THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL
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to solve his own problems and protect his bodies have pledged their co-operation. own interests. We can only hope that he \V e now introduce to you the world's HE WORLD 'S LAST B:L,OADCAST will be left to himself to carry on his am- greates dictator with headquarters at bitious program of internal development. Rome." (Adapted from a Radio talk by Rev. J. F. Holliday, B.A., a Christian pastor of Hamilton Then our radio listener will twin the Then the radio listener Nvill hold his Ontario, and a profound lover of the Jews; dial a bit until he catches the crisp, racy breath while the Anti-Christ, the Man of with additions and revisions by the Editors) tones of an American newspaper reporter, Sin, the one who counterfeits the Lord who will be saying something like this: outlines his program to the Do you "listen in" to the news-casts? "There's more in Britain's surrender world. tie will hear this Supreme Auto- Of course you do, and every time you of the Mandate over Palestine than may crat demand the support of every man catch the news-laden ether WilVe& in your at first appear. For years the Holy Land and woman on the globe. He will hear of radio receiving set, they remind you that has been a source of worry to John Bull. the inauguration of an economic program you are living in a world of chaos and Germany and Italy have both been active that will lift the depression and finish un- commotion, a world of selfishness and with anti-British propaganda, sowing, cent cooperation which will be enforced suspicion, a world weighted with woe, a with considerable success the seeds of fer- by the use of a mark, like the caste marks world reverberating with the tramp of ment among the Arabs in and around Pa- of India, or the fastio of Italy, or the armed feet, a world that. is like the sea lestine. With the multiplied problems that hammer and sickle of Russia. Men will be and the waves roaring, a world in which the Empire has on her hands today, Brit- marked, and those who refuse to co-opera- men's hearts are failing them for fear be- ain is glad to let Palestine paddle her ate in the program and receive the mark cause of "those things which are coming own canoe. It is not likely, however, that will be boycotted. They will be allowed on the earth." (Luke 21; 23, 26) the Jew will enjoy his independence for neither to buy nor sell. They will be Have you ever wondered what the long. Turkey, Russia, Germany and Italy, starved into co-operation. radio reporters are going to talk about in all have their eyes on the Holy Land. RADIO FLASHES Italy has repeatedly asked for the Pales- the days to come? Would you like to CONCERNING CLASHING INTERESTS know? Then open your Bible and note tine Mandate, and students of European how God has predicted the news that will politics believe that it will not be long be- In those dark days, when the Man of form the content of the broadcasts that fore Italy takes Israel's country under Sin dominates world affairs, the air waves are yet to be. her wing, with the ultimate purpose of Will be crammed with news that was absorbing the land in her dreamed of forewritten in God's wonderful Book. We NEWS-CAST CONCERNING Mediterranean Empire." have only space to refer to a few of these THE JEWISH STATE If you don't believe that you will hear news flashes of the future. Some day, it may be soon, the radio some such broadcast as this, study Eze- There will be a broadcast describing listener is going to turn his dial and hear kiel 37, where God predicts the return the strained relations between the World something like the following :— and reorganization of the Hebrew Na- Dictator and the Jewish State. The radio "This is a coast-to-coast hook-up of the tion. reporter will explain how the Jews ob- Commission. We ject to the religious program of the Dic- Canadian Broadcasting RADIO ANNOUNCER INTRODUCES now take you to London, England." tator and how the World Ruler is deter- There will be a pause, and then a cul- WORLD .DICTATOR mined to whip them into line. There will tured English voice will say: "This is Time will slip by, and then the folks be a news flash concerning the punitive the British Broadcasting Corporation, who finger the radio dials will hear an measures taken by the Great Leader to bringing to you a report of recent impor- announcer say: force the stubborn Jews to co-operate in tant decisions reached by His Majesty's "Listeners on every continent. This his politico-religious plans. There will be Government. The British Parliament has broadcast comes to you from Rome. In a radio reports of anti-semet ic outbursts just given consent to the creation of an few moments we will introduce to you the that will pale into insignificance the Jew- Independent Jewish State in Palestine." man upon whom the eyes of the world are hating of