PLAIN TRUTH

'VOL Y40.4

Psrblishd by HERBEBT ARMSTRONG W.

WAR Events Hurl On Toward

Prophesied C L I MAX
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WO stPnniaB Jefeats have altered the whole coarse of .the War -in orrwdancu with Bible protbccy! It M thrillin& to follow the trend of tho w i n the light of prophq which rev& ib ptulcstined pafh.

H E B E is revealed &tIer'& Grand $ k a b

egy for invadingPalestine.

Gnuid Stratem for rendering Lat blow to Britain. Hitlet, shrewdest, most sat&ally-iospired politiul opportunist of bistmf, becomes unquestioned mister of and lays grsnd i w Ian8 for a NEW ORDBR, And phcn the God of beavcn btb tbc Gemw Grand Strategy twice to de eat-ftustmtea Hider's boasted p b a utterty4cnds the course of the mighty German war macbinc like putty into the pith cscriid thmsands of years a86 i GOD&LAN--causa Adolph Hider. BS n well & other mcn, to fuifil HL bril!, B I B b PROPHECY IS CERTAlN.

Ritler Bends to God% PIan xtler, cakd by E O ~ Ctbe great& db laas the prl@us of 011-time; cunain

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Read how &many% best laid plans have had to bend in acwrdance wftb Bible proo pheoy.

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become its sale lord and master-fa exhalt his own pddc and egotism over UP his fellows,-to establish his OW NEW WORLD ORDER. Instead hc hi destined to J ~ d a m , to d8&@9j ta I his pact in the M q Jbt&win& dowa of the Q d order- ol ddiIwtian as we have L o r n h-that k may bu npXaced by GOD'S new order, under Jam Christ now soon tu m e pgaln. Trml God h u b Hkfet i t k t d n g s n d--&t he will fpvc no part En &e buSdiog up. In that the worJd map caks hope,
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Adolph Hitlet- fdr withfn himrfl: iht he was u #an a j bMq. + b d$0 he Isbut not as he thought. H believed he war e destined to conquer and to rule the World

RitJer Crtnquers All In Hie Path rZrr tho 1 s t a t Scpkmhr. 1939, p r tected by his am-sggiesslon p ~ c t with S t a h HitIer started his ptcdeatlned MWE

Houzlld, Prance, and Notway, mined death mh annihilation u p tbe thousaods of h p l a d c a ships and brga s h v i n ~ otl
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Charinel. Thc tiutvhoa turned

bid, and thousand of bodies of Gumvl S0ldier;r were seen Boating an channel
Water&

Suez from the West. I h e plan was to s t r h simaI4neotwlg from the East by sendm German mcfhan-

blitzkrieg smash

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flitlet had met hs first defeat, He had f d e d to iavadc and to hc a u England ak ~ Ilia British, sdaiag iadesaibablc punW. meat f o HitIus *luftwafTe, w i n g rm wbok cities rirhully destroyed, still hang
d o p y on pad d n u e to Qht back with a ctcrn32nation that has astonished tha world

iztd an= divisioos iudinfentfp 08 dwa thtll%WrnE3 Turkey stands squarely i tba patb of n Hitlers pro osed smash tbru h Holy e b d . A d ?Putkey b o British ally! T takc o care of thh sihratiotl, Llik made a deal with MoIotofI of Russia, promising t brbg a about a npn-sgrcssion pact bctTlFcen and RwJa provided Rush wool
enough ressute u p T u r k
to

fot Burope to a 7 ORDER OF THE ENTIRE worn: Nat Hitkt ta idly brought Hungary, BornMia, and S1 into h M as sort i oi junior poftncn. H sent German e troops into Rumania to cake char@ of the m ~ ~ s s aRumanian oil Lelds, wd now y rg bos his troops entmiched BS fw santh-mt rrtfieBLackSaL of this German G m d &rate@ desip to r e n h the h d - o u t Tbcmili-cBnrc bIov to Br~taininvolved e two-diiection pincer atiack 00 S u q ethubg fmm Bast and Wtsi simultaneous1 I thus cutdng the British life-line thru thc bdhrrahean.

timatclp ~ C Qpowerful dictator-natioas of Errtope are to give their armed power snd dht t0 the % S %; t &evelath I ) i a 7, n gigantic re-bid af a d n so-called net Holy R O W EMPIIZS that will astound d the warld. l And, withoat rdizln how he is king otlscd t a f a G d s o and bdag Bihfc r hecy to pass, Adolph Hitler ncxt procee d tu map out Germaa G m d rtwtegy p% No. 3. 12Js p d P h w of B &*fold Ntuw, one political, the &her mfiitary. So Hitler began 8 frantic diplamatic activity. P i , be established the tripartite alliance between German, Ital and J wThis a was otonce a threat to &e United Staej and an expansion of Hitlds NEW ORDER

