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M a g a z i n e o f

U R C H O F

G O D

l n t e r n a t i

T H E H

~~

VOL. VIII, NUMBER 1

OCTOBER, 1959

Gods Church

Circles

the

Globe

H e r e

i s

news o f exciting gro wth in Gods Church

around the U J O Y ~ ~

And in

this issue,

we

introduce

you

to our

Letter Answering Department

by

Roderick C Meredith

N

W

vistas for Go ds Church loom

ahead as definite plans are now

made for reaching the Austral-

ian cont inent in POWER.

As Mr. Arm strong has told you in re-

cent Co-worker Le t t e rs , we are now

going on an ent i re network of Aus-

t ra l ian radio s ta t ions with The WORLD

TOMORROWroadcast six

nights

every

week

Th is complete coverage of the Austral-

ian continent by our broadcast is un-

precedented

It wi l l now bring many hundreds to

a knowledge of Gods truth, and serve as

a

powerful warning and witness

to

thou-

sands of others who will hear the broad-

cast and receive The

PLAIN

TRUTH

magazine. Because of the broadcast being

on every night, we expect to begin re-

ceiving letters by the score almost

im-

medi / ~ t e l j

P r o p o s e d A u s tr a l ia n T r i p

Therefore, definite plans are now

made for a flying trip

to

Australia to

establish two men there to take charge

o f the office and probably to f o u n d

a

local church in Sydney and perhap s other

points later. Mr. Ted Armstrong wil l

accompany them on this t r ip i n order to

make the final decisions regarding the

establishment

o f

an office in the city of

Sydney and perhaps a proposed location

for a local church, and

to

make all neces-

sary business arrangements in the name

of

t he Radio Church

of

God.

The two men chosen

to

begin the

active

work

of

Gods

church in the con-

t inent down under arc Mr. Gerald

Waterhouse and

Mr.

Frank Longuskie.

They are the consecrated team who di-

rected th e work of the London Churc h

and office for many months. Mr. Water-

house is one of our ablest and most

dedicated ministers, and Mr. Longuskie

has proved himself

a

capable and

con-

secrated help both in the ministry and

in th e direc tion of a ma iling office.

This exci t ing news means that w ithin

only a matter of mo.rcths,

we

may have

many

thousands

on the mai l ing l is t in

Australia and that many churches will

need to be raised up as soon as we can

have the qualified men free

to

pastor

them

After establishing the office in Aus-

t ral ia , Mr. Ted Armstrong and Mr.

Waterhouse may return together as far

as the Philippines where they will be

able

to

meet Mr. Pedro Ort iguero for

the first t ime and get a better first-hand

picture of the work there. Mr. Ted Arm-

strong will then return by plane to the

United States, and Mr. Waterhouse will

return to Australia to resume direction

of the office and begin establishing a

local church in Sydney.

G r o w t h

in

Bri t a in

Our minis ters in England, Mr. Kay-

mond McNair and MI. Ernest Mart in,

reported that the overseas mailing

office has now been moved

to

our beau-

t i ful property at Hanstead House, near

Br icke t Wood, England-on the out -

skir ts of London From all reports, it is

indeed a beaut i ful s i te in which to work

and serve God. Also, it is the future

site of Ambassador College, United

Kingdom, Limited, which will be estab-

lished this coming fall

Mr. McNair reports continued growth

in the work there in every way. One

good bit of news is that full Sabbath

church

services are now being held

at

Bristol, England, with over

20

in a t -

tendance And Mr. McNair reports that

hc

is

just now

starting

a

Bible study

every other week in Birmingham which

will undoubtedly be the foundation for

a church in that area later.

Truly, with this news of gro wth and

expected growth in Australia, Britain,

and the Phi l ippines , we can thank God

that the work of

His

church in

this

latter day is beginning to literally

circle

the earth

Growth in

t h e N o r t h w e s t

Mr. Jim Friddle, our pastor a t Gods

church in Tacoma, Washington, reports


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that the church there has been divided

so

that there are now two chwches

-one in Tacom a, as before, an d a

lzew

one in Seattle In spite

of

this split-

with

Tacoma

losing about half of its

members-attendance there cont inue s

about

125.

And the new church in Seattle started

off

with a bang with

124

in attendance

The brethren there are enthusiastic

about this arrangement because

it

saves

Inuch

driving time for many of them,

and will also give thein more

of

an

opportunity for personal contact and

fellowship with each oth er and the m in-

ister because

of

thc smaller number.

So

mo t h e r new church has been born

From Oregon, Mr. Raymond Cole re-

ports that the Eugene Church continues

its recent growth with about 70 mem-

bers now in attendance. Mr. Cole has

been doing a great deal of his visiting

in the Portland area, and th e attendance

there is now approach ing the 250 m ark

Because of the need for Mr. Mater-

house

to

leave and establish the work

in Australia, Mr.

B u l k

McNair is Icav-

ing the Eugene-Salem area in order to

assume the responsibility of working

with Gods churches in Garden City,

K;uisns, and Pueblo and D enver in Colo-

raclo. (hntinuing there

as

associate pas-

tor will be

Mr.

Roger Foster-recent

gmduatc o f Anlh.iss.diw ~ o l l < ~ p , ~ ~nd

dedicated servant of Jesus Christ.

Introducing

Y o u r

Letter Answering D e p a r t m e n t

You may not have realized it, but

Gods church is receiving ove r

t w o

tliozuuizd

letters nearly every single day

Most of these letters are addressed to

Mr. Armstrong personally, and many

require

a

personal answer.

BLILow

would

you feel if you had

t o

make an international broadcast,

teacli

Bible classes, write articles

for

two

magazines and edit other material, direct

the business

end

of an international

corporation, and then-on to p of that-

t ry

to answer literally

handreds

of let-

ters every

week?

Naturally,

Mr.

Armstrong has had to

establish a special departm ent to answer

tnany of

the

letters which he is simply

not able

t o

get to personally. H e does

t ry to answer as many

as

he can, but

has arranged that most of them are

nnswered by the Letter Answering De-

partment which is under his direct

supervisioii.

Assisting

i n

this supervisory capacity

is Mrs.

Armstrong. Havin g worked with

him in Gods work for over twe nty-five

years now, and knowing what he would

mswer as

Gods

minister, she checks

every single letter personally

to

see i t

there is anytliing that should be brought

to his personal attention. Also, your

The

GOOD

NEWS

October, 1959

author assists in the direction

of

the

Letter Answering Uepartment in seiect-

ing and woxing wi tn tne men in the

bepar tment, keeping things going

smuomiy, and

rev ib ing

letrers

as neces-

sary

so

m a t they ineec i ~ r .irmstrongs

approval.

lfie senior man a nd supervisor in

the aeparcment

icself is

~ Uob

Uor-

arer ,

i v u .

BoraKer graduated h-om Am-

bassador College tnree years ago last

June. bven beiure that, he was &ready

being used

to

help answer certain let-

ters and getting vaiuabie training to aid

h m n la ter superv is ing thi s depar tment

as

he

is

now doing.

In addit ion to

nis

t raining and ex-

periences in A mbassador Couege, Mr.

DoraKer traveled abroad in the summer

of 1917

and had many valuable educa-

tional experiences

in

touring the con-

t inent

or

burope. H e saw many

of

the

things we report

to

you happening in

Gerinany witn his own eyes, and, you

may rem embe r, wrote an article describ-

ing this experience in this magazine

the

following autumn. Latcr, hc went

on a ful l summers baptizing tour wlth

Mr.

Carlton Smith in order to meet

many

ol

you brechren personally, and in

that way become intimately and per-

sonally acquainted with the

type

of

problems experienced by our members

a r i d

listeners

in

t h e

field.

Ably assisting Mr. boraker in super-

vising this department is Mr. Jim Kunz.

Mr. Kunz came to Ambassador

as

an

older married

nlan

having already grad-

uated from the University

of

Washing-

ton. Also, he was a zealous member and

deacon in the Church of

God

at Port-

land, Oregon.

Mr.

Kunz went on a bap-

tizing tour this last summer with Mr.

Don Billingsley and thus had that valu-

able exper ience

of

directly meeting

many of our listeners and members

personally and seeing the nature of

their problems firsthand.

Mr.

Kunz

is

very happily married

and a dedicated family man, with two

beautiful children So he is well quali-

fied

to

help answer many of the difficult

questions regarding marital problems

which come as his responsibility.

T h e M e n

Who

Serve

You

Now,

we would like to introduce

alphabetically to you some of the other

older men in the depar tment

so

you may

know personally these men who are

answering the letters many

of

you write

to

us

at Gods headquarters.

Mr. John Bald is a newer

man

in the

department who graduated from college

a year ago last spring and then spent

many months assisting

Mr.

