PREPARE YOURSELF for the most shocking revelation of your life. Does it
come as an astonishing shock to learn that the most important dimension in all knowledge
was sent from God to this earth by Jesus Christ -- but that message was suppressed in the
very first century? That Jesus Himself was put to death for revealing it? That His
apostles, with one possible exception, were also martyred for proclaiming it?
Yet this message from the living God, if humanity had received and heeded it, would have
saved this world from nearly all of its troubles, sufferings and evils.
The very word "gospel" means "good news." That message, when fully
understood, reveals a human potential so stupendous so awesome -- it appears at first to
be totally beyond belief, yet it has been suppressed from the world until now.
Why Christ's Gospel was Suppressed Christ's message reveals the most necessary facts about
humanity: what man is, the purpose for which mankind was put on earth, where we are going,
what is the way to world peace, happiness and universal prosperity, what are the true
values, what is the awesome human potential, and how it may be achieved.
Answers to these questions form the most important knowledge ever made accessible to man.
Yet it was spurned and rejected, and soon suppressed.
Christ's gospel message, when fully grasped, reveals what science has been utterly unable
to discover. It reveals what religion in this world knows nothing of. It reveals what this
world's higher education has never known or taught.
It reveals the most wonderful TRUTH a human mind could ever come to know! It reveals the
missing dimension in knowledge, the knowledge most vitally necessary to know.
It was the most monumental good news ever revealed by our Maker to mankind! Why would men
have wanted to reject output to death the messenger who brought it?
Yes, why?
The answer is that men were DECEIVED. And all nations are deceived today!
The purpose of this booklet is to reveal HOW men were deceived and to make plain WHAT that
good news really was. And is.
Nevertheless, it was suppressed. And that all-important revelation from the living God was
not eagle proclaimed publicly to the world until our present generation.
Even today, most of humanity has never heard the glorious true gospel. And those millions
who do hear it have been so drugged and stupefied by false religions and counterfeit
"gospels" that they only become confused. The TRUTH, indeed, is stranger than
any fiction! Prepare yourself to read astounding truth -- hard to believe, yet TRUE!
The Archdeceiver It is not intellectually fashionable today to believe in the actual
existence of a devil, but biblical revelation says differently.
Biblical prophecies say plainly that in our time, today, the WHOLE WORLD would be
deceived. Notice one such prophecy in the book of Revelation, chapter 12, verse 9:
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world." This Satan is revealed as the arch deceiver who has
deceived the whole world. But how did he manage to deceive the human race?
In the third chapter of Genesis he is shown as the deceiver of mother Eve. Through her, he
caused the first man, Adam, to commit the first sin by a human.
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Satan was still here on earth as the god of this world
(II Cor. 4:4). He is also the "prince of the power of the air" today (Eph. 2:2),
holding sway over the whole of mankind.
Christ's message revealed the advance news of the total abolition of Satan's power over
the world and his banishment from the earth. It revealed that Christ was coming as his
successor to take over the RULE of all nations. In Satan's mind, it was necessary for him
to go all out to prevent that message from going to the world.
But how could he do it?
First, he moved to destroy the Christ child and thus prevent His growing up to proclaim
that message. He influenced king Herod, the Roman provincial ruler over the land of
Israel, and Herod caused all infants in Bethlehem and surrounding areas two years old or
under to be put to death. But God warned Joseph and Mary about this, moving them to flee
to Egypt with the infant Jesus until Herod was dead.
Again, when Jesus was about thirty years old, Satan sought to destroy Him spiritually
before He qualified to preach a word of His message. But the supreme temptation with which
Satan planned to ensnare Jesus became the very test which qualified Christ to depose Satan
and to become ruler over all nations. Jesus thus qualified to restore the government of
God on the earth and to set up the Kingdom of God. However, it was not in God's master
plan for Christ to be inducted into that office until the end of mankind's first 6,000
years on earth.
Nevertheless, Jesus proceeded with the mission for which He had come to earth at that
time. He proclaimed His message and taught it to His disciples.
Satan, however, still was the invisible power that swayed the world. Even though many of
the Jews to whom Jesus preached believed on Him as the promised Messiah, they were swayed
against believing His message -- His gospel.
How did, and does, Satan deceive, move, and sway humanity? The amazing answer will be
given later.
Christ's Gospel Rejected
Notice why and how the rejection of Christ's gospel happened.
In the eighth chapter of John, verses 30 through 46, you will read: "As he spake
these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If
ye continue in my word [His message], then are ye my disciples indeed ... but ye seek to
kill me, because my word [His gospel message] hath no place in you .... But now ye seek to
kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God ... for I proceeded
forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me .... And because I tell
you the truth, ye believe me not .... And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe
me?"
In due time, the Romans crucified Jesus. But He rose from the dead and ascended into
heaven. From there, He sent God's Holy Spirit for His disciples.
Christ's apostles went out, as He commissioned them, to proclaim His message to the world.
God's Church was raised Up (A.D. 31) to back the proclaiming of the message. The Church
began to grow, then "caught fire," and multiplied.
