JUNE, 1966 -t:hb P'lA U~Jl 1 ~ ~lH Wfat-our READERS SAY a mllga:ine of undtnt undinD June, 1966 God Is ... Dignity VOL. XXXI NO.6 Circulation 780,000 Copies "I must tell you of something I "Since I have been reading your Published monthly at Pasadena, California; heard from a friend of mine who was booklets, I am glad to be a Negro. At London, England; and North S)·dney, Australia, by Ambassador College. Gennan and French at a party where the main entertain last I know who I am and where I am editions published monthly at London. England. © 1966 Ambassador College. All Rights Re ment was to sit around and smoke pot going. I wish all my people could come served. (marijuana) and other such things. At to know these things and stop all this EDI TO R the height, or low point, of the evening marching and confusion, " HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG one person decided to get a black EXECUTIVE EDITOR Man, Cincinnati, Ohio Garner Ted Armstrong marking penclI and write 'GOD IS • ALL peoples wilL JOOll know.' MANAGING EDITOR DEAD' on the walls. He started writing H erman L. Hoeh while standing on a low sink or wash Did You M iss a Page? basin. Before he finished writing, the SEN IOR ED ITOR "Effective immed iately please quit Roderick C. Meredith sink coll apsed and he fell to the floor. sending your magazine to me. I have What was left on the wall was, 'GOD Anociate Editors searched through every copy looking Albert J. Portune D avid Jon Hill IS.' " for The PLAIN TRUTH as to who pub Contributing Editors Bob C, North Kingstown, lishes this magazine and if you are Robert C. Boraker C. Paul Meredith Rhode Island William F. Dankenbring 1. Leroy Neff afraid of The P LAIN TR UTH of reveal Charles V. Dorothy Ri chard H . Sedliacik • The handwriting is on the wall, ing your identity, then forget it!" Jack R. Elliott Lynn E. Torrance Robert E. Gentet Eugene M. Walter hllh? Man. Omaha. Nebraska Ernest 1. Martin Basil Wolverton Gerhnrd O. Marx Clint C. Zimmerman • Listed each month; the Pllblishe1"S, Inside South America entire editorial staff, with all mailing James W. Robinson, ~opy Editor "1 am writing to tell you how much addresses. See this page, cO /limn three. Paul Kroll, Art Editor I enjoy The PLAIN TRUTH. I am in the News Bureau sixth grade and find Dr. D orothy's N ot All U niversities D eny God Gene H. Hogberg, Director Donald D . Schroeder Keith A. Hoyt article on 'Inside South America' very OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY It SI4/ Photographer interesting. also helps in my Social Office of the President Lyle Christopherson Studies as we just finished South Amer Gentlemen: Regional EditOf'J ica at school. I truly enjoy your wonder Enclosed herein YOll will find notes Uni ted Kingdom: Raymond F. McNair Ell] magazine. I just wish it came more written to the Pres ident of Oklahoma Australia : C. 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Pe rsonal from the Editor ...... H E AMBASSADOR COLLEGE catalog Moral bars have toppled. Unive rsity for years has carried a special campus students say bluntly that with T EXTRA ! Sovie fs Propose statement from me, somewhat like the wa ning of church and pa rental in an editorial, captioned " f oundational fluence, "we decide for otl[selves on N on-A ggression Pact! 2 Policy." codes of morality." A newspaper head From time to time I have publis hed line says: "ST UDENTS IN SEARCH OF A Tu rkey in Prophecy ...... 3 a new and different statement in this NEW M ORALITY. " A senior lecturer of space, but always it has been a frank, a large university in the U nited States Short Questions straightforward explanation of basic says: "We're not in the business of From Our Readers 8 policy. bui lding character. I doubt if some of W hile M rs. Armstrong and I were us are guali fied. Instead, we should be on om recent trip around the world, I bu ilding minds." Stuffing min ds with What All Husbands NEED prepared a new statement for this space crass materialism, while moral, spiritual, To KNOW! ...... 9 in the catalog for the 1966·67 school and emotional development is neglected, , year. It is an appraisal of our time-of produces unbalanced education and is the worl d, and of modern education. It crimi nally dangerous. Radio Log ... . . • • . . • •. . ... 14 pulls no punches. I feel it ought to be The very fi rst law of success in life read not only by prospective students, is the choosing of the right goal as the German NATIONALISM but by the entire P LAIN T RUTH read ai m of life. Where there is no sense Rises Again! ...... 17 ership. I HOPE IT MAKES YOU THINK. of the true va lues, there can be no Here it is: meani ng to li fe, no right purpose, no The New Te stament Te aching on T HE STRIKING difference in basic aiming at the right goal. There can be LAW AND GRACE ...... 25 educational philosophy at Am· no well -baJanced, broadening, and bassador College should be clearly un· wo rthwhile education where the true derstood. And also, the reasons! va lues have become obscured from The Bible Story ...... 33 Higher education is fast approaching view. Character bui lding is a lost and a crisis in the W estern World. Promi discarded art, and minds are fill ed with Prophecy COMES ALIVE in nent educators recogn ize with alarm the dead knowledge and fa lse materialism. Today's World News 48 dangerous drift into materialism and This tragic state of affai rs in today's collectivism. At the same time they con higher education is the natural result of fess their helplessness to change the the mass-production machine age with situation. Major colleges and large uni its demands for highly specialized tech versities find themselves in the clutch nological, scientific and professional of an established system which no one trai ning along purely materialist ic lines. bound by this tradition can alte r. Emphasis is upon special ized training in Ambassador Coll ege came on the preferred fie lds for financial rewards. world scene free from the shack les of The development of the man himself, materiali sm and the grip of tradition. his character, right sense of va lues, Ambassador has dared to recapture the knowledge of the real purpose of Ii fe, trlle values-to blaze new trails, while and the laws that govern happiness, retaining all that is sound and that has peace, and abundant well -being is ne be::!n proved good in educational ex glected. Modern education too often perience. © Ambassador College commits the crime of developing the Educational institutions, generally, machi ne while failing to develop OUR COVER have grown so large that the regimented the man. assembly-line processes have replaced A si ngularly charming view of the individualized instruction. The student Eminent scientists warn publicly that Pasadena, California, campus of Am bassador College. T he stream with has lost his identity. Development of they are frankly frightened by th is trend fa lls, pools and rapids, casl.:ades personality and ini tiative is largely sac which now threatens to annih ilate hu down grecn-carpeted slopes. ln th e background is Mayfair, one of the rificed. (Colltinlled Oil page 41) girls' student residences. EXTRA! SOVIETS PROPOSE NONAGGRESSION PACT! Russian Party Chief Bre zhnev makes startling offer to Western Europe. History is repeating itself!
by Gene H. Hogberg
HE Kreml in has rocked Western falling into West T Europe with a startling proposal! German hands. Soviet Communist Party boss Hence, they want Leonid Brezhnev has just announced that America out the Russians are willing to negotiate "peace" in Europe. "nollaggressionlJ pacts with other Euro W est European pean countries in order to end the East leaders - especial West division on the Continent. ly the Germans - have simi lar fears. Brezhnev's "Bomb" They want the Brezhnev dropped his "bomb" at the Russian military opening session of the 13th Czechoslo threat removed vakian Communist Party Congress in from their borders. Prague, May 31. U. S. leaders failed to They want Red catch its significance-and its timing! army units moved The Red leader was quoted by the out of the satellite Soviet news agency Tass as saying that countries back into Russia wanted peace with the rest of Russia proper. Europe. His reason: "Modern military Serallss Tells All techniques turn Europe into a much too crowded and inflammable house," mak West Germans ing war, according to Brezhnev, out of have dropped their the question. pol itical bomb , In his speech Brezhnev attacked the too! anti-Communist North Atlantic Treaty In his new book, Organization. He labeled it only a front The Grand Design, for "American imperialism." former West Ger "We are in favor of the replacement man Defense Min of mi litary alliances"- by which he ister Franz Josef meant the Russian-dom inated W arsaw Strauss insists; "It Wid. World Photo Pact as well as NATO-·'by peaceful must be our task Russian Communist Party Secretary Leon id Brezhnev cooperation of all [European] states," now to create a belt shocked Europe with nonaggression pact proposal. Brezhnev said. between Russia and It was exactly what Europeans wanted Western Europe, which might be The conditions that led to the shock to hea r-and Brezhnev knew it! ca ll ed 'buffer Europe)' which is not ing nonaggression pact of Stalin and Brezhnev's proposal is a logical out under Russian domi nation and not un- Hitler in 1939 are taking place again. come of the great flurry of secret and dec German domination." New faces-but the same motives. open economic and political contacts Strauss gives himself away. He subtly The interests of the nations of East now being made between Eastern and takes for granted Germany'5 design to ern Europe will again be sacrificed for Western Europe. See page 48 of this domindte If/ estern E"rope. Then he "peace" as they were before. But peace issue of The PLAIN TRUTH for details. would create out of the decaying Red -human style-will be short-lived. This The Soviets are "turning on the empire in the East-Poland, Czechoslo time, God Almighty will have to inter charm" for a reason. They are trying vakia, Hungary, Rwnania - a bllffer vene to prevent the coming world con to buy precious time I They fear U. S. zone between Germany and archenemy flict from destroying all human life-not atomic weapons positioned in Europe Russia! just in Europe, but around the world. TURKEY IN PROPHECY Turkey, forgotten and ignored in much of world news today, is destined to become important in world affairs! Bible prophecy shows a strange and bizarre future for this important nation at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. Read here what your Bible says about Turkey's future!
by Garner Ted Armstrong Istanbul, Turkey ERE in Istanbul, bustling Euro most important part of Turkey. key has been of prime importance to H pean economic capital of mod Bounded to my west by Bulgaria and the big powers in recent cold war ern Turkey, I am writing from Greece, European Turkey represents a history. You may remember it was from one of the most important crossroads substantial grip by this nation on one a Strategic Air Command base in this on earth today. In front of me ships sail of the world's most important sea gates, nation that the ill-fated Powers U·2 slowly by, headed up toward the Black the Bosporus and Dardanelles. Hight was made. Embarrassing admis Sea and the Crimea, or down toward Grecian claims on this area, plus dis sions by the U. S. Department of State the Dardanelles and the Mediterranean. putes over possession of the island of fo ll owed, when the U. S. Government Cyprus, have meant strained relation revea led constant U·2 spy flights were European Turkey ships and near war between the two being made over Russia from bases in This small enclave of Turkey In the neighbors in the past. Turkey. Finally, to lessen tensions in European littoral is in many ways the Because of its strategic location, Tue- the modern furor of the cold war, the
Turki sh soldie rs, among the best-trained and finest-equipped in th e worl d, parade in Istanbul. Turk ey
sent troops to Korea; is a heavy contributor to NATO. PIP Photo 4 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966
U. S. dismantled and removed some of Turkey is the world's largeJt producer after the signing of the arm istice be its important military installations in of chrome. Many other minerals are tween the Western allies and the Central Turkey. Turkey is, however, a member found here, such as lead, antimony, powers in 1918. of NATO- and signed a mutual de sulphur, mercury, molybdenum, mag Many of the areas of the former fense pact with the U. S. in J 959. nesite, si lver, manganese, zinc, and Ottoman Empire became British or But in our modern jet-hydrogen asbestos. Frend1 mandates after World War I; space age, how could a nation be of H is believed Turkey possesses rich notably, and perhaps most easily re such strategic importance merely be oi l deposits, and extensive exploration membered is Palestine, captured from cause of its geographical Jocation? to develop oil production is under way. the Turks by General Allenby_ Simply because no matter how ad Obviously, looking at any map would Then came the revolution led by vanced OUf technology is, no matter tell you that should Turkey become Mustafa Kernal Atatiirk. He became the how fast OUf airplanes fIy, or how more oriented toward the Soviet bloc of first President of Turkey after the many orbital satellites we boost into nations and less oriented toward the revolutionary republic's birth in 1923. outer space around this earth, mankind West, it would bring about a climactic After the caliphate (spiritual leader in all of his nations must still subsist and possibly disastrous shift in the bal ship of Islam) was renounced in L924, on raw materials and minerals out of ance of power in the Middle East. Turkey gradually achieved complete the soil. To illustrate the point-remember separation of Church and State, and And in many ways, Turkey Jays claim that in 1946 a Civil War was quelled began economic and industrial reforms to two of the most important of these in Greece with the assistance of British which have steadily improved Turkey's considerations. military forces. economic climate. First, she stands athwart the Bosporus A hasty amphibious landing of British Presently, Turkey is ruled by a civilian Dardanelles, thereby effectively con tanks successfully staved off a Com parliamentary government, with a Presi trol1ing onc of the most important sea munist attempt to bypaJJ Turkey and dent elected to a seven-year term, un gates on earth. Constantly, huge vessels reach warm-water Mediterranean ports able to succeed himself. go sailing through this narrow Bos via a Communist take-over of the Gov But what of Turkey in prophecy? porus. ernment of Greece. Does Bible prophecy have anything to Tankers from all over the world; Presently, all seems quiet in Turkey. say about this nation so strategically freighters, passenger vessels, the famous The people here are friendly enough placed between the Middle Eastern Russian trawlers, and, now and then, to Americans-many American busi countries of potential violence and the Russian submarines on their way into nesses and enterprises flourish- and emerging towering colossus of Central the Aegean and Mediterranean for pa visitors do not sense as much a feeling Europe? trol there and on out into the broad of tension in the ai r such as is evident The Brother of Jacob Atlantic. in Egypt, Jordan and many other nations Believe it or not, the Turkish people Turkey, of course, does not desire in the strife-torn Middle East. any blockade of the mammoth amonnt However, deceptively peaceful though are directly related to Americans and Britons through Abraham and Isaac. of Russian shipping passing through it seems now, this part of the world these tortuous channels-since Russia's is destined to become the scene of one Turkey can be identified by research reaction could well be disastrous to the of the bloodiest of battles in future in encyclopedias, or ~i story books deal Turkish economy and future security as years. Turkey's history tells why. ing with the subject, as the descendants a nation. First, what of the recent history of of Esall! However, because of Turkey's rela Turkey? What were her loyalties dur Esau was the brother of Jacob and tionship with the United States and ing World Wars I and II ? first son of Isaac. NATO, and her refusal to allow Soviet You will read of how the Turks lost Turkey of the Modern Era Russia to participate in the control and their precious birthright in chapter 27 defense of these strategic sea gates, you Turkey, or the Ottoman Empire, of the book of Genesis. can be sure the Communists are quite stretched all the way from Yemen on As shocking as it sounds, these peo concerned about Turkey'S course in the south of the Arabian peninsula to ple here were the original birthright modern geopolitics. European Turkey bounded by Bulgaria peoples, destined by right of birth to Secondly, Turkey is of vital impor and Greece. The Ottoman Empire held become the holders of the richest and tance to the big powers because of her full sway over all of Saudi Arabia, Ye most desirable portions of the entirety vast, and largely untapped, natural re men, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, of this earth I sources. Jordan, the islands in the Aegean Sea, If you have not read our free booklet, In some ways Turkey is a " younger" the Anatolian Peninsula and European The United StateJ and the BritiJh nation than the United States. She has Turkey. Commonwealth in Prophecy, then be large, relatively undeveloped deposits Siding with Kaiser Wilhelm II in sure to write for it immediately-it of coal, iron, copper, petroleum and World War I, the Ottoman Empire explains and makes clear in Bible his chrome. crwnbled in defeat and was partitioned tory how it came that six percent of the June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 5
Rus sian cargo vessel steams toward the Mediterranean through the Bosporus. Russia's importa nt Black Sea ports survive only if Russian shippin g continues to flow through these narrow straits. AmboJSodor College Photo
population of the world enjoys fifty percent of its fabulous wealth! Actually, the entire story climaxes in subterfuge on the part of Rebekah and . . Jacob who convince the aging and al --~- most totally blind Isaac that the younger .- ~ brother Jacob was Esau. After the trickery of the savory meal they made pass for venison, and the sk in of a goat on the forearms of Jacob, Isaac said, "Therefore' God give EUROPE thee of the dew of heaven, and the fat 5 E A ness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons DARDAN E bow down to thee: w/'sed be everyone that cu rseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee!" (Gen. 27 :28-29.) Actually, this was nothing more than MIDDLE the fulfillment of a prophecy revealed to Rebekah prior to the birth of the two MEDITERRANEAN SEA EAST children. Almighty God allowed human natl/rel with its innate selfishness, to • effect this subterfuge- but it was of His doing and intent all along. God had said, in answer to Rebekah's earlier question concerning the nearing birth of twins, "Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people [two totally different kinds of people, two different nations or distinct na tional types IJ shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the
