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T h is un usua l scene is a n artists conce ption of the

view you would see if

you

were on t h e operating

table. M a n y articles i n recent magazines-LIFE, LooK-have

had actual color photos, even showing the throbbing hearts

of

patients with their chests cut open.

In

thi s wor ld, a scene of this sort glorifies t he medical

pro fess ion as the saviors of ma nk ind .

As

y o u can see from the

expression

on

the se mens faces, th ey are dedicated, sincere,

th ey believe th ey are doin g right-but th e laws of he alt h re-

vealed by the Creator God prove them

to

be in

GR OSS ER R OR .

Read i n this issue how imp ortant this knowledg e of the

true health laws is-knowledge only Gods Tr ue Ch ur ch has

See opposite page.

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Ambassador Col lege

What

our

READERS

SAY

+

I s o l a t e d M e m b e r C o m m e n t s

I

received my

GOOD

NEWS ester-

day. In the art icle about the Visit ing

Program I can t see how any member

could treat Gods servants in such a

way. How I wish they could visit me

often If

a baptizing team comes

through, please let me know

so

I can

meet with them.

I

have been baptized

and have finished my 31st Bible lesson.

I

can meet them anymhere in James-

town, Tennessee.

Ruby

J. ,

Tennessee

F at d i a t , i t y sometimes bseeds

c o i l -

teiiipt, R n b j , a u d s o m e t i m r s those

who

H A V E

t h e oppostimity

of being oisited

re~y / / lnrl j~

o d t appreciate

t h e

blessiiig

)oil .so

q r k k l y

wcogtiize

because

yon

m~ 0 1 1 ~ 2 of

the .rcattei~ecl r,ethiwi.

Apprec i a t e s Apr i l GOOD NEWS

How beautiful the cover on the

April

GOOD NEWS

And it

is

good

news the way God is car ing for the

true church members and prospering

the

new

b u i l d i n g p r o g r a m .

T h e

article

on church organization is very informa-

t ive ; a lso, What Can Widows Do?

I{- is

so

helpful and

corrective for me.

Lately the papers have a lot about

witches and h ow g ood theyve gotten.

That and other godless acts

are

enough

to make my hair stand on end.

L ~ L c ~. , Oregoti

Joy

Over

O r d i n a t i o n

I

received a letter from one of the

sisters telling that

Mr.

Crim had been

ordained. This was really a joy to m e

for we are some of the scattered Negro

brethren here in the South. I hope that

soon we can have a colored minister

near by. W e do not have a minister to

counsel with here now. The tension is

too high to allow white ministers to

come, but we are praying that God will

soon open up a way for us out here.

Negro member from Louisiana

Remember t o KEEP pi .ayi izg f o r

more 1abor.er-for.

all .aces

Follow

T h e D i r e ct io n s

To find my place coming north on

Number

50

hiway to Harry Cooks

Store and go west

4

mile and you are in

Alonsa . N ow go north f rom the east end

about

3

mile, and the road turns sharply

east down off a ridge; do no t make this

turn, but continue north you are in the

bud1

dnd

for

one-half mile there

is

barbed wire on each side

of

you, then

a house with no windows or doors,

and

you

keep c o m in g n o rt h o n th i s n u -

row and not much used road, till you

come up on another l i t t le ridge; from

here

look

west

a n d

you will see some

buildings, and a little old gravel pit

(PleaJe

conti twe

011

page

1 9 )

June, 1964

w

Good

News

International magazine

of

THE

CHURCH OF

GOD

ministering to

i ts

members

.tcuttered abroad

VOL.

XI11

NO.

6

Published

m o n t h l y at

Pasadena, California

@ 1964, b y

Radio Church of God

EDITOR

HERBERT . ARMSTRONG

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Garner

Ted Armstrong

MANAGING EDITOR

David Jon Hi l l

SENIOR

EDITORS

Roderick

C.

Meredith

Herman L.

Hoeh

Associate Editors

Albert

J.

Portune Ronald Kelly

Contributing Editors

W. A .

Berg

Robert C. Boraker

Bryce G. Clark

C. Wayne Cole

Raymond C. Cole

Charles

V. Dorothy

Jack R. Elliott

Selmer Hegvold

Ernest L. Martin

Leslie L. McCullough

Raymond F. McNair

C. Paul Mcrcdith

L.

Leroy Neff

Benjamin L. Rea

Lynn

E.

Torrance

Gerald Waterhouse

Basil Wolverton

Clint C. Zimmerman

Foods

Consultants

Velma Van der Veer

Rose McDowell

Isabel1

F.

Hoeh

ary

E.

Hegvold

Editorial and Production Assistants

Paul

W. Krol l

James

W.

Robinson

Donald G. McDonald

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hiembers in Australia and Southeast Asia should

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I n

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change in your address. Please inclose both old

and new address. IMPORTANT


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PROOF FIVE

SEVEN

PROOFS

Of Gods True

Church

Gods

Tr u e Church know s the T R U TH about d iet, exercise and

fo od fads . Its another major PROOF of the

TRUE

Church.

Do

YOU know the real laws

o f

health?

by

Garner Ted Armstrong

ou

caizt

become a superman, and

live

forever,

by gulping pills,

swallowing supplements , and

avoiding white sugar like the black

death of London

Y

Gods True Church

KNOWS

it.

You

CANNOT

get into Gods King-

dom by judiciously drinking apple juice,

taking

a

shot of rose-hip

t e a ,

avniding

white crackers at all cost, or chewing

twenty times before swallowing

Gods TRUE hurch KNOWS it.

Its

a

SICK, SICK, SICK,

SICK WORLD

Ever wonder why it

is

the hangers-on

around health food stores are

so

sick?

Did

you

ever wonder why health-food

fanatics appear

so weak, so sickly,

and

are usually mentally unbalanced ?

Its a terribly SICK world youre liv-

ing in

Today, more than

NINETY-TWO

MIL-

LION people in the United States alone

are suffering with one or another of

the terrible chronic diseases such

as

hcart disease, cancer, tuberculosis or

polio.

It is a R A R E thing to see a really

HEALTHY

person, today.

Look at a few of the shocking facts.

Sicki icss i s a g i g a d c inaizcial b w -

d e n

Scvcral ycars ago, the

average

American-meaning every man, wom-

an and child in the nation-actually

paid $137

a year for

hospital and doc-

tors bills. This was a monstrous sum

of more than 2 5 BILLION dollars for

the whole nation. This was DOUBLE

the amount paid as recently as 1 9 5 0 .

It was proved, by the statistics of a

major insurance company, that half a

million American families had medical

bills larger than their total incomes for

that year

And, while the

c o s t

of getting sick

has tripled in the past decade, the

average American family is spending

f i ve t imes as nziich It was found that

the average family of four in the

United States spends about

400 a

year on medical expenses alone. Said

one 69-year-old, receiving

$33

per

month from Social Security,

I

could

get along fairly well on my savings

and Social Security but the cost of

medicine is so great that I can barely

make ends meet. Sometimes I think I

must stop taking the medicine and just

die. A fantastic crowd of more than

60,000 Americans enters into

our

clinics

and hospitals every day

An d, remember-these figures repre -

sent what

is

occurring within the U nited

States

a l o m ,

the healthiest nation on

the face of the earth. Yes, brethren, our

peoples are SICK

Sickness

is

a terrible draiiz

on the

strength and vitali ty

of

o w eoples, and

is

a

f i i l f i l lment

of

o m of the major

prophet ic CIJRSES God

p r o t z om c e d

i ipon o u r

peoples or breaking

is laws.

Dr.

W . Coda Ma rtin, former chief of

Geriatrics Clinic Metropolitan Hospital,

New York, says that only 6.5 per cent

of Americans are free from physical

defect.

More than a third of the nation is

suffering from one

of

the

18

main ill-

nesses

and handicapping conditions, and

M E NT AL DISORDERS

are right at the top

of the list

Currently, it is estimated that one out

of ten Americans is suffering from a

mental disorder. The statistics are

endless, brethren.

I

will not take

further space in this article to quote

the monstrous statistics available from

our

Ambassador College News Bureau.

The point can best be illustrated by

having

YOU look

at YOURSELF Wh at

about your own health? Do you feel

full of zest, vitality, zip and dr ive? Are

you the pictrue of radiant he alth? Does

your hair shine, do your cheeks glow

with a robust vitality? Does your body

feel full of life and

e n e rg y ?

D o

you

feel physically STRONG, mentally alert,

vibrantly A L I V E ?

I hope and pray

many of

our breth-

ren Do-but lets face it, most probably

D O N T

T h e n ,

look around you. What about

your own loved ones, your friends and

relatives? Undoubtedly you know

per-

sonally

of

MANY-perhaps in y o w

ow12

family-who have died of one

or

an-

other of the major chronic diseases af-

flicting such vast segments of our

population.