&rltidn mud eventually lose the Meditermeno gateway8 of Suez and Gibraltcr. U1-

Gkmaa Grand Strategy It is port of Uodb p m p k k d Plan that & t rhaU be invrdtd pod c o q u u e d The i& e i foretelling t h were partly covca h crc i the August-Sept& n number, and 011 tbc sabjcct we shall have much more f a ou later. But God, time had not a b And sa Hitiers cnrtfullg-laid plaas w to nought. It 2 in the propheshd course of the wt that the main fighting, eoenhrallg, shall be in the Meditetmean and in the Nearhat. Both Pdestinc md Egypt ntc to fall,

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%Mblcthr B & and pcrmit the Germaaa b go rhnt This, too, b h Iinc 4 Bibta prop t h For, w brought out la unbther d c l ~ thii number. Turkey is predestined to tnrn ltraitor on Britain, mdiag in 3ritaiar ultimate down 1 4, in turn, 8ft& Bdtaia bas been rescued an restored to PQWU by the AImi@ty, to bc u ~ I dpcd out by y Britain. But a a , GODS TIME MAI) N Y b CT ARRIVE%! And so, one Mtleri &and S b t q y met defeat!

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Defeat c a m this tima thtu hie ;Axis partner, MUSSOLINI. Against the 00rrnscl of his own generals, without consulfin6 Hitler who was 4&ng all the s &&M and the glory, Musolid ordered 1s q to invade Greece tknr AlbnIa. But the greatly outnumbered GteeEP, with help from the British air force, d m ~ e Itdims back tbc into the middle of Albanh, where the fi~bring cantinuas wt Check success as thlo is ih

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Eiitler Plam to Invade Palestine

o&en and anglneers of the G W m y h Libys qecting lakr ta send German t o ms and m e c h n i d acfJpmult to rep
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To do this, Hitlet b

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Africa f&

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On t h ~ heels of fhh defeat, Came &c British stcoke in Egypt, in which thiq Q fottp- thousand Italian boo era1 generals, were capfare and the Italians driven completely out of Egypt. In additioa to this, P few wedti b e f m &a 3ritish air force had put out of c ~ m . plission half of the capitnl ship of the Italian Navy. Hitlu had d&dp lamed to b v c all of Patstine, &gyp+ mk tke Suez anal in his htfd POSS~SSIW -klStSkl8 the END of the war with v i d q fsr hi\imsclf--beforc Christmas. But once a@, bis plans had to await GODS TIM.& And ao the Graad Stratep N . 3 w entirely fruso trated, and H&kr will not seod bb legi~ns thru Palestine nnd eu to Suez this winter! As a molt. o I&lhin defcab, Turkcy Iiap f stiffened, md refuses t 1ct Bitlu thnr. o Hitlers diplomatic proi;raa of addin juLLaers ta %his h i s Eat tmrGofid g i r a l w was stopped in its tmcb,For Bulgaria, and JU avia, don wit& TIU* key, have sti&nc$%d balked, &tlefs ptp gress t r tho Balkans has been dtlagrcd hu tnany months, E m Hitter mwt await CODS schedule fax thin& t o No man, not even with tbc power tier nt

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TURKEY w$ed out bv Britain

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"u&q dots during the rtcxc ear weeks or months-and on w a the great ht warring powers do to Turkey. Will Hitler's new order-his Ramh&rlia-T~kyoAxis-mla the world? In the Hob Land lies the answer. Palestine, gate way t the far-epst, and the chief sources of o wealth and power of tk British Camman#ealth-Palcstine, corridor to the tirfi oil fields of M s p t m a - a c t n , to the c o o a i - P l s i c key all-importaat gateway of the Suez Canal, the very life-lint of the British Ern ice, holds the La(wcf to the futum COnrSc 0 the war,
M what

HB Bie quesdon-mrk oE the world you neser saw before. Rertd it war, now, is TURKEY. 3%~ future course of thr w r a . , then watch i r t a c t t d l ~ from now on-the fat0 of nations-bin

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message from "the Lord God coacerhing EDOMI" (vase 1. )

The Book of Obadlah b a prophctic

Who is "Edom?''

Twkey BIocke Eftlei's Path And TURKEY bold3 the k &ttJc fot Palestine. fn the article ginning p ~ s e you will iind described Hitler's plan I , to trlrc Suez by fir& sending his blittttieg