Ambossodof College Ph% looking toward the Black Sea. Turkish antisubmarine nets stretch across the entrance. 6 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 elder shall serve the yo linger' (Gen. CIties, vi llages, towns, counties , states, Turn to the book of Obadiah fo r the 25:23). or shires bear the name of developers, answer! At the end of that chapter is the discoverers, outstanding leaders in gov The book of Obad iah is utterly unique account of how Jacob gave Esau bread ern ment or the military. among the many prophecies of the and a pottage of lentils and how Esau Much of the area, later including the Bible. It is a one· page predi ction of the despised his birthright- treated it as of rocky Anato ltan, Persian and Turkestan entire f1ltllre history of the nation of no account or value. plateaus became known as "the Land of Turkey ! Jacob was born with a certain tenaci Temani." You will see this proved by Keeping in mind the geographica lly ty, a ce rta in ingenuity and inventive turning to Genesis 36: 34. "And Jobab and geopolitically strategic location of ness. Jacob was an in div idual who would died, and Husham of the land of modern Turkey, the most recent history put down roots in the land, develop it, Temani re igned in his stead." of the Ottoman Em pi re and twenti eth search out its wealth and resources. Is it any wonder, then, that the 10- century Turkey, read the book of Oba· Not so with Esau. He beca me a hun deli ble stamp of T eman, one of the diah in its true context in this modern ter. He was by nature, a ma n who would leading dukes of ancient Edom, was time. walk over the land, 1101 seeing the tre ca rried down into modern history in "The vision of Obadiah. Thus sai th mendous wealth and value of it beneath the fonn of the rlOtto man" Empire? the Lord Eternal concern ing Edom; we his feet! Now notice some of the prophecies have heard a rumour from the Eternal, Instead of developil1g and m il1g the concernin g m odem Turkey. and an ambassador is sent ammlg the natura l resources of the land, he left heathen. Arise ye, and let us rise up it as he found it. Turkey in Prophecy against her in battle." God Almighty had a direct hand in Turn to the thirty· fou rth chapter of Who is thi s "ambassador sent among the choosing and selecting of certain na Isaiah. In the first few ve rses, God says the heathen"? None other than Jesus tional characteristics which He wanted in His ind ignation is upon ALL the armies Christ of Nazareth ! the called and chosen people through of the earth, and that ALL earthly Remember th at major sections of the whom He was to fulfi ll His purpose. armies shall be utterly destroyed ! And Bibl e pla inly predict the second coming God did not call or choose a "fa· then, He says in verse 5, "For my of Jesus Christ. Though laughable to so vorite" people- but a special people to sword shall be bathed in heaven : be· many skeptics today, there is nothing whom He gave a GREAT COMM ISSION . hold , it shall come down upon Idll1nea more dearl y stated in the Bible, time Those peoples have never flilfilled [Edom], and upon the peo ple of my and again, and in the very teaching of that commission- but have rejected Clirse [or the people of my ban, mar· Christ Himself, than His imm inent re· God and His laws. gi n], to judgment." turn to this si n-sick world to bri ng Nevertheless, because of the tremen And this prophecy is dated. In verse peace at last and to RULE thi s earth dous promises God made to Abraham, 8, God says, " For it is the day of the with a rod of iro n! (Rev. 2:26; 3:21; God has made good H is promises reo Eterna l' s vengeance, and the year of Micah 4; Isa. 2.) peated there to Jacob. recompences for the controversy of Before proceeding wi th this vitally Later, in the thirty·sixth chapter of Zion.''' important prophecy of the book of the book of Genesis, you will read of Now notice Ezekiel 25 . God says , Obadiah, turn for a moment to the the various dukes and leaders of Esau. "Thus saith the Lord Eternal; Because sixty.third chapter of the book of In the first verse of that chapter, you that Edom hath dealt against the house Isa iah and notice again the time settitzg wi ll read, "Esau, wh o is Edo m. N The of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath of this prophecy. same statement is repeated in verse 8. greatly offended, and revenged himself "Who is this that cometh from Now notice the names of the sons of ttpon them; therefore thus sa ith the Edam, with dyed garments from Esau, beginn ing in verses 9 and 10 of Lord Eternal; I will also stretch out Bozrah ? this that is GLOR IO U S IN HIS Chapter 36. mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off APPAREL, traveling in the greatness of One of the grandsons of Esau was man and beast from it; and 1 will make his strength? I that speak in righteous· Ternan (verse 11). Ternan became a it desolate from Teman; and they of ness," comes the answer, "mighty to great leader among the peoples who Dedan shall fa ll by the swo rd !" (Ezek. SAVE ." followed in that area to the south and 25: 12-13.) Plainly this is a prophecy that by Roderick C. Meredith 'LL TEACH you to obey me, you hundreds of thousands throughout our had in mind-and responsibilities-in I lousy scum!" the man screamed in Western world. creating man and woman. If you are a drunken rage as he lunged to Notice this next letter from a PLAIN ever going to find the answer to happy ward his frail, terrified wife. With TRUTH reader: marriages, YO ll had better be willing to doubled fists he hit and kicked her, "H ow can a wife live with her hus· accept instruction from the Great God knocking her against the wall and band, when he treats her like a child? of creation- the author of marriage and finally to the floor. I can't do anything without begging the one who made us male and female! He was the master of the house, so him first. Notice what He had in mind: "And he said! "If I ever get to go out I have to be God said , let us make man in our The couple's three children, terrified, in the house by a certain time. If I do image, after our likeness: and let them cowered in the far corner sobbing something he doesn't like he punishes have dominion over the fish of the quietly. Their eyes were glazed with me in some way. Sometimes he will sea, and over the fowl of the air, and both · fear and hate. They had seen this even hi t me. over the cattle, and over all the earth, tragedy many, many times. So many and over every creeping thing that " J don't know how much I can take. times, in fact, that they would never cr H. Arm,'rong RobertJ Photo part at least-these five basic respon movies, and wrong examples, they have an entire life together unti l death does sibi lities in marriage! all too often learned to confuse " love" them part. If they are not able to talk with lust. They seem to think that a things over, smil e into each others eyes, J. Love and Respect base, animal sexual desire to "get" sat share little joys and intimacies, and Certainly a man ought not to marry a isfaction from another person of the stick together when the big trials come woman unless he really and truly loves opposite sex constitutes lovc. Nothing - their love is lost indeed. her. Yet, sorrowfully, we must acknowl cou ld be furthet from the truth r The apostle Paul commanded: "Hus edge that millions of men have never For true love involves a giving, a bands love your wives, and be not bitter learned the meaning of the word sharing of plans, hopes and dreams be against them" (Col. 3:19) . Some hus "love." Because of cheap novels, cheap tween two people who want to build bands do allow themselves quickly to 12 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 become " bi tter" because their WIves do approach means more to a woman than really fine home for them-within his not measure up to an angelic idol of most men can even realize! means and abilities. This does not mean perfection envisioned In their own A man needs to treat his wife as a a mansion or all kinds of luxuries. But human imaginations! "sweetheart." He needs to cultivate and with wisdom and extra effort a com But a wife was never intended to be build an atmosphere of love, romance fortable, clean and delightful house and an idol! She was never designed to be and intimacy in thei r home-kissing horne may be provided by nearly every perfect in this life any more than her his wi fe when he returns from work, man in the Western world if he is husband was! She was des igned to holding her hand as they are taking willing to put his brain and his back become perfect. She was not intended to walks, and embracing her often to the task! be a perfect housekeeper, mother, com throughout the day with free and lavish God says: "In all labor there I panion and also a Holl ywood sex god affection. is profit: but the talk of the lips tends dess all wrapped up in one individual! True love certai nly in volves deep and only to penury" (Prov. 14:23). Ob She was designed and created, how abiding respect. A man ought to be viously a man who sits arollnd hoping, ever, by the Maker of us all to be a grateful and thankful that the woman wi shing and talking-but never work sweetheart, help and inspiration to a who is his wife has decided to leave ing-is not going to provide a good man who would share himself with her, her own estate and cl eave to him above life for his wife and children. go over his plans, hopes and dreams all others unto death. He ought to ap Again: "The slothful man roasteth with her, give her encouragement and preciate that fact-and the many, many not that which he took in hunting: guid ance and lead- not drive-their good quali ties of help, patlence and but the substance of a diligent man is horne in an attitude of confidence and service which practica lly every wife pos precious" ( Prov. 12:27). A person who love! sesses. He ought to encourage and is diligent-who thinks, works hard Quoting Genesis, Jesus Christ said : bring out the best in her-not con and drives himself to accomplish is go "For th is cause shall a man leave father stantly harp and carp away at her in ing to have a fine home and be abJe and mother, and shall cleave to his belittling criticism which only causes to provide a fine life- materiall y at wife: and they twain shall be one her, in most cases, to degenerate and least- for his fam il y. flesh" (Mat. 19 :5). In marriage, a man respond in kind. However, merely giving physical sup needs to reali ze that th is "cleaving" is A man ought to respect the fact that port to a wife is not enough to fulfill more than a mere physical relationship. his wife is an adult human being made her needs or the needs of her husband . It is an active and progressive grow in the image of God. H e needs to For every normal man - 10 order ing together, a family relationsh ip. A reali ze that some day- according to the to develop h is fullest capacities- needs husband needs to co ncentrate on appre True God's plan- she will probably be to learn to be encouraging and uplift ciating and encouraging his wife's hap come a glorified spirit being ruli ng ing to his wife, his children and those piness, beauty and personali ty. He needs with 01rist over this earth, even man around him. A wife certainly needs this to think of her and cherish her- not aging angels' ( I Cor. 6:3.) "moral support" many times at the end ever letting his thoughts dwell upon of a hard day of working over the II. Support and Encouragement other women in the same way, or all ow stove, cleani ng the house and tending ing his thoughts to dwel l upon the nega Certainly a man was intended by to the needs of active youngsters. A real tive aspects of h is own wife anywhere God not only to be the head of the man should not expect h is wife always near so much as upon her positive vir house but to be the " provider" as wel l. to encourage and support him. Rather, tues, love and beauty. God says: "But if any provide not he should be ready, able and desirous So many scores of women have cried for his own, and especially for those of of encouraging and uplifting her when out to me in despair: "My husband his own house, he hath denied the she has her "down" moments as well! just won't talk to me! That is why we faith, and is worse than an infidel" This ty pe of mutual hel p and support ; are not close- he just doesn't share (I Tim. 5:8). automati caIly increases the deep love anything with me. He just sits glumly Every thinking man ought to reali ze and respect that a married couple will at the table at mealtime or reading a that he is his happiest when he is have for one another. If the partner is paper or watching TV at night!" building, increasing and providing. H e there with a kind word, a gentle pat will never have reaJ peace of mind or on the shoulder, an encouraging em Loving is SHARING abiding happiness unless he learns to brace, a look of compassion-this can Loving means sharing. Every hus fulfill this part in life. His brain, body mean more than any number of physi band worthy of the name ought to and desires all cry out fo r fulfillment cal luxuries. cultivate the habit of talking over h is in an occupatior. to support himself III. Leadership and Guidance plans and hopes with his wife, sharing and his family. with her many of his innermost But a really dedicated Christian man A third -area of responsibility-and thoughts and desires-not just the neg wi ll certainly want to go far beyond opportunity- for a reaIJy masculine ative ones I-and make her feel deeply j list basic "support" for his wife and husband is that of leadership and guid "a part" C?f him. This very attitude and dlildren. He will want to provide a ance. For God made the woman to June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 13 physically and emotionally "lean on and dreams. In taking the lead, the because he is "made" to do it or "hen· the man as her head and leader. Unless husband should give guidance in seeing pecked" into doing it! And no right· a woman has by example or training the overall perspective of the right minded wife would knowingly do this. developed a perverted approach to life, future for his family. H e should ask However, even if a wife sometimes de she naturaIIy enjoys being led and even God for wisdom and vision and should mands too much of her husband, he can dominated by a man who respects, ap· plan ahead as to the type of home and still dominate without domineering preciates and loves her. life which is their goal, the future cd· and make sure that he is taking the However, always remember the dif· ucation and wel l·being of the children, lead in things-still helping her out at ference between dominate and domi· and the type of friends the family his direction and in sincere love and neer. A man must learn to lead his should cu ltivate, the type of movics concern for her and their life together. wife by exercising all his faculties of they should see, the books they should The woman has her responsibilities, wisdom, strength and personali ty. He read, TV programs they should watch her particular duties in the household must, most of all , set an example for and their ultimate goal-hopefully the and she should gladly do them. But, his wife and children to follow if he Kingdom of God! "help" from her husband comes in as expects them to gladly follow him. A husband and father who wi II do an act of love-given freely and fully This is an automatic "leadership op· this not only proves himself more of a when she is sick, downcast or is sud· portunity" that every man who is a man-he actua ll y increases his man· denly faced with an object too heavy to husband inately has. It is definitely a hood, his wisdom and his abi lities to lift, a job too difficult for her to ac· part of a program the Great God had lead by this very process of being the complish without the stronger partner in mind when He instituted the fam il y right kind of husband! of the marriage giving of hi s help and relationship. IV. Help and Prorection strength in love to his wife and sweet· heart. Every man should appreciate th is op· Returning to Ephes ians 5, remembcr Learn th is lesson, men! Your wives portunity-and be thankful that his that Christ gave Himself for the Church will repay you in a thousand ways over wife has been willing to leave her -"That he might sanctify and cleanse the years to corne if you learn to give father and mother, cleave to him alone, it with the washing of water by the this help when it is needed-and give and stay at his side as his help. He word, That he might present it to him· it freely and in kindness. should, therefore, respect and cherish self a glorious church, not having spot, that help. Knowing that he is the stron· or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that V. Inspiration to GROW ger physically and capable of exercising it should be holy and without blemish. Probably this fifth area of a hus· greater wisdom in all major family So ought men to love their wives as band's responsibility is the least under· decisions, he should do so with confi· their own bodies. He that loveth his stood and least practiced by most hus· dence and love. Having this true love wife loveth himse lf" (verses 26.28). bands today. That is simply because we or "outgoing concern" and exercising Every right·minded man certainly are living in a world that certainly is his leadership-he definitely should desires to cherish and protect his wife. all too often- dominated by the wrong take his wife into his counsel when· She is his sweetheart, his companion, type of feminine leadership and assert· ever possible, ask for and respect her the mother of his children. He ought to iveness. Also, it is because of the fact advice, and then make the decision realize that she is part of him! "For that men have relinquished their re· based upon all the facts and attempting no man ever yet hated his own flesh; sponsibilities-have not even tried to to find the solution to any problem but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even be the heads and leaders of their homes which will best serve his entire family as the Lord the church" (verse 29). but have been lazy, ne'er-do-well and - not just his own selfish wishes or Realizing that his wife is part of degenerate individuals. desires. him, a man certainly ought to have a In leading the family, a man should so li citous and protective feeling toward Inspiration to grow? By this I mean talk things over with his wife continu· h is wife and sweetheart. Even beyond that the husband should not only lead ally. H e should give her definite "guide· this, though, he should constantly be the family in general, but should be lines"-Ietting her know in love and thinking of helping her as "the weaker the inspirer for each and every member in fairness what he expects of her and vessel" so that she does not strain or of the family to develop his or her full how far her responsibility for certain overdo and so that her grace and beauty potential as a human being and heir of decisions affecting the home, the items may be preserved throughout all of God. The husband should think of this, of food and dothing, etc., extend. Then their married life. A real man will first of all with his wife, of course, she wilI know where she stands-and notice when his wife is overworking and then with the children as they will be able to cooperate and imple· and lighten her burdens whenever pos· corne along year by year. ment her husband's decisions and sible. H e will leap to action to lift heavy A wise and loving husband should wishes. things for her, help her when she is inspire and encourage his wife to grow The couple should counsel together sick, and protectively and lovingly watch in bodily hea lth. H e should be solicitous --often with arms around each other over her in many such ways! about her getting enough sleep, enough about their future-their plans, hopes Of course, a man should not do this (Contin1led on page 32) . 14 The PLAIN TRUTH May, 1966 RADIO LOG "The WORLD TOMORROW" MAJOR STATIONS West Coast WSLR-Akron, Ohio-13S0 on dial, East KlRO-Seattle--710 on dial, 100.7 6 p.m. daily. WHN-New York-l050 on dial, FM, 10:30 p.m. Mon. thru WFM] - Youngstown, Ohio - 1390 9:00 a.m. Sun. Sat., 5:30 a.m. Tues. thru Sat. kc. , 10:30 p.m. Sun., 7:00 p.m. WWVA-Wheeling, W . Va.-1l70 KRAK-Sacramento--l140 on dial, Mon. thru Fri" 7:05 p.m. Sat. kc., 98,7 FM, 10:30 a,m, and 8 p.m, daily. 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Borok,r Dusseldorf, Germany ((NAZISM is completely dead," declared General Clay in 1952. Many people be· lieved him. They said Germany would never repeat the same mistake again and fo ll ow the road to nationalism and war. But they did not know the facts! Germany's Industrial Might At the end of World War II it was difficult to imagine how Germany could rebuild and become the strongest nation in Europe. Bill it happened! While here in Dusseldorf with a group of Ambassador College students and faculty members, I have seen the modern department stores , banks, and hotels. We had a guided tour of the Mannesman Week steel works-one of the largest in Europe and competitor of Thyssen and Krupp. These three are the top steel producers in Europe. This plant is so impressive it was selected as the one Britain's Queen should visit during her last trip here_ Most of the plant is automatically con· trolled by punch card computers. Mass ive, 14-ton blocks of red -hot steel slammed through the presses to German news magazine, Der Spiegel, carries article on trends in West Germany. Cover headline reads in English, "'s there danger from the right?" 