PEOPLE — PEOPLE — PEOPLE
Believe it or not — if all the food of the world, including all available surplus stores, were equally distributed among each man, woman and child — every human being on earth would be undernourished!
We don't grow NEAR enough food to feed the population of the world Now!
But today's population is only a fraction of what it will ultimately become — unless the trend is stopped, and reversed. Said the editor of Harper's Magazine, "In the future the chief danger of war seems likely to come, not from an arms race or even from the classic causes, but from an element new in history: the pressure of population." He showed how major wars appear to be "inevitable" if the earth's population continues to rise!
Harry Ferguson, UPI National Reporter, said, "The relentless rise of population in the under-developed nations seems to make (all) efforts (to feed the world's hungry) as futile as sprinkling water on the hot desert sands. An unequal race is being run between food and the numbers who need to be fed."
Maybe it's difficult for you — if your grocery stores and supermarkets still fill their shelves with food — to grasp the chilling meaning behind these overwhelming conditions! YOU'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH HEADLINES BEFORE! YOU have NEVER lived in times like these before! You live in a day of CRISIS! It's a time of impending DOOM — unless the day-by-day march of events is halted!
These conditions are REAL — frighteningly so — and you can't afford NOT to face them squarely!
The MONTHLY increase in population in India IS ONE MILLION PEOPLE! That means the malnourished and starving Indian population will have increased by more than the present total population of the United States — and within 15 short years!
For you Australians — that means India's YEARLY INCREASE matches your TOTAL POPULATION! Think about it.
China adds to her population yearly the same number as Canada's total population!
Take a look at the staggering figures of total world populations — the relentless pressure of people that will mean awesome food wars unless the course is reversed.
The world didn't reach its first billion people until comparatively modern times — 1850. But then it took only 80 years to reach the second billion. Then came another BILLION people; this time in only 30 years. This brings us to 1960. But now look at the figures skyrocket! HALVE the 30 years for the next BILLION people, bringing us to 1975! Then additional billions keep coming in ever-decreasing spans of time until several BILLIONS could be added EACH MONTH!
Could be — that is — unless MILLIONS OR EVEN BILLIONS DIE FIRST! The rising curve of population seems to streak skyward, nearly toppling over backward, when studied on a chart!
In another 24 years (21 have disappeared since World War II!), the present population of the U.S. would be 362 MILLION — DOUBLE what it is today!
But foodstuffs are being lost; destroyed by weather; sent abroad to feed starving millions — or not produced at all! WHY? WHY are all these horrifying troubles descending upon us at the same time?
Christ Foretold Our Times!
Jesus Christ was asked for the signals in world conditions that would prove His intervention in human affairs was near! He answered, ". . . You 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."
And your newspapers are literally FILLED with THOSE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS!
Further, your Bible prophesied OUR peoples would be stricken with drought, famine, and disease epidemics! We are the "lost ten tribes" of ISRAEL of your Bible — and you can PROVE that to yourself by writing for our free booklet, The United States and British Commonwealth in Prophecy.
Listen to what God said would come upon our peoples — and notice how exact conditions are becoming today! But if you will not listen to me; if you will not do all I order you . . . I will subject you to terrible woes, to consumption and fever that waste the eyes and wear life away: you shall sow seed in vain, for YOUR ENEMIES will eat YOUR crops!" (Lev. 26:14-16, Moffat).
God said, "For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but eight gallons, and the harvest shall only be a tenth of what is sown!" (Isa. 5:10) Can you imagine carrying a hundred sacks of wheat into the field to plant, and harvesting only ONE sack? But THIS HAS HAPPENED — and MORE IS COMING!
DROUGHT was prophesied to strike our peoples! Listen to the startling accuracy of these prophecies! "I will make the sky hard as iron for you and the earth hard as bronze, till you spend your strength in vain; for your land shall bear no crops, and your trees shall bear no fruit" (Lev. 26:19-20).
". . . The Eternal will strike you with . . . drought, blasting, and mildew, that shall pursue you till you perish; the sky overhead shall be brass and the earth underfoot shall be iron; the Eternal will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust dropping from the sky upon you . . ." (Deut. 28:22-24). The EXACT conditions you've just read about!
Further, God warned, ". . . a strange nation will eat up your crops and all the fruit of your labor, and you shall be utterly crushed and broken continually, till you are driven mad by the sight of it all . . . Much seed shall you carry to the field, but little shall you reap!" (Deut. 28:33-38)
We Ask, "But WHY?" Here's God's Answer!
WHY? ". . . Because you would not listen to the voice of the Eternal your God, KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS and orders for you: . . . because you have not served the Eternal your God with joy and with a glad heart for all your abundance; therefore, with hunger and thirst and nakedness and utter poverty, shall you serve the foes the Eternal sends against you!" (Deut. 28:45-47)
What about You? What about the people you know? What about our institutions, our governments, our businesses and our lodges, our entertainment and our industry, our scientists and our military men?