Dean Black-

well in the huge church in Chicago,

Illinois. H e gained m uch experience

there which has served him well in

helping answer your letters.

Mr. Charles Braden came to us as an

older married man and also graduated

from Ambassador College in June , 1918.

He

was

a zealous memher

o f

rhr San

Diego Church before coming to col-

lege, and is especially adept at answer-

ing certain letters on food and diet be-

cause he has studied that

subject so

much.

Mr. Bill Glover is one of the older

members of the department, having

graduated from Ambassador

i n

the

spring of

1957.

Mr. Giover is also a

dedicated family man with four healthy,

happy children

His

wife, Esther,

m a y

be well known to many of you as the

younger sister of

Mr.

Raymond C ole and

Mr. Wayne Cole.

Mr.

J. W. Robinson has also been in

the department for about two years, and

has been a special help in answering

certain questions involving the agricui-

tural laws of G od. H e also devotes time

to assisting in the proof -read ing of our

two magazines. H e also came

to us

as

an

oldcr

man, and has since acquired

a

wife an d little girl

Mr.

Richard Sedliacik is

a

man of

varied talents in the Letter Answering

Depar tment . He is highly skilled in

work with radio and electronics equip-

ment, but has also become an excellent

writer through his training a t Ambassa-

dor. His wife is the former Miss Elva

Russell-who many of you may know

was for years the faithful ministerial

secretary who typed

most

of thc articlcs

you read in The

PLAINTR~JTH

nd

GOODNEWSmagazines, and the Cor-

respondence Course, before

Mr.

Sedli-

acik stole her away But now she

is

proving a wonderful wife and help to

Mr.

Sedliacik, and they have one bounc-

ing

haby hoy

rn

give them plenty of

ex perie nce in the trials of m arried

life.

And we should note that

Mr.

Sedli-

acik is

now

begiriiiiiig to write certain

sections of the Correspondence Course

-assisting Dr . C. Paul Meredith in this

tremendous undertaking.

Last, but far from least, is Dr. Clint

Zimmerman-last because he comes at

the end of the alphabet. Dr. Zimmer-

inan also came to

us

as

an older family

man with a happy, balanced family who

are with him in the truth. Before com-

ing to Ambassador College, Dr. Zim-

merman was a successful chiropractor-

and spent much time in consideration

and prayer before making the decision

to give up his practice in order to come

to Ambassador College. He is a man of

much education and mature ability, and

has driven himself zealously in order to

answer literally hundreds of letters him-

self each month

(Please coizti izue

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RESIST the

Devil

Gods

people are

W A R N E D of Satan

and his

demons,

called

wicked spirits in high places Some have not really H E E D E D

that

w ar& zg H ere s

w%at Y O U ought to be

S

GODS

Church totally

IGNORANT

of Satans devices? W it h th e past

1 ew years there have been increas-

ing accounts of how som e of G ods own

people have been molested by

or

even

allowed themselves to become possessed

by

demons

W ha t i s wrong?

Is

it because this Churc h, while p rid-

ing itself on doing the very WORK OF

GOD,

of possessing a great amount

of

knowl edge

of

Gods truth, is gradually

becoming spiritually h k e i u a r m ?

W an t i n g E x p e r ien ces

Brethren, its time

to

wake

L P

and

com e to our senses its time we began

to speak plainly. Its t ime you began to

realize that Gods ministers

KNOW

that

there are

maizy

who, although culling

theiiisclvcs

illembers

of Gods true

Church, have

nerer been converted

Repeatedly, we have mentioned this fact

in sermons at the Feast of Tabernacles,

and made

i t

plain in articles in the

Good Neii.r

magazine.

Perhaps, unwittingly, y0.u are one

who

has come to see the t ru th and

simply decided you should go along

with it. You have decided, seeing the

evils of the presen t world aroun d you,

and understanding

the

t rue doctrine of

God,

that you had better f o l l ow that true

doctrine. Having made this cold deci-

sion, begin to emb ark upon a life

of coming into the truth WITHOUT

HAVJNG EVER EXPERIENCED A

REAL

DEEP-DOWN

REPENTANCE

Why is this imp ortant? Because Jesus

said, Except ye repent, ye shall all like-

wise per ish (Luke 1 3 : 3 ) . It is only

through r e p e n t a m e that one can be

giver1

die Holy

Spiiit

o f God

(Acts

2 : 3 8 ; 5 : 3 2 ) . The apostle Paul wrote,

If any man have not the Spiri t of

Chris t ,

he is none of His (Rom.

8:9) .

Without

a

r ea l R E PE N T A N C E ,one

can receive t h e Holy Spirit of God

And, mark you well, unless you have the

Holy Spirit o f God,

you

have virtually

n o s lue protect ion

from Satans wiles

and his demons.

Many today are seeking experiences.

They wan[ to

come

r o the experience

of

feeliug that they are converted.

Many t h i n k they should F E E L something

:It

the t ime of baptism. Others think

that they

should

have an especially ex-

hilarating o r exciting FEELING at the

time hands iire laid on them for the

by

G a r n e r Ted Armstrong

receipt

of

Gods Spir it. Yes-even some

of those in Gods true Church (at least,

nominally) believe they should have a

special

experience,

or get a certain feel-

ing at the time they receive Gods

Holy Spir i t

I cannot beg i n to describe to you in

plain pri nt some of the revolting, horri-

fying, and thoroughly disgusting ex-

periences which some have related to

Gods ministers, simply because they

were

misled,

deceived of Satan the

Devil, and fervently desiring some kind

of

an

experience

rather than desir ing

the Holy Spirit of God lawfully.

Some have been uttacked by demons.

They have found themselves virtually

paralyzed while lying in bed,

or

in a

car, while in a dreamy, half-asleep dazed

state, and with their spirituul guard

dozen. They

have

been

so

completely

paralyzed

so

as to be unable to either

move

or

talk for a few moments until,

after a frantic battle in their minds,

they were finally able

to

call upon the

m m e

of

Christ or to say, The Lord

R E B U K E you to the spirit Brethren,

this is serioius. This is not just my im-

agination. M a n y of Gods people have

been molested, influenced, attacked, or,

in some very few and widely scattered

cases, even POSSESSED by Satans

foul,

filthy demons

Perhaps you can begin to see, then,

why it is so

t errib ly important

you come

to understand the WHOLE TRUTH about

this problem.

Satans Purpose

Satan the devil is th e god of this

age

(I1

Cor. 4 : 4 ) . The apostle Paul

calls him the prince of the power of

the air (Eph.

2: 2 )

Jesus, wheii being

accused of casting out demons by the

spirit of Beelzebub, answered, Every

k i n g d o m

divided against itself is brought

to desolation, and every city or house

divided against itself shall not stand.

And if Satan cast out Satan, he is

divid ed against himself-how shall the n

HIS KINGDOM s tand? (Mat t . 1 2 : 2 5 -

Di d you notice i t? Jesus says Satan

bas- a k i n g d o m .

Whether most religionists believe

there is an actual devil or not-your

Bible definitely says there is a devil

That devil is a fallen archangel, for-

merly called Lucifer, who took one full

third of the angels of heaven with hini

26).

doing

about it

in his rebellion Ch rist says,

1

beheld

Satan as lightning fall frorii Heaven

(Luke 10:1s). And further reveals,

And his tail drew a third part of the

sturs of heaven, and did cast them to

the

ear th . . (Rev.

1 2 : 4 ) .

W e know Christ shows in Revelat ion

1

:20

that stars are symbolic for

angels.

Sntan, then, took one full third

of

the

angels

uith h i m

in

his rcbclliun

Those angels arc now called demons.

As

denions, or fallen angels, they still

have great powers. They are super-

natural, created,

spiri t

bemgs Their

minds, their natures an d characters have

become

so

twisted, warped and com-

pleteiy perverted that they are in con-

stant rebellion and hostility toward

God They have been Satans henchmen

in deceiving and enslaving this world,

causing it

to do

Satans will

Satans purp ose is to try to cause

Gods ulork to fai l , to disrupt His plan

-to cau se som e of 30 brethren to fall

T h e N a t u r e o f Demons

But notice what Christ tells

us

about

demons

T u r n to

Matthew

8 : 2 S .

And

when He was collie to the other side of

the counrry of the Gergesenes,

there

met

Hiin two possessed with devils, coming

o u t of

the tombs,

exceeding fierce, so

that no man might pass

by

that way.

And, behold, they cried out saying,

What have we

to

do with thee, Jesus,

thou Son of G od ? art thou come here

to torment LIS before the time?

Notice-these demo ns possessing the

minds of these

two

asked

Christ

whether

He had come to t o rmen t them before

the time

They thoroughly recognized they are

LU receive iormeni in the future.

