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by His GIFT actually come INTO us,
begetting us with eterna! life as H is
children.
3)
The idea that Christ abolished
the LAW of the GOVERNMENT OF
Goo.
All through the centuries since
around A.D. 68-70,
Jalse gospels
have been preached.
The WHOLE
WORLD has been DECEIVED (Rev.
12:9). The true Church virtually
went underground. The true gospel
had to be taught secretly- not pub–
licly to the world. But by autumn
1927, we had arrived at the time of
the generation
during which
the
KINGDOM OF Goo will be estab–
lished; Christ shall come in AL–
MIGHTY POWER AND GLORY and rule
the world.
lt will mark the END of this world.
It will bring in the happy, joyous,
PEACEFUL WORLD TOMORROW.
The time had come when God
wanted the imminent coming of His
KINGDOM ANNOUNCED.
And H e was calling me for that
PURPOSE!
Search for Truth
I was angered by this DOUBLE chal–
lenge-my wife's and my sister-in–
law's-into tbe most intensive study
and research of my
Ji
fe.
But 1 wanted ALL THE FACTS On
BOTH SIDES. l wanted the TRUTH!
f
de lved through Darwin, Haec–
kel, Huxley, Lyell, Lamarck- all the
foremost advocates of evolution. 1
went into Genesis THOROUGHLY. 1
used all the commentaries, Bible
dictiooaries, lexicons, religious ency–
clopedias, concordances-all the
Bible helps. I sought for and ob–
tained all the · literature I could
AGAINST the Sabbath. But proofbad
to come from the Bible. 1 entered
into the first real study of the Bible
ofmy life.
1 was literally STUNNED when I
saw, in Romans 6:23, that the pen–
alty for sin is DEATH! Since child–
hood, in Sunday school, 1 had been
brought up to believe the penalty
for sin is ETERNAL LIFE-in hellfire–
a fire that continues burning FOR–
EVER, but never burns up. Then the
The
PLAIN TRUTH May 1977
latter half o f the same verse:
" . .. but the GIFT of God
ÍS
ETERNAL
LIFE through Jesus Christ our Lord."
That completely ftoored me! Always
I
had been taught
I
a/ready had
eter–
na! life;
1
was an immortal soul.
And did not my church get its teach–
ing from the Bible? Surely all these
churches couldn' t be wrong!
But there it was in PLAIN LAN–
GUAGE-in the Bible! I was dumb–
founded to read, TWICE, in the
Bible: "The SOUL that sinneth,
IT
SHALL DIE" (Ezek. 18:4, 20).
Then 1 read: "The ETERNAL Goo
formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nos–
trils the breath of life; and MAN
[dust of the ground] BECAME a living
SOUL" (Gen. 2:7). The SOUL, then,
carne from the ground and is MOR–
TAL. God said to our first parents
that if they took of the forbidden
fruit, they would SURELY DIE. But
they did not believe WHAT Goo
SAID. Satan said tbey would NOT
die- tbat is, they were immortal
souls- and tbey believed Satan as
mankind has ever since.
1 give you this one fllustration out
of many to show you that I found
clear evidence with my own eyes, in
the Bible, that "all these churches
CAN be wrong"; that they do not get
their teachings from the Bible, but
in most basic truths are DECEIVED
into teaching precisely tbe OPPOSITE
of the Bible.
1 PROVEO evolution untrue. For a
while 1 believed it- as long as 1 stud–
ied Darwin, and especially H aeckel ,
Huxley and such advocates, without
looking at the other side of the coin.
And when 1 did clearly examine the
other side, which included an IN–
DEPTH study of the Bible, 1 PROVEO
evolution to be a FALSE THEORY-an
actual FABLE that has DECEIYED the
whole intellectual and "educated"
world!
l PROVED the existence of Goo as
Creator, Designer, Giver and
Source of.LIFE, and the basic Source
of all RIGHT KNOWLEDGE.
Most lmportant Commlsslon
Further, I PROVEO to my own satis–
faction that the HoL
Y
BIBLE as orig–
inally written is the infallible
REVELATlON of basic KNOWLEDGE
from Goo- in other words, the in–
fallible Word of God.
And
1
found in it the MISSING DI–
MENSION IN KNOWLEDGE- undiscov–
ered by science, never revealed .by
religion, unknown and untaught by
higher education! By the " missing
dimension in knowledge,"
1
mean
tbe answers to questions such
as , Who are we? Why are we?
Where are we going? What is
the way? Why can' t we have world
peace?
WHAT HAO HAPPENED?
I didn't realize it then, but God
was now calling me to prepare me
for the MOST IMPORTANT COMMIS–
SION in more than 1900 years!
But WHY ME?
lt
seemed absurd,-it still does
now-for 1 did not fully realize the
full force of what was happening
then. 1 have known hundreds of
men greater than 1-with better
minds, more capacity of mind ,
stronger personalities, greater abil–
ity-and YET, GOD HAS CHOSEN
NONE OF THEM!
WHY? As 1 look back over the
years at what Goo
has done
through
me, 1 shake my head in bewildered
disbelief. But God did prepare me .
He brought me down low. He took
away all that built-up false pride,
self-confidence, cocksureness, van–
ity, desire for material rewards.
What very few realize is that Goo
does
not.
choose men as people do.
God does not call to His service the
GREAT, but the humble- or those He
can r educe
until
they become
humble.
God says:· "For ye see your call–
ing [to His service], brethien, how
that not many wise men after the
fl.esh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called: But God hath
chosen the foolish (those who seem
so to men] things of the world to
confound the wise; and God ha th
chosen the weak things of the
world ..." (1 Cor. 1:26-27).
What about the PROUD- as I o nce
was? "God resisteth the proud, but
giveth grace unto the humble"
(James.4:6; I Pet. -5:5). He certainly
resisted me, humbled me, brought
me ready to accept HIS TRUTH as He
now finally revealed it to me.
But do not suppose that I guickly
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