Who will rule Space? World leaders know the first nation to
conquer SPACE will RULE THE WORLD!
Fantastic advances are made almost daily in the race to send
men to the moon but what does it all mean?
WHY the expenditure of BILLIONS on the Space race? Is Space
exploration only innocent "science" seeking to further its fund of
knowledge concerning man's environment?
Here are the shocking answers!
TODAY -- YOU live in the SPACE AGE! Few realize what it
means -- where it's taking us!
Look at the startling accomplishments of science! In just a
few short years this world has been hurtled through the machine
age, into the atomic age, and now the new plateau -- the Space age!
This startling transition has begun to alter every aspect of
our lives!
How far have we come in one lifetime? When I was a boy, we had
horse-and-buggy transportation, unpaved streets and roads, gas
street lights, kerosene lamps indoors. No automobiles seen on
streets. Radio and TV unheard of. No man had ever flown.
Today science and technology climaxes its progress in an
enormous new industry. The aerospace industry has zoomed past the
automobile industry -- now America's largest industrial employer!
Today it is turning out rockets and spacecraft soon to take men to
the moon -- and beyond!
In one recent year, this newest and biggest U. S. industry had
a $9.2 billion payroll parceled out among 1,253,000
employees -- 615,000 more than worked for all the nation's automobile
manufacturers put together.
The economic prosperity of whole towns, and even states,
within the U. S., depends now upon the multibillion-dollar federal
spending for aerospace and related defense development.
In California, the aerospace industry accounts for a third of
all manufacturing. From coast to coast mammoth projects are swiftly
moving from drawing boards onto production lines. Cessation of the
Space effort would be a devastating blow to the burgeoning U. S.
economy.
The major damper to even more massive space technology and
progress on existing Space programs has been the ever burgeoning
cost of the war in Vietnam. As a result, some Space budgets have
had to be cut and projects delayed.
Why the Mad Race?
WHY? Why the frantic scramble to be masters of Space, the
moon, and beyond?
Why is the United States willing, urgently willing, to spend
$20-40 billion just to get to the moon alone when poverty, disease
and education problems in the nation are lacking funds? Think of
it! Today 60,000 scientists and engineers are working for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), while only
about 1,500 scientists at the National Institute of Health are
working on heart disease, cancer and mental disorders -- the nation's
leading health problems.
Why are 300,000 workmen in 50 states laboring feverishly on
the Apollo project to put the first American astronauts on the
moon? The cost of the moon program is running over 10 million
dollars a day, every day of the year. And this attempt has been
called "just the first rung on the ladder to the stars."
Yes, why this mad race for Space?
Space Debris
Today more than 1,000 objects are circling over your head in
orbit, or are boring deep into Space toward distant planets.
Only 200 or so are "intact" satellites. The rest is "space
junk": burned-out rocket bodies, fine wire, fragments of rockets
that blew up in attempts to orbit satellites, and other non-
functioning scraps of space endeavors. Hundreds of other scraps of
metal have rained down on earth during the few years of the Space
Age!
Space, in fact, has become so debris-ridden that NORAD, the
North American Defense Command in Colorado Springs, has to monitor
and track all significant "space junk" objects so that one of them
won't be mistaken for an incoming ICBM -- and trigger off World War
III.
Military Uses Predominant
A vast array of satellites, sent up by increasingly more
accurate rockets, has taken over near-Space, sending back secrets
of the earth and the universe never dreamed possible a few years
ago. There are communications satellites, starscanning satellites,
weather satellites, meteorite and cosmic ray detection satellites.
However, what should not be lost after all the publicity given to
the moon and satellite probes (which are basically civilian-run) is
the military role in Space.
Although the U.S. budget for military Space projects has been
running under $2 billion a year, compared with around $5 billion
for civilian programs, the military has put over twice as many
spacecraft into orbit. In fact, two of every three U. S. satellites
are military in nature -- chiefly "spy-in-the-sky" satellites. These
are sent up secretly and without publicity and send back detailed
pictures of Russian and Red Chinese installations.
Also sent up are satellites for military communications,
navigation for Polaris submarines and detection of outer Space
atomic blasts.
Yet, despite these foreboding uses of outer Space, we are told
that the conquest of Space is going to enrich everyone's life
immensely and that it already has begun to do so.
The conquest of Space, we are told, may well provide an answer
to some of the earth's biggest problems. We are told that the
purpose of this vast program is to advance the sum of human
knowledge -- for peaceful purposes. But every dollar spent and every
feat accomplished accent the MILITARY and POLITICAL nature of this
race.
The Rude Awakening
On October 4, 1957, the world was suddenly shocked with the
announcement that Russia had orbited its first satellite, Sputnik
I. United States prestige immediately took a serious tumble. How
could the seemingly backward, ponderously moving Russians, without
the vast technical capacity or know-how (or so we thought) surpass
the U. S. economic juggernaut?