Zmths

Puuer divisions thra Palestine, in order to

reach

and capture the Suet Card. h b i s Hitldr present plzd-the G e r m @and

tLFptcggt to knock out E ga d nln

d i d at the aascwag,~ u a r e l g Hitler's In prt)c! oocupicj an contrh the two natmw entrances fram the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. The cudden exleasP~ef G c m n power denr to the Black Sea with Gcrmnn troops in control of RumaOia, baa provoked violent d o n in turkey. PQCTurkey ha pens to be a d!y of Gt& Britain! An Hider is now mDVifI)5 ropidy w a r d a showdown to force Turkey to determine whetha she du# r e moln o British ally, or wbcther she bc m co a now the nlly of Hitlets Axb and @ t s Wtler's match thru Palestine and 011 to

north, and also nortbsut, of Palatine,

But T r e happens to be larated due uky

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To understand such prophecies, we mu& know the modern identity of natidna called by bhc namn of the ancient anccskooa from which they hnve Bpmng. For the orl in tmd identity of "Edom" we must turn fa& to Genesis 369. These art the generations of ESAU the father of the EdowitEs i n Mount Seir." And i wne 19: "These are n tha sons of ESAU, wbB b Edom," ''Ed~m,'' then, is ESAU, the twiubrotber of Jacob, and the namu in proph dong with "Mount Seir," the land in they dwdt, (also soa~&mcs called ''Idoma, c' a) refers to the desceadcnts of %, u identified as the TURKrSH d o n toda The proph of Obadkb, then, is &ut TURKEY, G 7 i t foretells events of ths present, md the immediate future.

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tells of thu &a1 sdtbThis proph ment of one of e mat andent p d g a of history. You nmembet the stoq of Jacob and Bsou, twin s o u of Isaac the son of Abtaham, The BIRTHRIGm God had pmm ised Abraham was handed dawn to Isaac, Esaa was first-born of the twins, and therefore natural inheritor of Bis predow BIRTHRIGHT, But &nu undervaluated thij must precious mataial and national gift

Suez!

qnc whole Book of tbc Bible is devoted to a pro h q foretelling its outcome. !t is 11 proplrc~y almost no one bas andentwd until now. it t the Book of Ohdiah, shortest Book in the Old Testmefit, contnfning only one shod c4aptTr. T h i g Book always hns been n big -on to the Critics, the Coaunmhton, % s u p r d j ? learned Bible scholon. It has ha thcm M e & Like m e of tbe prophecies in Rt~nicl, it ~doubtedlyh u bacn "aealed,"-cfased to humnn undentandia8, rrntll )he W m e of rbr Ertd." But we now BR In the 'Tim of the End:' and thosa who haw G d sSpirit o' to guide t m now tnn understand. b

Who18 Book of BibIe Foreteb Thc situation b t aew arising is af surb nst moment to the future of the world that

Editor's Note
1n camectloa with thir &ieIe, u well as the one beginning page S, be lure 10 get your Bible before yoa begin reading tbhe article, "urn to every 4-4 ptveu, and mad J in your Bible, Many t e h am t Ibted In conncdlon with thir artlela which are sot quoted hers, Yon w U 1 get macb ~ W Q Interest and VIIUO of tram thin anicb if yon rttl tom t o every text, in your Elblq mad h a d and rtudy it them carefully, u you wrno t it IR a l e article. o

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November-December, 1940

Vol. 5

PLAIN TRUTH cd 4w -Edited by HERBERT ARMSTRONG W. Box 111, Eugcne, Oregon

Pxrblisbd in conjunctron witb tbr RADlO CHLIRM OF GOD

Cantinged f m p a p tbreu AllcnbyDforced the Turkish surrmder D ~ G ember 9th, 1917. The vast territory uf the foma Turkish Empire w greatly reduced t e Balkan h wlrs ending in 1913, and by end of the World War had shrunL t o its present 294, 000 square miles, the ua of Oregon, e Washington, Idaha md the w a m third of Montana m b i a e d , Turk973 preseat ppulation is 16 million, equal to the po tion of the states of New York and ew Jwcy. To understand the propheq it 5 necessary to know, too, that theu dd b , d south of Judaea, embraccd tho high U s and ranges of Mt. SEir, and their present land, north of Palestine, rS a high plpteau io a mountainous region. Turkey's religioa i s MohammcaPb, mastlg.

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PART TWO
What Has Gone Before: Jrwisb! Thox who caastitutc it u ~ e WHERE i the United Stataa mens tioned i Bible prophecy? The fact h, moro n no: JEWS, *ad never were! That ia foretold of oar people t k n any othw frct we shall now w conclusively, beyond race1 But i prophecy, modern O S ~ ! O I ~ ~ n fCfUtC. usually are called by the names of ancient After Davids death hu son, Sofombn, anceston f m which they have eprung. d c d to the throne. Solomon w e d the @ntmier ago the wealth, power, pnd people excessively, reigned in B gorgeaur national gteatneae which harr became oun &ue 1800 was romised the Almi hty splendor robably never equalled bcforc or desem%nts mcc. h bcw he dso married Gantile to Abraham forb8 promises to Few &ve i ea noticed that the Abraham

HE HOUSE of ISRAEL ir no#

mitted other sins God said, I will mdy m tbe Kingdom from thee, and d to thy servant Howbeit, @e one trjb8 to thy son for David my 8e.r vants sake. (I Kings 11:ll-13).

