NOW IS THE HOUR!         DFO1364          12/82
--We Have Come to the Kingdom for Such an Hour as This!

         1. CAN YOU SEE THE PLANNING OF GOD?--WE HAVE HIT THE WORLD AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME, just when most of these inventions have reached virtually their peak of perfection & utility & usefulness & are within our capability to use them! Can you see what this has meant in the publication field? And how could we have ever had MWMI if we hadn't had tape recorders?
         2. THE FIRST RECORDING EQUIPMENT WAS CONSIDERED PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT. No private individuals could afford that sort of thing. Tape recorders did not become even rare possessions of individuals until at least in the 40's. I know we never had a tape recorder until the '50s, those great big cumbersome 7-inch reel-to-reels.
         3. HOW COULD WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR RADIO & ALL IF WE HADN'T HIT AT A TIME WHEN THOSE THINGS WERE AVAILABLE TO ANYBODY & EVERYBODY, & CHEAP & SMALL FOR MAILING? It's just like God was preparing the inventions of the World for our coming so we could get out the Word!--That's just speaking of recording alone! Look how radio has advanced! We not only had to have audio tapes developed to this point, but also radios that they could listen to our programs on & that every little teenager could afford to have.
         4. IT'S LIKE WE HAVE COME TO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH AN HOUR AS THIS! (Est.4:14) We have every outstanding invention at our disposal! Just take the methods of the outreaches that we have to publicise the Gospel--tapes, radios--& of course our biggest method is printing.
         5. WE COULDN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DO THE PRINTING WE'RE DOING NOW BY THE OLD METHODS THEY USED WHEN I WAS YOUNG! It would be far too slow & too expensive. We couldn't possibly do what we're doing today unless we had those simple little miniaturised simplified high-speed lithograph printing presses--& dirt cheap compared to what things used to cost! And we couldn't possibly set the type as fast as we're now doing by computer. We could have never done it before!
         6. WE HAVE COME TO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH AN HOUR AS THIS! Everything is developed to just the right point to where it's simple, fast, cheap & easy to record & send out tapes & broadcast on the radio to tiny little transistor receivers that everybody can afford! Think what a fast way that is to get out the Gospel!--And to places you could never go in person!--And also to publish publications in cheap, fast, simple, easy form, faster than man ever dreamed of before!
         7. THE LORD IS PREPARING THE EQUIPMENT RIGHT NOW THAT WE WILL HAVE TO USE DURING THE DAYS OF TRIAL & TROUBLE & GREAT TRIBULATION! Whatever it is that we are going to need, He's getting them to invent it right now! We now have tapes, broadcasting & small radio receivers that every teenager can afford! God has prepared this day with all these marvellous inventions so that we are now here & they are now here & available & we can use them for preaching the Gospel in all the World to every creature! Isn't that wonderful?
         8. IT WAS NEVER IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF HISTORY EASIER TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN ALL THE WORLD TO EVERY CREATURE THAN IT IS TODAY!--By radio, by television, by audio cassette, by video cassette, by printing, by every means you can possibly imagine! It was never easier to preach the Gospel to so many & so fast as it is right now!
         9. GOD IS MAKING IT AS EASY & AS CHEAP & AS FAST AS HE CAN POSSIBLY MAKE IT IN ORDER FOR US TO GET OUT THE GOSPEL AS FAST AS WE CAN--which is one reason we're rushing like mad to dish out so much, because we know this may be our last chance! God has put so much in our hands in the way of the instruments, the tools to do the job & even the money to pay for it, thank God, & the Family to back us up & pray for it! We have got to do it & got to get it out or we're going to be sorry! This is our last chance!
         10. I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT READING THAT DIARY DID FOR ME, OF JUST THAT ONE YEAR OF 1935, WHEN I WAS A 16-YEAR-OLD TEENAGER. The thing that impressed me & thrilled me was how the Lord was preparing me for my job & was never defeated!--How God went to that much trouble to prepare one man for the job God knew he was going to do 40-some years later, almost 50 years later!