But Satan connived to set up a powerful Gentile religious leader with a counterfeit
religion -- the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. He hatched a counterfeit
"gospel." He even appropriated the name of Christ, calling that religion
"Christianity."
That, I know, is a breathtaking revelation, difficult today, 1900 years later, to believe.
But nonetheless, it is true!
The Counterfeit "Gospel" Is Set Up In Samaria, north of Jerusalem, lived a
Gentile people whom the Jews of Christ's day spurned, calling them "dogs." They
had been moved there from areas of the Babylonian Empire about 700 B.C. by various kings,
including Shalmaneser of Assyria (II Kings 17:18, 21-24, etc.). They had brought with them
into the land of Samaria their own Babylonian mystery religion. In the eighth chapter of
Acts you'll read of their religious leader in the time of Christ, Simon Magus the
Sorcerer.
Christ raised up the Church of God to stand back of the proclaiming of His gospel message
by His apostles in A.D. 31. By A.D. 33, after a most amazing initial growth, a great
persecution set in against God's Church (Acts 8:1). At that time, A.D. 33, this Simon the
Sorcerer was himself baptized along with multitudes of others. He then tried to buy an
apostleship in God's Church from the apostles Peter and John -- but of course was refused
and rebuked.
Thereupon this Simon appropriated the NAME of Christ, calling his Babylonian mystery
religion "Christianity." Satan moved this man and used him as his instrument
against the true Church of God. Before the end of the first century -- probably by A.D. 70
-- he managed to suppress the message Christ had brought from God.
There ensued "the lost century" in the history of the true Church of God. There
was a well-organized conspiracy to blot out all record of Church history during that
period. A hundred years later, history reveals a "Christianity" utterly unlike
the Church Christ founded.
It had taken the NAME of Christ and applied it to the Babylonian mystery religion. It had
replaced the MESSAGE Jesus brought from God with a "gospel" about the person of
Christ -- proclaiming the Messenger but suppressing the entire missing dimension from His
message.
And for at least eighteen and one-half centuries the true gospel was not proclaimed
publicly to the world.
"Another Gospel" Gains Acceptance When the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the
Galatians, many already were turning to this now new counterfeit "gospel."
Paul wrote: "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the
grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another [it was not good news]; but
there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ" (Gal. 1:6-7).
To the Thessalonians Paul wrote, "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work ...
" (II Thes. 2:7). It was the Babylonian mystery religion, started by Simon the
Sorcerer (Acts 8), a religion of iniquity -- lawlessness -- a religion rejecting the law
of God.
The True and the False Church In the book of Revelation are pictured two churches, each of
which go under the NAME of Christ. One, pictured in the twelfth chapter, portrays the true
Church of God, small in number, reduced through persecution and martyrdom, but obedient to
God's law, and hated by Satan. The other, in the seventeenth chapter, called
"Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the
Earth" (verse 5). In other words, the Babylonian mystery religion steeped in
"iniquity" -- abolishing God's law.
During the time of Paul's ministry, these same Simon Magus ministers were troubling the
Corinthians. Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that T may present you as a chaste
virgin to Christ. [the true Church, in the resurrection, is to be married to Christ,
spiritually]. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if
he [a minister of Simon Magus] that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit [of rebellion and disobedience] which ye have
not received, or another gospel ... " (II Cor. 11:2-4).
Notice, they were proclaiming another Jesus -- as well as another gospel -- and they
followed another spirit -- of rebellion and not obedience. That deception has continued
through the centuries and is the state today. They took the name of Christ. They called
their Babylonian religion "Christianity." They not only presented a counterfeit
gospel but a counterfeit spirit of self-centeredness and a counterfeit Jesus, completely
different to the Jesus of the Bible.
Of these false ministers, Paul wrote further to the Corinthians: "For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no
marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ... "
(II Cor. 11:13-15).
Peter, John and Jude Expose False Ministers Peter wrote of these deceivers: "But
there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers
among your who privily shall bring in damnable heresies .... And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you ... " (II Peter
2:1-3).
John wrote of these same perverters of the true gospel, denying obedience to the way of
God. "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him" (I John 2:4). "They went out from us, but they were not of
us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us ... " (I
John 2:19).
Jude warned us that we should "earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnations ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness [license to disobey] .... Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the
flesh, despise dominion [government], and speak evil of dignities .... Woe unto them! for
they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward,
and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity ...
clouds they are without water, carried about of winds ... twice dead, plucked up by the
roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is
reserved the blackness of darkness for ever" (Jude 3-4, 8, 11-13).
The Word "Gospel" Misleading Today Even the very word "gospel" is
misleading today. The world has been, and is, full of "gospel programs" on
television, on radio, in print, in personal evangelism.
Say to almost any person, "The gospel has not been proclaimed publicly to the world
for eighteen and one-half centuries," and he will think you are crazy, because it is
the counterfeit "gospel" that has been vociferously proclaimed. But it is a
"gospel" about the person of the messenger, while IGNORING His message.
