Prophecy- No L!Jnger a Dirty Word . The INCREDIBLE .HU AN POTENTIAL . How liberated Can You Get? .. Who Will feed .Ihe Hungry Millillls? ======~II@iili))~If\!J)~11'i\

Hi's is the 41 st anniversary number of the , Plain Truth. The previous format was used Personal from ... , for forty years! During that time, the Plain Truth grew from a small-circulation mimeo­ graphed " magazine" to one of the finest full­ color magazine's ever printed, in excess of 3,000,000 copies circulation. Fantastic changes have taken place in the world during that 40 years. Many proud mass­ circulation magazines in the United States were forced to cease publication - among-them the Saturday Evening Post. Life, and Look. While they were going to the wall, the Plain Truth con­ t inued growing in circulation, increasing in num­ 41s1 AnniverSary Issue ber of pages , improving in quality and appearance. the world's great religions, the intellectual in­ Is it possible that even the BEST MINDS, being The time has come when the editors of the stitutions of higher learning, and· great govern­ deceived, have REJECTED or ignored the right an­ Plain Truth feel we must produce a less costly ments. swers and the TRUTH? type of magazine, in keeping with the times, but And yet modern science cannot find the AN­ The true ANSWERS do exist. But they have TWICE as often and with increasing circulation - SWERS nor solve our fatal problems. All religion not been given by religion. Science has never reaching more people more often. has failed utterly to make this a better, happier discovered them . Higher education has never With this 41 st anniversary number, I per­ world or show us the way to world peace. Higher known nor taught them. And they are even fur­ sonally start my second forty years as its Editor­ education, intent on constant knowledge produc­ ther from the field of politics and human govern­ in-Chief. tion, does not know and cannot teach us the ment. And beginning with this second forty, I start, answers! Governments, supposed to be the ben­ Forty-eight years ago I was challenged - serially, what I believe to be one of the most efactors of their peoples, are more and more both on a point in religion and on the theory of important books ever written. being overthrown, because dissenters conclude evolution. I was then certainly a " biblical illiter­ Today we .are heading straight into the intol­ that they have failed. ate." But this dual intensive research took me not erable paradox of a world-cataclysmic collision What is wrong? Where are the answers? only into the writings of Darwin, Haeckel, Huxley course: Could this whole world have been DECEIVED] On the one hand, the human mind has (Continued on page " . col. 1) proved so superbly capable that it can produce the incredible computer and send men safely to the moon and back, among other marvels. But on the other hand, the same human mind has proved utterly HELPLESS before our human problems, troubles and evils here on earth . Human leaders for six thousand years have striven in vain to bring about world peace. But at the sa me t ime science, technology and indus­ try have produced nuclear and other awesome weapons capable of blasting all life off the ea rth. And this will happen - unless supernatural intervention prevents it . Today more than HALF of all humanity is illiterate or nearly so, existing in abject poverty and starvation, wracked with disease. living in filth and squalor. I want to ask my readers, does this unthink­ able paradox of ' human greatness and human impotence make sense to you? This world is hurtling head-on with increas­ ing momentum toward the final blast of human exti netian! The world has produced modern science,

Herbert W. Armstrong, left. is received by Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, center. Others, from left. are Stanley R. Rader; Diet member Yamashita; and Osamu Gotoh, Ambassador College Director of Asian Studies.

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WEEK ENDING FEB. 8, 1975 ======plain~/Nth 3 WHO Will fllO MIDEAST ON BRINK OF NEW WAR . Rumors of renewed fighting in the vola­ THI HUNGRY tile Middle East are causing anxiety in the industrialized Western world . by Dexter H. Faulkner WORLDWATCH- 4 Reporting from Armageddon With drought in Africa. food need for far more fertilizers. pesticides shortages in Bangladesh . and a 27-day and herbicides), two elements stand to News Editor Gene Hogberg discusses global grain re:;,erve - the lowest in 30 seriously discolor it. growing threat of atomic weapons in years - the world faces a food scarcity First of all, the world has become of unprecedented dimension and dangerously over-dependent upon the Mideast. duration. There is " a very real threat " United States and a mere handful of says American Senator Charles H . otherfood exporting nations. Then Percy, Republican of Illinois, " of a there is the second, all important yet 6 worldwide food crisis far exceeding in many times overlooked element - the impact the energy crisis." weather. With all the modern The world has now come to the place technology and dogged determination THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL. •• where " 50 million people. perhaps to produce bumper crops, man is still The Missing Dimension in Knowledge more, could perish from famine" in a very much at the mercy of the weather. single year. So says Nobel Prize winning Weather can either be the ace or the The first installment of a new and illumi­ agronomist Norman Borlaug . joker in the deck of cards when it comes nating book by Herbert W . Armstrong . World food authority lester Brown of to production. the Overseas Development Council adds Only last year the worst weather in that the world has entered into a period three decades plagued the United 7 of more or less chronic food scarcity. States - excessive rains, drought, then How Liberated Can You Get? The soa ring demand for food, he early frost. The bad weather cut into the stresses, has begun to overrun the expected 1974 U .S. harvest by 7% to Can one successfully look into the production capacity of the world's 8%. The falloff was unfortunately Women's Movement and not become farmers and fishermen. timed. It came when American food "ms.merized" by emotional battle cries? Population growth is putting 70 to 75 reserves already were at the lowest in a million more mouths to feed on the quarter of a century, planet earth yearly. about 200.000 Weather experts warn that more 8 each day. These figures translate into a climatological upsets could be in the PROPHECY­ demand for millions of extra tons of offing this year. Some fear that the grain each ye~r . agricultural boom-years of the past two No Longer a Dirty Word If the problem of worldwide famine is decades are over and that long-term Forecasting the future has become seri­ to be dealt with - at least on a short­ disfavorable climatic changes are ous business, and prophecy is now a term basis - American agriculture will occurring around the earth. So once have to playa major role . The United again the question must be asked: "Can respected scientific tool of the Establish- States remains the chief producer, and the U .S. provide?" Or will the crushing ment. more importantly, the number one (and often thankless) task become the exporter of food and agricultural proverbial " Mission Impossible"? products in the world. Seven years ago in a book entitled 11 In recent years, American farmers Famine 19751 brothers William and IN BRIEF­ have produced around a fourth of the Paul Paddock warned that population A behind-the-scenes account of Herbert world 's combined wheat and corn crops growth would soon overtake the ability W . Armstrong's visits with dignitaries and three fourths of the world 's of the less-developed countries to feed soybeans. The United States has been themselves. The authors foresaw the and heads of state, by Stanley R. Rader. the largest cash exporter of these and United States. as the principal food­ other farm products and by far the surplus country, facing terrible choices largest single source of food aid. about which countries to feed . They 12 The big question now is: Can the suggested that the only realistic policy GARNER TED ARMSTRONG United States provide food in sufficient would be to do nothing for the SPEAKS OUT! amounts to make more than a mere hopelessly poor and overpopulated dent in what threatens to be a runaway countries. such as India, and The Deadly International Monetary Game, situation? concentrate only on those who might be as viewed by radio-TV commentator Late in 1974, the United States able to sustain themselves if they Garner Ted Armstrong . (See Radio-TV Department of Agriculture called on stopped their population growth. American farmers to " go all out" in a The crunch is that population rates Log, page 13.) drive toward full production to refill the have not trailed off since the book was nation's grain bins and pump more food written . In fact. India's rate has risen into the world's commodity pipeline. from 2.3% a decade agoto 2.6% now. 14 Based on preliminary estimates, The assessments of brothers Paddock USDA officials predict the 1975 wheat and Dr. Handler sound callous. They are crop will be a record 2 billion bushels, a not pretty. But they are cruelly realistic Orchids & Onions ten percent increase over '1974 and should shock a largely apathetic production. Yet, despite cautiously citizenry in the Western world still more Readers react by throwing their favorite optimistic predictions of an increased concerned about the price of food rather vegetation at the editors. U .S. food output (tainted as it is by the than its availability. 2 WEEK ENDING FEB. 8. 197: ======(j?>II@iifnl~tf\\J)~I~

ing recession. Economists generally are bewildered as to what 10 advise oil-importin g na ti ons in thei r pre­ Trouble Mideast on Brink 01 lew War dicament. The most common ly offered solution is to e ncourage the Arabs to invest. long lerm, in Along The Western natio ns. Threat of The key phrase is 10llg lerm. Eco­ th nomically sha ky nations such as 48 Parallel Total Embargo Italy or G reat Britain must borrow fo r long periods o f time in order 10 A rapid and rather sudden esca­ meet their import bills. They si m­ lation of economic disputes is Worries West ply do not h.lve the money to pay threatening the uni4uely harmo­ off th eir debls quickly. If th e ni o us relat ionship between the­ The shaky truce of the Middle money managers of th e oil-ri ch United States a nd Canada. Already East is undergoin g new strains. Not the two neigh bors who share the even the incredible Dr. Kissinger s tal e~ in vesl their capital only in world's longest peaceful border may be able to defuse the situa tio n. shorf.term bank accounts. which. in the main. is what they have been have traded several punches in a T he Israeli mili tary remains small-scale trade war. poised for any even tuality. Egy p· doing. then the money simply is It began in earnest in the su m ~ lian President Anwar Sadat warns not available to lend to borrowers fo r a longer period of time. mer of 1973 when President Nixon that the Middle East is a bomb froze-beef prices in an att em pt to ready to explode at any moment. Recycling. 