Herbert W. Armstrong Quote

Q. “But I think what you are saying is just philosophy and does not offer any solution to our problem. How will that produce peace now”?

A. “It won’t produce peace now. I am just telling you the facts of what will produce peace. And I say to you that we human beings are not going to produce peace. I think that all religions at least know that there is a higher power. They do not know what that higher power is. They don’t have it is defined perhaps because they don’t know. But there is a higher power, and that higher power is going to have to come and bring us peace. We are not going to bring peace. But the great Creator God is going to have to intervene and bring us peace if He has to force it upon us. And that is the way peace is finally going to come”.

Q. “As for Sri Lanka, we have prayed to God to solve our problems. But I don’t think even God can promote peace in this country”.

A. “I say to you that God could intervene right now. But that is not His will to do that, and He is not, I can tell you that He is not going to intervene right now. He’s going to let us learn some lessons. Human beings do not know that they should love their fellow man. And God is going to let us punish ourselves and bring about wars and kill so many people. It will come to the place where we would destroy every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. The weapons of mass destruction now exist! The United State has them, the Soviet Union has them, France has them, China has them. Other nations are beginning to have nuclear weapons. And a nuclear war could erase all human life from this earth! And conditions are going to come, and man is going to go on fighting one another. And men are going to go—I can’t change their minds! And no other man can change their minds. And man is going to have to learn a lesson. They’re going to come to the place where they would destroy the last man and woman and child on earth! Then the supreme God is going to intervene before that happens. And He is not going to intervene until we learn our lesson. Humanity won’t learn—I can tell you the way to peace. But you won’t believe me! You men right here won’t believe me! The world won’t believe me! I can’t bring you peace unless you would believe me, and you won’t! I’m speaking very plainly. I represent that Higher Power, and I know what He proposes! And I know what He is going to do! And He won’t do it until we have punished ourselves, to the place where we are willing to submit to Him. The trouble is, neither side in this problem that you are having here right now is willing to submit to that higher power. And as long as you won’t, you are going to fight and have trouble. And we are going to have to come to the place where we have to rely on Him to do it for us.

Sri Lankan Press Conference 1984

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    Ambassador for World Peace –BTW 1985

 End-time Proverbs

* The seeds of success are planted in failure.

* (For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the see, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.) Isa. 10: 22

* (It is always darkest before the dawn…..)

Reflections….

Because of an absolute dearth of true leadership, the world stands idly by witnessing the imminent collapse of the ‘Great Nation’ of prophecy—that is Manasseh or the U.S.A. This is due to a complete void in right morals, true principles and national consciousness based on right and wrong. When the Bible speaks of this ‘present evil world’ (Gal. 1: 4), this characterization could not be more accurate. Great leaders are strangely absent from almost every field of endeavour, whether it be politics, academia or religion. With the possible exception of the current prime ministers of Canada and Israel and perhaps a very few others, where have they all gone?

“Where, O where have all the great leaders gone….long time passing…long time ago”. The world is a much poorer place without them!

“Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start, workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope has never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our matchless advances in science, art, literature and all the other material and cultural developments of the last 2000 years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh”.

General Douglas MacArthur address to the U.S. Congress, April 19, 1951

“If you will allow me to use other language, I will say that he must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great purpose is being worked out here below of which we have the honour to be the faithful servants. It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will, for their own safety and for the good of all, walk together in majesty and justice and in peace”. (Editors note: Please see Isaiah 9: 6-7)

Winston Churchill address to U.S. Congress December 26, 1941

‘The Doctrine of the Gospel

by Robert G. Goddard

Jesus Christ came into Galilee preaching the ‘Gospel [Good News] of the Kingdom of God’ and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel”. (Mk. 1: 14-15) Within these two verses, is a succinct summary of Christ’s mission on earth! The question is, is this still His mission, even though He is now in the third heaven. Is it now something different? Has it changed? If He were on earth today, would He somehow have CHANGED His message to conform to the more ‘current’ messages of the mainstream ‘Christianity’ of today?

Let us consider the implications of a different message other than the one Christ preached. In Mathew the 24^th chapter and verse 14, we are told that ‘this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached as a witness to all, the world and then shall the end come’! It is hard to miss the importance, the absolute necessity of proclaiming the exact same message that Jesus preached so that the end can come!  Indeed, as verse 22, explains, the world in the last days depends on the accomplishment of this all important activity in order to survive! Also, 2nd Corinthians the 11th chapter verse 4 tells us; ‘For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another Gospel , which you have not accepted, you might well bear ‘with him’ – or ‘with me’ – that is the apostle Paul or what he taught!

Many years ago, a very prominent minister in the Church of God taught that a good title for the Bible might well be, ‘the History of the Nation of Israel’. This is a fairly good definition, although it leaves something out. One might ask, yes but, what is the purpose of the nation of Israel? In effect, what is God doing here below? Does He have a purpose, and if so – what is that purpose? Many years ago, the prime minister of Great Britain, Sir Winston Churchill, in speaking before the U.S. Congress said; “there is a great purpose being worked out hear”. However, Prime Minister Churchill did not know what that purpose was.

The one-true-church in the last days has clearly understood that the Bible is first and foremost, a book about government! That, in effect, at the original creation, the angels ‘shouted for joy’ (Job 38: 7), at the awes