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		Taken from Finnis Jennings Dake's Book "God's Plan For Man".  Dake spent
50 years of his life and over 100,000 hours in Bible study.  I strongly
recommend this book, if you want to know about our Lord without mans
traditions and personal ideas, pick one up.  It is a ministry course in
itself, and contains thousands of question on all Bible subjects answered
with Scripture.  Dake also published "Dakes Annotated Reference Bible"
(KJV).  The information in it will amaze you.  It's a "must read" for
anyone who wants to understand the Bible in simple plain English.  Most
bookstores in the malls carry it.


DID YOU KNOW?

		GOD IS A REAL PERSON AND HAS A SPIRIT BODY: (Job 13:8; Hebrews 1:3;
Daniel 7:9-14; 10:5-7; Ezekiel 1:26-28; John 5:37; Revelations 4:2-4;
5:1-7; Acts 7:54-59).  GOD HAS A SOUL (Hebrews  10:38; Isa. 42:1), GOD HAS
A SPIRIT (Psalms 143:10; Isaiah 30:1), HANDS AND FINGERS (Exodus 31:18;
Psalms 8:3-6; Revelations. 5:1-7),  HAIR, FACE, AND  BODILY PARTS (Daniel.
7:9-14; 10:5-19; Ex. 24:10; 33:20-23; Ezekiel 1:26-28).  GOD EATS, (Genesis
18; Exodus. 24:10-11),  LIVES IN A CITY, SITS ON A THRONE (John 14:1-3 
Revelations 4:1-5; 21:1-27; 22:3-5),  GOD WALKS  (Genesis 19:1-22, 33), 
RIDES UPON CHERUBS, ON CHARIOTS AND OTHER THINGS  (Psalms 18:10, 69:17;
104:2;  Ezekiel 1:1-28).

There is NO END OF THE WORLD TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE 
		The Greek work meaning "the end of the world," is aion and means AGE. 
There will be and end to THIS AGE, BUT NOT AN END OF THE WORLD.  The common
theory held by men that the world is coming to an end is based upon a wrong
understanding of this Greek word.  The Earth abides forever, we are told
this in Ecclesiates 1:4, Psalms 104:5 and other passages.  There will be
eternal generations of natural people on the Earth for resurrected man to
rule. 

THE HEAVENs AND THE PLANETS ARE INHABITED 
		This is clear from many Scriptures:  "Rejoice, ye heavens, and You THAT
DWELL IN THEM he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
them that DWELL in heaven"  (Revelations 12:12; 13:6). 

MEN WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE PLANETS  IN THE FUTURE?  
		The Bible teaches that redeemed man will go back and forth between Heaven
and other planets in the New Heavens and the New Earth.  This was to be
man's privilege before he fell, but he sinned and came short of the glory
of God (Romans 3:23).  
		Man was originally given dominion over the sun, moon, and stars and would
have had to have access to them in order to rule them (Psalms .8:3-6).  Man
in the eternal future will become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ
and will be able to be with God and Christ where they are for all eternity
(Romans 8:17-18; 1st Corinthians 15:24-28; Hebrews 2:5-11; Revelations
21:1-22:5).


MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE WILL NOT KNOW THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS COME TO EARTH
UNTIL AFTER HIS SECOND ADVENT AND THE RESURRECTED SAINTS BEGIN TO TAKE OVER
THE GOVERNMENTS OF THIS WORLD IN THE MILLENIUM? 
		Scriptures definitely say that many people will not see His glory or His
person the day He comes to Earth (Isaiah  66:19).  It is only when Christ
is reigning and missionaries and rulers will go from Jerusalem to tell of
Christ reigning in Zion that many nations will say, "Let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord" (Isaiah 2:2-4; 52:7; Zechariah 8:23).  It is only in
the immediate vicinity of Jerusalem that every eye will see Him at the
second advent, which is pictured "as lightning" shining under only one part
under Heaven.  (Matthew 24:27-31; Revelations 1:7).

