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God then said to Adam, in effect: "You have rejected me as Lord, Savior,
King,
Revealer of basic knowledge. You have rejected my government over you.
Therefore,
go! Form your own governments--your own gods and forms of religion--your own
fund of
knowledge and means of disseminating it to your children--your own civilization.
I SENTENCE YOU, AND THE WORLD THAT SHALL BE BORN FROM YOU, to 6,000 years of
being CUT
OFF FROM ME AND MY HOLY SPIRIT, except for the VERY few I shall specially call
in
preparing for the Kingdom of God. Meanwhile Satan will deceive you and,
unrealized by
your children, lead them into HIS EVIL WAYS."
We are now a matter of a very few years away from the END of the 6,000
years
of this world--this age--this man-made civilization, deceived and swayed by
Satan.
Ever since Jesus Christ appeared on earth in human flesh, with the GOSPEL
of the KINGDOM OF GOD (now VERY soon coming), the GOVERNMENTS of this world
have fought Christ and His people!
It was King Herod of the Roman Empire government who tried to kill the
Christ-child. It was the Pharisees and those appointed under Caesar's vassal
government
in Judaea who demanded that Christ be crucified--and soldiers of the Roman
government
who did the crucifying!
It was the Roman GOVERNMENT, in A.D. 325 under Emperor Constantine, who
called the Nicene Council and officially perverted what true Christian doctrines
they
had still left, into pagan doctrines, customs and teachings.
It was the Roman GOVERNMENT which persecuted the early Christians, threw
them into the Colosseum as a Sunday afternoon sport, to be torn apart and eaten
by
hungry lions. It was the Roman GOVERNMENT, at behest of Roman bishops, who
martyred--tortured and put to death--MILLIONS of faithful Christians.
Jesus said, "If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also."
Could
we, with Christ's END-TIME MESSAGE going to the world, expect to escape the
persecution of government?
NO! But Jesus said, "I will never leave nor forsake you!" He hasn't. He
said
the gates of the grave would never prevail against His Church! IT'S MORE ALIVE
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1980 THAN IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF
THE YEAR 1979!
The most important event in the Work in our time took place this very
month
of December. I was the FIRST world religious leader from the world of
Christianity