There are many different kinds of

demons. W e f ind, in the gospels, that

demons could afflict various parts of

the bod], witiloLlt necessarily possess-

ing the mind.

Not i ce

just a few ex-

amples. Then was brought unto hini

one possessed with

a

demon, bl ind, and

dum b, and H e healed hiin insomuch tha t

the bl ind and dumb both spoke and saw

( M at . 1 2 : 2 2 ) . And, behold, there was

ii

woman which had a spiri t of in f i rmi ty

eighteen years and was bowed together.

and could in no wise lift up herself. And

-+,lien Jesus saw her, H e called her to

Hi m, and said unto her , W oman, thou

ar t loosed from that infirmity. And He

laid His hands

on her.

2nd immediately


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T h e

GOOD NEWS

October, 1959

International magazine of

THE CHURCH

OF

GOD

ministering

to

its

members

scattered abrood

VOL. VIII

NUMBER

10

Herbert W. Armstrong

Publisher and Editor

Garner Ted

Armstrong

Executive Editor

Herman L. Hoeh

Mafiaging Editor

Koderick C. Meredith

Associate Editor

~~ ~

Address

communications to

the Editor,

Box

111,

Pnsndcnn,

California.

Copyright, October, 1939

By

the

Kadio

Church of

God

Be

sure to

notify

US immediately of

change o f address

she was made

straight and glorihect

God. Later, in answering the ruler of

the synagogue Jesus said, And ought

not this woman, being a daughter

of

Abraliam w h u m b r l l d i j h t h b o i d , lo,

these eighteen years, be loosed from

this bond on the sabbath day? (Luke,

He re a re cases where individuals were

dum b, bl ind,

or

stooped over with afflic-

tions in various organs of the body

other t h a n

the waind

a s a

result

of

af-

Iliction by demons.

Some denions are much iiiore

violent

than others. And one of the multitude

m s w e d and said, Master, I have

brought unto thee my son, which hath

a

dumb spirit; and wheresoever he

taketh him, he teareth him: and he

foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth,

and pineth away: and

I

spake to Thy

disciples that they should cast him out;

and they could not.

After

calling for

the chi ld to be brought to Him , not i ce

how the demon possessing the child

acted: . . And when he saw him,

straightway the spirit tare him; and he

fell o n the ground and wal lowed foam-

ing. Jesus then cast out this violent

demon and l i f ted up the chi ld who was

well and normal as before (Mark 9:14-

29) .

But Jesus showed the reason the

disciples

COI:LII

NOT c a s t (n i t th is

vio-

lent demon was because they were not

as

yet converted and not

i.Io.re enozcgh

I , GOD This kind can conie forth by

13:11-13, 16) .

i i o t h i n ~

but b y

prlycr an d fas t ing

( M a r k 3 : 2 9 ) .

While the

w o r d

fasting m a y not

necessarily appcar in all the original

manuscripts, it is, nevertheless, certainly

implied and is the vital prerequisite if

we are dri f t ing away from God

Why Fear?

The reason

for

this article is not to

pu t members of Gods Church in fear

or terror oi Sarans fou l demons Notice,

rather-it

is

t he demons who

FEAR

US

H a v e you come to

t o rmen t us

BEFORE

THE TIME (Mat . 5 : 2 9 ) , the demons

asked Christ. These demons were fear-

ful of

t o rmen t .

Jesus said, When the

unclean spirit

is

gone out of a man, he

walketh through

dry places,

seeking

REST; and finding none, he saith I will

return to my house from whence I came

out (Luke

1 1 : 2 4 ) .

Jesus reveals here

that a disembodied demo n is an uncom-

fortable, apprehensive, restless spirit-

wanting desperately to get into and

possess

a

body Go d reveals

that

FEAR

HATH

TORMENT

( I

John

4 :18)

Demons then a re

F E A R F U L

of their

future judgment. James tells us, Thou

believest that there is one God; thou

doest well: the demons

also

believe, and

TREMBLE

( James 2 : 1 9 ) .

No,

we are not to

FEAR

Satan

o r

his

ciemons However, we are not to

go

to

the opposite extreme of tak ing these

things lightly, or of attcnipting to bc-

coiixe fni:iilinr

w i c h i cii-ions, .: I thc

while k idding ourselves since we are

not afraid of them, we need not avoid

them.

God

absolutely

condemns t o dea th

anyone who will become FAMILIAR with

spirits. (Lev.

2 0 : 2 7 ) .

Do

Not

Be

I g n o r a n t

The apostle

Paul

wrote, Lest Satan

should get an advantage of us, for

WE

I1 Cor.

2 : l l ) .

No, the

apostle Paul

was not ig nor ant of Satans devices-

but are YOU? Apparently, some of Gods

people have been completely ignorant

of th e devices of Satan-and com pletely

withoat defense against Satans demons

Brethren, I am going to speak qui te

candidly. The m inisters in G ods Church

have noticed a definite tendency, par-

ticularly among zuo;lnen-and even m or e

particularly AMONG GENTILE \VOMEN

to yield

to

the influences of spi rit beings,

and even to become possessed by them

This problem is not going to be con-

quered and p ut out of Gods Chu rch

if

we speak softly about it Th e sad thing

ARE

NOT IGNORANT of his devices

ic-SOME OF

THESE

WOMEN

HAVE DE-

LIBERATELY, KNOWINGLY

OPENED

THEMSELVES

UP TO

RECEIVE FOUL

SPIRITS, S I MP LY BECAUS E

THEY

W E R E

SE E KING IJNIJSUAL E X P E R I E N C E S .

There have been cases where Go d s

ii iinisters have cast o u t demons from

some, even to have those people open

right

up

to receive the same spirit and

XWII oLhers worse than itself back into

them again Jesus Christ gave

a

stark,

frank WARNING of this very thing in a

scripture

I

have already referred to. He

said the demon will wander through

dry places, seeking rest, and then try

to come back to the house from which

i t went nut . Gods ministers, using the

power of God and the authority of Jesus

Christ, can

CAST

O U T

these demons-but

ONLY YOU,with your w i l l - p o w e r and by

staying c lo se t o G o d i n PRAYER and be-

ginning to really sesist Satan the devil

and his demons can guarantee that the

dem on will not come back.

For w e

wrestle

not against jlesh i d

blood,

but against principalities, against

powers, against the rulers of the dark-

ness of this world, against WICKED

SPIRITS in high places (Eph. 6 : 1 2 ) .

God tells us we rures.de in a constant

S T RU G G L E against wicked spirits who

occupy high places in the

darkriess of

this present society Its abo ut time we

niuabened and became a litt le more

INFORMED of Satans devices, and know

how

lo

RESIST Satan the devil.

W h a t

You

S h o u l d Do

Brethrcn, again,

let me

speak

very

candidly. I remember one particular in-

stance, where a young man came to me,

telling me he was being molested

by

Llei lons. I \ven t

tliroiigli all

of

the scrip-

tures in the New Testament directly re-

la t ing to i t , spel l ing out for him in

simple order exactly what he should do.

I

encouraged prayer, and even

F AS TI NG

with prayer.

I

encouraged more Bible

study, and told him how to resist Satan

the d evil and exactly what

he should

d o

in the event any further molestation

occurred. This man kept coming back

again and again and again. I kept re-

informing h im of these same scriptures

m er and over aga in . He kept on coming

back, and each time informing me the

situation was worse. I rebuked him

sharply on several occasions, warning

him of the direction in which he was

going.

I

told him God wasnt wrong,

that the advice I had given him was

directly from Jesus Christ, as revealed

in His Word I told him I, physically,

could do absolutely nothing except to

:idd my prayers to his-which

I

cer-

tainly d id. Later, this young man became

absolutely POSSESSED

of

these demons.

I t was

theiz,

that I found out from others

that he had DELI B ER ATELY asked these

demons to p erform certain interes t ing

acts in front of him. He had seen a

toothbrush waltz around in his bath-

room. He had heard various knockings,

rapping, seen s t range l ights and other

curiosities. Instead of abhorring, de-

testing a i d rotally RkJECTING these

spiritual manifestations,

HE

WANTED

(Please

c o n t i w e o n

page 8


5/12

The Origin

of

Medical Science

11 m oder n medicine really moderfi? Read the surprising fact s

about the true origin of todays medical practices, writteu by a staff

member of the Ne w s Gather ing Department of Ambassador College.

I ~ D I C A L

cience is not niodern-

it is thousands of years old

M

Notice the Old Testament ex-

arnples

of

going to a physician

or

doc-

tor.

King Asa sought the physicians to

cure

h i s

foot trouble.