GOD WILL MOVE TO EARTH TO LIVE AMONG us AND MEN WILL SEE HIM IN VISIBLE
FORM?  
		This is clear from Revelations 21 where it pictures the New Jerusalem as
coming from Heaven to the Earth.  In verse 3 it is stated, "The tabernacle
of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Men will see
God, for in Revelation 22:4 we read, "they shall see his face; and his name
shall be in their foreheads and they shall reign forever and ever."

THERE ARE DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL AND REWARDS IN HEAVEN?  
		Jesus taught that it will be more tolerable for some in the day of
judgment than for others (Matthew 11:20-24); that some will be found to be
twofold more a child of Hell than others, and will receive "greater
damnation" (Matthew 23:14-15); and that every man will be judged according
to his works (Revelations 20:11-15).  The saints will be rewarded according
to their works (Matthew 10:41-42; 16:27; Romans 14:10-13; 2nd Corinthians
5:10-11; Revelations 22:12).  

THAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS NOT 666? 
		This is the " number of the beast "  and not his mark, as is plainly
stated in Rev. 13:16-18.  There will be three things men will have a choice
of taking in the days of Antichrist:  The mark of Antichrist, his name, or
the number of his name.  What the Antichrist's name and mark will be is not
stated, but the number of his name is stated as being 666.  Therefore, no
man can now know his name or his mark and will never be able to know them
until the Antichrist comes after the rapture of the church.  However,
anyone now can know that 666 is the number of his name, as this is revealed
in Revelations 13:18.

SAINTS WILL BE EXEMPT IN THE LAST DAY WARS? 
		The reason for this will be that they will be translated to Heaven before
the last two wars.  These two wars will be fought after the first of the
three wars, which brings about the formation of the Ten Kingdoms (Daniel
7:23-24)  and after the rapture of the church (2nd Thessalonians 2:7-8;
Rev. 4:1).




THE ten COMMANDMENTS HAVE BEEN DONE AWAY WITH  
		So many false doctrines are based on the teachings of the Law of Moses
and today we have so many cults that mix Law and Grace, until it cannot be
Emphasized too much that the whole Law of Moses, including the ten
commandments, was done away with and abolished with Christ on the Cross.  
		THIS IS PLAINLY STATED in  (2nd Corinthians  3:6-15; Galatians 3:19-25;
4:21-31; 5:1-5, 18; Ephesians. 2:15; Colosians 2:14-17; Acts 15:5-29;
Hebrews 7:11, 12 22, 28; 8:6-18; 9:1, 9,10, 15-22; 10:1-18.)

THE PLANETS REVEAL TRUTH  
	Besides the natural times and seasons there are certain times and seasons
for pre-ordained events in God's plan for man.  The children of Issachar
had understanding of "the times, to know what Israel ought to do" (1st
Chronicles 12:32).  The wise men knew by the star when Christ was born
(Matthew 2:1-2, 7,8-10).  Jesus understood the signs of His time, and He
rebuked the Pharisees for not discerning the signs of the time as well as
they could discern the natural seasons (Matthew 16:1-4).  In Psalms 19 we
have the fact that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament
shows His handiwork.  

