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t's time, once again, to check up oo
tbe STATB OF
ntE
WORLD AT
llllS
Mtt<utt - as compared to
JO,
25,
and
50
yean ago - as to wbat is
ptopbesied as
suu:
to come in tbe very
near future - and as to the STATE OF
ANO PLANS
FOtt.
Goo's Wott.Jt.
JUSI where
are
we,
now,
in the pan–
orama of bíblica! PROPHECv? Look, first,
at wbat has happened in tbe past 10.
20,
a.nd 30 years. Look how freedom of
speech and freedom ofaction are chang–
ing the wbole tempo oflife.
The new "freedoms" in speech were
getting started 30 yean ago.
In
the
movie "Gone witb tbe Wind" audiences
were sbocked .when Rbett Butler said
10
Scarlen O'Hara. vFrankly, my
dear,
1
don'l give
a
damn!"
Twenty-five years ago
1
was emotion–
ally shocl<ed when. in a Broadway play,
an acto.r on stage talked 10 1wo Other
men about
"an
s.o.b." (he spoke tbe
words)
"lil<e
you"
(pointing to one of tbe
meo) "and like
you"
(pointing to the
otber man) "and liké
MEl"
(pointing
witb
bis
thumb lo
bimsell)
jUSI as tbe
final
curtain
was rung clown.
1
was
stunned
10
bear
sucb
words in a play, for
1
bad
tal<eo
witb me rwo twcnty- or
twenty-one-year-old Arobassador Col–
lege male students wbo wcre visiling in
NewYorl<.
But when tbin&' lilce tbat no longer
shocl<cd audiences, they dished out to
tbe public stronger shocb, until we have
cometo X-rated movies. Today, in most
homes for even the chlldren to see,
if
parents do
not
preven! it, the public is
fcd a diel of increasing violen<:e, mur–
der. sex, and themes undreamed of 30
yean
ago.
The once taboo subjcct ofscx is freely
discussed among teen-agen. My son
Gamer Ted explaincd on his television
program how
an
embarrasscd father felt
it his embarrassiog duty to teacb
bis
¡even-year-old son
a
few elementary
facts about sex. At tbat point the
¡evm–
year-old said briskly, '"Ob sure. Dad
What
would
you like
10
l<now?"
But what of the STATE OF
TRI!
woai.o
today?
We need 10 realize thal biblical
pre–
history
reveals that once the unive!Se–
ruling
GOVERNMENT
OP Goo rulcd over
this wbole earth. There was wonderful.
worldwide PEACE, with shouts of JOY!
(Job 38:7.) Tbere was
a
super arcbangel
king oo a tbrooe administering tbe Gov-
WI!I!K ENDINO
NOVEMBER
22,
1975
ERNMI!NT OF GOO (lsaiah 14: 13) Lilllaw-
1essness - iniquity and rebellion - was
found in him (Eukiel 28:14-15). Then
God renewed 1he face of the earth
(Psa1m 104:30) and created man (Gen–
esis 1:2-31).
But when our lirst parents rejected the
GOVIOO<WEHT
OF Goo
in
tbe forbidden·
fruit inddent (Genesis 3:6), God
adopted a Mhands-otr' policy for six
thousand years, to be followed by
a
1,000-ycar period wben tbe returning
g1orified CHtuST will res1ore tbe oov–
ERNMI!}(T
OF ÚOD, ruling in tbe
tctNO·
DOM OP Goo over all nations. Once
again tbere
will
be perfect PEACE, HAPPI·
NESS,
aod JOY (Revelation 11:15,
20:4).
Scientists and world leaden have said.
duriog the past
tbree
or four decades,
tbat tbe only solution lo today's world
problems and evils is a world-ruling
govemment with supreme power lo rule
all nations - yet they say il
is
tMPOS·
StBLiil With man ít is. But with God it is
suae to come - aod sooo.
Meanwhile God has allowed mao to
try to ru.le himsclf. And human leaders
have set up every
lcind
of government
man has beeo able 10 devise - olí–
garehy, mooarchy, democracy, commu–
oisrn.
etc. None has brougbt peace,
prosperity, happiness.
And now. as we approach the very
l!Ño
of tbis 6,000-year age, human, man–
created govemments are
being
our–
lhrown AT THE RATE OF ONE A
MONTHI
So wbat is the STA10 OF
TIU!
WOilLD today?