Then Sputnik II, carrying a live dog, was sent up a month
later. Military in impact, it meant Russia had the technology to
send an intercontinental ballistic missile anywhere on earth!
The U. S. immediately went into frantic efforts to see where
it had failed, where it had fallen behind. Only then did the U. S.
technology gear itself all-out to catch up -- the missile and Space
Race was on in deadly earnest!
Then in April, 1961, came the shocking announcement that
Russia had put the first man in orbit and brought him back safely
to earth. A month later, Commander Alan B. Shepard became the first
American in Space, but he made only a suborbital flight. The U. S.,
it seemed was always lagging behind. It wasn't until February 20,
1962, that Lt. Col. John H. Glenn made his 3-orbital flight.
Since then, well over 30 men, Russian and American, and even
a Russian woman, have orbited the earth.
Dr. Werner von Braun, former German rocket expert, now working
for the U. S. missile program, has said: "Whether we like it or
not, we are engaged in a worldwide popularity contest with the
Soviets .... I do not think we can dismiss this grim competition as
a weight-lifting contest between rival rocket teams. When the whole
world sits in the audience and the heavens are the stage, pride and
prestige are real issues ...." "I am convinced," he also said, "that
he who controls the open Space around us is in a position to
control the earth."
Awesome Space Projects
Since the launching of the Space Age with Russia's Sputnik I,
the U. S. has spent over $40 billion on Space, while Russia has
spent about $35 billion. That's over $75 billion dollars by two
nations in a little over 10 years!
Vast space complexes have been built by both sides in a race
to become the dominant leader in space technology. Billions of
dollars of tracking and other installations have been spotted
around the world.
One of the most awesome sights you could see is the immense
hangar where the United States' Saturn-Apollo project is assembled.
It is the largest building in the world -- with half again the
77-million-cubic-foot volume of the Pentagon.
The assembly building has four huge chambers to simultaneously
handle the construction of four rockets. This building is so
cavernous that a weather-control system is necessary to prevent
clouds from forming and raining inside the structure.
Saturn V Mammoth
One would gasp with amazement at the size of the U. S. moon
rocket -- the Saturn V -- as tall as a 30-story building.
It has already flown (unmanned) with some success, but not
without certain failures cropping up.
Here are a few statistics on its immensity:
Height: 363 feet; 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty
and 13 times heavier.
Weight: 6,200,000 pounds; of which 5,575,000 is propellant.
Total thrust: 8.7 million pounds. (The 5-engine first stage
itself develops 7,500,000 pounds of thrust and consumes 537,000
gallons of liquid fuel at a rate of 900 tons a minute. The liquid
oxygen tanks in the first stage could fill 54 railroad tank cars.)
One national weekly news magazine reported that if a fully
fueled Saturn V blew up, "it could produce a blast 50 times as
powerful as that of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima."
Can you imagine it! 6.2 million pounds! That's over 3,000
tons! It would be like shooting a good-sized Navy destroyer (which
weighs about 2,200 tons) into Space!
And can you imagine -- 2,000,000 parts made by thousands of
contractors and subcontractors -- all interacting and meshing to
hurtle this mammoth to the moon or elsewhere?
Box Score of Space Efforts
Dr. William Pickering, head of California Institute of
Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gave this "box score" of
space achievement at a meeting in early 1968:
-- The United States has orbited 500 satellites, had 13
successful moon missions (and returned 100,000 lunar photographs),
accumulated almost 2,000 hours of manned flight, including 12 hours
outside of spacecraft, and made 3 successful planetary probe
flights.
-- Russia has launched 250 satellites, had 8 lunar successes
(and returned 100 lunar photographs), accumulated about 530 hours
of manned flight, including 20 minutes outside spacecraft, and
landed one instrumented package on Venus after an estimated 19
planetary attempts.
Recent Events in the Space Race
The U. S.'s Gemini series of 12 shots (the last of which was
in November, 1966) was designed to discover the effects on men and
spacecraft during long periods of time in the weightlessness of
Space. Fortunately, the U. S. did not lose a single man in these
shots.
Since the success of this series, the next planned stage -- the
Apollo project to land and return men from the moon -- has taken most
of the U. S. Space effort.
Also, preparatory to these flights, the Surveyor series
engaged in landing photographic and sensory equipment on the moon
has had good success. Detailed photos reveal the barrenness and
bleakness of the moon surface. And small scoop shovels have dug
into the moon's surface and have shown that a manned craft could
land there.
But on January 27, 1967, disaster and setback struck!
Three U. S. astronauts, Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and
Roger Chaffee, were trapped and killed in a burning inferno during
a routine capsule test on the ground. This catastrophe slowed down
the U. S. race-to-the-moon effort.
Nevertheless, in November an unmanned Saturn V flew
flawlessly. Enthusiasm grew again. Then in April, 1968, the second
shot of the Saturn V produced several failures and caused
uncertainties as to when man may go to the moon.