Yes, it truly IS a sick world.

Broken Laws Result in

Broken

Lives

Gods

Truc

Church knows the reason

WHY

the worlds most advanced

civilizations are suffering from such

hideous curses We have Lceii sliowii

the TRUTH that God Almighty is

our

H E A L E R .G o d is the great Lawgiver

and Judge. And God has also laid down

certain

physical Iauis

involving our

physical well-being and good health.


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Wide

W o r l d

Photo

This pictures mankinds pitiful state as he

continues to live contrary to the laws

of

health

the Creator set in motion.

However, these phy.c&l laws, though

applying basically to our diet and how

we act when we are sick, are also very

definitely S P I R I T U A L in principle.

When God laid a choicc before our

forefathers, He promised wonderful

ble.ssjngr for obeying His laws H e

promised we would be

a

people

FREE

from the botch and blight of Egypt,

from the childhood diseases, from

T h e

G O O D

NEWS

mental fear, anxiety, tension and worry.

He promised we would have healthy

children

Today, a God-rejecting world seeks

to the god of flies, Baalzebub, for de-

liverance from its physical and mental

afflictions.

But God reveals He will not only

bless us

by giving

us

good health,

through obedience to His laws-but

IF we make mistakes and commit a

physical sin against our own bodies, HE

is our Healer

Gods True Church

recognizes how

the world got th is way-knows

the

exact yeason for the staggering amount

of physical affliction in

our

nation, and

understands what God intends to do

about it in the future

Do

you realize, brethren, how vitally

IMPORTANT

to you, and to your loved

ones, it is

to

understand even this

ONE of the S E V E N major proofs of

Gods True C hurch? Think of the

MARVELOUS blessing of knowing our

Heavenly Father is also

our

H E A L E R

The churches of this world simply

do not KNOW the real cause of sick-

ness an d disease-nor do they know

how to be healed of their infirmities.

KNOWLEDGE, Not Nonsense

But, brethren of G ods Tru e Church

-some of Y O U , KNOWING this pre-

cious truth-have go ne to

extremes

in

matters of health.

Gods Church is NOT

a

Chnrch

nf

bug-eyed food fadists, plumb bobbers

and pill swallowers. Gods Church

should NOT be made

up

of those who

search through others cupboards trying

to spy white bread or white sugar

God s Church should

NOT

be composed

of those who must ladle wheat germ,

bone meal, cod liver oil

or

compressed

alfalfa onto every meal

God s Church should not be a

collection of food fanatics who dearly

LOVE to pass on the proverbial old

wives tales about how to get rid

of

this

or

that childhood rash, fever, or

disease-about how to eat this or that

during pirgiialicy-about how to diag-

nose and treat

anyth ing

from bunions

to bruises

And yet, brethren,

sornc

of YOU

absolutely

DO

fall into these categories

There literally HAVE BEE N, n times

June, 1964

past, those who plumb bobbed their

food.

I

mean-they actually pulled out

a little weight and a ball of string, held

the weight suspended by the string over

their plate of food-and tried to de

termine (or should

1

say divine

?

whether

or

not the food was good and

fit to eat by the direction in which the

plurrib bob swung back and forth

Others have thought the excremen

from ducks was an excellent salve fo

the removal of corns Still others havc

become convinced you should drink gal

lons of grape juice during pregnancy

e a t yogurt religiously;

cook

all mea

until it is roughly the consistency of

last years shoe leather; and above al

things, never use anything but .red salt

But WHY, brethren ?

Tr y as you may-whether you fin d

a formula for diet never heard of in

the remotest reaches of the nether val

leys of Nepal-you S I M P L Y CANNO

FIND A SHORT

C U T

T O

HEALTH

M E M BE RS OF GODS

T RUE

C H U R C H

KNOW IT

The True Church of God KNOWS th

most basic of all laws of health-the

revealed laws about clean and unclean

foods

One

of the most important proofs o

A L L is the right knowledge abou

H E A L T H , and about H E A L I N G Here

the vital reason.

God is

our

Healer. Thats one o

His very NAMES

And God

reveals

plainly, in Hi

Word, that healing is the forgivenes

of physical sin. Only GOD can forgiv

sin

ONLY

G O D

CAN H E A L

The

FIRST of

the Ten Command

ments says, Thou shalt have no othe

gods before me Th is great law, to

gether with the FOURTH commandmen

comprises the great

TEST

command

ment God laid before

our

ancient fore

fathers.

The Sabbath law is the identifyin

SIGN of every true Christian And

equally, the

SECOND

commandment-

again st IDOLATRY-points ou t

WHER

To

rely on A N Y foods, supplement

medicines, drugs, knives, OR E V E N O

FASTING, or

HEALING (AND

NON

EVER w r u HEA L ) I S TO BREAK

(Please continue

o n

page 22)

AR E

THE T R U E P EOP LE OF

GOD.

OF

THESE

CAN, EVER HAVE, U


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Fqteen Men Ordained

--

And Gods

Work

Grows

A

joyous

PENTECOST

was

recently obserued. And more

ordinations und GROWTH follow in its wake

by Roderick C. Meredith

E

DO

hear them speak in our

tongues the wonderfiil w o r k s

of God

(Acts

2 :11 ) .

Certainly the THOUSANDS of brethren

meeting around the world on this re-

cent Pentecost could say the same

From everywhere, reports come of

power fu l

preaching,

i m p i r e d

sermons

and record attendances this Pentecost,

1964.

Over three thoirJand met in the

beautiful Pasadena Civic Auditorium

with Gods Headquarters Church. Over

twen ty - one h imdred met at Chicago,

eighteen hmzdred

at Big Sandy and

three hzrndred three in far-off Aus-

tralia. Even down in South Africa, the

Feast attendance record was broken

when otie hurrdred

l i f l y - e i g h t

brethren

were present there for Pentecost.

Fifteen Ministers and

Elders Ordained

Jesus c o m m a n d s us : Pray ye there-

fore the Lord of the harvest, that he

will send forth labourers into his har-

vest

(Matt. 9 : 3 8 ) .

H a v e Y O U been praying for more

ministers

?

I f you have, your prayers are be ing

answered For m a n y m o r e servants of

Jesus Christ are qualifying for ordina-

tion at each Festival season.

Wh i l e Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong

was in New York on his way to

England, he was joined by Mr. Ray-

mond Cole in ordaining two Preaching

Elders. Mr. Guy Engelbart, already a

Local Elder, was elevated to Predching

Elder;

and Mr. Gary Antion was also

ordained to that rank.

This year, three men were ordained

o n the Day of Pentecost itself. They

were :

Mr.

Roy Holladay-Ambassador

graduate ordained as

Local Elder

by

Mr.

Jon IIill and Mr. Bill McDowell at

Pittsburgh. Mr. Jim Lichtenstein-an

Ambassador graduate ordained also as a

Local Elder

by Mr. Les McCullough

and

Mr.

Carlton Smith at Portland.

Then, Mr. Gary Arvidson-an Am er-

ican graduate of Ambassador College in

England was ordained as a full

Prearhjng

Elder

in

Gods

Church.

Mr.

Ken Swisher and

I

had the privilege of

performing this ordinat ion on the Day

of

Pentecost at Big Sandy.

Ordinations at Graduation Time

T h e

other tcri

ordinations took place

on the Sabbath before the Ambassador

graduation exercises in Pasadena. This

i b

oftcn done in the case of advanced

ministerial students who have proved

themselves in Christs service.

The fol lowing men were ordained to

the office of Local Elder at the Pasa-

dena Headquarters Church on the Sab-

bath

of

May 30,

1964:

Mr. Elbert

Atlas, Mr. Paul Flatt , Mr. Roy Page,

Mr. Paul Royer, Mr. Walter Sharp, Mr.

From left to right: Mr. Antion,

Mr.

Arvidron, Mr. Engelbart-all recently ordained

l o

the rank o f Preaching Elder

i n

the Church of God.


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Ordained at groduation as Locol Eiders, left to right: Mesrrs. Kemnitr, White, Flatt, Sharp, and Page.

Robert Spence, and MI. Gltii

White.

Then, to the added rejoicing of every-

one, Mr. Howard Clark was ordained

as a f u l l P r e c i ~ h i i z ~ y

l d ~ v , n Cods

Church.

Meanwhile, in El Monte, Mr. Les

McCullough

ordainrd Mr. Bill

Rapp as

a

L ocd

Elilcr. there. And on Monday

following, after he returned from his

honeymoon over the weekend, the

Evangelists at Pasadena joined in Mr.