Y
ou may read a headline in your
newspaper reporting the overthrow of a
govemment in Africa. Asia, or South
Aroerica. Probably you do not read past
tbc headlínc. Perbaps you miss Íl eo–
tircly. Anyway, it's
a
long way from
whcre you live, and its true signitlcance
is not impressed on you.
Bw
wíth
me
ít
has been differenl l
When country afler country is over–
thrown -
when a king. presiden!, or
prime mioister
whom 1
h.ave
known
and
ta/ked
wfth.
one aftcr anotber, is assassi–
natcd, tal<en prisoner, or forced to
n~e
for bis life as bis government is over–
tbrown, it STRliCES HOME TOMel
lt
mcans we are in
the
•ery last days
of
tbis world!
Most people do nol realiu HOW
FAST
THINGS ARE CHANGING! Wben
1
was
a
boy, tbere
was
very titile crime,
oom–
pared
10
now.
Violence
was
rare.
Morals
Personal from...
THI BTATI Df THI WDRlD
were
high
by camparison. Families stuclc
together.
All the world's evils have
multiplied
since then. And today wholc nations are
comíng apart - beíng overthrown -
al
therateofONEA MONTHI
1
bave written before of how, in June
of 1973. at
a
luncheon
in
New
Delhi,
India, the ambassador from Etbiopia in–
vited me to visil bis country and meet
Emperor Haite Selassie. Tbe Afgbanis–
tan
ambassador invited me
10
visit his
country and bavc
a
meeting with King
Mohammed Zabir Shab. Before
1
could
arrange to·visit Afghanistan, the govem–
ment was overthrown, and 1he king lléd
into exile. Twice 1 visited Emperor Haüe
Selassie. but in August 1974, he was
takeo prisooer
in
a mWtary ooup over–
throwing
~
govemment. and about
a
year later be died
In
August
1m
1
wcnt
10
Santiago,
Olile,
for a meeting with Presiden! Allende,
and tbree weeks later he was assassi–
naled by a machine gun in the very
room where 1 had thc meeting.
1
had
visitcd Prime Minister Kittikachom of
Thailand 1wice
in
bis
residence
in
Bang–
kok. A riot of 200,000, mostly studeots,
overtbtew
bis
govemment. and be fted
to tbe Uoited States.
1
l<new President
Thieu of Soutb Vietnam. but he ftcd to
Europe sbortly before 1he Nortb Viet–
namese tool< over Saigon.
1
KNEW these
meo. When tbeir oountries were over–
thrown, you may be sure
1
realized tbe
significaoce of it,
One 'of the most reccnt govemment
leaden whom 1 l<new was Presiden!
Rahman of Bangladesh, who
was
re–
cently assassinatcd and whose govem–
meot
was
overthrown.
Volume
XL
No.
19
But what aboul tbe world TODA
v7
In Europe. the troubles in Portugal
a.nd Spairi may trigger a resurrection of
the Holy Roma
o
Empire
in
the form of
a UNITED EuROPE. Leaders in Europe
bave long
wanud
a political-military
. UNtO!< in Europe. They just bave not
l<nown how to bring it about.
In Portugal, .X,mmunists virtually
took over the govemment, tben sutfered
a temporary setback.. But communis1s
never give up or quiL lf 1hey stage
a
comebaélc, gaining the govemment in
a
country tbat has for centuries been Ro–
man Catholíc, Rome may talce drastic
action to unite all Europe.
In Spain Franco won the war against
oommuoism, 1936-39, and he has kepl
tbe govemmenl rigbtisL But recently
Franco has been under sharp c:ritiasm
from all over Europe for executiog guer–
rillas who had killcd Spanish policemen.
Since lhen he has suJfercd
a
beart at–
tack. Conditions are
becoming
ripe
in
Spain for
a
united, rcligious-domiJlated
European govemment, witb Prince Juan
Carlos as king.
Since World War
II,
the nations of
Europe have relicd on U.S. military
power to ofl'¡et Soviet power. But they
are
fas1 losing
all
conlidence
10
tbe
Unitcd States
as
a world power.
Right now
1
feel sure thal North Ko–
rea
i.s
pla.nning an invasion of South
Korea. (( it comes and the United States
does not go immediately to South Ko–
rea's aid, the United States will no
longer be recogniz.ed
as a
world power!
And the prescnt temper of the Ameri<:an
Congress
SCCITI$
10 totally forbid any
U.S. tnlervenl.íon again in Korea!
(ConJfnud
on poge
12)
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