That gospel is based on the assumption that this is the time, and the ONLY time, when God
is trying to "get the whole world saved." But those preaching such a message do
not know even what salvation is, or how it is obtained.
How could the whole world he deceived? What did Christ's gospel MESSAGE contain that a
powerful, invisible devil was so determined to suppress and to counterfeit?
What, Then, Is the True Gospel? The true gospel is the good news that God sent from heaven
by Jesus Christ. That message, when fully understood, reveals a human potential so
stupendous it appears at first to be totally beyond belief! It is incredibly wonderful
news revealed from the Creator.
It reveals the most wonderful TRUTH a human mind could come to know.
It reveals what I term the MISSING DIMENSION IN KNOWLEDGE -- the most necessary knowledge
so vital to know!
Were we put here for a Purpose? What is that purpose?
Is there, after all, purpose and meaning to human life? A purpose and meaning suppressed
from human dissemination? That's vital knowledge OUTSIDE the scope of today's science,
religion, or education!
The Missing Dimension in Knowledge If there is purpose, what is it? Why were you born?
Where are we going? What is the ultimate transcendent potential of man? What is the way?
How do we achieve that destiny?
What is the way to peace -- among nations, between individuals, and between groups?
Why all this world's evils? Why can't we solve our human problems? There IS A WAY, and the
true gospel reveals it! It's a basic law that works by inexorable and relentless force.
What is human nature? Did God create and instill it in humans to trouble us? Is it
hereditary? How does it work? Neither modern science, religion, nor education can tell
you.
What is the human mind, and how does it differ from the animal brain? Why, when the human
mind can invent the computer and can learn to send men to the moon and back, can't such
minds solve their own problems here on earth and live at peace with their fellows?
What is man? Just what are we, after all? Science can't learn that secret, religions have
never rightly explained it, but the true gospel, when fully understood, reveals the
answer, and in truth!
What are the true values? What is important, and what is insignificant or of no value?
Humanity dissipates its energy pursuing false values -- spends its labor and its thinking
in pursuits that are valueless and prove useless when achieved.
The true gospel, when fully understood, explains the origin of the devil. Did God create a
devil to mislead and harass humanity? The gospel explains how Satan came to be the great
though invisible and hidden -- POWER that sways invisibly and actually rules this world.
It explains why Satan moved with all his wiles and subtleness to suppress, through humans
he could sway, this vital gospel message which God sent by Jesus Christ to mankind.
Remember this: The true gospel message, had humanity heeded it, would have saved this
world nearly all its anguish, troubles, suffering, and evils.
It is impossible for me, in a few words, to make it clear enough with sufficient emphasis
to cause the reader to comprehend the supreme, tremendous meaning and importance of that
true gospel message.
And even today, when heard, it is seldom really understood in all its colossal
significance because Satan has thrown up such a smokescreen of false and counterfeit
religions, "gospels," and teachings that the hearer or reader is left confused
in doubt and unbelief -- or in a state of indifference to the most important things in
life.
Nevertheless, now just before the END of this age, Almighty God has decreed that
"this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations, and then shall the end come" (Matt. 24:14). This is the message the Eternal
God is delivering now, by His end-time apostle, to the heads of governments in world
capitals all over the world.
The true gospel, when viewed with all that it embodies -- the reason for it, the
prehistoric truth of earth's first (angelic) inhabitants, the reason humans were created
and put on earth, the (CAUSE of all the earth's evils and sufferings, the nature of the
human mind, the need for spiritual salvation and what it is, the coming world tomorrow of
peace, what lies on beyond, and man's ultimate incredible potential becomes the most
all-encompassing subject that can enter the mind of man. Beside it, everything else
shrinks to total unimportance. It is greater than any story of man ever written before.
What Was Christ's Gospel?
God the Father had promised to send a messenger into the world from
heaven, bearing a message from Him for all mankind. This promise is recorded in Malachi
3:1: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me [and
that messenger, as explained in Mark 1:2, was John the Baptist] and the Lord, whom ye
seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
delight in." The "Lord," here, of course, refers to Jesus Christ.
That was the prophecy. The record of its happening is in the first chapter of Mark:
"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Then follows the
account of John the Baptist preparing the way before Him. Verses 12 and 13 record the
temptation of Jesus by Satan, wherein Satan sought to destroy Christ spiritually, before
He proclaimed a word of the message He brought from God the Father. Then follow verses 14
and 15:
"Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel
...." What gospel? "... the gospel of the kingdom of God ...." That is the
gospel Christ proclaimed. The message He brought was the message about the Kingdom of God.
That is the message God wanted proclaimed AS A WITNESS to all nations!
But since the first century the world has known NOTHING of the Kingdom of God because that
message was not proclaimed publicly to the world after the first century.
That message, when explained and fully understood, covers a very wide range of revealed
knowledge. It reveals -- I repeat, what science has been utterly UNABLE to discover, what
religion has never revealed, what this world's education has never known nor taught.
Note These Points
There are a number of points to be noted which are significant.