Hitler, and the pogroms of Po- The announcer will go on: "Our listen- centered, the man who has seized the land, reports of trouble for Jacob that ers will readily recognize that this is a tangled reins of European politics, and will he broadcasts in which announcers remarkable and an historic step. For has saved the nations from destruction. will niake the world shudder with horror. nearly two thousand years the Hebrew The world has been crying out for a sa- There will be broadcasts in which an- Nation has been dead and dismembered viour, a deliverer, a leader who will bring nouncers will describe clashes between so far as any organized existence is con- order out of chaos, a super-man who will the Papacy and - the Dictator—incidents cerned. Israel has been scattered among give direction not merely to a nation but in a great religions controversy, growing the nations of the earth. Nationally, this to the whole world, a Supreme Dictator out of the Dictator's assumption of the people has been like a heap of dry who will do for all peoples what Premier place and -worship that belong to God, and bones." Mussolini did for Italy, and what. Herr issuing in the final and complete downfall "In 1867, after centuries during which Hitler did for Germany. We have found of the Church of -1Zoine. There will be no Jew was allowed to own real estate in him at last—the World Dictator, the Sa- news-casts describing the disintegration Palestine, Turkey began to lift the re- viour of Humanity. Ten great nations of the Dictator's empire and the division strictions upon foreign tenure of Pales- have united under his leadership. His su- of Europe into two camps, a Southwestern tinian land. In 1917 General Allenby cap- premacy is universally recognized. Not group supporting the Supreme Ruler and tured Jerusalem, ending 673 years of nomic resources of the world at his dis- a Northern group led by Russia and Turkish rule, and this paved the way for posal but the great religious organizations assisted by Asiatie allies. the British Mandate over the Holy Land. are also with him. The Roman Catholic How do we know. that these matters The period of the Mandate has been Church supports him. The Jewish state, will form the content. of boadeasts yet marked by prosperity and development. with its distinctly religious aspect, has to be? Because Ezekiel, Daniel and Reve- With the end of Britain's Mandatory declared its intention of entering into lation contain prophecies of these coming power over Palestine, the Jew will have treaty relations with him. Other religious clashes.
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casts, purporting to be descriptive re- THE LAST BROADCAST OF THE AGE AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS ports of an invasion of the earth by orri- TO THE JEWS, Inc. On day the radio listener will turn his lying creatures from Mars. It was all Original work established by Leopold Cohn in 1894 dial until he gets the air-waves from Jeru- fiction, make-believe, a highly imagina- salem. With breathless excitement he will tive tale, produced in England, and adap- sit besides his receiving set. And what a ted to America, but it sent a wave of broadcast it will be! The announcer will hysteria sweeping across the continent. say something like this: Radio listeners by the hundred thought it "This news-cast comes to you from was real. Theatre performances came to Jerusalem. The eyes of the world are a sudden end. Church services were in- focused upon this city. The armies of Eu- terrupted. People fled screaming from rope and Asia are converging upon it. their homes. Frightened religionists ran to The forces of the world are about to clash the shrines of saints, or fell on their in the most stupendous battle that men knees in the streets. Hospitals treated have ever seen. The battle is on! The scores for shock. Multitudes thought that armies' of ten nations, led by Rome, are the end of the world had come. locked in conflict with Russians, Ger- HEADQUARTERS BETH SAR SHALOM Is it not pathetic that this world, which Throop Avenue and Walton Street mans, and Asiatics. The military forces responds so readily to the make-believe Brooklyn, N. Y. of the world are concentrated on Pales- warnings of a radio drama is indifferent tine. Both are against the Jew. Both are to 'the solemn counsels of the Word of WHERE YOU MAY OBTAIN determined to destroy the Hebrew nation. God? In the Bible we have fact, not fic- THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL Palestine is full of the roar of war planes, tion. When a radio dramatist speaks of — MISSION STATIONS — the bursting of bombs, the thunder of big mythical Martian monsters, imaginary UNITED STATES. New York: Headquarters guns, the groans of the dying, the shouts poison gases, and fictitious invaders, Building. 