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Bltill
by
Stanley R. Rader
VfENNA:
Bill
Tilden once said, wheo speaking of tenois, "never change a
winning game. but always change a losing one." Pcrhaps Mr. Kissinger
has
th.at
in mind wben he coosiders tbe broad strategical conccpts that are
so
dear to bim
and his carefuUy architected foreign policy as he commences
bis
latest journey to
the Middle
East.
Osteosibly Mr. Klssinger
is
on an ex.p!oraúon mission; and be has
this
time
deliberately stressed that he is not seeking final aoswers or conclusions from
bis
personal efforts, although be will be seeking ateas of compromise, particularly
between the lsraelis and the Egyptians, in accordance with bis heretofore highly
publicized "small, step-by-step" approach, which Presiden! Ford and President
Sadat, as weU as Prime Minister Rabin, bave supported in statemeots made just
prior to Mr. Kissinger's departure.
But is it not more probable, wilh "úme pressing," as Presiden! Sadat said
recently and with the opposition party in Israel demanding
an
election before
any concessioos a¡;e made in Sinai, that Mr. Kissingcr is looking for something on
a mucb grander scale -
·~
permanent solution"
-
to be acbieved by
Mr.
Kissinger's abandoning of
bis
"small, step-by-step" approach
in
favor of a
Geneva-type conference dictated to and controlled by both the United States and
!he U.S.S.R.? ls it not significan! that Mr. Kissinger and
bis
couoterpart, Mr.
Gromyko, plan a meeting in Geneva
ajler
Mr. Kissinger completes h.is tour of the
Middle East?
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Wb.en one
reali.t.e.~
that the foreign policy of tbe United States, as designe<!.
orchestrated and implemented by Mr. Kissinger under both Mr. Nixon and Mr.
Ford, is designed to prevent tbe Middle East arca from being dominated by the
U.S.S.~
.• by insuring that peacc prevails in the area,
and
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preven! an alliance
between the _Arab
.n~t~ons
and
·Euc~P.C
fC<?ICD bel:Qming
~·
_lhir<J. great world
pówei, it
is
reaúy easy to sCe why Mr. KisSinge)'
iS
motiv~ted
to
maintain
the
delicate equilibrium between !he United States and !he U.S.S.R., not only in !he
Middle Eastern arca, but in the eotire world. One can
also
see that the U.S.S.R.
would a
!so
prefer tbe status quo.
The U.S.S.R., of course, is not without alternatives. should Mr. Kissinger
(and Mr. Gromyko) be unsuccessful. Mr. Gromyko, in fact, has been busy
mending fences in Egypt and shoring up !he conñdence of Syria, whlle contin–
uing to suppon !he rebels in Ethiopia and Soulh Yemen -
aJJ
of wbich poses a
great lhreat to the Red Sea becomi.ng permanenlly too " red" and the Arabian
Ocean becoming more and more under !he control of the Arab States with !he
support of the U.S.S.R. On !he other hand, the Uniteo States has not failed to
make its allematives plain.
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has directly and indirectly warned the Israelis that
Israel cannot count upon unlimited support and
it
has wamed tbe entire Atab
world that military interventión has not been excluded. In fact, !he powerful
United States aírcraft carrier, the
Enterprise,
bas been dispatched into the a:rea. A
formal request has been made to the United Kingdom for the sub-leasing of an
i.mportant island, wilh its naval base, off !he coast of Oman - an island wbich
controls !he passage of tbe most oil tanker traffic in !he world. The United States
has delivered to Israel missiles capable of launching nuclear warheads, and a
special, little-known installation within territory controlled by Israel has been
given panicular aucntion by !he Pentagon.
As
Mr.
Armstrong·and 1 traveltbrougboutlhe
same
countries, we discuss at
great lenglh !he problems of the Middle East and the world with no! only lhe
importantleaders of each country, but afso witb
aJJ
of !he infonned and knowl–
cdgeable people from the lields of education, industry and culture. They are afso
concemed about tbe many problems eonfronting Mr. Kissinger, and everyone
has
expr~ed
tbe bope tbat he can unblock. what appears
to
be an impending
stalemate and that be
will
be successful in renewiog and maintaining the momen–
tum for peace, because we have aU learned lhat in tbat explosive area stalemate
has produced a series of
m.ilitary
auempts lo solve tbe problems of !he arca. and
anolher such effort might destroymankind.
Mt.