HAVE WE SERVED GOD? HAVE we?
No! We have served our own selfish interests — we've served our vanities and our lusts! We call FILTH "new morality"! We try to make pornography, swill, unfaithfulness, infidelity, fornication, adultery and even homosexuality into "TRUE LOVE"! We try to rescue OURSELVES from our terrible farm problems, our weather problems, our race problems, our marital and personal problems!
We want God to get out of our consciousness and our lives when the going is EASY — and then BLAME Him when the going gets TOUGH! Farmers in South Africa recently hung out signs on their fences above a bucket which said, in effect, "Throw your pennies in here, so we can buy spectacles for God that He might see the sufferings of both man and beast!" Days later they went to their churches to pray for rain!
ARE we rebellious and disobedient? Do we ignore God's Word, His LAWS which He gave for our GOOD, His Christ He sent to show US HOW TO LIVE? Yes!
God said, "And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, 'Wherefore hath the Eternal pronounced all this great evil against us?' or 'What is our iniquity?' or 'What is our sin that we have committed against the Eternal our God?' Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Eternal, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law" (Jer. 16:10-11). The judgments of God are SURE! They're COMING! And no amount of "reasoning" or human arguments and deceit will stave them off! Even now OUR peoples are beginning to feel the bite of the blade of famine and drought — of disease and wars — just as Christ said!
But There Is a Way Out!
Your Creator pulls no punches! He doesn't leave his people without a witness; nor leave them in the dark concerning His REASONS for these impending national punishments! Notice these striking prophecies of Jeremiah! "Thus saith the Eternal of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are these! [or; We're GOD'S people — This is GOD'S COUNTRY — surely GOD would not be against us?] For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, If ye oppress NOT the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed NOT innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt, Then will I cause you to dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever!" (Jer. 7:3-7)
But we HAVE NOT changed our ways to GOD'S WAYS (Isa. 55:7-8). He continues, "Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are DELIVERED to do all these abominations'?" (Jer. 7:8-10)
Our peoples LEAD THE WORLD in crime, adultery, divorce, our lust for VIOLENCE, and our myriad forms of our own humanly devised religions!
God warns, "Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Eternal: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus saith the Eternal God, Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched!" (Jer. 7:19-20)
Again — WHY? Because of our personal and national WAYS OF LIVING! We BREAK God's Holy laws with impunity — we SCORN His very existence — we DENY His prophecies — we FIGHT AND SQUABBLE over His own Holy Word, the Bible! All this, and still we "claim" to be "God's people!"
Ezekiel was inspired to predict the conditions striking our peoples today! Remember, his prophecies were directed to ISRAEL — and were written more than 120 years after Israel had DISAPPEARED from history; supposedly never to be heard from again!
But Ezekiel meant MODERN Israel — he meant OUR peoples! (Write for our free article, "WHY PROPHECY?")
"Wherefore as I live, saith the Lord Eternal, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity"!
"A THIRD PART of you shall die with the pestilence [huge continent-wide disease epidemics!] and with FAMINE shall they be consumed in the midst of you! And a third part shall fall by the sword [always a symbol of WAR in the Bible!] round about you, and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them"! (Ezek. 5:11-12)
God says His own peoples, who forgot their identity, and who refuse to acknowledge Him in their personal lives, will become a byword and a curse in the mouths of those very peoples we have tried so hard to feed and keep alive!
"Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach and a taunt, an instruction [a LESSON!] and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes!" (Ezek. 5:14-15)
When would God begin to really PUNISH our peoples as never before? How can you PROVE IT MEANS us?
Listen! "When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of FAMINE, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the FAMINE upon you, and will BREAK YOUR STAFF OF BREAD"! (Ezek. 5:16)
This means us!
It is COMING! It IS SURE! Famine is developing NOW!
But there is a way of escape from these plagues in our "modern" age for YOU — if you're willing to heed — if you're willing to SEEK YOUR GOD!
Read the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel. Read how God says any who will really HEED the voice of HIS WATCHMEN will be PROTECTED from these perilous times ahead!
Write for our free articles, "What is REAL Repentance?," "What is a REAL Christian?" and "Just What do you Mean — SALVATION?"
Remember, God promises, "You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
"A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you! . . .
"Because you have made the ETERNAL . . . even the MOST HIGH, your habitation; There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near YOUR dwelling." (Ps. 91:5-10)
Christ said, of those who are faithfully performing His Work, proclaiming His last WARNING MESSAGE to this world (Matt. 24:14), "Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial (TRIBULATION!) which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth"! (Rev. 3:10)
The choice is entirely yours. May the Creator who gives you your every breath help you to have the spiritual courage to make the RIGHT choice!