Ted Armstrongs office to ordain Mr.

George Kemnitz as a Lor-nl Eldet, along

with the other leading Ambassador

graduates.

So now, Christ has placed i n His

Church a total of

oiie

h/ozdr.ed

f i f t e e / z

ordained ministers

and

elders to serve

His people

This may not sotind like many to

some of you newer brethren, but it

means a great deal to many of us

uldci

i n i i i i b l a b a i d bietlireii-arid to

me personally. For I well remember

that there were far less than I 1 5

brdww-not

to

speak

of

ministers-

in attendance even at the Feast of

Tabernacles when I first started at-

tending

in

1949 So let us give God

THANKS for providing these ministers

-and r~rmember~o p r q

for

each of

thrrn and their responsibilities in His

service

Deacons and Deaconesses Ordained

Although

you

brethren can all ap-

preciate the impossibility-in Gods

growing Church-of describing the

ordinations of all the Deacons and

L)eaconesses in every local church, I

would like to mention two such

or -

dinations here because they are firsts

in far-flung areas of the earth.

First of all, then, I would like to

report the ordination

of Mrs.

Howard

Silcox as the fii..rt DracoizeJs to be or-

dained in the British Isles. Mr. Silcox

is already a Deacon, and he and

his

wife were among the early pioneer

members of the London Church and

have been attending and assisting zeal-

ously since early in 1957.

In addition to all of our brethren in

Britain,

iiiaiiy u l

ub l r ~ i

ere in the

States know and love Mrs. Silcox and

we can all say to her: CougTatzila-

t i o m , and Godspeed in your new of-

fice of service in Christs body

Mr. Bill Winner, pastor of Gods

Church

in

Melbourne, Aust ra l ia , re-

ports on the ordination of the first

Deacon in this church on the Day of

Pentecost: An additional,

zooizdetfd

blessing the Melbourne Church was

able to experience this Feast was the

ordination of its

first Dencoiz,

Mr.

David Neil. The blessing of beautiful

weather for Gods Holy Day was also

appreciated. A total of

195

attended the

all-day services and rejoiced in the

multiple blessings God poured out

upon us this Pentecost season.

A

word about

Mr.

Neil, recently

ordained Deacon: Prior to being added

to Gods Church in

1960,

Mr. Neil


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June, 1964

The

GOOD NEWS

7

served as a Troop Commander (hold-

ing office of Lieutenant) in the C.M.F.

(Citizen Military Forces) here in Mel-

bourne. He was the first f rom Mel-

bourne to be baptized and he and his

wife were among those observing the

first Passover, Pentecost and Feast of

Tabernacles in Australia.

Since coming into Gods Church,

Mr. Neil has developed into

a

strong

leader among his fellow brethren in

Melbourne and has gained their love

and respect. We thank God for now

or-

daining him a Deacon in His Church.

Overseas Baptizing Tours

This March, a most rewarding and

inspiring baptizing tour in New Zea-

land was conducted by Mr. Frank

Simpkins and Mr. Dexter Faulkner. A

total of eighty-two contacts was made,

including visits to interested persons

and members. Fifty of these met the

team fo r baptism counseling and a final

total of exactly

twr / z t~~-u / ze

ere bap-

tized and added to the body of Christ

The team covered a major portion of

both North and South Islands, and

were able to counsel and encourage

many scattered listeners who will un-

doubtedly be baptized later.

In addition, Mr. Bill Winner-Gods

minister in charge of the Melbourne

Churcli-rrcrritly curiducted the fzvst

known baptizing tour by one of Gods

ministers to the island of Tasmania.

Mr. Winner reports: God now has

a handful of His own people in Tas-

mania. The addition of

.rix

people to

the Ludy

uf

Cliribt with riiade possible by

a recent tour of the island by my wife

and me.

Leaving the evening of March

9 ,

we

boarded the Princess of Tasmania bound

for Devonport. After a very rough

night rrossirig Bam Strait we were in-

deed happy to set our feet on stable

land once again.

Probably

ncvcr

bcforc in the his-

tory of Gods Church has God had a

small group of His begotten children in

this area of the world. Just

as

the Scrip-

tures say, God is calling only a little

flock to be heirs of His Kingdom dur-

i n g this

present

age. Six

is not a

very

impressive number, but thinking in

terms of

six

potential Gods, it staggers

the imagination. Let us all thank God

for our new brethren in Tasmania.

German

Baptizing Tour

From the other side of the

world,

in Europe, Mr. Ronald Kelly reports

11

a Gr /~zn iz aptizing tour he is taking

accompanied

by

Mr. Frank Schnee-

Manager of our German office in Dues-

seldorf: Herr Schnee and I have had

a very fine trip so far. Everything has

gone exceptionally well. W e have been

in Switzerland today driving into parts

the tourists never see. It is really beau-

tiful here-I wonder if America is like

this now in the spring. Where weve

traveled today reminded me much of

Colorado.

Here are the statistics so far-for

the first week. Only one person did not

meet us-she had gone to the hospital

just a few days before we came.

We

met

twenty-four people, three were bap-

tized. But we could only count four-

teen or fifteen of those people as hav-

ing actually asked for baptism. The

others did not want to be baptized,

just to ask questions. So three out

of

fifteen were baptized and we visited

nine who wanted help.

We ieel a gICdt deal has been ac-

complished in many ways this week.

Many were helped and we hope a few

of these will be baptized in the future.

One thing you really see here is the

deceptioiz of the churches. It is so much

more than in America. Almost every

visit we make they ask what the Catho-

lic Church

or

Lutheran Church will

think if they leave. And did you know

members of the Lutheran Church H A V E

TO PAY TO GET OUT OF THE CHURCH?

They charge

Lwu

hundred Deutsche

marks (over fifty dollars ) to let some-

one go. And some people we met

have been afraid

to

Icavc-though still

others have paid the amount to get out.

That is

tlir biggest

piubleiii we

face-these people are really deceived

and they need

a

leader to guide them

very badly. They believe thc truth, but

the worldly churches have scared them

into not obeying the truth. The big

question is: Who will bury us if we

leave the church? The ministers say

they will not, and that we have no

ASTONISHING

ministers for the funeral. The people

are not smart enough in most cases to

know that when they are dead i t

mnkes

110 d i f f e r e m e

It sure makes one real-

ize even more than ever why God

mulst

inter.ueize

and why Christ

t m s t

set

thi.r

w oi l d

JII-aiXhl

Brethren, I enclosed as much of Mr.

Kellys direct report as I did

so

that

you may understand the problem faced

by many of our new converts in Europe

and remember to P R A Y

FOR

THEM-

and for the German baptizing tvui and

the French baptizing tour soon to

begin

FIVE Baptizing Tours in

the US. and Canada

Here in North America, Mi-. Dean

Wilson-Director over the Canadian

office and pastor of Gods Church in

Vancouvei-will coIiduct

a

short Ca-

nadian baptizing tour assisted by Mr.

Ron Miller, Ambassador College grad-

uate. On this tour, he will be able to

reach most of those requesting baptism

in Western Canada and to become per-

sonally acquainted with many scattered

brethren who may be able to attend the

annual Festivals from time to time.

A short Negro baptizing and visiting

tour is now being conducted by Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Bass. Mr. Bass-an

ordained F l d r r

in

Gods Church-re-

Mr. Howard C la rk, newly o rda ined Preach ing

Elder.


8/24

8

The

G O O D NEWS

June,

1964

Mr. Roy Hol laday, Local Elder.

Flatt-assisted by Mr. Dennis Pyle-

who will be covering basically the

Rocky Mountain and Plains State areas

where we have no churches.

These tours are just now getting un-

der way,

so

no reports are in as yet.

But they will bc visiting h m d r e d s of

prospective members of Christs body,

driving thousands of miles, and will be

in mnny unusual and difficult situations

before the summer is over.

So

R E -

M E M B E R to pray for these baptizing

tours-and for the others which will

be conducted in Great Britain and other

parts of the world

Fantastic

GROWTH

continues to

he

almost the order of the day in most

of

our local churches and several more

Mr. Jim Lichtenrtein, Local Elder.

cently spent this last school year at

Ambassador College in Pasadena for

special ministerial training. Hc and his

wife will be able to baptize those re-

questing it in the southern part

of

the

United States and thus perhaps avoid

tronble and persectction which might

result

if

white tours attempted to do

t h i s

at

t h i s time. Also, he will be able

to visit and encourage many of

our

scattered Negro brethren in this area.