Despite these uncertainties the main U. S. impetus is still to
get men on the moon and return them by the end of this decade.
Meanwhile, Russia ...
It is important to first note that the Soviet Union's Space
program like much of the United States' is run wholly by military
men, not civilians, with military objectives.
The Soviet Space program at first became an all-out effort to
do things first.
In rapid succession their Sputniks, Lunas, Vostoks and Cosmos
spacecraft became the first to carry a man (and woman) into Space;
to photograph the moon; to hit the moon; to orbit and soft-land on
the moon. Nevertheless, U. S. technology caught up in the
mid-1960's with more refined and successful systems.
And, the Soviet Space effort has not been without tragedies.
It is suspected that several Soviet cosmonauts have died in
the Russian Space drive. On April 24, 1967, Vladimir Komarov was
killed when his spaceship became entangled in its parachute cords
after re-entry from orbit and plunged to earth.
It was Russia's first attempt at a man in Space spectacular in
two years and since then there has been a slowdown in activity of
such attempts.
However, NASA officials have noticed fears that the Soviets
may be developing a booster rocket even more powerful than the
Saturn V.
And Russian Space activity has been picking up.
In April, 1968, the Russians surprised the U. S. by sending up
two unmanned spaceships that automatically linked up in Outer
Space. Such a feat is viewed as an important step toward Space
stations orbiting above the earth or as floating "gas stations" for
trips to the moon. NASA realizes that a manned earth-orbiting Space
station is the next logical, practical and necessary step in the
continuing development of manned Space flight.
Both the U. S. and Russia are still in a race for the moon-and
it is uncertain who is ahead. U. S. officials fear the Russians may
have some surprising Space shots coming up.
Fantastic Future Space Weapons
In the meantime, gigantic new weapons are being
developed -- weapons fantastically more awesome and powerful than
when the two great powers were first thrust into the Space Race!
Now there is official concern about U. S. neglect in not
pouring enough research into developing advanced Space-age weapons
such as "gigaton" bombs, neutron bombs, death-ray weapons,
antimatter weapons, plasma bombs, and doomsday machines.
The field of radically new weapons is virtually without limit
for a first-class power that wants to make the effort!
All these fantastic weapons would be additions to the already
incomprehensible power of H-bomb weaponry.
Today's awesome facts must be faced! The prospect of war in
Space has moved out of the realm of fantasy into the realm of
frightening possibility. Military planners envision men in
reconnaissance vehicles, in satellite interceptors, in nuclear
dreadnoughts able to destroy Earth targets.
Our Colossal Error
We are looking exclusively to material science to rescue us
from the threat of Communism.
We are in a frenzy over methods of training future scientists
who can develop even greater weapons of destruction and death!
Have we gone utterly mad?
For the past few years, the United States educational system
has been on a crash program to accelerate the influx of science
students in American colleges, universities and institutes of
technology.
And THIS VERY THING -- looking to physical, material,
science -- is our COLOSSAL ERROR!
And what almost nobody seems to realize, Britain, the U. S.,
and the entire western free world, are suffering from Russian
competition, even in the colleges and universities.
Soviet tentacles reach far beyond the ordinary propaganda. The
student rebellions and riots that have paralyzed so many
universities were not just spontaneous outbursts. They were
PLANNED! They were carefully ORGANIZED by the "Old" and so-called
"NEW LEFT" -- Communist organization.
The Paris student rebellion spread to nationwide strikes,
riots and violence. It was an effort to overthrow the government of
France -- and almost succeeded. Even before this uprising had
entirely subsided, there was a Marxist-Leninist "Teach-In" behind
closed doors at the London School of Economics. The student-revolt
leaders from ten countries were there. Many disgruntled British
students were throbbing taught by the "professionals."
Newsmen were locked out. But The PLAIN TRUTH news team was
there. The "Teach-In" was simply an instruction session on the art
and tactics of Revolutionizing student revolt to spread to the
overthrow of Nations! They are only starting. The 1968-69 school
year will see much more!
What's Happened to GOD?
Meanwhile, with all this space flight reaching into outer
space -- reaching to "heaven" -- it might be well to ask, "What's
happened to GOD?" In this frantic race to control space, we never
see any mention of God, who was supposed to control outer space.
Since the infusion of "German rationalism" into the
educational bloodstream, all mention of God, or the Bible, or
anything supernatural, has been tabu. Never mentioned. Never even
considered.
But, more recently, something else has happened, almost
totally unnoticed. Actually, it's all Communist planned. Yet today
there is a new generation -- a sort of new breed -- of Marxist-Leninist
Leftists. It's propagated by the younger generation -- college age
and slightly over. They call themselves "the NEW Leftists." Yet
it's the same revolutionary activity, with a new facade, utilizing
certain new tactics. The revolutionary objectives are the same!