Asa . .

was

diseased in his feet, until his disease

was exceeding great: yet in his disease

be J.oifght no t t o t h e

Lord,

bat t o t h e

phi.sicians.

And Asa . clicd (

11

Chon.

16:12-13.) Asa

wasnt cured

Ki ng Ahaziah fell sick. H e too

soug ht thc physicians-the repre senta -

tives of Haalzebub, the god of medicine.

But they could not cure hiin

(I1

Kings

Even in early New lestainent times

v,.e have the record of

a

woinan, hav-

ing a n issue of blood twelve years,

hich hiicl

.spent

d l her

liLing qt10.n

phi

sicinus,

neither could be healed of

any

(

L ~i k e

8 : 4 3 ) .

This womans case

is not uncommo n today Man y of you

spcnt all your living upon physicians

and yet w erent any better

But werent these failures due

to

doc-

tors who were ignorant and crude? Not

at all Medical practices today actually

have not advanced very far beyond those

of

ancient medicine Mo dern methods

and drugs are not really

so

different

from those used by doctors and physi-

cians

i n

ancient times

Let

11s

examine the surprising facts

from

the record

o f

history Lets see

what the Bible has to say about drugs

used

as cures.

O r i g i n uf Medical Scierict:

Now

for

the surpris ing facts Leading

doctors adniit ancient medical records

include

dear

indications for surgical

operations,

shreiurl

diagnostic observa-

tions,

with riitional prescriptions, and

good hygienic regulations. So admits

Dr. Arturo Castiglioni, former profes-

sor

at the University of Padua, and

Research Associate in the History

of

Medicine at Yale Un iversity in his book

published in

1941

( A

Histor?

o f Medi -

cine, page 49) .

W h a t a

contrast t o what

most

of us

have been taught

Medicine

is as

old as ancient Egypt

The sources

for

the history of Egyp-

tian medicine are found in

a

number

of

medical papyri, the three most im-

portnnt

of

hyvhich are: the Ehers

Pdfiymr,

the Brzqsch Papi.rus, and the

Edwin

1:?-4 , 16-17).

by

DonId

G.

Wofford

Smith

Pacyras;

the last

of

which was

written

as

early

as 1700 B.C.,

dur ing

the days of Jacob and his twelve sons,

and was evidently copied from

a

much

more ancient manuscr ipt . (From page

5 5

of

Dr.

Castiglionis book.)

lhe heart was recognized in the

Ebers Papyrus, declares Dr. Castiglioni,

as the center of the blood supply,

as

was also the fact that there are vessels

attached to

it

for every member of the

body (p.

50).

The Egyptian physi-

c i a n .

.

. knew of the importance of the

examination of the pulse ( p. 5 1 ) .

Listen to what

modern

physicians say

concerning the oldest known medical

writings, known as the Edwin Smith

papyrus: The clinical observations

are

so accarate

and

clear

that it does

not ap pear possible to the physician who

reads these

pages

today that five thou-

sand years have passed

( A

History of

Medicine, p. 5 5 5 6 ) .

Yes, todays doctors are amazed to

discover that contrary to the theory

of

evolution, ancient physicians were no

mere ignorant, savage medicine men.

They possessed basically the same m edi-

cal knowledge that doctors do today

A n c i en t K n o w l ed g e

of

Disease

This

eminent doctor goes o n to

say

that this ancient medical papyrus pre-

sents a clear concept of pathologic

symptoms and an exact

estimation of

prognosis {the course the disease will

take) is arrived at

.

The bra in i s

mentioned for the first time in history,

its convolutions and meninges, showing

clearly that

it

was recognized

as

the

si te of mental functions.

I t

is with pro-

foand wonder that we recognize the

knowledge

of

the suture of wounds and

of

the possibility of improving the ap-

pearance

of

old people with plasters

which remove the wrinkles

A

History

of

Medicine,

p.

55 ,

5 6 ) .

Havent most of us been taught to

believe that physicians of

5,000

years

ago tr ied to cure disease and pain by

means

of

magic spells, and not by

the modern skill of the doctor who

uses drugs and knives today?

It is

t ime wc stop assuming that

medical science is modern and begin

to

examine its record and

to

see what

God says about it

Did you know that MEDlCAL SCHOOLS

BEGAN IN ANCIENT

EGYPT?

Listen

I

.

throughout this very ancient and

valuable surgical text the employment

of magic is spoken of only once, while

there is Ireqiieric mention of the art of

the physician. The truly exceptional im-

portance of this book is derived not

only from the fact it accurately de-

scribed

a

series of surgical cases, out-

l ining the proper diagnosis, prognosis,

and treatmen t, according to th e stand-

z r d s of

this modern world, bu t

also

. .

even in this remote period there

already existed

organized schools of

medical

pmct i t ioners ,

well-tersed in sur-

gery ,

illdependent of the priestly castes

A History of Medicine, p. 5 7 ) .

Think

o f

that

It is well established that among

all the peoples of antiquity the Egyp-

tians enjoyed the reputation

of

being

excellent physicians. Thus Homer extols

(Odyssey, IV, 23 1 Egyptian medicine:

Each is

a

physician with knowledge

beyond all men (p.

5 9 ) .

Arent doc-

tors erroneously regarded just as highly

Specia l is t s in Egyp t

In this modern

world

up until 25 to

50

years

ago

there were very few spe-

cialists.

But such

was

not

the case in

aizcient Egypt

Herodotus says

(11,

84 . . .

All places abound in physi-

cians; some are

for

the eyes, others are

for the head, others for the tee th, others

for the intestines, and others for inter-

nal disorders (p .

> X U ) .

Specialists

are nothing new

But, many ask, what about mod-

ern drugs and medicines, havent these

just been recently discovered?

Dr. Howard W. Haggard, in his wide-

ly read history of medicine, Devi l s ,

Drags and Doctors, reports: The nar-

cotic drugs

.

were used in the past

its the? Lire iiseil

t(iilay

( p . 97)

.

Dr.

Castiglioni goes on

to

say, The

Papyri that have been mentioned con-

tain an enormous number of prescrip-

tions. The Ebers Papyrus alone contains

almost a thousand, the components

of

which are n o t l f e t a l l known

t o us

.

Medicines were prescribed in all t h e

forms still in

ase

today ( p .

5 1 - 5 2 ) .

Solomon

was

r ight when he said,

There is no new thing under the sun.

Ancient physicians even as far

away

as

China knew about preventive in-

oculation

for

smallpox in

1105

B.C.

( M e d i c i n e and /Man,

p.

5 3 ) .

Modern

science considers valuable the ancient

today?


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Page 6

Chinese concoctions of toadskins, as LI

treatment

for

dropsy . The v i r tue

of toacisltins, says the eminent scien-

tific writer Ritcnie Calder, lies in its

richness in bajngin, which produces

a

free How

of

urine, so helping to drain

the

tissues,

and in adrenaun , which

slows down the heart ratio, increases the

blood pressure, and speeds up the secre-

tion

of

sugar

(Medzczne

alzd

iblan,

p. 5 3 ) .

M o d e r n

medicine prescribes the

same drugs and medicines used by thc

ancients and often produced from the

same slimy, filthy sources-but m ore

about this later. Let us continue the

history and progress of medical science.

Much of the medical knowledge of the

Egyptians was passed on to the Greeks,

though some of it was lost through the

ravages of war.

M o d e r n P r ac ti ce s C a m e F r o m

Ancient Greece

Th e medical a rt

AS

WE

NOW

PRAC-

TlCE

IT,

the character of th e physician

as

we now understand it, both date

for

us

from Hippocrates-who lived in an-

cient Greece about 300 B.C., according

to

t he Lhcyclopedia Ljritanntca, edition

XI,

;irticle Medicine. This articie g o e s

o n to say, Hippocrates . recognized

. . n acute diseases, a natural process

which the huinours went through .

.

.

The JULY

f tlic physician

was to forsee

these changes, to assist

or

not

to

hinder

them,

so

that the sick ma n mig ht con-

qu er the disease with th e help of the

physician. The times at which crises

were to be expected were naturally

looked for with anxiety; and

it

was a

cardinal point in the Hippocrat ic sys-

tem to foretell the courses and event of

the disease. . . . The Hippocrat ic physi-

cians

. .

. in this

. .

have perhaps never

hceu exLelled.

Around 200 U.C. in Greek-dominated

Egypt in the use of drugs and in the a r t

surgery and obstetrics T h e A l e x u n dr i a n

practitioners c o d t i c o n ~ p a r em o s t favor-

ubly

with

those of m o d e r n times,

When we compare the doctors and

physicians of ancient times with those

of today we find that contrary

to

the

fable of evolution physicians were often

as

competent or even more compe ten t in

;idminisrering their d rugs and using their

knives than many today.