Th e regular nation-wide tours are

being conducted this year by Mr. Frank

McCrady-accompanied by M r. Dick

Arnes-who will cover the southeastern

section of the United States; Mr. Hal

Baird-assisted by M r. Joh n Pruner-

who will primarily cover the north-

eastern section of the United States

and up into Eastern Canada; Mr. Paul

Mr . Wi l l iam Rapp, Local Elder.

new churches

are already in the plan-

ning stage

P l a n s f o r M o r e

New

Churches

Recent high attendances in some of

the local churches include 452 in St.

Louis,

410

in Akron, Ohio, and

360

in the still relatively new church in

Greensboro, No rth Carolina Also,

I

understand that our burgeoning church

in New York City had 604 in at-

tendance recently It will soon have to

split into

I W O

churches-in orde r to

provide adequate hall facilities.

Within a few weeks, the new Bible

study in Ashcville, North Carolina, is

slated to become a

ftdl

church-with

Mr.

Gary Arvidson moving there to act

as co-pastor with Mr. Richard Plache

in this new congregation.

Also, in the eastern area, Mr. Ray-

M r .

Paul

Royer, Local Elder.

mond Cole-District Superintendent-

and Mr. Guy Engelbart plan to convert

the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Bible

study into a regular church yet this

month .

To eliminate confusion, and most of

all to acquire better hall facilities, our

other Har risbu rg congregation-this

onc in Illinois-has moved i h

iiieetirig

place to Evansville, Indi ana A very

fine hall has been secured there by

Mr.

Hal Baird,

and

this new location with

finer facilities as well should cause the

congregation to increase in size within

a

short period

of

time.

On the four th of July, Mr. Ben

Chapman-co-pastor of the Dallas

Church-will preside over a planned

split in his congregation. This split

( P lease con t iwe 012 page 13)

Mr.

Robert Spence,

local

Elder.


9/24

The

U G LY

CHRISTIAN

M a n y

h r e t h r m

without renlixing it

f nto

the category

of

being Ugly Christians DO Y O U ? Here, from a member of

the Letter Answering Department sta ff-which handles N U N -

DREDS of

letters dealing with these problems-comes

in f o r -

mation

FEW

years ago, a book came out

on the market entitled The

Ugly

Aniei,icnii.

Perhaps you read it.

It was the gripping story of what is

WRONG

with American foreign policy.

This eye-opening book revealed the stark

fact that Americans themselves, are the

worst feature of United States foreign

policy. T he conduct of American citizens

traveling abroad gives America a black

e l e in the sight of peoples everywhere-

in Europe, the Midd le East, South A mer-

ica, and Asia

But what about

YOU

? In your conduct

before the world, do you give

Gods

Church

a B L A C K E Y E ? Do you strike

people as being weird, oddball, crazy,

or fanatical

?

What kind of A M B A S S A D O R for Jesus

Christ and the Kingdom of God A R E

Y O U ?

Too many of God s people are

falling down in this vitally important

ma tter It is time we understood how

to be a

GOOD

representative of the King-

dom of God

A

W h a t

Do You

M ean , U g l y ?

The word

U G L Y

is a vivid, gruesome,

word. Nobody wants to look at some-

thing that is ngl j f . Things which are

ngl) ,

are

repulsive-repN~?za?zt-LOATH-

What, then, is an

n g l y

Chiist ian?

Hare you ever heard people comment,

If

he

is

a

Christian, then I dont want

anything to do with it

Or,

If that is

a sample of Christian conduct, you can

have it. Its not for me Such a person

would qualify

as

an

ng ly

Christiaiz-a

Christian who is not R E A L L Y following

Christ

o r

imitating His perfect example

It is a supposed

member

who is

SELF-

WILLED

A N D

OBNOXIOUS

before God

and toward other people

Why do worldly people sometimes

utter such disgusted comments, referring

SOME

you

need

7

know-A$D PRACTICE

by

B i l l D an k en b r i n g

to some

of

Gods people? The answer

is simple. Some of

us

have

not

been

sett ing the

RIGHT

example before the

world Some, just like the Ug ly Ameri-

can, have offended unconverted peo-

ple by ill manners, self-righteous con-

duct, ostentatious display of being reli-

gious, and

dmost

t o t d luck of ulisdonz

Many Americans traveling in foreign

lands treat the people as local yokels

nr

nnimportant nobodies. They love

to

display their riches, lavishly buying

gaudy trinkets. They complain loudly

when

they think the price

of a

particu-

lar item is too high And, because

of

these thoughtless actions, many for-

eigners

Ante

the sight of

our

people

I KNOW

Having lived in the Orient.

The fact that Asians despise Americans

with their big, shiny cars and fat wallets

was vividly impressed on my mind. It is

not uncommon for Americans to walk

down the streets of cities in Formosa

and hear oaths and curses muttered-

or even shouted-as they go past.

But, brethren-are we ma king the

.rume mistake in

O U R

dealings with the

unconverted people

of

the wor ld? Do

some

of

us tend to parade o ur self-right-

eousness before people?

Do

we boast

and brag about the

new truth

God has

revealed to us and give the impression

we think we are som ething special? Do

we loudly complain when restaurant

waiters mix

up

our

order s? W hen ea t ing

in the homes of unconverted friends

or

relatives, do we always strive to bring

the conversation around to

re l ig ion?

If

pork happens to be served at dinner, do

we haughtily declare, D ont you know

pork is not fit to be eaten? Pork is

znclean-the Bible says

so

If

the answer is Y E S to any of those

questions, then you should think serious-

ly and ask yourself--What kind of

Christ ian am I?

Let Your LIGHT

Shine

Lets notice what Jesus Christ had

to say about

Christiun

conduct .

During

the Sermon on the Mount, Christ ad-

monished His followers,

Y e

are the

light of the world. A city that is set on

an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men

light a candle, and put it under a bushel,

but on a candlestick; and it giveth light

unto all that are in the house (Matt.

5 :14-1

) . Yes,

as C h i s t i a m ,

we are the

LIGHT

of this sin-da rkene d, corrupt and

wicked world W e are the ONLY light

this world has ever kno wn But, lets

read on.

Let your

LIGHT

so

shine

before men,

that they may

see

your

g o o d

ulorhs , and

glorify your Father which is in heaven

(Verse

16).

As followers of Christ,

brethren, W E HAVE A J OB

TO

DO We

have a commission-to let our light

SHINE H o w ? I n

good

works By show -

ing love to our neighbor, giving

assist-

ance when needed, lending a helping

hand. If it were not for the people of

God,

this world would be

in

pitch dark-

ness

When a person enters a room and

flips a switch, a light turns on and il-

luminates the entire room. It is a helpful,

pleasing light. That is the kind of light

we should be But too many are

so

weak

in the faith that they barely give any

light whatsoever-just

a

feeble flicker.

When an unconverted person sees them,

he is hardly aware of the light Such

a

Christian has not fully come OUT of this

world and its pagan ways

Others go to the

opposi te

extreme.

Rather than flooding the room with wel-

come light, they

act

like HUGE

BLIND

ING SPOTLIGHTS

When an uncon-

verted person sees them, he wants to

either shut them off or run and hide

God Almighty, our Father in Heaven,

wants us to live BALANCED,O RMAL


10/24

1 0 T h e G O O D N E W S

June,

1964

Christian lives. H e does not wa nt us to

be weak lights, failing to live the way

we profess. Neither does He want us to

becorr~e fa i in t icd e.r.trwmst.r

laring

spotlights-who give peo ple the impres-

sion that true Christianity is some weird

scct o r o//t lcii idjsh cult

Jesus said,

L o w

your enemies, bless

them that curse you, do good to them

that hate

you,

and pray for them which

despitefully use you, and persecute you;

That ye may he the CHILDREN of your

Father which is in heaven: for he

maketh his sun to rise on the evil and o n

the good, and sendeth rain on the just

and on the unjus t (Matt . 5 :44-45) .

What about y o u ? Do you love the

people of this world---people who are

ignorant of the laws of health, ignorant

of Go ds perfect way of life,

TOTALLY

ignorant of

hozu

to h e , th e

p tupose

of

life-people whose lives are all mixed

up, frustrated, miserable and wretched ?

Do you feel

COMPASSION

for the multi-

tudes, as Christ-our example-did?

W h e n I O N chance to meet an uncon-

verted stranger, what is your reaction?

Do you fearfully ignore him, afraid he

might f ind out

you

are a Chris t ian?

Or

do

you

despise him, because he doesnt

have the t ruth you have? What .rhodd

you do Chris t said

LOVE

even your

enemies W e should show lozw, warmth ,

and

f i ~ i e td l i ness

whenever we meet un-

converted people

T h a t is the kind

of

l ight we are to

he

Too M u c h T a l k

One mistake many people in Gods

Church make when around unconverted

people is, THEY TALK TOO Mum H o w

many times have p i got ten into hot

water because you opened your mouth

when you shouldnt have?