The "New" Leftists
Both this "New" and the "Old" brands of Communism have worked
feverishly within the western democracies. They have promoted NEW
MOVEMENTS designed to UNDERMINE democratic society. It is THEY,
primarily, who have propagated the "New Morality." They have sown
the seeds in western society of homosexuality, propagated
pornography among adolescents, spread the use of marijuana and
narcotics. They promoted the "God is Dead" movement. They have
promoted the new distorted degeneration in various forms of art -- in
music, painting, sculpture, literature.
Here is a description of the "New Morality" in its all
inclusive aspects, by artist Salvador Dali, in his "Dali on Modern
Art": The typical Dionysian art critic of today, he wrote, is
"negativistic to the n-th degree, and hating classicism like any
self-respecting sewer-rat, discovers the biological agitations of
the ugly, and its unavowable attractions." He terms these "artists"
sewer-rat intellectuals. To them, he says, "all ambiguities become
possible, including that of savage objects, ugly as mortal sins,
which is what they really are."
In the supposed intellectualism of this degeneration of a
decadent society, it has not been popular to speak of God. Except
in profanity, that is! And, after all, human vanity does want to
BELONG!
Notwithstanding, some serious scholars and researchers have
recently been astonished to discover that these very trends and
conditions of our day are vividly pictured in plain and simple
Biblical prophecies!
In parts of that volume scarcely ever read, they are
discovering prophecies describing the very things happening before
our eyes right now! It's like an archaeologist digging suddenly out
of the ground mute evidence of existences hidden from human
knowledge for centuries.
Further, these ignored writings carry on from this rather
frightening present. They strip back the curtain of the future to
reveal what's immediately ahead! It may seem incredible, but there
is one source, and one only, that describes -- AND EXPLAINS -- these
changes in today's world that would not have been dreamed of fifty
short years ago!
Long Hidden Knowledge?
Isn't it incongruous that the world's sum of KNOWLEDGE has
doubled in ten short years -- yet the world's TROUBLES have doubled
also in that same decade? What's the answer to that frightening
knowledge gap?
Could it be hidden in vital passages overlooked and unread by
scholars, educators, clergymen? After all, even those who have
professed the Christian religion, in the main, have used only
fragmentary verses of the Bible, scattered here and there, and
taken largely out of context. Biblical prophecy has been almost
entirely ignored and unread. Yet an approximate third of that Book
is devoted to it.
For example, in a major book of prophecy -- Isaiah -- a Personage
is quoted, saying He is GOD. Now is this quote a fiction? Did it
sprout only from the imagination of the human writer? What this God
is quoted as saying is extremely challenging!
WHO is this speaking? -- a self-deceived human writer, or could
it be the very Creator Himself? "I am the ETERNAL," He is quoted,
"and there is none else, there is no God beside me...Ask me of
things to come...I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I,
even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host
have I commanded ... I am God, and there is none like me, declaring
the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do
all my pleasure: ... yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to
pass: I have purposed it, I will also do it' " (Isaiah 45:5, 11-12;
46:9-11).
This same Personage here quoted challenges the doubters. To
them He says: "CONSIDER and agree that the ETERNAL'S hand has done
it, that Israel's Majesty has made it all. 'Now,' the ETERNAL
cries, 'Bring your case forward. Now,' Jacob's King cries, 'state
your PROOFS. Let us hear what happened in the past, that we may
ponder it, or show me what is yet to be, that we may watch how it
turns out; yes, let us hear what is coming, that we may be sure you
are gods; come, do something or other that we may marvel at the
sight! -- why, you are things of naught, you can do nothing at all!'"
(Isaiah 41:20-24, Moffatt translation.) (Emphasis mine.)
Thus the one quoted as God challenges the scoffer -- shows that
ability to FORETELL and bring to pass world events is PROOF of
being God. For no human can do it.
WAS this merely the human imagination of a writer named
Isaiah? Or was it, in fact, the Great GOD speaking? This same
Personage is quoted, in other writings of Isaiah and other
prophets, FORETELLING in writings of 1900 to 2500 years ago, what
was to happen to every major city of those days, and every nation.
They were AMAZING prophecies that then seemed impossible of
occurrence. YET EVERY ONE OF THOSE PROPHECIES ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Knowledge Suppressed!
COULD it be, then, that the Book called the Bible is, in
actual fact, the mesage of the real CREATOR GOD to mankind?
Notice what this Book prophesied the educators, philosophers
and scientists would do -- in their thinking regarding the existence
of GOD:
He says it is revealed from heaven against those who hold back
the truth from the people, "Though they knew God, they have not
glorified Him as God nor given thanks to Him; they have turned to
futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark. They claim
to be wise, but they have become fools" (Romans 1:21-22 -- Moffatt
translation).