ETERNITY IS MADE UP OF TIME That SHALL NOT CEASE  
		There is a time and a season for everything done under the sun.  God
originally made the sun, moon, and stars to regulate times and seasons on
the eternal Earth.  The work of Day Four was the permanent restoration of
the solar system in connection with the restored Earth, to divide the day
from the night; and to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years
forever (Genesis 1:14-18).  
		This solar regulation causing eternal time on the Earth is eternal: "They
shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, through out all
generations.  "His name shall endure for ever:  His name shall be continued
as long as the sun"  (Psalms 72:5, 17); "I have sworn unto David my
servant, Thy seed will I establish forever. his throne as the days of
Heavens and the sun before me.  It shall be established for ever as the
moon"  (Psalms 89:4, 27-37); "Thus says the Lord, which gives the sun for a
light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light
by night.  If those ordinances depart from me, saith the Lord, then the
seed of Israel also shall cease being a nation before me for ever"
(Jeremiah 31:35-36; 33:20-22).
		GOD promised Noah that there would by day and night, summer and winter,
seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, forever on the Earth (Gen. 8:22).
 The Earth is eternal; so time made up of seconds, minutes, hours, days,
weeks, months, and years is also eternal (Ecclesiates 1:4; Psalms 104:5). 
When the Bible says "there shall be no night there" it speaks of the city,
the New Jerusalem, and not to the earth outside of the city (Rev. 21:
23-27).  Thus we must conclude that time will continue eternally.  

THERE WAS A FLOOD BEFORE THE FLOOD OF NOAH 
		This is clear from Genesis 1:2; Psalms 105:5-9; 2nd Peter 3:4-6 where we
read of the Earth being flooded which caused "the world [social system]
that then was" before Adam to perish.  Genesis 1:2 reveals that this flood
was on the Earth before the first day of the six days work of Genesis
1:3-2:25 during which time Adam was created, so it had to be before Adam. 
Such passages as Isaiah 14:12-14; Jeremiah. 4:23-26; Ezekiel 28:11-17 prove
that Lucifer had a kingdom on Earth before the days of Adam.  He was
already a fallen creature when Adam was created, and if these passages
prove he ruled before this and that he was perfect in his ways until he
sinned, then it had to be before Adam.  

THE BIBLE TELLS HOW LONG EACH DAY OF GENESIS 1 WAS   
		They were literal twenty-four hour days as proved by the qualifying
statements, "EVENING AND MORNING" which began and ended each day like it
has been doing every day since.  Then too, Exodus. 20:8-11 speaks of
literal days in which God restored the Earth to a second perfect state. 
The record of what was done on these six days also proves they were literal
days.

200,000,000 HORSEMEN WILL SOON APPEAR TO SLAY MILLIONS OF MEN 
		In the future tribulation during the sixth trumpet judgment four angels
will be loosed that are now bound in the River Euphrates and 200,000,000
demon or spirit horsemen will be loosed out of the bottomless pit.  Each of
these four angels will lead 50,000,000 of these horsemen in a different
direction to slay one third of all men at a certain hour (Revelations
9:13-21).  This will literally happen in the first three and one half years
of Daniel's Seventieth Week, for the middle of the Week starts with the
seventh trumpet (Revelations 11:15-18; 12:6, 14; 13:5).  All these events
take place after the rapture as proved in Rev. 4:1, which says all the
events of Revelations 4 through Revelations 22 "must be hereafter," that
is, after the churches.  

THE FUTURE TRIBULATION WILL NOT BE WORLD-WIDE 
		Nearly every plague that will be poured out in the tribulation states
that it will be over a fourth or a third part of the Earth only, thus
showing that the trouble for which these plagues are sent will be only on
part of the Earth. (Rev.  6:8; 8:7-12; 9:18; 16:10, 12.)  As we shall see
the Antichrist will rule just a certain part of the Earth, and because he
is the one causing the tribulation, it will be only over the part of Earth
which he rules.

PEOPLE WILL BE SAVED AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH  
		This is clearly stated in Acts 2:16-21, where we read of people being
saved and receiving the Holy Spirit in their lives during the tribulation. 
See also Revelations 7:9-17; 12:17; 15:2-4; 20:4-6; where great multitudes
of people will be saved and come out of the great tribulation.

