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Course Preview Hope of Israel BIBLE Correspondence Course 9

warned. Notice carefully the degenerate “OVERKILL”!
condition of men in OUR day -- “covetous,” Enough nuclear weapons are now
“proud,” “TRUCEBREAKERS.” stockpiled in the U.S. and other countries to
Yes, whole nations today COVET the TOTALLY ANNIHILATE all life from this
wealth of others and are willing to KILL AND planet TEN TIMES OVER!
DESTROY to get it. Rather than seeking the
Eternal God, most nations take great PRIDE in
their armies and weapons of DESTRUCTION.
They BLASPHEME YEHOVAH God con-
stantly in word and deed.
What about TRUCEBREAKERS? How
good, for instance, is Syria’s word in a so-called
“peace conference”?
In YEHOVAH’s sight, men today are
FIERCE. Many have “a FORM of godliness,"
but they deny His POWER to intervene in world
events and His AUTHORITY to RULE their A fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among
individual and collective lives. Men in EVERY scrolls were fragments of the Old Testament --
NATION seem determined and “hell-bent” to do with Hebrew text virtually identical with that we
things their OWN way. And THAT WAY is have today.
leading to DEATH.
YEHOVAH God inspired Jeremiah to
state that the heart of man is “DECEITFUL
ABOVE ALL THINGS AND DESPERATELY
WICKED” (Jeremiah 17:9).
HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT
CHANGED!
Remember that the Messiah said the
conditions in this world just before his second
coming would be “as the days of Noah”
(Matthew 24:37). NOW, as at that time,
YEHOVAH God sees “that the wickedness of Grotesque wreckage of Hiroshima after atomic
man [is] great in the earth, and that EVERY attack. Mute witness to the destructive forces at
IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF man’s disposal.
HIS HEART [IS] ONLY EVIL CONTINU-
ALLY" (Genesis 6:5). “And the EARTH [is] Incredible as it sounds, the earth is in
FILLED WITH VIOLENCE” (Verse 11). DIRE PERIL. Not too long ago a British
Guided by GREED and LUST, man is scientist warned us with the following statement:
once again bent on CONQUEST and “I am not optimistic the human race will survive
DESTRUCTION. for another 10 years.”
He stated that there are at least THREE
Here Are the Facts WAYS in which the world’s population could be
wiped out in a few hours.
World leaders today speak fearfully of The FIRST is the hydrogen bomb -- the
COSMOCIDE -- ATOMIC SUICIDE of the SECOND is a deadly toxin which can easily be
whole human race! They talk in terms of produced by the botulinus organism. “It would

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