Further: "... they have exchanged the TRUTH of God for an
UNTRUTH" (verse 25) -- their speculative theory of Evolution. Then
again: "And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind" (verse 28).
They -- the scientists, the philosophers, the educators -- have
SUPPRESSED the truth (verse 18, R.S.V.), exchanged the TRUTH for an
UNTRUTH -- turned to vain and futile speculations -- their unproved and
unprovable theory of evolution -- and refused to retain GOD in the
KNOWLEDGE they disseminate in their system of education!
By this process, now being actively propagated in a manner few
realize by the Communist conspiracy, they have made it UNPOPULAR to
believe in GOD, or to look into the Bible.
Yet, incredible though it may seem to those who have fallen
victim to this false education, the Bible paints the vivid and
detailed picture of TODAY, in writings that described it 1900 to
2500 years IN ADVANCE!
The Rule of Space
Yet, you can prove, by the facts and definite laws of science,
as well as by sound reason and the very fact of the existence of
things, that God does exist! (Write for our free booklet, Does God
Exist?)
You can prove, by the very tools of science that the Holy
Bible is the inspired WORD of the living Almighty GOD. (Write for
our free booklet, The PROOF of the Bible.)
In your Bible is One -- speaking in the first person -- who claims
to be the RULER of this entire world, and -- the RULER OF ALL SPACE!
He says, "Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and
are counted as the small dust of the balance...All nations before
him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing,
and vanity" (Isa. 40: 15-17).
Your Bible says "all nations before him are as NOTHING -- "and
reveals that it is HE who guides and controls the course of the
major nations on this earth!
Men, in their feeble efforts -- concentrating on physical and
material sciences -- scurrying frantically here and there, searching
for the acquisition of new MATERIAL knowledge, are striving
frantically to RULE SPACE!
They are totally heedless, UNAWARE that a Great Creator God is
in heaven above -- and that He THUNDERS to man from His exalted
position on high, "Have ye not known? have-ye not heard? Hath it
not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from
the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle
of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as
a tent to dwell in ... To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One"! (Isa. 40:21-25.)
There is the thundering challenge of your Creator, who gives
you every breath of air you breathe -- the RULER of Space!
He says to puny man, "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold
who heath created these things [all of the planets, and the
limitless expanse of the unfathomable universe], that bringeth out
their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness
of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth"!
(Isa. 40:26.)
Think of it!
Almighty God says He knows all of the stars, comets,
planetoids, and astral bodies of all descriptions -- and calls them
all BY NAME!
Man, still probing the unsearchable heavens by the most
powerful types of telescopes, is able only to arrive at a mere
guess as to the NUMBER of the myriads of planets in the heavens.
But the Great God in heaven above, YOUR RULER, calls them all
"by name"!
Yes -- what's happened to God?
Apparently, carnal man has allowed no place for the
possibility of the EXISTENCE of an All-wise, All-powerful Creator,
who has the power to intervene in the course of human affairs, and
who is the present RULER of Space!
Instead, he is going about his own carnal pursuits, standing
on the threshold of invading God's own heavens, blindly and
superstitiously assuming there is no God!
What a shock is in store for puny man!
Trying to Get to Heaven
Man, it seems, has always been trying to "get to heaven."
Following the Biblical account of the flood, we read of men
building a city, and believing their culture should reach out into
the heavens. They were of three basic races. They wanted to
integrate, to prevent being spread around the world in geographical
segregation. Originally, God had set the bounds of racial and
national habitation (Acts 17:26). But they rebelled. So they
amalgamated to pool their efforts in science. They set out to build
an enormous tower as a symbol of getting up into the heavens of
their pagan gods. To this day men like to build "skyscrapers," and
erect steeples on their cathedrals and houses of worship.
The account of this, found in Genesis 11:4, says: "Then they
said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its
top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we
be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the
ETERNAL came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of
men had built. And the ETERNAL said, 'Behold, they are one people,
and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of
what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be
impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their
language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So
the ETERNAL scattered them abroad from there over the face of all
the earth, and they left off building the city." (Gen. 11:4-9
R.S.V.).
So that was the end of the attempt to build the world's first
"skyscraper."
But did you notice, God is quoted as saying: "This is only the
beginning of what they will do; and NOTHING that they propose to do
will now be impossible for them."
God knew the SPACE ACE would have come CENTURIES ago, had He
permitted this plan to succeed.
But God observed the doings of man -- his attempt at the
amalgamation of the races, the cooperation in scientific effort,
and said: "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and THIS THEY BEGIN TO DO: and now NOTHING will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do"!
Can your mind begin to comprehend the all-inclusive meaning of
these startling words?
Notice -- God said NOTHING would be restrained from man!
Yes -- man actually WOULD be able to travel in Space, to manufacture
spaceships, to journey to OTHER PLANETS -- IF God would allow it!
