Heed God's WARNING
If you have not yet done so, write immediately for our exciting, fully documented free booklet, "Truth About Earthquakes." Here you will see the full proof that earthquake activity is INCREASING around this earth and is destined to reach GIGANTIC proportions within the next few years.
Also, read again or send for the recent article contained in the June PLAIN TRUTH on "Volcanic Disaster — A Prophetic Reality." This free article vividly describes the increasing activity of supposedly "extinct" volcanoes around this earth — including the volcano Mt. Agung which erupted in the latter part of March and took over ELEVEN THOUSAND lives and left more than two hundred thousand others homeless!
Read Christ's description of what lies just ahead: "And 1 beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood . . . and EVERY MOUNTAIN and ISLAND were moved out of their places" (Rev. 6:12-14).
Because of REBELLION against God and His physical and spiritual LAWS men have to be literally SHAKEN to their senses! But in His mercy, God is going to CUT SHORT the days of this terrible punishment so that CHRIST may come as King of kings to teach man how to live by God's physical and spiritual laws before mankind becomes any more DEPRAVED than it already is!
Someday soon — within the next ten years or less — when your city, your home, your little "world" is suddenly SHAKEN by a devastating HURRICANE, volcanic ERUPTION, or EARTHQUAKE you will begin to see a real NEED for Jesus Christ's second coming to SAVE man from the results of SIN against his Maker!
REASON VI — Man's "Last Hope for Peace" Has FAILED!
Even while the guns were still firing and men were dying on the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the "United Nations Conference" assembled in San Francisco in the spring of 1945 to found an international political entity to preserve PEACE. Men and women of many races and colors were there from fifty-four nations — representing the majority of human beings living on the earth.
As the conference opened, General Jan Smuts of South Africa declared:
"If San Francisco fails, then I see nothing but STARK DISASTER before mankind."
"It is no exaggeration to say," said Anthony Eden, "that the work on which we are making a start here may be THE WORLD'S LAST CHANCE. . . .
Remember?
Yes, those were the words we were hearing and reading back in 1945 from the acknowledged LEADERS of modern human civilization! But go back even further. Recall that even the League of Nations — formed after World War I — was basically the same type of setup and formed for the same basic purpose. It, too, was called "man's last hope for peace"!
As all the world knows since World War II began, the League of Nations miserably FAILED!
Why?
The real ANSWER is contained in the Word of God. The book of James reveals part of it: "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye FIGHT and WAR, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your LUSTS" (Jas. 4:1-3).
Human nature is basically hateful, resentful, competitive and SELFISH. Until HUMAN NATURE is changed, we will have war!
Describing under God's inspiration all the peoples of the earth — both Jew and Gentile — the Apostle Paul states: "Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they NOT KNOWN: there is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom. 3:15-18).
Frankly, the world as a whole does NOT KNOW GOD — and it certainly does not know HIS WAY of peace!
The United Nations Is "Doomed to Failure"
Therefore, the United Nations is absolutely and positively DOOMED to failure! And it is already, in actual fact, FAILING to keep any semblance of real peace among the nations of this earth.
Even three years ago, a member of the British Parliament, Anthony Fell, stated: "For we must not delude ourselves or the world any longer that the United Nations has any useful purpose to serve, either in the advancement of democracy and freedom or in the prevention of war. The United Nations HAS FAILED. It was our creature, and it has failed us. Not because of lack of good intentions, but because it is an organization that is DOOMED TO FAILURE."
General Mark W. Clark, former United Nations commander in Korea, stated that this country should withdraw from the United Nations because "no useful purpose is served by the United States being a member." He stated: "Nothing good will happen in the United Nations. I've seen them meet time after time on very grave questions that affect the well-being of the whole world and NEVER have they solved any of them except by a slap on the wrist or some weak action." What every thinking person knows: the United Nations is failing and. WILL. FAIL to preserve peace in our LUSTFUL, fighting, warring, topsy-turvy human "civilization."
Only Jesus Christ — at His second coming as King of kings — can and WILL save man from human annihilation!
REASON VII — Soon-Coming SLAVERY for God's Birthright Peoples
Because of our national godlessness, decadence and SIN, the God of heaven prophesies that the birthright peoples of Britain and America are going to be punished with the GREATEST NATIONAL SLAVERY in the history of mankind!
The God of your Bible prophesied that the descendants of Israel would become a great "nation and a company of nations (Gen. 35:11). Although the spiritual promise of bringing forth the Messiah—called "the scepter" promise — went to Judah or the Jewish peoples, the BIRTHRIGHT or promise of physical blessings went to the descendants of Joseph (Gen. 48:16).
Through his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's descendants were to become a great nation and "company," "multitude," or COMMONWEALTH of nations dominating a large part of this earth and having TREMENDOUS national and physical blessings! In "the last days," the descendants of Joseph were to have "blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [Jacob said] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of JOSEPH" (Gen. 49:1, 25-46).
In these "last days," TODAY, very obviously and definitely to anyone with a really OPEN mind, the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh stand revealed as the peoples of the British Commonwealth and the United States of America! For — as God prophesied through Jacob — we have become in the "last days" the GREATEST single nation and "company" or COMMONWEALTH of nations that has ever existed on the face of the earth.
To fully understand this VITAL key to Bible prophecy, be sure to read and study — with an OPEN MIND — Mr. Armstrong's exciting free booklet, "The United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy." It contains the important TRUTH that our peoples are definitely the descendants of Joseph through Ephraim and Manasseh, and in Bible prophecy bear the NAME of "Israel"! For as God said clearly through Jacob (Gen. 48:16): "Let my NAME (Israel) be named on THEM (Ephraim and Manasseh)."
