Jesus REVEALS The Father
Christians are supposed to believe in the God REVEALED BY JESUS CHRIST.
And the God of Jesus of Nazareth had VERY DEFINITE personality and characteristics. He was the SUPREME SPIRIT PERSONALITY — the All-wise, All-powerful BEING who rules over the heavens and the earth with DIRECT power and control over the affairs of men to wield as he chooses in perfect love and wisdom.
Jesus said: "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him" (John 1:18).
Jesus came to "reveal" the Father (Matt. 10:27).
Above all else, Jesus revealed God as the over-all RULER of heaven and earth. He proclaimed that man was not to seek his own ways and devices but was to "live by every Word of God." Jesus taught us to pray: "Thy Kingdom come. Thy WILL be done, as in heaven, so in earth" (Luke 11:2).
He continually taught OBEDIENCE to the law and will of God. When a young man asked Him the way to inherit eternal life, Jesus answered: "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. 19:17).
Jesus continually PRAYED to God the Father as a definite spiritual PERSONALITY having POWER to intervene in this world and heal the sick, raise the dead, and carry out His immutable Word.
Jesus said, "I go unto my Father, for my Father 'is greater than I" (John 14:28). Jesus surrendered His will so completely to the Father that His every thought and action was directed by the Holy Spirit. Thus, He could say: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9).
Do you grasp the significance of this statement?
The nature and character of God was manifested SO PERFECTLY in the life of Jesus, that if the Father Himself should be manifested in the flesh as Jesus was, His thoughts and actions would have been EXACTLY THE SAME.
Even when facing an agonizing death on the cross, Jesus prayed: "Not my will, but THINE, be done" (Luke 22: 42).
The true God revealed Himself through Moses, Daniel, all His prophets and Apostles, and through His own Son, as Creator and Supreme RULER over heaven and earth — the One who makes and unmakes nations — the One who readly ANSWERS prayer, the One who is working out a definite PURPOSE among men here on earth!
You need to come to know THIS GOD — the TRUE God and Ruler who is right NOW intervening in human affairs and bringing about specific events in preparation for His coming Kingdom to be set up on this earth!
What Do You REALLY Serve and Worship?
The Apostle Paul was inspired to write a vital truth which applies to you. Study it carefully.
"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Rom. 6:16)
When a choice has to be made between following the ways of your friends and family, or OBEYING what you have found in the Bible to be the revealed will of God — which course do You follow? Do you take the easy way out and follow MEN? Do you serve and thereby WORSHIP and OBEY the ways of men more than the ways of God? Do you in this manner have another "god" BEFORE the true God who RULES this universe?
Don't "kid" yourself! For you CAN'T fool God!
You had better honestly CONSIDER these vital questions. You need to learn — by self-examination — whether you are serving a vague, nebulous "god" of your own devising and imagination, or whether you have come to know and serve the Living GOVERNOR who sits at the controls of this universe.
The true God who reveals Himself in the Bible states: "Surely the Lord God will do NOTHING but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7).
The pages of this magazine contain now — as they did some seventeen years ago when I first read it — a prophetic MESSAGE that will change the course of your life! Beside the spiritual TRUTH of God involving our personal Christian lives, this message lays bare SPECIFIC prophesied events which are NOW beginning to affect America, Britain and the English-speaking nations of this world! This is the prophesied WORK of the Church of God for these end times. You can PROVE that a DIVINE SPIRIT PERSONALITY is behind this work because the tremendous, major events which we are prophesying in advance are HAPPENING — in definite and specific detail!
But you have to be WILLING to see and acknowledge the true God who RULES and is now intervening in human affairs! And very soon now you will be FORCED to acknowledge that God is "REAL" — that He LIVES and RULES over this universe. For then, He will be arriving back IN PERSON as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 19:11-16).
For your own good though, and for the good of your family and loved ones — in SPITE of pressure from this world's God-rejecting society — you had better learn to know the true God and obey Him IN THIS AGE that you may have His guidance and protection in the years just ahead!
When you learn some new point of truth in the pages of this magazine, or on The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast, or in your own personal Bible study, do you put it into PRACTICE in your life — do you OBEY it? Or do you REJECT it because it conflicts with what your church or your particular society believes and observes?
Are you like the Pharisees who rejected Christ because "they loved the praise of MEN more than the praise of God?" (John 12:43) God seems far away to some people, and their friends seem SO CLOSE and so IMPORTANT.
Which do You worship? Whose ways do you follow and OBEY?
"Lip Service" Is Not Enough.
Supreme RULERSHIP is the chief characteristic of God we need to recognize in this day and age. It was the principal message of ALL His prophets and servants throughout history. It is very frankly the KEY to your future.
Once you recognize God as your RULER, and surrender UNCONDITIONALLY to His will through Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and High Priest, then you may be assured of God's protection and guidance in the perilous days that lie ahead.
But "lip service is" not ENOUGH! God requires OBEDIENCE. "He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is not in him" (I John 2:4).
As Jesus prophesied (Mat. 24:14), this Gospel of the Kingdom, the RULE of God, is being proclaimed as a "witness" to all nations. As thousands of you come to recognize this as the very WORK of God and come to know the true God — yours is the solemn responsibility to accept or reject God's final warning.
"Prove all things." Write in today for Mr. Armstrong's free booklet: The Proof of The Bible.
Once you have proved that the Bible is the direct revelation from the Almighty God who RULES, then discipline yourself to really STUDY and OBEY what you find to be God's will as revealed in the Bible — not the ideas or opinions of men. Become acquainted with the true GOD who gives commands and reveals a way of life, speaking in the first person — who gives SPECIFIC PROPHECIES affecting the MAJOR nations of the world — and who reveals a definite purpose for your life!
Write us for help if God has shown you that this is HIS WORK prophesied for these closing days of this age. We are here to serve YOU as the called servants of the Living God — the TRUE God — the God who says what He means and means what He says IN THE BIBLE.