Man's March to Oblivion
Mankind is gaining 120 thousand mouths to feed each day and losing 20 million acres of food-producing land each year!
Raymond Bouillenne, Professor of Botany at the University of Liege, Belgium, in a paper published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said, "Man, the GREAT DESTROYER, having wiped out hundreds of animal and plant species, is well embarked on a course which threatens his own kind with extinction!" "Man," according to Bouillenne, "seems reluctant to accept his place in nature." He does great things. He tunnels through mountains, diverts rivers, builds dams, throws bridges over mighty waterways, masters the air, leaps into space, releases the atoms' forces, levels forests. "But much of mankind," he went on, "apparently has not tumbled to the elementary fact that Homo sapiens and all other animal species are absolutely dependent upon vegetation. The green plants are the only basic producers of food."
As the Belgian scientist noted, "All flesh is grass."
Yet man, in order to gain a strictly temporary increase in food production, has for CENTURIES been DESTROYING IRRETRIEVABLY the food-producing power of the land!
Bouillenne said, "Before man tries to explore the moon, he must continue to eat on earth!"
The United States Department of Agriculture says, "Hunger is to emerge as the number one problem for the world in the years immediately ahead."
In the foreseeable future, according to their report, famine looms as a prospect that can become more serious than the threat of nuclear war! In this particular report to which I refer, the Agriculture Department had set down, for the very first time, facts of POPULATION GROWTH alongside the prospects for increasing the world's supply of food. The findings of the study were described as "startling" by experts who make it their business to chart population growth. As only one shocking and salient point of the report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the case of India. India today has close to 450 million people. In another 15 short years, that population will increase by the staggering number of 187 million! Thus, a country in which the average diet is now deficient has only a FEW YEARS to find a way to feed an added population equal to that of the entire United States!
The population of Communist China is estimated to be increasing at the rate of 2 per cent or more per year. At this rate, Red China is adding 12 to 15 million people annually! That number is approximately equivalent to the total of Australia's population — yearly!
All this, at the very same time when the world's leaders, and notably among them Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev, are saying that some way MUST BE FOUND to upgrade diets in the "have-not" nations, if hungry people are to be kept from exploding into open revolt!
The prophecies of your Bible plainly WARN you of approaching DROUGHT, FAMINE and DISEASE! And the facts of these modern times plainly reveal these prophecies are about to be fulfilled before your startled eyes! So remember — one may scoff, doubt, or "kid" himself all he chooses — but THESE FACTS ARE REAL — THE PROPHECIES OF YOUR BIBLE ARE REAL!
Here's What's Coming!
Jesus Christ said one of the MAJOR events signaling the end of man's self-willed governments on this earth would be the torturous changes in the weather, and the disasters they would bring!
His disciples asked, "Tell us, when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" (Matt. 24:3).
Jesus answered, ". . . ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars . . . nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be FAMINES, and PESTILENCES, and EARTHQUAKES in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows [TRIBULATION, reads the margin]" (Matt. 24:6-8).
He said the main events leading to His return to RULE this earth would be terribly destructive FAMINES and DISEASE epidemics!
God says we are guilty of depending on foreign allies; on our own human leaders; on military might, to deliver us from international troubles. He calls such dependence on others spiritual adultery! ". . . Therefore the showers have been witholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed . . ." (Jer. 3:3).
"But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart, 'Let us now fear the Eternal our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
"Your INIQUITIES [our national and personal crimes and sins!] have turned away these things, and your sins have witholden good things from you . . ." (Jer. 5:23-25).
God is ANGRY! God is going to PUNISH the false prophets and their followers alike! "Then said the Eternal unto me, 'Pray NOT for this people for their good. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; . . . but I will consume them by the sword [symbol of WARFARE], and by the FAMINE, and by the pestilence [disease]" (Jer. 14:11-12).
God says, through the striking prophecies of Lamentations, that "they that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills" (Lam. 4:5).
In describing the terrifying results of prolonged drought and famine, God says, "Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
"They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden [BOILED margin] their own children: THEY [the children] were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people." (Lam. 4:8-10)
The people — YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES — AND YOU, unless you heed and REPENT before it's everlastingly too late — are pictured as crying out as if with one voice when they say, "Remember, O Eternal, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach!"
"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. . . . Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible FAMINE!" (Lam., chapter 5)
Yes — IT'S REALLY COMING!
Jesus Christ said conditions would grow so alarming that unless God INTERVENES to SAVE mankind from literally ANNIHILATING HIMSELF — all civilization would be DOOMED to extinction!
You are living in these prophesied times! You are living in the death throes of an age! You are living at the time spoken of by Jesus Christ in the 24th chapter of Matthew, "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
"And except those days should be SHORTENED — there should be no flesh saved: but for the ELECT'S sake, those days shall be shortened!
There it is!
That is YOUR PROTECTION — if you're willing to avail yourself of it! Jesus Christ promises PROTECTION TO HIS OWN ELECT — those who are busily engaged in doing HIS OWN END-TIME WORK on this' earth; that Of WARNING the world of what will surely come!
Make no mistake! What you have read is REAL. What you do about it is entirely up to you.