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Prophecy- No Longer a Dirty Word .Thel CREDIBLE .HD AN POTENTIAL

How Liberated Can You Get?Who Will feed .the ungry Millions?


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41s1 AnniverSary IssueTI S is the 4 1st anniversary number of t hePlain Truth. The previous format was usedfor forty years! Du ring that time, th e PlainTruth grew from a small-ci rcula tion mimeographed " magazine" to one of th e f in est full color magaz ines eve r p ri n ted , i n excess of3 ,000 ,00 0 copies circu lat ion.Fantastic cha nges hav e ta ken pla ce in theworld dur ing that 40 years . Many proud massci rculat ion magazi nes in th e United States wereforced to cease publication - arnonq -th em th eSaturday Evening Post , Li fe, and Look . Whileth ey we re goi ng to th e wall , the Plain Truth cont inued g row i ng in circulation , increasing in num be r of pages , improv in g in q ua l i ty an dappearance.Th e tim e has come when the ed it ors of thePlain Truth feel w e mu st produce a less cost lyty pe of magazine, in keeping with th e t im es, bu tTWICEas often and with increasing c irc ulation reaching more people more often ,

With th is 41 st anniversary number , I personally sta rt my second forty years as it s Edit or in-Chief .And beginning wi th thi s second forty, I start ,serially, w hat I beli eve to be one of th e mostim portant books eve r w ritten .Today we are head ing straight into th e intolerable par ad ox of a w orld -cataclysmi c co llision

cou rse:On the one hand , th e human min d haspr oved so supe rbly capab le that it can producethe in credi ble com puter and send men sa fe ly toth e moon and back, amo ng ot he r marvels ,Bu t on th e other han d , th e same humanmin d has pro ved ut terl y HELPLESS before ourhuman problems , troubl es and evils here onearth ,

Human leaders for six t housand years hav estri v e n in vai n to bring about world peace. Butat the same t im e science , technolog y and indu stry have prod uced nu cl ear and ot her awesomeweapons cap able of bl ast ing all l ife off the earth .And th is w ill happen - unl ess supernaturalintervention prevents it.Today more th an HAL F of all humanity isilliterate or nearl y so, ex ist ing in abject povert yand starvation, wr ack ed w it h di sease. li v ing infi lth and squa lor.

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the world 's g reat religion s, th e in tell ectual in st it ut io n s of hig her learn ing , and gr eat govern ments.And yet modern science cannot f in d the AN

SWERS nor so lve our fat al problems. A ll rel igionhas failed utterly to make this a bet ter . happierwo rld or sh ow us th e way to wor ld peace . Highereducat ion , intent on constant knowledge produc-tion , does no t know and cann ot teach us th eanswers! Governments, su pposed to be the benefact ors of th eir peop les, are more and morebeing overth rown . becau se di ssente rs co ncludeth at th ey have fa iled .

Wh a t is wrong? Wh ere are the answers?Cou ld this who le wo rld hav e been DECEIVED?

Is it possible that even the BEST MINDS, beingdeceived , have REJECTED or ign ored the r ight answ ers and th e TRUTH ?The true ANSWERS do exist , But the y hav enot been given by rel igion. Sc ience has neverd iscovered them , Hig her educat ion has neve rknown nor taught th em . And they are even furt her f rom the fie ld of pol iti cs and human government .Fort y-eight years ago I was challe nged both on a point in relig ion and on th e th eory ofevo lution . I w as th en ce rtain ly a " bi b lical illiterate ." But this dual in tensive research took me noton ly in to th e writing s of Darwin , Haeckel, Huxley

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4 need for far mo re ferti lizers . pesticidesand herbicides). two elem ents standtoseriously discolor it .F irst o f all , the wo rld has become

dangerously ove r-depe ndent upon theUnit edStates and a mere handful ofotherfood expo rting nations. The nthere is the second , all important yetmany times overlooked elemen t - theweather. Wit h all t he moderntech nology and dogged determina tionto produce bum per crops . man is sti llverymuch at the mercy of th e weather.W eathercan either be the ace or th ejoker in the deck of cards wh en it comesto production.Onl y last yea r the wor st weather in

th reed ecades plagued the UnitedState s - excessi ve rains . drought, th enearly fro st . The bad weathercu t into th eexpected 1974 U.S . harvest by 7% to8%. The falloff was unfortunatelytimed. It came when American foodreserves a lready were at the lowest in aquarter of a century ,W eather experts warnthat more

climatological upsets could be in theoffing thi s year. Some fea r that theagri cultural boom-years of th e past twodecades are over and that long -termdi sfavorable climat ic changes areoccurring around the earth . So onceagain the question must be asked : " Canthe U .S. provide? " Or w ill the crushing(and ofte n than kless) task become theproverbial " M ission Impossible" ?Seven year s ago in a book ent itledmine 19 751 hers W illiam and

With dro ught in A frica . foodshortages in Bang ladesh . and a 27-dayg lobal grain - th e lowest in 30years - the world faces a food scarcityof unp recedented dimension andduration . There is " a very real th reat. "says Ame rican Senator Charles H.Percy , Republican of Illinois, " of awor ldwide food cri sis far exceeding inimpact the energy crisis . "The wo rld has now come to the place

where " 50 mi l l ion people. perha psmor e, could perish f rom famine" in asingle year. So says NobelPrize winningagronomist Norman Borlaug.

World food authority lester Brown ofthe Overseas Development Council addsthat the world has entered into a periodof more or less chronic food scarcity.Th e soaring demand fo r food , hestresses , has begun to overrun theprod uct ion capacity of the world ' sfa rmers and f ishermen ,Population growth is putting 70 to 75

m illion more mouths to feed on theplan et earth yearly. abo ut 20 0 .00 0eac h day . The se f igures tran slate into ademand for m illions of ext ra tons ofgrain each vea r.I f t he problem of wo rldwide famine is

to be dealt with - at least on a shortte rm basis - American agr iculture willhave to pla ya majo r role. The Unit edStates remains the chief producer, andmo re importantly , t he number oneexporte r of food and agri cu lturalproducts in the world.In recent yea

by Dexter H. Faulkn er

WHO Will fllOTHI HUNGRY IllLlo S?

8PROPHECYNo Longera DirtyWordForecasting th e futu re has become seri ous business, and prophecy is now arespected sc ientif ic too l of th e Establishment .

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3Rumors of renewed f ighting in the vo lati le M iddle East are causing anxiety inth e industrialized Wes tern world.

How Liberated CanYouGet?Can one su cc essful ly loo k into theW omen 's Movem ent and not become"rns .merized " by emotional ba ttle cr ies?

THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL.TheMissing Dimension in KnowledgeThe f irst in stallment of a new and ill um inating book by He rbert W . Armstrong .

WORLDWATCH-Reporting from ArmageddonNews Edito r Gene Hogberg discussesgrowi ng th reat of atomic weapons inM ideast .

MIDEASTON BRINKOF NEW WAR .


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Mideast on Brink 01 New War

R Ell i ,on-/JI ..C/cSracMilitary intervention b y Western pow ers in the Mideast? Not out of theque stion. but only as a las t reso rt.

A rapi d and ra ther sudde n escula tion o f eco nomic dispu tes isth rea ten ing the uniqu ely harmon iou s re latio nship bet w een theUnited States a nd Canada. Alreadythe two ne ighbo rs who share theworld's longest pe ac eful borderhav e traded seve ral punches in asma ll-scale trade war.It began in ea rnes t in the summer of 1973whe n President Nixo nfroze-beef prices in an at temp t tocu rb dom est ic inflatio n. Americanproducers evaded the ruling by export ing beef 10 Ca na da. where itwas sent back to the U.S. at a

higher pr ice. since th e freeze didnot apply to imports.Th e subseque nt glu t of bee fcrossing the bo rder. however. undermined the eco nomics of the Ca

nad ia n ca ttle industry. Ca nadasubs equen tly closed its border toAmerican cattle fo r five months ona technical ity - unti l U.S. cattlecou ld be guara nteed to b e absolutely(Conl im ,; d 011 P"X/! 5. col. J) -

TroubleAlong The48thParallel

NEWSMAKER PROFILETakeoMikiJapan's NewMan at the Helm

ing recession. Economists generallyare bewildered as to wha t to advi seoil- importing nations in th eir pred icament. Th e mo st co mmonlyo ffered so lution is to encouragethe Arabs to invest. long term. inWes tern nati ons.T he key phrase is long term. Economi c all y shaky nations such


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alabby Gene H. HogbergWorldW hil e wa rmin g up the early-mo rning coffee th e ot her d ay , (

wa s per forming my customa ry dial-rwirling ri tua l - flipping backa nd for th be twee n NB C 's Today Show a nd the CBS M orning Ne ws.

Television bein g the ulcer-rid den competitive market tha t it is,th e be st shows a re a lwa ys on at th e same time. ev en news a ndspecial events - wh ich makes a full-t im e news-watcher like mysel ffurio us.