10 be of any va lu e. necessit ates the type of investment curb domestic inflatio n. American Mr. Sadat's Foreign Ministe r Is­ whe reby the lende rs acq uire a producers evaded the ru ling by ex· mail Fabmy didn't do much ,to long- range stak e in the customer porting bee r to Canada. where it calm jittery nerves with hi s demand natio n, sll ch as in one o f it s major was sent back to the U.S. at a in December that Is rae l "m ust corporations. But herein li es the di­ hi gher price. sin ce the freeze did freeze its prescnt population and lemma: When Arab governments. not apply to imports. pledge not to increase the number The s ubseque n t glut of beef for example. reveal intended pla ns of its immigrants for 50 years." crossin g the border. however. un­ for long-range investme nt in West­ T he fuse of th e Mideast lime dermined the econo mics of the Ca­ ern industry. fears and suspicions bomb burned down CI few inches nadian cattle indus try. Ca nada come to the fo re. a nd host-country morc shortl y after the Fahmy dis­ subsequently closed its border to officials get excited. or a t least s u s~ closure when it was revea led. ac­ American cattle for five months on cording to an unnamed Arab piciolls. a technicality - until U.S. cattle source, that the Arab states have Wealth of Oil-Rich Witness the unsuccessful Arab could be guaranteed to be absolutely bid to invest $ 100 million in Amer­ decided to impose a total embargo (Col/ /i l/ued 011 page 5. col. /) on Western Europe and Japan as Nations Poses Dilemma ica's financially ailing Lockheed well as the United States in the Aircraft Corporation. Washington event of another war with Israel. Spiraling oil pri ces are bringing refuse to-even accept the battered looked unfavorably on that deal. The sources said thai the decision about an unprecedented transfer of pound in exchange fo r their black Note also the ge ne rally negati ve was reached in October at a secret we<1lth fr om the industrial worl d to gold. West German public reactio n to NEWSMAKER PROFILE session of the~' Arab summit meet­ the oi l-exporting nations. The pet­ The past year alone over $60 bil­ th e partial (15%) Arab purchase of ing in Rabat, Morocco. rodoll ar pile-up conjures up visions lio n poured into Arab colTe rs. The stock in th e automoti ve concern o f TakeoMiki­ The move is designed to in crease of Middle Eastern sheiks taking by-products of this monetary hoard Daimler-Benz. pressure on the United States to over General MOlOrs or IBM . own­ for the industrialized but o il-poor Arab fin a ncial sources viewed Japan's New force Israel 10 give in to Arab terri­ ing the New York Stock Exchange nations include such things as trau­ th e Lockheed deal as a test of how torial demands. to prevent Israel - or buyi ng England with pocket matic balance of payments upsets. much the U.S. was willine. to allow Man at the Helm from launching a first-strike blitz in money. except now the oil barons accelera ted inflation. and deepen- Arab investment. They found an a new war and to cripple Israel by obvious reluctance. cutting off U.S. weapons. Arthu r Burns. U.S. Federal Re­ During the Midd le East war la::.1 serve Board Chairman. has spoken year. the Arab producers CUI ofT fo r legislation to prevent Arab na­ direct oil supplies to the United tions from buying control of States. But Japan and Ellropc. with "strategic" American industries. the exception of the Netherlands. "Foreign investment of any kind were affected {mly by a percentage in some of our st rategic enterpri ses cut in production. In a total em­ would concern me." he said . But bargo. European and Japanese in­ putt ing money in a non-strategic dustry would grind to a halt in a concern (such as Quaker O'ltS. Mr. maller of days without Arab oil. Burns suggested) would CitllSe no The theory 0'1' the proposed shut­ concern. Arab sources. however. off is that the United States would believe thaI the "Quaker Oats" ap­ be forced. under an oil-sharing proach will only discourage inves t­ agreement. to divert m lIch or its ment. own domestic production to its al­ The indust r jali~ed Western ni.l­ lies to prevent a general economic tions. therefore. find themselves in A se nior member of Japan's collapse. a terrible fix with the key question Diet. sixty-seven-year-old Takeo Thus the ultimate question being: How much a re they willing Miki. has assumed the post as J a~ every nation now slumped over to let the oil producers control pan's twe lfth postwar premier. the Arab oil barrel must face is "stra tegic industri es" in order to Miki (pronounced mec-key) was this: What would it do if another defuse the latent threat to the en­ se lected by hi s party late last year oil embargo or a huge price in­ tire world economy the ve nting to replace Kakuei Tanaka who re­ crease pushed ilS economy lO th e petrodollar volca no represents? signed in November in th e wake of wall of utter ruin? If Arab investors a re turned ofr an alleged financial scandal and WelL it has now "officially" been from making subs tant ia l a nd low rati ngs (16%) in th c popularity made clear to the Mide<1stern o il worthwhile purchases. it is certain polls. powers that'military.seizure of their they will continue to keep their Mr. Miki. considered a "progres­ oil fields is" far from out of the money in short-term bank ac­ sive" and a reformer. W

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MIKI - (Continued from page J) ART BUCHWALD "No, it doesn·t. It means that Japan sin(.;c 1948. Both men arc both sides may keep th e swords leaders of major factions within the Ih ey now have (a nd increase thcir L.O.P. spear carriers to 2.400. Tht! Phil is­ Born on March 17, 1907. on Ja­ lines. as you kn ow. have superiority WarldlftlillBIa pan's small est island of Shikoku. 2600 years in the we ight of th eir spears. but Miki was the only son of a rural. our th rowers arc twice as accu rate. by Gene H . Hogberg middle-class fert il izer merchant. before We have marc than enough to rc­ Unlike most of his predecessors in pulse any first-strike attack. but the premier's office. he d id not at­ Vladivostok we're still weak in conventional REPORTING FROM ARMAGEDDON ... tend a prestige schooL bUI he en­ weapons such as sticks and large While warming up the early-mo rning coffee the other day, I lered Tokyo's Meiji University in, stones." was performing my customary dial-twirl ing ri tua l - flipping back 1926. WASH INGTON - It is writte n "How can wc be sure that the Because of his visilS to the U.S. in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah Philistines will not put more Ih an a nd forth between NBC's Today Show a nd the C BS Morning News. (where he studied for four years) that the Lord promised the people. one head on their spears?" a scribe Television being the ulcer-ridden competitive market that it is, and Europe. it took him II years to ''They shall beat their swords into asked. the best s hows are a lways on at the same time. even news a nd plowshares and their spears into "While the treaty does not limit gel through the law school. He re­ special events - which makes a full-time news-watcher like myself pruning hooks: nation shall not lift the number of heads you can put ceived his law degree from Mciji in furious. 1937 and soon thereafter was up sword against na ti on. neither on a spear." th e king replied. ';t week." nuclear "pox" threatens to break out a ll over. Japan's pro-Arab stance. for which invest ment in research of rock­ "Sire. forgiv!.! Ill!.! for "cem closer to he is responsible in large measure throwing machines and armored any 1974. Now, Ali Bhulto, the president o f Arab-rival Pakistan claims donkeys. wh ich as you know a rt! peace with the: Philistines than we for creating. He is also in favor of that his truncated. impoverished cou ntry might be fo rced in to a closer ties with Pek in g and a more not covered by the trea ty. We can­ were beforc the plow'Ihure Ircuty. c rash program to develop a "devicc" or its own. active Japanese role in Asian re­ not allow our agreement with the CoulJ you Iell 1I:- what WI.! g:lincd gional affairs. Despite his pro­ Philistines to put us at a military from it?" France and Chi na continue their expe ns ive nuclear weapons Americanism. some experts feel hi s disadvantage." "The Phili s lin e~ havc ::Ign:cd to research-development-deployment programs. "Sire:' a nother sc ribe ~aid. "does buy all our wheat crops until 23 desire for a more independent for­ But it is in the extremely narrOw geographical and political the agreemen t mean that a ll swords B.C' 0 eign policy may put a strain o n confines of the Mideast wh ere nuclea r proliferation could have the Japanese-American relations. will be beaten in to plowshures and greatest impact o n the worl d. Is a frightened Israel actually in the Miki has also opposed large Jap­ all spears into pruning hooks?" anese military forces and has de­ process of developing " the bomb"? Will Egypt. despite U.S. assur~ fended the "no war" clause of the ances to the contrary. divert the plutonium rrom her promised U.S. Japanese constitution. He supports crisis becomes unmanageable. A presently not cons.it..lcred insur­ nuclear power plants into weapons production? Will the Soviets, leading U.S. " think tank" has been mountable. according to strategic the J apanese-American Mutual despite t he heady aura of d e tente, supply tactical nuclear weapons Security Treaty. commissionet..l to do a deep !o> tudy planner.. in the West. A glance at to certain or their Mideast a lli es? Premier Miki and his wife have as to how such intervention could the map shows most Persian Gulf three grown ch ildren. His wife, the be carried out. Ameri<:a n Army and oi l lics well within reach o f sea­ To make a ll of the above specu latio ns triply dangerous, we are former Mutsuko M o ri . is the Marinl.! units have stepped up based striking forces. The problem now treated to continua l rumors fro m many circles - always d esert warfare training. but on a of sabotage and harassing attacks daughter of the founder of the "categorically de ni cd ~' of cou rse - of fut ure military action against low profile basis .... by guerrilla raiders arc rel.Hively large prewar Mori industrial em­ the Middle East 'oil producers unless crude oil prices come down o r pire. Mme. Miki. who ca lls her Interestingly. little attempt is small dangers compared to th e in there is another e mbargo. husband "that man." has .not been being made to conceal thi~ growing unknown rcaction of the Soviet c~$e reluctant to publicly point out his line of thinking from fo reign in­ Union. Would the Russians inter­ How near are we, then. to the time of Armageddon, spoken of various eccentricities. "Unshelled telligence. It is hoped. in fa..:t. that vene with their own flotilla of naval in Revelation 16: 16 when all the major nations of the worl

