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the whole human family off from

God and a ll contact with God! He

brought DEATH (tbe first death)

upon all humans (1 Cor. 15:22).

Hands-Off Pollcy

There upon God had adopted a

7,000-year master plan for repro–

duc íng Himself through HUMANS.

The first 6,000 yea rs God turned

man over to his own devíces; God

adopted, as it were, a HANDS-OFF

policy toward humanity. For 6,000

years mankind would go

his own

way.

Of course, God knew man would

adopt Sata n's way-1 call it tbe way

of "GET" for brevity-actually the

way of vanity. lust and greed, of

jea lousy and envy. of competition

and strife leading to violence and

war, of resentment and bitterness

against every fancied wrong, of lhe

desire lo "gel even," of rebellion

againsl au1hority.

God knew Satan would sway

mankind in this way-though Satan

is so subtle , being invisible to

human eyes, that man would not

know he was really obeying Satan's

rule!

In o ther words , God deliberately

sentenced mankind

to 6,000 years of

this evil way of life, to form his own

governmenls, religions. society: to

prove, by 6.000 years of human un–

happiness, discontent, suffering, vio–

lence, murder. war, and death, lhat

Satan's way of

" oET"

is lhe

wrong

way, a nd leads to lhe unwanted

wrong

result!

So for 6,000 years, up to now,

God has kept hands off mankind's

affairs. Mankind has been cut off

from God. by his own choice. God

has made bul a few exceplions,

where necessary for His purpose.

During lhis 6,000 years. God has

made no effort (contrary to nearly

all religious teachings) to "save

mankind" spirit ually.

For example, none had conlact

with God for the first 1900 years

except Abel. Enoch , and Noah.

Then God called Abram, changed

his name lo Abraham, made al! the

promises of eventual human salva–

tion lo him. He dealt wilh Isaac,

Jacob and Joseph.

Then, 430 years after Abraham,

God called his descendants, then

probably more than three million,

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PLAIN TRUTH October-November 1977

led them by miracles out of Egyp–

tian slavery, offered them the great–

est material and national blessings

(but no spiritua l salvation except to

Moses and the prophets) for being

His nation on earth, obeying His

laws. They promised to live under

His government, but rebelled utterly

and ended up in captivity again.

Chrlst Brlngs Good News

Sorne 4.000 years after Adam, Jesus

Christ carne in the likeness o f

human ftesh. He carne with a MES–

SAGE- the gospel. What was that?

lt

was the oooo NEWS of Goo's King–

dom and the ultimate grand poten–

tia! of man, so great it surpasses lhe

power of the human mind to con–

ceive.

Christ qualified to replace Satan

(the former Lucifer) and to

restore

W.

recognize the

conditions around us. The

heads of state, the great

and the near-great 1meet,

know of the problems–

problems greater than

human minds can solve.

the governmenl of God to earth,

this time over man. Then He pro–

claimed the good news of that com–

ing Kingdom- the

extreme opposite

of "doom." He called His apostles,

and taught them His tremendous

announcement of this unsurpassable

human potential.

Then He died for

our sins, was resurrected, and rose

to God's heaven to be our high

priest

until

He comes as King of

kings to rule all nations of earth

with the govemment ofGod.

The aposlles went forth proclaim–

ing this good news of th e vast

human potential. This sta rted in

A.D. 31, the year Christ was cruci–

fie"d and His Church raised up. But

out of the remnants of the ancient

Babylonian mystery religion, rose

up in A.D. 33 in Samaria this pagan

religion professing CHRIST, calling

itself CHRI STIANITY, and per–

secuting and martyring all true

Christians. Beside the

name

"Chris-

tian," they appropriated the doc–

trine of "grace" from Christ 's

apostles, turning it into license- per–

mission to disobey-saying the laws

of the government of God were

done away.

Thus, we find that by A.D. 69

another gospel

had gained public ac–

ceptance (Gal. 1:6-7). The good

news- Christ 's gospel- of the King–

dom of God was no longer publicly

proclaimed to the world!

Few today know what Christ 's

real gospel was! Your Bible says all

nations have been deceived (Rev.

12:9). Of course, most of you read–

ing this do not believe that, because

a deceived person does not know he

i.s deceived, else he would not

BE

deceived.

Chrisl in person preached this

good news to many thousands. But

how many actually

believed what He

said?

Only 120! (Acts 1: 15.)

Today, the Bible ou tsells all

books. The Bible is the Word of

God- it is whal God says. Yet mil–

lions who own Bibles never read

them.