Du ring a co m me rcia l time-ou t on Today I sw itched over twodia l spots to Hu ghes Rudd's M orning N eil'S. A s pec ia l repo rt wa s inp rogress from the vo la t ile M idd le Ea st. Th e newsm an wa s in te rvie wing Israeli citize ns on whe the r the y fel l thei r nat ion was ju sti fied in d eveloping and . mor e importa nt. using a to m ic weapo ns. O fthose intervi ewe d the u nan imou s a nswer was "yes " - eve n fro m agen tlema n ph ilosop her who had been , up until now, a life -longpacifist. To him. Israel's burdened ha ck was slowly but stead ilybeing shoved up aga inst a po litica l Wailin g Wa ll. He felt that ifwo rse ca me to wo rse in a future Arab- Israe li wa r, Isra el wou ld bej ustified in usin g the bo mb - if it had it - a nd in risk in g even se lfimpose d ex tin ction rather tha n su bm itt i ng to the th reatening Araba rmies.

In rich sy mbo lism: th e CBS reporter, switching to a ve rya ppro pria te o u tdoo r loca tion for hi s sign-on" sa id. 'T h is is TomFenton . repo rting from the plai ns of Armageddon: '

Th is made me think . F en ton j ust m igh t ha ve to do' ano the rre po rt from th e sa me spo t in an oth e r te n yea rs. the way things a rego ing in th e world now .

Ou tsid e the s ing ularly fr igh tful U.S.-U.S.S. R . race (s lowed to amer e tro t by me an s o f th e Vlad iv ost o k Sum mi t ag reement) th enu cle ar "p ox" th reate ns to br e ak o ut a ll mer.

Ind ia shocked th e world hy exp lod ing its "dev ice" in May1974. Now. Ali Bhut to, th e pr esiden t of Arab- rival Paki stan cl a imsth at h is trun cat ed . impoverished co u n try m igh t he forced in to ac ras h progra m to d ev elop a "device" o f its o wn.

F ran ce a nd C hina co n tinu e th e ir ex pensive nuclear """eaponsresca rch-devel o pmenl -deploy mcn t prog ram s.

Bu t it is in th e extremely na rro w geogra phica l a nd poli ticalconfines o f th e Mideast where nu clea r pro li feration cou ld hav e thegrea tes t impact on the wo rld . Is a frig h tened Israel actua lly in theprocess of d ev e lo pin g " the bom b"? Will Egy pt. de spite U.S. assura n ces to the co n tr a ry. d ivert the plu toniu m fro m her p romised U. S.nucl ear power pl an ts in to wea po ns production ? W ill the Sov iets.de spi te the head y aura of detente . su pp ly tac tical nu cl e a r wea pons

REPORTING FROM ARMAGEDDON...

"No. it doesn't. It mea ns thatboth sides may keep the swordsthey now have and inc rease their"'pea r carriers to 2.400 . The Phil isun es. asyo u know. have superiorityin the weight of their l f s . hutour throwers


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S y g mPresident Giscard d 'Es eaing o f Franc e pl ays hose Co fellow CommonM arke t heads of state in Paris.

lurope'$InconclusiveSummit fined. What emerges from theth inking of the European leaders isa looser. more flexible formationguided into a cohesive force bvp rinciples of self- in terest and eveneconom ic surviva l: 'Ctvde II. /- mmnlrth. New York Times.December 13. 1974

Ma 2it: Glue Dried Up"T hose days when magic glueexisted to make . perhaps. a f eder al

Europe ar e gone . Under M. Gi sca rd d'E staing. France is tryi ng.with fur ious den ials whenever th eop in ion polls loo k particu la rly bad.to bury the ha tchet with America.Th e aspirat ions in Ge rmany andBenelux for a un ited Europe o f thefuture. a lthough st ill passionatel yhel d by some . are now very shopworn . De sp it e the prec ise-lookingcomm itments 10 di rect e lect ions tothe European parliament. mone t ary and economic union. and soon . thi s summit of th e nin e European commun ity members put thestamp on the idea tha t Europe willremain a loose confederation o fnation stat es:'The Economist. Lan don December /4./ 974

Su pranational Characte rEroded"Time and aga in EEC Commis sion President Walt er Hallstcin.and his successor Jean Rey of Belgium , rem inded the world that theEEC was not a mere trad in g blocbut a poli tical enterp rise destined

to change the face o f Europe. Butsince their depa rture, the su pranational characte r of the community has been so eroded thai thecurrent president of the commission , Francois-Xav ier O rtoli . seem sliule more than the respected headof a vast and complex bu reaucracy."To the Point International. November 1./9 74 Se lfish NationalismRevived

" Fundament ally Sick "" Europe is in a profound crisis.

Th is crisis will no t be reso lved intwo da ys at a summi t conference.Europe is sick . and she is fundamenta lly sick. Fo r seve ral yea rs.she has experienced an econom icand moneta ry crisis. On top of th at .there is now the oil crisi s. Eachpa r tne r has reacted in its own wayand accord ing to its means . Eachone in a differen t d irect ion. Th eCommo n Market is therefore sick.Wi ll it be capab le of surviv ing the

Adrift and Leaderle...s"Th e European po litical scene isa mosaic of wea kne sses .. . it is aCo ntinent adrift. in peril. and with

OUI a leader. Mani festly dissatisfied, th e European electorat e hascon structed a vici ou s politicalcircl e . It e lects government .> thata rc either so wea l or so fragmentedtha t the leaders must exhau st theire nergies in she er surviva l. wit h nei th er a uthor ity nor power to hand lebasic problems."J . Robert Sctiaeuet. [ormcr U.s . Ambassadar to the European Comnumitirs.New York Times. December 7. 1974

The meeting of the nine Europeanleaders at the summit in Par is inea rly December provided a strikingdemonstration of lVesrem Europe'spolitical..veuk ness.

Deterioration of worldwide eco nomic conditions. shocks created bvunilateral actions of member lit;.li on s, stubborn nat ionalism withinthe EEC . the near -bankrupt statusof Britain and Italy and final ly theArab oil embargo have Slopped theprogress of the Marke t in i ts tracks .

Will only the threat of completebreakdown at .wme f uture date [usethe nations of Westem Europe illiotile uni t } ' their leaders claim is stillth eir g o ~ / ?/Jere are some comments 0 11 EIIrope 's (,light from major Europeanand American news sources.

WORLD PRESS LOOKSATEurope's Plight

government chooses to use it.Overall. the curren t scene in Euro pe revea ls a rudderless cont inentmoving o ff into the unknown af tera summi t conference that was fo rthe mo st part re luc tan tly a ndunenthusiasticallv he ld. What tsst il l l ack ing is the idea lism. dynamic le ad e rs hi p or di rect ac tionneeded to confront the threat eningrea lities of the moment. 0

Accordin gly. O ttawa is drawi ngup stricte r polic ies regard ing thelimi ts of foreign investm ent.

might of Germany. Onl y Germanyhus been able to ho ld inflationrat e to a nca r manageab le level.Moreover. the monetary reserves ofal l e ight ot her EEC member sadded toget her 'do not approachthe formidab le mas s possessed byBonn.As a result of West G errna nv'sco ntinual good showing. leadershipwithin th e Commu nity is passing tothe Bonn government almost bydefault.Wh il e C h a n ce ll o r HelmutSchmidt did a rcmarkablv tactfuljob at-the Pari s Summit in nol f lexi ng Ge rman economic muscle. thevoice of Germany could soon become the dom in ant one in European affairs if - or whe n - its

est prosposa l rea d : "T he heads ofGovernmen t .. . have invited theCommunitv Institutions to worko ut a nd to implement a commonene rgy po licy in the shortest possib le lime: ' This sound s fine exceptit' s wha t was sa id at the fruitlessCop en hagen Summit one year ago!

An important undercurrent atthi s conference. sen sed but notsta te d. was t he growing eco nom ic

course . is th e kcv fact or in the:glo omy economic -picture . Yet. inParis. the Nine were unable to comeup wi th a meaningful unit ed approach toward the o il producing nations an d vis-a-vis oth er major o ilcon sumers, mos t notably the U.S.In fact. in the twelve-page finalco mmun iq ue released in Paris .onl y 19 lines were devo ted to thecr itical issue of energy. Th e strong-

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by Ray Kosanke and Henry SturckePARIS - Eu rope is not yet wea keno ugh 10 unite. Th at's th e rea lmessnee her e at th e conclusion o fthe summi t conference of the ninememb er nations of the EuropeanEconomic Communi ty.Having agreed beforehand not todisagree during the co nference. theNine produced a final communique that covered saf e gro und andstuck main ly to posit ive generalities. But in no co ncrete man nerwere the assembled heads of stateab le to come 10 grips with the realmenace th rea tening Western Europe - the danger of a majo r economic de pression .Belgian Prime Mini ster Leo Tindema ns - so far the most outspoken on Europe's eco nomic plightdeclared pub licly that the disturbing par al le l wi th pr e-World War IIEurope could not be ign ored . Yetdespite the se riousness o f their eco nomic plight. the pre sent government s arc not vet under sufficientpre ssur e to lay as ide pet nationalprojects and pa rochial interes ts toapproach their num erous problemson a common level.At the conference rela tivclv unimporta nt s ide issues occup iedmuc h of the delegates ' lime . Lipser vice was pai d h) vague . fa r-offidea ls such as a direct ly e lectedpa rliament by 1978. an eco nomicand mo netary union "some day."and eve n a common Europea npassport.Wh ile the se minor accomplishment s a re perhap s substan tive intime s o f economic stability. theyborder on meaninglessness in Europe's pres ent sla te of mou ntingunemploym ent and inflation .The soa ri ng cost of energy. of


