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MARCH 2018 | THETRUMPET.COM Europe’s ‘underground’ army Lost nuclear weapons Stepfamily complications Did God create evolution? A universe of mysteries How to avoid diabetes COVER America’s moral decline can be seen demonstrated across the nation. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES, ZACH GIBSON/GETTY IMAGES, GETTY IMAGES, ICON SPORTSWIRE/ GETTY IMAGES, MICHAEL ZAGARIS/SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS/GETTY IMAGES, ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ARAYA DIAZ/GETTY IMAGES, EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES, JASON MARCH 2018 | VOL. 29, NO. 3 | CIRC. 247,749 CONNOLLY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, PARAS GRIFFIN/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES) FEATURES 1 FROM THE EDITOR The Beautiful Truth That Would Solve the Sex Scandals 3 COVER STORY “Now comes the big truth! The New American Morality Sex was designed and created 6 The Tangled Stepfamily Tree in humans for purposes 8 Europe’s ‘Underground’ Army other than reproduction— 11 How to Avoid (or Recover From) Diabetes for purposes totally foreign to animal or plant life!” 12 Broken Arrows: Will the World’s Lost Nuclear Weapons —HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG Trigger World War III? 15 Did God Create Evolution? 18 INFOGRAPHIC Defying Evolution 20 Your Mysterious Awesome Universe 21 Hidden Universe Powers 24 The Turkish Betrayal 24 Turkey’s Strongman Grows Stronger DEPARTMENTS 26 INCREASE YOUR BIBLE IQ Enriching Friendships 28 WORLDWATCH 31 SOCIETYWATCH 33 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING The Most Important Meal of Your Day 34 DISCUSSION BOARD 35 COMMENTARY ‘Breakfast With Dads’ 36 THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Trumpet executive editor Stephen News and analysis Regular news updates and alerts Flurry’s weekly television program Flurry’s television program updated daily from our website to your inbox theTrumpet.com/keyofdavid theTrumpet.com/trumpet_daily theTrumpet.com theTrumpet.com/go/brief FROM THE EDITOR The Beautiful Truth That Would Solve the Sex Scandals Why did God make sex? His purposes are far deeper and more beautiful than most people realize. ex scandals are everywhere in America and Britain make humans to be able to reproduce? God even commands us today. Many prominent politicians, business leaders to “replenish,” or populate, the Earth. It is an awesome oppor- S and famous entertainers are being exposed for having tunity to be able to reproduce the way God does, as we shall see. misused sex, hurting and abusing other people. When you think about the purposes of sex, you probably think For many people, sex is a curse—wrecking marriages and of reproduction first. But this is far, far from the only purpose. damaging children for the rest of their lives. Educator Herbert W. Armstrong authored the greatest book God intends for sex to be a wonderful about sex of all time, after the Bible. It is called The Missing blessing to us! God’s purposes for sex Dimension in Sex, and we will gladly send you a copy of it free. are so beautiful, they should make us “Now comes the big truth!” he wrote. “Sex was designed and practically dizzy with joy! created in humans for purposes other than reproduction—for This world, though, is completely purposes totally foreign to animal or plant life! But the world blind to God’s purposes for sex. And it has continued in unhappy and wretched ignorance of these is suffering as a result. glorious and God-bestowed purposes!” This world’s educational system Mr. Armstrong wrote this near the end of his life. He knew GERALD FLURRY cannot teach you about sex. Most of and lived God’s purposes for sex, and he yearned to rescue the people who are getting caught up mankind from the pain and suffering that comes from using in these scandals have been educated at some of the most sex the wrong way. prestigious institutions this world offers. These institutions Look around. It is plain to see that humans have sex for rea- don’t teach people to conduct themselves uprightly regarding sons other than just reproduction. Some of these reasons are sex. They know nothing about why God made it. perverse and should be avoided altogether, or sex scandals You don’t have to be blind. God’s purposes for sex are prov- may result. able from your Bible. You can also prove them by applying them in your life. Sacred Purpose Among Humans “Now reproduction, merely as such, is, of course, common God Created Sex! to animals and plants, as well as humans,” Mr. Armstrong Where did sex come from? This intricate dimension to life is continued. “But, in humans, reproduction has a sacred and not an accident of evolution. It is beautifully designed by an God-plane meaning not applicable to any other kind of life!” intelligent, all-powerful Creator. Look at the Bible account of creation. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them God said His creation, including have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the sex function, was “very good”! the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God There is nothing shameful about sex, created man in his own image, in the image of God created he if used the way that God intended. him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and With animals, reproduction is nothing more than reproduc- replenish the earth …” (Genesis 1:26-28). tion. With humans, reproduction points to a marvelous spir- Notice: God said His creation, including the sex function, itual parallel. Human babies are very different from animal was “very good”! (verse 31). There is nothing shameful about offspring. Only humans are born as heirs of salvation—heirs ISTOCK sex, if used the way that God intended. of God! Marriage, family and sex have God-plane meaning! God created us male and female. He created two types of Mr. Armstrong continued: “[T]here is deep, spiritually tran- . COM sex apparatuses. Why? Did you know that angels are not male scendent meaning in human begettal, gestation and birth that / JHORROCKS and female? God also made these brilliant, dazzling spirit raises it to an altogether and incomparably higher plane than beings—but He did not make them to reproduce (Matthew mere animal reproduction. Human children are begotten 22:30). He made each of them individually. Why, then, did He through sex. And that very begettal, period of gestation and MARCH 2018 1 birth of a human baby gives us the very picture of the spiri- Human family is a type of the God Family. Human marriage is tual salvation and gift of eternal life made possible through a type of the coming spiritual marriage between Jesus Christ Jesus Christ!” and God’s loyal saints who do His Work today (Ephesians 5:22- Humans are not animals! We can be spiritually begotten by 33). (Read The Missing Dimension in Sex to learn more about receiving the Holy Spirit, and then spiritually born as sons of these inspiring parallels.) God! No animal or angel has such a potential! The angels do not marry. They have no home life, family life Satan works diligently to hide God’s purposes for sex from or sex. After the angels failed to establish God’s government on the world because they point to our salvation. He wants to Earth, God realized that He could only depend on Himself to do hide God’s plan of salvation, which is all about family. this. So He decided to re-create Himself—and He did so in man! During His ministry on Earth, Jesus Christ was dealing with ignorance about sex as well. He said to the Pharisees, Man Unique! “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning Mr. Armstrong wrote, “So grasp this colossal truth, if you made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a can! Here is the greatest truth you can ever know! Man, and man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and man only, of all life forms God has created, can be born into they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more the God Family—the Kingdom of God! Animals have never twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, been given family relationship. Angels have never enjoyed let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:4-6). family status. The family relationship is a God-plane relation- Reproduction is the first and most obvious purpose of sex. ship—not an angel-plane relationship. And God bestowed it on In rebuking the Pharisees, Jesus Christ revealed a second man! Because man is to be born into the God Family. Of all life purpose of sex: to be an expression of love between a man forms—whether plant, animal or angel in all God’s creation, and a woman within marriage. “For what cause shall a man man alone was created for marriage—for home and family life!” marry?” Mr. Armstrong asked. “Because God made them “For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art male and female—because God created sex. Sex did not my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be evolve, without intelligence or purpose!” (ibid). to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?” (Hebrews 1:5). Only humans can become begotten and later born as God’s Satan works diligently to hide God’s children. God is our Father. Christ is our Husband. This is all about family! Angels, as magnificent as they are, have never purposes for sex from the world had the opportunity to be actual born sons of God! because they point to our salvation.