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TRUTH about

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".. T Is commonly SUPPol!l:d, to 1!.... day, thllt the J·:ws t.re the Rouse of ISRAEL, But that is not b'lIe!

It Is commonly believed todn,y, that le3\1s Hcame unto His own, nnd His own received Him not." and that He then said, "Lo, I turn to the Gen. tnes." Neither is this tnl(~,

The real truth about Israel i~ not renernlly known, No text in the Bible ~ys Jesus, during li ts earthl:r min' litty, ever turned to the Gentiles ! Quite the coll'tral'Y,

Then what is the TRU'.rH? It is more amazing than any fic tion! 1t is II plain as ABC, in the Bible. Yet there is no story of fiction as strange, as absorbing, so paeked with ;fascinut, ill!!' lnterest and suspense, II.S this !tullY of ISRAEL, simply and p\l\inly Jlltilrwoven thru the pn~QS of the Bib. l. trOD\ Gene~i.s to Revelation, It is tI .tf.,ry repl~ with thrills, A~ld the -tr:LJI(ccst thing about it is thl~t it IS atrau!!tl to l1s! Why hnv~ we not knQI\'I/ Ilnd understood this plail1, :11m. pi!!, l~ihle truth?

Whlll; does the Bible say ': It !lay s, pblirtlV' enou~h in John 1:1): .. He rlIRjIl \Into His own, linn Hi~ own re, ccivcd Rim not," But the nll:(I, \'6r~e

"..J.'1"he ;J;-l'Qphecies of the Bible'! have been 1'I\1l"\t.lr ml"\\1\I\"""~()(', A'II' r'o \VII)JuIOI',

WHO a.rB "ISRAiffiTll to~II.Y T Somo slI.r "'J.'hb .Jows," Soma IllY

"'rh o ClallN:h," Somo 811,y the ,Amor. lCt\f\ ll'\tl t(\f).} o..n~\ othQl'» ,my Garno­th inG' OldO,

Horo 1. the moat to.ecll\Mlllll' JltuI'Y ovor told, Wh:lV\A)yor Idoll.8 YOI.I h4V<l hn<l. llut th ~m In l\I!)oY1l.nce tor l\ whllo \ ",,11 lu~ 1.101 ~t\l<ly \1111

l'R1J"l''H ot tho BIBr~! Whet/lol' slce.ptlO Ot Splra.tlllod

Chl' l~tll\.n, yO\\ will tlnd 11\ , this Bor. 4o~ or 1I.I't1cl~ s 11.11 Arrlll KlnJ: 'rHU'l'H, lOll/:, hl~LlulI, It IIj II. verltl1olo 1\ !i)Y thnt w lll 'u nlo~"Ic the 1l00J'H to ,\ n~W lIJld elollr UN DERS'l'AN!)INO ot tho .BIble. 09pecll\lly the PHOP1-I. ECIES I

..... nLl 1\ will OPflll the! t IQod.gu.t\lJJ to Po. ~oyou#! nalV erpllrloncQ-.jln Ollen cbClJlnol to TRU'l'l·I..-whlch will brIng- ro,olclnll' to tho 8QIII/ Hare. We toel 8urn, yoU will find tho atrangest. moat tllsolnMlnll', In· tQtQRtll\1: ato,\,y yO\\ I1VOl' 1'01\.11, H lon lla to Cln f\~tO\1J\dlnlf 8allPRISE! You won't Wl\nt to mlllll C\ Hingle In~tC\hnont,

dOes not lIay, as wo have supposed, thot He turned then to the Gentiles. It says: "But as lllll.n:l a~ received HIm, to them gn~'c He power to be. come the sons of G~\~ oven to them that believo on Hi" 'fIlWH1."

It WR8 the Apofltle PI~\iI, yelU'~ Inter,

(old,

Israel who snid, 111o, we turn to the Gen. tiles," (Acts 13 :46). Paul was {\ 8p«"­

inl apostle set apart to Cill":y the GOIo pel to the Gcntilc!3,

It is true that wnen the Jews re­jected Jc~us, .!Ie tur.ned to Mothe? poeple. And therein lies the gl'o~te.1It mystery of thifl time. This people WIlS

NEITHER JF.W NOJ3, GENTIL1~! To whom, then did He tllrn? H.

said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of IRme~." (Mut. 15 :24), But, wo nsI~, n~e not tho Jewa the House of ~srnel? Tbe J/lWS +.hem­selvc!l clLdm tho)" nre; We }uwe alwAya supposed they were. But let us look. n.t a. few plAin ::icriptul'ca, HOUSE OF ISUAEL NOT JEWSf We turn, f()r instanco, to 1\ text such

fiS Jc)'emillh 81 :31, where it saYI: "llehold, the days come, !!/llth the Lord, that ~ will mnke a ne ',v coven. ant with the House of Israel. and with tho House of Judfth," And we s\JPPUs, thnt the Almightl' who inspj1'ed this scripture was merely wMtina wonIa in an unnecessary repetition, sayiJlg', in effect, 1'1 will make a new Covr.n. nnt with the Jews, and with the Jews." We have carelessly assumed thl\t the two te:ms IIHouse of Ie RAF.1. " Ulld IIHouse of JUDAH" Are morly t W(j difforent phrnseR to flX-