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10 Ch r ist [the t ru e c h t f f " d 1 theresurrection, is to n f u r r i e d 10Ch rist. spiritually). fear . les tby any mea ns. as theserpent beguiled Eve th rough his subtilty. soyo ur minds should be - ,cormpredfro m the simp licity that is in Christ.For if he [a min iste r o f SimonMagusJ th at com eth preacberh another Jesus, whom we have notpre ach ed . or if ye receive anotherspirit [o f rebe llion and di sob edience) whic h ye have not receiv ed .o r another gospel . . . .. ( II Co r. 11:24 ). More . la ter . about the connec tion with the decep ti on of thefirst woman. Eve.But no tice . they wer e proclaim-ing another Jesus - as well as another gospe l - a nd they followedanoth er spirit - of rebe llio n andnot obedience . That de ception hascont inu ed thro ugh .the cen turiesand is the sta te tod ay . They too kthe NA ME of Christ, Th ey calledthe ir Babylonian religion "C hr ist i a ni ty.:" BUI th e y n ot o nl yp resented a counterfeit gospel but aco un terf eit spirit o f self-centeredness and a co unter feit J esus. It issugges ted the reader req uest ourfree booklet. The Real J esus,. Of these false min isters. Pau lwro te furthe r to the Co rinthians :"Fo r such ar e false ap ostles. deceitful workers. transforming them selves into the ap ost les o f Chr ist.An d no ma rvel ; for Satan himself istransformed into an angel o f light.Therefore it is no great thing if hisministers a l so be transform ed as the

m i n i ( IICor. 11:13- 15). .

Peter, John and JudeExpose Them

Pe te r wro te of th ese de ceivers:" But there were false prophets alsoamo n g the p eo pl e. eve n as theresha ll be false teachers among yo u.who privily sha ll b ring in da mna ble he resies . . . And man y shallfo llow thei r perni cious ways: byreason of whom the way o f truth. ' I " ~ I Q / I be evil spoken of And th roughcove tous n ess s ha ll they withfeigned wo rds mak e merchand iseof you .. :. (II Peter 2:1-3) .John wrote of these same perverters of the tr ue gospel. de nying

"Anolhel"Cosper" GainsAcceptanceBy about A.D. 58. when theapos t le Paul wro t e hi s le tt e r to the

Ga latians. many alre ady were turn ing to this now ne w cou nterfeit"gospel:' _Pau l wrote : .. , ma rvel that yc a reso soo n remove d from him tha tca lled you in to the grace of Christunto another gospel: which is nota nother [it was not goo d news): butthere be some that troub le you. andwould pervert the gospel o f Christ"(G al. 1:6-7).To the Th es sa lon ians. aboutAD . 54. Pau l wrote. " Fo r the 111rStery of in iqui ty doth a l rea'dywor k .. : ' ( II Th es. 2:7 ) It was the

. a fter a most amazing initial growth .a g reat pe rsecution SCi in aga mstGod's church (Acts R: I ). At tha tt im e . A. D. 33 . this Simon (heso rce rer ha d himself bap t izedalong wi thmu ltitudes of others . Hethen tried to buy an apost leship inGod's chureh from the apostles Pete r a nd John with mon ey - bu t ofco urse was refused and rebuked .

Thereupon thi s Simon appropr iated th e NA ME o f Chr i st . callinghis Babylonian mystery religion"C hristianity." Satan swayed thisman and used this inst rument toper secute and all but d estroy .thetru e church of God , Before the endof the first eentury - probably byA.D . 70. he ma naged to suppressthe message Ch rist had brou ghtfrom G od.Th e re ensued "t he lost century"in the his tory of the t ru e church o fGod . Th ere was a well-orga nizedconsp i racy to b lot out a ll record ofchu rc h history during that period.A hundred yea rs lat er, history rcvcal s a "Christianity" u tter ly unlikethe chu rch Christ founded .It ha d taken the NA MF. of Chris tan d a pp l ied it to the Babylonianmystery rel igion. It had replacedthe MESSAGE Jesus brou ght fromGod with a "gospel " about th e per- .so n of Ch rist - pr oclaimi ng themessenge r but suppress ing the entire missing dim ension from hismessage.And f o r at least 181f:. centu ries thetrue gospel was not proclaimed tolire ...orld.

inducted int o th at o ffice until theend of man kind ' s f ir st 6.000 yea rso n earth.Never the le ss . Jesus proceededwi th the miss io n fo r whic h he hadco rne to ea rth a t that tim e. fi e proclaimed his message a nd taught itto his disciples.

Sa tan . ho wev er . s till was inpowe r to sway the wo rld . Eve nthough man y of the Jews 10 whomJesus preac hed belie ved 0 11 him asth e prom ised Me ssiah . they we reswayed agai nst believing his messag e - his gospel.11 0 1\' d id. and do es. Sata n dece ive. move . and sway humanity?T he amazing answe r will be g ivenlat er.

His ( ;ospel RejectedNot ice how it hap pened :In the 8th chapter o f John . verses30 th rough 46. .you will re ad : "A she spa ke the se wo rds. many believe d on him . Th en sai d Jesus tothose Jews which believed 0 11 him . Ifye continue in mr word. [his messa ge ) the n a re ye my di sciples in

deed : and ye sh al l know the trut h.a nd the truth sha ll mak e yo ufree. .. . but ye sec k to kill me. beca use my word IhiJ KOSPl!Jme.naKeJhath no"place ill }'O U . . . But nowye seek 10 k_.1I me. a man th at hathtold yo u th e trut h, whi ch I havehe ard of Go d .. . . fo r I proc eededfor th and came from God : neithercame I of mys e l f. but he sentme.. . And because I tell you thetru th. re believeme not. . . . And if Isay the truth. I\ ry do ye not belie veme?"In d ue time . the Rom a ns crucified Jesus. But he rose from the

dea d and ascended into heaven.F ro m there . he sent God's HolySpi rit for his d isciples.Ch rist's apos tles went out. as hecommissio ned them . to proclaimhis message to the wo rld . Go d'schurc h was rai sed up (A.D . 3 1) toback the procla imin g of the message . The church began to grow.then ca ught " fire: ' and mu ltiplied .Sata n co nnived to set up a power ful Ge ntile religio us leade r with

by He rbert W , Arms trongonly become confused. T he TRUTH.ind eed . is str anger th an a ny fiction!Pre pa re yourse lf to rea d astoundingtrut h - hard 10 be lieve.y et TRUE!

The Arch -DeceiverIt is no t inte llec tually fashion ab le toda y to be lieve in th e ac tualexis tence of a devil. Biblical rcvclution exp la ins this.Biblical pro phecies say plainlytha i in ou r time. today. the W H O L E

W O R L D wo uld be deceiv ed . Noti ceone such prophecy in the bo ok o fRevela tio n . cha pter 12. ve rse 9:" An d the gre a t dr a gon was cas tou t. tha t old se rpent. ca ned theDevil. a nd Saw n. which deceivet htheI1';"Jlc :,"..-!.J'Thi s Sat an IS revea led as thearc h-deceiver who has deceived the

whole wo rld . Rut 1/01\' di d he ma nage to deceive the human race ?In the third chapter of Ge nesishe is show n as th e de cei v er o fmo th e r Eve, Through her . h ecaused the first man. ' Ad a m. tocommit the first sin by a human .When Jesu s was bo rn in Beth lehem . Sa ta n was st il l he re o n eart has th e god o f thi s wo rld ( II CQr.4:4) . He is a lso the "prince o f thepower of the ai r" (Eph. 2:2). hold ing sway over th e who le of .manki nd .C hrist's message revealed the adva nce news o f the total ab o lition ofSa ta n's powe r over the world andhi s banishment from the ear th. Itreveale d th at Christ was coming a s"his successor to tak e ove r t he RULlOof all na tions. In Sa tan' s m ind . itwas nel:cssar y for h im to go all ou t

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It 's pos iti ve l y as tounding! It ha s r emai ned und iscovered bysc ience! No re ligion ha s revealed it f Higher education ha s nevertaught it! Is it pos sible the whole world ha s been deceived as to t h e awesome PURPOSE o f human l ife - as to th e WA Y toworld p e ac e and ho w it will come? And could it be true that therea l g ospe l message Chri st b r ought f rom heaven REVEALEDthi s m is sing dimension - bu t was suppressed? This is th eeye open ing s to ry o f the real gospelmessage ofJesus Christ -of how this m is sing dimension wa s w ithheld, and t he who leworld dec e ived .

