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KEEP YOUR EYES ON
JERUSALEM
Here are eye-opening facts about the city
soon to become the capital of the world.
M
any times 1 have said, "Keep
your eye on JERUSALEM
ANO
THE MIDDLE EAST." From
now on that will be the focal point
of WORLD HAPPENINGS.
This is the
END TIME!
Never in
th e history of mankind have world
conditions been so VIOLENT, never
so much TROUBLE, never before so
many NATIONS and their GOVERN–
MENTS toppling and being over–
thrown so often - now one a month
on the average. NEVER has there
been such widespread VIOLENCE by
man. Add lO this thc VIOLENCE
in
NA TURE
-
massive and violent
EARTHQUAKES. tidal waves, and
FLOODS.
Following the recen t tremendous
earthquakes in China, this morn–
ing's newspape r headline. front
page, read: " PHIUPPINES QUAKE
TOLL CLIMBS TO 5.300: 30,000
HOMELESS."
Yet from now on the very CENTER
of world happenings will zcro in on
JERUSALEMand the Middle East.
I have just spent another four
days and five nights in Jerusalem.
the
cnv
Goo CHOSE over all places
on earth. The city from which for a
span of time God has HIDDEN HIS
FACE (Jer. 33:5), yet lhe city that
God SHALL YET CHOOSE AS
H 1
S
CITY (Zech. 1: 17). The city soon to
BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE WHOLE
WORLD
WHEN,
fin a lly, we shall
have WORLD PEACE.
Jerusa lem is a ci(y IMPORTANT TO
Goo.
It
ought to be importan! to us !
So
1
want to tell you about my most
PLAIN TRUTH
Editor-in-Chief Her–
bert Armstrong (left)
is
escorted on
walking tour of restored portions of
Jerusalem by Mayor Teddy Kollek.
The
PLAIN TRUTH October 1976
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
THE CITADEL,
with David's Tower in
the background, is one of Jerusa–
/em's
o/dest and
most
prominent
/andmarks.
recent visit there.
It
is a city I have
visited many, many
~imes.
My first vis it to Jerusalem was a
mere short stop at Jerusalem airport
(nol now in regular use) in 1956 -
20 yea rs ago - en route from Cairo
to Baghdad. Just setting fool on the
ground of ils airport for the first
time was a thrill.
lt
gave me a sense
of awe. With my wife and elder son,
Dick, l stopped again al Jerusalem
on the return - first visiting the Old
City then in Arab hands and then
walking, luggage in hand, through
the Mandelbaum Gate (no man's
Jand) inlo the newer Israelí Jerusa–
lem.
Back in 1969 and 1970, when our
joint participation with Hebrew
University in the huge archae–
ological excavation al lhe southern
wall of lhe Temple Mount was get–
ting well under way, General Yigal
Yadin, organizer of the lsraeli army
and chief of staff from 1948, re-
ferred to my arr ivals there as
"monthly visits." In ma ny ways 1
have had a deep personal inlerest in
Jerusalem since December 1, 1968.
On that date, in a formal cercmony
al the palace of the la te Presiden!
Shazar, Ambassador College en–
tered into this joint participa ti on
fo rmally with Hebrew University
and the Israel Archaeological So–
ciety.
"Do you want a forma l, legal con–
tracl?" 1 was asked. "My word is
good," 1 replied. ''And I believe
yours is, too, wi thout any lega l en–
tanglements." Th al was good
enough for them. and our fr iendship
and mut ua l participat ion has grown
ever since.
Our very importan t friends in
Israel, from the president and prime
minister of the country on down in
the government and from President
Harmon and the vice-presiden! on
down in the university, have been
not only most friendly and cordial,
bu t also
affecrionate!
And so I thought that in this ar–
ticle, you might Like to hear a report
on this latest Jerusalem visit.
We a rrived late Thursday after–
noon. On Friday morning, Mayor
Teddy Kollek met us a t the Jerusa–
lem Hilton Hotel at ten. He took us
on a 2
1
h-hour tour of portions of thc
Old City where the mayor has been
supervising rej uvenation and re–
building. After all the years of being
"t rodden down by the Gentiles,'' the
old walled city has become dirty,
decayed - anything but beautiful.
But Mayor Koilek is RESTORING
much ofits ancient beauty.
Israel is a very poor country -
economically. The gove rnmcnt does
(Phoro story on pages 40 und 41.
Text continues on page 42)
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