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the whoie Of the
OPPOSITE CONTI·
NENT
which surrounded the trua
oce,an ...
:·
Funher evidence of earty voyages
is
found in the
book
of
Chronieles
in the
Hebrew Old Testament. Hiram. king of
Tyre. and Solomon, king of Israel, sent
a joint navy on lengthy voyages that
required three years to complete. These
trips began at Ezion-geber on the shore
of
the Red
Sea .
lt ;.
interesting thet
these voyages required three years.
{The
hardly more edvenced sixteenth–
century sailing vessels of Ferdinand Ma-
. gellen also took three years to circum–
navigate the worid.)
In light of the excevations in the New
Worid and the inc:redible cultural
sim–
ilarities
wnich
existed,
these
enigmatic
c:tassicel statements take on much mora
meaning to modern scholars.
Ouetulcoatl, god of the Mayas. for
instence. is depicted In Mayapan myths
as being unusually blonda. The Spanish
c;onquistedors c:ommented on Monte–
zum.'s unusually light skin.
lt ls significan! that the pre-lnca
tred~
tion for the creation of the worid a nd of
the primitiva happy state of men, their
corruption by sin, the destruction of the
eanh, and its regeneration is
"a
distinct
enalogy to the Mosaic chronic:le
ot
tha
eartiest
epoch
of the history of the
humen,_.. (Riverox and von Tschudi,
PerwisnAntiquities,
p .
149).
Anclent
Mapa
Perhaps the
most
remarkable evi–
dence
of
all
is found in the ancient m.ps
of
the
wortd.
Recent studies
of
the
Piri
R•"is
mep
of
A.D.
1513
strongly in–
dicete that the original mapmaker must
heve found the corract relativa longl·
tuda across Africe end the Atlantíc to
Brezil.
for this map gives an amazingly
eccurate profile
of
the coast of South
America to the Amazon and provides an
accurete profile of the Yucatan Penín–
sula. lncredibly, this map shows
a sec–
tion of the
coast
of Anterctica, although
that continent
was
supposedly not dis-
c:overed
until
1818.
.
Th• Reine! Chan of
1510.
a Portu·
guese map of the lndian Ocean. seems
to show the coast of Auatralia. as
well
as
aom- of the carolina lslands of the Paci·
Iic.
The evidenca indicates that ancient
seafarers must have journeyed ovar
' thesa pans of the wortd and constructed
reliable maps, of
wnich
fragments and
copies sorvived into tha Middle
Aget
and were copiad again, although thair
slgnificance had bean long lost to moat
scholars.
Tha growing mountain of evidenca
- renging from the Paraiba stone. the
8at Creek stone, the Metcalf stone, an–
cient lndian rituals. pre-Columbian terra
cotta
pottery to the cultural paraltela,
the literatura of tha classical wortd. and
ancient maps - points convincingly to
the condusion that ancient marinera of
the Middle
East
and
the
Orient navi–
gated
the
oceans
many timas, astab–
lishing
contact
with the New Worid
miUannia before Christopher Columbus
did
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in
1492.
lndeed, who in the faca
of the emazing new evidence coming to
light can deny that in actual
fact
Colum–
bus was e relative lata comer to the New
Worid? O
WEI!K ENDINO 1ULY
12. 1975
AND NOW...Homosexuals Allowed toWed
by
Herben
W.
Armstrong
Give them
an
incb., and they11 take a
mile," is only too true, wben the kinc:h"
is in thc wrong dircction. •
After World War
l,
roorals in this
world began to deteriorate. AOcr World
Wai U, thcy c:áUed ibis moral deteriora–
tioo thc
'"NBW
MOilALITY."
That. of
cowse, was • play
oo
words
for thc
world to "kid itsclf' that
gross
lmmoral–
ity was peñccUy aca:ptable morally.
You may c:aU a leopard
a
housc cal,
but it
still
basn't changed
ll$
spots. Sinoc
the catcb phrasc "new morality" caught
oo.
gross
lmmorality bas woo public ac–
ocptanoc
u
being
riglrrl
•
lo
the boolc ofGeocsis the inciden! of
the "forbidden fruit" . is recorded. Of
coursc that's tbe point at
wbic~
human–
ity jumped the !rack of saoity and em–
~arlced
oo the way. that has brought oo
this
world all its wocs and cvils. Right
there humanhy toolc to itsclf the dcci–
sion - that
is,
the
KNOWLEOOE -
of
what is
oooo
and what is 81/IL. Profcs·
sing thc10$clVcs to be wise, buroans bave
made themselves fools.
So, in
this
end·timc 20th century wc
lceep going from
bad
to
worse.
Homosexuality today has
its
c:ham–
pions. Tbey bave worlced bard and long
to justify tbis evil and
win
public
aca:p–
tance in a deceived world, bringiog on
itsclf frigbtful cvils.
lo
Los
Angeles a "cblltc:h" for homo–
scxuals has
bccn
cstablisbed. And
re–
ocntly, in Boulder, Colorado, two mate
bomoscxuals from CoiO{Ido Sprinv ob–
taincd a licetuc
lo
wed. And there was
no fanfarc. This set off a sucocssioo of
similar marriage license applicants.