DO ES 11 come as an astonishingshod 10 learn thai (he most

important dimension in all knowledge was sen t hy God the Fa ther toth is ear th bv Jesus Chr ist - but thatme ssage W:l S suppressed by thoseliving in th e ve ry urs tce ntury'?Th atJesu s himse lf was put to d ea th forrevealing it? Th at h is a post le s. witho ne possible exc ep tion. wer e a lsomar tyred for proclaim ing it?Yet th is message from the livingGod. if humanity had received andheed ed it. wo uld ha ve sav ed th iswo rld fro m nea rly all of its troubles. sufferi ngs and ev ils.Th e ve ry wor d "gospel" means"good nc . .s ." Tha t m es sa ge . whe n

J i d ~ r unde rstood. reveals a hum anpo tentjul so st upe ndous - so awe some - it appea rs at first to betotall y beyond belief!

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Uniled Nalions-Anolher "League 01 Nalions"?

"United Nations"orDisunitedNon-Nations?

From the early day s of the Cold War .when the Unit ed Nations Genera l Assemblyappea red more of a sounding boa rd forCommunist pro pagand a than a serious attemp t to so lve the monume nta l problems ofthe wor ld. to the mid 70's and the UnitedNations resolution recognizing the PalestinianLiberation Organization' s claim to West Ban ksta tehood. it has been clea r there is no thingtru ly " uni ted" about the United Nations.Now. the term "na tions" may not evenap ply to the United Nations. The Palest inianLiberation Organizat io n. after a l l. is hardly anation,American officialdo m may grumble and

b y Raymond McNa irWhat has the U.N . acco mp lishe d du ringthe pa st th irty years? Will it last til l the endo f this cen tu ry? Or have recent stra i ns hastened the ultimate rigor mortis of the U.N .?With the birth or the U.N . in 1945. theLeague of Nat ions gracefully expired . As awo rld peace o rga niza t io n it had beenweighed in the ba lance and found wanting.The League was created in 1920 for the express pur pose of preventing f uture Butafter abo rtive at tempts to bring peace to thenat ion s. itpro ved to be impo tent.Whe n Ja pan inva d ed Manchur ia in 1932.the League too k no effective action. WhenItal y co nque red Ethio pia in 1935 . th eLeague stood by helplessly. When Ge rmanygobbled up Austria. Czechoslova kia and Polan d. thereby beg inn ing World War II. theLeague did nothing. And even though the. Leagu e expelled Russia in 1939. it had noreal power 10 prevent the U.S.S.R . from conque ring helpless Fin lan d . Na tional self-interes t prompted Japan to withdraw from theLeague in 1932. Ge rman y fo llowed the sameroute in 1933.Th us. the League of Na t ions proved power less eithe r to pre"ent or stop rea l wars. By1939 men had lo st fai th in this organ ofworld peace . T hey turn ed to their own nationa 1peace efforts.

compl ain that t he United Na t io ns is litt lemore than an opportuni ty for Afro -Asianbloc. " third world" revolutionaries to screaminvecti ves at the United States. but thereseems li tt le the U.S. can do except co ntinue10 play the role of whi pping boy. Whil epossessing only one vote among over 100nations. the United States continue s toshoulder twenty-five pe rcen t o f the UnitedNation s' costs.Toda y. wha t o il-rich Ara b nat i ons want.oi l-rich Arab na tion s get. The U.S. is farmor e fearful of international repercussion sfrom Ja pan and Western Europe. shou ld another new oil embargo be precipitat ed . thanthe immediate energy crunch at home.So far . it's been ou t with Na tionalistCh ina. eject South Africa . but lay out the redca rpet for a non-na tion na tional leader. Yassir Arafat. and lay the groundwork forthrowing out Israel."U nited"? How? "Na tio ns"? Where? 0

l ined it to he man's last hope at preventingfuture global wa rs.Sho rtly after its cre ation. it beca me suspect that this organization. like the Leag ueof Na tions before it. was ineffective as aninstrument' of peace. It prove d to be a divided org anization - divided betwe en theCommunist and Democratic nations. And ahouse divided cannot sta nd. A long. dr awn out cold war heightened anta gonism withinthe U.N.T he U.N. proved unab le to prevent theArab -Isra eli wars of 1948. 1956. 1967 and1973. li k ewise. it was unable to preven t. or.by itse lf. even sho rten the Korean War. Neither was it able t odo anything impressive inthe Congo. Vietnam or any othe r major areaof conflict.Th e more recent 1974 war in Cypruspro ved once again how help less the U.N.reall y is.Late in 1974. the Ge nera l Assemb ly votedto suspend Sou th Africa from the Ge ner alAssemb ly for the rest o f the yea r. And then.as if to add insu lt to inju ry. the U.N. tookthe un precedented step of inviting the leaderof a non-nation. Yassir Arafa t. to spea k before the Ge ne ral Assemb ly.In his speech Arafat sa id he came bear ingan "o live branch" in one hand and a "Tree

HOW LIBERATEDCAN YOU GET?by Amy Bowman

If o ne can successfully look into thew omen's. Movement and no t become "ms.mer izcd" by the emotional impact of thebattl e cry, some int eresting and sound concep ts can be salvaged.Between the black-hat ima ge of the militant. man-hating femini st and the white -hatimage of fema le gentility is the more balanced ou tlook. such as Margaret Fulle r's who sees woman "as a nature to grow. as anintellect to discern . as a soul to live freelyand un impeded to un fold such powe rs aswere given her : 'Theodore Park er o bserved that " the do mestic functions of woman does not exhau sther powe rs." It can ce rta inly consume agreat percentage of her time - the responsibi lity o f becom ing a wife and mother cannotju sti fiab ly be tossed aside in the sole pursuito f "h uman ident ity" - but the lives o f mostwomen can encompass more .T he need or imp ulse for personal expre ss ion is being mor e widely recognizedand accep ted by toda y's biologists. social sci

much as 30 points) but that most o f themarried women's IQs had actually dropped .Th e men . through their contact with the out-

. side world . were being constantly challengedand stimulated. while the women who hadbecome housewives had filled their dayswith men ia l t asks. Interpersonal communicatio n was limited to othe r mothers and theju ven ile minds of two- and three-year olds.Such diverse worlds create a communicationgap between husband s and wives which canresult in marriage prob lems.What is true " liber ation"? Does it meanbeing totally independ e nt of the man andthe famil y unit? Or can it enco mpass being acompetent. efficient. inde pendent womanwho effective ly fulfills he r respon sibilities inthe home. but who may also appl y themoutside the home sho uld there be such adesi re or ne ed (as in cases of death. divorceo r disability of the man)?Interestingly enough. the Bible answersthese qu estions. Man y would conside r theBible as a repressive book aga inst Women'sLib. but let' s see what the Bible says byexamining th e l ife of the woman of Proverb s31. Thi s woman was a wife and mothe r whoperformed all the womanly arts pert a iningto the home : cook ing . sewing. shopping forfood (v. 13 15): she was thrifty and energeticenough to plant a garden (v. 16). Yet she haddeveloped such talen ts as uph olstering withfine tapestry. and she was evidently informed and knowledgeable enough in thearea of real estat e to be capab le o f inspecting land and wisely choosing whetheror not to buy it {v. 16). She was awa re of theeconomy (v. 18). She had physical strength(v. 25) bu t wore very stylish and femin inecloth ing (v. 22). Sh e extended hers el f _beyond her own fam ily unit to get involvedwith the community a round her (v. 20) . Shehad a part-time job which bro ugh t in ex traincome (v. 24). Finally. she was not a s ilentpartn er. She did speak with wise. 'yet kind .advice and suggestions (v. 26).What did her fam ily and the communitythink of this woman? Was she suspec ted ofbein g too aggressive. too indepe ndent. andrebe llious? No ! In fact. quit e the opposite.Her husband not on ly had trust in her abi lities (v. I I) but praised her for them (v. 2829): her chi ldren were extremely prou d oftheir mother [v. 28): and her accom plishment s in the hom e and the communitybrought her praise and recognit i on f rom thecivic leaders (v. 3 1).How did she become so liberated?First o f all. she was a respons ible personto her husband and fam ily. She 'd efini telyhad her priorities straight. yet her Iamilya nd


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PROPHECYNo Longer a Dirty Wordby Robert L. Kuhn

T en years ago you wo uld havebeen labeled a nut, a crackpot.a cha rlatan , a wei rdo - fo r sofool ishly or naively dabbling at theedges of soc iety . Today you could bea scientist , an economi st, a psycholog ist , a theo logian - a highlyrespected mem be r.of you r profession. investigating the forefrontof human knowledge .You are a prophet . You pred ict thefuture. .The Future Comes of AgeThe future isn 't wh at it used to be.It has invaded the present. Wh at willhappen has suddenly become terri bly relevant to w hat is happening .Though man kin d has always beeninterested in the future, never beforehas th e future so ser iously concerned all strata of socie ty and so

dom inated the present .A virtual t idal wave of future-o riented books' have f looded 'the market : computer simulations,tech nological forecasts, scientificp rojections, socio-polit ical predictions, eeo-environmental extrapolations, innovative futur isticapproaches , w i ldly origi nal conceptu al ideas, transcendental philosop hical musings, theolog icalspeculations. and even science fiction .The approaches vary, bu t the effec tsa re the same : human bein gs,uncertain of th eir prospects in thiserp opulated wo

become cul tura lly signi ficant. Trig gered by th e down fall of man 's totalconfidence in technocratic materialism , the past few yea rs have wi tnessed th e strange and paradoxicalrevival of w idespread interest in th esupernatural.Both in pa rapsycho logy - thescientific study of ESP (ext ra-sensorypercept ion) - and in many religio us, qua si-religious and occu ltgroups, prophecy is having a progress ive ly greater imp act on thegeneral public .in parapsychology the tec hnica lterm precognition is used to descr ibeawarenesso f future events or situat ions by nonphysical means. Precog ni t ion is currently be ingseriously and intensively stud ied bytrained inves tiga tors around thewo rld . As a result, the nu mber ofscientists who believe that thehuma n min d can nonphysically apprehend th e futu re has been rapid lygrow ing.Though the ge neral publ i c islargely unconcerned with thesetec hnical (and esoteric) stud ies inthe sciences , economics and parapsychology, public interest in prophecy is high . Increasing numbers ofpeople gorge themselves w ith thev irtual smo rgasbo rd of occu lt proph ecy - medium s, ouija boa rds , tarotcards, I Ching , th e popular prophetsli ke Edgar Cayce, Jean Dixon , etc .,and especially astrology . How manymillions consu lt thei rda ily horo-


