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12 Hope of Israel BIBLE Correspondence Course Course Preview

seducers shall wax WORSE and WORSE" (II
Timothy 3:13). This, coupled with the stark
reality that NEVER BEFORE HAS HUMAN
ANNIHILATION BEEN POSSIBLE, OUGHT
TO WAKE US UP!
Man has long had guns and powerful
shells. Later, tanks and planes came into use. But
NOW men have guided missiles which can
deliver HYDROGEN BOMBS to destroy
ENTIRE CITIES WITHIN A FEW MINUTES!
Now -- for the FIRST time -- human
annihilation is not only a POSSIBILITY, but a
terrifying REALITY!
And now NOTHING can save man from
self-destruction except a divinely wrought
CHANGE in human nature -- in man’s
CHARACTER. In SPITE of all the professing
“Christian” churches -- in SPITE of the feeble
efforts of the United Nations -- in SPITE of
everything man is doing to bring peace and
happiness, that change is not humanly possible!
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
ONLY YEHOVAH GOD CAN
Late General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur,
CHANGE MAN’S CHARACTER, and force
realized the solution to man’s search for peace
men to learn the WAY of PEACE. That is WHY
must be a change in his BASIC CHARACTER. A
Yeshua the Messiah AND YEHOVAH God are
change “in the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
returning to take over the “kingdoms of this
world” (Revelation 11:15). That is WHY “He
[YEHOVAH God] shall RULE them with a rod
YEHOVAH’s Plan
of iron" (Revelation 19:15).
That is the ONLY way to preserve
The PATTERN for YEHOVAH GOD’S
human life on this planet. Yeshua the Messiah
little-understood PLAN is given in the first two
KNEW the terrible state of affairs men would
chapters of Genesis. It is the WEEK of seven
bring on themselves in this end time.
days. As YEHOVAH God originally set time in
May YEHOVAH God help you to grasp
motion, He gave man a week of six work days
the SIGNIFICANCE and REALITY of these
followed by a day of rest. In Hebrews 4:4, 11,
things as you read these passages. They show
the seventh day is also a type of the peaceful
that YEHOVAH God FORESAW the invention
REST -- a 1000-year rest -- that will follow this
of our present weapons of destruction long
PRESENT AGE OF HUMAN LABOR and
before man ever dreamed of them. And they
futile struggle to master the earth.
reveal that YEHOVAH had ALREADY planned
Observe that after the intervention of
the ONLY real and logical solution.
Yeshua the Messiah AND YEHOVAH God, the
YEHOVAH’s ENTIRE plan is just as
time of peaceful rest under their rule is
LOGICAL and REAL.
specifically termed “a thousand years"
(Revelation 20:4). Since the last “day” of

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