27 Throop Ave., Brooklyn. Philadelphia: 717 Walnut Street. Harry J. Burgen. Buffalo, of men fighting the world's worst battle. thousands are seized with mortal terror, N. Y.: Hinson Memorial Chapel. 206 N. Paris Avenue, Rev. A. B. Machlin. Pittsburgh: 1603 Now the earth is beginning to shake. It but when a God-commissioned messenger Centre Avenue. Rev. John Solomon. Des Moines, is getting worse! The • land is reeling un- of Christ opens the prophetic Scriptures Ia. Rev. Emil D. Grueo. 1058-37th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.: 2005 Brooklyn Ave., Rev. Elias der the shock. The Mt. of Olives is split and unfolds the Spirit's panoramic pic- Zimmerman. Seattle, Wash.. Rev. Herbert H Amster, 5105 Arcade Building. in twain. The sun has become black as ture of the future, the world ignores him ABROAD: Jerusalem, Palestine. Rev. Frank L. sackcloth, the moon has turned to blood. or calls him a fanatic ! Boothby, Gospel Gate Room, Russian Compound. Paris, France: Rev. Andre Frankel. 123 Avenue Great meteors are shooting across the We, who belong to Jesus Christ are du Maine. Belgium: Pastor Otto Samuel, Brussels. 7 Rue de Moniteur, Vienna, Germany: Mr. Eman- darkened sky. It looks as though the very neither fanatics nor pessimists. We rest uel Lichtenstein, 16 Seegasse, Sydney, Australia: Heavens were rolling up," Then there upon the bed-rock of Divine revelation. Rev. Geo. E. Ardill, 145 Commonwealth Street. will be a pause, and the announcer will We walk in the bright beams of the Lamp say: "I don't know how long I can stay of Prophecy. (2 Pet. 1 :19) We stand un- COME TO OUR MEETINGS at the 'mike'. Consternation has seized dismayed amid the gathering shadows, the battling armies. Men are running for the darkening skies, and the crumbling If you are perplexed, and need their lives. Kings, generals, captains, institutions of our day. We look for an guidance; if you are in sorrow, soldiers, are looking for holes in the hill- hour when God shall send His Son from and seek comfort; if you are lone- sides where they may hide. They are cry- heaven to take the reins of government ly, and crave friendship ; if your ing to the rocks' and mountains to fall on and end man's long misrule. We are ready soul aspires to something higher them and hide them. They say that Christ for His return ; ready because He has than mere grubbing for money ; is coming. I can't stay any longer, I must washed us in His precious blood; ready come to our meetings! flee too. . . ." And the broadcast will end because His promise of rapture, reward Friday night - 8 o'clock in silence. But the listener won't need any and reunion has robbed the future of all announcer then, for the whole earth will its terrors; ready because "the grace of Sunday night - 8 o'clock be bathed in the glory of the coming Sa- God that bringeth salvation hath appear- Music that will stir your soul; viour. The Lord Jesus will be here to end ed to all men, teaching us that denying a message from the Word of God sin-and sorrow and war and greed. ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should that will set you upon the Rock live soberly, righteously. DIVINE PREDICTION VERSUS that cannot be shaken; friends How is it with you, dear Jewish reader? that will help to ease your way in HUMAN FICTION Are you prepared in your soul to meet life. Come! Bring your family!
"These words are true and faithful." the greatest catastrophe that this world • (Revelation 21 :5) The portraits of coming has ever known? Do you dare to face such events that we have tried to paint in these a horrible future without adequate prepa- SUBJECTS FOR NOVEMBER pages are not creations of a fantastic hu- ration? There is a way of deliverance, and FRIDAY MEETINGS man imagination, but are humble repro- that is through the Lord Jesus Christ. ductions of wonderful pictures sketched Will you take it? Nov. 8th "If a Man is Born long ago by the pen of Divine inspiration. Blind, Who Sinned?" To make them more vivid and realistic, Nov. 15th "We Know What Even we have dressed up these Scripture 40 CTS. WORTH FOR 25 CTS. Solomon did not Know. prophecies in the form of radio news What is It?" flashes, but the predictions clothed in this Send us 250 in coin or stamps Nov. 22nd "The Ox Knows it, modern garb are God-given glimpses of and we will mail you a 400 New Why Not the Jew?" the future. Testament in Hebrew, Yiddish or Nov. 29th "Every Jew should be How ready men are to accept fiction called 'Jonah', Why?" as fact, and reject fact as fiction. How English. often the world believes a lie and ignores Address: We are located at Throop Ave- the truth. One Sunday night not long ago, nue and Walton Street, Brooklyn. a hook-up of American radio stations THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL Lorimer Street car, Broadway broadcast a dramatized version of. H. G. "L", or any car going down, Wells' "War Of The Worlds." The pro- 27 ThroopAve., Brooklyn, N. Y. Broadway, all reach us. gram was "put over" in the form of news-