18 The PLAIN 1RUTH June, 1966 make plates for new German ships. The Europe is in confusion. D e Gaulle's Says Willy Brandt: "None of the plant is working at only 65 percent of decision to withdraw France from democratic parties in the Federal Repub its capacity. More orders are needed. NATO threatens to disrupt Europe's li c can shirk the responsibil ity. If they We saw Duisburg harbor on the delicate balance of power. fa il to meet it, if they fail to grasp Rhine-the largest inland harbor in the and respond to the spirit of national France Withdraws From world. Ships come here from the large identity, if they abandon the cause of NATO seaport of Rotterdam and ca n go on self-determination, then, and only then, the Rhine and other rivers as far as France's withdrawal from NATO will it be possible for someone to pick Poland. wi ll create vacuums at every level in up the banner they have dropped and There is no doubt that Germany is an NATO's command. Germany, conse use a national feme of jwstral ;011 and industrial giant. But German politi quently, is being called on by the U. S. disappointment to brew the poison of cians see Germany treated as a mere to play a bi gger role in Europe's de radicalism" (Look, D ec. 14, 1965). political dwarf. They are fed up with fense than Germans ever dreamed of Three groups are fermenting the ten their nation's status as an in ternational having. ets of German nationalism. First there poli tical cripple. Former D efense Minister Franz Josef are the 12 million refugees and expel And this ;s the danger.' Strauss wants Germany to have deci lees from East Genmany. Naturally, they Germany understandably wants a po sion-making powers in NATO. One want to regain their homes. Reunifica litical role in the world equal to her newspaper reported: "Dr. Strauss calls tion to them is the only answer. economic greatness. Many West Ger for the creation of separate but allied Then there is the younger generation. mans think they are now ready to make American and European commands. Young Germans don't remember the decisions on their own. Some even West Germany would play an important Hitler era and thei r history books have clamor for a St/'011g leader and a govern role in the latter ... Europeans, he says, been distorted. They resent Germany ment that will stand up to other na including Germans, should do more for being divided and not given a chance tions in the world. their defense, thus releasing · American to seek self-determination-to have the This way of thinking is budding forces to fight in Vietnam." choice to determine for themselves what into full-blown 11ationalism. NATO was designed to keep West kind of Germany it should be. Germany firmly tied to the West, un German Nationalism on the The New National Democratic able to start another world war on its Upsurge Party own. But with France marching out of The winds of ri sing nationalism are NATO, West Germany will be the The third group IS the small Na beginning to blow. Germans are be strongest military power in Europe. tional D emocratic Party (NPD ) . coming more and more restless. They Germans are beginning to see that Though still smail, it is the fastest are frustrated in not being ab le to unite D e Gaulle is himself a nationalist-but growing poli tical party in Germany. It their country. They are fed up with a French nationalist. The leadership of started in November, 1964, and polled others tell ing them what to do. They Europe is a fight between French na 2.1 percent of the votes in the 1965 want to regain the prestige and rank tionalists and German nationalists. The General Election. Remember that Hit among the nations with which Germany Germans are not about to play second ler's National Socialist Party polled no used to swagger. best. more than this in 1928. Five years later Dr. Adenauer said as far back as The pride an d miscalculations of D e he was Chancellor. 1949: "A nation like Germany, with Gaulle can do nothing but ,·eki"dle This party's greatest gains have been one of the front seats in mankind's German nati011alism. in recent local elections-especially in history, has a right to think afollg The London Daily Express warned: Bavaria. It got 10.6 percent of the nationalistic lines. .. The foreigners "For while political and economic con votes in Bayreuth and 7.5 percent in must understand that the period of ditions do not yet exist in prosperous Nuremberg. The biggest surprise was collapse and unrestricted domination by West Germany to make nationalism a in the Hamburg parliamentary elec the allies is over." dominant issue, the grllmbling under tions on March 27. The NPD's share of This new nationalism is being born tones over the country's continued di the votes was 3.9 percent in a city out of impatience and pride. "National vision provide a hosti le whetstone on proud of its democratic traditions. substance," "national achievement," which to sharpen the natio11alistic Herr Willy Brandt is frankly and "national pride" are the new stuord" (April 14, 1966) . disturbed by the NPD's success. " It is catchwords of today's German politi a matter which demands particular cians. Reunification a Key Issue vigilance," he said. West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt The problem of reunification is one Not Quite Nazis said last year: "It was as inevitable as of the key issues that will shape Ger· the sunrise that the German people many's future. Unless East and West The National Democrats claim they would seek their national identity . Germany can be united, this issue will are not Nazi. It is interesting to note, We say 20 years is enough." be the greatest spur toward German however, that 12 of the 18 directors are Now look at France. nationalism. former Nazis. Friedrich Thielen is the June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 19 leader, assisted by Adolf von Thadden gigantic 1mdergro1md tree-a smooth key POSit ions in Germany's industry, who has been in every new·Nazi party running, well-organized, closely knit commerce, law courts, schools and col since the war-including three banned fascist organization whose power and leges, the press and political parties-is by law. influence extends throughout Europe, no coincidence. It all has happened The NPD is certainly far , far right. into Egypt, the Middle East, Africa, according to a clever and pre-conceived It is attempting to draw together all the South America and the United States. plon-a PLOT, if you please, to bring extreme right-wing parties in Germany. It's time you knew the facts and about the downfaU of Great Britain and Von Thadden himself said: "'Na· tmlh behind this organization. You the United States with the final goal tionalism is growing in Germany. It is need to kn ow how it started, how the being WORLD dominatior! by a not Hitler nationalism, but pride in Nazis planned to go underground United Em'ope led by Germanyi being German. We are sick of being ),ear, before the end of World W ar II, The new Germany is a giant looked down upon. NPD appeals to and how they have come back to over awakened, but a giant with the same nationalist thinking and the young whelming power and influence in prep old mind-guided by its industrialists, people are joining us. The day for a aration fo r WORLD CONQUEST! the Gel"1lta11 General Slaffl its educators, rightist party is coming to handl if not Twenty-one years ago, the Nazis were its religious and political ideo logies. in this year's elections, then within a thoroughl y whipped, with their cities History of German few years." laid waste in a heap of rubble. But a General Staff The unofficial organ of the NPD is new and fantastically modern Germany the National So/e/tlle11 Ze;/Img with a arose out of the ruins-a Germany The rule of a secret Teutonic Order, ci rculation of 100,000. It echoes the which now holds the ba lance of power or General Staff, has ex isted in Germany party's beliefs in extreme nationalism, in Europe. It is phys icall y a new Ger for centuries. Since the days of Thomas the minimizing of Germany's war guilt many. But what happened to the old Muenzer in the 16th Century, the and the return of former territories to Nazis, the German General Staffl the German people have been seeking to West Germany_ industrialists and politicians who served shake off the rule of this secret caste. There is a rich rese rvoi r of discon· the Hitler regime? Where are these There had been three different po tent and frustration in W est Germany peopl e today? The answers to these li tical regimes in Germany in the forty from which th e party can draw questions are st(ll't/illg-' years before 1945. Until 19l8, Ger strength. A typical campaign slogan is, many was a .110narchy under Kaiser The German Strategy "Germany awake! We must renew ou r Wilhelm II. Germany was a Republi c faith in the Fatherl and!"' You may have assumed that Germany ruled by Social Democratic ministers un ~ A large number of teachers are going was defeated in 1945- totally and un · til 1933 when Ad olf Hitler began to over to the far right. Many teachers conditionally. But to the Germans, 11 0 rul e with hi s fascist dictatorship. Under are chairmen of loca l NPD chapters defeat is filial. As General von Stuelp. each regime, the same men ruled Ger and others are helping to organize nagel said in 1944, "'Defeats are simply many-a small group of a few thou chapters. Teachers are among the vil lessons to be lea rned in preparation. for sand military leaders, industri alists, lage leaders and can exert influence on the next and gre(ller attack." He also politicians, and sc ienti fic experts who older Germans. They can also influence sa id : "'The conquest of the world will comprise the German General Staff. students and young people. Germans require numerous stages, but the essen The General Staff is the real penna think that if their teacher joins a party, tial is that the end of each stage brings /l ent go·vemmellt of Germany which not there cannot be much wrong with the us an economic and indllstrial poten on ly controls Germany's military affairs, party. tial greater than that of our enemies ... but also the economy, technology, Nazi organizations also found favor W e shall be better placed to conquer in schools and universities, and politics. among teachers 30 years ago. To many 25 years [by about 1970, suggested The German General Staff ex ists for one at that time, Adolf Hitler was a hero. Stuelpnagel]-than we were in 1939" purpose-war and world conqNestl The Is hi story repeating itself' (Combat, November, 1943). General Staff successfully resurrected The National Democratic Party is This is German strategy. But you German militarism after World War I sfill a small minority and does n't yet have been told that the dec ision to and is now plottillg for W orld W ar have a seat in the Federal Government. transform the defeated enemy into an III i But its fast increase in membership ally was a wise one, that the Germans Contrary to what most people be may set a trend that could have a have changed profoundly and have li eve, the official program of the Nazi tremendous effect on the next national formed a truly democratic society. The Party was worked out and elaborated election. truth is- the world has bee n DECEIVED! by the German General Staff before the It is no mere coincidence that Nazis party was organized. Adolf Hitler was The Gigantic Underground again goose-step down the streets in merely their puppet. He was to sell it to Most people don't realize that this Bavari a. Growing anti-Semitism and the German people. The Nazi Party was small and seemingly insignificant party anti-Ameri canism, nationalistic veterans' to be their chief poli tical jnstrument. along with other fascist organizations and youth rallies are no coincidence. "Once Hitler had attained power, he in Germany are only visible twigs of a Infiltration of so-called ex-Nazis in to discovered, with disgust, that the Gen- 20 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 I» NPO-PARTElt ANSTAlTSGELIKDE Unbelug1en 1st des Beketen verboten Inside Germany Today 21 iiffentliche Versammlung SchloR Neuhaus ""'... ,.,...... kP*>ll ..... Dr. Lamker ,_"'" Above, several West German leaders attend patriotic festival. Below, Dr. Otto Ulitz (in left of photo), decorated by Hitler. He is spokesman for Upper Silesian refu gees, encourages nationalism. AmboJSodor Cot/e911 Photo DPA Photo Above, poster of the NPD in recent West Germon elections. left, above, meeting of Notional Democratic Porty of Germany_ Fritz Thielen. former Nazi, is speaking. He's president of the porty in the Bundestag. left. center, members of extremely nationalistic NPD loy down flower orrangement on groves of executed Nazi war criminols. Thielen is third from left, vice-president Adolf von Thadden is fourth from left. left, below. NPD members at the open grave of former 55 Commander, and chief personal guard of Adolf Hitler, Sepp Dietrich. Below, NPD member General A. D. Wilhelm Bittrich at the grove of 5S Commander Dietrich. Below. center, 0 selection of severol books uncovering Nazi plot to again attempt world conquest. Ambouoclor ColI.g. Photo ------~------ 22 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 eral Staff was not content to be a in the Foreign Office. Ex-Nazis can be is Franz Josef Strauss. Since the time mighty instrument of hi s policy-it had found in every governmental depart he was forced to leave his post as De a policy of its own. Just as it had ment- just as was planned when the fense :M.inister, he has made a big come dictated the terms to the Kaiser, so it Nazis went underground. back in German politics. Many Ger sought to dictate to the Fuhrer' (The The real Germany is hiding behind mans say they don't like Strauss, but his Last Days of Hitler by H. R. Trevor· the democratic fafade of the Bonn dynamic personality and forceful argu· Roper, p. 8) . The General Staff always Republic. Most Germans are still steeped ments stir emotions in hi s listeners. works /.h1'o1lgh whatever political party in nationa/illic fantZticism even though "Whenever he appears at political achieves its goal. they may appear outwardly to be other· meetings he can swing an audience wise. The time is almost ripe for a from indifference or antipathy to The Nazis Went Underground change in Germany's political future. FRENZIED support within an hour. Long before World War II ended, Inflation or an economic slump, a wrong Supporters claim this is due to Strauss's the General Staff could see that a dec ision made by the Allied powers, a 'animal magnetism'" (London Sunday military defeat was in sight. They were weak government-anyone of these Times, August 9, 1964). Put Strauss at determined to survive the Allied occu might turn frustrated Germans to the the helm of a party like the National pation and prepared for another op extremists and give the former Nazis Democrats and history is bound to re portunity to rise again as a military and the General Staff an opportunity to peat itself. threat to the world tor a third time ;11 come to the fore. Comments one political observer this century. Extreme German nationalism now has about Strauss's tactics in Munich, "He So the Nazis went underground on fewer obstacles to overcome in its re- gets a thousand people on their feet May 16, 1943. Complete details of this 11I1"n to powe-r than we-re present dm' cheering like in Hitler's time." procedure were reported in two sur mg Hitler!s rise. Your Bible describes the Gentile na prising books, Nazis Go Underground tions-and that includes Germany-as German Nature Not by Curt Ri ess and Plot Against the having minds like a wild animal, seek Democratic Peace by Sayres and Kahn. Hundreds ing to devour its neighbors to satisfy a of men were placed within German It is time that the United States and thirst for world I'IIle (Dan. 4). pl ants, factories, city administrations Great Britain come to realize that the That attitude of mind is beginnjng and any government department which German nation has never experienced to spread in Germany. That's why we would continue to ex ist during the real conversion to democracy, It IS say: Watch Strauss. Watch the new Allied occupation. foreign to the German nature. Germany NPD-The National Democratic Party The Nazi method of gaining control is not a democratic country. It never has with its neo·Nazi flag. And watch of Germany) and ultimately all of Eu been. Since Prince Otto von Bismarck German moves toward a U nited Europ~ rope, is that of infiltration-infiltra first united Germany and pushed his way -a rebirth of the Holy Roman Em· tion into pol itical parties, industry, into Austria and France 95 years ago, pire! It's prophesied in your BibJe! commerce, education and aU existing the Germans have never learned to com YOUR PLAIN TRUTH SUB· instituti ons. The result is that the po bine nationalism and a free society. HOW SCRIPTION HAS BEEN PAID litical stability of the Bonn Republic is The German people are not en So many ask: "HOW does it happen that I find my subscription price for T he PLAIN TRUTH has slowly being llJldermined by infiltrators thusiastic about democracy. In 16 years, already been paid? How can you publish such a high class magazine without advertising revenue?" who may give li p service to democracy, they have never yet transferred power The answer is as simple as it is astonishing! It is a paradox. Christ's Gospe! cannot be sold like but are planning for a Nazi comeback in Bonn from one party to another. merchandise. You cannot buy salvation. Yet it does cost money to publish Christ's TRUTH and mail it and a new strong leader. They dream of In effect, Germany has had a democratic to all continents on earth. It does have to be paid jor! This is Christ's work. We solve this problem a German-dominated Em'ope which is dictatorship. And the time is coming Christ's WAY! free to throw its weight around in order when Germans again will demand a Jesus said, "This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached (and I?ubl ished-Mark 13:10) in all to regain for Germany the status of a strong Ieader-a spokesman for Ger the world for a witness unto all nations" (Mat. 24:14) II! thiJ time, just before the end of this age. great wo rld power. many and Europe. A PRICE mllIt be paid for the magazine. the broadcast. the Correspondence Course, or other lit· But what these neo-Nazis don't know A leading West German clergyman, er.1 ture. But HOW? Christ forbids us to Jell it to those who receive it: "Freely ye have received,',' is that the nations of Europe wil1 never Pastor Martin Niemoller, has warned said J esus to His disciples whom He was sendin.s tl) proclaim His Gospel, "free3 GIVE!" "It IS submit to German domination unless the country that it is heading for a ;~r::. "bimed," He said, " to IVE .