You May Survive Armageddon Into God's New World - Continue

 Ordinarily. for us to think of trouble is not pleasant and we shrink from it. But the consideration of Armageddon, rightly understood, is inviting and beneficial.  No part of the earth will escape this war. There will be no neutrals in this war; each one will have to be on either the one side or the other. Happy will those be who find themselves on the winning side. Only those who favor and uphold the winning side may have any hope of surviving this greatest of all wars. It is possible now to know the winning side and take one's stand in advance on it. And this is why we are wise if are thoughtful and consider the overwhelming evidence of the nearness of it. The proverbs of wisdom advise us against acting hastily without knowledge and taking a disastrous course: "It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way. A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on and suffer for it." (Proverbs 19:2; 22:3, RS) so do not consider this mere calamity-howling, scoff at it and go on in simplicity and suffer. "How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?" A scoffer is punished." (Proverbs 1:22; 21:11, RS) Face the facts, understand them, and then choose the way of survival. 

The Bible is the only book on earth that tells us about the war of Armageddon and about God's new world to follow it. This is one of the many things that make the Bible the outstanding book among all ancient books that are reputed to be sacred. We are under sheer necessity to go to the Bible if we want to know the truth about this important subject. Although its sixty-six books were completed almost nineteen hundred years ago, the Bible is not old-fashioned and out of date. It is of practical use today. It is far in advance of any book on earth, no matter how recently written, and its prophecies that pierce into the edge of the future are actually history written in advance so certain of they being fulfilled. Its foreknowledge of the future, it sound rules for happy living, in view of life, its explanation of the cause of mankind's imperfect, dying condition and of the one remedy, and its showing us the road to salvation from the unsatisfying old world into a new world of endless life without torment of any kind. All this proves that the Holy Bible comes to us from a good and loving Mind far higher that that of the thirty-five or more men who were inspired to write its sixty-six books.

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