There was
a
well-publicized homosexual
marriage in a
Den
ver c:hurc:hl
All
this
set off a furor. A legal debate
was
staned that migbt le.td to the U.S.
Supreme Court. Thcsc so-c:allcd gay
people have launc:hed a national drive
for legal "rigbts."
At lea.st four mate couplcs and
two
female couples obtained matriage li–
c:eoses
at thc Boulder County Oedt's
offioc before the attomcy geoeral's oflic:e
stopped iL
Tbc details of suclt matriagcs are too
revolting to describe here.
lo
1964 1
published a book titled
God
Speak3 Our
on
the New Moraliry.
And
now, eleven ycan later
1
think
it's time
for the living
God
to
speak
out
agaio.
wy
et ye have
001
be.trlcened untO me,
saith the Lord, tbat ye migbt provoke
me to anger with the wolb of your
bands
ro your own hurr."
lf
sucb a per–
versioo as bomosexual.ity werc good for
its participantS, God would approve
it.
He
OONDEMNS
it
bcceuse
it
D.ESTlt.OYS,
it
pervcns!
From Romans
1,
'"lbe wrath of Ood
is rcvealed from beaven against all un–
godUness and unrighteousness of meo,
wbo hold (back) tbe trutb. in unrigh–
tcowncss .... Professing themselvcs to
be
wise,
thcy bccame roots .. .. Wbere–
fore Ood
also
gave them up to un–
cleanness througb the lusts of their own
bearts, to dishonor their own
bodies
be–
tween themselves: who cbanged tbe
truth of God into
a
líe .... For
this
cause God gave them up unto vile atrcc–
tioos: for evcn their women did cbange
the natural
use
into that wbicb is against
naturc (lesbiaos) and likewise also the
men, leaving the natural
use
of the
woman, bumed in tbeir lust one to an–
other, mcn with meo working that wbic:h
is unscemty, and receiving in thenuelves
thlt
recompcose
of their cnor wbic:h
was meet (fitting].
"And even as tbey did not like to
retain God in tbeir knowledge, Ood
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to
do thosc thinv wbicb are oot conve–
oie.~t
(right). being fi.Ued with
aU
unri&h·
teousness, fornicatioo (all sexual
immorality), wiclccdness, covctousness,
maUc:iousoess ... without natural atrec–
tion:•
Ofcourse,
GOD
SPEAKS
OUT
loud–
cst again.st bomosexuality, now bccom–
ing accepted
by
TODA
Y'S socicty, in tbe
case
o(
Sodom and Gomornh.
Tbrough Jude, spealcing
first
of angels
that sinncd, that is, tumcd from God's
govemment aod
WAY OP Uflt,
ueven
as
Sodoro and Ooroorrha, and the
cities
about them in li.lc.e manner, giving them–
sclvcs over to fomicaiion [sexual per–
versioo - homoscxuality
J,
and going
aftcr suange ftcsh, are sct ronh ror
an
Clt810ple, suffering the VCDgcanoc
o(
etemal fire" (Jude 7).
Apparently homosexuality had spread
io the day of Lot. nephcw of Abraham,
until it gained complete aca:ptanoc by
society in thosc
c:itics.
God bad promjsed Abraham that
even if there were
TEN
rightcous people
in tbose two cities, he would spare the
cities aod not destroy them for the salce
ofthat ten.
Tbis
simply has to
mea~ ~ither,
that
hQmosexuahty and lcsbtantsm were
pract~
by
llll,
with the exocption
probably of Lot and
bis
famity, or
eLse
tbat it bad tbe same
"a;:ceprance"
that
modcrn society is
beginnin~
to give Ibis
same pcrversion today.
ThLS
is
given in
the Bible as "an example" to
W-UN
eve.~
tb.osc. today who give
Ibis
extreme evil
their "aca:ptAnCC" -
u
if it
were
per–
fectly rcspectful.
G6d labeled this degenerate per–
VeJSion a
very grievous sin.
WHY
is it so grievous a sin? Because it
per'vcns the
MtND!
Some may believe
bomosexuality is ttaosmiued by binh.
lt
is
ootl
But
l>nce
one givcs bis mind to
a.ca:pt it,
bis
mental perspective regard·
ing proper .use of scx soon bccomcs per–
verted - changed - llllJiatural.
A
roan
soon cares
oothing for the husband-wife
relatioosbip.
1
have lmowo of a few
cases where such men wcte marricd and
had families, but they wcre exocptions,
and their real ulove" - that is,
LUSl' -
was for other men. The mi.nd bccomes
OIIAN02D - PI!RVERTI!D-
and no longer
normal.
God
sa
ys
suc:h ·shall
NO<l'
enter the
kingdom or
God
(Gal S:l9·21; 1 Cór.
6:9-10).
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