Mystery of the Ages.PDF - Blow the Trumpet

But remember, the humans remaining on the earth after Christ's return--ruled thenby Christ and those resurrected or changed to immortality--will themselves still havehuman nature. They will be still unconverted.Two Courses of ActionBut Christ and the governing kingdom of God, then set up as the governing family, willbring about the coming utopia by two basic courses of action.1) All crime and organized rebellion will be put down by force--divinesupernatural force.2) Christ will then set his hand to reeducate and to save or spiritually convert theworld.Notice, first, how the social and religious customs will be changed by divineforce.God gave seven annual Festivals and Holy Days he commanded to be observed.They contained great and important meaning. They pictured God's master plan forworking out his purpose for humanity. They were established forever. Jesus observedthem, setting us an example. The apostles observed them (Acts 18:21; 20:6, 16; I Cor.5:8; 16:8). The true, original Church--including gentile converts--kept them.They were God's way--God's customs for his people. But people rejected God'sways and customs, and turned, instead, to the ways and customs of the pagan religions.People did what seemed right to themselves. And since human minds in this world havebeen hostile against God (Rom. 8:7), attitudes of hostility against God's way of life haveprevailed. The ways that seem right to a man have been ways contrary to the ways thatproduce peace, happiness and abundant living. These same wrong ways seem right tomost people today! We realize they seem right--not wrong--to most who will be readingthese words.But can we realize that "there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but theend thereof are the ways of death"? (Prov. 14:12). And if you turn to Proverbs 16:25 youwill see the same thing repeated: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but theend thereof are the ways of death."God said through Moses: "Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here thisday, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes" (Deut. 12:8). And again: "Take heedto thyself that thou be not snared by following them [pagan religious customs]...and thatthou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even sowill I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination tothe Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods..." (Deut. 12:30-31).Today the professing Christian world rejects God's Holy Days; holy to him, butwhich a deceived "Christianity" hates. They observe instead the pagan days--Christmas,New Year's, Easter, and others--"which God hateth"! Many know and confess that theseare pagan--but they argue, "We don't observe these in worshiping the pagan gods, we usetheir customs in worshiping Christ and the true God."That is the way that "seemeth right" to people. They may not mean any wrong.They are deceived. A deceived man doesn't know he is wrong. He thinks he is right. Hemay be as sincere as those who have found God's way and obey it. Yet God says he will