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His PURPOSE - for Goo's PURPOSE
STANDS - is IRREVOCABLE!
Jt
WILL
BE ACCOMPUSHED. lt lS BEING AC–
COMPLISHED!
"God intervened in the life of
Abe! , second son of Adam. Enoch,
called 'seventh from Adam,' walked
with God, and two cannot walk to–
gether except they be agreed. God
found Noah PERFECT in his genera–
tions (physical) and willing to obey
Him. God called Abram who
obeyed Him, and Abram's name
was changed to Abraham, and all
PROMISES for immortality, as a gift
to humans, were made to Abraham
and his descendants. There were
Isaac and Jacob to whom the PROM–
ISES were repeated, and Joseph who
obeyed God. God intervened in
making the Israelite slaves in Egypt
HIS OWN NATION, leading them
SU–
pernaturally under Moses out of
Egypt. He promised them physical
and oational and material rewards,
but never the gift of eterna! li fe. He
sent many prophets to them and
gave the prophets His Holy Spirit in
order to empower them to do Hrs
woRK, which He assigned to them,
ofwarning rebellious Israel.
"Then God sent 'the WORD,' born
of the viigin Mary, as Jesus Christ –
the Son of GoD, since His only
Father was GOD - and the Son of
MAN, since His mother was the
human Mary.
"Here we enter a most crucial
phase of God's whole PURPOSE and
MASTER PLAN for REPRODUCING
HIMSELF.
" l
have told you, man had to
choose. He was made MORTAL - of
matter. Being MATTER, the PENALTY
of his sin (violation of GoD's LAW)
was fixed as DEATH. How, then, if
MAN experienced Satan's WAY of
'get' first - al! of which we call
falsely 'human nature' - was God
to rescue him from 'death, let him
EXPERIENCE life under the GOVERN–
MENT OF ÜOD, THEN MAKE HIS
CHOICE?
· " I would assume that all this was
thought out and divinely PLANNED
when there existed only the TWO
BEINGS - 'the WORD' and Goo -
Elohim.
The 'Word,' being GOD, the
One BY WHOM God created all
things, including the human race -
being CREATOR OF ALL - was one
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whose life was of greater value than
all human lives combined. He vol–
un teered to GIVE UP al! the exalted
GLORY and HONOR, to be born as a
human by a human . mother, FOR
THE VERY PURPOSE OF BEING ABLE
TO DIE. But, also being GoD in
human ftesh , He, and He alone of
all mankind, would be able to RE–
srsT Satan's temptations, and
though tempted as we are, never
bring on HIMSELF the penalty of
DEATH. He then would take on Him–
self the SINS OF ALL MANKIND, and,
His life outweighing them all, PAY
our penalty for us, in our stead, by
sacrificing Hrs LIFE in exchange for
ours. Thus God GAVE His ONLY BE–
GOTTEN SoN rather than com–
promise one iota with His LAW!
"His death wiped out the barrier
between man and God. Now man
could have access to GoD. But the
plan went further. Goo resurrected
Jesus Christ from the dead, making
possible the resurrection of
al/
humans, for whom He died.
" But that is not yet al!. Abel.
Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac,. Ja–
cob, Joseph, Moses and al! the
prophets, the apostles of Jesus, and
those who thereafter received God's
HoLY SPIRIT through Christ in the
Church of God, shall be resurrected
at the coming of Christ again to
rule.
"Now you ask, is not the GOVERN–
MENT OF GoD in force anywhere in
the world?
Y
es, it is - in the · true
CHURCH OF Goo, now called the
Worldwide Church of God - and
nowhere else.
"But
I
am getting a little ahead of
myself. Jesus Christ met Satan
head-on in a person-to-person con–
frontation. Under the most severe
temptation Satan could maneuver,
Jesus overcame him, rejected his
WAY, OBEYED ÜOD, and QUALIFIED
to. RESTORE THE GOVERNMENT OF
Goo on the earth !
"But God's MASTER PLAN for His
great PURPOSE called for a
6,000-
year duration of MAN attempting to
organize himself in society, govern–
ment, religion and education under
Satan's sway - all his human in–
stitutions devised on the
way
of
'GET' contrary to Goo's LAW. This
world's churches FIGHT and OPPOSE
the spiritual LAW OF GOD, the very
basis of the GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD.
"But Jesus brought a GREAT MES–
SAGE from God to mankind - the
GOOD NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT (Gos–
peJ) OF THE COMING KINGDOM OF
Goo.
"Those who have rejected and, in
this life. OVERCOME Satan's WAY of
hostility to GoD's LAw; who have
BELIEVED WHAT ÜOD SAJO - His
written WORD, the Bible; who have
REPENTED of sin and of Satan's
wAY; and who have lived, in this
world, though persecuted for it,
Goo's WAY; and who have received
and been led by God's HoLY
SPIRIT,
are
lO
be
RESURRECTED 1M–
MORTAL,
composed of
SPIRIT
ar
Christ's coming.
He is coming in
POWER ANO GLORY as KING of kings
to TAKE OVER all governments of
this earth, restoring THE GOVERN–
MENTOF ÜOD.
" Resurrected AT His coming will
be all
saints
from 'righteous Abe!' to
those in GoD's CHURCHTODAY.
"Just as Jesus had to QUALIFY to
Sit OU the THRONE OF THE EARTH
(David's) AT JERUSALEM,
SO
must all
we, who shall be then resurrected to
rule with Him, have rejected Satan's
WAY, turned to Goo's WAY, over–
come Satan and his WAY, and have
lived Goo's WAY.
"We are merely the very FIRST lo
be finally BORN of GoD. All in lhe
firsl resurrection shall have been
those few who were PREDESTINED to
be called NOW - given God's HoLY
SPIRIT to empower us lo DO THE
woRK God has decreed He wants
done NOW,
even in Satan 's world.
"Others have not yet been called by
God to spiritual salvation and eterna/
life.
Jesus said plainly, 'No MAN
CA N
come lo me, except the
Father ... draw him' (John
6:44).
Those so called are they who have
been specially predestinated - spe–
cially selected and called - for this
WORKOFÜOD.
"So far as the resl of the world is
concerned, for
6,000
years God has
adopted a 'HANDS-OFF' policy. They
have been cut off from God totally.
as if He didn't exist. God simply
was not even in their thinking. MAN
made it so!
"And now. WHAT OF THEM? [ said
before, to be born into the GOD
FAMILY, one must have EXPERI–
ENCED both Satan's way and GoD's
WAY.
The
PLAIN
TRUTH
March
1977