might of Germany. Only Germany WORLD PRESS LOOKS AT••• has been able 10 hold its inflation fupope'$ rate t(l a ncar manageable level. Moreover. th e monetary reserves of al! eight other fEe members Europe's Plight added toge ther 'do not approach the formidable mass possessed by Inconclusive Summit The meeting oJ the nine European fincd. Whal emerges from the Bonn. by Ray Kosanke and Henry Sturcke leaders at the sllmmit in Paris in thinking of the European leaders is As a result of West Germany's early December provided a striking a looser. more flexible formation PARIS - Europe is not yet weak COUf!.C. is the key factor in the continual good showing. leadership demonstration oJ Western Europe's guided into a cohesive force by enough 10 unite. That's the rt:al gloumy economic picture. Yet, in within the Community is passing to political weakness. principles of self-interest and even message here at the conclusion of Pari!.. the Nine were unable to come the Bonn government almost by economic survival. " the summit conference of the nine Deterioration oJ worldwide eco­ lip with a meaningful united ap­ default. Clyde 11. Forns ..... orth. New York Times. member nation.') of the European proach toward the oil producing na­ Whi le Chance llor Helmut nomic conditions. shocks created by unilateral acrions oJ member na· December 13. /974 Economic Community. tions and vis-a-vis other major oil Schmidt did a remarkably tactful tions. sfllbbom nationalism within Having agreed beforehand not to consumers, most notably the U.S. job at· the Paris Summit in not flex­ Magic Glue Dried Up the EEC the near-bankrupt staIlls disagree during the conference. the In fact. in the twelve-page final ing German economic muscle. the "Those days when magic glue oJ Britain and lraly and filially the Nine produced a final commu­ commun ique released in Paris. voice of Germany could soon be­ existed to make. perhaps. a federal Arab oil embargo have Slopped the nique that covered safe ground and only 19 lines were devoted to the come the dominant one in Euro­ Europe are gone. Under M. G is­ progress oJthe Market in its tracks. stuck mainly to positive ge neral­ critical issue of energy. The strong- pean affairs if - or when - its card d'Estaing, France is trying. ities. But in no concrete manner Will ollly Ihe threat oJ complete with furious denials whenever the were the assembled heads of state breakdown at some Juture d(lfe Juse opin ion polls look particularly bad. able to come 10 grips with the real . the nations oJ Western Europe imo to bury the hatl;het with America. menace threatening Western Eu­ the ullity thei,. leaders claim is still The aspirations in Germany and rope - the dange r of a major eco­ their goal? Benelux for a united Europe of the nomic depression. Here are some commen,s On EII­ future. ahhough still passionately Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tin­ ropes pliglZl Jrom major European held by some. are now very shop demans - so far the most outspo­ and A merican news Sources. worn. Despite th e precise-looking ken on Europe's economic plight - commitments to direct elections to Adrift and Leaderless declared publicly that the disturb­ the European parliament. mone­ ing parallel with pre-World War II "The European political scene is tary and economic union. and so Europe could not be ignored. Yet a mosaic of weaknesses ... it is a on. this summit of the nine Euro­ despite the se ri ousness of their eco­ Conlinent adrift. in peril. and with­ pean community members put th e nomic plight. the present govern­ out a leader. Manifestly dissat­ stamp on thc idea that Europe will ments are not yet under sufficient isfied. the European electorate has remain a loose confederation of pressure to lay aside pe t national constructed a vicious political nation states:' projects and parochial interests lO circle. It elccts governments that The EcononllSt. London December /4. approach their numerous problems are either so weak or so fragmented 1974 on a common level. that the leaders must exhaust th eir Supranational Character At the conference relatively UI1- energies in sheer survival. with nei­ Eroded th er authority nor power to handle important s ide iss ues occupied "Time and again EEe Commis­ basic problems." much of the delegates' time. Lip President Giscard d'£staing of France plays host to fellow Common sion President Walter Hallstein. J . Roherl SchaelZel. Jormer U.S. Am· service was paid to vague. far-ofr Market heads of state in Paris. and his successor Jean Rey of Bel ­ ideals such as a directly elected ha.\·.WI(Jor to the Europeal/ Commullities. New York Times. December 7. 1974 gium, reminded the world that the parliament by 1978. an economic est prosposal read: "The heads of government chooses to use it. EEC was not a mere trading bloc Overall, the Current scene in Eu­ and monetary union "some day." Government ... have invited the "Fundamentally Sick" but a political enterprise destined and even a common European rope reveals a rudderless continenl Community Institutions to work to change Ihe face of Europe. But passport. moving off into the unknown afier " Europe is in a profound crisis. out and to implement a common since their departure. the supra­ While these minor accomplish­ energy policy in the shortest pos­ a summit conference that was for This crisis will not be resolved in two days at a summit conference. national character of the commu­ ments are perhaps substantive in sible time:' This sounds fine except the most part reluctantly and nity has been so eroded that the unenthusiastically held. What is Europe is sick. and she is funda­ times of economic stability. they it's what was said at the fruitless current president of the commis­ border on meaninglessness in Eu­ still lacking is the idealism. dy­ mentally sick. For several years. Copenhagen Summit one year ago! sion, Francois-Xavier Ortoli. seems rope's present state of mounting An important undercurrent at namic leadership or direct action she has experi enced an economic and monetary crisis. On top of that. little more than the respected head ullemployment and inflation. this conference. sensed bllt not needed to confront the threatening of a vast and complex bureau­ The soaring cost of e nergy. of stated. was the growing economic realities of the moment. 0 there is now the oi l crisis. Each partner has reacted in its own way cracy." and according to its means. Each To the Point International. Noi'ember 2. /974 48TH PARALLEL - Accordingly. Ottawa is drawing one in a different direction. The (Colltillued from page J) Common Market is therefore sick. Selfish Nationalism up stricter policies regarding the Revived free of the growth hormone DES. limits of foreign investment. Will it be capable of surviving the Only recently Ottawa imposed Energy Minister Donald Mac­ crisis?" "The philosophy of the founding quotas on American ca ttle and beef Donald's decision to cut oil export.:; Maurice Co lIVe de MUrI,il/e. former fathers was that the creation of a Fref/ch Minister oj Culture. Le Monde. imports. The new move threatens to the U.S. is another move in the common market, with a ll that im ­ Paris. December 10, 1974 to restrict the amount of beef going same direction. Canadian oi l to the plies in the way of common eco­ nomic policies. would lead on to northward by . a~ much as 65 per­ U.S. will be reduced to 650.000 Old Concept of Unity Gone the inevitability of political union. cent of the 1973 level. The action barrels a day. down from the 1.1 "The Common Market still re­ In fact, this was an effective motive sent angry shockw<.lves throughout million barrels a day of last year. mains a loose confederation of so v­ force for the first ten years or so. the U.S. c~lIt l e industry already The supply will be cut off entirely ereign states groping toward unity. squeezed by inflation ilnd a slu g­ but recently it has been under­ by the end of 1982. President Ford But as many officials pointed out. gish domestic ma rk et, mined by inflation which has re­ tried in vain to persuade Prime the unity imagined in the past - an Under pressure from the cattle­ vived and sharpened the selfish. Minister Trudeau to extend the autonomous Europe with walls men. President Ford. after the fall every man fo r himself instincts of deadline. around it, assuming a role as a new 1974 elections, signed a retaliatory America imports about 16% of national governments." superstate - is no longer possible. The Guardian of Manchester. Decemher import measure restricting Cana* her oil from C

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The INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL ... , .. " . after a most amazing initial growth. may p r esen~ you as a t-R ~;~e virgin The Missing Dimension in Knowledge a great persecution SCI in against to Christ (the true ch~¢l.,"! in the God's church (Acts 8: I). At that resurrection, is to b~ ~_ n1h rrred to time. A.D. 33. this Simon the Christ, spiritually]. But..,.! fear, lest It's positively astounding! It has remained undiscovered by il}ducted into tilat olfice until the sorcere r had him self baptized by any means, as the : :S~Q:>ellt be~ science! No religion has revealed it! Higher education has never end of mankind's first 6.000 yea rs along with multitudes of others. He gllil ed Eve through hi s subtilty. so taught it! Is it possible the whole world has been deceived - on carth. then tried to buy an apostl eship in your minds should be '.c.0rrupted as to the awesome PURPOSE of human life - as to the'WAY to Nevertheless. Jesus proceeded God's church from th e apostles Pe­ from the simplicity that IS' in Christ. world peace and how it will come? And could it be true that the with the mission for which he had ter and John with money - but of For if he la minister of Simon come to earth at that time. He pro~ real gospel message Christ brought from heaven REVEALED course was refused and rebuked. Magus] that cometh preacheth an· this missing dimension - but was suppressed? This is the claimed his message and taught it Thereupon this Simon appro­ other Jesus. whcm we have not to his disciples. priated the NAME of Christ. calling preached. or if ye receive another eye~opening story of the real gospel message ofJesus Christ - Satan. however. still was in his Babylonian mystery religion of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole spirit [of rebellion and disdbedi­ power to sway the world. Even "Christianity." Satan swayed this encej which yc have not received. world deceived. though many of the Jews to whom man and used this instrumertt to o r alll!lher gospel. .. (I I Cor. I I: 2- Jesus preached believed 011 him as persecute and all but destroy .the 4). Morc. later. about the con­ PART I by Herbert W . Armstrong the promised Messiah. they were true church of God. Before the end nection with the deception of the swayed against believing his mes­ of the first cen tury - probably by fi rst woman, Eve. OES IT come as an astonishing only become confused. The TRUTH. sage - his gospel. A.D. 70, he managed to suppress But notice. they were proclaim­ D shock 10 learn thal Ine most indeed. is stranger th an any fiction! How did. and does. Salan de­ the message Christ had brought ing another Jesus - as well as an­ important dimension in all knowl­ Prepare yourself to read astounding ceive. move. and sway humanity? from God. other gospel - and they followed edge was sent by God the Father to truth - hard 10 be li eve. yet TRUE! The amazing answer will be given There ensued "the lost century" another spirit - of rebellion and this cartb by Jesus Christ - but that laler. in the history of the true church of not obedience. That deception has message was suppressed by those The Arch-Deceiver God. There was a well-organized continued through the centuries living in the very first century? Th'lI It is not intelleclllally fashion­ His Gospel Rejected cons pira~y to blot out all record of and is the state today. They took Jesus himself was put to death for able today to be lieve in the actual Notice how it happened. church hi story during that period. the NAME of Christt They called revealing it? That his apostles. wit h existence of a devil. Biblical revela­ In the 8th chapter of John. verses A hundred years later. history re­ their Babylonian religlon "Chr i s~ one possIble exception. wcre also tion explains this. 30 through 46. you will read: "As veals a "Christianity" utterly unlike tianity:" But th ey not only martyred for proclaiming it? Biblical propl,ecies say plainly he spake the:"e words, many be­ the church Christ founded. presented a counterfeit gospel but a Yet this message from the living that in our time. today. the W H OLE lieved on him. Then said Jesus to II had taken the NAME of Christ counterfeit spirit of self·centered~ God. if humanity had received and WORLD would be deceived. Notice those Jell's which believed on him. If and appli ed it to the Babylonian ness and a counterfeit Jesus. It is heeded it. would have saved this one such prophecy in the book of ye continue in my word. {his mes­ mystery religion. It had replaced suggested the reader request our world from nearly all of its trou­ Revelation. t.:hapter 12. verse 9: sagel then are ye my disciples in­ the MESSAGE Jesus brought from free booklet. The Real Jesus. bles. sufferings and evils. "And th e great dragon was .cast deed: and ye shall know the truth. God with a "gospel" about the per~ . . Of these false ministers. Paul The very word "gosper~ means out. that old serpent. catled the and the truth shall make you son of Christ - proclaiming the wrote further to the Corinthians: "good news." Tlwt message. when Devil. and Satan. II'hie" deceh'eth free.. . but ye seck to kill me, be~ messenger but suppressin g the en~ "For such are false apostles. deceit· fu/~r understood. reveals a human Ihe wilOl(' :l Vr/J." cause my lVord fhis gospel message] tire missing dimension from his ful workers. transforming them­ potenval so stupendous - so awe­ Thi:. Sat~n IS revealed as the hath no' place ill you. But now message. selves into the apostles of Christ. some - it appears at first to be arch-deceiver who has deceived the ye seek to k.ill me, a man that hath And for at least 181h ceflfuries the And no marvel; for Satan himselfis totally beyond belief! whole world. But how did he man­ told you the truth. which I have true gospel was not proclaimed 10 transformed into an angel of li ght. Th..at mess;:lge reveals facts about age to deceive the human race? heard of God .... for I proceeded the world. Therefore it is no great thing if his humanity: wlwl man is. the pur­ In Ihe third Chapter of Genesis forth and came from God: neither ministers also be transformed as the pose for' which mankind was put on he is shown as the deceiver of came I of myself. but he sent "Another Gospel" Gains n1in ·is"(ers ~df'" l tighle6t1s'iles5 ': .. " (fI earth. where we arc going. what is mother Eve. Through her, he me. .. And because I tell you the Acceptance Cor. II: 13- 15). . the way 10 world peaet!. happiness caused the first man. 