Face the Facts
Every form of human government has had its fling. It has had its try. And all have been tried in the balance of human experience and FOUND WANTING!
Isn't it about time we stop kidding ourselves, face the FACTS, and realize the ONLY POSSIBLE SOLUTION?
All the others have been TRIED! All have failed!
Modern Science stepped forward. Science and technology presented themselves as humanity's messiah that would solve all our troubles. They coupled with higher education and scholarly research said: "What we need is MORE KNOWLEDGE! Give us enough KNOWLEDGE, and all problems will be solved." In the past ten years scientific and technological knowledge have DOUBLED! And in the same decade the world's TROUBLES also have DOUBLED! The more KNOWLEDGE the scholars come up with, the worse off we become! Face it — THAT'S THE STARK TRUTH!
Communism swooped down upon a troubled earth like a giant vulture 51 years ago, saying "We are the Saviors of humanity! AWAY with religion, the opium of the people. Godless atheistic Communism is your BENEFACTOR!" But the divided city of Berlin stands as a SHOWCASE for all to see the RESULT! Though the U.S.S.R. has leaped into the space race, Communism has done it at the expense of chaining people in the clutch of stagnation, poverty, and a BACKWARD decaying society!
Science and intellectualism gave us the "scholarly" approach. They, too, said "God is dead!" They injected into our educational bloodstream the theory of evolution, by which they purported to explain a creation which had no Creator. Belief in a God, they said, was all right back in the dark ages of ignorance and superstition. But humanity is ADVANCING — we are evolving into something better and better. We now may safely throw off the swaddling clothes of superstition, and belief in God and the Bible. So this concept dominated the entire educational system.
Evolution Taken for Granted
One mother, aghast, said to me recently, "Why I never knew before that they were teaching my children in the elementary grades ideas founded on the evolutionary approach. I thought evolution was taught only in the universities. Now I discover that my children's teachers look at everything from this evolutionary approach. My ten-year-old son asked me the other day. 'Mommy, what's a god?' " I wondered why this mother had never bothered to tell her children anything about God — if she believed God exists.
So children have grown to maturity in a world whose education has thrown all concepts of God — and all respect for the Bible — to the four winds. Young men studying for the ministry have grown up with this concept injected into their minds. So even the seminaries, turning out the world's clergy have gone "Modernist." They are now intellectual. The Bible is merely the writings of an ancient and ignorant Jewish race searching for a religious crutch, formulating a superstitious concept of a god. Jesus was only another human teacher like Moses, Mohammed, or Buddha.
It has become UNFASHIONABLE intellectually to believe in a God.
But has this world been BRAINWASHED?
How About YOU?
WHY, gentle reader, do you believe the things YOU believe?
I can tell you. Primarily, one of three ways. First, about 99% of what most people believe has found lodgment in their minds because they have carelessly TAKEN IT FOR GRANTED.
They, like sheep, have gone along with what others believe. They have TAKEN FOR GRANTED what they have read, or heard from others, without question. They simply ASSUME it without proof.
Secondly, people believe only what they WANT to believe. And they REFUSE, like a stubborn mule, to believe whatever they don't WANT to believe — or whatever their prejudices resent. They want to BELONG. So they accept whatever is popular.
Third, a very FEW believe at least some of the things in their convictions because they have questioned, sought ALL the evidence, and have PROVED what they believe to be true. But NOT MANY have travelled this trail.
But these facts remain: You can PROVE, if you truly are intellectual and have a balanced and unprejudiced mind that evolution is FALSE, and that GOD does exist. And I mean a great supernatural PERSONAGE, a great Spirit BEING, of supreme mind, intelligence, knowledge and power, who CREATED EVERYTHING that is.
And this Supreme CREATOR MAINTAINS His Creation. That is to say, He RULES — He GOVERNS His creation.
God CREATED matter. I can PROVE by the facts of radioactivity that matter has not always existed. There was a time when radioactive elements of matter DID NOT EXIST. They came into existence. Science does not yet understand all there is to know about matter. We know there is organic, or living matter — and there is inorganic matter. But in matter there is energy. All matter is not lifeless, static. Man has learned how to utilize electricity, but he does not know what it is!