God restrained man in that day -- by confusing their language,
and scattering them abroad upon the face of the Earth!
Today, men are breaking down the language barrier. Today,
instant worldwide communication and air travel eliminate space
barriers.
Today, there is a large, widespread movement toward the
amalgamation of races -- intermarriage being sanctioned and openly
practiced in many parts of the world. There is the pooling of
atomic and nuclear research, military effort, scientific endeavor,
in order to avoid the duplication of scientific development by
different countries!
Today -- man once again stands poised on the brink of Space!
Fantastic Plans
Today, scientists are envisioning even the creation of a
"Space-age Noah's ark"!
Fully realizing this Earth may become an incinerated relic in
a few more years, as the result of an all-out atomic and hydrogen
bomb war, scientists are fearfully planning the building of huge
spaceships, or Space platforms to be put high above the Earth into
orbit around it! Science actually envisions such craft being put
into orbit around the sun -- becoming a miniature planet, filled with
people!
These "Space-age Noah's arks" would be filled with all types
of human beings, animals, various types of plants, and many
scientific implements -- equipment of all descriptions.
Theoretically, these individuals would be in a self-contained
"world" completely detached from our own, able to repopulate and
repeople SPACE should the Earth blast itself out of existence!
Can your mind comprehend it?
Can you begin to understand what men are trying to do?
Mankind -- utterly incapable and totally inadequate to solve his
own problems on this Earth here below, besmirching it and befouling
it with his filth and vile practices, is now thinking of carrying
his decaying society into all of the far-reaching areas of the
unsearchable universe!
Will God Allow It?
Will God ALLOW MAN to trample all over His heavens above? This
is the really BIG question -- THE BIG "IF"!
Man has proved himself capable of startling scientific
capacity!
Today, he is concerning himself only with the problems of
reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
He possesses the actual rocket thrust powerful enough to
enable him to put into orbit satellites large enough to contain
men!
So far, man's orbital flights have been confined to the
immediate Space around the Earth -- but science now stands ready to
start men on a long journey into Space itself.
Startling though it may seem -- there is no question that man
could launch himself into outer Space!
God has revealed: "Thou madest him [man] a little lower [or,
"for a little time lower"] than the angels; thou crownedst him with
glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands."
God has put into the hands of man the power to manipulate,
refashion and reform, to devise and create from the physical
material Earth under his feet. God goes on to reveal, "Thou hast
put ALL THINGS in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all
in subjection under him, he left NOTHING that is not put under him"
(Heb. 2:7-8).
Did you get it?
God says He has put ALL things in subjection under man! "But
surely," you might reason, "God doesn't mean ALL, including even
Space, does He?"
Yes, indeed He does!
God says there is NOTHING that is NOT put under him -- showing
that man's ultimate destiny is the rulership of ALL, with all that
the word "all" includes, which is totality,
all-inclusive -- everything!
But notice the rest of this revealing scripture in the second
chapter of Hebrews: "But NOW we see NOT YET all things put under
him!"
Ah! There it is!
Human beings were CREATED to rule the universe -- God reveals
that goal as our ultimate destiny -- but we are NOT YET READY! Human
nature drives us to attempt to achieve this goal without being
qualified for it.
Man is striving vainly to change or protect the human body to
withstand the environment of Space. God's Plan involves changing
men's MINDS -- qualifying them to rule -- then creating for them SPIRIT
BODIES thoroughly equipped for Earth or Space.
While it is in God's intent and purpose to eventually put ALL
under the feet of man, allowing him even to rule over other planets
in the entirety of the UNIVERSE -- God has decreed that it is not
"yet" time for such all-encompassing powers to be given into the
hands of man.
At this present time, Almighty God has RESTRAINED man, placed
definite limits and boundaries upon him -- made man a distinctly
Earthbound creature!
The Main Barrier -- Man Himself
Inside the atmosphere of the Earth man finds comfort, even
luxury. Here he has protection from the known dangers of
Space -- cosmic radiation, meteorites, extremes of heat and cold. And
it is admitted there are many dangers not yet fully realized in the
awesome vacuum of Space.
Though generally taken for granted, the food man eats, the
water he drinks, the air he breathes are in a precarious
life-giving balance on earth. Gravity holds him down and gives him
orientation without which he would soon lose physical and even
mental balance. But Space is a hostile and devastating environment
to the life we take for granted.
Yes, the greatest barrier to Space flight is man himself. He
is flesh, blood and bone -- made of 16 elements of this Earth's
matter. He is fragile in the face of the soul-freezing obstacles
that are known to await him in prolonged Space flight. If man is to
conquer Space he must figure out how to take a piece of his Earthly
environment with him wherever he goes.
Yes, startling though it may seem, God has decreed He WILL NOT
ALLOW man to RULE Space in his present carnal, physical,
God-rejecting condition!