'Adam, to truth.ye believe me not.. . And if I By about A.D. 58, when the and universal prosperity. what arc commit the first sin by a hun1an. say the truth. why do ye flol believe apostle Paul wrote his letter to th e Peter, John and Jude the true values. what is the awe­ When Jesus was born in Bethle· meT Galatians. many already were turn­ Expose Them ~orne human potential. and how hem. Satan was still here on earth In · due time. the Romans cruci­ ing to .t hi s now new counterfeit Peter wrote of these deceivers: may it be achieved. as the god of this world (II CQr. fied Jesus. But he rose from the "gospel." _ "But there were false prophets also Answers to these questions form 4:4). He is also the "prince of the dead and ascended into heaven. Paul wrote: "I marvel that ye are among the people. even as there the most important knowledge ever power of the air" (Eph.· 2:2). hold­ From there. he sent God's Holy so soon removed from him that shall be false teachers among you, made accessible to man. Yet mtln ing sway over the whole of .man­ Spi rit for his disciples. called you into the grace of Christ who pri'lily shall bring in dam­ spurned and rejected it. ki nd. C hrist's apost les went out. as he IIlItO allother gospel: which is not nable heresies .... And many shall . Christ' !) gospel message. when Christ's message revealed the ad­ commissioned them. to proclaim another [it was 1I0t good news): but fo ll ow their pernicious ways: by fully gr;:lsped. reveals what science vance news of the total abolition of his message to the world. God's there be some thai trouble you. and reason of whom the wa)' of truth has been utterly unable to discover. Satan's power over the world and church was raised up (A.D. 3 1) to would pervert the gospel of Christ" shall be evil spoken of And through It revcal ~ what religion in thi:. his banishment from the earth. It back the proclaiming of the mes­ (Gal. 1:6-7). covetous ness shall they with world knows nothing of. It revea ls revealed that Christ was coming as­ sage. The church began to grow. To the Thessalonians. about feigned words make merchandise what thi s world's higher education his successor to take over the RULE then caught "fire:' and multiplied. A.D. 54. Paul wwte. "For the mys­ ofyou .. ."( 11 Peler2:1-3). has never known or taught. of all nations. In Satan's mind. it Satan connived to set up a po\V~ tery of iniquity doth already John wrote of these same per­ It rcveab the most wonderful ' was necessary for him to go all out erful Gentile religious leader with work ... " ( 11 Thes. 2:7) It was the verters of the true gospel. denying TRUTH a human mind could ever to prevent that message frol11 going a counterfeit religion - the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. obedience to the way of God. "He cOllle to know! It reveals what I call to the world. Babylonian mystery religion. He started by this Simon the sorce rer that saith. I know him, and keepeth the missing dimension in knowl­ But how could he do it? hatched a counterfeit "gospel." He (Acts 8), a religion of iniquity - not his commandments . . is a liar, edge. lhe knowledge most vitally First. he moved to destroy the even appropriated the name of lawlessness - a religion rejecting and the truth is not in him" (I John llecessary to know. Christ chi ld and thus prevent his Christ. calling his religion "Chris­ th e law of God. Much more of this 2:4). "They went out from us, but It was the most monumental growing up to proelaim that mes­ tianity." later. they were not of us: for if they had guod news ever revealed by our sage. He influenced King Herod, That. I know. is a breath -tak in g been of us, they would no doubt Maker to mankind! Whr would the Roman provincial ruler over revelation. difficult today, 1900 The True and The False Church have continued with us" (I John men have wanted to reject'it - hate the land of Israel. and Herod years later. to believe. But none the In Revelation are pictured two 2: 19). it - put to death the messenger caused all infants in Bethlehem less. it is true! churches. each of which go under Jude warned us that we ·should who brought it? and surrounding arcas two years the NAME of Ch ri st. One. pictured " earnestly contend fo r the faith Yes, why.' old or under lO be put to death. But The Counterfeit "Gospel" in the 12th chapter. portrays the which was once delivered unto the The answer is that men we re DE· God warned Joseph and Mary, In Samaria. north of Jerusalem. true church of God. small in num· saints. For there are certain men CEIVEO! And all nations are de· moving them to flee to 'Egypt with li ved a Gentile people whom the ber. reduced through persecution crept in unawares, who were before ceived today! the infant Jesus until Herod was Jews of Christ's day spurned. call · and martyrdom. but obedient to of old ordainetl to this con­ The purpose of this article is to dead. ing them "dogs." They had been God's law. hated by Satan. The demnation. ungodly men. turning revealllow men were deceived and Again, when Jesus was about moved there from areas of the other, in the 17th chapter. called the grace of our God inlo lascivi~ to make plain WHAT that good thirty years o ld. Satan sought to Babylonian Empire about 700 B.C. "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the ousness {license to disobey]. news really was. And is. destroy him spirituall y before he by ShaImaneser of Assyria ( II Mother of Harlots and Abomina­ Likewise also these filthy dreamers NevertheJess: it was suppressed. qualified lO preach a word of his Kings 17: 18,2 1-24). They had tions of the Earth" (verse 5). In defile the flesh, despise dominion And that all-important revelation message. But the supreme tempta­ brought with them into th e land of other words. the Babylonian mys~ [government!, and speak evil of from the living God was not again tion with which Satan planned to Samaria their own Babylonian tcry religion steeped in " iniquity" dignities. . Woe unto them! for proclaimed to the world until our ensnare Jesus became the very lest mystery religion. In th e 8th chapter - abolishing God's law. they have gone in the-way of Cain. present century. which qualified Christ to depose of Acts yo u'll read of their religious During the time of Paul's minis­ and ran greedily afte~ the error of Even today. most of humanity . Satan and to become rul er over all leader in th e time of C hrist. Simon try. these same Simon Magus min· Balaam for reward. an

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by Robert L. Kuhn

en years ago you would have become culturally significant. Trig­ been labeled a nut, a crackpot. gered by the downfall of man's total T a charlatan, a weirdo - for so confidence in technocratic materi­ foolishly or naively dabbling at the alism, the past few years have wit­ edges of society. Today you could be nessed the strange and paradoxical a scientist, an economist, a psychol­ revival of widespread interest in the ogist, a theologian - a highly supernatural. respected member. qf your profes­ Both in parapsychology - the sion, investigating the forefront scientific study of ESP (extra-sensory of human knowledge. perception) - and in many reli­ You are a prophet. You predict the gious, quasi-religious and occult future. . groups, prophecy is having a pro­ gressively greater impact on the The Future Comes of Age general public. The future isn't what it used to be. In parapsychology the technical It has invaded the present. What will term precognition is used to descri be happen has suddenly become ter­ awareness of future events or situ­ ribly relevant to what is happening. ations by nonphysical means. Pre­ Though mankind has always been cognition is currently being interested in the future, never before seriously and intensively studied by has the future so seriously con­ trained investigators around the cerned all strata of society and so world. As a result. the number of dominated the present. scientists who believe that the A virtual tidal wave of future-ori­ human mind can nonphysically ap­ ented books' have flooded'the mar­ prehfind·the fU~u-fe ' lias 'been rapidly ket: computer simulations, growing. technological forecasts, scientific Though the general public is projections, socio-political pre­ largely unconcerned with these dictions, eeo-environmental extrap­ technical (and esoteric) studies in olations, innovative futuristic the sciences, economics and para­ approaches, wildly original concep­ psychology, public interest in proph­ tual ideas, trans~endental philo­ ecy is high. Increasing numbers of sophical musings, theological people gorge themselves with the speculations, and even science fic­ virtual smorgasbord of occult proph­ tion . ecy - mediums, ouija boards, tarot The approaches vary, but the ef­ cards, I Ching, the popular prophets fects are the same: human beings, like Edgar Cayce, Jean Dixon, etc., uncertain of their prospects in this and especially astrology. How many overpopulated, over-missiled world millions consult their daily horo­ of the last quarter of the twentieth scope can only be estimated - but century, have become obsessed it surely must exceed by many times with the future. ~ the number of those who read their In the past decade - really since ' Bibles. the late 1 960s - a steadily increas­ For such enormous appeal to ing public interest in the future has continue, one is tempted to con­ directly paralleled the advent of seri­ clude that there must really ous interest by professionals in be "something there" - and the widely diverse fields. Physical scien­ accuracy (albeit occasional) of oc­ tists are predicting what will happen cult prophecies does seem to tran­ to the earth's depleted resources; so­ scend the physical. cial scientists are predicting what [Note: Accuracy would not will happen to man's hypertense so­ make the occult" good," only real; ciety; economists are predicting and not everything real is good!] what will happen to man's stagnat­ Human beings have an innate de­ ing capacity to produce goods and sire to know the future. In our day, services. this desire has almost become an Forecasting the future has be­ obsession. come serious business - and prophecy is now a respected mem­ Prophecy in Religion ber of the Establishment. Many religious organizations have been quick to join the bandwagon. Parapsychology and the Occult Some of the " new" Eastern-oriented But it's not only in the traditional religions (really quite old) that have sciences that prophecy has suddenly recently invaded the West have

