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Europe and the Holy Land
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BY OR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT, THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES, INC.
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FOOLS T h e B ible is often called “ the most up-to-date document in all the world.” It describes men as they are. It reveals God as He is. It tells what men become in Christ and out o f Christ. It relates the thoughts o f men. One o f the most striking descriptions found in the Word o f God has to do with an individual who denies the existence o f God. We read it in Psalms 14:1: “ The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” So we cannot be indifferent to what we have been reading in newspapers, secular magazines and the religious press during recent months concerning a rather sig nificant segment o f the population who are loudly proclaiming that "God is dead.” In other words, they are saying that there is no God. This is nothing new or original. History is replete with accounts o f men and nations who held to this notion either in their pronouncements or in their manner o f life. A great civilization existed prior to the flood o f Noah’s day. They were the descend ants o f Adam, but even in those earliest times they had gone so far away from God that for them He had ceased to exist. Our Lord said concerning them, “ They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away” (Matt. 24:38, 39). From Noah and his family who were the only ones saved out o f the flood, there arose another great civilization. Over a period o f time, they too ruled God out o f their thinking, forgetting all about Him and living as though He were dead. They exalted themselves until in their pride they declared: “ Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name” (Gen. 11:4). Bear in mind that this civilization was not trying to reach unto God. He was completely out o f their thinking. They were trying to build a tower that would reach high enough so that they could boast o f their abilities. They wanted to make a name for themselves. But we read, "The Lord came down” (Gen. 11:3). It was as though even an infinite God had to come down in order to see what man with his very best efforts could accomplish. Then the God whom those men believed to be dead confounded their language and scat tered them abroad over the face o f the earth. Because they could THE KING'S BUSINESS
Great Britain, France,
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