>ent
be·
guiled E'•c lhrough h i' sublihy.
so
)'OUr
minds
slwuld
be
torropted
from
che
simpl iC"11y
1hal [!.in
Chn$1.
F'or
if he
la
R) inister
of
Simon
MagusJ
thnt
comeLh preacbcth
(Uf•
ofher
Je-sus.
whom
we
ha.ve not
prcached,
or
if
yc
reccive
auo1her
splril
{of
rebellion
and dtsabcdí·
cncel which ye have not
reeeived.
ortm~lhugosptol
. . .
··(t l
C'or.
11 :2·
4). More.
!afer.
about
thc
con·
nection
with
th~:
det.-cption
o(
the
first
woman. E.vc.
Out
notioc. they
were
prodaim–
ing
(IJIOIIlt:r Jesus
as
weJI
áS
mt·
other f!.o.rpel -
and 1hey followcd
(utQt/ter spirlf
-
or
tcbell101
and
not obedicnc(. That de<:eption h:as
continucd
through
tbe
centuries
nod •s
thc
statc
today. Titey
took
thc
NAM'E
of
Chriss.-
They
cotUed
their Aabylonian relig.ion "Chris·
tn1n1ty.'· But they
IHH
only
pres:ented a
c;ounterfcit
gos~l
but a
counterreil
spirit of
se!f-cen tered·
ncss and
a counterfeu
Jesus.
lt
is
sugg.ested
thc
rcadcr
request
úor
f ree
booklct.
Tite Rr!alJt"sus.
or
these
ral~
min&Ster;s.
Pau1
wrote
furthe r
10
the ConnttUans:
"For such
Me false
apostles,
deceit–
ful workets. transforming thcm·
seJvcs
into
the
apos-tle~
of
Chnst.
And
110
marvcl~
for
Sotmt
hims~lf
ts
tl'a i1S.formed
mto an angel
of
l ight.
Thercforc it is
no
grcat thing
if
lus
mi11isferJ
a lso be
transfom1ed
as the
mmi$tt':rs
or' righiCOUSOCS$ . •••• (1
l
Cor.II:IJ- 15).
Peler.
John and Jude
ExposeThem
Pcter wrote
of
these dccctvers:
·•am
thcrc
were
false prophets olso
omong
the
people.
cvcn
as thcrc
shaiJ
be ralse
teachcrs
among
you,
who
J)ti\!ily
shall bnng in dam–
nable
hercsies .. .
.'-\nd many s.hnJI
follow
thc1r
pcrnJCJOUS
w3ys;
by
rt'<UOII
of tt•ham
1hr way
of
fntth
sha/1
IH!
evil spoken of
And lhrough
covetous ncss
shall thcy with
feígned
words make mci'Chandisc
otyou _.."
( 11
Pelcr 2: 1-3).
Joltn
\\·rote
of
these
Stl.me per–
verteflt of the truc gospcl.
denying
obcdicnce to the way
of
God. "He
that saith. l know b1m.
a1~d
keepeth
not hís
commandments. ' "
tt
liar.
and
the truth
is
not in him..
(1
John
2:4).
"The) wenl oul from us, bul
lhey were no1
of
os;
ror if 1hey had
been
of
us.
thcy
wotlfd
no doub'
havc oontinucd w1th us.. (1 John
2: 19).
Jude
warned us
that
we
.should
"earnestJy
contend
ror the
fai th
which was once
delivered
un to
thc
sainls. For thcre a re certain mcn
crcpt in
unawarcs.
who
werc
berore
or
old
orda1n eU
10 this
con–
dcmmlLion.
ungodly men.
turnin_g
thc grnc:e of our God
•nto
la.~cw1·
OUSOCSS
rlicense
lO disobeyJ • ...
Likew1se
also these filthy dreamers
defile
the
llesh. de$pise
don1inion
(governmcnt). tl lld
spc:d:
evil
of
dig.nities.• .• Woe
un10
them! for
they ha
ve
gone
in
1hc
way of
Caín.
and ran g.reedily af'ter
the
error
of
Ba.1aam
fo r
reward.
:tnd
pc:rished
in
the gainsayíng or Corc. Thesc are
spots in
your
fcasts
of
char·
fl)' .. .
clouds 1hey are
wuhout
water. ca rri ed
ttb"out of
·rcomlnut!d on
pag~
1/J
WEEK ENOING FEB. 8_ 1975