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press one and the same thing, nut let III see,

Notice enother seripture, Hosea 1:6.7: "I will no more have mercy up· 011 the House ot ISRAEL j but I will IItterly take them away, But I will have mercy upon the Houso of JUD AH, and will SIlvoe them by tho Lord their God."

Notice, again. the 4th chapter and 15th veI'lle of Hosea: "Though thou, lSRAEL, play the harlot, yet let not JUDAH offend." And again: "The 'backsliding ISRAEL hath justified herself more than treacherous JUD. AH." (Jer.3:11).

Turn to, and read of your own Bible, lzekie187 :15.22. The prophet is told to take two sticks in his hands. He is told to write on one the nama of JUDAH and on the other the name HOOSE OF ISRAEL. Then he is told to join them together into one stick. The expllUlation, beg-inning verse 18, 11 that, at the time of the Second Com. ing of Christ, the time when He sets !is hand again the SECOND time to rather the l'emnant of his people (Isa. 11:11. He will make of the TWO NATIONS, one called "House of Jud· a1t," nnd the other called "House of !SMEL," once more ONE NATION. And it distinctly says, in verse 22: "1'hey sh.a.ll be no more 'l'WO N A. !IONS, neither shall they be dividc<l ilto TWO IUNGDOMS any more ... At 1111." They nre, todaY, ENTlHJ"CI .. Y DIFFERENT, SEPARA'!'B NA. "!'IONS. There are no redundant rep. etitions in God's Word! When the Bible says "Israel and Judah," it speaks of two different nations al, together-one cal:eu ISRAEL, the other called JUDAH.

Those people who constitute the BOUSE OF ISRl0i~L nre not J eW9 ! '.n\ey never wel'O J eWI!! They do not LOOK like Jews. The "show of their countenance" witnesses Against the Jew, JUDAH- not against Isrn.el. See lsai/\h 3 :1, 8.9, and observe this pas. Ale is referring to JUDAH, nnd not to ISRAEL! The twelve :ribes of the Children of Israel were divided into TWO DIFFERENT NATIONS, This we shall show by the scriptures in n later chapter.

But Jesus was of Judah. When Jesus came unto His own, He CAme unto JUDAH, The word "Jew" is only a niek.name for "Judah". But Judah the Jews, Jesus' own nation, roceived Him not. They rejected Him. And thun to whom. did He tum'(

'ro WHOM DID JESUS TURN?

He plainly said, that RtJ turned to the LOST SHEEP of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL. Not Judah, no~ the Jews­)'SRAEL! A different people and nl\.

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tion altogether, Todny Israel js often spoken of as

"The Lost 'l'en Tribes." For they in. cluded TEN of the original twelve tribes, Jesu/I' parable in Luke 19 :11. 27, pJcturJng' Himself as the nobl th man wllo went to th~ far country, Heaven, to get for Himself a kingdom and to RETU~N, illustrates this truth. Verse 14 shows He had cit. izens-the Jews1 His own to whom He came, and who, as this \"erse sny!'!, rcj ected Him. Verse 13 shows to whom He turned-TO HIS TEN SEH. V ANT S-symbolizing- the TEN TRIBES-THE LOST TEN TRIBES -the LOST S1mEP of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL!

We would know, too, that Jesus, llI\turully commAnded His disciples to go to the people to whom He turned after His own, the Jews rejected Him., And so He did. Notice His commission to His twelve: "And when He had called Unlto His twelve-these twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way 1)[

the GentileSI amt into filly city of the Sa.marit.'l.ns enter ye not. But GO RATHER TO THE LOS1' SHEEP O.F THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL." (Mnt 10: 1,5.6).

Instead of turning to the Gnn· tiles, Jesus commanded them, "Go Not" to the Gentiles. Judah hAd reo j ected Him! He sent them to the LOST ~rEN TmBES-the J~ n S T HOUSE OF ISHAmL,

The Jewish historian, Josep}l\ls, who lived in the time of Christ, and into the war of 70 A. D., when thG Ro· mans destroyed Jerusalem and drove out the Jews into every nation on earth, writes that in his day the Ten Tribes of the HOllse of ISRAEL weN rcll beyond the EuphrAtes, and hnd migrated flU' I:>eyond the bounds of the Roman Empire. (Antiq., Book XI, Ch, 5, Sec. 2). He said their language had chunged, (Antiq XII, 2, 1), and only the two tribes of Judah And Ben. jamin, constituting the House of J~ld· ah, were in his <1I\Y under dominion of the ROIlUUlS. (Antiq. XI, 5.2.)