But medical science has always been a

strange mixture of t ru th and error.

Medic ine a M i x t u r e o f

Truth a n d

Error

The

Britnmzira

cont inues: (I?z

t b e

fieatnzent of disease the Hipprocratic

.school nttached greut intpor taw e

t o

die t ,

die variations necessary in different dis-

e;ises being minutely defined. Medicines

\\.ere regarded as of secondary im po r-

tance, but not neglected, two hundred

The

GOOD

NEWS October, 1959

and

sixty-five

drugs being ment ioned at

different places in the Hippocratic

works. . The highest importance was

attached to applying

all

remedies at the

right mom ent , and the general principle

enforced of making all influences-in-

ternal and external-co-operate for the

relief

of

the pat ient . . In chronic cases

diet, exercise and natural methods were

chiefly relied upon. .

.

A treatise on the

diseases of women, contained in the Hip -

pocratic collection . . {is]

of

remarkable

practical value according to physicians

of today.

Ancient physicians also recognized the

vital importance of diet in

preven t ing

diseases.

It is the doctors primary duty t o teach

people how t o l i : le henlthily, not to try

to cure the m after they become sick. But

today doctors are

so

busy giving drugs

to the sick and afflicted that they have

no t ime to teach them how to keep well

Doctors have got ten away from their

function just

as

they usually did in an-

cient times.

So

medical science came out of Egypt.

It

spread through the ancient world and

was especially p racticed a t Ekron . People

hcl

ieved

then that they could be healed

only throu gh medical science -bu t

what does God say?

The

Bible

Atiswcr

King Ahaziah died in the hands of

those physicians who were the repre-

sentatives of Baalzebub, the go d

of

medi-

cine

(I1

Kings 1 :2 -4 , 16-17). They

could not cure him. Notice that they

thought their god cured the sick and

afflicted thro ug h thc ir medicines-just as

doctors do today. But who

was

Baalze-

b u b ?

Baalzebub, the god of medicine, was

the god of dung or the god of fihh.

Ancient physicians guided by their god

Baalzebub used filth to t ry to prevent

or

cure disease, just as today doctorr inject

peop le w i t h po l io vacc ine ma de from

m o n k e y pas. Th e inoculation of human

pus from small pox cases had been

known since far distant times

A His-

tory of Medicine,

p. 6 4 1 ) .

Havent m ost

of you had pus and other f i l th put into

your systems in the f orm of d iphtheria,

tetanus, smallpox, polio

or

other shots?

Baalzebub was called by various nam es

in various parts of the world. In ancient

Greece he was known

as

Aesculapius

and appeared in the form of a ser9ent

-a

type of Satan ( A History

of

M e d i -

cilze, p. 122.) The Semitic peoples of

Syria, Palestine, arid Phoenicia wor-

shiped the god of healing Esmun .

.

who was often represented as holding a

rod in his hand about whic h are tw ined

t w o serpents (p . 12 1) . Thi s i s the ern-

blem of Mercury, the Greek god of co n -

merce and thieves and is

t h e e m b l e m

of

m o d e r n

medic l

cbence (pp. 74-75

)

Th e serpent was by no means confined

to the (;reeks. It hgures in ulnaost

all

#Gnnzisii>emedici; ie. .

. . The

w r p m r

was

synonymous with w i s d o m it knew

both

good and

ei,il--poison and antid ote

-and

.

. was the ally of the doctor

( M e d i c i n e

and

mar^, .p.

59) .

Even iii

ancient times

men

believed G od w orked

through the doctors with their knives

and drugs. But they did not realize that

this was not the true God of the uni-

Tierse, but it was

the god of

this w o r l d

(11 Cor. 4 : 4 ) , Satan the Devil. H e ap-

peared as a serpent

i n the

garden of

Eden and deceived Eve into taking of

the tree

of

knozoledge of

good

and evil.

Yes, Satan the Devil is the founder and

pcrpctrator of modern meclicul science

Medica l Symbols f rom Egypt

Have

you

ever wondered what the$

symbol on doctors prescription means?

I t

is

a symbol identifying modern

medical science. But where did it orig-

inate? From Babylon and Egypt

Read what Ritchie Calder, one of

todays outstanding scientists, has to

say: W he n the new-fledged doctor fresh

from his course in twentieth-century

medical science examines his first patie nt

and writes the first prescription, he

avows himself a neophyte Fnew mem-

ber}

of a p g ~ i , agical cult. He may

not know i t

as

he scribbles his instruc-

tions to dispense the latest antibiotic or

the

newest

sufa drug, but , at the

top of

his prescription, he writes I . and.

in this act he invokes Horus, the bird-

headed

god

of

the

Egyptians.

As

Sir

William Osler pointed out, i t is the Eye

of Horus, the Egyptian amulet dating

back 5000 years Ho rus became the

god of healing and his eye the protect-

ing device.

Horus was none other than the Egyp-

t ian form of Nimrod reborn (Gen.

10:8-9), the foundcr of this worlds

society which is in rebellion against God.

H e was worshiped as the sun-god.

Du ring Roman t imes , Galen (130 -

200 A.D.) advised his fellow p hysicians

to sprinkle their writings with Egyptian

symbols to impress their patients, and

on e of those sym bols was the Eye of

Horus. At first it depicted two eyes,

which became corrupted into two

R o m a n

Rs,

back to back, . . and later

to a kind

of Z,

. . which was the sign

of Zeus,

or

Jupite r, and this, in turn, was

rationalized back to Q

Like the sacred snake of Aesculapius,

the crest of the physician, this is a re-

minder that modern medicine is the

heir to a long tradition

of

myth and.

magic. And the influence of ancient

Egypt was immense ( M e d i c i n e and

Man, pp. 5 3 - 5 4 ) .

But let us go on with the story. Much


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October, 959

The GOOD NEWS

Page

7

go i n t o t h in e h o u s e 4 h r i s t h ea le d hi m

by forgiving his physical sins. Healing is

the forgiveness of sins- and

God

alone

can forg ive sins

(v.

2

)

.

See also John

In Isaiahs prophesy concerning the

first coming of C hrist and H is suffering

for us,

God

says: Surely ou r diseases He

did bear, and our pains H e carried.

H e was wounded because of

our

trans-

gress ions-of the physical laws that

govern

our

health And with His

stripes we are healed (Isa. 53:4,

5

{Jewish Translation); 1 Pet . 2 :24) .

Therefore if we trust in chemicals to

take away our diseases and pains w e ar e

gui l ty of spi t t ing on and reject ing the

sacrifice Jesus Christ made for us.

Yet Jesus said that thc sick need a

physician (Mark

2 :17

)

.

B u t w h i c h p h y s i c i a n ? T h e w o r d

physician means healer. Doctors ad-

mit that

no drug or medicine calz heal.

Jesus Christs broken body pays for our

physical sins in full when w e repen t and

turn to Him. God is the only real Physi-

cian. Trust ing in

anything

else to re-

move our diseases is idolatry God says,

Thou shalt have no other gods before

Me. . I am the Eternal that healcth

thee

or

the Eternal your Physician or

your Healer Ex. 20: 3 ; 1 5 2 6 ) .

Today there is a crying need for doc-

LOIS

who

know Gods health laws to tell

people bow

not

t o

become sick. Jesus

said to the man whom he had healed,

Behold, thou are made whole: sin no

more , lest

a

worse thing befall thee

( J o h n 5 : 1 4 ) . Yes, we need doctors to

tell

us

which health laws we have broke n

so

we

wnnt

make the

same

mistakes and

bring more suffering on oursleves. Mr.

Armstrongs booklet Does

God

Heal

?odny? explains this thoroughly. Be

sure to read it.

A r g u m e n t s

For

Usin g M edicines

But some argue that God sanctions the

use of medicine in Revelation 22:2,

where He says that in the New Jeru-

salem there w ill be the tree of life .

. .

and the leaves of the t ree were for the

healing of the nations. This is prefig-

ured in Ezekiel: th e fru it thereof shall

be for meat, and the leaf thereof for

medicine

(Ezek.

4 7 :

1 2 ) .

There, these people reason, that

proves we should use drugs, pain killers

and medicines.

Those who say this are in utter igno-

rance of Gods W ord and H is plan

Notice what these verses really mean.

We

read that those punished by God arc

going

to

ask, W hy is my pain perp etual,

and my wo und incurable, which refuseth

to

be healed? (Jer . 1 5 : l S ) . Th e reason

is they trust in the wron g god. T h e t r u e

God answers them, In vain shalt thou

use many medicines; for thou shalt not

5 :2-14.)

of

the medical lcnowlcdgc

of

ancient

Egyptians and Greeks were lost dur ing

the D ark Ages. Gradually over centuries

men began

to

discover

o m e

again in

early n iodern times the m edical facts that

had been known thousands of years be-

fore.