How

many

times have you said things which you

later regretted?

One th ing

we

often fail to remember

about being a Christian LIGHT, is that a

I i ~ ~ h thines forth and illuminates. It

is sihtzt-it does not ma ke a

SOUND

Ponder that a while. A light is i i o t A

T R U M P E T

It is a silent, cJn/iet,

hining

WITNESS Gods

people

should be shin-

ing /i


11/24

Peter Was

The

First

NOT

Pope

Here are T E N solid, Biblical proofs that Peter

toas

not at R o m e .

Mark each in your Bible and understand them

w e l l , so Y O U

udl not be deceived.

by

Erne s t

L.

M a r t i n

H E P R I M A C Y of t he R oma n C a th -

ol ic Church depends upon o m

fundamenta l doctr ine : the c la im

that Peter

was

the f i rs t Bishop of Rome

a nd the founde r

of

t he R oma n C hurc h .

The t e a c h ing

of

Cntholir.

historians

tells us t ha t S imon Pe tc r we n t to R ome

at the same t ime

as

Simon Magus in

order to thwart h is evi ls . This was

dur ing the re ign of Claudius . After

successfully combating the Magus, they

tell us, Peter assumed the Roman bish-

opric and ruled i t unt i l the Neronian

persecutions of 68 A.D., dur ing wh ic h

Peter was supposed to have been cruci-

f ied ups ide down on Vat ican hi l l . This

is t he basic stoiy

aiicl

Catliulic w r i t e r s

never shirk in a t tempting to defend i t.

Some

of

them say that this general ac-

count is one

of

the mos t provable of

historical events.

h t .r it?

The fact remains, many ecclesiastical

a u tho rs of the second century, Justin

Martyr among them, give informat ion

complete ly

m g a h g Peter 's supposed

Roman bishopric. This is admitted by

virtually all scholars-except conserva-

tive Catholics ( E q . Biblica, col.

4 5 5 4 ) . B ut more impor ta n t t ha n

this , the records

of

t he True C hurc h o f

God-the writings of t he Ne w Te s ta -

ment bsolute ly refute the Rom an

Catholic claim.

I t is t i m r

t h a t

t h e world gets its

eyes open to the t ru th

of

this matter-

the t ru th , which is clearly revealed in

t h e W o r d of God. The Apos t l e Pe te r

was N E V E R the Bishop of R ome

The

B i b l e T e a c h i n g

T h e r e a re t e n ma jo r Ne w Te s ta me n t

proofs which comple te ly disprove the

c la im tha t Pe ter was in Rome from the

t ime of Claudius to Nero. These Bibl i -

cal points speak for themselves and

A N Y ONE of them is sufficient to prove

the ridiculousness of the Catholic claim.

Not ic e wha t God t e ll s u s Th e t ru th

is conclusive

P R O O F ONE W e s hou ld c ons ide r

This i s o wide-angle general view of St. Peter s Square. The very name

i s i n

error-the Apost le Peter was never here-read the proo f in

this

article.

Wide

Wor ld

Photc.


12/24

1 2 T h e

GOOD

NEWS June, 1964

name important Apostles in his narra-

tion of Acts. But he says noth ing of

Peters meeting with

Paul.

Why?

Because Peter was not in

Rome

PROO F SE VE N. When Paul f inally

arrived at Rome, the first thing he did

was to summon the chief

of

the Jews

together (Acts 28:17) to whom he

expounded and testified the kingdom

of God (Verse

2 3 ) .

But what is amazing is that these

chief Jewish elders claimed they knew

very little even about the basic teach-

ings

o f

Christ. All they knew was that

as concerning this sect, we know that

everywhere it is spoken against (Verse

2 2 ) . Then Paul began

to

explain to

them the basic teachings of Christ on

the Kingdom of God. Some believed-

the majority didnt.

Now, what does all this mean? It

means that if Peter, who was himself

a

strongly partisan Jew, had been

preaching constantly in Rome for

14

long years before this time,

AhTD

WAS STILL THERE-how could

these Jewish leaders have known so

little about even the basic truths of

Chr istianity ? Th is again is clear proof

Peter had not been in Rome prior to

59 A .D .

Christs

commission

t o Pete ). This is

often very embarrassing to Catholics,

because Christ commissioned Peter to

become chief minister to the C I R C U M -

CISED, not to uncircumcised Gentiles.

T he gospe l o f th e CIRCUMCISION

ziaJ. T I ~ Z I OPeter;

(For he that wrought

effectually in Peter

to the apost leship

of

the cirwmcis ion, the same was

mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

(Gal . 2 : 7 - 8 ) .

Here we have it in the clearest of

language. It was P a d , NOT Peter, who

was commissioned to be the chief

Apostle to the Gentiles. And who was

it that wrote the Epistle to the

RO-

MANS? I t certrzitzly WASNT Peter

And when James, Cephas [Peter),

and John, who seemed to be pillars,

perceived the grace [i.e. the gift or

office] that was given un to me, they

gave to me and Barnabas the right

hands of fellowship; that w e should

go

m t o the Gentiles,

and they unto the

circumcision (Gal. 2

: 9 ) .

Paul further mentioned his special

office

as

the Gentile Apostle in I

Timothy 1

11

:

W h e r e u n t o I a m a p p o i n t e d

a

preacher, and atz apostle, and a teacher

of

the Gentiles.

P E T E R

j, NOWHERE called the

Apos -

t le to the Genti les This precludes him

from going to Rome to become the

head of

a

Gentile community.

PROO F T w o : Paul specif ical ly told

the Gentile Romans that HE had been

chosen to be their Apostle, not Peter.

I

should be the minister of Jesus

Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the

gospel

ol

God, rhdt the offevi izg z ip of

the Getitiles

might

be acceptable

(Rom. 15:16) .

How clear

Paul had the direct charge f r o m

Christ in this matter. H e even further

relates in Romans

15:18

that it was

Christ who had chosen him

t o

make

the

Gentiles obedieizt,

by

word and

deed.

PAUL Es tabl i shed Only

TRUE

Church

at

Rome

PROOF H R E E :W e are told by Paul

himself tha t it was he-not Peter-

who was going to officially f o m d the

Roman Church.

I

long to see you, that

I

may im-

part unto you some spiritual gift, to

the end ye may be established (Rom.

1 : l l .

Amazing Th e Church at Rome had

not been ESTABLISHED officially even

by

5 5

or

56

A.D. However, the Cath-

olics would have

us

believe that Peter

had done this some ten years before-

in the reign of Claudius. What non-

sense

Of course you understand that NEI-

T H E R Peter nor Paul

established the

Catholic Churc h But these proofs are

given to illustrate that it is utterly im-

possible for P ET ER o have been in any

way associated with

A N Y

Church at

Rome.

PROOFFOUR:

W e find Paul not

only wanting to establish the Church at

Rome, but he emphatically tells us that

his policy was

N E V E R

to build upon

another mans foundation.

Yea, so have I strived to preach

the gospel, not

where

Christ was

fzamed,

M A N S FOUNDATION (Rom. 1 5

20).

If Peter had founded the Roman

Church some ten years heforc this state-

ment, this represents a real affront to

Peter. This statement alone is proof that

Peter had never heen in Rome before

this time to found any church.

TEST

1 SHOULD

BUILD U P O N A N O TI I ER

Peter

Not

in

R o m e

PROOF FIVE: At the end of Pauls

Epistle to the Romans he greets no

fewer than

28

different individuals, but

tzeuer

meiitiotis Peter once See Romans

16-read the wh ole chapter

Remember,

P a d

greeted these peo-

ple in 5 5 or 56 A.D. Why didnt he

mention Peter? -Peter simply zoasnt

there

Some four years after

Paul wrote Romans, he was conveyed

as

a

prisoner to

R o m e

in order to

stand trial before Caesar. When the

Christian community in Rome heard

of

Pauls arrival, they all went to meet

him.

Wh e n THE brethren

[of

Rome]

heard of us. they came to meet

11q

(Acts 2 8 : 1 5 ) .

Again, there is not a single mention

of Peter among them. This

would

have

been extraordinary had Peter been in

Rome, for Luke always mentions by

PROOF

SIX:

No

Mention

of

Peter

in Pauls Letters

PROO F EIG HT: After the rejection

of the Jewish elders, Paul remained in

his own hired house for two years.

During that time he wrote Epistles to

the Ephesians, the Philippians, the

Colossians, Philemon, and to the He-

brews. And while Paul mentions others

as

being

in Rome during that period,

he nowhere mentions Peter. The ob-

vious reason is- the Apostle to the

circumcision wasnt

thtre

With the expiration

of Pauls two years imprisonment, he

was released. But about four years later

(near

65

A. D. ), he was again sent back

a prisoner to Rome. This time he had

to appear before the throne of Caesar

and was sentenced to die. Paul describes

these circumstances at length in I1

Timothy.