One is, that in Malachi's prophecy, Christ was called a messenger bearing a message. He is
called the "messenger of the covenant."
Again, notice the fifteenth verse of Mark 1. Jesus came into Galilee "preaching the
gospel 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."
What did He mean, "The time is fulfilled"? And why was the Kingdom of God then
"at hand," when it had not been before that precise time?
These points are of prime significance.
But first, before I explain more fully just what the Kingdom of God is, notice further
that this definitely is the very gospel message Christ brought from God the Father -- the
same gospel the original apostles proclaimed -- the same gospel the apostle Paul
proclaimed to the Gentiles.
Christ Brought No Other Gospel Jesus said, "I must preach the kingdom of God to other
cities also: for therefore am I sent" (Luke 4:43).
Jesus commissioned His disciples to teach the Kingdom of God. "Then he called the
twelve disciples together, and ... he sent them to preach the kingdom of God ... "
(Luke 9:1-2).
"But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God,
and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women" (Acts 8:12).
"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the
gospel of the kingdom ... " (Matt. 4:23).
Jesus' parables concerned the Kingdom of God.
To His disciples, in explaining the parable of the sower, He said: "Unto you it is
given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God" and then He explained to them the
parable.
Again, "Then said he [Jesus], Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto
shall I resemble it?" (Luke 13:18) -- and then came a parable.
"And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven ...
" and then follows the parable of the leaven (Luke 13:20-21).
One of His most important parables is recorded in the nineteenth chapter of Luke:
"... he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they
thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear" (Luke 19:11). Then He gave
the parable of the nobleman going to a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to
return -- the picture of Christ's ascension to heaven, where the coronation ceremony shall
take place, and His return to earth to rule all nations, as King of kings and Lord of
lords, in all the supreme power and glory of the great God.
What gospel did the apostles and Paul proclaim?
Did Apostles and Paul Preach a Different Gospel? After Christ's resurrection, the
disciples were with Him forty days. Were they talking among themselves about any other
gospel during that time than the Kingdom of God? Notice, just before Jesus ascended into
heaven. Luke had previously recorded what Jesus had done and said "until the day in
which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy [Spirit] had given commandments unto
the apostles whom he had chosen: to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by
many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God ... " (Acts 1:2-3).
Notice after His resurrection Christ was speaking to His disciples about "the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God." They, then, just before He ascended into heaven,
asked him: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?"
(Acts 1:6.)
The apostles seemed never to understand that the Kingdom of God was not to be set up on
earth in their lifetime, even though Jesus' teaching -- especially the parable of the
pounds (Luke 19, quoted above) -- should have made it clear to them.
After two years, from the inception of the Church of God on the day of Pentecost, A.D. 31,
the counterfeit movement set in, headed by Simon the Sorcerer. The historic book of Acts
records: "And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was
at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria, except the apostles .... Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every
where preaching the word." What word? Continue:
"Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria ... but when they believed Philip
preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they
were baptized" (Acts 8:1-12).
The apostle Paul spoke boldly at Ephesus for three months "disputing and persuading
the things concerning the kingdom of God." On a later trip, at Miletus, Paul called
for the elders of the Church at Ephesus. Saying his farewell to them, Paul said, "And
now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God,
shall see my face no more" (Acts 20:25).
At Rome, "there came many to him [Paul] into his lodging; to whom he expounded and
testified the kingdom of God ... " (Acts 28:23).
Again at Rome, "Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all
that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God ... " (Acts 28:30).
Did Paul preach any other gospel? To the Galatians he wrote, "But though we, or an
angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
you, let him he accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any
other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him he accursed" (Gal. 1:8-9).
But verses 6 and 7 showed that the Galatians had, already, turned to another gospel.
Jesus spoke of His message the Kingdom of God -- as the "word" that He spoke.
The apostles, as you'll read all through the book of Acts, went everywhere preaching
"the word" -- meaning the Kingdom of God.
The "Gospels" Being Preached Today I have said that you hear many gospel
programs today. One uses the slogan, "Preaching Christ to the Nations." One
might ask, "Well, what's WRONG about preaching ABOUT Christ?" Or, "What's
wrong about preaching a gospel of grace?" Or "What's wrong about proclaiming a
message about salvation?"
I have shown you the scriptures showing they started, even in the first century, preaching
about a DIFFERENT Jesus -- a Jesus supposed to have abolished His Father's commandments --
who turned "grace" into license to disobey (II Cor. 11:4, 13-15 and Jude 4).
They do not today preach the REAL Jesus, who said, "I have kept my Father's
commandments," setting us an example that we should keep them also.
If those who claim to preach a gospel of SALVATION understood and proclaimed WHAT
salvation really is -- whether it is going to a PLACE, being changed into a different
CONDITION, or WHAT -- or WHERE- -and HOW it may be obtained, it might be a part of the
true gospel. But today's "gospel" programs do not teach what salvation really is
or how one may receive it. When the blind lead the blind, they all fall into the ditch.
Just What Is the Kingdom of God?