Men today have looked at the igno-

rance and sqiialor that existed in the

Dark

Ages

and have assumed that man

is always getting be tter and better But

this

is

not true.

Modern Drugs and Medic ines

W h e n w e look into the practices of

modern medicine we f ind that drugs ,

after physical rest,

are

the most often

used therapeutic measures at the physi-

cians command. But what do doctors

admit about their own drugs?

A former Harvard professor of anat-

omy said once it would be worse for the

fishes bu t bette r for man kind if all drugs

were thrown in to the sea. Of another

Harvard professor

of

therapeutics it was

told that his qualification for the chair

was char no man l iving knew bet ter the

worthlessness of more drugs. In spi te

of these sayings, drugs continue to be

the mainstay of tre atm ent (p.

20

of

No der n Methods of Trentm ent by Logan

Clende ning, M.D. Assistant Professor of

Medicine, Lecturer on Therapeutics,

Medical Department of the Univers i ty

of Kansas; Attcnding Physician, Kansas

Ci ty Genera l Hospi t a l ) .

Backing up this s ta tement , Chapman

Pincher, of the LoIidon Express Service,

in an art ic le in the El Paso Herald Post

of December 4, 1958, reported the f ind-

ings

of

the noted British physicians Dr.

William Summerskill . and Dr . Ar-

thur Alvarez

.

. first class observers

working under the eminent chief ,

Dr.

Avery Jones. [The ir) results [of

tests proving the harmful effects of the

most common drugs) are to be made

known in the Lancet, the senior medical

journal

of

the worlcl. W ro te Chapnian

Pincher: T h e d r ~ g

ith

no

ill

effects

has yet t o be made. With al l drugs ,

which must affect the body mechanism

to produce any results at all, the doctor

who prescribes them k now s he must bal-

ance the

risks

against advantages.

T he Effect s of Drugs

The use of drugs , in an at tempt to

take away the penalty for broken physi-

cal laws, has produced some horrifying

consequences. T he February, 195 6, issue

of the well-known medical magazine,

Todars

Health, stated: Some new dis-

ease symptoms may

be

caused by highly

processed foods

or

by wonder drggs.

.

antibiotics may alter the nature of

bacteria in the intestinal tract,

some

of

which are helpfu l and useful, Dr. Karver

L. Puestoq, Univers i ty of W isconsin

School

of

Medicine, told the American

College Gastroenterology.

Men, rather than t rus t ing God for

healing, are producing new diseases as

they try to get rid of the ones they

already have brough t upo n themselves by

wron g living habits. In th e process, thou-

sands are slowly dying from mans at-

tempted cures. Penicillin has been called

the queen of drugs, but can this de-

cription still be upheld in view of the

increasing number of severe and fatal

reactions reported in medical papers?

Penicillin came into general use in

1943, says this article, but the first

death from penici l l in therapy was not

reported un til 1 946. Ano ther three years

elapsed before a second fatality occurred.

Dur ing the last 10 years, however, severe

reactions have been reported with

in-

creasing freqaency and the number of

fatal cases

has

mahiplied

rapidly. By

1755,

some 560 severe

rcactioris

had

been reported, 81 of them fatal, and by

1957 it was estimated that

some

2000

deaths from anaphylaxis du e to penicillin

had occurred $12 the

United States alolze

(Los Angeles Time s, Feb. 1, 1 9 5 9 ) .

These facts clearly prove that drugs,

are poisons. They do harm tn the hndy.

This is why pharmacy, in the original

Greek language from which the word

comes signified the use of any

kind of

drug . . . and hcncc also $ ~ o i s o r tand

witchcraft (Encyclo pediu Britannic d,

edition XI, article Pharmacy).

Bible Describes Modern Medicine

Gods

says that pharmacy translated

witchcraft in Galatians 5 :20-4 one

of Satans deceptinns, trusting in chem-

icals instead of God to get rid of disease

or

pain. It is a work of the flesh (Gal.

5:20)-a lack of faith. Th e word

witchcraft in this verse is

a

niistransla-

t ion in the King James Vers ion. The

original Greek is pharmakeia and m eans

medica t ion or pharmacy ( s e e

Strongs Exh uustive Concordance).

It is carnality to trust in medication

to remove disease

or

pain instead of

t rus t ing God who forgiveth

all

thine

iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases

(Ps.

103:3 ) W e n ee d to ask ourselves,

Just what is healing? Healing is Gods

forgiveness

of

physical sins.

In

Luke

5 : 1 8 - 2 6 a man sick with the palsy was

brought to Christ. Christ startled the

people by saying thy sins be forgiven

thee. Why did He say that? He goes

on to te l l

us,

that ye may know that

the Son of man hath power upon earth

tO forgive

sins

(v . 24)-what kind?

Sin against

our

bodies,

physicul

sins that

cause disease, suffering and ultimately

premature dea th . To show t ha t H e has

powcr to forgive physical as well as

spiritual sins, Christ said to the sick

man, Arise, and take up thy couch, and


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1959

h r ciired, hecause

th o u hmt n o

henling

n~ediciner (Jer.

46:11;

30-13). Only

God can heal disease and remove pain

by forgiving physical sins.

The tree of l ife that will

b e

in t he

new Jerusalem typifies Go d s Holy Spirit

just as did the tree of life in the Gar den

in Eden (Gen. 3:2 2) . Th e nations wil l

receive healing then just as we must

now, through the everliving power of

Gods Spirit. That tree is merely the

symbol

of

it. It is not on earth today-

it will come down o ut of heaven in th e

New Je rusa lem (Rev. 21:2 ; 22 : l - 2) .

Some doctors say that God was the

first to use ane sthetics to perform surgery

when He caused a deep sleep

to

fall

upon Adam, and he slept: and

He

took

one of h is ribs an d closed up t he flesh

instead thereof; and the rib which the

Lord God had raken from man, made H e

a woman (Gen. 2:21-22). They claim

this givcs us liccnse to do the same.

W hy do weak, helpless, mortal, fal-

lible men want to become God

before

they are qualzlkd? There are some things

that are not our prerogative-some

things that only God is qualified to do.

Chris t went to heaven and H e told H is

disciples: Wh ither I go,ye cannot come

( J o h n 13:33). God also says: I will

I-cider vengeance to mine enemies

(Deut . 34:41 ), but He commands

us:

Avenge

IW

yuursclv~s, UL ililier give

place unto wrath (R om. 12

:19-2

1 .

Again God says, I

kill

and

I

make

alive; I wound and I heal ( D e u t .

32: 27 . God commands us not to kill

and not to trust in drugs, and surgery or

anything else physical to heal our dis-

r a w s and

pains-that prep roga tive be-

longs to God alone. W e are not yet God ;

lets do o u r job and t rus t Him to d o His

-He can

d o it so

much bet ter than we

The use

of

drugs, pain killers, tran-

quilizers, surgery and all the rest of

mans attempts to heal prevent the sacri-

fice Jesus Christ made for us from being

applied to suffering humanity.

Why is man

so

unwilling to accept

the only way to real health and hap pincss

-the way

of

faith and obedience to

God?

God

doesnt deny us anything that is

for

o u r

good.

He

denies

us

those things

that will cause us unnecessary pain and

misery and death.

God speed the day when all men

will

realize

the truth and will be healed

Using Medicines Is Wi tchcra f t

Those

w h o

dont repent

of

trusting in

the false god

of

medical science-falsely

so called-are going to suffer the ex cru-

ciating agonies of the seven last plagues

(Rev.

9:21;

1 5 : l ; 16:1-21).Again the

King Jaines inistranslates the Greek

word, pbarmakeia, this time as sor-

call

ceries-this word means them e or -

ministering of drugs (see Thayers

Greek-English Le xicon).

But those who still wont repent even

after the mil lennium and t rus t in G od to

apply the beating C hrist received as pay-

ment for

our

physical suffering will have

no part in the eternal Kingdom of God

(Rev. 22: 14) . He tha t overcometh shall

inherit all things; and I will be his God,

and he shall be my son. But the fearful,

and unbeLieviag, and die abominable,

.

and sorcerers, and idolators shall

have their pa rt i n the lake which burneth

with fire and brimstone: which is the

second death (Rev. 2 1

7 - 8 ) .

Th e word

here translated sorcerers comes from

tlie Grrrk pbarmakeus which tneans one

who prepares or administers drugs--a

drugggistl or a pharmacistt

or

a

fioi-

soner (Strongs Exhaustic e Concord

-

ance). Drugs are poisons, and every

poisoner is going

to

end up in the lake

of fire unless he repents.

