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a GOVERNMENT- HtS government,
with His constitution and LAWS.
God's LAws were- and are-a
w
AY
OF LIFE; the way of LOVE-Outgoing
concern for the welfare of others;
the way of peace. harmony, helping,
serving, sharing.
But the angels sinned (11 Pet. 2:4).
They rebelled, rejected Goo's gov–
ernment, and adopted the way of
GET, which is vanity, lust and greed,
jealousy and envy, competition ,
st rife and violence, resentment and
rebellion against authority. This
brought disaster to the earth which
these angels could have developed
and improved. In six days God "re–
newed the face of the earth" (Psalm
104:30), prepared it forman.
God created humankind, maJe
and female, to reproduce and bring
forth the human family, made of
matter from the ground ; made in
the image, lik en ess (fo rm and
shape) of Goo HtMSELF; made for a
special relationship with God ; made
with the potential of being begotten
and BORN into the very Goo FAM–
tLY.
The first created man, Adam, was
instructed in and otfered. by per–
sonal teaching directly from Goo,
the GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD, which
Adam could have restored to earth,
and he could have received the fan–
tastic,
awesome
potential of being
BORN lNTO THE ÜOD FAM ILY, restor–
ing the WHOLE VAST ENDLESS UNI–
VERSE! But suc h a gra nd and
awesome potential could be possible
only in peace, harmony, working to–
gether with mutual CONCERN for
one another, and OBEDIENCE lo the
guiding LAWS OF ÜOD.
Adam then also listened to the
former Lucifer, superarchangel RUL–
ING over the sinning angels-his
name now changed to Satan the
devil. Adam, for his offspring and
the entire HUMAN FAMILY,
rejected
God's government and guidance,
chose to decide for himselfthe WAY
TO GO, chose to decide right from
wrong by eating from the tree of
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knowledge of good and evil. and
thus CUT HIMSELF OFF from God.
Satan, powerful beyond human rec–
ognition, an invisible spirit, has de–
ceived th e en tire human race,
leading.them into the WAYofGET.
Upoo Adam's rejectioo of God's
government. God adopted a hands–
off policy for 6,000 years, allowing
MAN lO DEMONSTRATE that the GET
way can lead only to trouble, evils.
pain and sulfering, anguish, fru stra–
tion, confusion, failure and DEATH.
God's great PURPOSE is to build
into mankind His holy and righ–
teous character, so that man will
turn to the WAY Of LOVE or GIVE,
and NEVER again turn to the WAYOF
GET.
God is about to prove,
by 1,000 years of
His rule under the
give phllosophy
of love, that it is the
only way to universal
peace, happiness,
success, desirable
accompllshment,
and well-being.
Part of God's MASTER PLAN for
working out His purpose was to call
the nation ISRAEL. He called them
and delivered them out of Egyptian
SLAVERY, promised them that Hts
WAY Of LOVE and GIVE-the way of
His LAWS and Hts GOVERNMENT–
would automatically
pay off;
make
them the most prosperous, most suc–
cessful, most blessed, most powerful ,
most happy nation on earth. Hence,
the marriage covenant that set them
up as one ofthe world's NATIONS.
But they clung LO Satan's way of
GET. God has allotted 6,000 years to
man for this experiment of PROVING
by human experience that the fruits
of the GET way result only in
total failure, unhappiness, dis–
content, anguish, suffering and
death.
God sent Jesus Ch rist to earth,
begotten by God Almighty, born
human of a human mother, to pro–
claim the GOOD NEWS (gospel) of
the KtNGDOM OF Goo: the restora–
tion of the GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD lO
earth- after the 6,000 years. First,
however, Jesus, after living a perfect
sinless life, met and conquered
Salan. and thus QUALfFIED to re–
establish ÜOD'S GOVERNMENT. Then
He called and taught His apostles in
the ANNOUNCEMENT of the coming
KtNGDOM OF Goo. and He Himsclf
went forth announcing it. The hu–
manity of the Promised Land of
Israel of that day REJECTED His mes–
sage, rejected Goo's GOVERNMENT–
as the angels had done, as Adam
had done. They CRUCIFIED Jesus,
who gave His sin less life in payment
for human sins. God raised Him
from the dead, making eterna! life
possible for MAN. He ascended to
God's throne of the universe in
heaven, where He has been since as
the HtGH PR tEST of those CALLEO
ou t of human ity to accept H tS
WAY-His GOVERNMENT-tO REPENT
of the GET way of sin. and to turn to
God voluntarily, beseeching Him to
develop in lhem His holy and righ–
teous character.
At the END of that 6,000 years,
God knew the GET way of a man–
made sociely swayed invisibly by
Satan would bring man to the brink
of cosmocide- to the point where he
could create the powers of MASS DE–
STRUCTlON that would blast a ll
human life from this planet!
At that time, lhe merciful Al–
mighty Goo of LOVE will intervenc
at the very last minute; He will PRE–
VENT man from erasing all human–
ity from the earth; He will save
mankind ALtVE. He will send Jesus
Christ in supreme almighty power
and glory to take over and RULE
over all mankind- to once again re–
store the GOVERNMENT OF ÜOD lO
ea rth.
Now back to ancient ISRAEL. God
gave them a SPECIAL CHANCE lO live
under His GOVERNMENT and by His
WAYS, in order lO PROVE thal !hOSe
ways wi ll bring success, prosperity,
happiness, joy and abundance lo
any people who will live that way of
love. But Israel FAtLED.
W
e reached by 1933 the begin–
ning of the very generation during
which Christ will return to reestab–
lish the government of God. That
year- 1933- God conferred on me
the STAGGERING GREAT COMMISSION
lO take the GOOD NEWS-the AN–
NOUNCEMENT of the soon-coming
KINGDOM OF Goo- to all the world
for a witness to ALL NATIONS. just
The
PLAIN TRUTH June 1977