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! complex and frightening prophetic The last quarter of the twentieth ideas of the future (sometimes only century, as we approach the year fully known to insiders), often re­ 2000, will herald the greatest ava­ garding their own ultimate recogni­ lanche of prophetic statements, ut­ tion and supremacy. terances and proclamations that the Until recently, mainline Christian­ world has ever seen . As illogical and ity has largely (and ironically) ig­ irrational as it would have seemed to nored prophecy - when, according a " logical " and " rational " society a to its professed scriptures, it should few years ago, this is now coming to have been leading the pack with pass . To have then prophesied that continuous emphasis on prophecy prophecy itself would soon become as instructed by its claimed founder commonplace and eagerly accepted (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 , by our modern masses would have Revelation, etc.). sounded absurd . Yet prophecy now However, a growing segment of lives; it has been resurrected. fundamentalist and evangelical What about the current and soon­ Christianity has recently become coming prophecies themselves? more concerned about prophecy - Some will be partly right; most actually since 1967 when interest will be mostly wrong . To the con­ was substantially enhanced by the fusion of everybody, or almost Israeli capture of the old city of Jeru­ everybody. "For there shall arise sa lem in the Six-Day War. In the false Christs, and fa lse prophets, past seven years, a large number of and sha ll shew great signs and won­ books and magazines have been ders; insomuch that, if it were pos­ published regarding all facets of bib­ sible, they shall deceive the very lical prophecy. And even more re­ elect" (Matt. 24:24). cently, with the specter of Humanity's best minds have ad­ widespread massive famines. world­ vanced various themes to character­ wide economic catastrophe, and ize the last quarter of the twentieth Middle East geopolitics poi9nantly century: an energy crisis, an ecolog­ present in most people's daily con­ ical watershed, a population-food sciousness, biblical prophecy has crossover, a war-peace crossroads. taken on new significance. (Even They are all right. But incomplete. those people who vehemently reject Prophecy, and eventually religious the direct inspiration and l or the lit­ fanaticism on an unprecedented eral interpretation of the Bible are re­ worldwide scale, will dominate the luctantly being forced to admit that scene so completely that other world events ;n the last quarter of human events will become in­ the twentieth century will annoy­ significant in comparison. Long ingly make the Bible " seem" accu­ thought to be dying, religion in gen­ rate!) eral and prophecy in particular will Though interest in prophecy has make the greatest comeback in become universal, both the ap­ world history. proaches to prophecy and the spe­ And that's what the Plain Truth cific prophecies themselves widely has been saying for over 40 years. diverge from one group to another. Prophecy has been one of the pri­ But strangely, the general con­ mary themes of the Plain Truth since THINGS TO clusions of these widely diverse its inception in February 1934; and forms of prophecy converge - all prophecy will continue to be a pri­ CeME agree that humanity is heading for mary theme of every issue in this DNwGAlIOtII'M7mAN:ltO'l: its most calamitous, most trem­ new, more comprehensive, more ur­ ulous, most perilous period of time gent, more frequent format. in all human history. We are, as Wil­ Subjects to be covered in future liam Irwin Thompson put it, at the issues include: the uniqueness of "edge of history." the 20th century, alternati ve fu­ tures, incredible predictions, the Prophecy in Prophecy rupture of history, the coming trans­ It will be a time of great confusion formation, as well as all aspects of - religious and prophetic con­ prophecy: scientific, philosophical, fusion to add to the confusion cre­ theological, religious, occult; the ated by the economic and history of prophecy, the prophecy of geopolitical chaos in the years history, when prophecies fail and ahead . The buzz word of the day will the dangers of prophecy. change from " alienation" to "hys­ The Plain Truth staff will be ana­ teria." lyzing every significant world trend Bible prophecy - and now actual and event. Personally I (and others) fact - shows that an increasingly will be following developments in distraught and anxious public will prophecy and religion, reporting turn its attention to prophecy in the them in these pages. All the forms years ahead. Human beings, espe­ and varieties of prophecy and reli­ cially in catastrophic times, will des­ gion in today's world will be ana­ perately desire to know the future. lyzed in the context of biblical And where there is a demand, there prophecy. will be a supply; where there are In other words, we will be watch­ buyers, there will be sellers. Proph­ ing "prophecy in prophecy." ecy will be provided, cheap and in The watch promises to be spec­ abundance. tacular! 0 WEEK ENDING FEB. 8. 1975 9 a shortage of some commodity develops, it is only logical that consumers will bid the price How to of that commodity upward. This is why the Mona Lisa is so valuable - because there's onlyone. Survive Or, to take a practical and recent example, if there is a partial failure of the soybean crop. then the price of soybeans and of prod­ Scarcity ucts made from them will logically go up. by Ron Horswell People wi ll have to either buy less soybean products or buy less of something else. a fact Scarcity is not really a new word. We in consumers should be quick to recognize and the United States have practi cally forgott en accept. Unfortunately they're not. Instead of such a term existed, but. believe it or not. it 's acting like capitalists and realizing that soy­ been right there in your Webster's all along. beans. due to their new degree of scarcity are I know: I jl;lst checked it to be sure. more valuable. they act lik e sociali sts and Now a ll of a sudden the old standbys we start expecting the government to bring use to describe the American economic down th e price. It's always good to have a scene - "plenty." "surplus." "growth" and government around so you have someone to the like - sound archaic. In fact. scarcity has blame. achieved such dreaded proportions, at least Certainly a price rise could be partially in the minds of consumers, that we might the government's fault. A price rise could well consider it a new word after all. also be the fault of a private interest that is What most. people don't know is that scar­ so large it can partially control the market. city is ofle of the fundamental concepts but when a price increase is induced by a behind a science (or perhaps more appropri­ crop failure. an oil shortage, or some eco­ ately, an art) that's much in the news today, nomically similar cause, there are only three economics. If you browse through a high alternatives consumers can pursue: Ambassador College school or introductory college economics • Use political pressure to force the price text on one of the first few pages the author lower. Such efforts will more than likely will probably go to quite some trouble ex­ backfire. since, with a lower price, producers Supplies Missing Dimension plaining that the basic concept behind eco~ will not be motivated to produce more. and nomics is not money but scarcity. In fact. the scarcity conditions will persist. That's there will likely be a definition somewhat partially what happened when former Presi­ like that found in Samuelson's famous text: dent Nixon first applied price controls. in Education by Les Stocker "Economics is the study of how men and • A rtificially force their own income lip. If society end up choosing. with or without the such action becomes widespread throughout Now in its twenty-eighth year. Ambassa­ college. adequately staffed and equipped for use of money. to employ scarce productive the economy. however, it does little more dor College has produced hundreds of grad­ its needs, offers special opportunity for self­ resources th at could have alternative uses. to than spread more demand. This ca uses the uates who lead successful lives outside of the expression in the area of the student's tal~ produce them for consumption. " price of one product after another to rise and college environment. Many of them have ents. It produces an altogether different and In short. economics is the study of how threatens th e economy with runaway in~ expressed their feelings to me about their more desirable campus atmosphere. Stu~ men allocate scarce wealth - how they flation. Am bassador College education. dents acquire a foundation for the art of handle scarcity. • A ccept the price rise, realizing that it "'The type of education an Ambassador li ving happy. useful, successful li ves. This In the supposedly free market economy, if meaos they will have to either buy less· of student receives prepares him to be the hon­ emphasis upon character building and spiri~ that newly scarce commodity est person that most employers want. And lual development is aptly stated in the Am­ o r less of something else there's quite a lack of that out here:' said bassador motto: 'Recapture True Values.''' in o rder to ba lance their one A.c. graduate. "Once we gel out into The principles and foundations for life budgets. But that's such an society. it's not the beautiful buildings of taught at Ambassador were recognized by unsavory idea to most of Ambassador that impresses people. It's nol 1967 graduate. Earle Cantrell. now a princ i ~ us. appearance that im­ pal of a midwestern elementary school. He necessarily the personal So it seems entirely oon~ presses people. What impresses them is the said, "I am very thankful for the opportunity ceivable that should the en­ character - the individual, the attitude. the I had to go to Ambassador. It's th e basic tire food production of the approach." principles that you learn more than the tech~ United States be wiped out Those are the words of David Stone. Ex~ nicalities. It's the basic principles of life. how by natural forces. American ecutive Director of the Bell~Whitely Action to get along with other human beings and housewives would be march~ Agency. which administers millions of do l ~ how to work hard." ing on Washington. with lars worth of government programs in south~ Whether they have gone into the profes­ their little remaining eastern Kentucky. ¥r. Stone should know. sions, the business world. education. home­ strength, incensed th at the He is a graduate of Ambassador College. making - or for that matter any field - government had gotten us W. Jack Kessler. a partner in the firm of Ambassador graduates have all had the in to such a mess. Rader. Cornwall, and Kessler. Certifi ed same foundational background of character Public Accountants. in Los Angeles. re­ training. As painful as it may seem. flected on his Ambassador education this While presenting the profound principles the third alternative is the way: of successful li fe. Ambassador also offers best solution to inflation in a "You must have technical competence major courses of study in a number of spe­ free economy. Just buy fewer and specialized knowledge or you will never cific fie lds. The list of majors offered is grow­ of those items which are in­ be able 10 enter a ·profession like public ing with each year. and presently it includes flated the most but needed accountancy. But