wives, sacrificed to theit

idols, and tom-

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ERAEL Separates from David%

Throne

N t it! It is THE KINGDOM, not oe put of it, w i h is to be rended away. It hc t the P>RT, one Irib8. which is to rem8in. s That tribe, Judah, must remain subject to the throne - why? FOR DAVIDS SAKE! Davids dynasty m s not be b m ut ken. God will not break His covenant! When Solomon died, his son R e h o b m ucceeded to Davids throne. The peo lc at once demanded the hea taxes be re uced Their spokesman, Jcm aam, (Solomons g s r a t ) pleaded with Rehoboam. Thy evn, father made our yoke grievous; now, thcrufore, make thou the gticvous servioe of thy father, and his hea yoke which he put u n us, lighter, an we will serpe thee. (rKings 12:1-5). My father, came Rehoboams reply, chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpIaar. (aersco 6-14). Israel rebelled. The command to tbt pe~pleWPJ, TO your tents, 0 IstaelY1 T h e challenge to the royal house was, %w~ see to t4he own house! (verse 16). 30 Israel rebelled ogainst the House of David unto this dap. And it came to pas, when dl Zsruel heard W Jetobdlm was tome agnin, that they sent nod d e d him unto h e congregation, a d made bint king Doer ALL ISRAEL: there was none ta ht followed tbc h o w of David, but 148 tribe of JUDAH only. (Kings 12:XPZO). I Then Rehoboam . assembled all the HOUSB OF J 6 wi:& th# #ribs Ub J uf Eenjminl (verse 21). Rchobo;lm started to fight to subdue nnd bring b a d the HOW of I s ~ ~ c bnt Gad said, YO$hall I, not fight agabstyour brethren the cbildtyn of Z m e f . for this thing t from m . (verse 24. i

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Israel Divided into TWO NATIONS

Notice it carefullv! The House vf Ju-

were TWO-fold I nature - m a t d d promn ises of RACE (19 well 88 spiritual prodssr of GRACE. @ m o ushalt be a father of MANY NATIONS, God promised. The Jews h a w never been more than one nation, The material, national, racial promises are called the BIRTHRIGHT-meaning right of birth --something inherited b birth 81 ones RIGHT. Thus the BIRl!&lCHT hm nothin8 to do with salvation, or GRACE, which meang UN-deserved pardon UN-rnerited favor, the gift of God, &-birth of the spirit. The spiritual promisee of CRACEthe promise of a dynasty of Wnp, cubinsting in Christ a8 Kin of kings-the promise of the one met, Jesns. Christ a d saleation through Him, the BibIe c a d s the SCEPTRE. The BCEPTBE was Bfven t o JUDAH, of which tribe Jesus was born (Gen. 49:10), bnt the BIRTWGHT 9pa8 JOSEPHS! (I Chron. 6:2). The Birthright included ownerehi the promised LAND. In passing the b h f right on to the two sons of Josep E braim and Manaeseh, the aged J a t k &srael) said, Let M ~ (ISRAEL) be O nnmcd on them and let them grew into a multitude! [Gen, 48:16). They, not Judah, w r given the NAME, Wouse o i ee ISRAEL. Together they were to grow into B mutltude, but eventually their ds. scendants were t o se arate, Manaaseh then t o become the words greateat single nation, Ephraims deecendants 8 Sffll greater company, or eommonwealth, of nations, Ephralm became the (Gen. 48:lP). T ~ U B Birthright holder, Included in the vaat n& tional and m t r a bleesings promised wan aeil possession of the gates of their enemy nations. Latar &mid, Eke Abraham. meived I moat astonishing UNcandltioaal prods@ from God, in an urrbreakable covenant This covenant aranteed on God% author. ity t h a t Dad% dynasty would nevw oeaue. Fmm that day an, throngh Au an^ eratione, David would never lack 8 don Q reign over children of Irael- at lesst enough of them t o f o r m a hatdon. The throne waa to endure continuously FOR EWRI Thb mieed dynaatp of Dadd was art- d tK SCEPTRE romise. ~ o d f;m!&.d the Sce tre shaulf adam, in udahs hands, un& the second coming d Christ (Gen. 49:lO). The world mpgoew this throne t o have ceased 600 yeam beT fore Christ, Jesus did not take itr over, has never done so yet. But He shall sit on that aame throne, at His second coming (Luke 1:32-92). COULD He sit on B tlym$, if it ceased t exist 2500 ~ e a r s o am.