RUSSIA WILL NOT FULFILL PROPHECIES 
		Bible students in general teach that Russia is the king of the north of
Daniel 11 and the Russia will be the head of the nations of Eze. 38-39 who
will come against Christ at Armageddon.  Neither one of these doctrines is
true.  The king of the north of Daniel 1:11 is the Antichrist from Syria,
and the king of the south of this same chapter is Egypt, two of the four
divisions of the Grecian Empire of Daniel  8:20-23, who will fight against
each other "at the time of the end." 
		The Antichrist will come from Syria and will overthrow Egypt and many
other countries, fulfilling Dan. 11:35-45.  In Dan. 11:44, after Antichrist
conquers these many countries and gets power over the ten kingdoms that
will yet be formed within the old Roman Empire of Daniel 7:23-24; Rev.
17:8-17, we read of tidings out of the north and out of the east that will
trouble him, and of his going forth with great fury to utterly make away
many.  
		In other words, when the Antichrist gets power over these ten kingdoms,
the countries to the north and east of the Roman Empire territory and will
thus fulfill Ezekiel 38-39 by leading all these countries to war against
the Jews and Jesus Christ at Armageddon.  
		Thus, instead of Russia being the leading nation and the head of all
nations at Armageddon, she is a conquered nation along with others under
the Antichrist who will be the leader of all nations against Christ at
Armageddon.  

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST IS A CITY, NOT THE CHURCH 
		In Revelations 21:2, 9-10 it is as simply stated as can possibly be that
the bride of Christ is the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem.  The bride
then is not the church or a special part of the church.  Neither is the
bride Israel or a special company of Jews such as the 144,000 or Revelation
7 and 14.  If the bride is a city, that should be accepted without any
question.  In no place is the church called the bride, a virgin, a lady, a
woman, or referred to by feminine pronouns.  On the contrary, the church is
called a "man" because it is the body of Christ, who is a man (Ephesians.
2:15; 4:13).

SAINTS WILL BE A PART OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST?  
		If the bride of Christ is a city, then naturally all who will live in
this city will be part of the bride of Christ.  According to Hebrews
11:8-16 the Old Testament saints are going to live in that city, and they
will be a part of the bride of Christ.  According to Hebrews 13:14 the
present church saints are going to live in the same city; so they will also
be a part of the bride of Christ.  The tribulation-saints and the 144,000
Jews of Revelations 7 and 14 will also have part in the resurrection and
will live in this city; so these two companies are also to be a part of the
bride of Christ (Revelations. 7:1-17; 14:1-5; 15:2-4; 20:4-6).  
		Therefore, we conclude that every company of redeemed that will go to
live in the New Jerusalem will be a part of the bride of Christ. Just as no
one individual or group of individuals, or no one building or group of
buildings or building in the New Jerusalem could be called the bride of
Christ.  All the resurrected redeemed saints of all ages and all the other
inhabitants and all the buildings of the New Jerusalem will make the final
bride of Christ.  

ANTICHRIST CANNOT BE ANY MAN NOW PROMINENT IN WORLD AFFAIRS  
		This is clear from the fact that the "little horn," the coming
Antichrist, cannot come until "AFTER" the ten kingdoms are formed inside
the territory of the Roman Empire.  If the "little horn" represents the
Antichrist coming after the ten kingdoms are formed and if he will come
from among them, as plainly stated in Dan. 7:7-8, 23-24, then he cannot
come until the ten kingdoms are formed, and therefore he cannot be any man
in world affairs until after they are fully formed.  His coming, according
to 2nd Thessalonians 2:7-8, is after the rapture of the church.

THE BIBLE  TELLS us  WHERE the ANTICHRIST COMES FROM 
		The book of Daniel not only makes it clear that he will come from the ten
kingdoms of the old Roman Empire, as in Daniel 7:7-8, 23-24, and from the
four divisions of the Grecian Empire, which are four of the ten, as in
Daniel 8:7-9, 20-23, but it also makes it clear that he will come from the
Syrian division of the four divisions of Greece, as plainly taught in
Daniel 11.  

