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something very important to teach us;
that it has a vital warning for Earth's
young civilization in the face of its present
great crisis, and that it has warned of the
destruction of the world of unbelieving
mankind, and has shown the way of es·
cape. The impact this warning should have
"upon our lives, upon our philosophy and
our religion" is overwhelming.
Persons who consider this revelation be·
neath their intelligence are themselves the
ones who are looking too low. In confining
their investigations to the visible universe,
they look far beneath the magnificence of
what actually does exist, and dangerously
ignore its warning.
More Information than They Expect
Splendid creatures from what men call
"outer space" were used by God to explain
his requirements to faithful men three and
a half millenniums ago-long before the
epoch of modern radio or twentieth·century
science! Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
truthfully wrote under inspiration that the
Law given to Moses was "transmitted
through angels." The Law they transmitted
from God included severe warnings of
what would happen if the people who ac·
cepted it failed to remain faithful to their
God-these were warnings from space that
proved to be amazingly true!-GaJ. 3:19.
The word "angels" means "messengers."
These invisible messengers in space, far
wiser and more powerful than any material
life man knows, have transmitted out·
standing predictions and warnings of the
future. The fulfillment of the things they
were used to foretell is the greatest proof
of their existence, and of the fact that the
men who wrote their predictions and warnings
really were in touch with them. Let
us consider two different examples, one
that has already been accomplished in detail,
and another that presents a serious
warning for our day.
S1!JPTEMBER 8, 1964
Two thousand five hundred years ago,
in a message much easier to understand
than the coded communications radio as.
tronomers hope to hear from space, an
angel told Daniel the Hebrew that Per.
sia, then ruling as a world power, would be
overthrown and replaced by Greece. This
actually did occur! The messenger from
space said: "I have come to cause you to
discern what will befall your people in the
final part of the days." He gave "a vision
yet for the days to come," which foretold
the major events of world history from
Daniel's time down to our day!
He described, in advance, kings who
would rule Persia. He foretold the Greek
Empire's taking Persia's place as a world
power. He announced the division of Alex.
ander the Great's Greek Empire into four
parts at his death. He predicted the re·
placing of Greece by Rome. The angel fur·
ther described the modern world struggle
between dembcratic and totalitarian gOY·
ernments. He told of the world's impending
"time of distress such as has not been made
to occur since there came to be a nation."
He announced that the archangel Michael
would stand up to protect God's people at
the "time of the end" of this troubled and
wicked world, where we now find our·
selves.""
Certainly the angel who gave this mes.
sage gave far more information than
scientists hope to gain from creatures on
another planet. Daniel was not writing on
his own authority. How would he have
known, two hundred years in advance, what
Greece would do? How could he have pre-dieted
its split into four parts after Alexander's
death? How could he have fore·
told what would happen hundreds of years
later in Rome, or some 2,500 years later
in our century? No man could have predicted
this. Rather, this was a vastly su-
• See the Bible book of Daniel, chapters 10-12. and
chapters 10-13 ot the book "Your Will Be Done on
Earth," published by the Watch Tower SocIety.
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