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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

Message to the Millions

Live of the comfort and love that brings, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up the pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

From Los Angeles, California, we present the program of The Voice of Prophecy.

A voice crying in the wilderness of these latter days, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

And now our radio quartet, the King's Herald, present a challenging song, Rise Up, O Men of God.

Rise up, O men of God, have done with their search in.

Give heart and soul and mind and strength to serve the King of Kings.

Rise up, rise up, rise up, all men of God, rise up, rise up.

Give heart And soul and mind and strength To serve the King of Kings Lift high the cross, O Christ, Spread where His feet have trod, And brothers of the Son of Man, rise up, O men of God!

Rise up, O men of God, rise up, Give heart and soul and mind and strength To serve the King of Kings.

Almighty and everlasting God, our Heavenly Father, we beseech thee to bless and guide the President and all in authority in all nations who rule righteously.

Protect those who for the cause of freedom are in any danger.

May they seek and find thee their help in every time of need.

O Lord, our Savior and everlasting King, who at thy first coming did send thy messenger to prepare the way before thee, may thy faithful ministers today likewise so prepare and make ready thy way before thee by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy most glorious second coming to judge the world, we may be found serving thee with heart and soul and mind and strength.

These rich blessings we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer.

♪ There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God, a place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, Sent from the heart of God.

From the studio here in Los Angeles to the largest listening audience in our history, we send the Christian greetings of the Voice of Prophecy.

Soon we will be celebrating the fourth anniversary of this coast-to-coast fold-poll Gospel broadcast.

We here in the studio, the speaker, his father who offers the prayers, Mr.

Avila, the organist, our quartet, the King's Heralds, Mr.

Greer, our director of music, and your announcer, unite to thank God for the miracles of grace that have sustained us through these trying war years.

And today, our speaker, the Voice of Prophecy, is prepared to tell for the first time the story of God's providences in and connection with this radio program.

So, keep tuned in and listen to the story.

You will thrill as you listen to the recital of this latter-day chapter in the Acts of the Apostles.

But first, the King's Herald sing the song that has challenged millions, Lift up the trumpet Jesus is coming again.

Nations are angry by this do we know, Jesus is coming again.

Knowledge increases men run through and go.

And now, the voice of prophecy, his subject, the message to the millions.

The message of Christ crucified, Christ ascended, Christ coming again, must indeed go to the millions.

For his promise in Matthew 24, verse 14, in plain, clear words declares, And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.

And how the millions do need to hear the message.

Not long ago I read that there are more heathen people now than there were a generation ago, 3 or 400000000 more.

In India the pilgrims still go to the Ganges River to wash away their sins in its supposed holy waters.

It is said that at the Kammila, 3000000 went to the ceremony recently.

The devotee holds the tail of a cow, the tusk of an elephant, or the hair of a goat, and repeats a prayer after which he is supposed to be pure.

In another part of the ceremony, the people stand waist deep in the water, waiting for the rising sun, and just at the moment its rim is seen above the horizon, they all cry in unison, Ran-Ran Ganga-mai, and immerse their bodies in the water of the sacred Ganges.

As many as a hundred thousand can be seen at a time patiently standing, shivering in the water, waiting to perform this rite, only to leave it with their sins unforgiven.

Yes, the heathen world needs the message of Christ, and the so-called Christian nations need it, too.

The latest available reports on crime conditions in our own land, as furnished by the FBI, reveal that crimes were committed at the rate of over 158 an hour, a total of 1, 393, 655 major crimes a year.

Every day was clouded by 28 murders and 150 cases of aggravated assault.

In connection with this, it's significant that 1 lone murder story writer sold 5, 403, 000 copies of his works in the United States and Canada last year.

There are conditions in the religious world also that cause concern.

It's reported that previous to the First World War, more than 50% of the people of the British Isles attended some place of worship.

Today, probably less than 10% are worshipping Christians.

A seminary professor recently made a study of churches in this land in which some church leaders strongly object.

He reports that 5% of reported members do not exist, 10% can't be found, 20% never pray, 25% never read the Bible, 30% never attend church services, 40% never give to any cause, 50% never go to Sunday school, 60% never go to church on Sunday night, 70% never give to missions, 75% never take any part in church activity, 80% never go to prayer meeting, 90% never have family worship, and 95% never win a soul to Christ.

Does the world need the gospel message today?

Does it need the message of power and salvation?

The world needs the message of Christ, and we know that it will go to all the earth.

In the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, we find a picture of God's message going to the last people to live in this world, a message to warn them and win them to Christ before the end of the age.

Here it is, Revelation 14, verse 6, And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come, and worship Him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water.' Notice, this message is the everlasting gospel, and it goes literally to the million.

It calls people back to the worship of the living God, the Creator of all things, and it warns of the judgment hour.

A day of skepticism is called back to the worship of God.

An age of apostasy is called back, face to face with the judgment.

The years of the lost and unsatisfied millions are to hear the gospel, the good news about Christ.

A voice of warning will be heard over the wide, wide world.

The Bible prophecy pictures it, and we know that God's word of prophecy is always fulfilled.

Some time ago 1 of the strangest tragedies in the records of wildlife occurred at Niagara Falls.

The wild geese were migrating southward for the winter, and great flocks of them, wearied by the long journey from the north, settled down to rest on the quiet waters of the Niagara River above the falls.

At first slowly, then faster, the careless birds were carried toward the brink of the thundering falls.

On the very edge of the plunge each bird trumpeted wildly, and by a supreme effort of wings lifted itself from the collecting waters, and then, wheeling in triumph over the chasm, returned upstream to repeat the performance.

Like boys taking turns on a slippery slide, these birds by the hundreds kept up their dangerous sport.

Many of the players began to show signs of weariness, but they didn't stop.

Game wardens tried to frighten the birds away, but a strange fascination seemed to hold them there.

All night the swish of wings and the trumpeting of triumph or despair continued.

The next morning the lower parts of the Niagara River were strewn with the white bodies of those geese that in the darkness had misjudged the precipice or were too tired to lift themselves from the plunging waters.

Strange to say, this experience is repeated every year.

In varying numbers, The southbound flocks take up this fight with the Falls.

They're only geese, but how like them is our race.

1 generation after another repeats the dangerous game of sin and crime and war and plunges on over the Falls.

Yes, the message must be given to the millions, a message of gospel hope, a message of prophetic warning.

Our Savior said, Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

Go ye into all the world, is the loving Lord's command.

Let his banner be unfurled over every land Going into all the world With the cross to every creature Going into all the world to every creature, go ye into all the world, and with you, with you always.

Go ye to the souls that mourn with the gracious gospel call.

Tell how Christ their grief has borne, how he died for us.

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