the true professional. the the following in Pasadena: business admin­ the least. Use the power of the consumer as it was meant one who becomes a manager and later a istration. chemistry. English. general studies. general partner in his firm. has blended history. home economics, mass communica­ to be used - in the market­ place. rather than on the these skills with training of a more funda~ tions, physical education. Spanish. speech. mental sorlo The character attributes you and theology. Majors to be introduced in the s i dewa lk s of the White House and Capitol Hill. 0 need to succeed are no secrelo The trick, if next academic year are in psychology, envi­ there is one. is 10 build them into your life as ronmental studies. and engineering science. early as possible. That's why an institution Major courses of study offered at Am~ like Ambassador College is such a thing of bassador College. Big Sandy, Texas, are ag~ Rota-rooter Ratings .Man of Few Words beauty." riculture~business. communications arts. Extensive tape recordings of !lormal con~ Mr. Kessler'S experiences underscore the liberal arts. and theology. Courses of study Who needs Nielsen? versation reveal that 359 words make up 81 statement of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder to be introduced in the near future are envi­ A more representative rating sys tem was percent of all speech. The other 599,641 of Ambassador College. He wrote: "At Am~ ronmental science, computer science, and discovered down at the Water Works. Dur­ words in the English language appear less bassador College, students find true values. in g advertisements in the TV~ m ovie scree n ~ home economics. than once in every five utterances. They learn the real purpose of human life. You may apply to attend Ambassador in g of Airport. city water pressure declined Life takes on meaning. There is not only College in Pasadena by wri ting to the Ad~ 26 pounds per square inch. Patton cou ld mind development. but also that of person~ missions Office, Ambassador College, 300 only muster a 22 pound p.s.i. drop. and third The Book Tells You Why! a lity, culture, and emotional maturity. Em­ West Green Street, Pasadena. California place went to The Good, the Bad and the The publisher of What You Should Know phasis is upon character building. 9 1123. Ugly with a 19 pound p.s.i. drop. The cause About Injfatio/I regrets to announce that the "To that end, the small student body pro~ For an application to Ambassador Col­ was the city's simultaneous toilet flush­ old price of 95 cents should be overstamped vides a distinct advantage. The relationship lege, Big Sandy. Texas. write Admissions Of­ ing. which usually struck during the com­ to read $2.25. The price you must now pay to between student and instructor is as happy fice, Ambassador College, Big Sandy. Texas mer~ial following th e dramatic climax of the understand why you must pay such a high and helpful as it is unusual. The small er 75755. 0 movIe. price has risen 137%. 10 WEEK ENDING FEB. 8, 1975 '~t • ======fPll@iitn)~ff\YI~11;) tury suppressed it, and others. each " Persona~ generation deceived and following the tradition taught them by the preceding generation, have followed their DECEP­ TION ever since! But they did not know 111- stri£l they were deceive.d - else they could (Continlled from page /) by Stanley R. Rader not have been deceived. So it is, even as foretold in the and the supporters of evolution, but also Bible (Revelation 12:9). that ALL NA­ into Genesis and other books of the TIONS ARE DECEIVED today. Bible. It's absolutely amazing! It's as­ I was ASTOUNDED at what I saw in uring the past seve n years Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong has traveled tounding! But it seems that each genera­ these books. as extensively as a ny man in the cntire history or the world. and tion since the first century, taught and In Genesis I was intrigued with the D indoctrinated by those of the preceding incident of the " forbidden fruit." There during that same period I have been privileged to accompany generation, have followed in the decep­ I read of a Creator God revealing .basic him in his worldwide efforts to bring to the people of a ll nations the An­ tive tr.adition, Those in the Christian reli­ knowledge to the first two humans he nouncement a nd to establish and develop programs that are mean­ gion who have looked into the Bible had just created . Connecting the Gen­ ingrul. relevant and important to the nation and the people invo lved have tried to make their inherited tradi­ esis account w ith additions revealed that they may live more full and abundant lives. Each year has been tion square with the Bible . So it has elsewhere in the Bible. I saw that their one of increased activity. and as we look ahead into 1975 we realize become common to think the Bible Maker was revealing to this man and must not be taken literally. They do n'ot woman what they were, why humanity that we will be in other countries with other people more th an 75 believe what it says. . was put on earth, and the way to peace, percent or our time - spending more time in an aircraft than a How often have others looked happiness and joy in material and spiri­ professional commercial pilot. tual abundance. What he taught them, askance at m e, shaking their heads and People often ask me: " How does M r. Armstrong do it? How can saying, astonished, "Why, you surely strangely. seems to have been entirely don ' t take the Bible literally, do you?" overlooked by all religions. I saw there, he keep up such a pace? How can a man approaching 83 years have the Why should it not be taken literally, just also, the CAUSE of all humanity'S trou­ vitality and energy or one hair hi s age?" In the Philippines recently. like every other book? Why? I have bles, evils, sufferings and woes. where Mr. Armstrong was interviewed by the natio nal media and a live found that. if not bound by p'rejudiced Then, in 'the first four books of the radio conrerence in Iloilo just prior to receiving an honorary doctorate tradition and indoctrinated by the tradi­ New Testament. I saw where Jesus degree. Mr. Armstrong admitted that perhaps the one determining tional "Christianity," it MAKES SENSE Christ came with a MESSAGE from the and supplies the only answers to hu­ great God in heaven. That message, ractor in hi s vitality and comparati ve youth was the fact that he a lways manity's problems and evils today, scattered all through those four books, had a mission to rulfill. and it was that determination to rulfill his duty the writings of Paul, James, Peter and that had permitted him to maintain the vigor and st rength necessary In this first issue of the new Plain John, as well as much of the Old'Testa­ I'or its accomplishment. Truth appears the first installment of the. ment. was the same revelation of truth book I am writing, culling out from the their Maker had been teaching Adam Still. it was very gratifying and inspi ring to meet Maestro Artur Bible this revealed MISSING DIMENSION and Eve. Rubinstein recently in New York. Seldom. if ever. does Mr. Arm­ IN KNOWLEDGE - revealing the INCRED­ - That message covered the WAY to strong spend time with a man five years scnior to him. and. in fact. th e IBLE HUMAN POTENTIAl. It MAKES SENSE WORLD PEACE - and how it actually will Maestro jokingly rererred to Mr. Armstrong as a youngster. mere child. - and no other explanation or revela­ tion does! It will continue, serially, once yet come, It revealed the CAUSE of all a nd reminded him that when he was 13 and Mr. Armstrong was 8 he human troubles and evils. It revealed each month. would not have even spoken to Mr. Armstrong. the difrerence in their the Incredible, awesome human poten­ Meanwhile I continue proclaiming tial. It revealed the PURPOSE for which age being so vast. Mr. Rubinstein is another man who has kept his this same MESS~GE in major public ap­ humanity was put here on ea rth , It re­ vital ity and youth by dedicating hi s life nOI only to music. but also to its pearance campaigns in capitals around -vealed where we are going and what is humanitarian aspects. usi ng music. the universal language. as an in­ the world, 0 the way. It revealed the MISSING DIMEN­ spiration to peoples everywhere and for bringing people happiness. SION IN KNOWLEDGE! Yet all this revealed Maestro Rubinstein visited Pasadena a nd gave a special recital at truth appears to have been completely outside of and apart from' the field of Ambassador College on January 15. Ir circumstances permit. plans The INCREDIBLE any religion, as taught. are being r~ adied for a television production which will show how HUMAN POTENTIAL. .. But also I saw that even those who both the Maestro and Mr. Armstrong have. in their separate spheres (COlllillIlCd from p

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which brought immediate response the large food producers might be in the form of thinly veiled threats considerin9 retaliation in the form of from some oil producing nations . halting grain shipments. Obviously, any bilateral or unilat­ But try as you may, it seems im­ eral action on gold policy by nations possible to work out projections of Garner Ted Arms~rong with significant gold reserves would balance-of-payments and debt-car­ immediately result in devaluation of rying potentials for many oil impor­ such nations ' currencies, making ters beyond the first few months of them far more competitive in pay­ 1975, Some of the shakiest import­ ments for imports. ing nations simply will not be able to SPIIKS OUT! The Shah of Iran, earlier quoted pay for oil - and that in a matter of as saying he would clamp down a months! total oil embargo in response to any Clearly, something has to give, such action, was later " explained" Bible prophecy strongly indicates by a government spokesman in an international " pushing and shov­ ,c:,;.')i . more moderate terms. But the Arabs ing match " between a " kin9 of the nly a few months prior to the India's hope forn;eif"sufficiency were clearly worried, nevertheless, south " and a " king of the north " 1973 Yom Kippur war, West­ has now vanishe · " green revo- So long as the billions continued to that will bring the opening round of ern experts confidently lution " did not ize as the sal- flow into Arab hands, so long as the a massive war in the Mideast (Dan , predicted the Arab oil pro­ vation of traditi od-deficient Western economies continued to 11:40-45)! Oducers would never act multi· nations and ,the S?:~r i~g costs of en­ wrestle with unacceptable " siege The laoguage of the prophecy laterally to use their oil as a pol itical ergy plunged IndIa monthly onto se­ economies," the Arabs seemed con­ suggests a move by the nations weapon against supporters of Israel. rious balance of pay!'r:ents deficits, tent. (called " the countries, " "many Leading magazines with such re­ In country aher cOUntry soaring With the possibility of sudden re­ countries," and the "land of assuring statements were still in oil costs have dealt .equally cruel form of gold policy, all that was Egypt" ) constituting the " king of the fairly current circulation when the blows. Italy and Britain have been changed . south " (Saudi Arabia is interestingly Arab oil producers did just that. posting deficits of enormous propor­ Iraq proposed an overall inter­ enough ruled by a king - and so is Suddenly, it seemed that virtually tions, up to 2 billion dollars per national agreement on gold and Iran, where the word "Shah" means unknown Arab sheikdoms, some of month. How do such countries pay money policies, " king" ) to be in the area of trade or them barely entering the 20th cen­ for their desperately needed energy Saddam Hussein, deputy chair­ monetary policy, rather than in the tury in development. were holding a requirements? man of the Ruling Revolution Com­ military area . scimitar