·tr an to reo there is a supreme power superior even new dictatorship. He said: "Hitler will God's WAY is the way of LOVE-and that is the way of girlillg. God expects every child of His to Germany. The only power that could seem mild compared with the regime to give free·will offerings and to tithe, as His means of paying the costs of carrying His Gospel be that supreme is the Papacy! that will come if the present trend to other!. We, therefore, simply trust our Lord Jesus Christ to lay it on the minds and hearts of continues." He points out that there is His followers to give generously, thus pa:r:ing the Democratic Fas:ade cost of rutting the precious Gospel TRUTH in the in practice no opposi tion in Germany. hands 0 others. Yet it must go only to those who themselves wish to receive it. Each must, for him The new Germany is supposedly de· "A democracy without opposition in self, suburibe-and his subscription has thus already been paid. naz;fied and democratic. But there are evitably leads to corruption, and cor Thus the living dynamic Christ Himself enables us to broadcast, worldwide, without ever asking many former Nazis in the Bonn Gov ruption call only end in dictatorshipJJ for contributions over the air; to enroll many thou sands in the Ambassador College Bible Corre ernment, including cabinet ministers. (S1tnday Express, January 3, 1965). spondence Course with full tuition cost already paid; to send your PLAIN TRUTH on an already paid There are 520 former Nazi diplomats The strongest man in Germany today basis. God's way is GOOD! June, 1966 The PLAlN TRUTH 23 Not one Turk out of millions would TURKEY IN PROPHECY! even remotely believe or understand such a statement today! Yet, mysteriously, (Colltillued from {lage 8) sud1 antagonism does exist . Just as God 17atural resources in the nation of Tur increase until some of the most calami says in the prophecy of the book of key today. Then follows the specific tous national disasters in our collective Obadiah, Esau, or Turkey, will REJOICE part of the prophecy for this moment. histories will occur! at the national calamities of the British God says, "All the men of thy con These prophecies arc SURE, they WILL and American people! federacy have brought thee even to the come to pass, unless our peoples repent But still another important aspect of border: the men that were at peace first! future news needs to be understood in with thee have deceived thee, and pre Soon to emerge on the world scene order to completely grasp the course of vailed against thee; they that eat thy will be a United States of E"ro/,,! Turkey. bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him." As preposterous as it sounded to Whar Jesus W arned listeners and readers in the middle And who is "at peace" with Turkey Turn to the focal point of aU Bible 1940's, Germany has risen again! Ger today? prophecy, l\1atthew 24. Notice how many IS the strongest economic, political Remember, Turkey is a heavy con Jesus warned of impending calamity in and mi litary power in Europe today! tributor to NATO. Since bei ng here, I the area of Jerusalem in the Middle Back in the middle 1940's, even prior have seen numerous army and nava l East! insta ll ations, including the fortifications to the close of World War II, when my father was faithfully proclaiming that He sa id, concerning the "abomina· along the mouth of the Bosporus and tion of desolation" spoken of by Daniel the Black Sea which were built from very Biblical truth, many scoffed and doubted. the Prophet, "Then let them whidl be 1936 on. While driving up toward the in Judaea flee into the mountains . .. Sti ll , the prophecies came to pass! mouth of the Bosporus, we passed a for then shall be great tribulation, such A lready, J/X nations are bound large number of U. S.-made Patton as was not since the begin ning of the tanks. together in several important ways. worl d to this tjrne, no, nor ever shall be. During the Korean War, Turkey sup Collective sc ientific endeavor toward "And except those days shou ld be plied a considerable number of soldiers a space effort, "Euratom," the "Common shortened, there should NO FLESH BE for that effort, and a large number of Market," all of these increasingly take SAVED: but for the elect's sake Turkish soldiers and military equ ipment on the shape of an emerging new s1lper those days shall be shortened" (Mat. have been committed to NATO forces. government to ultimately encompass len 24:15-22). But what will happen when NATO major nations, and very like ly to be collapses ? named, "the United States of Europe." Christ described this "abomination of desolation" as a DUAL OCCUPATION of If the present course of French With Britain on the wane and losing Palestine! President Charl es de Gau ll e continues, out almost everywhere, in deepening it will force W est Germany to pursue a and worsening sociological and eco First, He described an abomination similar course-demanding German con nomic problems at home; with the standing in the HOLY place where it trol over atomic and hydrogen weapons. United States embarked on a course ought not! Jesus plainly spoke of a great This could result not on ly in a complete which seems only to more deeply super.religious figure emerging on the shake-up of NATO, but the complete enmesh her in the problems of other world scene, becoming the g reat "arbi collapse of NATO, and the reverting to tiny nations around the worl d, losing ter" in an attempt to bring peace be power struggles such as shook the earth power, economic strength and prestige, tween the sq uabbling big powers of the in the middle 1930's. the really BIG power to shock the world world! Briefly, then, according to Bible in future years will be a United States Chri st said this great religious prophecy, here's what WILL happen. of Europe. figure would so play the part of the First, as you've been reading in the Through two world wars, Turkey has "saviour" of the world, that he would pages of The PLAIN TRUTH magazine recognized that her natura l trading literally prod aim himself GOD I (II these many years, and hearing over The areas, and her natural mutual defense Thess. 2.) WORLD TOMORROW broadcast for more and mutual aid pacts should have been The second major event Jesus included than three decades, the United States with the European nations-and par in the "abomi nation of desolation" was and Great Britain WILL continue to find ticu larly those that also share the the huge build-up of armed forces in the themselves burdened with increaslOg Mediterranean . Hence, Turkey'S trad ing area surrounding Jerusalem! (Luke problems. with the fascist powers during World 21:20.) The internal problems of the United War II. The military occupation and complete States and Great Britain-the drought, But still another important factor desolation of Israel (Palestine) for )'" famine, mounting disease epidemics; enters into the picture. That of the another lime in the future is an absolute increasing crime, mounting divorce, ancient hatred borne by Esau against cerhlilltyl social and political debauchery-will his brother Jacob I And the propheCies of your Bible say 24 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 it is THEN at THAT precise time, when As unbelievable and incredible as this In verse 17 you find the second com perhaps thousands of British, and per sounds, Jesus Christ of Nazareth said ing of Jesus Christ occurring, and the haps some American troops are in and plainly yet a FUTUR E destruction of house of Jacob once more restored to around the area of Palestine, that a Jerusalem is to occur! the Promised Land. bizarre and deceptive move on the part What a saddening and shocking Destmction of Esau, or Turkey, is of modern Turkey is going to occur! thing it will be for much of the world again proclaimed in verse 18. And then Again, turn to the book of Obadiah to see that what is being done in Israel notice verse 2l. and read with your own eyes one of today is to be destroyed again ! "And SAVIOURS shall come up on the most remarkably detailed prophecies And in that impending destruction mount Zion to j1ldge the mount of in al! the Bible. thousands of British, and Israelis, and Esau; and the kingdom shall be the God says, "For thy violence against possibly even some Americans wiU at Eternal's" (Obadiah 21). thy brother Jacob shame shal! cover tempt to e.rcape the iron encirclement Yes, SAVIOURS, in the pl1lral. coming, as JeslIs PLAINLY said it would, thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. Remember) Jesus Christ promised in Palestine ~ "In the day that tholl stoodest on the any Christian, any person, anywhere, othel' side, in the day that the strangers Now go on with the dramatically anytime, who will sincerely repent and carried aliJay captive HIS [Jacob's ~ those detailed prophecy of the book of Oba turn to God, and who will overCome to of the United States and Great Britain!] diah. enter into His Kingdom (Rev. 3:21), forces, and foreigners entered into hiJ "Thou shouldest not have entered CO-RULERSHIP with Him! gates [the United States, Great Britain into the gate of my people in the day This prophecy speaks of more than AND Palestine], and cast lots upon Jeru of their ccdamity; yea, thou shouldest one Saviour standing on Mount Zion, salem, even thou wast AS one of them !" not have looked on their affliction in and administering JUDGMENT! (Obadiah 10, 11.) the day of their calamity, 1101' have laid Now turn to Revelation 20 and Notice! hands on their mbslance in the day of verse 4. Notice how the apostle John Were even "as" one of them! Not their calamity; NEITHER SHOULDEST saw "thrones" and they sat upon them, li/erally tied in with the emerging power THOU HAVE STOOD IN THE CROSSWAY, and "judgment was g iven unto bloc in Central Europe) not an actual TO CUT OFF THOSE OF HIS THAT DrD THEM." ESCAPE. .." (Obadiah 13, 14.) MEMBER nation, but in an agreement or Yes, Sa'viollfs-more than one! pact with those nations! "Even as" one Even looking at travel folders of this The impending destruction of mod of them, not actually one of them. land, it is described as the very "cross ern-day Turkey is immediately after the Now see what Turkey will do to way" or "crossroads·' of the world. The second coming of Jesus Christ. unleash the wrath of God upon her in natural area into which people would That's why the book of Isaiah fore future years! flee in escaping any great confrontation tells Jesus Christ leading a van of His "But thou shouldest not have looked between the East and West in the area returning people "ight through tbe lalld all the day of thy brother in the day of the Middle East, to be specific, of TttrkeJ" that he became a stranger; neither Jerusalem, Palestine - would be up shouldest thou have rejoiced over the through the Cilician Gap into the That's why it describes how His children of Judah in the day of their T aurus mountains of the Anatolian garments are to be dyed red with the de.rtmction; neither should est thou have Peninsula. blood of thousands of Turks who treach· spoken proudly in the day of distress I" God says, "Neither shouldest thou erously turned upon their brother Jacob (Obadiah 12.) have stood ill the crossway, to cut off in his attempt to escape in the day of It is not only French President those of his [those of Great Britain and his calamity. (Is •. 63:1.4.) Charles de Gaulle who still has dreams the United States, including "Israel," or Not one government leader in any of empire! Modern-day Turkey also has the Jews] that did escape; neither nation existing today even remotely its designs and dreams of recapturing shouldest thou have delivered liP those suspects such a fantastic and bizarre some of its past glories. of his that did remain in the day of chain of circumstances. distress /" But with the incredible rebuilding of And yet Bible prophecies are SURE! Israel-the reclamation of land, the Yes, as staggering and unbelievable as They will happen, j list as God has said. reforestation projects, the discovery ,of it sounds) one of the major events God Jesus said, "Watch ye therefore, and minerals and raw materials, and the points out that wiIl bring His wrath wealth which is beginning to be down upon Turkey will be the deliver pray always, that ye may be accounted amassed there, it will be only logical ing of thousands of British, American worthy to escape all these things that for Turkey once again to try to obtain and possibly Israeli refugees into the shall come to pass, and to stand before a major portion of the land of Palestine" hands of the "beast" power in Central the Son of man" (Luke 21 :36). as she once DlD obtain it. Europe when the military take-over of You need to be watching and pra)l And Jesus Christ of Nazareth plainly Palestine occurs. ing as never before! May God give said such carving up of Israel WILL Read the rest of that remarkably de· you the courage to ACT upon the knowl once more take place! tailed prophecy. edge you have received. The New Testament Teaching on LAW AND GRACE No question excites more controversy among professin g Christians! Are the Ten Commandments abolished? Does Grace do away with the Law? Here is what your Bible says- the plain teaching of your New Testament! by William F. Dankenbring ANY sincere people believe God's Israelites, smning, struggling under And since there would be NO LAWj M Law is "done away." "It was g rievous bondage. Over them a harsh, there would, of course, be NO PUNISH nailed to the cross/' they say. stern, monstrous LAW, a terrible yoke MENT! The Law of God, they will tell you, was of bondage. SIN would be impossible, since "sin a harsh, stern Law-but Christ came to To redeem them from such miserable is the transgression of the law." If no free us from the "CURSE of the law"! bondage, God sent Jesus Christ to do law, there could be no transgression Christians, they wi ll feelingly tell away with law! NO SIN! YOll, are NOT "under the Law," True Now, does that picture make much You would be living in a world Christians are under GRACE, and grace sense? where EVERYTH ING GOES! Nothing does away with the need for law! Often Of course NOT! would be wrong. There would be no they will quote Romans 10:4 to show There is something flagrantly WRONG definition of right from wrong. Any you that "Christ is the END of the with this concept of God! It pictures thing you had a mind to do would be law." They may go on to cite Romans God the Father as having made a mis acceptable. If you murdered your 7:4 to show that Christians are "DEAD take-as a cruel, harsh Monster. mother-in-law, you could get away with to the law." It pictures Jesus Christ as a "smart it! There would be no such thing as a aleck" young man who came to do judge, or a cell, a prison, an execu Did Christ Know? away with His Father's Law. Quist is tion , or any kind of penalty- and no But what are you going to do with pictured as having more wisdom and hellfire! Jesus' words? knowledge than Hi~ Father, for He saw You could do exactJy as you please, Jesus Christ Himself said: "If thou that th e Law was a harsh yoke of regardless of how it affects other peo wilt enter into life, KEEP THE COM bondage. So He came to abolish it ple! MANDMENTS" ! (Mat, 19:17,) Did not nai l it to the ccoss! Such a picture totally You could be a real "devil," as they Christ know? Was Jesus mistaken about distorts the mercy, love, and goodness say. You could be a homicidal maniac, the Law? of God! and no onc wou ld be able to have you Now read what the apostle Paul told arrested. And, spiritually, GOD would IF There Were No Law . .. the Romans: "Do we then make void not be able to punish sinners since the LAW through faith? GOD FOR· Think for a moment! Let's just sup SIN would not EXIST! BID: yea, we est"b/ish the /","" (Rom. pose that God did abolish His Law for If the spiritual Law of God were 3:31). some inexplicable reason. Suppose He nailed to the cross, then from that time Did Paul know what he was talking decided to DO AWAY with it. nineteen hundred years ago to the pres· about? In one verse he says that What then? Do you realize what this cnt, today, SIN WOULD BE NONEXlST Christians are "DEAD to the law." Yet would mean? ENT! And there would be no need of a he turns right around and says they This would hiean that there would be Savior-since there would be no need "ESTABLISH the law" ! NO LAW AGAINST committing idolatry, to be saved from sin! Hitler, Musso What a paradox! worshiping false gods, cursing. swear lini, and all the other arch-criminals Ca It is time you understood the TRUTH ing, breaking God's Sabbath-but more, Dillinger, "Pretty Boy Floyd," AI about law and grace ! It is time the truth it would mean that murder would be pone, and all the rest-would NOT BE were made PLAIN, so simple a child all right; steal ing would be acceptable GUILTY, in God's sight! could understand! as well; lust, adultery, rape, every sex Now, does that really make sense? crime; lying, cheating, bearing false How does that strike you? The Great Controversy witnesS-ALL THESE THINGS tlJOllld be Can you BELIEVE it? Picture the common teaching in your all right! And if there is no sin, from the time own mind, if you can. A nation of There would be no law against them! of Christ to the present, then there is 26 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 no such thing as a sinner, no need for receive the promises, including the Abraham obeyed God. That's what repentance, no need for forgiveness, no promise of salvation, by works. What your Bible says! By faith he accepted need for mercy or pardon-No NEED the apostle Paul means by "works" will God's promises-as a gift. God did not FOR GRACE! be made plain late r. owe Abraham the pcomises. He gave Absurd, isn't it! Abraham did not earn salvation--or the promises to him because Abraham But if you follow the reasoning of the promises! They were GIVEN to him, was willing to obey! Abraham did the NO-LAW advocates through to its by God! NOT "earn" them by his works! Never logical conclusion, that is where you are Does this therefore mean that Abra theless, unless he had demonstrated his finally left-that is where you end up I ham did not have to OBEY God? Does willingness to obey God, through his But this is not the teaching of Jesus! it mean, even more importantly, that WORKS, he would NOT have had the Was Christ "at odds" with His we do not have to obey God TODAY? promises given him. Father in heaven, as some say? Was it Turn to the book of James. Let's The promises came freely through God's Law that separated man from God noti ce what the apostle James tells us God's grace. But works were involved. ---or was it SIN? Just what IS the Law? about faithful Abraham. James relates, Does this sound contradictory? And what is this thing called GRACE) "Was not Abraham our father justified You Cannot EARN Salvation And where does SIN enter the picture? by WORKS, when he offered Isaac his That does not mean one can ever IlVhy did Christ have to die' What son upon the altar)" (Jas. 2 :21.) EARN salvation! Not at all! James said, who-was nailed to the cross? Wait a minute! Doesn't that sound "Faith without works is DEAD, being No subject is more vital, more ur like a contradiction ? Let's read Oil: alone." gent, more crucial to your SALVATION! "Seest thou how FAITH"-now he men God's grace alone, by itself, will not tions "faith"- ·'wrought WITH his What About Faithful save us since God will not GIVE His UJork s, and BY works was faith made Abraham? grace to a person who refuses to obey, perfect?" (Verse 22.) who rebels against Him. Do we get the To really understand, let's go back How about that? Jam es shows us that point? to the beginning. Let's get the TRUE .FAITH works together WITH works! Grace is simp ly free, unmerited, un PICTURE of God's dealing with man! This is no contradiction! deserved pardon or forgiveness . God Many assume, first of all, that law He continues: "And the scripture was gives us GRACE when He forgives us of did not come unti l Moses. Prior to the fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed our past sins. But, unless we are willing time of Moses, GRACE was the way God God, and it was imputed unto him for to OBEY God, and stop shming, we dealt with mankind. And the example righteousness: and he was called the will lose that forgiveness, or grace. of grace that ministers usually turn to Friend of God. Ye see then how that But the fact that Abraham's obedi is the example of Abraham, the "father by UJorks a man is justified, and NOT ence was involved did NOT EARN him of the faithful." by faith ollly" (Jas. 2:23-24). "Even salvation! Notice, now, the fascinating-and so faith, if it hath not works, is DEAD, Abraham did not "earn" the prom vitally important-example of the pa being alone," wrote James (verse 17). ises. And no Christian can ever "earn" triarch Abraham, to whom the prom How clear! Faith and works, said James sa lvation! No ONE can ever "EARN" ises were made! under inspiration, go HAND-IN-HAND! salvation! It is not something which Was Abraham under grace? Did God TESTED Abraham's faith by bis we receive as a result of all our deeds Abraham obey God's Law? obedience-hi s works. Abraham met and works. Yet most people believe You have probably read what the the test without flinching, with daunt their faith earns them salvation! apostle Paul wrote about Abraham: less courage. After showing God his It isn't your faith that gives you "What shall we say then that Abraham willingness to obey, even if it required eternal life. our father, as pertaining to the flesh, the life of hi s son Isaac, God con The apostle Paul wrote, "For by hath found? For if Abraham were jus firmed the prom ises He had made to grace are ye saved through