Israel is called "LOST SHEEP.'I Yes, doubly lost! Lost in identity, sup· posed to be Gentiles! Lost spiritually, and in need of salvation!

WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER?

The original npostles obeyed the commission. For more than ten yenrl3 Peter and the others labored around Pnlestine, endeavoring first to reach the Jews, Chrl~t's own, to whom He had come, But tho Jews had reject. ed their Messiah, and Peter and his fellow evangelists could do little, 'rhen Peter was sent of God, first, to OPI)Il

up Sfllvation to Gentilos direct by his

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visit to the house of CorneliuB, (.Acts 10,) And then Peter and the othera DID GO TO CARRY 'l'HE GOSPEt. TO THP. LOST HOUSE OF ISRAEL -the Lost 'J.'en Trfbes--clcar beyoncl the bounds of the Roman Empir"

And thus it is, that from the time Peter visited the house ot Cornellu he and hIs brethern evangelists d~ out of sight as though the earth lla4 suddenly swallowed them! God had orda.ined thp,t the House of Israel wu to be LOST in IDENTITY-as we shall later see. Peter's whereaboutl, therefore, could not be revealed, That is why, fI'om the 12th chapter of Aetl and on, we read altog~ther about Paul and the young eVAngelists he '\VIS tl'lIining and sending out in the work tlomong the Gentiles. Peter hl\d C)b01" ed the Lord's commission. He hac) Q'one to that strange land to which had migrated the LOST sheep of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL! And thus it oc. cUJ'l'ed, as Jeremiah had prophesiedt "'llhus saith the Lord, 'fhe people which were left of the sword found g-rru:e in the wilderness i even IS· HAEL." This could not apply to the Jews,

But what of the ministers rmd even gelists sinc\~ Peter's time? Have the1 obeyed our Lord's commission to seareh out, to seele and FIND the LOST House of Israel, And to can)' the Gilspel to them? This commis. sion upplies to tho entire mtnistr)""'Clll' the Church <lfspenSI\tloll, because in Ilis final commission to His discipl~ regarding the New Testa.ment min .... try. Jcsus said: "Go ye therefore, And teach all nations, ba.ptizing them In the name or the Father, and of the Son, aTld of the Holy Ghost: ten.cb1nr them to ohserve a.ll things whatso­ever I have (.'Qmmnnded yon." (~tat. 28:19.20). He had commanded them, "Go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel,"

But have the ministers and evan­gelists soujht out the Lost Sheep of the House of Isrnel? Ha.ve they loe. cd them, and carried the Gospel to them?

THE TIME HAS COME TO FIND THEM

The prophet Ezekiel foretold their negligence in this commission.

"'rhus seith the Lord God unto the shepherds i WOG be to the shephel"da of Israel that do feed themso\voea! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? . , •• 'l'he diseased have y8 not strengthened, neither ha.ve yo healed that whi'ch was sick, neither hAve l' sought tha.t which was lost •••• Mr sheep wandered through all the moun. talns, nnd Ullon every high hill: ye.'\, my flock (the LOST sheep ol the

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A HEART TO I-JEART TALR WITH

THE EDITOR

As this issue goes to press, }:urope fl on the brink of wnr, We ·jo not believe a gener~l EUl'opean V\'~\r wiJI (orne-yet. But a mere in~ idellt may now plunge the whole world suddenly Jnto war,

We SEE the prophecies being ful, flllod, day by day, These events are nEAL! The DAY OF THE LORD, with its horribleo PLAGUES, is Almost U\1UJl us! But the fact that so bur· dell:! us-frightens us-is the drousy unconcern of the average professing Christian! Spiritul1.lIy ASLEEP!

My deal' friends and bl'ethern, does it meon more to you thn.n mere inter, esting' reading ? Do you realize fully that YOU, yourself, must DO SOME. THING? Unless we are READY, it will corne on us I\S II. snm'6! ~l'he proph. ecies jlre God's WARNING to us!

"Wat(h ye, therefore," Jesus Wl\rn· ed, "and PRAY ALWAYS, that ye nlay be aecountccl worthy to E~:CAPE

11.11 these things, and to stand before tho Son of man," (Luke 21 : ~6)

~Iany, many a proftlssing Chriatian, CAJ't)essly drifting spiritually, will reo cej\'1! the surprise of his life, when thc PLAGUES begin to fall on him l

"Let us not sleep, as do othe),S, but let liS WATCH, and be !lObel' , , , Prny without ceasing," (I Thes, 5:6,17),

"It is now high time to AWAKE out of sleep." (Rom. 13:11).