In regard to h i s t r i a l , no t i ce

PROOF

NINE

(Please contitziie 011 page 24)


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June, 1964 T h e G O O D N E W S

1 3

The Bible

Answers Your Questions

I

lease address any quest ions YOU would l ike answered

i n t h i s c o l u m n to t h e E d i t o r.

I

W h a t g o o d d o m y p r ay er s d o

f o r o t h e r s a n d t h e W o r k o f

God? W o n t God intervene

whether

I

pray

or

n o t ?

Perhaps YOIJ

ike

this reader

dont realize the real IMPORTANCE or

N E E D for yoiw persoiial prayer.s or

others, for yourself, and

for

the

Wor k

of God.

Perhaps

yoii

have been

neglectitzg

prayer as a result-not fully real iz ing

how

dangeroils

it is to do

so.

Perhaps

you d ont believe that one man s prayers

-especially yours-will ma ke any d if -

ference.

But

y o i u Bible

says they will

I n N u m b er s 1 4 : l l - 1 6 G o d gives 11s a

living example of how

ef fect ive

one

mans prayers can be. Notice: Israel

had rebelled over and over again until

God-a mer ciful an d lovin g God-was

R I G H T E O U S L Y A N G R Y . God was going

to D E S TR O Y Israel-the whole na-

tion H e asked Moses . , .

HOW

LONG

will this people provoke me? . . . I

will smite them with the pestilence, and

disinherit them, and

will

make of

THEE

a greater nation and mightier than

they.

Realize-this was GO D speaking, not

a mere man, God had the POWER to

bring about what H e said, and H e

said H e was going to destroy Israel-

all of it

But what happened?

Moses ust one hum an being

prayed for Israel. H e pleaded for them

(Verses 1 5-1 9). H e presented the

whole situation before God and

asked

God to have mrrrj .

Moses was

ONE

MAN. But notice

what God did because of this one mans

prayers

:

And the Lord said, I HAVE

PAR-

D O N E D

AC C OR DI NG

TO

THY WORD

(Verse 2 0 ) .

God heard

and aimcer~rd Moses

prayer for Israel. Yet I F Moses HADNT

prayed, Israel would have been D E -

STROYED.

That one prayer

was

IMPOR-

T A N T .

For another example notice James

5 : 1 7 ,

Elias was A M A N subject to like

passions

AS WE A R E .

.

. Elijah of the

Old Testament was a weak human be-

ing-weak of himself as you an d I are

-but did he use that as U N exciise for

not pra ying ? Did he say, Im just a

weak human being. What good could

my prayers do? I guess Ill just not

p r a y ? N o

Notice, . . . and he prayed EAR -

NESTLY

that it might not rain

. . .

A N D

IT R AI NE D N O T . .

.

God heard and answered this one

mans prayer. How important that

prayel was

lo God

G o d

acted

upon

i t . He

intervened B E C A U S E

of it.

Y O U R P R AYER S are just that impor-

tant. God will hcar and Le5peCl yvui

prayer for your sick husband

or

wife or

children. He will

interveize ONLY I F

we

pray.

He

WILL

answer

whea

we

pray

for

the financial standing of Gods

Work, for the opening of new

Churrhes,

for The WQRLD

OMORROW

broadcast, for the publishing

of

T h e

P L A I N TRUTH agazine, and for the

spreading

of

this vital endtime mes-

sage

to

the world.

needed

YOUR

P E R S O N A L

P R A Y E R S

ARE

You

have of t en ment ioned I

Thessalonians 5:21 o v e r t h e

radio, te l l ing your l is teners

to

prove al l things . How does

o n e p r o v e a l l t h i n g s ?

God has so writ ten His Word, the

Bible, that you can PROVE it

to

be

true.

There are two basic

ways

to prove

all things-two ways to be sure your

beliefs are based upon .rcriptziral fact

and not the vain i deas of men.

Th e Bible includes many definite pre-

dictions about

future events.

These

prophecies, and the historical records

that accompany them, have been so

written that you can see God is stand-

Gods Work Grows

(Contit ined from page

8 )

Mr. Elbert

Atlas,

Local Elder.

has full approval from Headquarters

For it is adding an additional local

church in Fort Worth, Texas. to help

solve the overcrowded condition in Dal-

las and enable many brethren from west

of

Fort Worth to attend regularly.

Brethren, the Living CHRIST is com-

pletely otz the job this summer in

guid ing His Work

As

the long sum-

mer days arrive, let us gird up our

loins and U S E them in the service of

our

GOD.

Let us not bog down

or

be-

come listless. Let us not become weary

in well doing, but U S E the long sum-

mer hours for extra prayer, extra Bible

study and ex t i z service and encourage-

ment to our fellow brethren.

Let us

GIVE

of ourselves-pay f o r

uiie amdw.--and make this summers

spiritual harvest the

GREATEST

in the

modern history of Go ds Church

ing behind His Word, and that these

prophecies have been and continue to

be

fulfilled. (If

you

dont already have

our free booklet The Proo f of the

Bible, write for it immediately ) But

checking Bible prophccics in an

aca-

demic way is only one method to prove

all things. You can prove all things

in nnotker. way

The

K E Y lies in the

word, prove used in I Thessalonians

5 : 2 1 .

-

Lets understand

In Luke 14:19, you will find the

very same Greek word

used and trans-


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GOOD NEWS

June, 1964

lated prove. Luke

is

writing of a

man making the excuse that he must

prove five yoke of oxen, and cannot

at tend the great supper

of

the par-

able. Th e word pro ve is translated

from the Greek word dokimazo and

means, to test by doing. This man

was going out into the f ie ld, and put

his new oxen to the test-to test them

by putting them to work

I Thessalonians

5 :2 1

challenges you

to prove G ods W ord by pi i t ting

it

to the test

Notice in Malachi

3:10

he Hebrew

counterpart of this Greek word is used.

The Hebrew word for prove here

is,

bachaiz

and means to try or test

by doing. This is Gods challeitge to

the skeptic or doubter Read i t Bring

ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that

there may be meat in mine house, and

PROVE MI: now herewith, saith thc

Eternal of hosts,

if

I will not open you

the windows of heaven, and pour you

out

a

blessing, that there shall not be

room enoug h to receive it . W e prove

this tithing law by putting it to the

test

This is the SECOND way to

PROVE

A L L

THINGS

Acts 17:11 gives the concrete ex-

ample of how the Berean converts

proved all things. Lets receive the

instruction

we

find in their attitude of

study.

What was it that the Bereans

stud ied? They did n ot study the ideas

of men about the Bible, or the tradi-

tion of their pag an ancestors hey

studied the SCRIPTURES

DAILY

They

studied the O l d

Testament

scriptures.

N o other scriptures were available at

that time.

How did the Bereans s tudy? Their

approach to the Bible was not tzega-

tive-sccking to fitzd far& with Gods

Word. They were open-minded, wil l -

ing to put the Bible to an honest test.

Read Lukes evaluation of them , Thes e

were MORE NOBLE than those in Thes-

salonica, in that they received the word

with

ALL R E A D I N E S S OF

M I N D ,

and searched the scriptures daily,

whether those th ings

W E R E

SO (Acts

1 7 : l l ) .

The Bereans sought the plain t ruth

with a positive attitude. They were will-

ing to accept the Bible which was writ-

ten for our instruction, correction and

reproof (I1 Tim. 3:16).

In 1 lhessalonians 5:21 God chal-

lenges y ou to tes t His Word as these

Bereans did by putting it into ACTION

in your l i f e

The skeptic doesnt believe

in

an-

swered prayer, because he has never

had prayer answered for him.

You

cant understand the ECONOMY of tith-

ing until you begin to tithe and

S E E

Some of Gods Wo rd must be tested

by putting it into action, by taking it

out to the field to see whether

or

not

it will work in a down-to-earth situa-

tion.

God

challenges

yoid to put His Bible

to the TEST

If you have the corirage and the

f a i t h to act

as

the Bereans did, then it

can be written of you, therefore

MANY

OF

THEM

B E L I E V E D (Acts 17:12)

IT WORK

My t e e n - a g e d a u g h t e r h a s

asked me, If t ime is so shor t ,

w h y not l ive it u p n o w ? I wont

be he re to have a marr i age and

chi ldren. Wel l a l l be s laves .

Wh a t s t h e u s e of missing every-

t h i n g ? How should I answer

her

?