KING OF THE NORTH IS SYRIA, KING OF THE SOUTH IS EGYPT 
		Wars between these two divisions of Greece are pictured in Daniel
11:5-34.  Verses 35-45 portray war between these same two kingdoms "at the
time of the end,"  showing the result of the last war between them.  It
states that the land of Egypt shall not escape the king of the north in
this last war, THUS IDENTIFYING SYRIA AS BEING THE COUNTRY FROM WHICH
ANTICHRIST MUST COME.  
		If the king of the north was Russia, as many Bible students now teach,
how could Daniel 11:44 be fulfilled?  What countries are north of Russia
that could fight against her, as is required by this verse?  There are no
countries north of Russia, thus proving that the king of the north could
not be Russia.  When we understand the reference to be the northern
division of the Grecian Empire, Syria, everything in the passage is clear. 


THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL NEVER BE AN INCARNATION OF SATAN  
		This is not taught in Scripture anywhere.  Satan is a separate person
from the Antichrist and merely gives his power to him (2nd Thessalonians
2:7-12;  Daniel. 11:35-39;  Revelations 13:1-4).  The dragon (Satan). the
beast out of the sea (Antichrist), and beast out of the Earth (the false
prophet), are always seen as three separate persons throughout the book of
Revelation.

THE EARTH IS MORE THAN 6,000 YEARS OLD AND was INHABITed BEFOrE ADAM
	 This is true.  There have been already 6,172 years from Adam to 1948. 
Not only this, but the Bible teaches that there was s social system on the
Earth that was destroyed by a great flood long before Adam.  This flood is
pictured in Genesis 1:2 as covering the earth, before the six days in which
Adam was created.  It is also mentioned in Psalms 104:5-9.  Peter speaks of
it as "the world [Greek, kosmos, social order] that then was, being
over-flowed with water perished:  but the heavens and the earth, which are
now [since the six days of restoration]. by the same word are kept in sore,
reserved unto fire [to be purified, resulting in]...a new heavens and a new
earth" (2nd  Peter 3:4-13)  
	The cause of the first flood before Adam was the fall of Lucifer and the
rebellion against God of one third of His own angels, along with the people
who lived on the Earth over whom Satan ruled.  That Satan ruled the Earth
and led an invasion into Heaven to cast God out, is clear in Isaiah
14:12-14; Ezekiel  28:11-17; Luke 10:18; 1st  Timothy 3:6.  The devil was
defeated and the Earth was then cursed and placed under water as in Genesis
1:2; Psalms. 104:5-9; 2nd  Peter 3:5-7.  All life was totally destroyed,
including birds, men vegetation, and all cities were destroyed in which the
Pre-Adamites lived (Jeremiah 4:23-26).  
	In the restoration of the Earth in six days, as in Genesis 1:3-2:25, God
told Adam to "REPLENISH" OR RE-FILL THE EARTH. Adam and Eve where the first
inhabitants of this present creation.  God gave the exact same command to
Noah after the second flood.



THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT REIGN OVER AMERICA OR BE A WORLD WIDE DICTATOR  
		This is proved by the following facts: (1) He will REIGN over only ten
kingdoms that will yet be formed inside the old Roman Empire (Daniel
7:23-24).  Only these ten kingdoms will give their power and kingdom to him
(Revelation 13:1; 17:12-17). (2)  Certain countries will escape his rule
(Daniel 11:40-44).  (3) Certain countries will make war on him at the very
time he is supposed to be ruling the whole world (Daniel 11:40-44).  (4) 
Because he will reign only over ten countries inside the Roman Empire
territory and because America never was inside that territory and will
never be, and because certain countries escape him we can scriptural
conclude that he will not rule America or be a world-ruler.  