Perhaps YOU need to gO to some secret plnce for n QUIET'1'IME, alone with God - to EXAMINE YOUR. SELF whether you are as close to the Lord as you ;!uppose, Perha.ps you need a few days of FASTING a.nd prayer-to search, out, confess, and root out some secret hidden sin, or something you hl\.ve refused to sur· render! Perhaps you need to get the world out, n.nd the Holy Spirit in. It mllY not be EASY! It may take hours -- days - of fasting, supplica· tion, rending your heart, confessing your sins. Rend Joel 2 :12.18, find Deut, 4 :29,30, both prophetic instl'\IC. tiQn for OUR day!

And surely all who are awake to the SERIOUSNESS of this time, will be filled, too, with a compassionate burden thnt OTHERS may be warned, and will do all possible, even at great sncrifice, to }-lJ!:LP spread tho warn, ing message, The harV'6st is plente<>us but the laborers are FEW, l need fellow.laborers to help with their menns, Let us put our \mited efforts into the work of the Lord with new and burning 7.enl. God's Message MUST GO ;FO;R.'l'H !

now TI{J~ PJ;J\lN TRU'l'J[ III .I.'fJllT.lSHIW

:lome Ask, ";How C1\n yoU publlel\ a. m n!l'll.Zlno woithout II. .ubacrlpt lon prlc e I\nd withou t ndvortl8lnlr?

'Vo hn.vo s e t out to conduc t Lilla wor k GOP'S W A.Y, a.n(\ wo ho.vo faith th tl.t way w Ill euoocQd ,

We AI'e endeo.vorlng to .prea.d the TnUE COSPEL, p.nd the Goepel mu~ t go J.l'nillJ];l! J'e8u8 sa.ld "FHE E. LY yo hll.ve r eC'o)lved, trealy GIVEI " '.rhe tlll " Q's ot Cod o.ro "wlthout 1n QllCy AUc.! without l)rico. " ( Ibn .. 55: 1).

God's PlJ;I.N tor flnPon<llng HIs wOl'k Is thru tM 'l' ITHTCS 0.1\(\ treo. will Oll!lj"j~J.~INGS or Hlu chlhlr"n, We heltevo God e;:rpQot. ovory Chrl.UlI.n to ta.ke nellvo pa.rt In ~)ltell.dlnr: tho GO~Jlel tv others, And We know or no 1, 111.00 whore YOUI' l lthes "lid oftorlng8 CO.Il IT\oro ...rr.c. ti voly s . rv. th o L or(\ tll"n 11\ h elp­Ing )lllbUOh T.h,o PlAIN !J.'RU'1"H, Pond to co.rry on '1'ho HAD IO CHURCH Ol~ GOD, r eMhln&, II. hundrod thouolI.l1d 80ula ovory woelc

Tho PJ.lA.IN '.r.nU1'}-r I. l i'l'H:E! You glvo YOur otr~rln!! or t1thq o.a UNTO '1'H E LORD, 'We roco lvo It u.. Ii'RO.M tho LORDI It (10"" not pay for YOUR ~1I1.>B\lJ'I\,t101l-nll(1 It I" YOUR PART In aproo.dlnlO t h o trllo Go~pDI to Q '1'H .)1; nS ! Thl_ work Is conducted on Gael's prlncl. PID or "GIVE" , not ~lte Gentile prlnolple or " GET."

l!lvory dol lll.r to cv.rry on thl. !,roM world mllot.come by ]r.ll.ITH In a.nswer to be l,ovlng- pra.y~r, Thero i. 110 r lnntoouR h q,rv •• t, but tho ISoboror. a.ro SO few! ! Wil o.ok live ry beU""or to ,PRAY wIth II', tha.t tho 1;.0 1'd \V ;\I oond forth MORF. LA\30R'P.!RS Into Hie vine. ynrd, h81,Plng wlth tithe, p,ne! Mre ... Ing_, th l,t, overy bal mn.y b~ pald l!

fiVhai is Modern Science?

"Science" is a mystic word that frightens many people, Without rea· Iizing' it l.'! sup&rstition, there II :a tendency aboard to accept whatevep "Science" says ns TRUE. Indeed, t.c question any statement of "Sci~nce" would expreslS unthinkable ignorant •• Thus to many people, "Science" be. comes a god, They regard it with aye They nccept its pronouncements wlth­out qU~lItion, ,And yot the erron And. discarded hypotheses of "Science" form one of tho g'l'ea.test comie chron.­icles of history!

The Bible sa.ys to "PROVE ALL THINGS," '1'00 many "lIeientifle'l teachings are mel'e theories, totanv unproved, Let us uso due ea.1,1tlon 1ft acceptinft them,

Tho TRUTH Ahout ISRAEL Contlnuod from (la.IrO 2

House of Israel) was scattered upoft !Ill the fo.ce of the earth, And none did search or seek after them • • , • thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am I\g'a!nst tho shepherds: and l will requiro my flock at their hand, ••• Behold I, even I,wlll both search D11 sheep, and seck them put •• , • I will seek that which was lost, and brin; again that which WIIS driven AWAY."