And does man really "RULE" Space, simply because he is able to
intrude, briefly, into it? Does he "RULE" Mt. Everest? He has
climbed it, to be sure, but today the thunderous storms lash its
heights, just as they have for thousands of years!
Interstellar Space has been likened to a cubic inch of water,
vaporized into steam and spread through 40 trillion cubic miles of
Space!
Each tiny, microscopic globule of mist would represent the
comparative size of the vast super giants, stars immensely larger
than our sun -- and the almost limitless Space between would
represent the true distance from one such star to another!
CONQUER SPACE? Ridiculous!
No, man will never RULE Space -- but he can intrude into it!
Actually -- the very fact of man's almost daily new discoveries
in the realm of science is a thundering, ominous warning that the
end of man's self-governing society upon this Earth is drawing
rapidly near!
Then who WILL rule Space?
God has decreed: "The heaven, even the heavens, ARE THE
ETERNAL'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men"!
(Psalm 115:16.)
How much dominion has the Creator-Ruler of the universe given
to man? He reveals it in the very first chapter of His
Instruction-Book for mankind: To man, He says: "Have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing that moves upon the earth." (Genesis 1:28).
Man is given dominion over THE EARTH. The earth is composed of
matter. Matter is present in three states -- solid, liquid, gaseous.
Take H20 -- water. Below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it is a solid -- ice.
Between 32 and 212 degrees it is liquid. Above 212 it is converted
into steam -- the gaseous state.
The air above the solid and water surface of the earth is part
of the earth, in the gaseous state. Webster describes it as the
invisible, odorless, and tasteless mixture of gases which surrounds
the earth -- (that is, its solid and liquid surface). It is composed
mostly of two very common elements -- nitrogen and oxygen. As
altitudes become higher, the air becomes "thinner," containing less
oxygen.
Thus God has given man dominion over the solid surface of the
earth -- over its rivers, lakes and oceans -- and over the air. I have
flown at altitudes of 41,000 feet and above. At that point we begin
to emerge into the stratosphere. Beginning about 25 miles above sea
level is the ionosphere. Finally the elements of the earth become
altogether absent, and beyond is OUTER SPACE.
Man has dominion over the oceans. Not only on their surface,
but even to penetrate in depth. However, as we go lower, the
pressure builds up where it becomes difficult if not impossible to
go deeper. Likewise it becomes more and more difficult for man to
penetrate the upper altitudes of air. From the Biblical revelation,
man is within his assigned jurisdiction when he flies in aircraft.
That is notwithstanding a few rare crashes or accidents. They,
however, are far more rare than crashes and accidents in
automobiles on the solid ground. Accident insurance companies will
tell you that the highest incidence of accidents occurs in bathtubs
in the "safety" of one's home.
God has assigned this earth to MAN -- in man's present human
state.
God has decreed the heavens belong to Him! God has placed a
"reserved" sign in the heavens, and has decreed there is "no
trespassing" there!
But why, then, do the heavens even exist? Why do planets, so
far out in the distant reaches of outer Space that they just barely
appear as a faint flicker on the most powerful telescopes, even
EXIST?
Certainly, they have nothing directly to do with the
atmosphere of the Earth! They have no direct effect, as such, on
life here on this Earth! It is only within our own peculiar solar
system that there is any real effect upon man.
Is there a PURPOSE in the creation of these things?
A famous scientist said recently on television, that we cannot
know the real PURPOSE of life! Poor, ignorant scientist! He could
know -- if he did not reject the only SOURCE of that most basic of
all knowledge!
That SOURCE is your Bible! God reveals there is a PURPOSE
being worked out here below! He is the supreme RULER, seated on His
throne in the vast realm of the heavens, ruling the entirety of the
universe!
And God has a purpose in the existence of all things,
including Space!
The real reason for human life, and man's ultimate destiny is
so fantastic -- so awesome -- so overpowering, that it literally
staggers the imagination! (Write for our free booklet, Why Were You
Born?)
God is reproducing Himself! Man was made to become a very son
of God!
Jesus Christ, who is the FIRSTBORN of God, is said to be the
"firstborn among MANY BRETHREN"! (Rom. 8:29.)
Carnal human beings, through total repentance, baptism in
water for the remission of their sins, and the receiving of God's
Holy Spirit, are to live lives of growing in grace and knowledge,
overcoming daily by the power of God's Spirit within them, finally
to be BORN of God!
Jesus said, "Ye must be born again"! How far human beings
misunderstand this awesome and remarkable scripture!
Jesus revealed a family relationship between Himself and the
Father. The Church is likened as the bride of Christ, and, on other
occasions, as the "mother of us all"! Those are terms denoting
FAMILY relationship!
Your Bible reveals the startling, glorious truth that human
kind can, through the Master Plan Almighty God is working out here
below, become God kind!
Think of it!
That means being born, changed into, MADE a very member of
God's own divine Family!
