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ever. The supernatural intervention
of CHRIST will cut short that tribula–
tion (verses 21-22).
But WHERE will the grea t tribula–
tion be felt the most- strike hardest?
The prophecy of Jeremiah 30 says it
will be the time of Britain's and
America's trouble. (Write for our
booklet
The United States and Brit–
ish Commonwealth in Prophecy.)
ll's time for those in America and
the British nations to TAKE WARN–
ING! I have forewarned of this very
thing for 44 years.
The "Mark of the Beast"
For years I have said little or noth–
ing about "the mark of the beast" of
Revelation 13:17 , although
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spoke
and wrote a great deal 30 to 44
years ago on that and other proph–
ecies to occur about the same time.
But it seemed as if God were su–
pernaturally holding up the march
of prophesied events. In Revelation
7, the time seguence of the proph–
ecies had come to the phase of the
"day of the Lord," when there were
frightening signs in the sun, moon
and stars-time for the seven trum–
pet plagues. Then, in Revelation
7: 1, fou r angels at the four corners
of the earth were holding up the
winds that they should not loose the
trumpet plagues,
"ti//
we have
sealed the servants of our God in
their foreheads" (verse 3). This
shows that, when there is a reason,
God will HOLD PROPHESIED EVENTS
UP for a while. I have wondered if
He were not ho lding up world
events TILL we have completed THE
GREAT COMMISSION!
On the other hand, God may sud–
denly SPEED THINGS UP. He is going
to CUT SHORT the great tribulation.
Again, " He will finish the work, and
cut it sbort in righteousness: be–
cause a short work will the Lord
make upon the earth" (Rom. 9:28).
But we MAY now be coming VERY
NEAR a sudden CRASH ENDING Of
things in this world! Right now, so
far as God allows world events to
take their own course, a lot depends
on what Pope John Paul 11 and the
Roman Curia decide to do- and
they may be pressured by govern–
ment leaders in Europe. TIME IS
SHORT!
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The
PLAIN TRUTH
January
1979
tis picture, taken severa/ years ago, shows
Masayoshi Ohira (now the new Japanese
Prime Minister) accepting
a
copy
ofThe Plain
Truth
magazine from Stanley R. Rader,
Ambassador Foundation Executive Vice-President
and traveling companion of Editor-in-Chief
Herbert W. Armstrong (who has been given the
Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese
government). Cover picture shows the then
recently elected Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka .
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