Either we trust God to heal

our dis-

eases, and learn to have

a

happy abun-

dant life now and for all eternity, or trust

in medical science-which wo nt help us

and which God terms sorcery, witch-

craft and idolatry-and suffer agony

now and an excruciating death-the sec-

ond death in the lake of fire.

The

choice

is OURS.

WHICH WILL You CHOOSE?

RESIST

the Devil

(Continued fro m

page

4 )

MORE

OF

THEM He was an interested

onlooker. H e might have said

to

him-

self, W ell, thats interesting-I wan t

you to do

i t again H e was directly

laying himself open for possession of a

foul spirit

A i d I kiiow just a5 sure as I write

this article there are some

of

you-WHO

HAVE DONE

THE VERY SAME THING

And I adjure and admonish ever) single

one of

you

i n [he i i d 1 1 ~ nd

by

the

authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to

QUIT

doing any such thing, to get on

your knees and

REPENT

of

any

such foul

and obscene filth, and to call out t o G od

for H is protect ion

Here is what

yozc

ought to

be

doing.

Jarnes says, ReJist he devil and he

will

FLEE

from you (Jas. 4 :

7 )

Do you be-

lieve that scripture? Do you really be-

l ieve God? God says if you resist the

devil he is

bound

to FLEE from you

Notice T h e apostle Paul said, I am

crucified with Christ, nevertheless

I

live,

yet not I, but CHRIST LIVETH IN M E

(Gal . 2 : 2 0 ) . Jesus Christ whipped

Satan the devil in the greatest spiritual

bat t le that has ever been fought (Luke

4:4,

Mat.

4 :4 ) .

Jesus Christ is the

SAME

yesterday, today, and forever

(Heb. 13:s). If Jesus Christ is truly

LI VI NG

His l i fe in you, then

th ink

of

this:

Demons are fallen angels. Angels are

created beings. Your Bible says not any-

thing was made without

Jesus

Christ-

that He made everything that was made.

Therefore, Jesus Christ

made

angels

Christ, then is the very

CREATOR

of these

demons He is the Great , Supreme, All-

powerful

R U L E R

over these foul spirits,

and they must obey Jesus Christ

IM-

MEDIATELY

If Christ is really

living

is

l i fe witb-

b i t you, then the very One who created

these foul spirits and is over them and

rules them is living H is life right within

you

That means the demons are des-

perately AFRAID of YOU You

do IWL

need to fear them-you need to respect

and be wary and fearful of the conse-

quences should

you

allow yourself to be

tempted by them or

to

be influenced by

them or become possessed by them. But

3.0

me n o t t o

feay them

Here is the Bible fnrmula for re-

sisting Sa t a n a d His demons. If you feel

an unnatural influence or anything of

the kind say, THE

LORD

REBUKE Y O U

(Jude 9) . Call upon t he

iiaiiit:

of Tesus

Christ of NazarAh, and begin praying

to God.

The apostle Paul wrote, Do ye not

know that the saints shall

jadge

the

zuodd?

And if the world shall be judged

by you, are you unworthy to judge the

smallest matters? KNOW YE NOT

THAT

WE SHALL

JU D G E ANGELS?

( I Cor.

6 :2 ) . Demons are fallen angels . WE

ARE G O I N G TO BE T H E I R

JUDGES

And

we are going to corisign them to foam-

ing

out

their

o w n

shame,

wandering

stdrs, to whom is reserved the blackness

of

darkness forever (Jude 13 )

Brethren, the answer to this problem

is the same answer as any other spiritual

problem which

tnay

ever come up. PRAY

TO

GOD

Learn

t o

resist

the

detil

and

he w ll flee

from J OU

If you will do this, and stay close to

God, you need have no fear whatsoever

for yourself or any member of your

family-because Satan the devil with all

his millions of demons does not have

the power to

make

you commit

a

sin,

think a wrong thought, or do one single

thing contrary to the law of God. God

has so ordained-and Go d will back

up

this fact in His word. May God help

each and everyone of you to

take heed ,

and begin to

reallj resist the devil

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How You Could Be Tempted

Without Knowing: It

Here i s

u

surprising article everyone needs to read

b y

L.

Leroy

Neff

ou may right now be tempted

of

Satan-and yct be totally un -

Y awa re of it. Yo u may even have

yielded to his temptation-be sinnin g

-and not know

it

Heres

How

Deceived people do not know they

are deceived. Christians

are

warned not

to be deceived. This warning would

not be necessary if Christians never

could be deceived. But this warning is

necessary becausc

y o u

may be caught

off

guard and get into a wrong spir i t

or

att i tude without knowing

it

Before we were converted Satan had

deceived each one of us in o ne way

or

another. In fact he has deceived the

whole world (Re v.

12:9)

and has blind-

ed the minds

of all

unbelievers

(TI Cor.

4 : 3 - 4 ) .

Just how has he done this?

Not

only

by the false religions

of

this

world,

that

appear

right. Or by politics a i d woil l l ly

governments .

Or

by secret societies,

iodges, fraternities a nd by false science.

But above all, he deceived each of

us by appealing to our vanity, to our

lusts, and our carnal desires.

He,

before

we were converted, led

us

to

ACCUSE

BACKS

OF

OTHERS.

Or the devil let us

become dejected, discouraged, seduced

us to want to

quit

l iving Yet he made

it

appcar to be the r ight thing to do.

W e have all done what seems r ight

to a man (Pro .

14:12) .

But-bas Satan found since our con-

cersion that he is

no

longer able to

deceive us?

No

Many of you, unaware of Satans

devices and wiles, are perhaps being

caught off guard and ye t y o u m a y not

eten know

it

We need to learn

of

these satanic devices, and not be igno-

rant of them. The apostle

Paul

was not

ignora nt of Satan nor his devices, as

we read:

For

we are not ignorant

of

his devices (I1

Cor. 2: 11) .

Yet some in Gods Church still are

OTJR NE IGHRORS , t O

TALK BEHIND

THE

A Sp i ri t u al Wa r f a r e

Everyone has problems. At times

some blame God

or

even brethren in

the Church for these problems. W e are

not in a physical battle only, but in a

spiritual battle. The apostle

Paul

ex-

plains it in Ephesians 6:12: For we

wrestle not against flesh and blood, but

against principalities, against powers,

agaiiisL

ilie

rulers uf rhe darkness of

this world, against spiritual wickedness

[that is wicked spirits) in high places.

The apostle

Paul

recognized Satans

devices and he knew when Satan hin-

dered him. W e have an example

of

this

in

I

Thess.

2:18.

Here

Paul

mentions

that Satan hindered us. W he n Satan

hinders us today, we often blame physi-

cal conditions only. Some who are de-

layed or prevented from goin g to Church

on

the Sabbath,

or

to one

of

the Holy

Days, blame the weather, financial prob-

lems, car trouble,

or

a host of other

things. Satan is not recognized

as

a

hindrance.

Yet Satan

is anygry

with

our

Church

as

the apostle John reveals in Rev.

12:12 . He re is Gods Church, the Church

that keeps the commandments

of

God,

and has the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Satan is not angry with those who are

still

deceived by his many devices, but

he is angry with

yozc

and with m e . H e

is angry with the Church of God. H e

knows that he has but a short time left.

He wi l l do all he can to hinder this

work,

to

hinder any of those in Gods

Church. It

is

his desire to sift us as

wheat too (Luke 22:31) , or to divide

us against each other.

Signs of

Satan

Just what are the signs

or

fruit of

Satans work? W e can recognize the

work of God

by

the fruits. They are

the fruits of the Holy Spirit of God.

But the fruits of Satan are entirely

different.

O n e

of

the fruits of Satan is found

in Rev.

12:lO.

H e

is

here called

the

accaser of

our

brethren. H e accuses the

saints before God day and night. But,

Satan does not stop there. He also ac-

cuses us to each other.

A n ex am ple of Satans accusation is

found i n Zech. 3 : l . And he showed me

Joshua the High Priest standing before

the Lord, and Satan standing at his right

hand

to

resist him. In this place, the

RSV

renders the word resist by accuse.

A Lexicon will bring

out

this

fact.

Satan

was here, not only resisting Joshua

the High Pr iest , but he was accusing

him. Here

was

Satan at his usual busi-

ness

of

accusing the brethren.

Satan does not appear in bodily form

to accuse

us

before

our

brethren. If he

did, Christians would not be deceived

by his devices. They would then know

that the lies were coming from Satan.

Instead, Satan puts thoughts in the m ind

against

a

brother. They appear very

logical and right in every respect. The

thought

of

accusation seems entirely

correct, and yet

it

has been devised by

the Father of lies. He has twisted the

facts in our minds

so

that they appear

logical and right. Yet in almost 99 times

out of 100, these accusations are com-

pletely wrong, and without actual basis.