So it's time we come to UNDERSTAND just what is the Kingdom of God!
What is a kingdom? The Bible speaks of several kingdoms. The first world empire the
Chaldean Empire often called "Babylon" -- was a kingdom. God inspired the
prophet Daniel to say to its king, Nebuchadnezzar, " ... the God of heaven hath given
thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory" (Dan. 2:37).
Then there was the kingdom of Israel -- the family descended from Israel, which became one
of earth's nations or governments.
The kingdom of Israel was a forerunner of the Kingdom of God. It will be composed of the
Spirit-born children of God -- the Family of God, organized into a governing Kingdom.
Therefore the kingdom of God will be dual:
(1) A GOVERNMENT. A government -- or kingdoms composed of four things: (a) a KING, ruling
over (b) people, subjects or citizens within (c) a definite jurisdiction of territory,
with (d) laws and an organized system of administering them.
(2) A FAMILY (as the kingdom of Israel was a family of the children of Israel) -- in this
case the Family of God -- a family into which humans may be born, which shall be a
GOVERNING or RULING family that shall have jurisdiction over ALL NATIONS -- that is, the
WHOLE EARTH -- and, later, the entire universe.
The Kingdom: a Government Christ is to be the King of the Kingdom of God. He is the Son of
God, whom He addressed as His Father. When the Church, by a resurrection or instantaneous
change from mortal to immortal (from physical to spirit composition) becomes the
Spirit-composed children of God, Christ will marry the Church which shall become His wife.
So we have Father, Son, wife, and children of the Father- -all a FAMILY relationship the
Divine God Family!
Notice, now, some of the prophecies:
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [which means "God with
us"]" (Isa. 7:14).
"For unto us [Israel] a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and
peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal
of the Eternal of hosts will perform this" (Isa. 9:6-7).
The angel Gabriel is a super archangel -- a cherub -- one of only three mentioned in the
Bible. It is recorded, "And in the sixth month [of the pregnancy of Elizabeth] the
angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin
espoused [betrothed] to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the
virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women .... And the angel
said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou
shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall
be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him
the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and
of his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke 1:26-33).
When Jesus was on trial for his life before Pilate, the Roman ruler said to Him, "Art
thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born,
and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."
However, Jesus also explained to Pilate that His Kingdom -- His rulership -- was not of
this world -- this time -- this present age, saying, "My kingdom is not of this world
... but now is my kingdom not from hence" (John 18:36).
What Christ's Gospel Was All About Christ's gospel -- the message He brought from God --
was the advance good news of the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
But just what does that include?
And why is the Kingdom of God necessary?
Just how does it affect and relate directly to your personal and individual life?
Actually, Christ's message of God's coming Kingdom is directly concerned with world
conditions as they are -- with human nature -- its source and origin with world evils,
suffering, unhappiness -- with world peace. It's concerned with government -- with the
reason present human governments fail to be the benefactors of their peoples they are
supposed to be.
His message hits directly at the very roots of individual personal happiness and at the
awesome transcendent potential of each human life. It is concerned with the CAUSES of
present conditions that affect every human and with the WAY that will solve all problems.
But it is concerned with far, far more.
It is concerned with God's tremendous, overwhelming, overall purpose as Creator of the
entire universe. It's concerned with the entire vast universe, filled with its uncountable
galaxies, nebulae, suns, stars, planets, and with God's purpose for them. It's concerned
with all the angels with the fact that one third of all God's created angels turned to
SIN, and God's great purpose and plan to prevent such a catastrophe happening to the other
two thirds.
Most of these things are never remotely considered in religious teachings in this world.
God's message is concerned with overall truth.
The Incredible Human Potential at last Revealed! Does it make sense to you -- when
humanity has been endowed with such tremendous mental power -- that more than HALF of all
people on earth should be illiterate, living in abject poverty, near starvation, in filth
and squalor?
Does it make sense to you that human civilization has developed modern science, higher
education, the world's religions and its great governments, yet all these are in total
ignorance of the way to world peace? None of these can tell us what man is, whether he was
put on earth for a purpose, what that PURPOSE IS, where he is going or how to get there.
Does it make sense to you -- with man endowed with such great powers -- that the world
should be filled with so much unhappiness, troubles and evils? Did God Almighty the
Creator purpose and ordain all of this?
It's time to clear up this mystery. It's time we understand. It's time we come to the
answer of these supposedly unanswerable questions that seem to baffle all human thought.
Man Has Rejected This Knowledge What is the most necessary of all knowledge to know?
It is the knowledge of what man is; the knowledge of why he is -- the PURPOSE for which
humanity was put on earth; the knowledge of the way to achieve that purpose -- of the way
to world peace, peace between individuals, groups and nations; the knowledge of the cause
of all the world's troubles and evils; the knowledge of the solution to all these
problems; the knowledge of the true values -- what is important and what is worthless.
That is the missing dimension in knowledge.
