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THE PROPHET JOEL LEFT A MESSAGE WRITTEN FOR OUR DAY—a warning which, If we had heeded it, would have kept us out of the troubles we now face, both within our nation and from outside. Like all men of his century, he was familiar with war and trouble, for war was almost the normal condition of the kingdom of that day; and conquerors then did not help their defeated victims back to prosperity, as we do — if the losers were not exterminated, they were either enslaved or put under heavy tribute taxes, after first being thorough­ly looted by the conqueror. Therefore, it took a startling vision, indeed, to arouse Joel to the excitement he displays in this short book: It is some­thing unlike anything previously seen.

He begins, “The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: “Hear this, ye elders, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” There had been nothing like it In the past; neither was It for the near future, but the prophecy was to be preserved for many genera­tions. His prophecy deals with the Day of the Lord”—something which has not yet come, but which all the signs of both prophecy and current history prove to be just a short time ahead of us, today.

THE VARIOUS BIBLE PROPHECIES DEAL WITH MANY EVENTS, occurring at different times. Some of these have been completely fulfilled in the past. Others are on such a grand scale they seem to have a double fulfilment, a partial fulfilment in the past and a greater one in the future. Yet others deal only with events still in the future.

Which of these speak of our own times? The only ones still awaiting fulfilment are those, which deal with the end of the present age and the coming of the kingdom of Yahweh. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Nahum, Zechariah, Matthew, Mark, Luke and Revelation, all contain major prophecies concerning our own times.

These prophets make it clear that the present age will end in terrific violence. Look about you and see why. Despite the good intentions of the few, despite the general acceptance of Christianity by the white nations of the world, yet the present world order is satanic in its major outlines. Even the white Christian nations have been infiltrated and corrupted by the anti Christians. To seek coexistence with evil, to pray for peace on terms acceptable to Satan, is to turn our backs on Yahshua, the only source of real peace.

The coming attack by Russia under anti Christian leadership is clearly foretold in the Bible. More than a century and a half ago, when Russia was too weak to be a menace, Bible students identified Russia as the great enemy in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39.

When will this happen? The prophecies are not dated, but they state warning signs that the time is at hand. One of these is given by the prophet Nahum. In a strangely penetrating vision he says in Nahum 2:1, “He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munitions, watch the way make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily”.

THE ENTIRE BIBLE, BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, is written about and addressed to a race whom Yahweh calls My people Israel, they are not and never were Jews. All of Yahweh’s promises in the Bible were made to Israel. Either Yahweh has failed miserably to carry out His promises, or else Israel, His people, are still to be found in the world today, receiving the blessings which Yahweh promised to them. If they are here, who are they and where have they been residing?

From the time of the exodus from Egypt, the people Israel were organized into a nation of 12 tribes, just like the United States of 50 states. After they entered the promised land of Palestine, Israel continued as this 12 tribed nation until the death of Solomon. Then they split into two nations, the ten northern tribes keeping the name Israel, while the two southern tribes took the name Judah. The northern kingdom Israel, was later conquered by Assyria and by 715 B.C., they were all deported and resettled around the southern end of the Caspian Sea. By 713 B.C., the Assyrians also invaded Judah and deported a large part of this population to the same Caspian Sea area.

From this time on, Bible history does not trace the further progress of Israel, except that the Apocrypha, II Esdras 13:40-45 traces their movements as far as ar-Sareth, valley of the Sereth river, which still bears that name in Romania. For many centuries, after the nation Israel disappeared from Bible history, Bible prophecy still promises the nation a magnificent future, recognizing their continued existence. Not only the Old Testament, but also all the books in the New Testament are addressed to Israel as I have shown you from time to time. Since Israel’s Assyrian captivity, under what camouflage have they been hidden from our eyes during these intervening centuries?

MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING GREATLY MISLED by sadly mistaken religious propaganda dealing with the Jewish nation which has been created, by violence, in Palestine.  Clergymen who have never studied the subject are bubbling over with enthusiasm over what they regard as a great fulfilment of Bible prophecy.  “The Budding of the Fig Tree”, they say.  “Israel being restored to its place!”  You who listen to this program already know that no Jew is an Israelite and no Israelite is a Jew.  The Jews nation, in Palestine, has nothing to do with the real Israel at all.

That is too big a subject to repeat here, but you have heard it and those of you who have written in for our literature have seen the proof of it.  The establishment of the Jewish nation in Palestine is the fulfilment of certain Bible prophecies but, far different ones than these ignorant and misguided clergymen have in mind.  Let’s look them over.

Nearly all Bible students agree on one thing, that the Fig Tree is the symbol of the Jewish nation, not Israel.  Therefore, let’s see what the Bible has to say about THE BUDDING OF THE FIG TREE.  Jesus Christ Himself told us about this one.  It was so important, that He not only told a parable about it, but in order to emphasize it, He also acted out the parable.  We find the parable in Luke 13:6-9.  “He spake also this parable: a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none.

Then he said to the dresser of his vineyard, ‘Behold, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth the ground?’  And he answering unto him, ‘Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig around it and fertilize it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.'”

USUALLY, I HAVE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT THE THINGS that belong in your Bible, but which didn’t get there because the translators changed them or left them out. Now I am going to reverse that: I am going to talk to you about something they left in your Bible which doesn’t belong there: and that is the Book of Esther.

