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FROM Goo - and all contacl wilh
Him. This pul a barrier belween
lhem. Yet al all times God has
made His lrulh accessible
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man.
"God drove lhem out of lhe Gar–
den of Eden, and placed super–
angels wilh ftaming swords
to
PREVENT mankind from entering the
Garden and taking for h imse lf
ETERNAL LIFE.
"Remembcr Goo's PURPOSE: to
reproduce HtMSELF. This includcd
thc development of His holy. righ–
teous CHARACTER. That had tO be
built by l:XPERIENCE. Thal would
take
1I~IE."
Chairman Mao:
"Then you
should understand that the world
goal of Communism canno t be
achieved immcdiately - it lakes
time."
Myse/('
"So now in His MASTER
PLAN for accomplishing His PUR–
POSE. God set apart a duralion of
7.000
years. The firsl
6.000
year
MAN was lO EXPERIENCE Salan's way
of life.
which he had chosen.
God
adopted a "HANDS-OFF" policy
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ward man in his chosen way of life.
Mankind, now cut off from God,
now under lhe sway ofSatan still on
earth's lhrone. was to live
6.000
years HIS OWN WAY. Cut olf from
God, man was now to organize his
own society. his own ways and cus–
loms. his own GOVERNMENTS. his
own RELIGIONS- and Satan was lhe
god of lhis world, whom its reli–
gions, deceived by him. worshiped
AS God."
Chairman Mao:
"Just a moment.
if you picase, Mr. Armstrong. You
say Satan was to remain on his
earthly lhrone. swaying mankind -
a mankind CUT OFF FROM Goo for
6.000
years. Tell me. HOW could lhis
Salan sway al! mankind? And whal
about lhis lhing called 'HUMAN NA–
TURE'? lsn'l lhat human nature
within man the force that sways
mankind?"
Mysel('
"Chairman Mao. l'm ccr–
tainly glad you asked that, for
1
had
almost forgotten to explain it. And
righl here is the VERY PRESENT AC"I–
ING CAUSE of all the world's troubles
and evils.
"It
i recorded that when God
wanted lo cause the Gentile King
Cyrus. king of Persia. to send a
number of Jews back to Jerusalem
sevenly years after the deslruction
The
PLAIN TRUTH March 1977
' ' lndeed it has been
tried, Chairman Mao,
but there
is
no record of it
in profane history -
only references to it in
the Bible. Yet every
Christian religion has
g/ossed right over it, and
none has revea/ed it,
so far as 1 know.,,
of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem
to build the second temple, He sim–
ply communicated lhrough the
human spirit in Cyrus. He 'broad–
cast.' so to speak. on a wavelength
to which Cyrus' spirit was tuned
(Ezra
l : 1-2).
"Satan is a SPIRIT being - the
MOST POWERFUL type Of Supe r–
ange l. He is, even now,
'1he prince o.f
rhe power oj rhe air'
(Eph. 2:
1-2).
For more than 20 years
1
broadcast
over the air. Until lhen
1
could
never bave under tood the biblical
explanation of HOW Satan SWAYS
lhe whole world. He BROADCASTS.
Every human spirit is in tune with
his wavelength. He does not broad–
casl in words. sounds, or pictures as
in
TV.
He broadcasts in ATTITUDES,
emotions. fee l ings. i mpu lses.
Humans hear nothing. see nothing.
But Satan instills within them this
ATTITUDE of vanity, lust and greed:
of jealousy and envy; of com–
petition and strife; of resentment.
bitterness. violence and war. All
that. Mr. Chairman.
is
NOT
human
na/Ure.
lt
is actually SATAN's nature.
Children
are not born with it.
It
is
not heredi tary; but as chi ldren's
minds develop. gradual ly this atti–
tude is injected into thcm in their
total unawareness. The apostle Paul
wrote lhat he was fearful lest the
Christians at Corinth in the first
century be corrupted through
Satan's subtlety, as Satan deceived
Eve sorne 4.000 years before.
"The original CAUSE of all man-
kind's troubles was Adam's TAKING
TO HIMSELF the knowledge of good
and evil; but the
conrínuous
and
present
cause of all our evils is what
we erroneously call 'human nature'
- which is Satan's continuous
'broadcasting' which sways all man–
kind. Salan is so powerfu l. the air is
surcharged with his atti tude. Even
converted Christians. few though
they be, are tuned to Satan's
wavelenglh. but if they u ·oER–
STAND and BELIEVE the Word of
God (now in writing). they recog–
nize such thoughts and altitudes im–
mediately and resist them. That is
how a real Christian must OVER–
COME Satan!"
Chairman Mao:
" ls there, then,
NO religion on earlh that is Goo's
religion, apart from Satan? ls there
NO government on earth that is
Goo's GOVERNMENT?"
Myself:
"Chairman Mao.
I
say to
you on authority of the living Goo
that this is a deceived world - cut
off from God.
lt
is Satan's world.
Remember, Satan is a SPJRIT being
- composcd of spirit and IMMOR–
TAL. He is invisible to human eyes.
T herefore, he has deceived the
world inlo bclieving that Salan hirn–
self is a myth; that this is Goo's
world; that Satan - as the devil -
does nol exist. All nations have been
deceived by him. They believe
he –
the real Satan - is God.
"Bur.
to answer your queslion
further, God did reserve to Himself
the righl to intervene in world af-
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