Armstrong
is
speciJicaUy asked over and over again what he foresees for
!he world in the future; and be has told world leaders and otbers (just recently in
Bombay, Cairo, and Israel) that, until mankind learos its lesson,
lhings
will get
worse before tbey get better, but that mankind
will
oot be permilled to destroy.
itself. Asan
amba~ador
for world peace, he, mcanwhilc, strives
miglllily
to
bring
to peopJt:$ cverywbere lhcír beritage - a message of hope·and inspiration. He
continuos to stress lhat the way of get and of competitiQn between peoples and
natioos
will
bave to be replaced by the way of
!ove
and cooperalion.
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TlleiMCREDIBLE
HUMAII POTfiiTIAL...
(Continued Írom page
6)
Tbis
ver>e
speaks of angels as if the world
had been put in subjection to angels; in faet,
in the very beginníog ofAhis book of He–
brews. lhe
fi.rst
e:hapter,
it
i.s
speaking
o(
Chríst and angels and the relation of angels
to bumans.
This
must be explaíned a tittle
later.
But bear in mind the general theme bere,
or context,
is
the quote: ••the world to come,
whereof we speaJc• - not this present
agc.
now coming rapidly to its
endl
Continue on
in
verse
6: ..
But one
in
a certain place testi–
fied, saymg .. · .." Then follows
a
quotation
from the fir>t sí• verses
only
of the eígbth
psalm.
In
this
psalm, David continue<l sbowiog
specifically that God has now plaoed ín sub–
jection under
man
the solíd
earth,
the calth's
atmosphcre or air, and the sea. But now lhe
writer of the
boo.k:
of Hebrews is inspired
to foUow wítb somethíng radically
differ–
ent
-
something to bappen in che world to
come!
Thís revealed knowledge of God's pur–
pose for man.kind - of man•s incred.ible
awesome potcntial - staggers the- lmagina–
tion. Science knows nothing ofjt - no reli–
gion reveal$
i"'
so far as
1
koow - and
certainly higber education is in utter igno
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rance ofit.
Nevertheless, ít is what God says he has
prepared fo¡ them that !ove him (1 Cor. 2:9-
10).
1 bave said
before that God revealed nec–
essary knowledge to our ñr>t parents, but
th~y
didn
1
1
!Mlieve whal he said/
Some
4,000
years Jater, Jesus
Chtist
ap~red
on
eanh
with.á
ñituagC
d)rect
rróm
OÓd lhe T'alher
in heaven. revealing the same neoessary
knowledge - but only a handful belíeved
what he said, though many professed to ..
be..
üeve on him" (as ín .lohn 8:30-31, 37-
38,
40,
45-46).
Today sciinte, religion, and education
still do'bot
believe
WHAT tttsAio.
·
1will explain this - and why - a bit later.
But so many or these interrelated points
canoot
be
ex:plained aU at onoe.
Bul now let's see what he said in this
passage in Hebrews, begínoíng where He–
brews leaves off quoting the eíghtb
psalm:
"Thou hast put all thing.<
in
subjection under
his
(man's] feet. For in that he (God] put aU
in subjection UDder him (m.an], he (God] lel\
NOTHING
that
is
DO( put undet bim"
(Heb.
2:8).
Is
it
possible God could mean
what he
• says ("all thing.<")?
Nothing
excluded?
In
the fust chapter, the Motrau trans–
lation of the BibJe renders the Greek worO
"translated ..all things.. as
uthe
uni–
v.erse."
1n
other words. forthose willing to believe
what
God says, he says that he has docteed
the entire universe -
with
all
its
gala.x.ies.
iLS
countless sunS and plancts -
everything
-
wiJJ
be put under man's subjection.
But
woir a moment/
Before
you disbet.ieve,
read tbe ncxt
words in the
same eig.htb
verse: "But now we see not yet aU lhings [the
endless univel'$0] pul under bim (man]." Re–
member (verse 5), thís is speaking of the
"world to come.. - not today's world. But
what do we see now, today? "But we see
Jesus, who
wu
made a little
lowcr
than the
angel$ (or,
~·ror
a
liulc
wbile
lower'') for
the
sull'erín,g of
~eath,
crowned with glory and
honour." Man, other than Cl;lrist,
is
NOT YET
"crowned with g.lory and
honour:•
But
see how
Chril>t
is already c.rowned
with g.lory
and
honor. éontinue: "For h
be·
came him, for.whom are
a/lthings
(che entire
universe] and by whom are al! things, in
bringing many
son.~
unto glory,
to
make lhe
captain of their
salvation
peñect through
suffering.< .. . . for whieh cause he [Christ) ís
not asbamed to eall them brethreo" (ver>es
10- 11).