Many teen-agers have voiced the

same question. They look about at

world conditions, they may understand

a few Bible prophecies, and they as-

sume that everything is hopeless-we

are all UUUMEL) Calamity is coming

and there is n o escape

However, there is a fatal flaw in

such reasoning. What such an indi-

vidual does not understand is that God

Almighty is bringing punishment upon

our nation for a REASON-and, fo r

those who

act,

God has provided a way

of escape

God is going to punish this nation

because of SIN Jeremiah wrote, All

thy lovers have forgotten thee; they

seek thee

not;

for I have wounded thee

with the wound of at2 etzemy, with the

chastisement of a cruel one, for the

MULTITUDE

of thine iaiyui ty; because

thy S I N S w ere increased ( Je r . 30 :14) .

Yes, it is this very attitude of Lets

get our kicks now which is bringing

Divine retribution upon this nation.

Many people, especially teen-agers,

think that sin is fun. They think that

if they d on t get their kicks, they

are missing out on something Yet

Gods Wo rd shows that sin is

EVIL,

filthy, rotten and leads to empty, miser-

able, frustrated lives.

lhis attitud e of Eat, dri nk , and be

merry, for tomorrow we die is ramp-

ant in the United States. And it wa.r

prophesied / Isaiah was inspired to

write, And in that day did the Lord

God of hosts call to weeping, and to

mourning, and to baldness, and to gird-

ing with sackcloth: And behold joy and

gladness, slaying oxen, and killing

sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:

L E T US E A T A N D DRINK; FOR TOMOR-

ROW WE

S H A L L D I E

(ha . 22112-13) .

Instead of repenting at Gods warn-

ing message, instead of fearin g to con-

tinue living in SI N, people are eating,

drinking, dancing, trying to have

a

good time and get their kicks

Instead

of

looking at the dire

P E R I L

stalking the world, penple turn

away

their eyes and seek their own fleshly

pleasures.

It was the same way before the Flood

of Noahs time. Jesus Christ said,

For

as in the days that were before the

flood they were eating and drinking,

marrying and giving in marriage, until

the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And k n e w not until the flood came,

and took them all away;

SO

S H A L L

ALSO

the coming of the Son

of

man be

(Matt . 24:38-39). And i t was the i a m e

way in the days of Lot, when God

rained fire and brimstone from heaven

to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for

their wickedness (L uke 1 7 28- 29) . So

i t always

has beetz

when nations faced

Divine judgment

W hy not l ive i t up n ow ? The an-

swer is very simple. Living it up now,

plunging headlong, heedlessly on into

sin, and refusing to REPENT is the w r y

th ing which

is B R I NGI NG

destrzirtioiz

atid piitzishmetzt ybotz this laud The

011ly way

to escape these punishments is

to STOP living it up now, repent, and

turn to G OD in utter hum ility

(Luke

1 3 : 3 , 5 ) . G o d warns his people through

the Prophet Ezekiel, . . . turn ye,

(Please coiztiniie o n page 2 0 )


15/24

WINE M A K E S

A GLAD H E A R T

Do

you knoiij the HEAL T HFU L benefits

of

wine? Or, have

you

FALSELY assumed that wine is AL L BAD ? Y o u can learn

now

how to receive a BLESSING instead of a curse, by PR O PE R

USE OF W I N E .

by L. Leroy Neff

H E BI BL E says that Go d gives

wine to make men glad Ps.

104:15 ) . Why have some men

turned this blessing of God into a

rnt..re?

God plainly shows the proper i u e of

wine in the Bible. But, men have

re-

f i t s e d to follow God's instruction. If

we follow the scriptural instruction our

health will benefit , and we will have

a happier heart .

Here

is an opportunity to learn these

benefits from your own Bible and from

scientific sources that you probably have

not known before.

In the United States there are about

fifty million social drinkers, three to

five million

excessizv

drinkers, and

seven hundred fifty thousand alcoholics.

Thousands

of

lives are ruined by drink-

ing Countless numbers of people suf-

fer untold pain and anguish because

of relatives or loved ones who drink

excessively.

Because of the zrnpt'opev use of alco-

hol by

a

relatively few people, many

others have come to the conclusion that

arzy

r/.tr

of alcoholic beverages

is

com-

pletely and totally wrong. Many devout,

religious people sincerely believe that

God has forbiddeli any use of alcohol.

Wine is frequently mentioned in the

Bible. If the use of wine is a sin, the

Bible will plrliiily show that it is wrong.

If there are benefits of wine, it will

say so.

Enjoy Wine

T

Melchizedek was priest

of

the Most

High God at Salem (Jerusalem) during

the t ime of Abraham. Th e Apost le Paul

showed in the New Testament that this

Ambasrodor

C o l l e g e Photo

The way God in tended i t s use, wine can be used as

a

regu lar par t o f the d ie t -ond be a

cont ro l led benef i t , not an uncon t ro l led curse. As th is pho tog raph shows, win e has i t s naturo l

beau t y as we l l

os

t he o ther foods Go d c reated to be en joy ed.


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N E W S

June, 1964

person was none other than the One

who became Jesus Christ of the New

Testament (Heb.

7 ) .

On one occasion Abraham was

eutei.-

taiiied

by Melchizedek. On this mem or-

able occasion Melchizedek broug ht

forth bread and

wiize,

for Abraham

and his companions (Gen.

1 4 : l S ) .

This is an example of Jesus Christ

IIimself, our Lord and Master serving

&tie to His guests And,

H e

did not

.sin

This particular Hebrew word trans-

lated

wiize

is jayiiz.

This word is used

134

times in the Old Testament and it

means

fer.mcizted

winc, not grapc juicc

This same beverage, when used ex

cessively causes d i x n k e m e s s . Proof is

found in Genesis 9:21 where Noah

drank

yayin

excessively and became

drunk. Lot also became drunk on this

Jnme

beverage (Gen. 19:30-36). I t

was

the beverage used by Nabal

so

that he

too became drunken (I Sam.

25:36-37) .

God instructed His people to

ENJOY

yayiiz

at the commanded Festivals

(Deut .

14:26) .

In addition to enjoy-

ing

wine we

may also

e n j o y r tvnng

drink. This term comes f rom an en-

tirely different Hebrew word-shekar-

which is used twen t y- two times in the

Old Testament, and means an in-

tensely alcoholic

ligiior.

Thew scriptiires shmild make

it

dear

that there can be a right and a wrong

use of yayiiz. Christ in the office of

Melchizedek

nsed it properly.

Noah ,

Lot and Nabal used it

improperly

in

the accounts mentioned. W e should

learn to use it

properly as

Christ did.

In addition to using wine as a bev-

erage God

also commaizded

His Levit-

ical Priesthood to include in thc

sacrifices

a

portion of wine

as

a drink

of fer ing

(Ex.

29 : 4 0 ) .

A blessing of wine was prophesied

for our people today as a part of our

national heritage Read it in Genesis

27:28. lherefow God

gizw

thee

of

the dew of heaven, and the fatness of

the earth, and PLENTY of corn and

W I N E .

Today, some people think that this

particular blessing from God is

a cwse

instead of

a blessitzg

God gives

good

GZFTS

to his children. For some people

who have improperly used it, it has

become a curse.

But if used correctly

it is a blessing from Almighty God.

This should emphasize

our

need to

learn the proper use.

This same wine ( t irosh) is also

shown to be

a

gift of God in another

scripture.

For

she [Israel) did not

know that I gave her corn, and

wine,

and oil, and multiplied her silver and

gold, which they prepared for Baal.

Therefore will I return, and take away

my corn in the time thereof, and

my

wine in the season thereof, and will

recover my wool and my flax given to

cover her nakedness (Hosea 2 :8-9).

The word

tirosh,

new wine,

is

used in these two places and in thirty-

six other places in the Old Testament.

People sometimes conclude that this

word means

grape jriice,

or

fresh-

pressed juice

of

the vine.

These scriptures show that wine is a

blessing

from God; however, the Scrip-

tures

also show plainly that wine

can

be a curse if

improperly

used. Hosea

4:11

states: Whoredom and

wine

[yayin)

and

u ew w i n e

[tirosh] t a k e

away

the heart. Grape juice could not

have this effect. This scripture should

make it plain that the

impyoper or

ex-

cessive use of

either

wine

or

new wine

will cause a person to temporarily lose

proper control of his mind and body.

The Hebrew tirosh, translated ?zew

wine, can be iiztoxicatiizg

This

i s a l s o

proved in Judges

9 : 1 3

where it is stated that

tirosh CHEER-

ETH

God and maiz. Grape juice does

not have a warming or cheering effect,

but wine, used moderately and not in

excess does.

Chr ist Drank-John Didn t

John the Baptist did not drink wine

(oz izos)

(Luke

7 : 3 3 ) .