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continuous emphas is on prophecyas instructed by its claimed founder(Matthew 24 . Mark 13 . Luke21 .Revelation . etc .).However. a growing segment offu ndamentalist and evangelical

Christ ianity has recently becomemore concerned about prophecy actually since 1967 when interestwas substant ially enh anced by theIsraeli capture of the old city of Je rusalem in the Six-Day W ar. In th epast seven yea rs. a large number ofbooks and magazines have beenpubl ished regarding all facets of bib-lical prophecy . And even more recently. with the specter ofwidespread massive famines . wor ldwid e economic catastrophe, andM idd le East geopolitics poignantlypresent in most peop le 's da ily consciousness. biblical prophecy hastake n on new sign ificance. (Eventhose peo ple who vehemen tly rejectthe direct inspiration and /o r the li teral in terpretation of the Bible are reluctantly being forced to admit tha tworld events in the last quarter ofthe twentieth century will annoyingly make the Bible " seem" acc urate!)Though in terest in prophecy hasbecome uni versal. bo th .the approaches to pr ophecy and th e spe-cific prophecies themse lves wi delyd iverge from one gro up to anothe r.But strangely. the general conclusions of these widely diversefo rms of prophecy converge - allag ree tha t humanity is heading forits most calamitous. most tremulou s. mos t peri lous period of time

The last quarter of the twentiethcentury. as we approach th e year2000 . wi ll herald the greatest avalanche of prophetic statements . ut terances and proclamat ions that thewor ld has ever seen . As illogica l andirrational as itwould have seemed toa " logical" and " rational " societ y afew years ago . thi s is now coming topass. To have then pro phesied thatprophecy i tselfwou ld soon becomecommo nplace and eagerly acce ptedby our modern masses would havesounded absurd . Yet prophecy nowlives; i t has been resurrected .What about the current and soon

coming prophecies themselves?Some will be pa rtly rig ht ; mostwi ll be mostly wrong . To the con-

fusion of everybody . or almosteve rybody . " For th ere shall ari sefal se Christs. and false prophets .and shall shew great sig ns and wo nders ; insomuch that, if it were possible . they shall deceive the veryelect" (Ma tt . 24:24) .Humanity 's best m inds have advanced var ious themes to cha racterize the last quarter of the twen tieth

century: an energy crisis . an ecological wa tershed . a popu lation-foodcrossover, a war-peace crossroads.They are all righ t . But incompl ete .Prophecy. and even tually religiousfanaticism on an unp recedentedworldwide scale. wi ll dominate thescene so complet ely that ot herhuman events will become insig nifican t in comparison . Longthought to be dying . re ligion in gen era l and prophecy in particularwillmake th e greatest comeback inwo rld history .And that 's what th e Plain Truthhas been say i ng for over 40 years.Prophecy has been one of the pri ma ry themes of the Plain Truth sinceits inception in February 1934 ; andprophecy will continue to be a primary theme of every issue in thisnew , more comprehensive, more urgent, more fr equent format.


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a shortage of some commodity develops, i t isonly logical tha tconsumers will bid the priceof that commodity upwa rd. Thi s is why theMona Lisa is so valuab le - because there'sonly one.Or , to take a practical and recent example,if there is a partial failure of the soybeancrop , then the price of soybeans and of products mad e from them wil l logically go up.Peopl e will have to either buy less soybeanprodu cts or buy less of something else, a fac tconsumers should be qu ick to recognize andaccept. Unfo rtuna tely they're not. Instead ofacting like capitalists and realizing thai soybeans, due to their new degree ofscarcity aremor e valuable, they ac t like socialists andstart expect ing the government to bringdown the price. It' s always good to have agovernment aro und soyou havesomeone toblame .

Certainly a pr ice rise could be partiallythe government's fault . A price rise cou ldal so be the fault of a private interest tha t i sso large it can par tially contr ol the market.but when a price increase is induced by acrop failu re. an oil shortage, or some economic ally similar cause. ther e are only threealte rnatives consumers can pursue : Use political pressure 10 force th e pricelower. Such efforts will more tha n likelybackfire, since, with a lower price, producerswill not be motivated to produce more . andthe scarcity cond itions will persist. That'spartially what happened when former President Nixon first ap plied price controls. Artificially force their own income up. Ifsuch action becomes widespread throughoutthe economy , however, it does little morethan spread more demand. Th is causes theprice of one product after ano ther to rise andthre atens the economy with runaway inflation . Acapt the price rise, reali zing that itmeans they will have to either buy less-ofthat newly scarce commodityor less of something elsein o rde r to balance theirbudgets. But that's such anunsavory idea to most ofus.

So it seems entirely conceivable that should the entire food production of theUnited States be wiped outby natural forces. Amer icanhousewives would be marching on w ashington . withtheir li ttle rem a i n in gstrength. incensed that thegove rn me nt had gotten us

by Ron HorswellScarcity is not re ally a new word. We inthe United States have practically forgottensuch a term existed, but. believe it or not. it'sbeen right ther e in your Webster's all along.I know; 1j ust checked it to be sure.Now all of a sudden the old standbys weuse to describe the American economicscene - "p lenty:' "surplus:' "growth" andthe like - sound archaic. In fact, scarcity hasachieved such dreaded propor tions. at leastin the mind s of consumers, that we mightwell consider it a newword after all.What most.people don' t know is that scarcity is one of the fundamental conceptsbehind a science(or perhaps more appropriatel y. an art) tha t's much in the news today,economics. If you browse throu gh a highschool or introductory college economicstext . on one of the first few pages the authorwill probably go to quite some trouble explaining tha t the basic concept behind economics is no t money but scarcity. In fact.there will likely be a definition somewhatl ike that found in Samuelson's famo us text:" Economics is the study of how men andsociety end up choosing. with o r without theuse of money. to employ scarce productiveresources thatco uld have alternative uses, toproducethem forconsumption. ..In short. economics is the study of howmen allocate scarce wealth - how theyhandle scarcity.In the supposedly free market economy. if

How toSurviveScarcity

by Les Stoc kercollege. adequa tely staffed and equipped forits needs. o ffers special opportunity for selfexpression in the area of the student's talents. It produces an altogether diffe rent andmor e des irable campus atmosphere. Students acqu ire a foundation for the ar t ofliving happy. useful , successful lives. Thisemphasis upon character building and spiritual developmen t is aptly stated in the Ambassador motto: 'Recapture Tru e Value s: "The principles and foundations for lifetaught at Ambassador were recognized by1967 graduate. Earle Can trell. now a principal of a midwestern elementary schooL Hesaid. " I am very thankful for the opportunityI had to go to Ambassador . It's the basicprinciples that you learn more than the technical ities. It's the basic principles of life. howto get along with other huma n beings andhowto work hard: 'Whether they have gone in to the professions. the business world. education , homemaking - or for that matter any field Ambassador gradua t es have all had the

Now in its twenty-eighth year . Ambassado r College has produced hundreds of grad uates who lead s uccessful lives outside of thecollege environment. Ma ny of them haveexpressed their feelings to me about theirAmbassador College education."T he type of education anc.Ambassado rstudent receives prepares him to be the hon est person that most employers want. Andthere's qu ite a lack o f that out here: ' saidone A.c. graduate. "On ce we get out intosociety. i t's no t the beautiful build ings ofAmba ssado r tha t impresses people. It' s notnecessarily the personal appearance tha t impresses peop le. What impresses the m is thecharacter - the individual. the attitude . theapproach,"Those are the words of David Stone . Execu tive Director of the Bell-Whitely ActionAgency. which administers millions of dollars worth of govern menr programs in south eastern Kentucky. Mr. Stone should know.He i s a graduate of Ambassa dor Co llege.W. Jack Kessler. a partner in the firm of

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by Sta n ley R. Rader

D uring the pas t seve n yea rs Mr. Herb ert W. Armstron g has trave ledas extensi vel y as any man in the ent ire his tory of the wo rld. andduring th at same per iod I ha ve bee n pri vileged to accompanyhim in hisworldwide efforts to bring to the peop le of all nat ions the Announcem e nt and to estab lish and develop programs tha t are meaningful. re levant and im portant to the nat io n and the peo p le involvedthat they may live mor e fu ll and a bu nda nt lives. Each yea r has bee no ne of increased activi ty. a nd as we loo k ahea d int o 1975 we realizethat we will be in o the r co untries with o the r peop le mo re than 75perce nt of our time - spe nd ing more tim e in an a ircraft tha n aprofession al commercia l p ilot.