faith; and tified by works, he hath whereof to Abraham. Why? "Because thou hast that not of yourselves: it is the GIFT glory ; but not before God. For what OBEYED my voice" (Gen. 22:18). of God: not of works, lest any man saith the scripture? Abraham BELIEVED Abraham not only had faith in God should boast" (Eph. 2 :8-9). God, and it was cotmted unto him fOI' BUT BY FAITH HE OBEYED his Creator! Christ's faith in us is a gift. We do righteollmess" (Rom. 4:1-3). His faith went hand-in-hand with NOT receive it because of all our works. Further: "Now to him that worketh OBEDIENCE! God later told Isaac ex All one's good deeds cannot save any is the reward not reckoned of grace, actly why Abraham was blessed. What one. They are only what ought to be but of debt. But to him that worketh was the reason? "Because that Abraham done anyway. God gives it because of not, but believeth on him that justi OBEYED my voice, and KEPT my charge, His merciful pardon and grace-not fieth the ungodly, his FAITH is counted MY COMMANDMENTS, my statutes, AND because we are ever "worthy" of such for ri ghteousness" (verses 4-5). Notice! MY LAWS" (Gen. 26:5). a gift! Abraham was a man of faith. He How PLAIN! God's spiritual LAW But does this mean that works are believed God, and it was counted to was in force in the days of ABRAHAM not involved? Not at al]l him for righteousness. Abraham did not -long, long before Moses! Read the very next verse: "For we June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 27 arc his workmanship, created in Christ shock, you can h (Ex. 20:15). They COVETED something from SIN. After crossing the Red Sea, in things to come. What things? The wh ich did not belong to them (Ex. great and awesome glory, the Israelites coming of the TRUE SACR1FICE for our 20: 17). THREE of God's basic TEN came to the Sinai peninsula and the hot sins, Christ Jesus Himself! And the Commandments already broken! desert. Holy Spirit which cleans us up spiri The apostle Paul said, "Wherefore, They began to murmur, grumble, and tually within. These duties, sacrifices, as by one man [ Adam] Ii" entered gripe. Nothing seemed to please them. washings, TAUGHT them their NEED for into the world, and DEATH BY SIN .. ." It was not long before rebell ious men a coming Saviour and God's Holy Spirit. (Rom. 5: 12). Death is the penalty of began complaining openly against "Wherefore the LAw"-the "law of sin (Rom. 6:23). Adam Ii""ed. And Moses, and against God (Ex. 16:2·8) . Moses"- was our schoolmaster to bring yet, Paul added, " ... SIN is not im· They flagrantly DISOBEYED God. What us unto Christ, that we might be justi puted where there is NO LAW" (Rom. does God say? fied by faith. But after that faith is 5:13) . But sin was imputed. Adam "And the LORD said unto Moses, come, we are no longer under a school+ therefore broke God's Law! And he died H ow long -reflllf! ye to keep my com+ master" (Gal. 3:24·25). - and so have hi s children. "Neverthe· mandments and my laws?" (Verse The law of Moses, with its co nstant less, DEATH REIGNED from Adam to 28.) round of sacri fices and washings, was M oses, even over them that had not Noticel This was WEEKS before they the "yoke" which had been put upon sinned after the similitude of Adam's came to mount Sinai! This was almost the ancient Israelites, because they RE· transgression [Adam knew better], who immediately after they crossed the Red FUSED to keep God's spiritual laws and is the figure of him [ Christ] that was to Sea! Yet, already, plainly, GOD'S LAWS commandments! come" (verse 14) . were in force-and the Israel ites were Are Christians, today, requi red to SIN was now in the world. Sin IS found disobed ient and rebe ll ious. keep the "law of Moses"? the transgression of God's LAW! Death Consequently, God ADDED another No-clearly not. As Paul said, ". is the penalty of sin, and death reigned law for the Israelites. It was the "law of we are NO LONGER under a school from Adam to Moses-for sin is not Moses." It consisted of ceremonial master." As Peter said, "Now therefore imputed where there is no LAW. That's washings, various laws of offerings and why tempt ye God, to put a yok e upon Paul's teaching. Those are the plain sacrifices, and carnal, physical ordi the neck of the disciples, which neither words of the New Testament. nances, enjoined upon the people and our fathers nor we were able to bear?" God's LAW was in effect from ADAM the Levitical priesthood. It was not a Pau l also wrote, " For it is not possi TO MOSES! Nothing could be clearer! spiritual law. It could save no one. ble that the blood of bulls and of goats But then, exactly WHAT did Moses Then why was it given to ancient should take away sins" (Heb. 10:4). bring? Israel ? "But in those sacri fi ces there is a RE Another LAW Let the apostle Paul give us the an+ MEMBRANCE [a recall ing, not a for· swer! "Wherefore then serveth the giving] again made of sins every year" The Bible does, very plainly, speak law? [What purpose did the law of (verse 3). of a LAW which came with Moses. The Moses serve?] It was ADDED became Speaking of the law of Moses, a law law which the legalistic Pha ri sees tried of 'rmlSgressi01lS, till the seed [Christ] of physical works, Paul wrote: "Which to bi nd on the brethren was the "law should come to whom the promise was [-it, the law of Mose~] was a figure of Moses" (Acts 15: 5). This is the made; and it was ordained by angels for the time THEN present, in whid1 ritualistic law which was added 430 in the hand of a mediator" (Gal. 3 :19). were offered both gifts and sacrifices, years AFTER the covenant was confirmed Did you catch that' The law of that could NOT make him that did the to Abraham! Moses was ADDED-why? "BECAUSE service perfect, as pertaining to the con· Notice it! OF TRANSGRESSIONS"! There was an· science; Which stood only in meats and The apostle Paul wrote, "And this I other Law- a spiritual Law-in effect, drinks [that is, meal and drink offer say, that the covenant, [of promise], which was being transgressed, broken, inb'S]. and divers washings, and carnal that was confi rmed before of God in by the Israelites ! What Law? ordinances [Greek, "rites and ceremo· Christ, the law [the law of Moses], Remember, God had said, "How long nies"], imposed on them UNTIL THE which .was four hundred and thirty refuse ye to keep MY commandments, TIME OF REFO"MATION" (Heb. 9:9·10). years AFTER, cannot disannul, that it and MY laws'" (Ex. 16:28.) They had These animal sacrifices, washings and should make the promise of none been breaking God's eternal SPIR ITUAL such were hard physical work. They effect" (Gal. 3:17). LAW, the Ten Commandments. were the "works of the law" that Paul was here speaking, dearly, of Because Israel had been breaki ng couldn't save anyone (Gal. 2:16). the LAW OF MOSES. What was this God's Law, He added another special Those things, of course, are NOT law? Let's go back into the days of law- the "law of Moses"- to TEACH obligatory on true Christians, today. Moses, fO[ a moment, AND SEE! THEM THE HABIT OF OBEDIENCE! To They clearly were TYPES- typifying the Moses, you will remember, was the teach them to acknowledge th eir sins. He coming of the supreme sacrifice, Jesus one whom God used to lead the Isra· gave them certain ceremonial washings, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. They were elites out of bondage to Egypt! He was offerings, and commanded sacrifices, but a TYPE of the spiritual, and were a type of Christ, who is our deliverer and carnal ordinances, to foreshadow given to a carnal, fleshly people, to 30 The PLAIN TRUTII June. 1966 HELP them understand. They are NOT INGS for obeying His Law (Deu!. 28: 1- Christ is the PURPOSE or aim of the NECESSARY for salvation! 14). Innwnerable blessings! He also Law, for ";ghteollsness, to EVERY ONE Anyone who says we teach that one promised CURSES would come on them, that believes. But what is "righteous can earn salvation by adhering to the if they DISOBEYED His Commandments ness"? David sa id, " .. . for ALL THY rites and ceremonies of the law of (Deut. 28:15 -19, etc.). The punish COMMANDMENTS are righteous1tesJ" Moses is simply not telling the truth. ment which results from breaking God's (Ps. 119:172). There is the definition ! He is either misinformed) or misrepre spiritual Law is DEATH , eternal death. Clearly, then, God's Law is NOT done senting. Christ Himself redeemed us from the away. It is to teach us to be righteous The sacrifices of the Old Testament death penalty by dying FOR us! like Ch rist was-and is. times could NEVER take away sins Why is it that so many misunder This word "end ," used in Romans (Heb. 10:11). "But this man"- Jesus stand? Why can't we see that Christ 10:4, is also found in James 5: 11. Same Christ-"after he had offered ONE came to redeem us from the wages of word . James writes, "Behold, we count SACRIFICE for sins for ever, sat down SIN-the DEATH PENAL TV? Why can't them happy which endure. Ye have on the right hand of God" (verse 12). we see that SIN is what separates us heard of the patience of Job, and have Now can you begin to see how from God-and sin is the transgression seen the END of the Lord; that the cleverly some have TWISTED God's of H is Law? Why don't we see that Lord is very piti ful, and of tender Word, how they have misrepresented Christ came to deliver us from SIN mercy." the Law of God? from the way of disobedience-from its Now, did James mean that Christ's The CURSE of rhe LAW penalty, DEATH? END had come? Of course NOT! Christ The curse isn't the LAw-the CU RSE "Now hold on a minute," someone AROSE fmrn the dead- and lives, today, might exclaim. "Didn't Jesus plainl y is the penalty for disobeying the Law I at God's right hand in heaven! (Heb. Christ bore that curse for us when He 7:26; 9:24.) Rather, James explains it redeem us from the CURSE of the law. was crucified as our sin-bearer. himself. They had seen the purpose or Explain that, if you can '" AIM of the Lord-"that the Lord IS All right. Read it, in Galatians 3:13 The "END of the Law" -"Christ hath redeemed us from the very pitiful, and of tender mercy." Nevertheless, animosity to God's Law curse of the law, being made a curse "DEAD to the Law" for us: for it is written, Cursed is dies hard. When someone's mind is every one that hangeth on a tree." made up, it is made up. It is HARD for What did Paul mean in Romans 7 :4, Some, taking that scripture alone, a person to be willing to admit truth, when he said, "Wherefore, my breth claim it means God's Law-which and CHANGE when he is wrong! ren, ye also are become DEAD to the Paul caUed HOLY, and JUST, and Those who attempt to do away with law by the body of Quist; that ye GOOD-is a diabolical, dreadful, abom God's Law now often turn to Romans should be married to another, even to inable CURSE! They point to this verse 10:4. In the previous verse Paul ex him who is raised from the dead, that as supposed proof. plains how the Pharisees were going we should bring forth fruit unto God." Let's understand this poi nt! about trying to establish their OWN Notice carefully what he said. First, It is the "curse OF the Law"-the ri ghteousnesses, apart from God's right he did NOT say "the LAW is dead," CURSE which results from the penalty eousness. They ignored the sacrifice of he dearly said, "YE ... are become of Law- that is, from BREAKING the Christ, and thought that mere com dead." The LAW of God did not die, Law! It is not the Law that is the cu rse. mandment-keeping would be enough or perish. It was not destroyed or done Christ redeemed us from the curse of for anyone. away. But the PEOPLE became dead to the Law. Exactly what did Christ re But, as Paul pointed out in verse 4, the law by the body of Christ. deem us from? From the penalty of "CHRIST is the end of the law for Verse 5 helps explain it. "For when sin: the DEATH PENALTY! Sin brings a righteousness to every one that believ we were in the flesh"-that is, before curse. When you sin you bring upon eth." What does "the end of the law" we were converted, and were living ac yourself the penalty of sin-the curse mean ? One definition is the aim} or cording to the pulls of the flesh-"the of the Law-the death penalty! the purpose, the flllness or olltcome of motions of sins, which were [manifest, Because of our SINS, we were all the Law. Christ IN US gives us the revealed for what they were] by th~ sentenced to DEATH (Rom. 6:23). But power to KEEP God's H oly, perfect law, did work in our members to bring Christ paid the penalty FOR us, in our Law, since we lack the spiritual strength, forth fruit unto DEATH." Do you see? stead. He REDEEMED us from DEATH! ourselves (Rom. 8:4). When we were yet sinners, we were Christ DIED for us. He took the curse, Apart from Christ, NO ONE can worthy of DEATH in God's sight. We which we had incurred through disobe manage to KEEP God's Law in the spirit. had transgressed His holy Law, and dience, upon Himself. "For he [God] By his very nature, man falls far short. the DEATH PENALTY hung over our hath made him [Christ] to be sill for But through Christ, WE CAN ( Phil. heads. us, who knew no sin; that we might 4: 13). The aim or end of the Law is "But now," Paul explains in verse 6, be made the righteousness of God in to make us like Christ ! "we are delivered from the law"-that him" (II Cor. 5:21). Any grade-school pupil should be is, from the inexorable DEATH PENALTY God promised ancient Israel BLESS- able to see it. of the LAw. Christ paid it for us-in our June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 31 stead! The Law of God NO LONGER Obedience Impossible? Paul explained it more fully in Gala CLAIMS OUR LIVES, "that being dead tians 2:20. Notice! "I am crucified wherein we were held; that we should But some say it is impossible for with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not serve in newness of spirit, and not in mortal man to keep the perfect LAW I, but CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: and the the oldness of the letter." of God. They insist that because the life which I now live in the flesh I live While sinners, we were in a state of Israelites never kept it, we CANNOT by the faith of the Son of God, who DOOM. We were worthy of execution. keep it. loved me, and gave himself for me." Is this twe? We were, fi guratively, sitting on MUR Through the POWER of the indwell Would GOD impose a Law on people DERER'S ROW, awaiting our punishment. ing of God's Holy Spirit, we are enabled which CANNOT be kept' Is God some But, NOW, Paul says, we are DEAD to KEEP God's spiritual Law! The kind of fiendish, sadistic monster who to the Law-that is, the penalty of Spirit of God WITHIN tiS makes it possi expects MORE than we can give? Does death HAS BEEN PAID BY ANOTHER ble! Through the Spirit of God, we are He imperiously DEMAND more than we Jesus Christ, who gave His life for us to mortify-put to DEATH-the deeds are able to do? -so no longer does the death penalty of the flesh (Rom. 8: 13) . Let's understand! God is love. But He hang over us. It has been paid! So But if a person does not have the far as the Law is concerned, the penal is also supremely wise. God KNOWS what He is doing! Spirit of God residing within him, "he ty is paid-we are dead, in Christ is none of his" (Rom. 8 :9). How First, it is true that human beings, and there is no further date with death PLAIN! of their own ability, are not able to for us, if we continue to li ve in Christ! God commands us to KEEP His Law! keep God's Law in the spirit, because This verse in no way says the Law But, knowing we are weak of ourselves, their human nature is filled with weak is done away. It merely shows that He provides a WAY. That WAY is Christ nesses and downward pulls of the Christ paid the penalty of the Law for in us. Through Him we CAN keep the fl esh. us, died for us, and our date with Law! DEATH has been kept by Him. We are But, this fact alone does NOT mean Don't EVER let anyone tell you that "dead with Him" (Rom. 6:3-4). No we should forget it, give up, and QUIT! keeping God's Law is IMPOSS IBLE! It IS longer does condemnation await us GOD has made a WAY whereby we CAN possible, through the power of the (Rom. 8: 1), because we are also made keep His Law in spirit! And He com SPIRIT of God! Those who deny it are spiritually ALIVE WITH HIM through mands us to fo ll ow it! denying the POWER OF GOD! They His resurrection from the grave (Rom. But HOW? What is the WAY' are blaspheming! 6:4-5, Il) . How does a Christian KEEP God's "Not UNDER the Law" No longer, then, are we in a sense Law? married to SIN, the way of the f1es h Here is the answer: "For what the Some, however, wiII still turn to but we are to be "married to another, law [by itself] could not do, in that it Romans 6:14, where we read, "For sin even to him who is raised from the was weak through the flesh [that is, shall not have dominion over you: for dead" in NEWNESS of li fe, . "that we people were too weak to keep it spiri ye are NOT tinder the latv, but under should bring forth fruit unto God" tually perfect], God sending his own GRACE." (Rom. 7:4, last part). Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and Pointing their thumb at this verse No problems with this verse! It is for sin, condemned sin in the flesh they will likely exclaim, "There, see? easy to understand, when you can see [ HE KEPT it, showing us that God's Christians are NOT under the law! We the background, when you read the con Law COULD be kept by a human indi DON'T have to keep the law. Paul says text, and grasp tuhat the apostle Paul vidual]: that the righteollsness of the we are UNDER GRACE, not law!" is talking about! LAW might be FUL FILLED IN USJ who But again-could this reasoning pos But far too often careless people will walk not after the flesh, but after the sibly be sound? After having read all read right over a verse like this, and Spirit" (Rom. 8:3-4). Christ kept the the verses we have seen so far, could ASSUME it says something it doesn't! Law through the power of God's Spirit. we believe Paul contradicted himself? If Too often people will just see the ex Of Himself He could not do it. But the he did, then obviously his words are pression "dead to the law" and assume Spirit of God in Him did I NOT inspired-and if that be true, the it means the LAW is dead. God expects us to FULFILL the Bible is not inspired, and YOII have no Let's not be ca reless with the precious, righteousness of the Law of God, even Saviollr! . priceless WORn OF GOD! as Christ did, thereby condemning sin Therefore let's fmdentand. Do you love the truth? God says, in the flesh-showing there is no ex Begin with verse one. "What shall we n ••. but to THIS man will I look, even cuse for sin. H ow? " ... after the say then?" Paw asks. "Shall we con to him that is poor and of a contrite Spirit." As verse 2 shows, "For the tinue in sinH-that is, BREAK ING God's spirit, and TREMBLETH at my word" law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus Law, for sin IS law-breaking (I John ( Isa. 66:2). We should stand in AWE hath made me free from the law of sin 3:4)-"that GRACE may abound'" In at the Word of God-and NOT deal and death." The Law of God, the Ten other words, is it all right for Christians with it lightly, carelessly, with Commandments, express the character to transgress God's Law, so they can impunity! of the Spirit of God. (Contin1led 011 page 46) 32 T he PLAIN TRUTIi June, 1966 ets of Almighty God! Some day, very WHAT ALL HUSBANDS NEED soon, you are going to know that! Every man alive has the opportunity TO KNOWI to be the direct representative of God (COII/inlled tram page 13) over his own home---in teaching, in· structing, leading and inspiring his exercise, the proper diet and the right fault without feeling beaten down and wife and children to learn and obey the kind of recreation. squelched. words of the Holy Bible and to worship Actually, although this should not be By al l of this outgoing concern, and and serve the God who made them. hi s motive, in helping hi s wife he is by making sure his wife does get the Most normal wives an d children will helping himself! For a strong, graceful right amount of recreation, travel and instantly and gladly respond if given and healthy body is certainly the basis friendly association with others of like half a chance ! Men need to real ize this of a warm, vivacious and loving per· interest, a husband may be