(Ezek,S4: 1·16.1.

The time when the Lord Hlmaelf shall descend from heaV'en with a shout: when He shall set His haB4 ngain the SECOND time to ree" .... the remnant of His people: when lle shall once more reveal the identitr and disclose the whereaboutr. of the true ISRAEL, is drawing very near. Tho 'rimes allotted to the Gentiles fot supremncy 011 the earth is over, ThOle Times ended completely with the enet.. lng of the summer of 1936, Israel waa to be BLINDED until the ending of the Gentilc 'rimcs (Rom, 11:7~ 25·26) ,

The time has come for the blind­ness to bo removed I The time hal come when wo ca.n locate LOST IS­RAEL, It is the most fascinating. the most nbsorbing, the most inter­esting story ever written-str"nKOl', indeed, than fiction. .In the instal­ments which tollow we shall untold the story, from Genesis to Revel.\tlol1, in Its simplicitl', beauty, and truth. WHO, a.nd WHERE, is ISRAEL ':roo DAY?

~To Be Continued)

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TRUTH about CHAPTER 11

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Israel (.'10 D'S UNCOND!TJ ONAt COyr:NANT W!T~·! ABR.AHAM

m EFORE the davs of Moses there if!) was no nation known all God's

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particular nation. PriOl' to Moses thero W'~d no written 'YoI'd or Ood-no InIoplroc1 SorlpturCfl-no Dible! ! I

OOd l\Q.d cOD\munlCQ.tod, provloualy, thru

tell\al:\ t.wored p~tl'la.rcha who honded "run t&mlllo.. nut Mter tho Flood. 11.0 tho reo populatIon or tho oll.rth multlpllc.d ra.pldly Into nllllon3, ODd needed II. bl'OI1.,lor "goney lllru which to o)ommunlcate lind doni with

m .. n ItI II d.. Once Il.C'lL1n mAn hs.d turnod, 11.$ he ha.d

lion .. b.t~re tho tIOo.<.I, $Oley to hlB O\VN ""i" nnd devlcse. Onco more ~ho human ... co 1/01;'11.11 to wa.lk c<lntrnry to GOd'~ wa.y. u }to ha.d cOlllma.nded In HI, Ln.w Onc~ ar.a.lll aln rAn "'Ulll'a.nt. and m~n began to 10»0 11.1\ 1'oraon"l knQw" .. lll'o 0/ Coli. Th. IIt.Uona turned to the worshl1l ot Idola.

tio (loll .eloo~.d olle ml\n, Abram, who ..... uprl .... ht I\.n,l wllllnl!', I\nd oll.l1od him out ot Ills fl\'OIAtrou8 "nvlronOlont_wny trOIn III. lcln,1 .' ~<.1 I\nd !'Oollle-lnto n.nother lund . .\ond there aod AI>P"a.Nd to him Ilnd n\l~do wI'" him An unoou,IUtonnl, Illlhrl'AIUlbltl COY.E:-lA."l'l', ThIs COVlllll\nt WllJJ tho tound· IUlon oC tllo nAtion lurnol. It I. ~he bnsls ot \he NR\\- Covona.nt, thl'u whIch We lrulY llltlorit ~ern&1 lito. In II. sensa, it Wl\a tho "Ivot upon which 00\1'. wholo PIM ot reo 4em'lltloll _lnJrl!, J.t ma.,lo Abrnhl\m tho fl .. lIly li'ATllJLlH ot a ll oC Opd'H TXHlPlo.

THE PURPOSE OF ISRAEL

Inl.el, God's na.tlon, began wJth ONE XAN • .And o( th1~ 1l(~rtlouIM 1In.\lon, God _hi; ·"'J.·h:!.1!1 llftoplo ",Ul.YC I (UN \Cd tor nlY­

..,It: thoy IIIII\U .. how fO I '-b fir )l",l~'" (bu., ":21. AI"" 'hft su.lll 1.0 thr"n. "Ye ar~ my "."ITN'J1!:lRJ;:e rla.lth tho Lord ~hu.t I I\m

Ood." (1.'\11.. H:l:) A~\\I'I, "I will IIQ.lIQtlCy I"Y II'rcl1( n.\mo .... lI.n<1 thll n(>"Ihen 0111,11 !rne,., thn.t .t ."n the 4:11'<1, 6(4lth ~ho Lord C/ ... ", whon I ~hft.tI h" ,.,\nCltlrlod IN YOU b~fol'8 th..,lr "y<l~." (;r~:lok. 3G;2~).