DIFFERENT AND

dJudahuenottwomma atthemme a J:U m md ad d hl bctillthesecond aMnin a Qu TWO

natian. They were,

House of IsraelNoT Jem We want to hpttss,

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TIONS, ?The term Jew i merely a hi&s name for Judah, It a lie b tbe one nation, or House of Ju 0NI;Y-amr to the H o w of ISRAEL. The first phcc in rlf the Bible wherm tho vord Jaw i a used h ia rt Kiryp 166, N o h it1

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M ,began to reign a king of JUDAH a . He sat on DAVID'S throne,

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return to keeping God's comrmfidmcnts more worship in j e d u n at tbat dmc, 70 years after JUDAH'S apitivity wao Bur, through seven d@crent nasties uader ~ t ~ only t b ~ c of ~ House o Judah wham s the f . At this time B man named 19 kings. Israel c a n t h o d t ese o bad asciud to Babylon. Peknh was king of ISRAEL. With King sins*--sins SO GREAT in GOD'S sight, Ue-dnezzar Rein of Syria as ally, this Ling of Israel that finally God caused than to become a Mpto well these I&. umt against enualem in war, and b e conquered, captive natioa, 1) In 721 8. C IsRILEt w u ''add . mieged King A o Ju& but d d not f And in the pear 721 8. C. the HOUSC away out of theit own land to hSyth," @ o~trcomehim (verse 5 ) . "At that time, of Istael finally were driven out of thcii Kings 17:23). They were ALL W d Rezin Ling of SyrW the ALLY of own land-ont of theip homes and citiescwnplctcly. 'men wis IloM Icft but tba ISRAEL, fiphtlng udh fsRAHL, against pnd carried captives b Asspda, 04 the tribe of Judah only," (11 Wacp 17:18). Judab, - 'recovered Elath to Syria and southern shores of the Carplan Sea! W Honly, rumsinad. h , draw THE JEWS from Elath." (verse 6 . ) "Therefore the Lord WM very onpy with MOFC &an 130 yean I 8 t ~ Neb. NOTE I !The fint plaa in the Bible Israel, and removed them out of h sight: T s ucha nezznr of Babylon ar&d thc Jmnheu the word ''JEW'' is used, we find tberrp u nam Left but tbr Iribs of In& l a JUDA--wbo only remained in Pdestk ~SRAEL W M d p n r ; THE law^! ~ t a t r s only." (I1 Kings 17:18), pc af the i a tribes away t Babylon. So o Jly, Syria, drove THE JEWS out of the In Leviticus 26 we find God's mlemn NONE of the House of Iulel dwelt town of Hath! warnin8 to all the children of h e l . IF Palestine at the time of this aptiritr of Certainly this proves that the JEW3 arc they would wonhi Him dono, avoiding Judab. I) different natioq altogether than ISRAEL. idolatry, and keep $s Sabbath, walk in Hs i i 3) Those who It Is WRONG to call the Jews o today f statutw and tee His commandments, thg to rebuild the templeretutnrd to PIJesdt~ and restore wonM "Ismel." The atb not IuaeI,-thq ere would inherit $8 nationid matulal prom* 70 ycam afier Judah's captMfp, were ALE JIJDAH! AnK wherever ISRAEL is today. iscJ to Abmham. They would become @cat, of Jud& d JEW&ALL of tht remember that ISRAEL d08.f n : mean rich, and wetfdt-- thc dominant nation o of these whom hlcbuchadnezrar had carded El! 'Whoever the lost tea tribes of of all e X But, if they refused and r e may, They retumcd agrin "onto l e d c l d RAEL are today, :hey r l l ~ no/ Juwd belled, they were to be punished SEVEN and Judah, we~ycrnr unto bis nty, (Ezar Wherever you see fie name "IIsr2c1," o r TIMES- a duration of 2320 years -in 2l. :) " H o w of Istael," or "Samaria," or "Epb slavery, servitude, md want. ONLY h s e of t tribcJ of u&h, Bu~J~= k d , used in ropheq, remember thism " T e House of Israel now entetcd-721 h min and b i , who mosthate the bw d o I NEVER R f TO THE JEWS, but B. C.