Look at the situation as it is now -- our present, pulsating twentieth century. Supposedly
this is the day of enlightenment and mass production of knowledge. But both modern science
and higher education have rejected the sole source of this basic knowledge revelation --
and no religion has given us this most-needed knowledge, though it is all contained in the
book generally supposed to be the source of belief of at least three of the world's great
religions.
Look at the situation as it was more than 1900 years ago. Jesus Christ came from heaven
with a message from God containing this knowledge. But even most of those who believed on
Him disbelieved the message He brought and demanded His crucifixion for declaring it. His
apostles went forth proclaiming the message; they too, with one possible exception, were
martyred. Before the end of the first century, Christ's gospel message was suppressed and
a spurious "gospel" proclaimed.
Go now all the way back to the beginning of humanity on the earth. Our very first parents
rejected this same revealed knowledge imparted to them by their Maker in person. They
disbelieved what He said. Yet they did believe Satan's lies. They disobeyed by stealing
the forbidden fruit. They took to themselves the knowledge of what is good and what is
evil. All humanity has followed their example ever since.
The Eternal God nevertheless has made this vital revealed knowledge and truth available to
any willing to BELIEVE what He says -- in His inspired book, the Book of books -- the Holy
Bible. This book has actually become the world's best seller. But this precious book has
been interpreted and misinterpreted, distorted, twisted, misrepresented, misunderstood,
and maligned as no other book ever has.
Humans have written uncounted millions of books. People BELIEVE what these books say,
though they may be partly, mostly, or totally in error and devoid of truth.
People take these books literally to mean what they say. Yet of the Bible they will say,
"You surely don't take the Bible literally, do you?" They will not believe this
book means what it says. It is the very Word of the living God, but they refuse to believe
what God says.
And thus disbelieving humanity continues stumbling on its way, piling up the mountains of
human woes, discontent, unhappiness, sorrows pain, suffering and death.
Yet the Eternal God of truth and mercy makes available even today -- in this end-time of
the present evil world -- vital, exciting, new knowledge to those willing to believe what
He says and to obey it.
More than fifty years ago ON PROOF, I came to BELIEVE and OBEY.
And in His Word the living God has opened my mind to the awesome human potentiality the
missing dimension in knowledge; to the CAUSES of all humanity's evils and to the WAY to
world peace and how it finally is going to come. And the same God of all creation is now
opening before me the doors to unusual favor in the eyes of heads of state all over the
world as an ambassador without human portfolio for world peace and a builder of bridges
for peace between nations.
The Vast Universe -- and Man In this Book of all books, God reveals Himself as Creator of
all, not merely the earth and man, but the entire limitless universe. The Maker of mankind
is also the Creator of all. On a clear, cloudless night one may behold the star-studded
sky. Is it possible there is an unrealized connection between the galaxies with their
mighty suns, their planets -- and man?
In this true story of the incredible human potential, I deem it well to look first to the
Creator's overall purpose.
Prepare yourself for exciting new knowledge -- the incredible awesome potential for which
humanity was created and put here on earth.
Winston Churchill said before the United States Congress that there is a purpose being
worked out here below. Few indeed know what that purpose is; yet it is plainly revealed.
And it's the most exciting, most wonderful, hope inspiring truth that could ever be
revealed.
Did you ever wonder about the countless millions of shining stars you have seen on an
otherwise black, cloudless night? Sometimes they appear like a stupendous skyrocket which
has just burst out into a glittering cluster.
Many of them are tremendous suns incredibly larger than our sun. Probably most of them are
surrounded by planets, like our sun is surrounded by Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the
other planets of our solar system.
Haven't you wondered about them? Are any of them inhabited? Did they evolve, as most
scientists -- astronomers, biologists, geologists theorize? Or were they created by an
all-intelligent, all-powerful Creator Being? Were they created and set in space FOR A
PURPOSE? Do any of the planets contain any kind of life, or are all like our moon -- dead,
decayed, lifeless, wasted, empty, uninhabitable? And if they are in a dead state and
lifeless, WHY would an intelligent Creator have created them thus?
Or did He?
All indications are that only our planet Earth is a life-supporting planet. Others appear
to be like our moon -- dead, decayed, wasted and empty. Our earth is part of the solar
system which is part of a single galaxy called the Milky Way. There are many other
galaxies on beyond ours. They extend in space distances so vast the human mind cannot
conceive of them in terms of miles, meters, or any measure of distance except light years.
So even though science knows comparatively little about the limitless universe, revelation
tells us something amazing beyond words about them.
The first verse in the revealed Word of God correctly reads: "In the beginning God
created the heavens and earth." The word "heaven" in the King James should
be translated "heavens," since the original Hebrew is in the plural.
The ancient King David of Israel wondered about the stars and was inspired to tell us God
created them.
Created -- But Why?
David was inspired to write, "Oh Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens .... When I consider thy
heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what
is man, that thou art mindful of him?" (Psalms 8:1, 3-4).
It may be that King David was not given the revelation of the real connection between man
and the stars of outer space, for he continues: "For thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have
dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep
and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is
thy name in all the earth!" (Psalm 8:5-9.)