Peop le o ften ask me : " How does Mr . Arm strong do it? How canhe keep up such a pace? Il ow ca n a man a pproaching 83 yea rs have thevi tality an d energy of on e hal f hi s age?" In the Philippines recent ly.where Mr. Arms tro ng was in te rviewed by the n a t io n al me d ia a nd a liveradio conference in Iloilo just prio r to rece iving an ho nora ry doctor atede gre e. ivIr. Arms trong adm itted that perh a ps the one de termin ingfac tor in his vitality and com pa ra tive yo ut h was the fac t tha t he a lwayshad a missi on to fu lfill. an d it was that det erm ination to fulfi ll his du tytha t had perm itted h im to mai ntain the vigor and streng th necessaryfor its acco mpl ishment.

Still. it was very gratifying an d inspir ing to meet Mae st ro A rturRubins te in rece nt ly in New York. Se ldom. if eve r. does Mr. Arm stro ng spend time wi th a man five yea rs se n ior to him . and . in fac t. theMaestro jokingly re ferred to Mr. Arm strong as a youngste r. mere chi ld.an d rem inde d him that whe n he was 13 and Mr. A rmstrong was 8 hewo uld no t have eve n spoken to Mr. Armstrong. the differe nce in theirage be ing so vast. Mr. Rub inste in is ano ther ma n who has kep t hisvita lity and yo u th by dedi cating his life not on ly 10 mu sic. bu t a lso to itshumanitarian aspec ts. using mu sic. the un ive rsa l language . as a n inspirat ion to pe op les everywhere a nd for h ringing people ha ppiness.Maestro Ru bins tein visited Pa sad en a and gave a spec ia l re cit al atAm bassado r Co llege o n Janu ar y 15. If circum stances pe rmi t . pla nsare being readi ed for a televis ion pro duction which will show howbot h th e Mae stro and Mr. Armstrong have . in their sep a rate spheresan d in thei r own ways. bro ught so much to ma nki nd. a nd a re makingdai ly impo rta nt con tr ibutions to peace and better understanding

tConunned fro m pa f!. t' I )and the supporters of evolution, bu t alsoin to Genesis and other books of theBibl e.. I wa s ASTOUNDED at what I saw int hese books .

In Genesis I wa s intrigued with th einciden t of th e " fo rbidden fru it ." ThereI read of a Creator God revealing .basicknowledge to the first two humans hehad just cre ated . Connecting the Genes is account with ad dit ions revealede lsewhe re in th e Bible. I saw tha t theirMaker was revealing to thi s man andwo ma n w hat they were, why humani tywas pu t on earth , and the way to peace ,happin ess and joy in mater i al and spir it ua l a bundance . Wh at he tau gh t th em .strange ly . seems to have been ent irelyoverlooked by all re l igions. I saw th ere .also . the CAUSE of all hum anity ' s t roubles , ev ils , sufferings and woes.

The n , in ' th e first fo ur books o f th eNew Testament, I saw whe re J esusChrist came w ith a MESSAGE fr om thegreat God in heaven . That m essage ,sca ttered all th rough those fou r books ,th e w rit ings of Paul . James, Peter andJoh n , as we ll as much of th e Old-Testame nt , wa s th e same revelat ion of t ruththeir Mak er had been teac hing Ad aman d Eve .- That message covered the WAY toWORLD PEACE - and how it actua lly willyet come . It revealed the CAUSE of allhuman troubles and ev ils . It revea ledth e inc redible , awesome huma n pote n.t ial. It rev ealed the PURPOSE for whichhum ani ty was pu t her e on earth . It re-vea le d w here we are goin g and what isth e.way. It revealed the MISSING DIMENSIONIN KNOWLEDGE! Y et all th is revea ledtruth ap pears to have been com plete lyoutside of and apa rt f rom -the fiel d ofany re lig ion, as taught.But also I saw tha t eve n those whoBel iEVED on Jesus as the messe nger refused to believe his message . Just as

tury s uppressed it, and others , eachgene rat ion deceived and foll ow in g thetra dition ta ught th em by the preced inggenerat ion , hav e followed "heir DECEPTION eve r si nce ! But they did not knowthey were deceived - else they couldnot have been dece ived .

So it is, even as foreto ld in theBibl e (Reve lat ion 12 :9 ). th at ALL NA TIONS ARE DECEVEDtoday.It 's absolutely am azing! It' s es -tounding! But it seems that each ge nerat ion sinc e th e first ce ntury , ta ught andindoctrinat ed by th ose of the preceding

gene ration . have fo l lowed in t he decepti ve tra dition . Those in the Christian reli- ...gion who have looked into the Bib lehave tr ied to make the ir in he ri ted tradit ion square w ith the Bibl e . So it hasbecome common to th ink the Biblemu st not be taken lite rall y , They do notbelieve wh at it s ays. .

How of ten have o thers loo kedaskance at me. shak ing the i r h eads andsayi ng . astonished . " W hy, you sure lyd o n ' t ta ke the Bible lite rally, do yo u?"W hy should it no t be taken litera lly , justlike eve ry ot her book? Why? I havefound that , if not bo und by prejudicedt rad i tion and indoct rinated by the traditi onal " Christianity. " it MAKES SENSEand supplies the only answers to humanit vs probl em s and ev ils today .

In t h is f ir st issue of th e new PlainTrut h appears the fir st insta llme nt of th e.book I am w rit ing , culling ou t fro m theBibl e this reve aled MISSING DIMENSIONIN KNOWLEDGE - revea ling the INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL . It MAKES SENSE- and no other exp lanation or revelat ion does! It wi ll continue , serially , onc eeach mont h .

Meanwhi le I co nti nue proclaimingthis same in ma jo r public ap pearan ce campaig ns in capitals aroundthe world . 0

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Garner Ted ArmstrongSPillS OUT!Oly a few mo nths prior to th e19 73 Yom Kippur war, W estern experts conf ident lypred icted th e Arab oil pro ducers would never act multi laterally to use thei r oil as a po liticalweapon aga inst suppor te rs of Israel.Leading magazines wi th such reassuring statements were still infairly current circulation when theA rab oil producers did ju st that.Sudden ly , it seemed that virtuallyunknown A rab sheikdoms, some ofthem barely enter ing the 20th century in development. were holding ascimitar directly over th e jugu lar ofmu ch of t he developed world .W estern Europe, almost totallydependent on oil impo rts . and Japa n , wh olly so, were quick to ge t th emessage. Diplomats scrambled toconvince the Arabs of their gov ernments' sincerest intentions to modera te their positio ns toward Arabcoun tries , wh il e stiffening thei r pol icies toward Israel.Perhaps never before in historyhad the combined impact of embargo , followed by quadrupledprices of an essential commodity ,brough t suc h und reamed of results .No one could argue, when all thefacts were known , that the Ara b oilprodu cers were receiving too littlefo r th eir oil , or that at least some

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lnd ias hope tonselt-sufficiencvhas now vanished .'J he "g reen revo lut ion" did notm':l'ferialize as the salvation of traditicina)IV':tood-defic ientnat ions and th e r r r f g costsof energ y plunged into serious ba lance of payrnEmts deficits .In country after coo-ntry soaringoi l cost s have dealt equally cruelblows. Italy and Br itain have beenposting defici ts of enormous proportion s, up to 2 billion dollars permonth . How do such countries payfo r their desperately needed energyrequirements?They borrow . Britain has bo rrowed from central European banks,as well as di rectly from Iran . Buteven borrowing has its lim its, notonly from unmanageableeconomi esat home, but even from internationalsources equa lly concerned about theviability of those sound econom ies .Worried about the desperately shak yeconomy of Britain , Saud i Arabia recently served notice it wou ld nolonger accept sterling in payment forits oil.So , while the Western industrialpowe rs were incurring massive record-breaking deficits , the Arab oi lproducers were collecting recordbreaking surpluses.For 1973 , even includ ing the lastfew months of that year fo llowing

wh ich bro u gh t immediate responsein the form of th inly veiled th reat sfrom some oil producing nations. .Obviously . any bi lateral or un ilatera l action on go ld pol icy by nationswith signif ican t gold reserves wouldimmediately resu lt in devaluat ion ofsuch nations' currencies, makingthem far more com peti tive in payme nts for imports.The Shah of Iran , earl ier quotedas saying he would clamp down ato tal o il embargo in response to anysuch action , was later " explained"by a government spokesman inmore moderate terms . But the Arabswere clea rly wo rried , neve rthe less.So lo ng as the billions conti nued toflow in to Arab hands, so lon g as theWestern economies conti nued tow restle w ith unacceptab le " siegeeconom ies, " the Arabs seemed content.Wi t h the possibi lity of sudden re