directly over the jugular of They borrow. Britain has bor­ mand Council, said, " Any state, or " And at the time of the end shall much of the developed world. rowed from central European banks, group of states that takes steps that the king of the south PUSH at him Western Europe, almost totally as well as directly from Iran, But will worsen international inflation [the king of the north]; and the king dependent on oil imports, and Ja­ even borrowing has its limits, not will be held responsible for them," of the north shall come against him pan , wholly so, were quick to get the only from unmanageable economies meaning the United States and like a whirlwind. with chariots, and message, Diplomats scrambled to at home, but even from international France, primarily since a dramatic with horsemen, and with many convince the Arabs of their govern­ sources equally co';:c~rned about the shift'from $42 an ounce for gold, as ships; and he shall enter into the ments' sincerest intentions to mod­ viability of those sound economies. it is officially pegged, to, say, in the countries, and shall overflow and erate their positions toward Arab Worried about the desperately shaky neighborhood of $ 200 an ounce, pass over. He shall enter also into countries, while stiffening their pol­ economy of Britain, Saudi Arabia re­ would immediately make the dollar the glorious land [modern Israel], icies toward Israel. cently served notice it would no enormously more competitive in and many countries shall be over­ Perhaps never before in history longer accept sterling in payment for buying power. Should this occur, it , thrown , . , , He shall stretch forth had the combined impact of em­ its oil. would seem the Arabs are threat­ his hand also upon the countries: bargo, followed by quadrupled So, while the Western industrial ening one of two actions, or both , the land of Egypt shall not escape. prices of an essential commodity, powers were incurring massive rec­ They could once again clamp " But he shall have power over the brought such undreamed of results , ord-breaking deficits, the Arab oil down on oil exports. even down to treasures of gold and of silver and No one could argue, when all the producers were collecting record­ as little as 30% of present ship­ over all the precious things of Egypt: facts were known, that the Arab oil breaking surpluses. ments, or they could simply raise and the Libyans and Ethiopians shall producers were receiving too little For 1973, even including the last prices (hence the warning about be at his steps." Do these words for their oil, or that at least some few months of that year following " worsening international inflation " ) also indicate that gold will start flow­ significant price hikes were long the Yom Kippur war, the oil-export­ which would effectively write off any ing into the Mideast from the mone­ overdue, But the sudden quadru­ ing countries were running sur­ such alteration in gold prices. tary reserves of the industrialized pling of oil prices sent country after pluses of around $ 5 billion. By So, according to the Arabs, the world to pay for oil - and that the country into a balance of payments year's end, 1974, the figure had use of oil embargoes, quadrupling of same gold will someday be forcibly nightmare. India, as a case in point. leapt to $65 billion. prices, and then additional price recovered? suddenly found herself literally un­ At the same time, the eight major hikes from time to time, sending The Arabs have been " pushing" able to pay for the now four iimes industrial nations were running up a Western economies into fiscal lately, Hard, higher oil she needed to continue total balance of payments deficit of chaos, is quite all right by them , On Yassir Arafat recently charged the the government programs to achieve $ 31 billion, while the same coun­ the other hand, for the industrialized United States and Israel with se­ self-sufficiency in food, Only years tries had achieved a $ 9 billion sur­ nations to fight back by action on cretly conspiring to attack the Arab before India had optimistic hopes of plus in 1973. gold policies, thus rendering their oil producers. fantastic agricultural increases So far, the only practical remedy currencies of far more value in inter­ However, neither Arafat or other based upon the " green revolution. " has appeared to be borrowing back national exchange, is supposedly more bona-fide Arab leaders can But this in turn required greater - recycling - the largest share of immoral. guarantee that the enormous powers mechanization of agriculture. requir­ funds accrued by the oil producers. This strange attitude is further re­ of Western Europe or of the super­ ing massive use of gasoline and die­ Now, suddenly, even that picture flected in the thinking of the Alge­ giant of industry, Japan, will be sel-powered farm machinery, has changed, The reason? rian government spokesman who found bereft of options in solving intensive fertilization with oil-based Recent gold and monetary shuf­ said it was " inadmissible" for na­ the continual drain of their financial chemicals, and massive treatment fling . tions to consider using commodities reserves into Arab hands. with chemical pesticides and herbi­ President Ford and President Gis­ "necessary for human survival" as a What 1975 may bring in the Miq- , cides (oil-based), as well as modern card d'Estaing of France reached political weapon! This incredibly east could quite literally be the spark storage facilities (heated by oil), and some significant understanding on ironic statement emerged in the af­ which ultimately ignites World War modernized truck and rail distribu­ the official price of gold at their termath of the world conference on "I, unless something presently tion methods (using gasoline). meetings in the Caribbean recently, food, resulting from whispers that unforeseen prevents it. 0

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The chicken was first domesticated in Southeast Asia; yet today, chicken flesh and FOOd Taboos- ~ggs are oft~n avoided by the more primitiv ~ ( IIlhabitants III that region and in some parLS .. orchids Stronger Than of Africa too. Eggs are equated with eX- }4 crement. Chickens may be used for feathers.~· Hunger? cock-figh tin g. sacrifice and magic. but not I onions for fnod. Many believe that cating chickens by Charles Vinson -- or eggs destroys fcni lity or hampers sexual '~ performance. Some me n believe eating The ultimate tragedy in the world rood poultry products makes them effeminate. Women avoid them. thinking they might Once IIpon a lime, in a remote and linlar­ possi?le to separate economics. sociol ogy. shortage is that somc of the hunger ha s been cause dwarfism, deformity or character flaws nished land. there lived a lIel)' happy people. natural sciences and politics from one an­ sel f-imposed. in their unborn children. HaPfY because (hey lived fheir simple lives other as they are so interrelated. And a Africa. ' for example. sustains nearly as Fish is an inexpensive and reasonably (0 fhe Jid! - and, because fheir /01\' gllarun­ look at current events or at the past is. to many cattle outside the Sahara as does plentiful sou rce of protein in many areas. feed (IIem, among olher fhings. (he freedom say the very least incomplete if God is left North America - not high-grade beef and Yet large numbers of iII-fed peoples reject of "Orchid and Onion. .. out of the picture. dairy cattle, or course. but animals weI! certain or a!! kinds of fish. In parts of Africa Il seems 111m this law \Vas ins/rumen/al ill James T.. adapted to a tropical environment. These preserving a hea/rh.v atmosphere of openness. Boston, MA cattle are not generally used as a source of it is thought that fish are unclean or pos­ sessed of evil spirits. Eating them alIcgedly honesty - and el'en hW'/'lili~) ! - througllOw food. invites disaster. The taboo is so strong that file kingdom. II was fearfully respected b), After combat in Vietnam I reached the Stretched across Africa's midsection is a servants have opted to lose precious jobs all. ill both publiC and pril'ore life. Simply regrellable conclusion that life, at best, is non-milking zone. In it all animal milk has rather than.prepare fi sh for employers. S/(Ifed. I'jnue and approval were rewarded little more than a ridiculous obscurity. You traditionally been co nsidered a vile body se­ wilh orchids. wllile an embarrassing public haven't completely changed that o pinion. cretion as repulsive as urine: hence it is a sin Simple unwilIingncss to change eating habits is one of the most prevalent food bomhard,-nenl wirll oniollS was rhe reward but I must say that after reading an article to drink it. Generally it is used only as a for o.ffenders - a devastating and odor{fer­ in o.ne of your publications. I actually feel potion by sorcerers. In some areas only adult taboos. Most people naturally refuse to in­ males rather than children are allowed to gest stra nge or repugnant foods simply be­ OilS (literally) public pe/ring 0/ both mind a f;:unt flicker of hope. andflesh. Tommy P.. drink milk. Healthy cattle arc often kept as a cause an outsider insists they ought to. Humbling? Of course. BUI whal tremen­ Oxford. MS status symbol. but no,t as a food source. Starving. rice-accustomed Asians have in dous illcelltil'e for circumspection and im­ A similar situation occurs in East and times past shunned gifts of wheat or millet Some of your articles make mc sick. some provemenl. A nd a lesson for youth of el'e,y South As ia. although milkable animals are because they weren't used to cooking them. makc me mad. and nearly all affect me age. But. all in all. everyone knew Ihe law of abundant. Callie owners have been known That may sound foolish, but most "civilized" emotionally. Under these conditions I to refuse to kill an animal even though fam­ people would probably be equally reluctant "Orchids and Onions" wasfor his 0)1111 good. probably should discontinue it. but I like There was even (he danger of becoming so ily members were starving. to change ingrained eating patterns based on vain about receiving orchids (hal a good th e truth in your publication. . enclosed is The Indian subcontinent. with nearly one the advice of an aborigine. a small donation. pelling wilh onions was cerlainlv ill order. fifth of the world's cattle, is probably the It is politically chic for some com­ Lester G .. most undernourished, protein-poor area in mentators to portray a piggish America. Whatever happened (0 this I\~nde~flll cus- Mayfield. KY the world. Unfortunately, cattle are sacred to grunting and squealin g its way through 10m IS IIOT readily discernible. /3l1f some con­ lend tlial a ritualistic form of il is still kepi the Hindus, India's dominant reli gious body. mountains of porterhouse steaks and straw­ The format change in Plain Tru(h is great ! berry shortcake. while the rest of the world in our larger metropolitan areas by guilt­ Animals. rather than people. arc commonl y I like the way you keep it alive and chang­ drools. Yet even if AmericCl were to give its ridden politicians and businessmen who Jw­ fed special foods and honore.d with sacrifices ing for the bettcr. of o th er animals. Cattle roam through city food away - as some feel she o ught to do - bifU(//~,' .wolhe Iheir consciences each after­ William Ik cs the problem would still not be solved. noon ill dimly lil cocktail lounges - a . streets undisturbed, overgra ze the land and Only education caD e liminate food taboos mal'lini wilh a lillIe while onion. of course. browse on crops while humans hunger. Fur­ Print Plain Trufh on coarse paper if you - and only education can convince over­ I I seems 10 make Ihem feel belieI'. . ther. while most Hindus reject beef. many must. even print it on brown bags or crowded nations of the urgent need for birth Well, wilh Ihis lIew P!