David here limits man's dominion to the present -- that which God gave mankind in the
creation of man the solid earth, the earth's atmosphere, and the waters and sea (as in
Gen. 1:26-28).
That is the dominion man has now.
In the New Testament, written much later, far more is revealed.
Incredible Human Potential Revealed In the book of Hebrews we read: "For unto the
angels hath he [God] not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak" (Heb.
2:5). The theme of the context here is "the world to come."
There is but one earth, but the Bible speaks of three worlds, ages, or civilizations on
the earth -- the "world that then was" (the antediluvian world from Adam to
Noah); this "present evil world" (from the Flood until Christ's return, yet
future); and "the world to come" (which starts when Christ comes and sets up the
Kingdom of God).
This verse speaks of angels as if the world had been put in subjection to angels; in fact,
in the very beginning of this book of Hebrews, the first chapter, it is speaking of Christ
and angels and the relation of angels to humans.
But bear in mind the general theme here, or context, is "the world to come, whereof
we speak" not this present age, now coming rapidly to its end! Continue on in verse
6: "But one in a certain place testified, saying ... " Then follows a quotation
from the first six verses only of the eighth psalm.
In this psalm, David continued showing specifically that God has now placed in subjection
under man the solid earth, the earth's atmosphere or air, and the sea. But now the writer
of the book of Hebrews is inspired to follow with something radically different --
something to happen in the world to come!
This revealed knowledge of God's purpose for mankind of man's incredible awesome potential
staggers the imagination. Science knows nothing of it -- no religion reveals it, so far as
I know -- and certainly higher education is in utter ignorance of it.
Nevertheless, it is what God says He has prepared for them that love Him (I Cor. 2:9-10).
I have said before that God revealed necessary knowledge to our first parents, but they
didn't believe what He said! Some 4,000 years later, Jesus Christ appeared on earth with a
message direct from God the Father in heaven, revealing the same necessary knowledge --
but only a handful -- a hundred and twenty -- believed what He said, though many professed
to "believe on him" (as in John 8:30-31, 37-38, 40, 45-46).
Today science, religion, and education still do not believe WHAT HE SAID.
But now let's see what is said in this passage in Hebrews, beginning where Hebrews leaves
off quoting the eighth psalm: "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his
[man's] feet. For in that he [God] put all in subjection under him [man], he [God] left
NOTHING that is not put under him" (Heb. 2:8).
Is it possible God could mean what He says ("all things")? Nothing excluded?
In the first chapter, the Moffatt translation of the Bible renders the Greek word
translated "all things" as "the universe. "
In other words, for those willing to believe what God says, He says that He has decreed
the entire universe -- with all its galaxies, its countless suns and planets -- everything
-- will be put under man's subjection.
But wait a moment! Before you disbelieve, read the next words in the same eighth verse:
"But now we see not yet all things [the endless universe] put under him [man]."
Remember (verse 5), this is speaking of the "world to come" -- not today's
world. But what do we see now, today? "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
than the angels [or, "for a little while lower"] for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honour." Man, other than Christ, is NOT YET "crowned with
glory and honour."
But see how Christ is already crowned with glory and honor. Continue: "For it became
him, for whom are all things [the entire universe] and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings
.... for which cause he [Christ] is not ashamed to call them brethren" (verses
10-11).
In other words, Christians having God's Spirit are joint-heirs with Christ to INHERIT all
that Christ already has inherited. He is now in glory! He has already inherited the entire
universe. He sustains it by His power. Man, if he is converted, having God's Holy Spirit
(Rom. 8:9), is now only an HEIR -- not yet a possessor.
But see now how Christ already has been crowned with glory and honor -- and is already in
possession -- has already inherited. Begin with Hebrews, chapter 1:
"God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed
heir of all things [the entire universe], by whom also he made the worlds; who being the
brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding [sustaining]
all things [the entire universe] by the word of his power ... " (Heb. 1:1-3)
The living Christ already sustains the entire universe by His limitless divine power. The
passage continues to show His superiority over the angels -- He is the begotten and born
Son of God -- angels are merely individually created beings. Angels are now administering
spirits (invisible to us), ministering to us -- to us who are now in lower status than
angels -- but who are heirs of salvation, when we, like Christ, shall become born sons of
God (Heb. 1:4-14).
Outer Space -- Planets Now Dead Now put this together with what is revealed in the eighth
chapter of Romans.
Here it speaks of Christ as God's Son: " ... that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren" (Rom. 8:29). Humans, having God's Holy Spirit are heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ who, alone of all humans, has already been born as God's Son by a
resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:4). He is the FIRST of the human family to be born into
the Family of God -- the Kingdom of God. He is our pioneer who has gone on before. We
shall follow at the resurrection of the just at Christ's return to earth in supreme power
and glory.
This eighth chapter of Romans, verse 9, says if we have within us the Holy Spirit of God
we are His begotten sons, but if we do not have His Spirit we are none of His -- not
Christians at all. But verse 11 says that if we have God's Holy Spirit growing within and
leading us we shall be raised from the dead by His Spirit -- (or if living when Christ
comes we shall be changed from mortal to immortal).