do, .... 1110 trom lolooUni' & sIlO~Ia.lIy·pra. ...,rad ... nd ""n"Dltled IInll thru which JOl>". ....... to be born, Gou'" pu~pose In o~tu\)ll"hLlIg 'lila lI\erll.l JlMlono.l r",co Wf\B to hl\ve on earth A peoplo ""~ .houl<\ _how tpMb Hb pI,alse, thrll whom 'Vila he:l.tllon lIould bO lod to God. I.r~()\ 'Wu.H t'orm.e,:t. to bt!come n n-n.tio,nsJ clI"~OdIAl\ olor /l. l'o\'oIMlon or God's will t.O rn;a,n-n nMlon thru WhOBO l>l'OphGts Ho coll14 communtcw.to-II. nAtional a",uncy tor th. P'R.ESmHVNl'ION ot HIs wrItten Word. ani! ttlru whom It Ml\o\lId bo cr..rrlc.d to tho World. A nMIQMI I\.Il'COC)' tOI' tho proplI.lrl\.. lInn or tho trllo lcnowlodgA II.Tld wOI"Bhl!> ot tho true 004.

Ood "lwu.Y8 bogt\n~ tlllnS's, thru human ,l'Ctncle". III :I. IImn.1I "'''>' nnd ()j\Uee. them to K'I'OW /l'r8ll.t So thIs n",tlon wa.s IAlI.rtu(\ wltll ONE surren,IOrlnlt' Inan.

In tho l~th C'hn.ptor ot aallSls. be~lnnlng the flr.t v~r~, we ren.J: "Now thu LOI'u hAd said unto .A'br",m. OAt Ith~e out at thy c.lul)UY, fl,na from thy ltlndrnu, 11.11(\ trom thy (Mhor' , houoo, unto 1\ I:l.n,\ thM I will I'II.ow thoo: hi\(1 I wlli nll\l<" thoo IL g'l'Qut

",,11011, Anti 1 will bl~Il" t1t~", II.n,1 tnltlc ,' th)' tu\mft I'rlUlti (ll1tt lth.,lI "llldt hu II. lJl~I, .... h"r: •. "It t \\t\ll lItl'l1" Uu',u lhlll hlml,. thl~nt 1\1\" ",,,.,,, "1m ~Ihn' .t"I I ~I·lh ·, h,"11 .",,1 Iu 'htM~ tJ.\IlI\ all tAmllloli ut thu t~ll'lh htl IJll\'llll>'l l" <,:lOll. U:l'~)'

THE 'l'WO·FOLD PROMISES NQtlco 'IN\rtlcul .. rly th .. t tho l'roml~Oll to

,Abrahl\m LLro 'l'WO·1!'Ot.D. ))'ll'l$t, QQd gave

Mm II. tlalhly, rl\.c:I:1.1 llromhlo. Hla tloah.lI.nd.

blOOd deacondll.Ma WOI"I) to grow Into tI.

OREAT NATION. This promlae WILS or rlICo.

muJt~pllclty ot /luud, Second, God lrll.ve hln\

the 8plrltual 'PromIse upon whIch roltta our hope Qt BI\.!vn.tlop. In him. thru HlS Dl;:"'l. CENDAN'"r, Cl-IItJ:S'l' were nil no.tlon~ or cA~th ~ncludtnl: Ll-cnttlea, to bo bleasetl .

Fuw hnv. ever aeen it. but Ood hll.~ al· wnys OOncornod H Im:>!l It, In dOl1l1ng' with 1Iis oo.rthly children. with two phl\90S, tleijh. Iy And IIplrtUI\I. Too orton lItorl\.\ ma.tcrlnl thJnl\"H In tho BlI.>l~ L\ra IIplr\t\ll1.lbCd, n.nd o·Cton a. t1~~hly Jl\lb~tltu'te IS acceptod tOl' tho true Jplrit\lal, It ~!llmporllll.J1t. vltl\lIy 1m­poMlI.nt, thllt we understa.nd lind properly als\lng\llah. S.nce we nl'D now FI.ESJ-I, lJUt mll.Y. through tho no,~p~l, beoomo SPIRT'!.' (I Cor. lG:42.53), GOd 18 11f\ttlr(\lIy toon • Dorned, both wolth the fle_hly I.Iml with t:", ~I,lrlt\'a.l , '1'hla Icn·ow lcdlfO I" II. VI'.rAI. J<.I,; :l to ",n undcr"t"'llIlng- or Ood'~ 'WPI"(I !