THE MARK OF THE BEAST 
		Many nations will not be under the Antichrist.  Naturally they will not
have to take his mark, and they  will not be killed because they will not
be ruled by him.  The Bible speaks of many peoples of all nations that are
left after the reign of the Antichrist, people who will be alive in the
Millenium and will go up yearly to worship God (Zechariah 14:16-21).  
		This further limits the kingdom of the Antichrist to part of the world
and also limits his ability to kill everyone who does not take the mark
even in his own empire.  According the Revelation 14:9-11 no one who taken
the mark will go into the Millenium, but will be sent to eternal Hell. 
That multitudes go into the Millenium proves they have not taken the mark
of the beast and have not been killed, as is taught by many Bible students.
 If the Antichrist kills every person on Earth who does not take his mark
and the Lord sends to eternal Hell everyone who does take his mark, then
there would not be left one person to enter the Millenium.  This would be
contrary to Zechariah 14:16-21; Matthew 25:31-46; Isaiah 2:1-4 and many
other Scriptures.

MANY WILL NEVER KNOW THAT THE ANTICHRIST HAS BEEN ON THE EARTH UNTIL HE HAS
COME AND GONE  
		It is a known fact that over half of the people on Earth today have never
heard of the name of Jesus Christ or His gospel.  It is also well known
that multitudes of peoples in the interior of Africa, South America,
Australia, India, Tibet, and many parts of the earth do not know that there
have been two world wars in a generation.  It will be equally true that
these people out of touch with so-called civilization will never get to
know that there has been an Antichrist and a great tribulation on the earth
until Christ has come and the resurrected  saints of all ages extend the
kingdom of Christ from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth in the
Millennium.  
		It is utter folly to teach that a human being called the Antichrist
ruling over only ten kingdoms inside the Roman Empire territory can take
over every part of the earth and literally kill everybody who does not take
his mark.  This would be teaching that one human being is going to do more
in forty-two months or 1260 literal days in establishing his religion in
every person living on Earth than God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and
the whole church have done in over nineteen centuries to get the gospel
out.  
		Are we going to believe that the Antichrist as a man is greater than God
and all the other men who have ever lived?  The sensible thing to believe
in view of all this is that Antichrist will be a mere man limited in his
rule to only a part of the earth and that he cannot make laws that will
affect anyone outside of his kingdom.

NO MAN now KNOWS WHO THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE
		This is true because he is coming " AFTER " the ten kingdoms are formed
inside the old Roman Empire territory (Daniel 7:23-24) and "AFTER" the
rapture of the church, or "AFTER" the hinderer of lawlessness has been
removed from the Earth.  (2nd Thess. 2:7-8).

SAINTS WILL BE JUDGED FOR SINS COMMITTED IN THIS lIFE 
		For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that EVERY ONE
may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done,
whether it be good or bad" (2nd Corinthians 5:10-11; Romans 14:10-11, 
Matthew 13:36; 16:27).

INFANT BAPTISM IS NOT TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE  
		There is not ONE WORD that mentions any such practice.  On the contrary,
it is clear from Scripture that baptism is only after men have repented and
have been born again by the Spirit of God.  Infants are not lost due to the
fact that they are not old enough to be responsible for their sins and
therefore could not repent of known sins.  
		They therefore cannot be fit candidates for water baptism which is a
symbol of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and a
testimony to the world that the individual has been saved from a life of
sin and that he is walking in newness of life.  Only personal disciples and
followers of Jesus Christ were commanded to be baptized (Matthew 28:19-20;
Mark 16;15-16;  Acts 2:38-39).

THE ANTI-CHRIST IS NO DOUBT LIVING NOW ON THE EARTH
		If we are living now as close to the end of the age as the signs of the
times indicate, then Antichrist must be a man living now on the Earth.  By
the time he is revealed to fulfill prophecy he must be a grown man so he
must already have been born and must be going through a period of
preparation for his future work.

NOT A SIN TO EAT PORK
		Unclean animals were forbidden in the law of Moses, but this law has been
done away with.  Now under the New Testament men are permitted to eat any
animal.  (Romans 14:1-23; Colosians 2:14-17; 1st  Timothy 4:1-8)