However, Jesus

Christ DID dr ink

oiizos

(wine) . He sa id

He did in Matthew 11:19 , and Luke

7 : 3 4 .

Christ had not changed since the

days of His office

as

Melchizedek. He

did not preach against the

temperate

use of wi ne; instead H e did like most

of the other people of His day and

drank

u h e

in moderation It was one

of the principal beverages in Palestine

at tha t time-and is to this day.

His first miracle was to change water

into real f

ermeuted

wive

( o i m s )

(John

2 : l o ) .

People who preach abstinence

refuse to admit that this first miracle

of Jesus was really what the Bible

plainly says it was. They claim that

this miracle was to turn water into

grape juice Imagine

if

you can an elab-

orate Jewish wedding supper where

everyone drank only grape juice

Christ turned six jars of twenty or

thirty gallons each into wine ( o i i z m )

This was no small miracle

This was the kind of wine that the

steward said was of

f inest quality.

Could it havc bccn grape juice? Evcry

man serves the good wine first; and

when men have drunk freely, then the

poor wine; but you have kept the

GOOD W I N E

unti l now (John

2:10,

R S V) . At such wedding feasts after

men had drunk freely,

or

more

cor-

rectly were softened with drink, the

poorer quality of wine was brought out.

The people did not realize the differ-

ence by then. To anyone who will read

the Scripture for what it says, and who

will be honest with himself the answer

is obvious, this was

real,

fermented,

alcoholic

u~j t ze .

Another proof that

oi i ios is FER-

M E N T E D u h z e is the fact that Paul said,

Be not drunk with wine

(o inos )

(Eph.

5:18 .

Yot i

cdni zot g e t

d u m k

o n

grape juice

A parable which Jesus gave also

proves that

oiizoJ is

the kind of wine

or juice that has been fermented. At

that time, instead of having metal or

glass bottles to ericlose wirie, the ~ k i

of animals were used. The workin g

quality of the wine while fermenting,

would break an old skin. It would not

break

a

new skin because of its pliable

characteristics. Jesus said that

oiiios

would break old bottles (skins) (Matt.

9 : 1 7 ) .

Paul instructed Timothy, Drink no

longer water, but use

a little zuiize

( o i i zos )

for thy stomachs sake and

thine of ten inf irmit ies ( I Tim.

5 : 2 3 ) .

Notice, he said to use only a

little

wine, not

a

whole

lot.

This one scrip-

ture shows that the amount of wine

used should be limited. The purpose of

this wine was T imothys frequent


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June, 1964

T h e GOOD N E W S

17

stomach

ailments.

Later we will see

why it was beneficial for Timothy to

use fermented wine for his stomach.

W r o n g U se of W i n e C o n d em n e d

Several scriptures have shown that it

is not a sin to use wine

p r ~ ~ p e r ~ l j , .

ut

what of the

iiiiproper, //.ie?

Drunken-

ness and the excessive use of wine is

condemned (Eph. 5 : I S ) . Drunkenness

is one of the works

of

the

jle.rh

(Gal .

5 : 2 1 ) .

Those who are mighty

to

drink

(excessive drinkers), are condemned by

God (Isa . 5 : 2 2 ) . The improper use

of

wine is a mocker and deceiver. Wine

is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and

whosoever is deceived thereby is not

wise (Prov.

20:1

) . Those that tarry

loizg

over wine and spend a great deal

of time in drinking

will

find all kinds

of woe, sorrow and trouble (Prov.

2 3 : 2 9 - 3 0 ) .

Whi le i t i the yime.r.r of

fermentation, wine will cause sickness

and pain

(Prov.

23:31-32) . Verse 2 1

of this same chapter instructs us

fiat

to

be among those who are wiiie bibber..r

(excessive drinkers),

n o r

are we to be

among glut tons (excess ive eaters) . The

excessizse use of food is just as e z d

as excessive drinking. If this verse

means you should not touch one drop

of wine, it

also

means you should not

touch one morsel of food

Even though alcoholism is a serious

~ i t z n our land, only a small percentage

of people are guilty of it. There are

untold rnillioiis more who a re gliittotzs,

smokers, idolaters, Sabbath - breakers,

and wh o violate all of God s other

commands.

One doctor looks

a t

the matter of

alcohol being habit-forming as fol-

lows: Occasionally heard as an ob-

jection to prescribing alcohol

. . .

is that

alcohol is habit-forming.

So

now hold

on to your chair or your prejudice if

any. Drinking is nothing like as habi t -

forming as smoking. It isnt even as

habit-f orm ing as overeating. From all

practical viewpoints and for all prac-

tical purposes liquor is not habi t -form-

ing a t a l l (F rom Liq~or.,

he

Servaizt

of illaiz, by Walter Hall Smith and

Ferdinand C. Helwig, M . D . ) .

Two

Prohib i t ions

Many religionists claim that the

use

of real fevnzen/ed wine is

f o v h i d d c n

in

the Bible. The truth is that they

d o

izot

kizow WHAT

i.r

j z the

Bible.

There are

only two specific TEMPORARY p r o b ib ; -

t i o m

against any use of wine and they

were given for particularly

nnusual

sitiiatinns~The first concerns that

of

a

Nazari te . This was a vow taken volun-

tarily by people in Old Testament times.

While a person was u n d e r this vow

he was not to cut his hair, nor was

he to eat or drink anyth ing that would

come from p p e s . Such a person could

not eat raisiizs, drink grape jiiice, or

wine. If this vow is used to prove that

wine is wrong (as some people attempt

to do) then so are grape juice and

raisins, and it is wrong for a man to

cut his hair

The second complete temporary pro-

hibition concerned

o ? z I ~

he High Priest,

or those other priests who served per-

sonally within the Temple, or withiiz

the Tabernacle in the wilderness. This

is given in Leviticus 10 :9-1 1. Th is com-

mand was given to prohibit any pos-

sibility of a priest ministering in a

drunken, or partially drunken state.

Since the priests under the Old Testa-

ment dispensation were carnal, and did

not have G ods Holy Spirit , they quite

possibly would on certain occasions ap-

pear before God drunken, unless there

were a t o t d prohibi t ion for their drink-

ing

a t

t h e t i m e when they were to per-

form their particular service. At other,

t im e r they

were

given full permission

to drink wine.

God wants us to learn how to dis-

cern what is good and evil by exercis-

ing our senses properly (Heb. 5 :14 ) .

The use of wine is one such thing that

we

M U S T

leartz t o cont ro l. W e should

only use wine in what the world would

call E X T R E M E moderatioiz. A small

amount of wine, especially at meal-

t im e , is B E N E F I C I A L to the body. Ex-

cessive amounts of wine are harmful.

It brings

all

kinds of trouble, woe and

unhappiness to the user as well as to

everyone around him.

H e r e A r e M o r e B e n e f it s of W i n e

We have already seen from the Bible

certain benefits from wine. In the ex-

ample of Timothy, the Apostle Paul

said to drink wine

would

h e l p .rtomuh

d i ~ t r e ~ ~nd aid digestion. This benefit

of wine as well as several others have

been recorded in the Biblc for many,

many centuries. Some doctors in the

medical profession are now

begitziziizg

t o lenrz some of these very same things.

They have not learned the basic cause

of sickness and disease. But despite

their mistakes, the medical profession

has been able to observe the effect

of

certain foods on health. As a result of

their research they recognize a few of

the principles concerning health.

Doctors realize that the excessive use

of wine and liquor is very harmful.

Yet they also realize the BENEFITS of

its proper

m e .

Dr. Peter

J ,

Steincrohn,

M.D., wrote

in

his column in the P a d -

deiza l~zdepeizdeizt of December 30,

1961,

concerning the problem of alco-

hol . After arknowledging the n7nt7j

evjls of excessiiw drinking he stated,

Yet, we doctors know there is an-

other s ide to i t. W e recognize t h a t

alcohol can also do

M U C H G O O D.

He stated that, Alcohol

is

a two-

d g word; ni ie dri/Ij the other

Jbnvp.

Before accepting it or rejecting it, there

are a few things you should know. In

moderate

anzo2mt.r

l iqi ior

is

an appe-

tizer and a stomachic. A martini makes

many

a

dinner and social function. For

the elderly, alcohol seems to provide

a

new lease on life. This famous doctor

continued in this column to say that

over the years, hundreds

of

patients

have told me (in all sobriety) how

much the daily onizce or t u o of liquor

has added to the fullness and enjoy-

ment of their lives.

In laymans language a Jtomachic is

an aid, benefit

or

tonic to the stomach.

D o you suffer fro m stomach distress?

Proper use of wine in the diet may help

you.

As a result of the work of Dr. Sal-

vatore P. Lucia, Professor of Medicine

o n

the San Francisco campus of the

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