form of gold policy , all that wa schanged .Iraq proposed an overall in ter nati onal agr eement on gold andmoney policies.Saddam Hussein , deputy chairman of the Ruling Revolution Command Council , said, Any state, org roup of states that takes steps thatwill worsen international inflationwill be held responsible for them ,"meaning the United States andFrance . primarily since a dramaticsh ittfrorn $4 2 an ounce for gold , asit is officially pegged , to , say, in thene ighborhood of $200 an ounce ,would immediatel y make the dolla renormously more competitive inbu ying power. Should thi s occur, it would seem the Arabs are threaten ing one of two actions , or both .They cou ld once again clampdown on oil export s, even down toas little as 30% of presen t shipments , or they could simp ly raiseprices (hence the wa rni ng about"worsening international inflation" )

th e la rge food producers m i ght beconsidering retaliation in the form ofhal t ing grain shipments .But try asyou may. it seems impossible to work out projections ofbalance- of-paymen ts and deb t-carryin g pot ent ia ls for many oil importers beyond the fi rst few months of1g 75 . Some of the shakiest impo rting nat ions simply will not be able topay for oil - and that in a matter ofmonths!Clear ly , someth ing has to gi ve .Bib le prophecy strongly indicatesan international " pushinp and shov ing ma tch " between a " k ing of thesouth " and a " kinq of the north "that w ill bring the opening round ofa massive wa r in t he Mideast (Dan .1 1:40-45)!The language of the prophecysuggests a moveby the nat ions(called " the cou ntries, " " manycoun tr ies, " and the " land ofEgypt") const itut ing the " k ing of thesouth " (Saudi Arabia is interestinglyenough rul ed by a king - and so isIran , wh ere the word " Shah" means" kinq ") to be in the area of trade ormonetary policy , rath er than in themilitaryarea." And at the time of th e end shallthe king of the south PUSH at him[th e king of the north]; and th e kingof the north shall com e aga inst himlike a whirlwind , with chariots. andwith ho rsemen, and w ith manysh i ps; and he shall enter in to th ecountries, and shall overflow andpass over . He shall enter also intothe glor iou s land [modern Israel ] ,and many countries shall be overthrown .... He shall stretch forthhis hand also upon the countries:the la nd of Egypt shall not escape." Bu t he shall have power over thetreasures of go ld and of silver and

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orchidsOnce upon a l ime. in a r emote and untar-nished land, there lived a I 'Cly happy people.Happv because they l ived their simple lives

10 the Jid! - and. because their law gual'(m+teed them. amo ng O f/WI" things. the freedomof "Orchidand Onion. ,.. Lt seems tha t th is law Ivasins/rumen/a! illpreserving a heal thy atmosphere ofopenness.honest}' - and el'en hurnilitv - throughoutf ile k ingdom. II was [em/li lly respected byall . i n both publi c and private life. Simplystated. \,jr.rue and apprrH'a! were . rewardedwith orchids. while an embarrass ing publicbombardment wi th onions was the reward[ or offenders - a devastating and odorifer-OIlS (literally) public pe/rinK of both rnindand flesh.Humbling? 0 / course. Bi ll what tremen-dous incentive for circumspect ion and im-provement. A nd a lesson for yo uth o f n't'':\'age. BUI. al l in all. cl'e':.)'ole knew the law of"Orchids and Onions" wasfo r his own good.There I I a.\' e l'en the danger of becoming sovain about receiving orchids that a goodpelting II' i l l l onions was certainlv ill order.Wha tever happened to this wonderful cus-10m IJ not readitv discernible. Rut some con -lend t hat a r i l u ~ l i s t i c fo rm of it is stilt kep iin our larger met ropoti san areas bv guilt-ridden politicians and bus inessmen who hu-btruatlv soothe 11I>r consciences eadl after-nO Ut l .. ru dim ly iiI cocktail lounges - a .martini with a little whi l e onion. of course.II seems 10make them feel better. .

Well. with this nell' Plai n T rut h format,our editors and Sti?! invite YOIi. 0 /11 [airhfuland growingfamilv of readers. to stiarc withothers . I 'Ol f t ' IhouJ!JlIS. ('om mCllS and criti-cisms via thi s section. ThrO\I ' I'Ollr orchidsand y ou r onions 10 tl ie Plain TrIIlh Editor.Dept , 0, Pasadena. Calif 91/23. Thanks.ai / orchidfor Y OI/.

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onionspo ss ib l e t o sep arate eco nomics. soc iology .natura l sci ences a nd po litics from one ano ther as th ey a rc so inte rrelated . And aloo k a t cu rre n t events or a t the pas t is. tosay the very leas t in com p le te i fGo d is le fto ut of th e p icture .

Afte r comba t in Vietnam I reached thereg rettable conclusion that life. a t best. islittl e mor e th an a r idiculous ob scurity . Youhav en ' t c omple tely changed th at o pinion.h ut I must say tha t after rea ding a n a rt iclein o.ne 0.1'yo ur pub lications. I ac t ua l ly feela faint flick er of hope.

So me o f yo ur a r t icles make me sick, so memak e me mad . and ne arl y all a ffec t meemotionally. U nder these co nditions Iprobably should discon ti n ue it. bu t I likethe tr uth in yo ur publication . . . en c lo se d isa sma l l donation. Lcstcr G..

Mayfield. KYTh e format cha nge in Pla in Truth is grea t !I like the way you kee p it al ive a nd chang in g for th e be tter . Wi lliam lkcxPrint Plain Truth on coarse pape r if yo um us t, e ve n print it on brow n hags o rwrapping paper. hut p rint it!

Ada Co nner Griffi th .NewOr lea ns. LA

"Th e Family Tha t Drinks Together " [Oc\. Nov. issue] is the most se nsib le article ondrinking we have eve r read.Mr. and M rs. Rich a rd Fra nk.

Z immerman. M'NFor the fir st umc . l 'vc read an art icle inPlain Truth I cannot acce pt. C hrisl mayha ve made and d runk wine . hut in histeaching in the hook or Roma ns 14:2 I it isstated. " It is good neither to ca t flesh no r 10

FOOd Taboos-Stronger ThanHunger?by Cha rles VinsonT he ultimat e tr a ged y in the wo rld foo dshortage is tha t some of the hun ger has beensel f-imposed.Af rica . . for example, sus tai ns nearly asma ny ca ttle outside the Sa ha ra as doc sNo rth America - no t high-grade bee f and

dairy ca tt le. of cou rse. bUI anima ls we llada p te d to a tro p ica l e nvi ro nmen t. Theseca ttle a rc no t ge nerally use d as a so urce o ffoo d.Stretched ac ros s Afr ica 's mi ds ec tio n is anon-milk ing zone. In it a ll ani ma l m ilk hastradit ionally be en conside red a vile body secre t io n as re pulsive as ur ine: henc e it is a sinto d rink it. G enera lly it is used only as apo t io n by sorcerers. In som e areas on ly adultmal es ra the r than children a re a llowed todr ink milk , H eal th y catt le are o fte n kept a s astatus symb o l. but not as a foo d so urce.A s im ila r si tua t ion occur s in Eas t a ndSou th As ia. althou gh m ilkable ani mals a rea bundant. Ca ttle have been knownto refuse to kill an a n imal eve n tho ug h family m emb e r swere s tarving.Th e Indian subcon t in ent . w ith ne a rl y onefifth of the wo rld's cattle. is probab ly themost undernou rished , prot ein-po or a rea in

the wor ld. Unfort una tely. ca t t le arc sac red tothe Hindus, Ind ia's dominant rel igiou s body.An imal s . rather than peo pl e, are co mmo nlyfed special fo od s a nd honored with sac rificesof o ther ani mals. Ca tt le roa m thr ou gh c itystreets un distu rbed . ove rg raze the lan d an dbrowse o n cro ps wh ile humans hun ger. Furth.e r, wh ile most Hindus r ej ec t bee f. man yW Ill eat no food of an ima l o r ig in wha tsoeverbecause their re ligion forbids the taking o fan y animal life,

ImprovingInternationalConferencesby Jeff CalkinsBy tradition . major international conferenccs ar e ncar lv alwa vs staged in historical.