-(tcmamber this date)-upun their T E W AH w r n e d at that time (Ezn 1:s to Ismel, who was I t WAR agaixwt drt 2520 laag years of astiond bnfshtntnt. nscqpcntly those In Jerusrlenr in tk Jews! to hut until 1800 A. D ! . time o Chist were of + e b thm And BECAUSE they, of these tcr, NOT of the House af ISRML. AndtrRw, No place in dl the Bible does the term mwt, tribes, bore the NAME Ismel identfying "ISR"' refer to the JEWS. The turn If not all, of those converted w m a0 ths t e as Goas cham people -because God hm Sd" alone, or "children of Isract," map U Joid had created this nation for the purpase of hibe oi Benjamin, u B S he W. rad sometimes does, inclrrdr the Jews, The House of Isncl bcamr &UwR I) showing forth Hs praise, as nn exam Ic to i where dl twelve tribes are included. Jews tlu LOST T n T r b ! Now kwwn e other nations, reflcctia the glory of A d rn Iyaelites, just as Oregonians are AmettANOTHm m , sn I d8cmat e w g and bccaux thcf h become such a lia* RUS. But MOST Braelites src not Jews, Impage! bility t Hi5 cause, a reproach to Hs nmt, o i ipst M m s A aw u not Oregonians. ot m i e By WHAT MOK Pro t h q known ? God now ordained that they should irchralfy T&, Jew3 are the H u e of Judah only, A os S PART of the Iscadit#. But when these W E TKEIR IDENTITY. Now thep must 'Wbocvet they arc, wherever they 8w & THEY, a d not ta6 Jews, who uc tbe Is are spokea of as NATIONS,rather lose knowledge of their name, Israel. They t u collective individuals, the term must be considered IS Gentila, that they BIRTIiRIGHT pssesaorq I is "'HEY n* the fears, who, after the endiag d W e "Ismel" never nftn to the Jews. 'Mouse continue no longer to cast such a &ia upon unishment in M O O A. D. m e m M t th8 the name of the Lord their God! Or I& s' NEVER m a s "Jews." On the en hbmdcable p'0"igrr BO Abraham of ruSo "the Lord remaved Iswef orrt of Ha dher band, "Housc of Judah" ALWAYS tional reataess, resbutcc~, werlth md p rig& , ,SO Israel was carried away out of pwn) "Jews." er, It MANASEH whq LftM 1800 A. their own land LO Assyria." lhis distinction is vital, if we are to I =np D was to becamp the world's gmtest th 1 : 3 . They L W the land o!1 Samatla, 72) aodcrstand prophecg. Because m s soot nation E hrdm & stilt tee CO never get to return! Gmtila were placed fa d c d Bible stadenb are in ignoruce of tbb basic distinction, they aru unable rightly their homes and c i t h (v. 2 4 , and it is M O W & of nrrronr?K O CIP @ a,today? fhese Gentiles who were known u Samatib understand prophecy! tans in the !ime of Christ. Tbc next place where the krm A more detailed account of the opthtitp is mentioned in the Bible, the House o Israel had been driven out in captivity, Jost from of r s d is found in I1 King, 18; 9-12, and 17:5-18. rkw, and the tcrtn a plies ONLY to thaw m the H u e OP f os m e t e nre NO Now the Home of Israel began to "abide many days without a king," {Ha, maptiom i the n 3:4). Since THBY were the o le who it carried the title "I~rad," is M Y , not ISRAEL Driven Out and LOST1 Judah, who must become tOST in Identity! Smmcdiakly QD I r i q over the Now they must Jose their fanguags thek ROW of Israel, Jw&m (tribe of Epb 28:ll; aJm) setup two golden calves, lnttoduung religion, thcit land, (Iso. 8:f;l; 6Isa.Jet. 16: Isa. 62:2; Isa, 40:27; Ha,2 5 , idal worship in b figdarn. The account IS: Ha.1:8-1O.) e & found in I IU484 L2:28-33. Tbis idolatry, with Sabbatb-brrskiag ISRAEL Never Returned Btck. 20110-24), wa3 the great aational which beouno mch a atsc to Israel. They did NOT return to Palestine Gemration after enmtion, God pleaded w t the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nw ih e with the ~ o u s e aP;~srsclto turn from ttahemiah, 81 8 m e etroncoudy believe. Thou dition-from thcv fathers ways, and to who returned to rebuild the tcmpte and

