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tranced and bedazzled by material
technology. But, of course, this would
not rid us of human nature. Crime
would escalate, family life would
break down completely, mora ls
would sink even lower-if possible!
2) We shall have more and more
evils, and, with nuclear power and
other means of mass destruction, hu–
manity will soon be erased from the
earth.
3) Sorne say the world 's only hope,
now, to escape cosmocide is to form
one gigantic world government, con–
trolling the only military power a nd
weaponry-yet in the same breatb
they admit the impossibility of it.
WHO would sit on the throne RULING
the world? The United States and
Europe would never accept a Com–
munist in supreme command. The
Communists would never accept an
American or Western European.
WHY?-yes·, WHY should we have
a world where more than half of all
its people live in illiteracy, abject
poverty, filth and squalor, racked
with diseases and pains and without
hope? WHY?-when the human
mind can produce the marvels of
technology, the computer, send men
to the moon and back, transmit pho–
tographs from the surface of Mars
and Jupiter to the earth?
Can't we realize there has to be a
CAUSE for all these evils- and that
the GREAT MAJESTIC Goo has power
to eradicate the causes and usher in a
REAL utopía?
Don't sell God short!
The Two Alternatives
Let's face it! Right now there a re two
alternatives. Either there does exist
the living almighty Goo of supreme
mind and power, who will very soon
intervene and SAVE HUMANITY FROM
ITSELF, Or else HUMAN EXTINCTION is
now imminent!
There is no other alternative!
But thank God, there
is
the GOOD
NEWS of the SOOn-coming PEACEFUL,
HAPPY WORLD TOMORROW!
When the supreme Creator-RULER
comes again to ear th , already
crowned as KING of kings, in supreme
POWER and GLORY and alJ the hoJy
angels with Him, the Gentile nations
actual ly will FIGHT to resist
Him!
The PLAIN TRUTH October / November 1979
But " ... thei r flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their
feet, and their eyes shall consume
away in their boles, and their tongue
shall consume away in their mouth"
(Zechariah 14:12).
The living CHRIST is coming to
RULE WITH DIVINE FORCE! And one
of His first acts will be to depose
Satan! The CAUSE of the world's evils
will be removed!
J esus, after His resurrection, as–
cended to heaven, in clouds taking
Him up out of sight. He shall return
in clouds.
The mighty Lord shall descend
with a SHOUT!-with the voice of the
archangel and the trumpet of God.
The dead in Christ shall rise in a
glorious resurrection to SPIRIT IM–
MORTALITY! T he living
in
Christ
shall then be caught up in the ai r
with them,
changed
to spirit immor–
tality-to MEET the descending Lord
in the a ir (1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17).
Christ's feet shall stand that same
day on the Mount óf Olives, east of
J erusalem (Zechariah 14:4). The im–
mortal saints shall be continually
with the Lord-reigning with and
under Him from Jerusalem over all
nations!
With Satan gone, the KINGDOM
OF Goo shall be set up in power.
Everyone wbom God lías
cal/ed
out
of this world of Satan's has been
called to a special mission
preparing
for this Kingdom!
The GOVERNMENT OF Goo will be
restored, worldwide! The humans left
on earth will be ruled over. No mor–
tal humans will rule-only tbose who
PREPARED and QUALIFIED to rule
during their earthly life after receiv–
ing God's Spirit.
The Government Organization
God has
not
revealed in specific de–
tail how His government will be or–
ganized. He does reveal that
it
shall
be government from the TOP down.
Christ will be KING of kings over all
na tions.
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t is specifically revealed
that King David of ancient Judah,
resurrected, shall be king over the
nations descended from the 12 tribes
of ancient Israel (Ezekiel 34:23;
37:24-25; J eremiab 30:9). Jesus
Himself revealed that the 12 original
apostles shall sit on 12 thrones, each
ruling one of these nations (Matthew
19:28; Luke
2~:30).
As a theocracy, with government
from the top down, it also is revealed
that God the Father is the supreme
LAWGIVER, and head over Christ and
tberefore ABOYE ALL. The Kingdom
of God is the FAMILY OF Goo-and
the Father is supreme head over His
family!
Jesus Christ is coming as KING of
kings
and
LORO of lords, so the King–
dom of God shall combine churcb
and state, as did ancient lsrael-with
Christ earthly King and LORO.
NOTE WELL THIS PRINCIPLE: Jn a
world
cut off
from God, God has
called out of the world those pre–
destinated. And in every instance the
call has been toa definite DUTY, and
also in every case that duty has been
One PREPARING FOR THE KJNGDOM
OF Goo.
God called Abr aham. All the
PROMISES of our eternal salvation
were given to Abraham, and we in–
herit tbem from tbe fact Abraham is
the "father of tbe faithful." This re–
veals that Abraham will have higher
position in the Kingdom than David.
He will be NEXT UNDER CHRIST.
Then again, the Scriptures use the
phrase "Abraham, Isaac and J acob,"
grouping them together as a team.
All the PROMISES were repromised
also to Isaac and to Jacob. This indi–
cates they shall be a headquarters
TEAM-next under Christ--over both
church and state, with Abraham
chairman of the team. In Luke 13:28,
Jesus said definitely that Abraham,
Isaac and J acob shall be in tbat glori–
fied Kingdom.
One Qovernment Over All
Wben the KINGDOM- the divine
FAMILY of God- reigns on earth, it
shall be the ONE GOVERNMENT over
ALL nations. There shall be ONE God,
ONE government, ONE religion.
In the transfiguration vision, Pe–
ter, James and J ohn saw Christ
transformed in to the GLORIFI EO
Christ, His face shining as the sun
(Matthew 17: 1-7), and with H im in
the Kingdom Moses and Elijah.
These two, in the vision, represented
the offices of cburch and state.
Both Moses and Elijah, in their
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