Here is another example of Satan

and his accusations. Why back in the

garden of Eden, he said (Gem

3:

1)

Hath God said. Here Satan accused

God. He was imputing wrong motives

to God. He wanted Eve to think that

God had madc a mistake,

or was uii-

reasonable,

or

had not given due con-

sideration to the problems of Adams

and Eve. It appeared right in every re-

spect to Eve. She was deceived, and

yet she was wrong

Has

a

thought ever come

to

your

mind about

a

brother , Hath y o u r

brother said certain t hin gs? If so, he

had a wrong motive, your mind will

reason-influenced

by

Satan

or

his

demons. Hc was sinning. Satan may

even use scripture

as

he did to Christ

in the 4th chapter of Luke. H e may

twist scripture in accusing your brother

before you.

You may think it is impossible for

Satan to pu t such thoughts in your mind,

but lets see what the scriptures say

about this. Notice

I

Chron.

21: 1.

And

Satan stood up against Israel and pro-

voked David to number Israel. Notice,

Satan stood up against

Israel. He

is

standing

u p

against Gods Church today,

against you and me Satan provoked

David to number Israel, a great sin in

tiods

sight. And how did he do it?

H e first had to put a thought in Davids

mind. This thought appeared right and

logical

to David. Tr

was

a

way that

seemed right to him. There were prob-

ably 1,001 reasons why it was the r ight

thing

to

do, and yet it was wrong, it

was sin.

Satan still does this today Are you

aware of such devices?

Another example is i n John 1 3 : 2 .

Notice-Satan put it into the hea rt

of

Judas. It must have seemed logical

and right to

Judas, s o

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deceived by the lies and logic of Satan

the Devil.

When accusations come to our mind

against a brother, they appear logical

and reasonable. Satan would no t ma ke

them appear any other way. We may

have such accusations come to our mind

;\gainst a brother, against Go ds min is-

ters, or against the Church

as

a whole.

But they are almost always wrong.

Satan or his demons put wrong

thoughts

i n oi ir

minds. Instead

of

put -

ting these thoughts out immediately,

some continue to think about it and

dwell upon it . Then this idea within

us grows and brings forth fruit-sin

and eril . Instead of bringing every

thought into captivity, our thoughts

take us captive ( I I Cor.

10:5).

If a thought of accusation comes to

your mind against a brother, you should

put it out of your mind immediately,

unless you are certain that the person

iiivolved is sinn ing. The n if you b elieve

that the person is sinning, you must

go

to him and point out his fault imme-

diately (Matt. 18:13-17).

A n o t h e r D e v i c e

is discouragement. If we are obedient

to God in everything and yet become

hopelessly Jiscoutnged, Satan has won

his battle. I~ l e as caused soilie to C O I ~

to the point where they no longer even

wanted to live-where they felt it would

be better to die, since that would give

them rest from their problems, than to

continue on under such a terrific load.

Th e book of J ob gives

us

some

val-

uable lessons

on

this . Not ice what hap-

pened.

In the first chapter it is recorded

t l m Satan appeared before God. God

asked Satan if he had considered His

sL-rv;uit Job.

God

pointed out the good

points

in

Job, how that there was none

like him on the earth, a perfect and

an upright man that feared God and

shunned evil. Is that the way we do,

when we look

at

our brother in the

Church? Do we look at the good points,

or

do

we follow the example of Satan?

He accused Job, saying, Doth Job fear

God for nought? Here was Satan a t

his

job

o f accusing

You know the result of this accusa-

tion. Satan afflicted Job with severe

boils or ulcers, and this, after he had

tiiken everything away from Job. Now

i f y o u were in the place of Job, what

would you say? Would you say God is

punishing me?

Or

would you say

Satan is hindering m e ? W h e n t row

bles beset

you,

are you quick

to

blame

God

for it instead o f acknowledging that

Satan

and

liis clemoiis are fighting

: gainst you, o r that you may be suffer-

iiig from your

O U J / /

carizul sins.

In the 3rd chapter of Job we find

Another

very

effective de vice of Satan

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1959

how discouraged Job bccamc.

He

was

sorry for the day that he was born,

wishing he had never been born. He

said that he would like to receive death,

since in death there

IS

rest. Have you

ever felt l ike that? If

so,

you can be

sure that Satan was at work. But, if

this has ever happened to you, did you

think it was Satan that caused it, or

did you blame the physical circum-

stances involved only? It is t ime to be

aware of thcsc Satanic devices.

It is absolutely necessary that we

recognize the works of Satan and his

demons. Otherwise, how cun we fight

aguinst them? lhen, whe n w e recog-

nize that our warfare is with these un-

clean spirits, we should follow the ex-

amples and ins truct ions given in the

Bible. Christ commanded Satan to get

behind Him (Mat t . 1 6 :2 3 ) . Most of us

are afraid of Satan and his demons and

yet thc cxact opposite should be so

Notice James

4 : 7

Submit yourselves

therefore

to

God. Resist the Devil and

he will flee from you. Have you re-

sisted Satan when he came against you?

Or did you shrink buck in fear , le t t ing

Satan win the victory?

How

to F i g h t

The apostle Paul actually says the

same thing, notice Eph. 4:27 Neither

give place to the devil. In other words,

dont give in,

or

fall backward in your

warfare against Satan. Satan is going

about as a roaring lion seeking whom

he can devour, and he is devouring

many by his deceit, by his accusations,

and

by

his lies. Peter tells

us,

W h o m

resist

stcadfast in the faith, knowing

that the same afflictions

are

accom-

pl ished in your brethren that are in

the world. ( I Pet.

5 : 9 ) .

Are you re-

sisting, and are you steadfast in the

fai th?

Final ly, we must put on the whole

armou r of God (Eph .

6:13). no

you

have the whole armour of G od? (Eph .

6:14-18). Do you have the truth of

God, or are you still somewhat deceived

by your former teachings? Do you have

the righteousness which is obedience to

G o d ? Do you have the true gospel,

which is the gospel of peace, or one of

strife and trouble. Do you have faith?

You must have it in order to fight off

these wicked spirits. Yo u m ust have

t h e

helmet

of

salvation,

or

complete re-

pentance of your sins, baptism, and

G o ds Holy Spi r i t. The n you mus t have

the sword of the spirit which is the

word of God,

not

just by carrying your

Bible with you, but inaking Gods word

a

very part of your being. You must

study and learn what it says and then

obey it.

In addition to all of these things, yo~i

m ust pray always-and watch

Y o u

lllusi

w a t d ~ orld everits, you must be

ever watchful for the work of Satan and

his demons. The only way that you

u-ill be able to recognize these works

are by the fruits of what is happening.

UJi th this armour, and firm resistance,

you will win your battle over Satan and

his demons. If you lack in

any

of

these

weapons, cry out to God , ask him in

faith believing and he will supply what

you lack

o r

need.

Y ( J Uw e d to be aware that the accu-

sations which may come to your mind,

are probably used by Satan o r his de-

mons. You need to put these wrong

thoughts out immediately, briiaging

t hem iiito cuptitmitj, Do not become

discouraged through the work of Satan.

As you

look back now, you may see

where Satan has used you, with his lies

and accusations. Yoii may have falsely

accused your brother in your mind,

even possibly telling others. That is

behind now. You should not be de-

ceived any longer. You should recognize

this Satanic device and not be deceived

by it again. Can you now say with the

apostle Paul--We are not ignora nt of

Satan

or

his devices?

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Mr. Armstrong has established and

which is under his direct supervision.

Let us rejoice and give God thanks

for mak ing this possible And let us

PRAY for these servants of Jesus Christ

who work in H i s Letter Answering

De-

partment

Cont inue

to

pray for Gods work in

Australia, the Philippines, South Africa,

Great Bri ta in and aroand the ent i re

eurth.

Pray eurizestlj, bre thre n, for more: of

Gods guidance and

POWER

in every

phase and facet of the work

of

Gods

Church. The time is swiftly approach-

ing for the conzpleiion

of

our labor.

T he night is far spent, the day is 31

h a n d ( R o n i . 1 3 : 1 2 ) .


11/12

We

Are

a

BETTER

Called

to

Resurrection

Has

God

required more

of

some

to

gain a better resurrection?

I s

imm ortali ty the on ly reward

of

the saved? W h y are those to be saved

in the Millennium not required to war against Satan?

by L.

L e r o y N e f l

m u s CHRISI

said, Children, how

bnvd it is to enter the Kingdom of

J God (Mark 10:24 , RSV.) Today

it

s

hard to enter the Kingdom of God

Will it be easier for those in the world

tomorrow

Todays War

Agains t Sa tan

In this age Chr

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