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t a he h ht e a stranger you should not have gloated over your btotk cr'r fate on hls day of disasttr -Moffatt translation) ; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced OYCC the children of Judah in the day of their d e s t d o n . " This is TODAY. W are now e in the "time o Jacob's trouble," (Jcr, 30:7) f __tbc day PI) maay rophedes la JCKd h Ezekiel, pad elxwtere describe as the a, clay of disaster for Jacob, or Britain-mdoubtodly to indude. alsq later, t e United h
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Continued from F g a four tbt h forces, and oreigners entered info r his @ca, and CAST LOTS upon J e d e m , W a thou wast as enc of them"' (V,1 ) 1.
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AH, Tvha was bkcn captive when N uchadnezzar ap Qnd jerusplun 604-385 B. C And at thnt time no one CAST LOTS for possession of d a n . One d o n alone, took it theq
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&ore Israel and Judah, when He brings ALL NATIONS together in warmththis lfit WORLD WAR-nud then the Gentile in*ulm $ball cart lots for God's people, and fmuatm. At that time "the 3east" and his umics wl take Palestine (Rev. 19:19; il

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Dan. 11:41, 4 5 ) , And it begins now to M s if Hitlcr will be 'The BEAST' who a

nstores the ancient R o w Empire to power, and does this invading. just as Hitler ~d Stalin have been dividing up Poland, Rumania, and other countries in that re ion, w m Hitler divide up Palestine y a jlpkc of the dice! For, make PO mistake about ir, P a l e fine ind Egypt are to be captured by the Rolpaa Axis o w m l The British, ultimotel are to alz contrary to general !xv M, more Israel i to go into captivity, s L( wc explained in the last issue, and wl il explain further in future articles. And here is the prophecy foretelling Qd y wblrr Turkey is now doing!

ceming cnptivitg of that HoI Land. Yews t4-Weither d d d e s t thou have stood in the crossway, to cut ofI those of his that did esape,'' or, 0s the Moffatt traaslatioa has It, "never have stood at tbc passes to cut aff their fugitives, n e w betrayed their survivon, 00 the day of &

Vme 13-Thou shouldst not h w ena t m d into the gate of my people in the da of their calamity; nor have laid hand! on their substiu~cin the day of thus art= oecupicd southan Juda Lamiw following Ju s aptivitp until 164 B C . They a p i n occupied the Birthright land and Jerusalem for 400 pars, IS17 to 1917. This verse undoubtedly mean3 th will u g h 00 cupy a of Palestine, ps Xeir art o the f b~aty, or aiding the h i s in tKek forth.

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broken her pledgc. She was ptedged to join EnBland u soon as Mussolini declared wat iP the Mediterranean. But Turkey, 85 thc Bible herold, s h n b &of. In fear of Rusia, Turk is doing cractly as Stalio dictates. And%itler bas kfd a plot-made a bargain with Stall0 during the past few &. He has promised stplin to bring h u t 4 aon-agrasion treaty between Japan and Rusji;r, provided Sdh wonld bring presswe 10 force Tvrhey ro doublecvoss Crud Brilain and d d the AxU
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The British have a hdf miflion men in tbc Neu-Epd, where Turkep occupies the Crawway. Fully uipped with mechvlized wer, and with% aid of the powerful !&diterranern F e t and the Royal Air le Force, Great Britain d d ably defend herd & the Near-East--&th Twke I bd f It L T r e " dupllclty whlcb d t i p d e uky bslancc, resulting in Britain's ultimate da feat in Palestine and in Egypt! 12--"311t thou rhouldest not have

bifiory, when the N w Era of BLESSING for ISRAEL &all be inaugurated by God, oplc will KNOW that there is a God p"It ia time that climaxes, i Its first n phase, in the Second Coming of a r k It IS a t m to occu y the lattu period of thh ie present war, wl!ich shall end at Armageddon! The "DAY OF THE LORD" bas not yet begun. It may be u n p within one ts five years. Mention o% 14 thb rophq f shows that the message of Obadia%, u far the present and the yet fWn! m Moff'att translation aap thh Day e carries 'DOOM for all the natlow." V m 8 16 -"Pm as ye have &unk Upao my holy mountain." That is, as the Turks have, lo thcse 400 yean occu ied Palestine, God's #:holy m u t i ; onan' the nabm thdl drink upon you," (Fentoo trmrlothn) "And they shall be as tho thep had not been."-they shall gerisb!- cease t r exist! c

the curnplcte mdin of the Times of the Gentiles, It marks h e turning point in all

At W e of Day of the Lord Vor,'' continues verse 13, "the DAY OF T H E LORD is near upon all the hci+ then." And what is the "Dap of the Lord? It is a time, naw soon to cam, prophesied ia more than 30 different places iD both Old and New Testafnento-the tima of God'a judgments upon the nations for their sfns the time of supernatural plagues. It follows

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Continued from p g 8 two niab (ver~e 6 . & t w ~ e n fifty and m ) a hundred million were martyred f r the true o Bibk faith, at the behest of the R a w churcb, during the middle ages, according to
14). Thep arc to rule but a &art time. They come to a horrible end (Rev. t9:19-20). It follm, certainly, that this ten-natlan revival of the ancient Roman Em ire cannot take lace UNTIL THE T I d O P THB SEC&D comci OF CHRIST! -r will occur within the comparative new hture-much sooner than the world erpectr. Yet it connot occur immediately . - y a y other events must happen first! So the tune k not yet here-GODS time bas not arrived-fot t k restoration of fhis R o w Empire, by Puimcc of the dominant Epropw lep& with hic ten lm-dictatot nations, and the pop!
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This woman was seen ridiog on thi8 rarlctdored W.The abcast hnd m n heads aad tca hams (vcrsc 3). Thc e .swomBn rode dl $#rum of thesa heads (verse 9). !R& BEAST is rdarorvledged by aU, Psoteshnt and Cltholic alike, to be the old ROMAN EMPIRE. You will even b this &owlcdgment in the foabnoce n d apparmg i connection with thii chapter n b the Roman CathoUc Douay versioa And the woman w i h thou #awest i hc s that p a t city, wblh teigneth over the b p of the earth. O , as the Arncticw r Revised versions h it, hath a kingdom a over the kings of tha earth. (Verse 18). That great apostate church, which is a great city and is called by the NAME of that city, which dld have a kingdom Over every great dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, is ROME! It stands identified beyond my question ! This beast was, and is not, at this p y n t time. (Verse 8 ) . The TIME of the mion i the present and the epproaching s DAY OF TNE LORD,(Ch,l!lO). But this bcaJt-thc old Roman Em irc-id 1 in to come to lifc- shall axen out of tE &tamleu pit. (verse 8). O the seven f kings, chief rulcrj or dynasties, five arc frllen, one i, at &time when the Empire s docs not exist cxce t i germ, and one is n p to come. The %ye that itre io the past t dynastits of Justidan, the G r t , c;harls tba Great, and Napoleon. Afi ackaowfedgcd the ruprcnucp of thc pope. All were crowned the p a p A11 carried the Catholic churcb rlr a horse carries its warnan rider, doing the biddin4 of the church by is stronger physb t a power. The one that is, is the present 1 M i r n dynasty. The one yet tu coat 3s the BEASTthat shall briefly rcvivc to e tht overwhdmin armed pawet and military and politicat dominance of the Empire of old.