In other words, Chrístíans having God's
spírit
are
joint-beits with Chríst to
rNHeJUT
all
that Chríst already has inherítcd. He ís
now in glory! He nas already inheríted the
e.otire univers.e. He
sti.stains
it
by his power.
Man. if he ís convened, having God's holy
spiiit (Rom.
8:9),
ís now only
an
R6tR -
not
ytt
apossessor.
But see now how Cbrist already
has
been
crowned with glory and honor - and ís al·
ready in possessíoo - l¡as al{eady ínherited.
Begin with Hebrews, chapter
1:
"God ... hath in these last days spoken
unto us by bis Son, whom he hath appoínted
heir of
all
thing.< [the entire univer>e], by
whom also he made the worlds; who
being
the brigbtness of
his
glory, and the express
image of
bis
person, and upholding (sustain–
íng] all lhing.< (the cntire univer>e] by tbe
word of hís power . . ." (Hcb.
1:
1-3).
The living Christ already sustains the en–
tire uqiverst
by
bjs
limitless
divine
power~
Tbe passage continues
to
show
h.is
superior·
ily over the angels - he'is the begouen and
bom
Son or God - angels merely individ·
ually creatcd beings. Angels are now admin–
istering spirits (invisible to us). ministering
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us -
to
us
who
are
now
in
lower status
tban angels - but
who
are
heits
of salvation,
wheñ wc, like Christ, shall become
born
sons
of()od (Heb. 1:4-14).
"-
Outer
Space -
Planets
NowDead
Now pul lhis
together with
what is re.
vealed
in
the eígbth cbapter of Romans.
Here it speaks of Chríst as God's Son:
"... that he migbt be the
firstborn
among
many brcthrcn" (Rom.
8:29).
Humans. hav–
ing
G~
1
s
hoJy spirll
arej:/i~lff~ ór"QO!Jfartd
joint
heirs
with
Christ '-
who,
alone
of
all
humans. has already beeo
boro as
God's
sons
by
a resurrection rrom tbe dead {Rom.
l
:4).
He
is
thc
FlRS'J'
of tb.e human family to
be
bom
into the famíly of God - the king–
dom of God. He ís our p¡oneer who has
gone on abcad. We sball foUow at the resur·
rection of the
just at Christ"s.
retum to eart.h
in supremo power and glory.
In this book of Romans. ver>e 9 says
íf
we
havc within us
~e
holy spirit ofGod we are
his begorten sons. but lf we
do
not bave h_is
·
spirit wc are none of bis - not Christians at
all. But verse 11 says that
if
we have God's
holy spirít growingwithín and leading us we
shall be raísed from tbe dead"by hís spírít -
(or
if
living
when Cbrist comes we shall
be
cbanged from mortal
to
immortaJ).
Nowcontinue: "Por as many as are led by
tbe Spirít of God, they are the
SOn$
of
God .. . . The Spirit irself bearetb witness
with our
spirit,
that wc are the ·children of
God: and
if
childrcn, then hei.rs: heirs of
()od,
and joint·heir> with Chríst, íf so be
that we
fin
this life) su1fer with him, that we
may
be
also glorífied together. For 1 reckon
that thc sufferings of this preseot time are
not wonby
to
be compared wíth the glory
which shall be revealed ín us . .." ,(Romans
8, 14-18).
Contiouc:, Revised Standard Version :
"For the creation waits with eager longiog
for ihe revealing of the sons ofOod; for the
creation (all che suns, plaocts, stars. moons]
was
subjected to futiJity, not of
its
own will
but by the
wíll
of him who subjected it in
hope;
because
the crcation
itsclf
will be set
free from
iiS
bondage
1.0
decay and obtain
the gloríous líbcrty of the cbildren of God.
We
know
that
the whote creftdon [statS.
suns, and moons now
in
deeay and futility]
has becn groaning in travail
togethcr
vntil
now; and
not only thc crc-ation but wc our·
selves (we spirit-begotten humans}. who
have tbe fir>t fruíts of the Spirít (thc very
FEW
now being
ealled to salvatjotl - the
"firslfruits••l groao inwardly as we wah ror
the adoption
(birth)
as sons" (verse 19-23).
WEEK ENDING MARCH 8, 1975