A Truth Few Know
Something else man does not know: Acting on LIVING matter — that is, the matter that composes human beings — are certain inexorable SPIRITUAL LAWS. Man has learned about SOME of the laws in nature — gravity, inertia, for example. These laws WORK! The evolutionist has to start with matter already in existence — with laws already in force and acting on matter.
To MAINTAIN what He has created, God rules with LAWS. He set in motion the laws scientists find already existing — gravity, inertia, laws of nuclear energy. To MAINTAIN His creation God GOVERNS with a GOVERNMENT based On LAWS.
Affecting human beings, and human relationships, are certain inexorable SPIRITUAL laws science knows nothing about. Yet these laws REGULATE man's relationships with fellowman. Not understanding them, man does not know how to get along with his neighbor.
These laws also regulate man's relationship with His MAKER. Our Maker is the CREATOR. He PRODUCED all that is. Therefore everything we might WANT comes from Him. Man has cut himself off from contact with His MAKER. Therefore man has cut himself off from SOLUTIONS to all his troubles!
God Almighty is WORKING OUT A PURPOSE HERE BELOW!
This PURPOSE requires TIME. Our Maker has revealed that He marked out a duration of seven thousand years to accomplish this supreme PURPOSE. The first six thousand He has, primarily, "kept hands off," having made man a free moral agent. Man has been allowed full latitude to CHOOSE which way he will go. Man has tried to set up governments to regulate humanity in a manner diametrically CONTRARY to the LAWS of God's Government. Man has flouted, ignored, rebelled against, and flagrantly DISOBEYED the LAWS of his MAKER! And every wail of human woe resulted from violation of these LAWS.
God REVEALED them. They have been accessible. But man has gone his own way contrary to them.
These Laws of God are THE WAY to peace, happiness, prosperity, wellbeing. They are the CAUSE of these wanted good things. Man has gone THE WAY that has CAUSED all his troubles.
The six thousand years are about up. We may have another three, five, or ten years to go. God Almighty has ALLOWED man — that he LEARN THE LESSON — to PROVE by human experience, that he is incapable of ruling what GOD created. Man has written the lesson — not yet learned it.
Only GOD can RULE — sustain, preserve, and MAINTAIN His creation. And MAN is the focal point of all His creation! For God created MAN, NOT after any animal kind, but after God's own kind. Man is formed and shaped like GOD. Man has a MIND like God, only it is fallible. Man was made to be begotten, and then born of God. Man has a potential so tremendous his mind cannot quite conceive it. Man has stumbled along, WRITING lessons, never yet learning them.
Man's Only Hope
Over 1900 years ago, Jesus Christ came in human flesh — a MAN. He brought a MESSAGE from God our Creator. His Message was GOOD NEWS. It was ADVANCE NEWS. He taught about a GOVERNMENT. He called it "The Kingdom of God." A Kingdom is a GOVERNMENT!
The Scriptures affirm He was born to be a KING. But He said His Kingdom was NOT Of THIS WORLD. Also His inspired instructions to man say that humans — flesh and blood — CAN NOT SEE, ENTER, OR INHERIT the Kingdom of God.
But Jesus was BORN to be a KING. He said He had first to go to the Throne of the Government of the UNIVERSE (in heaven), to be officially crowned, then, in God's due time (after the 6,000 years), He is to return in all the Supreme Power and Glory of the Almighty GOD. He is coming to set up GOD'S GOVERNMENT over ALL NATIONS.
That IS MAN'S ONLY HOPE!
It's time we quit kidding ourselves. Our troubles WILL be solved and ended. But only when, by Almighty divine POWER, man is FORCED against his will to OBEY THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD — living the way that will CAUSE peace, happiness, abundant WELL-BEING — true JOY!
Everything is a matter of CAUSE and EFFECT. Look at today's EFFECT, and open your eyes to the CAUSE!