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Part
Eight:
7
PROOFS
OF GOD'STRUE
CHURCH
Where is the one and only true Church today - the Churchfounded by Jesus Christ in A.D. 31?
Seven major eye-opening proofs identify it unmistakably.
Previous installments in this series
of articles included Proof One: Who
and What is God?; Proof Two: The
Government of God and Creation of
Holy, Righteous Character; Proof
Three: What and Why /s Man?;
ProofFour: The Truth About Israel;
Proof Five: The True Gospel; and
Proof Six: What and Why the
Church? This month we present che
concluding installment.
Proof Seven:
THEREIGN OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD
H
ow incongruous! The
churches calling themselves
"Christian" do not know
that the true gospel is the
GOOD NEWS OF THE KTNGOOM OF
Goo. They know nothing of what the
earth will be like under the rule of
the KINGDOM OF Goo!
They know nothing of the only
GOOD NEWS in today's world-of the
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
world's only and sure HOPE!
Don't laugh at the word "utopía"!
lt
is regarded in today's troubled
world as an impractical, impossible
JOKE! Webster's dictionary defines
it: "an jmaginary and indefinitely re–
mote place; a place of ideal perfec–
tion, especially in laws, government
and social conditions; an impractical
scheme for social improvement."
Jesus Christ was no impractical
dreamer. His gospel was the Gooo
NEWS that a coming UTOPIA
ÍS
REAL-Ít is SURE!
Stop and THlNK! WHY should it be
impossible to have ideal perfection–
in laws, government and social condi–
tions?
WHY?
" Human nature," you answer?
Yes, but as shown in a pr.evious in–
stallment, human nature was NOT
created in us by Goo-was NOT born
in us.
lt
has been injected into hu–
mans by the "prince of the POWER OF
THE AIR," Satan, who is
~o
powerful
that he surcharges the air with bis
morbid attitude of gloom, resent–
ment, rebellion, selfishness, vanity,
strife. Satan broadcasts in self-cen–
tered
altitudes,
and the "human"
spirit in every human is tuned in on
his wavelength! Thus Satan is now
actually WORKING TN the people of
this disobedience (Epbesians 2:2).
But when the glorified CHRIST
comes in supreme POWER and GLORY
to rule all nations, Satan will be to–
tally restrained from humanity. ALL
will be
called
to salvation and eterna!
life-and, as God's people now are,
wi/1 become partakers of the divine
nature!
(JI
Peter 1:4).
"Human nature" will be GONE!
The earth will be as full of the knowl–
edge of tbe Eterna! as the ocean beds
are full of water (Isaiah ll :9).
Sclence's Postulate of
the Future
World-famous scientists foresee
three possibilities for the future.
l) Sorne optimists think we shall
soon have the magic push-button
century 21-with such an array of
gadgetry produced by technology
that human labor will be all but elim–
inated, and the world shalf be en-
The PLAIN TRUTH
October/November 1979