Those of you who have read it have been puzzled by it, I know; it is a very curious thing to find in the Bible. In the entire Book of Esther, it not only does not mention the name of God once, it doesn’t even use the mere title, God, once. It never mentions prayer to God for help or thanksgiving to God for deliverance. It is completely and brutally materialistic story of murder and robbery and how did that get in your Bible?

Well, let us look at this a bit. First of all, let us summarize what it says in the Book of Esther. The scene is laid in the Persian Empire, after the overthrow of Babylon by the Medo‑Persian Empire: Persia swallowed up Media and it became just the Persian Empire.

It opens with the statement that Ahasuerus gave a six month long feast, or more properly a debauch, for his nobles. Now, Ahasuerus is not the name of any person; literally, it means the mighty one, and in English usage it would correspond to “his majesty.” You could apply it to any king of any kingdom in all world history, and it would apply as well to one as to another.

SO OFTEN WE HEAR SOMEONE MAKE THE FOOLISH STATEMENT that “Modern science has disproved the Bible — or some part of it.” Nothing can be further from the truth. There is no conflict between a correct transla­tion of the Bible and that which is true science. Remember that many theories have been put forth as “science”—and have been believed by many —only to be proven false by more careful study, a few years later. I will admit that there is great conflict between what many ministers preach and what we know to be true science: but there is an even greater conflict between what these preachers say and what is really in the Bible.

The Bible has its own purpose, and it sticks to that purpose. (It does not purport to be a manual of instructions for the use and repair of an IBM computer, nor a textbook from which to teach schoolboys their mathematics. Its purpose is so much greater than any of these, that it has no time to waste on them.) Aside from the various laws governing Agriculture, diet, economics, etc.—about which I will speak some other time — the Bible’s principle purpose in going into scientific matters is to prove the divine inspiration of the Book by stating scientific matters which were not known by the best scientists of the day in which it was written, and which therefore could not be a display of merely human wisdom and knowledge. Let us look at some examples of science in the Bible.

WE WHO LIVE IN THIS LAND SO BLESSED WITH LIBERTY AND PROSPERITY are much too likely to take for granted these conditions, giving no thought to the reasons why they exist. We have inherited them, without doing anything on our part to create them or even preserve them, so we place far too low a value on them. We do not. think about how our ancestors won them at the cost of their blood: we have even allowed sinister forces to bar out of our schools most of the teachings which, would tell our children how these things came to be — because it would “discriminate” against the Asiatics and Afri­cans who never had (or wanted) such institutions, and it would build up in the children a patriotism which would make it harder to brainwash them into the kind of robots who will make good slaves of a world government.

The great ideals upon which our nation was built are no accident: neither are they just the work of men who created them out of nothing. They are our heritage from our remote past, from ancient ances­tors who’ were taught-them by the word of God. They are but a part of a far greater plan of racial and national life drawn up for us by our God, and set forth in the Bible. Liberty and prosperity are not causes: they are results: and you cannot long have either one, unless you keep the righteousness which is the only cause capable of producing them. Whenever we have forgotten this, we have soon lost our blessings.

THE 25TH CHAPTER OF GENESIS TELLS US THAT JACOB AND ESAU were twin brothers, sons of Isaac, and in line to inherit the wonderful blessings God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and their descendants; also that Esau was the first-born, and therefore entitled to the Birthright of a double measure of blessings. Yet God told the prophet Malachi, “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau.” (Malachi 1:2-3) The Birthright was lost by Esau, and inherited by Jacob, o97 ancestor, whose name God Himself changed from Jacob to ISRAEL (meaning “ruling with God”) and to whom God confirmed all of His promises and prophecies.

In all the world’s history, no-one was ever offered such marvellous blessings as were in this Birthright. To lose it was a most terrible loss; yet Esau and his descendants lost it. We now have it: yet we are today in great danger of losing it the same way Esau lost it. Genesis 25:34 tells us that ESAU DESPISED HIS BIRTHRIGHT — and therefore lost It. Today, our politicians and our churches are in an evil contest to see which can teach our people to despise our Birthright the most. If we do not swiftly repent of this, we, too, can lose our Birthright.

What are we talking about? What is this Birthright? It is all the blessings promised by God. But every coin has two sides; and every bles­sing has the corresponding duty on our part to do the thing which God has said: they are both promises and commands.

IN THE BIBLE, GOD REPEATEDLY WARNS US AGAINST ANY MIXING OF RACES —-and especially against intermarriage and mongrelisation. Some of this has been overlooked because of imperfect translations out of the Hebrew and Greek languages in which the Bible was written. Let us examine some of these passages, carefully noting the exact meaning of the words used in the original tongues.

From the very beginning, the commandment not to permit mongrelisation is strongly emphasized. For example: EXODUS 33:16 “So shall we he separated, and all of Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.” LEVITICUS 20:24 “I am the Lord thy God, which have separated you from other people.”

JOSHUA 23:12-13 “.. if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them and they unto you: know for a certainty that they shall he snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. ”

DEUTERONOMY 7:3 “NEITHER SHALT THOU MAKE MARRIAGES WITH THEM: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.”

MOST OF THE PROPHECIES IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL were written in obscure language, so that the full meaning of the event would not become clear until the time for fulfilment was near. One of these which has puzzled all scholars until recently is in the 12th. chapter of Daniel. It expressly deals with the time of the very end: so Its application to our day shows us where we are in history. It reads thus: ” And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a. time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that- shall be found written In the book.

“But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the Time of the End: many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, ‘How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?’ And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by Him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”