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| − | to cast their billions of taxes, with no other result
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| − | than that boodlers and grafters multiply, scandals in
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| − | high places abound, and national fear and distrust
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| − | inereases. As a result a great ery of protest is going
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| − | up from the people. This protest is in the form of
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| − | labor organizations, socialism, communism, bolshevism
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| − | and general anarchy, and these are looked upon with
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| − | fear by the people, and in many quarters are re-
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| − | garded as an even worse menace than militarism.
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| − | Describing this same condition, which he foresaw
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| − | would exist at this time, Jesus uttered these prophetic
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| − | words: ‘‘Upon the earth distress of nations, with
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| − | perplexity; .. . men’s hearts failing them for fear,
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| − | and for looking after those things which are coming
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| − | on the earth.’’—Luke 21: 25, 26,
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| − | The question arises, Will peace cver come? Is de-
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| − | liverance from the present almost intolerable condi-
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| − | tions of suffering and fear a possibility? If so, how?
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| − | and when? The answer to these questions is found
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| − | nowhere except in the Bible. Not realizing this fact,
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| − | the people are looking to their leaders for an answer.
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| − | Some are hoping against hope that preparedness will
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| − | bring about peace; others are likewise hoping that
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| − | the peace conferences will lead to a gradual disarma-
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| − | ment, and that deliverance will come in that way;
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| − | others are hoping that the whole world will vote the
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| − | socialists into power, or the communists, or the bol-
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| − | shevists, and that these will reform the body politic.
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| − | These hopes are vain. Peace will never come from
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| − | any of these sourees. Men cannot bring about peace.
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| − | But peace is coming, and it lics in the very near
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| − | future. The author and promoter of wars and con-
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| − | fusion on the earth is Satan, and as long as he is un-
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| − | restrained there will be no peace. Peace, justice,
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| − | truth, righteousness and happincss belong to God’s
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| − | kingdom, Wars, confusion, unrighteousness, oppres-
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| − | sion and unhappiness pertain to Satan’s kingdom.
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| − | Few people realize that Satan is ‘‘the god of this
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| − | world’’, This means that Satan rules the world. He
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| − | controls the people by using selfish men as his tools,
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| − | Through these sclfish men he deceives the world into
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| − | believing that the hope of deliverance is in ‘‘pre-
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| − | paredness’’, ‘‘peace conferences,’’ ‘‘church union,’’
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| − | ‘leagues of nations,’’ or else in ‘‘socialism’’ or eom-
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| − | munistic governments of some kind. These schemes
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| − | are deceptions put forth by Satan to divert the minds
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| − | of the people from the one and only hope of deliv-
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| − | erance set forth in the Bible.
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| − | Satan began his deceptions in Eden, first with Eve
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| − | and later with Adam. Having diverted them from
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| − | the service of God, he sct about to organize their
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| − | posterity into sclfish institutions, for the very purpose
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| − | of using these selfish institutions to blind people to
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| − | the purpose of Jchovah God. But what is God’s pur-
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| − | pose? It is this. When Satan led Adam and Eve into
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| − | sin and brought the eurse of sin and death on the
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| − | race, God determined to deliver the race from this
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| − | eurse and also to deliver them from the power of Sa-
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| − | tan and his deceptions. He purposed to accomplish
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| − | this deliverance by and through his Son, and he fore-
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| − | ordained that the time of the deliverance would be
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| − | at the second advent of Jesus, and during the thou-
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| − | sand-year reign of Christ which begins at his second
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| − | advent,
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| − | This thousand-year reign is called ‘‘the kingdom
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| − | of God’’, and is what Jesus referred to when he
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| − | taught his followers to pray, saying: ‘‘Thy kingdom
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| − | come. Thy will be done in carth, as it is in heaven.’’
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| − | Since God has ordained that Jesus shall bring peace
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| − | into the earth, he is referred to as the ‘‘Prince of
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| − | Peace’? and the ‘‘Prince of life’’. In Isaiah 9: 6, 7,
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| − | we read of this wonderful Prince, as follows; ‘‘For
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| − | unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and
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| − | the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his
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| − | name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The
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| − | mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
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| − | Peace. Of the inerease of his government and peace
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| − | there shall be no end.”’
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| − | Nearly nineteen hundrcd years ago, when Jesus
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| − | was on earth, Satan’s representatives, who were the
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| − | religious leaders of that day, called him ‘‘Beelzcbub
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| − | the prince of the devils’’. Those Pharisees were the
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| − | willing tools of Satan. By exposing their shams,
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| − | hypocrisies and false teachings, Jesus was bringing a
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| − | blessing to the people. No wonder Satan used them
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| − | to call Jesus the prince of devils. Peter accused those
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| − | hypoerites to their face and charged them with the
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| − | murder of Jesus. His words are found in Acts
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| − | 3:14,15 and read: ‘‘Ye denied the Holy One and the
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| − | Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto
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| − | you; and killed the Prince of life, whom God hath
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| − | raised from the dead.’’ Again, in Acts 5:30, 31 this
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| − | same Peter renewed his charge against those hypo-
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| − | critical religionists, saying: ‘‘The God of our fathers
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| − | raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
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| − | Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a
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| − | Prinee and a Saviour, for to give repentance to
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| − | Isracl, and forgiveness of sins.’’
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| − | Peace is coming to the world through this highly
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| − | exalted Jesus, ‘‘the Prince of Peace,’’ ‘‘the Princo
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| − | of life,’’ the ‘‘Saviour’’ of the world. His thousand-
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| − | year kingdom will be the ‘‘desire of all nations’’,
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| − | This kingdom is the only hope of the world. Over
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| − | and over, the Scriptures exhort the Lord’s people to
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| − | “‘wait for hig Son from heaven’’; and to ‘patient
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| − | waiting for the kingdom’, We do well to note some
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| − | of these texts, In Luke 23:51 we read of Joseph of
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| − | Arimathea as follows: ‘‘Who also himself waited for
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| − | the kingdom of God.’”’ In 1 Corinthians 1:7 we read:
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| − | **So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the
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| − | coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.’? Again, in 1 Thes-
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| − | salonians 1:10 we are exhorted to ‘‘wait for his Son
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| − | from heaven’’, and in 2 Thessalonians 3:5 are these
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| − | words: ‘‘The Lord direct your hearts into the love
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