T he chicken was first domesticated inSo u theast Asia; yet today. ch icken fle sh a ndeggs are o ften avoide d by the mor e pri mitive !inhabi ta n ts in that region an d in some parts ,"of A frica too . Eggs are equated with ex- .c rement. Chickens ma y be use d for fe at he rs,"cock-fighting, sac rifice a nd ma gic . b u t notfo r food . Many bel ieve that eating ch icke nso r eggs d estroys fertility or hampers sexual "pe rformance. So me men believe eat ingpo u lt ry pro du ct s ma kes them effemi nate .Wo me n avo id the m, th ink in g they mightcause dwa r fi sm, d eformity o r cha racte r flawsin th eir unb orn children,Fis h is a n inexpensive and reasonablyp lenti ful so urce of protein in man y areas .Ye t large num b er s o f ill - fed peopl es rejectcerta in o r a ll kinds of fish . In parts of Af ricait is thought that fish a re unclean o r possessed of evi l sp irits. Ea t i ng t hem all egedlyin v it e s d isaster . Th e ta boo is so stro ng thatse rv a nts ha ve o pte d to lose preciou s jo bsrather thanprepare fis h fo r employers.Simple unwillingness 10 change eati nghabits is one of the mo st preva lent foodtaboos, Most peop le naturally refuse to inges t stra nge o r rep ugnant foods simply because a n ou tside r insists they oug ht to,St arving. rice-accustomed Asia ns ha ve intime s pa st shunned gifts of wheat o r mil letbecause th e y we ren ' t used to cooking th em.T hat ma y so un d foo lish, b ut mo st "c ivilized"peo ple wo u ld probabl y be eq ua l ly reluc tantto ch ange i ngra ined ea t ing patte rns based onth e advice of an a borigine .It is politi call y chi c fo r so me co mmentators to po rtray a pigg ish America.grunting a nd squealing its way th roughmountai ns of po rterho use steaks and s trawber r y shortca ke. wh il e t he res t of the worl dd rools. Ye t eve n if Am er ica were to give itsfoo d away - as some fee l she o ught (0 do the proh lem wou ld sti ll not be so lved .On ly educa t i on ca n elim inate food taboos- and onl y education can convince overcrowded natio ns of the urge nt nee d for bi rt hco ntrol. Eliminat ing starvation is a q uestionof tilling minds a swe ll as stomachs. 0

first day's lunch : four va rieties o f pasta. fou rkinds of mea t. a cho ice o f vegetables, dessertand wine. beer. mi nera l water. o r colad rinks. All in a ll the diploma ts ran up a $ 1.5mi llion f()(ld and beverage bill.

S olutio ns?Delegate inertia migh t be cured hy a mor e

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The BIBLE-A Contemporary Book?

No Room for God in theWorld's First Atheistic State

accepted stutu s in the cou ntry.Hist or icullv. t-ram. Catholicivm .and Gre e k Ort hodoxy cons titutedthe main reli gion . strea ms in Alba man life. In fact . p rim 10 commu nist takeover . Albania. which wa...once und er Tu rkish rul e. wav Europ e's only prcdominantlv Moslemnation . But since 1967 all I llo:-,yuc :-and churches have been closed.brin ging all collec tive worship 10an abrupt end .T he count ry wa s th cn p rocla imed by its communist overlordsto he "the world's first athe isticsta le: ' It was furt her decided thata ll citizen" should remove theiricons and other religious symbolsfrom their homes. Some churchbuildings were turned in to publicmeeting halls whi le others wen:permanently padlocked.As a result of the policy instituted severa l years ago. priests nolonger officiate . laity are no lo ngerpermitted to c o ng rega te. a ndch urch doo rs are no longer ope n towelcome the destitute.A tragedy? In some respect:. ;.'e ..especially for those few who actually would serve God if given theopportunity.We in the Western world t akefreedo m of re li gion for granted .Yet in spite of our religiou s freedom . ignorance of the Bible andkn owledge of the prece pts o fChri stianit y are fa r (0 0 high.Which is worse? A nation tha to penly ad mits no d esire to serveGod - and do esn't - or a nationthat profe sses Chri stianity but wor-sh ips only with its lips - not withobedience?Th e latter perhaps is an evengrea ter tragedy than the outlawingof religio n in the "wo rld' s firsta theistic state : ' D

experience when obeying all of them!No less a pe r sonage than thefounder of Christianity hearti ly endorsed the Ten Commandments(Ma tt hew 19:16-22: Mat thew 5:1719). Jesus summarized the Te nCom mandme nts into two fundamental principles - love towardGod (the first fou r command men t s) and love toward ma n (th e

Most of the other art ifacts of theOld Testamen t Jewish sta te weredi scarded in the Christian era . TheJerusalem Confer ence recorded in

atheistic state in the world. It is theon ly communist country that hasmad e the practic e o f re li gi on apuni shab le crime. Whereas othercommunist nations "guarantee" religious freedom in their respecti veconstitutions . Alb an ia doe s noteven concede this verbal formalityto its two mill ion inhabitant s. Noreligion. whether practiced pri vately or col lectively. is o fficiallytole rated .Th e architect mainly respo nsiblefor this situa tio n is Alb ania ' sleader , Enver Hoxha . His aim is toforce upon his nation a part icularly" pure" form of socialism. The ereuuon of this ega litarian society, accordi ng to Hoxha. lea ves no roomfo r re ligion . T he Alban ian regimeis noted for its rut hlessness in supp ressi ng a ny opposi tion whichwou ld dar e grant any reli gion

by John R. SchroederMuch of the Mosaic Law has disappeared into history. Anim al sacrifice s disintegrated with the end ofthe Jewish Commonwealth of Pal

The10Commandments-Backbone of Western Lawand Morality

On e of the basic freedoms gua rant eed by the American constitution and those of ot her Westernnat ions is the freedom of religion.the freedom to embrace the faith ofone 's choice . But can you imagineliving in a cou ntry where this pri vilege is withdraw n? Ca n you picturea s it uation where it is impossiblefor you to legally purchase a Bible?Where you a re unable to attendany ch urch for divin e worship?Where there is no prie st o r ministerto be found?

There is such a cou ntry - Albania . Th e tiny Balkan state istod ay unique among the commu nis tworld . Unlike ot her Eas t Europea n nations. Albania' s doo rs totouri sm have remained tightly shutfor the last 30 yea rs. So have practically all trade link s with the West.For the Western tour ist or businessman to ge t a perso nal glimpseof Albania is ne xt to impossible .Who then can travel to this " forbidd en " land ? I put th is qu est ion toa Yugoslav gove rnment official inTitograd. the city bordering AIbania. He explained that only a scleer few a re granted the pri vilegefrom time to time, but then only inspecia lly picked gro ups under therig id ausp ices of the Alban ian governm ent. A per son must ha ve anextr eme ly good reason - and thepa tience of a Job - to be allowed asight-see ing tour of this sma llest ofcommunist na tion s i nEast Europe.What is uniqu e abou t Albania isits claim to being the first tota lly

by Ge rhard Ma rx

Textual C rit icism. Masoretic Studies. Hebrew and Cog nate li teratures . a nd Targumic Studies . Whi lesome of these may sound somewhat e so teric to the average man.they all have potentia l value fo r abetter und erstandingo f the Bible.Th e shi rt-sleeve sessions of thesocie ty's annual meet ing were prima rily of in te res t to scho la rs and

professio nal theo logians. But fromthose aca dem ic d iscussion s comenew und erstandin gs wh ich filterdown into the commentari es. re ligious magazi nes. and finally to thelayman him self. A bib lica l tru th a ffecting your l ife may have had itsori gin in an archaeologica l dig inan obscure corner of the world orin the midnight effort s of a Ugar iticscholar po ring ove r texts of a longforgotten people .Th e Bible lives! Its very vivacityis witnessed bv our en ti re modernWestern wo rld wit h roo ts deepl yembedde d in the Jud co-Chr istianheritage . Even tho se who want toove rthrow the Bibl e ca nnot de nytheir own heritage .Th e page s of the Plain Trw hcontinual ly dem onstrate how thebiblical message is not o n ly re levan t. but ever vita l. to con tempo-rary man . Future issues will a lso

study al so poi nts out thai chi ldrenwho survive respirato ry illness inthe first ye a r of life have beenfou nd to be subjec t to chron ic respiratory disease later in life.

Of course. smoking ha s a lrea dybee n co n v incing ly lin ked wit hlung ca nce r. heart disea se . andman y o the r maladie s. Bu t theha rmful effects on children - andpresumably on nonsmo king adu ltsas well - ad d an ext ra d imensionof concern. Perhaps thos e whowon 't qui t for their own health'ssa ke . w il l qui t for so m eo n eelse' s. 0

Mo un t ing evi dence ind icat esthat parents who smo ke exposetheir children to numerou s healthhazards.

Res ea rch er s at th e Lo ndonSchool of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine have found tha t childrenof smoking parents arc subjectedto double the risk of an a ttack o fpne umoni a or bronchitis duringthe first yea r of life . The Lon do n

Parents Smoke-Children Suffer

I rece ntly retur ned fro m th eII Oth annual conv ention of the Society o f Biblical Lite ratu re. held inWashin gt on . D.C . Hund reds ofschola rs from No rth America andabroad ga thered for five days toread and discuss papers. conductsem ina rs. consult on profe ssionalm atte r s. a nd in gc n e ra l keepab reast of the la test researc h bytheir co lleague s.The bas ic message o f sa lvat ionhas ne ver been obscure . The way oflife which lead s to e ternal life hasa lways sho ne d e arl y fro m th epag .e :> of that Book of books .But in such an anci en t piece orliterature. there a re ma ny question sconcerning text. languag e. design.symbo l and meaning which help tokeep that a nc ien t hoo k foreveryoung and foreve r new. Th ere arcd ifferences of app roac h to theBible and d ifferences o f opinionabou t its origin. preservat i on andcontinued value . But the majorityo f biblical scho lar s. whether liberalo r conservative , a re conv inced o fits relevance to the 20th century.T he Socie ty of Biblical Literature promotes research into variousd iscipl in es re la t ing to biblica lstud y. Sect ions and semin a rs weredevoted to such diverse to pic s as

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