         11. I HAD THE MOST WONDERFUL THRILLING EXPERIENCE! I thought, "My Lord, if You went to that much trouble to prepare me & waited that long & were that patient till I was ripe & ready for the job, perfectly designed for the job with everything You had put into my computer, every talent, every experience, every job, every word, everything to do this job, what am I worrying about?"
         12. I FEEL LIKE WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN DID WHEN HE LOOKED THROUGH ONE OF THE FIRST TELESCOPES! He looked at the marvels of the great infinitely-planned & synchronised perfect order of God's Universe & he was just stunned to silence! He stopped talking & looked for quite some time, then he walked away silently for several minutes. He shook his head & he said, "Well, I guess it really doesn't matter who wins the election after all!"
         13. IN OTHER WORDS, GOD'S WHEELS ARE GOING TO KEEP RIGHT ON TURNING, HIS PLAN IS GOING TO KEEP RIGHT ON UNFOLDING, HIS PURPOSES WILL NOT BE DEFEATED! History is in His hands & the future's in His hands & what He has designed & foreordained & predestined to happen is going to happen, & nothing in this World is going to stop it! Nothing can stop Him! Nothing can stop God!
         14. AND THE THING THAT CAME TO ME WAS, "MY GOD, IF HE COULD DO THAT WITH ME, NOTHING CAN STOP HIM, & NOTHING CAN STOP ME!" They can't stop our rain! Why worry about a few little Jews or a few million Jews or a few million enemies or the whole System or the whole World or the War or the Tribulation or anything? God's going to get the job done no matter what, & He's going to use you to do it, no matter what the Hell they do & what Hell they let loose!
         15. YOU SAY, "THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT LIKE PREDESTINATION & FOREORDINATION, like no free will & it's going to happen anyhow! Isn't that sort of like fatalism, Dad?" In a way, yes. When it comes to the Will of God, I'm a fatalist! God's going to have His way no matter what you do or I do or whatever! And if you don't do it, God will find somebody else to do it! Somebody else will steal your crown, but God will get it done anyway, no matter what.
         16. I LOOKED AT THAT DIARY & SAID, "THANK YOU, LORD! If You took that much patience & that many years to get me ready to do the job, You're sure going to get it done!" In other words, if God was able to carry me through 64 years of preparation & parents & Grandparents before that, why worry about another little ten?--He's certainly not planning to let things slip or fail here in the last fraction of the time that it's taken to get this far!
         17. WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS, THE ENDTIME, THE FULFILMENT OF HISTORY! Don't you think God's going to finish the job the way He wants to finish it? He may not tell us exactly everything that's going to happen, He doesn't want us to worry about it. We sure don't have to worry about tomorrow, much less next year! Right?
         18. THIS WAS THE THING THAT IMPRESSED WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN ABOUT LOOKING THROUGH THE TELESCOPE: "My God, if God could do all that & keep it running so smoothly, why worry about the election?"--And he lost it, too!--Ha! But God's plan went on! The whole thing was that it didn't matter to God whether William Jennings Bryan got elected or not, God's plan was not going to fail! c
         19. SO WHAT AM I WORRIED ABOUT, WHETHER HE'S GOING TO FINISH IT OR NOT?--WHETHER I SURVIVE OR NOT?--Whether the work will go on or not?--Whether the War will stop it or not? Obviously from the Scripture, we're going to be living right on into the Tribulation! Amen?
         20. WE HAVE COME TO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH AN HOUR AS THIS! We're right on schedule, we're right on time, we're right where we belong! We're right exactly what God wants us to be, where He wants us to be, when He wants us to be & we're right on schedule! Praise God! Hallelujah! TYL! Us! I believe the Lord has really helped us to be right on time & we've come to the Kingdom for such a time as this! PTL?
         21. WELL, I GUESS THE LONG & SHORT MORAL OF THAT IS, THE DIARY WAS WORTH IT AFTER ALL! If He can do it for me, He can do it for you! PTL! (Sings:) "It is no secret what God can do, what He's done for others, He can do for you! With arms wide open He'll carry you through, it is no secret what God can do!" GBY!
         22. NOW'S OUR HOUR!--Believe it?--Then do it! Keep'm rollin' till Jesus comes! GBAKYAMYAB, IJNA!