.... nd 80 lI>t "0 /lit the (lutnet distinguish olearly the 'I'WO..J.~OLO nspeot ot (l·od's promIse. to Abl'<l.'hnm. Ood nn.ld, "I will ma.lcc or thee a. /froM n/~tlon:' N(Jne will deny thnt tl,o nll.thm of ISnAmI., whloh fOr­mo.rly oocuplod tha (,ountry we now cI<l1 Pl\.le~tlM,-1\. tloMhly n,\.CE-wll.a In tnl· t11lmo.nt ~t thc"t promise. God 11.180 8,~ld, " nnd In tlloo II'nllll 1\\1 tll-mlllps ot t1~o ~\Lrth bo bloB3Cd," Nona ~ha.lt dony, ... nor ro ... <.1-Inll' q.alllt.\"'n& ~:~. thM this In ... SPlIWI'. UAL promloe, 1· ~tUltlnl." -to th~ ClOHPl1:L. l"ur We rend: "And tho ~('I'I 'ptu re, torseelng' thlLt ODd would JUl/qc~· the horuthen tnru 1.:\i\\, prcnche<t l,ofOr o ~hl' IfOSP"1 ''''to 1\111'1L1,,,,,n, dn.ylnr:, In thl.~ IIhull .1l1 IIIlUons 'be IIIC1<1>1c",I,"

THE CHRISTIAN'S INHERITANCE

And now not'lce tbo 7th vcne ot QonRw 12: "Anti tho Lord nppo3.rcI~ IInto Abr",hl\lII nil <l .'tl.1<1, Unto thy 8001111''''0 I)'HIS T,AN D ... ·

'l'hL1.t i~ the Inhc,·\tll.nco 00\1 'Promls'III Abra.h,\m. A IHI, Jt YIO lJ.o Chl' lut's, then f,,·O

Y Jil Arnhnnl :.' children ,,"<.I HE·l nS " •• cordlnlr to thu..t l'nO,M.Ii3m--hp-ll's of 'l'HAT LAN]), Abru.hll,m ' ~ It .... CIAL do~cQndl\n'tli ,1; .1 occupy that Io.nd \l1ltl1 th<:y 'slnnod so II'NCV' lously the T~Qrd W<l.d torcod to IIrlvu th,nll out. An r\ I .. b,·n.ham'. de""el\dnnt~. when lin. "\ly born C\/l'n.ln by ro.,urroctiol\ or trll.n.lu. tlon, shl\\I Inherit thll.t sn.rne lu.nd fOI"<!vll"!

JAto I' 00,1 I'~pal\.lo<l tl\hl promIse ot Ill' helr~ll.nC:e .ot tho Iu.nd, Inrorming- .AlJrll.'n how lOll)! he a.lld hlB chll<lron shOUld POs' ae~a It. It Is In OonclI\a 13 : H·1G. "An<1 \ohe Lort\ 8",ltl unto Abl·lLm. AHo.r tl\lIt JJot WII" HOllll.l'C.t",d rl'om h.lm, :Utt up thlno eyeq, ""II look trom th." 'PIn"" wher tll{,u I\.rt nOI'1.11. w .. rd, nnLI ~outh W~I'tI, I\nd olUltwa.rd, l\..14 we"twa.rd : to.' All the Ia.nd whlch thou Readt, thee !\VIII I glvIY It, ancl to thy "60d rUI'CVtlr. An,l I will malc". thy lAud "'~ tha dURt ot the 60,l'Ith: 80 tha'! It n. ml'n Cu.n numl/!lr tho d\l~t ot the e1\1·th, then ~11I1.1I thy ~" ''' I fj.1~0 be n\1mbcro<.l ."

And horo. not.lce I\, furthor pr(\l1llne or nACJ~: AI>I·llhll.m'8 doscenctAnts 111"" to \Jo I\lI numOI'O\\O jUt th., dUBt, which Cllnllot 1J0 IIUll\iJo.l~\[I. 'l'hl. rO,·!.I·a, not to tho ONlll tlOb<1 , ell!'l.t, to whom 'Ill uplr iLulI1 Ill'omlo"a 1.,,1'· 1,\111. rl'h,11 11I-.l",IIIU I" II()~ LIt O'HACl~, bu.~ ot HAON, Inultlpllty ut HuoII,

AS't\ln t}IO Il\n(\ of promise t~ further

doaerlbcd: "In the 111.1110 da.y lh, Lorlf lIulie '" NV~l\llllt "11th Abrmn, eq.Y1nlr, UI\'D thy ~e~o J\c~rl) 1 gIven till" llirult (ro", 111(> rt,., C1r ~)(Vl'~ lonto tho Ifffll't riVe,. , the t'W'" JI;1I1>111'.1\.I.·..,," (Onn, J G: 18). J~Vl)ntua.n" 3(S

o'"N' I>I'oJnI8e~ I\nd \.ll'ophool.,. oxpJtI.I.n, , .. lund M tho promise Nht~1\ QltPII.1I4 to 11t •• I. Lhe WIlOI\) erlrth. 'l'.HIS III thQ ~1\n.J ,;,f 1/ .. IlU.ll\t'tl eternQ.i home II.IlIl lnhorlltltl1~ ~tJt Jlruml~O nll"lo ONf", tD Ihe: OfU'IJm~l1:!c OF ;UU' .... lf.I\.M:. ((lAI 3:29 And MM. 5:5J.