assured that and, first of all, set a dynamic example sonality. And certainly every right his wife is having a full and balanced of dedication to their Creator, study of minded man would want to keep his l ife as God intended, and is even in His Word, prayer to God at mealtimes wife sweet and beautiful as his "sweet this laying up a rich store of treasures -and family prayer-and private heart" throughout their life together. which will bring forth happiness in prayer on one's knees in the bedroom, H e should also encourage his wife in their marriage for years to come. cl oset or other private place. mental development. He should realize The area of character development is T he man should set an example of that many wives tend to stagnate, be onc also in which a really strong and se lf-discipline in the fear of God. He come bored with life, bog down in their masculine husband should take the lead. should show that he is man enough use of English, their knowledge of world All too often, especiall y in our mod· strong enough-to conquer his lusts and affairs and their intell ectual develop ern world, men seem to thi nk that it is control his appetites. By conquering his ment in general. up to the "little woman" to talk about smoking habit, by controll ing his drink Therefore, a dynamic husband and spiritual things and get the chi ldren ing and other appetites, by restraining leader should inspire his wife to study interested in things concerning God his emotions and directing them in the different types of books and news mag and the Church. This is not true and right channels, by controlling and guid azines, share with her the interesting any man who fai ls his God·given re· ing his tongue according to the "law of outside news and information he is re sponsibi lity in this is simply se lling out kindness," he can set an example which ceiving in his work and contacts, take his own birthright! For God intended will never be forgotten by his sons and her occasionally to the right type of the man-if he will act on his respen· daughters as they grow up. And this lectures, concerts or educational movies. sibilities and opportunities- to be the example will certainly command the re When possible, an interesting trip spi ritual leader in the home. spect, admiration and love of any right throughout the United States (for our Notice this inspired scriptural state minded woman. American readers) or to the Continent ment: "But I would have you know, Think on these things, then, you or elsewhere abroad will add a great that the head of every man is Christ; husbands 1 With God's help, every last deal to a wife's outlook on the world and the head of the woman is the man; one of us can increase in the love, kind in general and her own life in particular. and the head of Christ is God" ( I Cor. ness and effecti veness we have shown as Every husband should be most con· 11 :3). a husband and father. cerned with his wife's happiness and There are other scriptures, of course, Every last one of us can grow in the personality. He should in spire and en· telling the woman to " learn in silence" five basic areas of responsibility for courage her constant development and and other such things. However, my husbands outlined above: (1) Love and growth in these areas. Ce rtainly by lov purpose now is not to discuss the worn· Respect, (2) Support and Encourage ing and helping her- sharing deeply an's responsibilities but the man's! ment, (3) Leadership and Guidance, with her his hopes and aspirations-he Therefore, let me tell you husbands (4) Help and Protection, and (5) wi ll be a tremendous inspiration to her that it is your responsibili ty to take and Inspiration to Grow. in this regard. Whenever possible, he to maintain the spiritual leadership of By becoming better husbands we will should express affection to her in the your home ~ right way-showing by a thousand big also become better human beings! We and li ttle things that he loves her deep Don't Fail Your Responsibility wi ll all become happier and healthier, ly, appreciates her and wants her happi· Entirely too many of you have failed and have a far greater sense of accom ness above all else. A real leader and utterly in this responsibility ! You have plishment than we ever had before. husband will correct those under him supposed that religion was for old men, In marriage above all other areas of even including his wife when necessary. women, children and "goody-goods." life, we need to experience the reality But he will strive to do this with But you have supposed wrong! of Jesus Christ's inspired statement: "It kindness and with patience in a way For the strongest men who have ever is more blessed to give than to receive" that encourages one to overcome the lived have been the servants and proph. (Acts 20:35). 7:lte Bible Storu by Basil Wolverton CHAPTER NINETY·TWO DAVID'S FAITH WAVERS SAUL and some of his troops had come to Naioth in Ramah. Their intention was to capture David at Samuel's college. But God made it easy for David to escape by causing a changed and devout state of mind to come over Saul and his men, insomuch that the Israelite leader and his soldiers joined in sacred services and spent many hours at the college in friendly fellowship. (I Samuel 19 :18·24.) Jonathan - a True Friend David safely returned to his home to happily surprise his wife, who had been released after having been arrested by some of Saul's soldiers. David hurried to visit Jonathan to try to find out why Sau l was so eager to kill him. "My father falls into a bad mood whenever he has one of those terrible periods of depression," Jonathan told David. "But he doesn't stay that way long. I'm sure he doesn't really want to kill you when he is in his right mind. If he had planned to do away with you, surely I would know about it." (I Samuel 20: 1.2.) "Most of your father's plotting against me has taken place during his sanest hours," David said. "And he doesn't always confide in you, as you'll find out soon when you'll have serious trouble with him because of me. Even tomorrow this could happen. It will be the new moon, and I'll be expected to be present at the monthly feast. Your father will undoubtedly ask you where I am. Tell him that I've gone to be with my parents because of a special annual family meeting. If he is satisfied by that explanation, and isn't perturbed because I'm absent, it will mean that I am wrong 34 The PLAlN TRUTII June, 1966 in believing that he wants me dead. But if he becomes angry when he learns I'm miles away, then you'll know that I am right because he will be so upset when he learns that I am safe from him, miles away." "I don't understand how you can be so certain," Jonathan commented, shaking his head. "When my father returns from Naioth you'll probably find him friendly." "Perhaps I've made too many harsh remarks about your father," David said apologetically. "If I have spoken in such a manner that I have made myself out to be your father's enemy, then remain loyal to your father and protect him by run ning your sword through me I " "You're becoming a bit dramatic in this matter, David," Jonathan grinned. "Believe me, if I find that my father is truly scheming to take your life, I'll make every effort to inform you at once. " (I Samuel 20:3-9.) "You won't be able to inform me if your father watches you closely," David said. For an answer, Jonathan led David out into a broad, open field where they could be sure that no one would be listening to their conversation. There Jonathan asked God to witness that he would do what was best for David. He had a feeling that David would succeed his father as Israel's leader, and he asked David to promise him that Jonathan and his descendants would always be considered David's close and loyal friends. David was pleased to make the promise. He realized that Jonathan was willing to give up the prospect of becoming the next king of Israel. At Saul's death, under ordinary circumstances, Saul's son would naturally come into leadership. (I Samuel 20:10-17.) Continual Bitterness "After my father returns, we must use strategy in contacting each other," Jona than told David. "Go visit your family if you wish, but come back in three days and hide among those boulders over there. I'll come out just three days from now for archery practice. After shooting three arrows, I'll send a boy to bring them back. If I shout to him, 'the arrows are on this side of you,' then you will know that my father is friendly toward you , and that you should return at once. If I shout to the boy, 'the arrows are beyond you,' then you will know that it's God's warning to you to leave here immediately. Whatever happens, I trust that we'll always be the kind of friends who are guided by our God." (I Samuel 20 :18-23.) Next day, when Saul and his court sat down to eat as was customary at the be ginning of the lunar months of God's calendar, Saul immediately noticed that David's June, 1966 The PLAlN TRUTH 35 chair was empty. He said nothing about it, nor did anyone else mention the matter. He could only hope that something fatal had happened to David. But he supposed that David very likely was ceremonially defiled . The following day there was another special meal. Again David's chair was empty. Though it was one of only four dlairs at the main table--for Saul, Jonathan, Saul's commander-in-chief Abner and David-no one spoke of David because of realizing that Saul would be irritated by the mere mention of the name. A sudden guestion from Saul brought a hush to the spirited conversation around the main table. "Why hasn't David been here to eat with us these last two days?" he asked Jonathan, making every effort to sound casual wh ile he was being consumed with a gnawing curiosity. "David's people are observing a special annual fam ily meeting," Jonathan replied, also striving to be casual. "You weren't here when he wanted to go, so he asked me for leave. 1 knew that you surely wouldn't deny his go ing for a visit to his parents' home near Bethlehem. The meeting with his fam il y was very important to him." By the time Jonathan had finished speaking, Saul's face had colored with rage. He lunged to his feet and stared angrily down at his son. "You offspring of a lawless woman'" he shouted. "Why have you become so friendly with David ? Don't you realize that he is scheming to take the throne of Israel away from me? If I die, you 'll never become king if you continue to be taken in by his evil plans! Go find him and bring him here so that he can be executed! " (1 Samuel 20 :24-31. ) "Why should he be executed ?" Jonathan demanded as he stood up to sguarely face hi s father. "Exactly what has he done to cause you to be so unreasonably angry'" Jonathan's words sent Sau l into an even greater rage. He whirled to seIze his javelin, a short spear, which was leaning agains t the wall. With great force he threw it, intending to run it through his son. Jonathan knew that his father was capable of any rash move, and deftly leaped aside to escape what otherwise would have been instant death. David Escapes Now it was Jonathan's turn to be angry, but with much more reason. He strode out of the building, leaving shocked members of the court and dinner guests glancing in fear and embarrassment at Israel's leader, who was trembling with wrath because 36 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 David had obviously escaped and because his son would not share his feelings in the matter. (I Samuel 20: 32-34.) "Rush men to Bethlehem to seize David if he is at his parents' home there!" Saul growled at Abner, his commander-ill-chief. Several hours later, mounted soldiers returned to report that David was not at his parents' home, and that neither his parents nor his wife could give any informa tion about where he had gone. "He could be floating down the Euphrates river by now!" Saul exclaimed sourly. "On the other hand, he could be trying to throw us off his trail by hiding in or near Gibeah. Search the whole town for him'" Next morning Jonathan took his archery equipment and went with a boy out into the bouldery field where he presumed David was hiding under some thicket. He shot two arrows at a target he had set up, and motioned Jonathan's young servant raced off to retrieve an arrow that was purposely shot unusually distant so that Jonathan would have an opportunity to look for David, who was supposed to be hiding in that area. for the boy to go after them. As the lad ran, Jonathan sent another arrow far beyond the target. "My third arrow is far beyond the other two!" Jonathan shouted to the boy. "Hurry and find it! We don't have much time today for practice I" Jonathan knew that if David could hear him he would understand that he meant David should get away without delay. He carefully but casually looked around as June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 37 he walked slowly among the boulders and bushes, but saw no sign of his friend. He had to cease searching when his young helper ran up to him. "Here are your three arrows, sir! " the boy panted. "Good work!" Jonathan praised him. "That will be all for today because I have remembered other things 1 must do. Take my bow and my quiver of arrows back to my quarters, and I'll pay you later today for a full morning's work." (I Samuel 20:35-40.) As soon as the jubilant boy had departed, Jonathan was happily startled to see David squirm out of some bushes and hurry toward him. David bowed respectfully three times, inasmuch as he regarded Jonathan worthy of the full respect one should show to a prince, even though the two young men were close friends. They spoke only briefly to each other, knowing that they shouldn't risk being seen together, and that it was very dangerous for David to be seen under any circumstances. Both were moved to tears because they had to part, perhaps never to see each other again. "Hurry away from here before someone sees you!" Jonathan warned. "Remember our pledge that we shall always be friends, and may God protect you I" (I Samuel 20:41-42.) Help From the Priests With a final wave David disappeared among the bushes and boulders. Jonathan walked back to the streets of Gibeah to pass groups of soldiers moving from building to building in a frantic search for David. Moving stealthily southward into the land of Judah by night, David came to the homes of several men who had been his trusted soldiers. There he received food and lodging. Because of their special devotion to David, some of the men joined him in his escape journey so that they might help protect him from those who would be hoping to capture or kill David and earn the rewards that Saul was offering. David and his men then headed northwestward. Three days after he had parted from Jonathan, David arrived with his men at the place called Nob, in the city of Kirjath-jearim, about seven miles northwest of Jerusalem. (I Samuel 21:1.) It was here that the ark rested twenty years after it was returned by the Philistines-until David became king. (I Samuel 7:1-2; I Chronicles 13:5-7.) Hungry and weary when they arrived at Nob, David and his men sought out the place where priests were carrying on their duties before the ark of God. David knew the head priest, Ahimelech, and came by himself to Ahimelech's door. When 38 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 the priest saw who it was, he wondered why such a prominent Israelite should show up at night alone. "Welcome to this place," Ahimelech greeted David, "but where are your aides? Surely a man of your renown in Israel is not traveling about without attendants." (I Samuel 21: 1.) David didn't want to tell the priest that he was running from Saul, so he quickly invented an explanation he hoped would be accepted. He was so intent on getting out of the country that he inclined to rely on his wits, in this case, instead of God. "Saul has sent me on a secret mission," David told Ahimelech in a low voice. "He wants no one to know about it, and I'm asking you to tell no one that you have seen me here. I have men with me on this mission, but they are waiting elsewhere. We are traveling light and rapidly, moving through the country seeking food when we are hungry. We would appreciate anything you can spare---especially bread. Five loaves would be a great help to us." "We don't have that much ordinary bread on hand," Ahimelech said. "We have many loaves of bread from yesterday'S shew-bread offering, but only we priests are to eat that. However-perhaps it wouldn't be wrong to give some sacred bread to men who need it to keep alive, provided they have been conducting themselves as godly men." "My men and I have been hiding for the last three days so that we wouldn't be recognized," David explained. "There hasn't been much opportunity for them to be the kind of rogues you have in mind. And besides, the bread is in a manner common because the day on which it was sanctified has ended. (I Samuel 21:2-).) Ahimelech seemed satisfied. He asked one of the many priests there under his leadership to bring bread for David, who stood off to one side so that he wouldn't be noticed by anyone at the sanctuary. One man, however, having come to the place earlier for a purification ceremony, took notice of David. In the Enemy's Land That man was Doeg, Saul's chief herdsman, an Edomite who was 111 charge of many men who worked on the Israelite leader's cattle ranches. Just then a priest appeared with the bread for David, who took it and hurried out with only the briefest of thanks. Doeg stared after him. "That man leaving looks just like David, Saul's son-in-law!" he exclaimed to Ahimelech. "What could he be doing here by himself?" June. 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 39 "They say that most everyone has a double," the priest shrugged, being careful to be honest and at the same time trying to protect David. "This man came in des perate need of food. Would David have to do that at a place like this? This man has a short beard, and David is known to be always shaven." Doeg left without saying anything about the matter, but the priest could tell by his shrewd expression that the herdsman was about convinced that the man was David. A little later Ahimelech was surprised to find David at the door again. David wanted to leave hurriedly, but couldn't. "We were sent in such a hurry on our mission that I had no time to get weapons for myself," David told the priest. "We need weapons for defense. Do you have any you could let us have?" "We have no use for arms here," Ahimelech pointed out, "but the sword of Goliath has been brought here as a reminder to worshippers that God delivered our people again from the Philistines through you. If you have need of the sword, you surely would be the one most entitled to it." "It is a very heavy weapon, as I well know," David said. "But it is a very fine sword and I have great need of it." (I Samuel 21:6-9.) After obtaining the sword, David re turned to his hiding companions, who were still munching on the bread he had brought Doeg, Saul's ch ief herdsman, warily them earlier. When they saw that he was watched a man furtively leave the carrying Goliath's sword, they were great temple at Nob. His knowledge that the man was David later cost ma ny lives . ly impressed by it, but they felt that it had little value as a weapon because it was so burdensome. "I have a reason for carrying it," David disclosed to them. "Saul would never think of looking for us in the Philistine city of Gath. We'll go there without danger of being jailed or killed because the sight of this sword should command plenty of respect for us from the people of Goliath's home town. And very likely the king of Gath will befriend us since Saul now seeks my life." David's men were dismayed at the plan. They remained with him until they 40 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 reached Gath in Philistia. Then they told him that it would be a risk of life to enter the city. "I won't ask you to go witb me," David told them. "Stay here out of sight and wait to see what happens. If I don't send for you within a day, you'll know that I've been wrong in this matter." Attired in his best clothes, and with his sprouting beard neatly trimmed, David strode up to the gate of Gath with Goliath's sword over one shoulder. Soon he had attracted a crowd of onlookers, including some city magistrates. To these David announced that he would like to be taken to Achish, the king of Gath. The magis trates knew that the king would be curious to see the bearer of Goliath's sword, and soon David was presented to Achish. Just as the king was beginning to ask ques tions, one of his officers who recognized David apologetically and excitedly broke in. "Sir, this man is the Israelite David who killed our champion, Goliath!" the officer declared. "Don't you recall how he was proclaimed a great hero in Israel, and was given more credit for victory over us than even the king of Israel received ?" "This IS the man?" Achish muttered, scowling slightly and almost getting to his feet. Achish's scowl was one of curiosity rather than of anger. The king had no intention of harm ing his visitor, but David thought that his expression and actions indi cated that he was about to order his guards to seize him and put him to death. (I Sam uel21:10-12.) Un Mistakenly thinking that the ruler of Goth was about to have him der the pressure executed, David tried to escape death by trying to prove that he of being sought by was crazy. Saul, David had lately resorted to deceitful means, but in this situation he almost outdid himself. H~ was so filled with fear that he could think of only one thing that might save him. He fell , then began to scribble on the city gate and drool on his beard as though he were mad I (To be continued next month) June, 1966 The PLA IN TRUTH 41 In other words, the curriculwll IS push-button Century 21, wh en human planned to give students a broad, cul labor wi ll be all but abolished with idle tural background-a foundation for the ness, ease and luxury enjoyed by all! ~od art of living happily, usefully, success Isn 't th is breathtaking PROGRESS? from the Editor fu ll y, abundantly. Hence the emphasis SO it seems. upon character building and spiritual But there is the other side of the (Continl/ed from page 1) deve lopment is aptly stated in the coin, and it's high time we ,\WAKE man life from th is planet! This world's Ambassador motto: "Recapture True from the trance and take a hard look education is failing to insti ll a knowl Va lues." at it! edge of true values and a God-fearing Ambassador College is rooted to an Tme prog ress is not measured by the sense of responsibility for the di rection educational poli cy and a philosoph ic ap fa lse yardstick of gadgetry, mechanical of these new and awesome forces into proach which permeates this institution. devices, and the fatal concept that labor peaceful and productive channels. 