Now continue: "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God
.... The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we
[in this life] suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that
the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us... " (Romans 8:14-18).
Continue, Revised Standard Version: "For the creation waits with eager longing for
the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation [all the suns, planets, stars, moons]
was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in
hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain
the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation [stars, suns,
and moons now in decay and futility] has been groaning in travail together until now; and
not only the creation but we ourselves [we Spirit-begotten humans], who have the first
fruits of the Spirit [the very FEW now being called to salvation -- the "first
fruits"] groan inwardly as we wait for the [birth] as sons" (verses 19-23).
What an amazing marvelous revelation of knowledge!
No more amazing, awesome, eye-opening passage could be written!
It is so astonishingly revealing, one doesn't fully grasp it just reading quickly through.
First I quoted from verse 29 of Romans 8 stating Christ WAS the firstborn of MANY
BRETHREN.
In Hebrews 1, we see that Christ, the first human to be born by a resurrection from the
dead, has been glorified and now sustains the entire universe. He is our pioneer who has
gone on ahead.
At His return to earth in power and glory those who have been converted and received God's
Holy Spirit shall be born into the God Family by a resurrection. Then the entire universe
will be put into subjection UNDER them!
Then, from Romans 8, if we have and are led by the Holy Spirit of God, we shall be raised
to Spirit composition and immortality in the God Family even as Christ was in A.D. 31 upon
His resurrection.
Now once again from verse 19, "For the creation waits with eager longing for the
revealing of the sons of God" (RSV). This shall happen at the time of the
resurrection, when those who are human actually become -- by a resurrection or
instantaneous change from mortal flesh to Spirit immortality -- sons of God.
Now understand please. Why should the whole universe -- the creation -- be waiting with
eager longing for the actual birth and appearing of all these sons of God, to be born into
the Family of God? The following verses portray a universe filled with planets in decay
and futility -- yet as if subjected now to this dead state in hope! "Because the
creation itself [the universe not now capable of sustaining life] will be set free from
its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God."
How did all the planets fall into the bondage of decay? Surely God did not so create them!
Decay signifies a state or condition caused by degeneration and decomposition from a
previous undecayed state. God, then, created these planets in a state of NONdecay. But
something caused deterioration to set in.
What could have caused all this "bondage to decay"?
It cannot be the state in which God created them! Everything we read in God's revealed
Word about God's creation shows it to have been "very good." Angels, who were
perfect from the creation until iniquity or lawlessness was found in them, caused the
whole surface of the earth to turn into a state of decay, confusion and emptiness.
Could the whole universe have been created capable of sustaining life? We are not told
specifically by revelation in God's Word whether it was or not, but what we are told
throws additional light on why God decided to create man!
Continue this passage in Romans 8:22: "We know that the whole creation [universe] has
been groaning in travail together until now." Consider that the creation is compared
to a mother about to be delivered of her child. The creation is pictured as groaning in
travail in hope (verse 20), awaiting the birth by resurrection to immortality, of the
children of God. It is as if the creation is the mother and God is the father. Anyway the
whole thrust of the passage is that when we (converted humans) are born of God -- then
having the power and glory of God we are going to do as God did when this earth had been
laid "waste and empty" -- Hebrew tohu and bohu (Gen. 1:2). Christ, who renewed
"the face of the earth" (Psalm 104:30), was renewing what had been destroyed by
the rebellion of the sinning angels.
What these wonderful passages imply and indicate goes far beyond the amount specifically
revealed.
This passage indicates precisely what all astronomers and scientific evidence indicate --
the suns are as balls of fire, giving out light and heat; but the planets, except for this
earth, are in a state of death, decay and futility -- but not forever -- waiting until
converted humans are BORN the children of God; born into the very Divine Family of God,
forming the Kingdom of God.
Jesus' gospel was the Kingdom of God. Christ's gospel of the Kingdom actually includes all
this knowledge here revealed -- even the whole universe is to be ruled by us, who, with
God the Father and Christ, become the Kingdom of God.
God is first of all Creator, but God is also Ruler. And He is Educator, who reveals
knowledge beyond and outside the scope of human mind of itself to comprehend!
Put together all these scriptures in this booklet, and you begin to grasp the incredible
human potential. Our potential is to be born into the God Family, receiving total power!
We are to be given jurisdiction over the entire Universe!
What are we going to do then? These scriptures indicate we shall impart life to billions
of dead planets, as life has been imparted to this earth. We shall create, as God directs
and instructs. We shall rule through all eternity! Revelation 21 and 22 show there will
then be no pain, no suffering, no evil, because we shall have learned to choose God's way
of good. It will he an eternal life of accomplishment, constantly looking forward in
super-joyous anticipation to new creative projects, and still looking back also on
accomplishments with happiness and joy over what shall have been already accomplished.
We shall never grow tired and weary. Always alive full of joyous energy, vitality,
exuherant life and strength and power!
What a potential!