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The Next Number

HITLERS Thoasmd Pear Rhnhis amazing NEW WORLD OR.
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G O D 3 N a n for the nezt Thousand odd yeare on earth. Thie vital, absorbing article had to be omitted from thh number due to Iack of eprce, but will appear in the next h u e of he PLAIN TRUTH, Another up-to-the-minute sasl7nlu of the WAR as it fulfille Bible praphecy, and the concluding inetellment of he United States fn Prophecy. Also we have planned for the next

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The Pmlent outloat Vbich brings us to tht pment wtloot W e t hm attempted three g i p t k 4a forts, each a supreme Grand Strategy,c) lo the fid, he succeeded bcpond hii wildreams, and nll &for lay pfosttnte at hn feet. la his seCondr a w m , he fai!ed to invade and conquer England. And r bi, a thi& likewise, he bas bcen chcJunrkd from completin his d i p l o d c line-u m d his military eath-blaw to the & b h EmpLc by jevrring its Ufdine at Suer, thi time thru &he blunders and failures of U

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That is why G e c was inspired to fight ree back so successlully! That i s why Britain was inspired to administer the rmnt over. wheiming defeat to Italp in Mda. That is why Hitlet$ plans to invade Palestine have been indefinitely postponed. That is why
Hitlar was not permitted to continr// lining

tary smet. But the k t information at the moment is tbst Hider now fans rnather and greater attcm t to inva e the British IsIa direct, C h u r c h has wnrned Englaud and the wotld slrcb an attuapr probakdy will be made by Spxing. It m @ come mrrch i seooet-any moment, in fact. There is ddcncc that preparations erk being m c d. This tirna he ma succccd, As we oul. lined briefly in the L t numbar, Britain h destined to go dowa and probably dut own Unitod Stam en wull. hat, we know, b itmost impossible to believu. We inck space io this issue, but in corniag numbcrr we shall give o w readers much more of thc prophecies that makc rbia ututropho c ~ r tain.

What is the Germao Grmd Stratqy No. 41 At present that remains a German mil1-

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The Time Ie Not Pet

But the time ft ytt premature. The ten barns, jdincd to this seventh end lart head of this beast (the beast itself, with its sevca lacads, b the eighth -it docs not itself have m eighth head-vax 11), ere ten Bur tan rulers to rytivc power a short time w gK; the bead emperor, alld the BEAST. They shall give their armed power- oa b d m , m, md in air-to the bnJt. And they rhrll mat4 ww withWHOM. Note It1 Not Great BritraTn,--aot the United States, 8s bo m y have assumed --they shall make war with THE LAMD, who is the KlNG O KINGS and tbc F

Who Will Emerge 88 T h e BEAST?

A most interesting questiaa of the hour is, W I O p i l l finally emerge as THE BE&I of Revelation3 Who will finally bring the Roman Empire out O f its bottomless pit by P union with tea other nations and a w r i g plliancc with UIG okn. Pope? To accomplish this haa bcen Musrol&iO sole draam and effort aver since the Blrdcshirts marched on Rome, We bavc therefore: supposed, la thc past, that he would pmvc to be the man.

in defeat--unBut then, when we thinkable as i t seerns-Gbds chosen bi+ right r p f c Israel a , e in ~ I viv, na I is time ilso rn UE R WF pnd ANC& God will s a d am Kin Ch& Jesus, who wiI1 r c ~ w people tom c p cur a tivity- Qncc again an cwdut to tbe PromLad toad will occur, 60 gcat if will blot thr former anr from mcmory. (Jer. 16:14.15)Our peapte will he restored to p h but ouly aften we have bcen hmmblcd, and hrw leatned om lcwon, on$ turned unitcdly I, 1 people ta Gad!

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