'The Today we live in a different world. is a cu rse and idleness is a blessi ng. question now is whether this new tech Frightening changes have occurred. The Science, Industry, and modern Educa nology is creating the Frankenstei n world went along on a comparatively tion have concentrated on developing Monster that shall destroy its producers even keel from the dawn of history the machine while degenerating the and all hwnanity! until the nineteenth and twentieth cen· man! At Ambassador College, students find turies. Suddenly knowledge increased. Education- and the world of its the true values. They learn the real pur Nearly all modern inventions have ap creation- has lost all knowledge of the pose of human ,life. Life takes on true peared during the past 150 years. PURPOSE and tru e meaning of life. It has meaning. Emphasis is upon character In the brief span of a lifetime the lost all sense of true values, while buil d ing. Students learn not merely how world has passed with accelerating speed blindly lead ing the pursuit of the false. to earn a living, but how to live! through the age of invention, the ma Education has failed to teach THE WAY Students acqui re a we ll -rounded, broad chine age, the age of science and tech to peace, happiness, and abundant well ening, balanced education. There is not nology, the nuclear age, and now, the being. The actual bitter fmits of this only mind development, but also that of space age. The sudden acceleration In modern materialistic "prog ress" are in personality, true culture, pOIse and scientific development is evidenced by creased unhappiness, discontent, bore emotional maturity! the astounding fact that 90 percent of dom, and moral, spiritual and educa To that end the small student body all scientists who ever lived are living tional DECADENCE! The America n and and ratio of one lecturer to each ten today. British peoples are traveling th e identi students provides a distinct advantage. And with these developments has ca l road that led to the fall of the At Ambassador the relationship be emerged a new age in education. Today's "great" nations of the past- Egypt, tween student and fa cu lty is as happy world is what its leaders have made it. Babylon, Greece and Rome! and helpful as it is unusual. The small er and these leaders are th e product of th is This is a very dece ptive world. With co ll ege, ade~uately staffed and outstand world's education. But what kind of all this "progress" it remains a hard , ingly equipped fo r its needs, with its world has this education produced? cold fact that never before was the world cultural atmosphere, offers greater op It dppears to be a progressive world, filled with so much discontent, unhappi portunity for self-expression and activity suddenly newly en lightened and fantas ness, and suffering-never so much ill in the area of the student's talents. It tically advanced. It has become a modern health, mental disturbance, frustration can give more personal attention to the world, producing awe-inspi ring inven and suicide, even in the "high living individual student's problems. It pro tions, labor-saving devices. dazzling standard" nations. Never before so duces an altogether different and more luxuries undreamed of a single century many divorces and broken homes, so desirable college atmosphere. ago. Today there is instantaneous com much juvenil e delin'luency, crime and The Ambassador policy is based upon munication, worldwide. We fly around violence. That is , unless, as Jesus re the recogOltlon that tClle education the world in two days, and orbit the marked, it was " in the days of Noah." is not of the intellect alone but of the ea rth in minutes. The miracles of radio. And never before was it possible to whole personality- not alone of tech television, high-fi stereo sound repro erase human life from the ea rth by the nologies, sciences and arts, but an un duction, and CInerama entertain an educational and inventive genius and derstanding of the purpose of life, a amusement-hungry world. Assembly. the productive capacity of man! knowledge of the spi ritual laws which lin e mass machine production makes T his is a deceived world that doesn't govern our lives, our God-relationship available a my riad exciting new devices; kllOw it is deceived! and human relationships; not a memoriz and simultaneously increases incomes and WHY ? ing of knowledge alone but a thorough shortens work hours, thus providing both There is a reason. There has to be training in self-discipline, self-expres the leisure and the purchasing power a calise for every effect. sion, cultural and character develop for the masses to enjoy all these new Sir Winston Churchill put his finger ment; not book learning only, but luxuries. on the answer. Speaking before the broadening travel and experience; not A fascinated, entranced world now United States Congress, he said: "If you only hea ring and learning but doing. looks ahead to the magic dreamworld, will allow me to use other language I - 42 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 will say that he must indeed have a by "spontaneous generation" (whatever blind soul who cannot see that some that is), "electro-chemical action," or great purpose and design is being other unknown accidental process? worked out here below, of which we The only truly scientific method is to have the honor to be the fa ithful ser PROVE a proposition before accepting vants," This implies a Higher Power, it as scientific FACT. But has either above, doing the working out. This is Science or Education PROVED the evo the Jtarting poill! of a right and true lutionary theory? Emphatically they have education. This strikes directly at the not! By its very nature it is a theory FOUNDATION of knowledge-the most not subject to proof. Has either Science important, most needful of all knowl or Education PROVED the l1on-existence edges- the PURPOSE of human life, of a personal Supreme God, of supreme understanding of the true values, and intelligence, wisdom, and POWER to knowing the way to every desired result! create? Emphatically, they have not! Yet right here, at the basic starting WHY, then, do so many great minds point, is precisely where Education who profess knowledge and wisdom jumped the track of its true mission. doubt or deny God's existence' Simply And this chaotic, mixed-up, unhappy because of something inherent in human world is the result. nature-something of which they are IS there PURPOSE - MEANING - to ignorant-a spirit of vanity, coupled life? Science can give us no knowledge with hostility and rebellion against their of purpose beyond trying to enjoy the Maker and H is authority! passi ng moments. Education does not Is it, after all , rational, intellectual, have the answer, nor teach it. Aristotle, to wilfully ass lime fables, unproved and Socrates, Plato, all lacked the answer. unprovable, to be facti whi le ridiculing Augustine sought the answer all his provable Truth, branding ;1 folklore' life-in vain ! Of this most important But what of the other of the two basic of all knowledge, the world is utterly ALTERNATIVES as one's approach to IGNORANT! knowledge' In such a world is it any wonder that There is the Higher Power! And the great minds doubt whether there is at the Ambassador Colleges this is not any real Higher Power working out His carelessly assumed, but definitely, ration intelligent PURPOSE? Is it any wonder all y, scientifically PROVED ! And there that some dim-brains are giving the is PURPOSE! H umanity was put here for world a fresh shock, with the ridiculous a PURPOSE of such transcendent magni new slogan: "God is dead!"? To state tude that even the great minds, in their that God is dead is to con fess there carnality, cannot grasp it! And there is really 'Was a God-and if God waS I A WAY to peace between individuals, God still iS I fo r unless He is the Eternal groups and nations, but tragically none -the Ever-living-He never was GOD! of this world's leaders were taught it! In the second and third centuries we There is A WAY to happiness and abun· had Gnosticism-meaning "we know. 1I dant well-being. But modern Education Today the Educators, Scientists and great does not teach it. What an indictment against a compli minds are AGNOSTIC, meaning "we So it all boils down to this crux point: cated, highly organized, monumental do,l t know-we are IGNORANT!" And There are the two alternatives as a system of education that has become th is IGNORANCE they glorify in the starting point-a BASIS-a FOUNDATION DECADENT! guise of "KNOWLEDGE!" for knowledge. This world and its Edu This gigantic system is ready to top As a BASIS for knowledge-as a cation has adopted the fictional, false pIe! It will soon fall, along with the FOUNDATION for Education, we start FOUNDAT ION, And this. erroneous foun civilization it has spawned! But a better with two alternatives. Right here is the dation becomes the concept which is its day is soon coming! The happy WORLD CHOICE between fact and fancy approach to knowledge. It got off on TOMORROW is soon to dawn! It will be -between true knowledge and igno a false start. Hence it is axiomatic that a world of PEACE, of PLENTY, of HAP rance, between TRUTH and error. Is this world and its leaders are not being PINESS. there the Higher Power working out taught the tflle values, but pursue the But how? I have just traveled intelligent PURPOSE, or are we mere false-the world is left without knowl through a portion of China, and parts of accidents of a blind, unintelligent, pur edge of lifelJ PURPOSE and meaning, India. Millions there are starving. In the poseless force of nature, descended from devoid of right goals, in utter ignorance poorer districts-which are many-the a single-celled amoepa sparked to life of THE WAY to every desired blessing! filth, squalor, wretchedness are simply June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 43 © Amba1lador College The spacious, classical modern, new Dining Hall on the Pasadena campus of Ambassador College. indescribable. This same degenerate con dustriali sts, bankers, scientists, educa This already has been introduced in the dition of degradation and suffering fills tors. And most of them-the highly three Ambassador Colleges. And like many parts of Central and South Amer educated-were not happy. Some com the proverbial gra in of mustard seed, ica, and of Egypt and other parts of mitted suicide. Their minds were of they are a.lready beginning to spread Africa. Perhaps half of the people on high caliber, their IQs were high. They around the world. earth live in such dest.itution. I thought had learned much in material knowl Ambassador Colleges know, an d of the joyous WORLD TOMORROW that is edge, they had learned how to earn a teach, the PURPOSE and true meaning of corning. and immediately the question living-but they had lIot learned the life-the TRUE VALUES that pay oH carne to mind, HOW can abundant well true values, nor how to live. It will re and THE WAY to peace, happiness, and being be brought to these teeming mil quire a right education, available to all, abundant well-being. How do we know? lions? And the answer was obvious. to correct all the world's ills. We don't guess, or theorize or express Correct the cAuSE-Jack of right edu Very soon, today's decadent education unfounded opinions - we have it on cation. On the other hand, I have known will be replaced by the educational AUTHORlTY! The Bible is that Author many of the world's leading men- in - system of The WORLD TOMORROW. ity. and it is PROVED to be the revelation 44 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 Entrance to Memorial Ha ll , the main cl a ssroom building of Ambassador Coll ege, Sf. Albans, He rts., Eng land. of the Almighty li vi ng GOD to human approach to acqu irable knowledge. IaUng and philosophi zing in vain for kind. The Bible is the world's biggest Here is what modern Education the acquisition of knowledge that can seller, but also the Book almost nobody doesn't kllo11J, and fail s to teach: come only through the ve ry source it knows. Few even know 'what i/ is. What is MAN? WHY is man? What rejects! Aston ishing? Yes. Intelligent, When you purdlase a gadget or mech are the TRUE VALUES? What is THE rational? Well hardly! anism, you receive an instruction book WAY to the mosl necessary objectives In the WORLD TOMORROW we shall whidl the maker sends along wjth his peace, happiness, abundant well-being? have world PEACE. There shall be uni product. The most compl icated medl This BASIC KNOWLl ~ DCE cannot be ac versal prosperity. There wi ll be knowl anism ever made is the human mind and quired by all the mental, inventive, edge of the TRUE va lues, and people body. The Bi ble is our Maker's instruc mechanical. exploratory, observational or will cease chasing the false and suffer tion Book which He sent along with philosophi cal power of man. in g the painful consequences. People His product. It is the authoritative ret/e This kind of necessary knowledge can will learn T H E WAY to real happiness lation of the most necessary basic knowl be received only by revelation! It has and find it. Li fe will be continuously edge otherwise inaccessible to the mind always been accessible. Yet Science and interesting. comfortable, invigorating. of man-even the great minds! It is the modern Education gropes hopeless ly in How will this be brought about ' By FOUNDATION of all knowledge, and the the dark, seardling. researching, specu- a universal Education that will banish J une, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 45 ignorance, and teach these basics utterl y size of Noah's Ark because they have ..." The number of Genesis "kinds" om itted from today's education. And by never fi gured out its capacity based on were so few that Adam was able to the divine GOVERNMENT of the living the measurements given in your Bible! easi ly give them each a name that day! Christ, whose Law and Authority is Bible commentators do not all agree This, in itself, tells us that the original rebelled against today. as to the speci fic size of the cubit used Genesis "kinds" were relatively few in This basic FOUNDATION of all knowl~ in building the Ark. Some suggest the number. edge and right Education has always 18-inch cubit, others a 21-inch ulbit. With regard to the animals-the been accessible. But the great and near~ On the basis of a 21~inch cubit, Bible definition of "Genesis kind" is g[eat~the best minds-swayed by van Petol/bers Bible Dictionary states; "The much broader than the clever evolut i on~ ity, greed, and carnali ty, have spurned, ark would be 525 feet in length, 87 feet ary concept of "species." The "Genesis re jected, and foolish ly ridiculed it. Am 6 inches in breadth and 52 feet 6 inches kind" more nearl y equates with the bassador Coll eges are pioneering in the in height" (page 463). Some have biological definition of a "genus." Educational System of the WORLD TO calculated the displacement of the Ark Notice the facts presented in The MORROW. And a foretaste of that peace, would have been between 40,000 and Gellesis Flood, pages 67, 69: "It is happiness, and abundant wel l ~be i ng is 50,000 tons ' It would have been the llJlUJfl'Tal1ted to insist that all the li terally radiated by Ambassador stu height of a 45 -story bw lding if it stood present species, not to mention all the dents. on end. varieties and subvarieties, were repre This basic FOUNDATION of all knowl Comparing this to the largest, most sented in the Ark. ..." edge is not rejected or ridiculed at Am modern luxury li ners of today, the Ark Remember, God is a practical God! bassador - its acceptance forms the may well have been LARGER than P&O God's instructions to Noah (Gen. 6:14- FOUNDATIONAL POLlCY of these pio Orient Line's Canberra, whi ch has a 16), were very simple and left a lot neering far-advanced institutions of displacement of only 45,000 tons gross! of planning on Noah's shoulders. Noah right learning ! But there was an older He apparently already had some experience Interested prospective students should brew cubit about 25" long. The in building large ocean-going ships. write immediately for the College BuJ~ Hebrew cubit lI sed here wou ld have With regard to adequate supplies of leti n for the two colleges in the United made the Ark over 600 feet long, 100 food and potable water (Gen. 6:21), States. Students from the British Isles, feet wide, and 60 feet high ! No small Noah had received instructions from Europe, South Africa and Australia size ! Its three decks (Gen. 6: l6) would God. Eggs, for example, may have should request the College Prospectus, have contained an area of about 38 been obtained from many bi rds, with appli cation forms, for the col lege standard coll ege basketball courts! Its milk from the cattle and goats, fresh in England. volume would have been 3,600,000 meat from a variety of sources. And To write the English campus, address: cubic feet! This is the carrying capacity Noah could eas ily have stored fres h The Registrar, Ambassador Coll ege: equal to 25 trains-each olle 52 f1'e;ght water in advance. Bricket Wood, St. Albans, Herts., En cars long.' The Ark had this tremendous Remember also that God indicated gland. For the U. S. co llege, address The carrying capacity. Many think of the that plant life was re-established Registrar, Ambassador Coll ege, Pasa Ark as a small vessel-not rea,lizing how quickly after the Flood (Gen. 8: ll), dena, California. LARG E it reaIIy was. and that Noah himself planted a vine~ For the discernjng student, admit And now, how many animals were on yard (Gen. 9:20-2l), indicating he had tance to one of the Ambassador Co lleges the Ark' Notice that God told Noah taken on the Ark grains and cuttings would represent the opportunity of a there would be one male and one female which couJd germinate 'with alitivation. lifetime. Based on the right iOl/lldtltiollJ of each IInciean "kind" of an ima l and Most of those who scoff at the rec these co ll eges are alone in making pos seven pa irs of each cieall "kind" of ord of the Flood have never bothered sible a true education in a wo rl d of h a l f~ animal on the Ark (Gen. 7:2, l4). to approach the problem as the truth and confusion. We need to understand that when the Bereans did, willing to prove with an Bible speaks of a "ki nd" of animal, it open mind "whether those things is 1101 speaking of what a scientist calls were so. JJ a "specIes." Had Noah ever asswned the task (Contin/led f!'Om page 8) For a Bibli cal proof of this fact, turn was impossible, and had not worked They conceive of Noah as a sort of to Genesis 2: 19-20. Notice a very im for 120 years to accomplish it-where bearded hermit who had little or no portant point: "And out of the ground would you be today? education, and certainly must not have the Lord God formed every beast of the The simple facts PROVE the task was had proper tools to build a ship as field, and every fow l of the air; and not impossible, and that Noah suc large as the Ark. He may not have had brought them unto Adam to see what ceeded as the Bible records. If you gasoline ~ powered saws, hydrau lic lifts, he would call them: and whatsoever would like more information on how rivet guns and micrometers. But to Adam called every Eving creature, that to prove the Bible is God's inspired assume that Noah had no na il s, bolts, was the name thereof. And Adam gave Word for mankind, write in immediate saws, axes and hammers is simply naIve. names to alt cattle, and to the fowl of ly for the free booklet, The Proof of Most fai l to grasp the tremendous the ai r, and to every beast of the field the Bible. 