;"Irt,ln, 'W nOll .\ IJI'ILO\ \\'11' nllloty·nlllll ye,r5 or l113'u, H.c Lard 1L\>f\C,,>r-,cl II 11'11 In I\.'I>! "SlIift "r u.on tho AIrI1I/rhty ::h)~: wl~lk btCO\lll rae l.nod he thoU l.crtllc·t. And I WIll roa.Jce :1117 COV01U~nt betwUII '"~ a.lld thoo, I\nd will milt. tlilly then II]1:COP.'.I !l'i: ly," (11111'1. 1111.1). NoU,,_ tlmt now GoLl .\C",'8 i JM to. 1l~.I,(,w "\lon At.lM. 1(;\m th"ae hIGllliIIl;;~ \\lu\ l'r.omllllll 0 H_. o 0 N 11 1'1' I I) N: H" dIlYS, I'W.LII:. :lIltO,.. me 1I.n<l be thou p'l/·teet." 0',,1 th~1\ J I ,~ ,\brllo

~'1\m tlr~t dO"M tbM, Go,: will (101'(01'11\ ~hG­hl~1J911lC'MI.

....nd so tl,o 111'011111101 at Ood, Whleh K. pl'Oml,os to will u.nd \)equeu.th, elM \)., w· In.lnou ONriY (IN ,JONl)['1'[()N, Abl'AI· .... 1l hll.<\ IL pC\.l'1 <>t thIN C4J:rUlllOun~ to perrorm. It, ll.nd whun, ;\1,,· .. hll.llI PQl'rorlllO!l hi. 1"'"­then Ood "tQo'l "OU'"1 to pertQrm His ,,,Ii. 'I'll LlI th\~ bucnmo 1\11 Q,1!l'eilll1on~,- 11 cOY. anll.lll. A covcn"llt, ,.1 r.ny dlc\lonlLrl' dltlll.a.. IR AN Amtl~l':~II·:'a' ny ANI> P.F.'l'Wli:tU{ 'l'WO on MOH'j,) !··A1Vl'PIlQ. It h .... go_. trnl.'t. It lnvolvCH cOn(\ltloM. It InYllly"" tWG llnrtlOR 0" more. nut lli'thQ Mp. """0 1\/rI..u to pltrlot'm the tl1.ell, 01' kouJ) 't\;Q ~onllltlonS Imp/well by ""'0 uthfr, a.o" tully 001"01'11 tL'lIl ~'~rt. the.n tho otllar ,"u·ty t<> ~hQ "'~t'OII. nloi;ot n~ll.nds BOUNL> 10 bl!lItow til., ~Wl\"'. r~ ~11 "'0 In I~II COIlU'I\Ptol, 1'lfrll'lIlrnt~, or ~o ... Ol,· .. (lt~.

.:'.nd ~u!ll a.~ Abra\).ul). WIIJI wid '1\0 musa /101'101'11\ the conditione lnR~'1'. bllto ... Mm. Ing Into the 11I1I~rltallcO 80 It 1ft \Vltll U&, T". Nuw Cove-nan.t, blL~od upon t\).e 1I\>lt1ttl'" plwn~o at Lhes!) 'IJ'Ollll.o~ ~o Aut'nllanl will be 1II<\<1e 0111:.0 with I\. t!'l6llllnd tCllt,l(\ 11l!Qple -wIth the ovgnCOMEms or ,,11I-'II·It" thooo wllo 110t only ,fIlJ"l.(·,j tho I;hl'lsllan lite. but whQ I\IWo ondur~,', unlo the "lid! Alld ~o, L! wo Q,"Q L\1nolllrt.h~&II (1I.1\br\ll, _ II.fe otl)e ch11dren ot Abraba.m, (Oa13:1).

C.,.nt!l\"cll nolO\: rnonLh

IS THE DIr.'T.E A TEXT.BOOK ON SCIENCE?

Often we hear the apology emanate from one stoeped in the teachings of "modern science" that "O'( cour:>e the B}ble js not n. text·book on Scieme,"

The illference is that the Dible con­taina errol', written by men ignorAnt (If what Is now known in "modern Il<.'!ience,"

It is true that there are (~I)ntradlc.· tions between the plain sta.tements of the Bible and the tell chingll of. modern scienCE:. Therefore those under influ· ence of this "modern scienf:e" nre led to believe the Bible is not trtte.

'1'ho facts nre these: The Bible 15 NOT a text·book 011 science. 3cl~nee dools only with the MATERIAL.