study also po in l~ o ut that children accepted !\l<.ttus in the eount~ Parents Smoke­ who survive respi ratory illness in No Room for God in the Histoncall) . 1,lam. CatholU:IMIl. the first year o f life have been and Greek Orthodoxy con"tll u(eJ Children Suffer fou nd to be su bject to chro nic res­ World's First Atheistic State th e main rellghHI' :-trcam... in Alb:L­ pi ratory d isease la ter in li fe. Il ra n life. In fact. pnor to ~ommu ­ Mou n ting evidence;: ind icates Of course. smoking has a lready by Gerhard M arx ni SI ta keover. Albania. wh ich W;h (liKe under Turkish ru le. wa::. Eu­ that parents who ::.mo ke expose been convincingly linked with One of the basic freedoms guar­ rope':» onl y p r edominantl~ Mo~l clll their children to numerous health lung cancer. hean disease. and anteed by the Ameri can constitu­ nation. But ~ince 1967 all mo::.qu("s hazards. many ot her m a ladies. But the tion and those of other Western and churches have been cio:'t:d. Resea rchers at the London harmful effects on children - and natio ns is the freedom of religion. hringing a ll coll ecti\'e worS hip to Sc hool of Hygiene and Tropical pres umably on nonsmoking adults the freedom to embrace th e fai th of an abrupt end. Medicine have found that children as well - add an extra d imension one's choice. But ca n you imagine T h e cou n try was then pro­ of smokin g pare nts are subjected o f concern. Perh aps those who liv ing in a country where this privi­ claim ed by ils comm unis t overlords to double th e ri sk of a n attack of won't quit for their own health's lege is withdraw n? Can you pi ctu re to he " th e world's first athei!'> tic pneumo nia or bronchit is during sake. \v ill q ui t for so m eo n e a si tuatio n where il is impossible state." It was further decided (hal for you to legally purchase a Bi ble? a ll ci ti ze n .... should remove their (he fi rst year of life. The London else's. 0 Where you arc un able 10 attend icons and other re ligious symhols any church for divine wo rshi p? from their homes. Some church Where there is no priest o r minister build ings were turned into public The BIBLE- to be found? meeting halls while other~ were T here is such a country - Al­ permanently padlocked. A Contemporary Book? bania. The ti ny Ba lka n state is As a result of the policy insti ­ today un ique a mong the commu­ tuted several years ago. priests no by Lester Grabbe ni st world. Unlike other East Euro­ lo nger offi cia te. la ity are no longer pean natio ns. Albani a's doors to ath eistic slate in the world. It is the p e r mitted to co ng regate. a n d I recently retur ned fro m th e Textual Criticism. Masoretic Slud­ to urism have re mai ned tightly shut only communist country that has church doors are no longer open to IIOth annual convention o f the So­ its. Hebrew and Cognate Litera­ fo r the las t 30 years. So have prac­ made the practice of religion a welcome the destitute. ciety o f Biblica l Lite rature. held in tures, and Ta rgumic Studies. Wh ile tica lly a ll trade links wi th the West. punishable crime. Whereas other A tragedy? ln some respects. yes. Washing ton. D.C. Hundreds of some o f th ese may sound some­ Fo r th e Western tourist or busi­ comm unist nations "guarantee" re­ t!specia lly fo r those few who ac· scholars from North America and what esoteric to the average man. nessman to get a personal glimpse li gious freedom in th eir respective tually would serve God if given the abroad gathered for five days to they a ll have potential va lue fo r a of Albani a is next to impossi ble. constitutions. Alban ia does not opportunity. read and discuss papers, cond uct bctter understandin g of the Bible. Who th en can travel 10 th is "for­ even co ncede this verbal formality We in the Western worl d lake semi nars. consult o n professional T he shirt-sleeve sessions of th e bidden" land? I put this quc!' ti on to to its two million inhabitants. No freedom of re li gion fo r gran ted. m atters, a nd in ge n e ral k eep society'S a nnual meeting were pri ­ a Yugoslav gove rnment offici al in religion, wheth cr practiced pri­ Yet in spite of our religious free­ abreast of the latest research by maril y of in tere!' t to scholars and Titogra d. th e ci ty bo rd ering Al­ vately or collecti ve ly. is o ffi cially dom. ignorance of the Bible and their colleagues. professional theologians. Bu t fro m bania. He expl ained that only a se­ tolerated. knowledge of the p recep ts of The basic message o f sa lvation those academic discussions come lect few are granted the pri vi lege The archi tect mainly responsible Christianity are fa r too high. has never been o bscure. T he way of new understandings which fi lter from time to time. but then o nl y in for this situatio n is Al bania's Wh ich is worse? A nation tha t li fe which leads to e tern al li fe has down in to the commentaries. re li­ specially picked groups under the leader. Enve r Hoxha. His ai m is to openly admits no desire to serve a lways sho ne clearl y from the gious magazin es, and fi nall y to the ri gid auspices of the Albani an gov­ fo rce upon hi s na tion a particul a rly God - and doesn't - or a na tion pages of th at Book of books. layman himse lf. A bibli ca l truth a f­ ernm ent. A pe rson must have an " pure" form of social ism. The cre­ that professes Christia nity but wor­ Bu t in such an ancient piece of feclin g your li fe may have had its extremely good reason - and th e a ti on of this egalitarian society, ac­ shi ps onl y wi th its lips - not wi th literature. th ere are many questions origin in an archaeological dig in patience o f a Jo b - to be allowed a cordin g to Hoxha. leaves no room o bedience? concerning texl. la nguage. design, an obscure co rn er o f th e worl d or sight-see ing tour of this smallest of fo r rel igion. The Al bani an regime The latter perhaps is an even symbol and meaning which help to in the m idnight efforts ofa Ugariti c communist nations in East Europe. is noted fo r its ruthlessness in sup­ greater tragedy than th e o utlawing keep that a ncient hook fo rever scholar poring over texts of a long What is uniq ue about Albani a is p ressin g a ny o p position w hich of religion in the "worl d's tirs t young and forever new. T here are fo rgotte'n people. its claim to being th e first totally would dare grant any religion atheistic state." 0 differences of approach to the T he Bible lives! Its very vivacity Bible and differences of o pin ion is witnessed by our entire modern about its origin . preserva ti on and We;:stern world with roots deeply experiena: when obeying all of them! continued value. But the majority embedded in the Judeo-Christian The 10 Commandments­ No less a personage than the o f bi blical scho lars. whether li beral heritage. Eve n those who want to fo under o f Chri sli anjty heartily en­ o r conservative, are convinced o f overth row the Bible ca nnot deny Backbone of Western Law and Morality dorsed the Ten Commandment s its relevance 10 the 20 th ce ntury. ( Matth ew 19: 16-22 : Matthew 5: 17- their own heritage. by John R. Schroeder The Society of Biblical Litera­ The pages of th e Plain Truth 19). Jes us summarized the Ten ture promotes research in to various contin ua lly demonstrate how th e Much of the Mosaic Law has dis­ Most of the other a rtifacts of the Comma nd ments in to two funda­ d iscip lines relating to biblical biblical message is not o nl y rele­ appeared into history. Ani mal sac­ O ld Testament Jewish state we re mental principles - love towa rd study. Sections and seminars we re vant. but eve r vital. to conte mpo­ rifices d isintegrated with the end of d iscarded in the Ch ristian era. The God (the fi rst fo ur command­ devoted 10 such d iverse topics as rary man. F uture issues wi ll also the Jewish Commonwealth of Pal­ Jerusalem Confe rence recorded in ments) and love toward man (the Pauli ne Studies. Septuagin t and carry articl es showing how modern estine in A. D. 70. The importance Acts 15. for example. so unded the last six). On these dual fundamen­ Cogn ate S tudies. Acts o f th e research and discovery contri bute o f the Jewish civil codes also d i­ death kn ell of circumc ision as a re­ tals hung all the Mosaic law and Apostles. Early Rabbinic Litera­ to making that message more lucid minished w ith the ab o lition o f li gious practice for Christians. p ro ph et ic precept s (see Lu ke ture, M idrash. Form C riticism . and even mo re urge nt . 0 temple sacrifices. Eccl esiastical laws seem to come 10:25-28 and Matthew 22:36-40). and go; even the ancient Code of T he a postl e Pa ul. the most Hammurabi is now merely an in­ pro found and pro lific theologian. entrapped in their own web of lies te resting historical fossil. scholar. and C hristi an writtr oi his that there was no other recourse National constitutions are also time, faithfully fo llowed Chnst's Just a "Little White Lie"? but to leave office. amended as times change. Even teaching in regard to the Ten Com· by red Herl ol son There si mply is no such thing as such sacred cows as the pro hibition mand ments. He understood and a little white lie. Whether it's a against birth control and th e other taught th at the Ten Comma nd ­ Ly in g and d isho nesty are com­ pro mi ses he has no intentio n of great big dirty b lack li e or only an " blue laws" are coming into q ues­ ments of God provid e the unl1 cr­ m on pl ace in today's "sophi s­ keeping. or the fast-talking sales­ intentional Shading o f the truth, de­ li on. and dying the death . pinning of a ll sound d octrin e ti cated" Ii fe·slyle. We hear and man assuring you his product will gree is in cid ental. A li e is a li e is a Yet one se L of laws has survived ( Ro m. 13:9), and it is the duty of read lies so often that very early in last a lifetime when it obvio usly li e. It is an intent to deceive. from time immemoria l. Spoken by every C hristi an to obey th ese basic life we cease thinking of them as won't last a year. In such cases, we Unless each ind ividual comes to the mouth of God and written by laws. In fact. you can't be a Chris­ such. T hey become an integral part usually hope rather tha n believc. th e place where he strives with a ll his hand. the Ten Commandments tian if you choose oth erwise. of our existence. To think that a Other fo rms of lies are less obvi­ his heart to speak the truth. God are the universal basis fo r much of What many Christians have not small lie could be all that impor­ ous. mo re innocent a ppearing: the says he wi ll never enter eternity. To Western law and morality. Viola­ realized is that the Decalogue (Ten tant in the sophi sticated seventies is communicati ons media. with its stress the poin t. God in spired tions of the second five command ­ Commandments) was in fo rce prior a concept that is almost quain t. It 's ability to slant and shade the news; do uble emphasis in the book of ments still form the basis of th e to Moses. prior to Hammurabi. an idea that some claim is better television co mmercials that use re­ Proverbs when mention is made of F.B .1. Crime Index. prior 10 Abraham and eve n prior to suited to the day of the rocking peti tion to build be li eva bi lity: or those seven things he hates mos t. Why haven't these la ws a lso Noah's fl ood! For study guides o n chair and corncob pipe, not to this the hero of your favo rite television Lying is mentio ned twice (Proverbs passed in to history? Do they indeed this subject. write for your free day of the sophisticated lie. th ri ll er who lies to entrap a gang o f 6: 16-1 9). fo rm any basis for Christia n - or copy of "Were the Ten Comma nd­ Lies are so commo n that you hoodlums. God loathes deceit. lies and hy­ even " humani stic" - behavior? ments in Force Before Moses?" might fi nd it difficult to recall the During the Nixon administra­ poc r i~y! Don't take lyi ng li ghtly. T h e Te n Co mm a n d m e nts. For deeper exegesis of each of last time yo u heard - or told - tio n. th e two highest political of­ Begin, right now. th inking. speak­ though disobeyed wit h regularity. the te n major poin ts of th e deca· one. Some lies are so o bvious that fices in the United States were ing and li vin g a life o f integrity. have passed th e test of time (6.000 logue. write for o ur full -lengt h. we even fi nd th em inoffensive: the empti ed, d ue to d isho nesty. Many H o n esty is always th e best years!) precisely because of the 144-page book entitled Th e Ten gl ib poli tician making campaign in that admini stration had been so policy. 0 positive results .that we d irectly Commandments. 0

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