Thus, when the Bible speaks of the end-time peoples of "Israel," it does NOT mean merely the Jewish peoples — although they are sometimes included as a small part of such a prophecy since they were once ONE of the twelve tribes of Israel. But the "House of Israel" — not Judah, which became a separate nation and often warred with Israelis represented by the United States and British Commonwealth nations today.
When God speaks of something happening to "Israel" in the latter days, He means our peoples! He is speaking to YOU and ME! This stands PROVED as a demonstrated FACT and the events prophesied for our peoples — we can now say — are not merely "going to happen," but they ARE HAPPENING!
So wake up and LISTEN!
What WILL Happen
In a prophecy for America and Britain in the "latter days" (verse 24), written well over one hundred years AFTER Israel's first and only captivity and prophesying a FUTURE punishment and captivity, God speaks to our peoples in Jeremiah 30 of events that will strike our nations SOON.
"And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah [BOTH peoples are involved here!]. For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of FEAR, and not of peace . . . Alas! for that day is GREAT, so that NONE IS LIKE IT: it is even the time of JACOB'S TROUBLE; but he shall be saved out of it" (verses 4-7).
Here is a time of terrible national trouble — the GREATEST national trouble that has ever hit the peoples of Israel! Men are so TERRIFIED that their stomachs knot up in sickening FEAR as they bend over like a woman in travail (verse 6). A national "yoke" of SLAVERY will be put on their necks which will remain UNTIL the second coming of Jesus Christ as King of kings (verses 8-9).
As indicated, it is the time of the RESURRECTION from the dead for David will be "raised up" to be the king over the nation of Israel during the Millennium as prophesied also in Ezekiel 37: 24 and other prophecies.
Notice verse 10. God says He will "save" our peoples from the "land of their CAPTIVITY." So very obviously we are destined for national SLAVERY until we are released from this by Christ's second coming.
WHY?
The answer is contained in Verse 14 as well as many other places: "All thy lovers (our heathen 'allies' that we have relied upon instead of God) have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy SINS were increased."
There is certainly ample REASON for the Living God to intervene and PUNISH His birthright peoples through the invasion of a foreign enemy and a terrible national CAPTIVITY. Our SINS are certainly "increasing" and only a violent, national whipping will make us REPENT and return to the Living God of Israel!
What J. Edgar Hoover and Others State
Notice this recent United Press release: "FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today 'a massive avalanche' of crime has placed the man-in-the-street in greater DANGER than in any other time in the nation's history . . . Admitting there was no single remedy to the problem, Hoover said the crime wave will not abate 'as long as there is wholesale disrespect for law and order in the nation.' "
Here is what Senator John McClellan recently stated, "the internal threat of crime exceeds any immediate danger of infiltration or subversion by the Communist international conspiracy . . . It is a MAJOR THREAT to our national security."
Yes, as God stated through Jeremiah's prophecy, our national SINS are certainly INCREASED!
In addition to our growing preoccupation with sex and filth, our skyrocketing divorce rate now breaking up about one out of three American marriages, we now seem headed on a national scale toward outright PERVERSION and utter degradation. After citing film after film which dealt with rape, incest, nymphomania, homosexuality or other PERVERSIONS, LIFE magazine summarized a report on this current tendency: 'These motion pictures reflect a preoccupation with sex — and: particularly its aberrations — that is unprecedented in the U.S."
Now notice this shocking quote from the Chicago Daily News: "'It has to be said — and I'm willing to say it.' With this preface, the Health Department's new consultant in venereal disease disclosed what has been an open secret in Chicago. The disturbing rise in venereal disease cases is due largely to HOMOSEXUALS — white males who are not necessarily in the low income class."
Obviously, some of our future disease epidemics will stem directly from sexual PERVERSIONS. For we are a PERVERSE SOCIETY and we are going to have to be PUNISHED by the righteous God of heaven!
A "Voice in the Wilderness"
As The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast and The PLAIN TRUTH magazine have prophesied now for some thirty years, America and Britain are going to be PUNISHED by the Living God not only through drought, famine, disease epidemics and the other punishments mentioned in this article — but through NATIONAL CAPTIVITY and SLAVERY! In specific detail, The PLAIN TRUTH magazine has for three decades described a coming United States of Europe which will soon be dominated by revived FASCISM and directly influenced and guided by a powerful religious system having unprecedented prestige and POWER in modern times.
This union of nations in Europe — called prophetically the "Beast" in Revelation 17 — will eventually be comprised of EXACTLY ten nations or groups of nations having exactly ten heads of state or "kings" (verse 12). This revived Roman Empire will attack and CONQUER predominately Protestant America and Britain and subject our peoples to the GREATEST national degradation and captivity of any nations in modern times. As all our long-time PLAIN TRUTH readers know, we have been WARNING of the development of this system LONG BEFORE it began to develop and appear in Europe!
For the detailed prophecies of what will happen in this national slavery, and how Jesus will RETURN to this earth to SAVE His birthright peoples of Israel from utter extinction, write immediately for Mr. Armstrong's free booklet, "1975 in Prophecy." And read Mr. Ted Armstrong's stirring article on page 3 entitled: "Germany — Friend or Frankenstein?"
A tremendous REASON for Jesus Christ's return to this earth is to save God's birthright peoples of America and Britain from our imminent national SLAVERY and possible EXTINCTION in the concentration camps of Europe. This punishment is certainly coming because our SINS are increased!
Notice what Los Angeles Police Chief Parker recently warned: "Unless the nation's citizens begin now to exhibit a greater respect for law and order, America's vaunted civilization faces almost certain decay and EXTINCTION."
The handwriting is on the wall — NOW!