46 The PLAIN TRUTH June, 1966 would be very happy if you would send tians are supposed to OBEY God, be Wfat- our the following pamph lets: Proof of the righteous, and STOP SINNING! Bible and The Plain Tmth Abont God's Law STANDS! It is SIN wh ich READERS SAY Child Care, l! must be abolished-done away-and Student, Superior, Wisconsin nailed to the cross! SIN, transgression (Continued from inside front cover) • With great pleasure. of Law, is wh at separates one from instruction is eliminated from our cur GOD ! ricula ... J esus a Jew True Christian LOVE Your prompt attention to this re "You say Christ was a Jew. You are Yet, some will tell you that they wish quest will be appreciated. as wrong as you can be. No welJ to serve God out of love-not out of a Yours very truly, informed Christian would make such a guilt-ridden, fearful terror of the conse E. Moses Frye statement." quences of disobedience to Law. Legal Counsel Man, Long Beach, California Such people do not even understand Doubts • Well-how's Heb. 7:14 for a start, WHAT the love of God IS! " I am a high school girl. My father "For it is evident 01/1' Lord sp'l'ang alit Do you? of ] UDA"? Read who it UJa s Peter ad is a minister of a ... church, and I They seem to think love is but a dressed in Acts 2, and find how IIHe am a Christian, although you'd never sentimental emotion welling up in the [Christ] came /·01to HIS OWN" (John know it. Believe it or not, we haye heart-a "sticky" kind of sentiment. doubts too. Upon this explanation, I 1:11) and THINK! But what IS the love of God? Here's the B IBL E answer! The apos tle John explains it: " For THIS is the The New Testament Teaching on love of God, that we keep H IS COM MAND MENTS: and his commandments LAW AND GRACE are NOT grievous" (I John 5:3). Plain (Continued from page 31) and simple! Love is manifested th rough OB EDIENCE to God's Law! Love flows have more grace to cover their sins? Notice! T his has to do with SIN th rough the channels of the Law of Paul himself answers this shocking having POWER over a person! When God, like waters flow down a riverbed question, "GOD FO RBID. How shall we, does sin-or the penalty of sin-have and into the ocean. that are dead to sin, live any longer POWER over a person? WHEN HE HAS Paul expressed the same truth . H e therein?" (Rom. 6:2.) There is your BROKEN THE LAW! T ransgressors of wrote, "LOVE worketh no ill to h is thundering answer! God does NOT save the Law are in a state of condemnation neighbor: therefore LOVE IS THE FUL us ''IN our sins"- rather, H e saves us -doom-awaiting DEATH! Sin holds FILLING OF THE LAW" (Rom. 13:10). FROM our sins! them captive! In the preceding verse, Paul lists a few As Christians, we are to reckon our True Christians are not UNDER the of the T en Commandments, and shows selves DEAD to sin (verse 11). Paul penalty of Law-in other words, the how they are BASED ON LOVE-love for plainly says, "Let NOT sin [command LAW is not hanging over their heads God and love for neighbor. Love KEEPS ment-breaking] therefore reign in your CONDEMNING them. T hey are 110/ tinder those commandments. Love does NOT mortal body, that ye should obey it in the PENALTY OF THE LAW! abolish, but FULFI LLs-that is, fi lls the lusts thereof" (verse 12). Lawless W hy NOT' f1l1l , up to the brim-God's Law I ness is NOT to reign over true Chris Because true Christians are "UNDER God's Law defines the kind of love we tians! We are to be laW-ABIDING people! GRACE "- that is, they have received the should have I We are commanded NOT to yield our grace, the mercy, the unmerited pardon M inisters or teachers who ignore and selves as instruments of evil, sin, or of GOD for thei r sins, through the attempt to do away with God's Law, law-breaking (verse 13). Rather, we are sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who DI ED FOR then, do NOT have the love of God! The to be instruments of RIGHTEOUSNESS them! T heir SINS have been pardoned very love they profess, they REJECT (same verse) . And, what is righteous - forgiven- washed away! because they reject the Commandments ness? Remember? Read it again in A Christian, then, is like a murderer of God which EXPRESS that very love! Psalm 119:172-" . .. for ALL THY on death's row who has received a li W hat deception ! What self-contra COMMANDMENTS are 1"ighteollSness .' PARDON from the state governor. He diction! Now we come to verse 14, "For has received GRACE. He is no longer in " Law OR G race"? SINH-that is, again, commandment a state of condemnation, under the breaking-"shall NOT have dominion," penalty of the law, the law claiming h is Let's set it straight, once and for all ! or rule, control, "over you." WHY? life, awaiting his final EXECUTION! The truth is plain. It does not require a W hy doesn't sin have POWER over true Isn't that plain? genius to understand the Word of God. Christians, as in the case of other peo This verse in Romans, then, in NO It is SIMPLE, easy to understand. But pIe? Paul continues, "for ye are not way does away with God's Law. Rather, sometimes previous false conceptions UNDER the law, but under grace." this whole CHAPTER shows that Chris- and erroneous ideas stand in the way June, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 47 and effectively block truth from enter surrender to His authority, and OBEY knowledge of the LAW of God will be ing a person's mind. the spiritual Law which He ordained held accountable for it. It is precious ! Those who have MIsunderstood the from the beginning for our GOOD! It is priceless! And God does not expect subject of law and g race need to get God's grace removes the death penal it to be treated with disdain. the spiritual "cobwebs" out of their ty from us. But we are NOT free to go With the knowledge of God's truth minds. They need to strive to approach out and SIN, commit idolatry, steal, comes the sincere obligation to OBEY the subject with an OPEN , i..lOprejudiced murder, profane the time God made that truth-or have to face Almighty mind. They need to have the moral and holy, or break any of the other com God in the judgment and fully explain spiritual COURAGE to admit the truth mandments of God! why you did not. when they see it proven before their Isn't this clear? How could you answer? very eyes. Grace is NOT contrary to Law. Rather, What could you say' Few, sadly, are really WILLI NG ! grace is the interposition of the mercy What does God say will happen to They all too often are will ingly de of God in regard to the death penalty those who trample all over His holy ceived. They are adamant. T hey are which we WERE under. Grace merely re Law? What will be their FATE? firm. They are convinced, and no moves the DOOM or condemnation Jesus Himself warned, " H owbeit in amount of logic or reasoning or scrip which we were under. Now, to remain VAIN do they worship me"-some even ture wiIJ cause them to change their in God's grace, we must OBEY God's WORSHIP Christ in vain-"teaching for minds. They are set in their ways. They Law th rough the help and power of doctrines the commandments of MEN." are confused with error, and their H is H oly Spiri t I He went on, "For laying aside the minds are like concrete-all mixed up, Perhaps this knowledge is new, even commandment of God, ye hold the tradi and permanently set. strange to you, if you've never heard tion of men ... " (Mark 7:7-8). WHAT ABOUT YOu? it before. T hose who LAY ASIDE the command Are you willing to accept, and ding, There is NO CONFLICT WHATSOEVER ments of God are li terally worshiping to God's TRUTH? Do YOU tremble be between God's Law and the grace of Christ IN VAIN! That is what Jesus fore the very Word of God, and FEAR God! It is not a question of " Law or plainly said! to misinterpret, and misapply Scrip grace." Without Law there wou ld be no And H e said further, "Not everyone ture? Are YOU willing to repent, and need of grace, Law and grace go together that saith unto me, Lord) Lord, shall OBEY God, when you see you have been like hand in glove. One is DEAD with enter into the kingdom of heaven; but in error? out the other. One is useless without he that DOETH THE WI LL of my Father Understand this! the other. wh ich is in heaven" (Mat. 7:2 1). The LAW of God defines RIGHT Law, apart from God's grace, is im What about those who reject God's from WRONG. It tells us what to do and possible for men to keep perf HE POST-WAR American dream of Europe have deadened West European Other deals have moved out of the T a great "Atlantic Community" is fears of an attack from the East. realm of speculation. Montecatini, a dead. Even no less a person than former huge Italian chemical complex, is build U. S. leaders are concerned. West German Chancellor Konrad Ade ing six chemical plants in the USSR. Despite bi ll ions of dollars in mili nauer expressed recently (for foreign Other ltalian concerns are supplying tary and economic aid, a flew ami-U. S. consumption) the possibi lity that Rus to the Soviet Union complete textile balance of power is suddenly develop sians have oo\v "joined the ranks of and synthetic. fiber factories. ing in Europe. those who want peace." Soviet Russia needs Western help in H ere's what's happening! Warnings from Washington are ga completing her lalest five-yea r plan I ng un heeded. and her "new friends" in Western U. S. "On the Outside" Europe realize this. More deals: The Mad Rush to Trade Two precedent-shattering evenls point The French arc helping the Soviets the way to a coming "new era" 10 Almost all of the nations of W estern in their new color te levision set-up. Europe: Europe are scrambling as fast as they Fra nce may also launch a research satel 1-Italy and Russia recently signed can to trade with the Communists. The lite aboard a Russian rocket in the near a far-readling trade agreement. Tn the "Iron Curtain" is slmvly coming dm-vn future. wake of this, the Soviets announced the under the weight of lucrative trade The British are laying a natural gas purchase of an entire automobile plant proposals from the Red World. T he pipeline in Southern Russia. The Jap from Italy's giant Fiat corporation. Fiat deal is only one example. A ver anese a re busi ly assisting the industrial W hen assembled, the plant will pro itable Russian "gold rush" has begun. development of the huge Siberian re duce 2,000 cars a day. The mammoth Renault of France is seeking to du gIOn. $800,000,000 contract represents the plicate the Fiat deal \vith its own gen Meanwhile, West German industrial biggest international automotive deal in erous offer. British Motors wants to set ists are quietly mounting their own eco history. It is the largest cOlllracl ever up a plant in Rumania to supply all of nomic "Orang nach Osten" - drive to given a Pl'iV(lle company by the Soviel the Eastern-bloc nations. the East. The Federal Republic has be- Unio1l . 2-Russian Foreign Minister Andrei So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (right) and Italian Foreign Minister Gromyko's recent visit to Pope Paul VI Amintore Fonfani at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rom e, prior to start of their in Rome was another first. No hi gh official political and economic talks. Wide World Pilato ranking Communist official had ever visited a Roman Pontiff before. T he meeting was top secret. But Vatican sou rces revealed afterward th at Gromyko discussed with the Pope his proposal for an all-European "summit" conference- a meeting which would exclude United Slales parlicipatioll. T he United States finds itself in creasingly "on the outside looking in" in Europe. T he U. S.-forged NAT O A ll iance, conceived of as a bulwark aga inst Communist aggression, is crum bling. Twenty-one years of "peace" in come Czechoslovakia's largest trade stone of Russian foreign pol icy is never Anothe r Russ Goal partner. And- thanks to newly passed to fight a two-from 1Va,..' The Soviet Union is also slow ly legislation- Bonn may soon double its Foretold Long Ago achi ev ing another major long-sought annual trade with East Germany, zoom The Bible amazingly fo retold this objective- a firm foothold in the Mid it up to one billion dollars. sweeping change in Europe. dle East. And agam, circumstances West German industry is currently in A final end-time revival of the old couldn't be more favorable. a minor slump. Increased offers from Roman Empire is prophesied to emerge In this area, another U. S.-engen the East look extremely in viti ng. in Europe. This last revival of the dered military pact- CENTO-is fall ancient Roman Empire wi ll be an ing apart. Key members in this all iance Why All This Feverish economic and a political union. God surrounding Russia's soft underbelly Activity? labe ls it ·· Babylon the Great" in the Iran, Turkey and Pak istan- are shedding thei r fears of Russia with a speed Where is it all head ing? seve nteenth and eighteenth chapters of the Book of Revelation. Tn the co rre that almost matches that of the West No recent series of events could sponding Old Testament prophecies of Europeans. possibly please the Russ ians any more. Isaiah 23 and Ezekiel 27 this prophe Trade prospects again are a key The Kremlin leaders are taking full sied revival appears under the name factor. adva ntage of the gaping cracks in the of the powerful trading city of the Iran soon will get a Russian-bui lt NATO wall. For years they have tried ancient wodd-Tyre. steel mill. In return the Iranians have on their own to break up the powerful Who are some of the nations prophe agreed to construct a major natural gas anti-Sovi et all iance. Now De Gaulle is sied to be trading with this coming pipeline to the USSR. doing it for them. (The latest French European co lossus? Notice Ezekiel The Turks are dickering for an gam bit is to "rev iew" all fli ghts of 27: l3: aluminum smelter, a big dam on the NATO aircraft over French soil on a "Javan, Yllbal, and Meshech, they Aras River and even vodka refineries. month-to-month basis. A possible closure were thy merchants ... " The latter two Pakistan is also being wooed. Her of French airspace would be enormously peoples are the two main divisions of historic fears of a Red invasion through disruptive. ) the Great Russians today. The name the strategic Khyber Pass are being De Gaulle has made final phns to Tubal has been preserved almost un dimmed by new offers of ai d. Soviet visit Moscow June 20. All Europe will changed down through the centuries. hopes of moving south to the warm be watching. And no one will be watch Just east of the Ural Mountains we weather ports of the Persian Gulf and ing more closely than the Germans. T his find today the T obol River and the the Indian Ocean look better than ever. is exactly what the RlISsict1ls want! city of Tobolsk. And Meshed, ' Many But this is not all. They fear Germany's growing economic scholars admit this word has been pre The Russians are driving hard er than and military strength. They are greatly served in the name of the nation's ever for a dominant position in the distu rbed by their arch-rival's intensi capital , Moscow. very heart of the Middle East-the fyin g pressure on the U. S. for nuclear But thi s period of "togetherness" is region of Palesti ne. capabi lity. not destined to last! A dangerously leftist government has A Soviet rapprochement with France Just as God is going to allow the just taken over in Syria. The top Com is not nearly so important to Moscow revived Fascist-dominated West Euro mun ist In the Arab wo rl d-Syria's as an easi ng of tensions with Germany. pea n bloc to punish the nations of Khaled Bagdash-has returned after As one political expert said, "The Great Britai n and the United States years of exile. New Syrian Premier Ru ssians wi ll undoubtedly see to it that because of our mounting national sins, Youssef Zouayen also returned to Da hints are dropped in Germany that [any He will allow the Communist world to mascus from a two-week trip to the agreement with France] is at Germany's double-cross Europe at a time it least USSR and Bulgaria. He obviously expense and that it might be well for expects. didn't spend hi s time playing chess ! Germany to foresta ll De Gaulle There will most likely be a replay of As this article goes to press, Soviet by making her own temu with Russia the notorious, short- lived Russo-Ger Premier Kosygin is making a very im ... The Kremlin has never forgotten man non·aggression pact of 1939. Just portant visit to Nasser's Egypt. It is Rapallo"-the surprising Russian-Ger as that treacherous treaty immediately rumored that the Russian navy wants man fri endship pact in 1922. preceded- al1d laid the groundwork tor increased use of UAR port facil ities. This is why the Russ ians are "turn - World War II, a future pact or The quickening pace of events is ing on the charm ;" why they are offer- agreement between W estern Europe and setti ng the stage for the prophesied 109 fantastic trade inducements to the Communists could we ll be the fore entrance of the "men of the east" into democratic Europe; why they want runner of a third world conflict. this vital region. You can find it fore American power out of the continent; To read in exact detail how this all told in the twenty-fifth chapter of why they are befriendi ng their old will turn out, write for ou r free book Ezekiel. enemies in the W est in order to con let, 1975 ill Prophecy. You need to Finall y, keep your eyes open. Watch centrate more on the new "bad boy" of understand the amazing events that will the BIG NEWS unfolding in Europe and the East-Red China. The very corner~ unfold in the next few short years. the M id dle East. IN THIS ISSUE: "II II a.~ CD ~ ... ~ CD s· • "'"II i ~~~ * EXTRA I Soviets Propose Non-Aggression Pact! a;_zo _ Russian Party Chief Brezhnev makes startling offer to West· 3-;J_. c ern Europe. History is repeating itself! See page 2. II ... -'CI :z: -$ * TURKEY IN PROPHECY Tur! * WHAT ALL HUSBANDS NEED TO KNOWI Just HOW FAR does the husband's authority extend? How should a real MAN act toward his wife? See page 9. * GERMAN NATIONALISM RISES AGAIN! A NEW political party has appeared in West Germany. Yet it is not new. It is an old party in new garb. Read how the spirit of German nationalism is spreading and where it will lead. See page 17. * The New Testament Teaching on LAW AND GRACE No question excites more controversy among professing r Christians! Are the Ten Commandments abolished? Does Grace do away with the Law? Here is what your Bible says the plain teaching of your New Testament! See page 25. * THE BIBLE STORY Chapter Ninety·two. David's Faith Wavers. See page 33. * PROPHECY COMES ALIVE IN TODAY'S WORLD NEWS See page 48.