Man's Destiny
How DECEIVED mankind has been, as to the very PURPOSE of his
being -- as to his Destiny!
The "Christian Religion" is supposed to have come from the
Bible -- to be BASED on this Book which is the world's best seller.
Yet this very Book says the MANY would be DECEIVED! It says all
nations are deceived!
WHY do not professing "Christians" UNDERSTAND what their Bible
says about their "salvation"? It says Jesus Christ was made a Son
of God by a resurrection from the dead. It says He was
glorified -- now composed of SPIRIT, not of physical matter. It
reveals His appearance in this state, with eyes like flames of
fire, His face shining like the very SUN, full strength! (Rev.
1:13-16.)
It says true Christians, begotten of God by having received
His Spirit (Rom. 8:9), will, also, as Jesus was, be converted from
mortal to immortal -- from human composed of physical matter to
divine, composed of spirit, IF God's Holy Spirit dwells in them
(Rom. 8:11). And it says they are NOT Christ's -- NOT truly
Christians -- UNLESS God's Spirit has been received and dwells within
them (Rom. 8:9).
But, further, it says that IF God's Spirit (which is God's
very divine life, God's attitude of mind, God's love and power) is
leading them -- IF they are following in THIS WAY (which is obedience
to God's Law), then they are already -- NOW -- sons of God. They are
now HEIRS of God -- not yet INHERITORS, but HEIRS (verses 16-17) and
that we shall be (at time of resurrection) CLARIFIED, even as Jesus
Christ has been glorified.
Even as Jesus Christ was made a Son of GOD by a resurrection
from mortal to immortality (Rom. 1:4), He was the first-BORN of
"many brethren" (Rom. 8:29). And, at the time of resurrection for
those who actually are Christ's, our flesh and blood physical human
bodies will be changed, and made like Christ's GLORIFIED body,
composed of spirit. (Philippians 3:20-21.)
The New Testament is FULL of this wonderful truth. It is
supported in the Old Testament. WHY have nations been so deceived
they are blinded to man's true potential -- his real destiny?
Man is not ready to RULE SPACE -- UNTIL two things are
accomplished.
1) He must master, rule, and overcome human nature! Human
nature is a PULL toward vanity, self-centeredness, lust, greed,
envy, hatred, hostility toward God and God's authority over him. It
PULLS man in the way that produces unhappiness, pain, suffering,
evils. He must have this nature replaced by GOD'S nature, the
attitude of humility, living faith in God, obedience to God, love
for -- outgoing concern for -- neighbor -- the desire to serve, help,
share, not to take, concerned only for self. In man's present state
he produces only unhappiness and evils. He is not competent to rule
space, when he has not learned properly to rule his own self!
2) He must be CONVERTED -- CHANGED from mortal to immortal -- from
physical human flesh and blood to spiritual composition. Then he
shall have self-sustaining LIFE inherent. Then he shall not be
dependent on breathing this earth's AIR for his existence. Then he
shall not be dependent on food and water from this earth for
continued life. Then he shall not be affected by extremes of heat
and cold. Then he shall be equipped, within himself, to RULE, under
God -- under the living Christ's administration of God's
Government -- the whole of the vast universe!
Yes, there is a REASON why the stars, galaxies and astral
bodies are placed in far-flung outer space! There is PURPOSE to
this, and to human life upon this planet EARTH!
There is a MASTER PLAN working out that divine PURPOSE here
below. And it WILL BE accomplished!
When that is accomplished, when the last, final human being
has had opportunity to CHOOSE which way he will go, when God has
increased His own family by millions and millions, the apostle Paul
reveals "then cometh the end [the total end of man's way of life,
of his organized society on this Earth], when he [Christ] shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he
shall have put down all rule and all authority and power"! (I Cor.
15:24.)
THEN comes the inspiring thunder of the voice of the Great
Creator of all things who says, "Behold, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW...HE
THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; and I will be his God,
and he shall be my son"! (Rev. 21:5-7.)
Can you envision it? Can you comprehend it?
Can you now begin to understand? God is offering YOU, not
through the promises of science, not by travel in a Spaceship, not
by military, political or man-made means, but by the very power of
God, through being BORN of Him, as HIS OWN SON, RULERSHIP OVER
SPACE!
Yes -- it is the reborn SONS OF GOD, who are going to RULE the
entirety of the universe under God, the great Ruler over all! We
shall be no longer mortal, material -- but born again -- of GOD -- spirit
beings!
Don't be caught up in the excitement of man's feeble physical
effort to "conquer" Space. Man's effort is only another MILITARY
and POLITICAL plan to extend his power -- without right knowledge.
Learn God's Truth. Begin to equip yourself God's way -- and you
will be "MORE THAN CONQUERORS"! (Rom. 8:37.)
God wants YOU to rule Space! But we must first learn to rule
our own human persons -- according to the Maker's Instruction Book.