-111' Fore, Behind Cominl"" .. the WlIJ'! Your .sri ri t is good ,~ ~ mG'!, it lead m't In the fa nd ........ PJQ'm 10. (J Elp,i!JhtIJess/~ 143~ DEDICATED to the A'mighty Being ,whose force makes cerlain the &ringing in QCIlD'e sllor"y ot righteous New Order for the euer D lasting good dud happiness ot "II lovers: ot t1 cleau. safe Qnd peace/ul eart.h. --- -~~-- COPYRIGHT,· 1976. by WATCH TOWEB. BmLE Ai'JD orFp..ACI" SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVA N PubUshcrs W 'lICIPl"OWER BlBL.E :r-.'1l Tlt.4.CT SocIETY OF Nltli'l YORK. INC. INTERN .... TIONAL BIP..LF. S T1JDJi:NTS ASBOCIATION Brooklyn, New York, U.s.A, , FIRST EDITION: 2.000,000 Copies CONTENTS CllAM'Ell. P ..... GE . . ~. The Superhuman SQu:c:e 01 Holy SpirIt 5 2. lIoly Spirit Ac . e in the Invl5ibl~ Heaven]y R-C'alm. . . . . • • . . • • . . . •• 16 3. The Spirit Behind the Present . .. Old Ordt!T •..••••.•• .. ... iI.~ .. 85 Holy Spirit jn Action upon Fersons of Earlier Times . - _ . • . . . . . . . . . .. 57 5. The First One Anointeel w' th Holy Spi It and Power • . . . . . . . . . .. 81 6. A CongIle · -'on nointed fol' Klngdo Proclamation •• - 104 Ii • .. • ... I! Ii Ii 7. "!'he <'New Creatio!ll" Goes: into Action! •• 121 .. <Ii Ii "Spirit of Life from God Entered into Them·· . . . " " . . .. . 138 .i ;''' •• If" • • • • 9. The New Order 'That Is Backed by . . Eoly Spirit. . • • . 163 Subject Index .••. • I Ii Ii ... • • • Scripture Index . • • . • 100 .. .. t! • UnJ(!!:6 otllerw1se IndIcut.cd. oIl HibJe quotll,tlOns and cltatlODS nLllde In thi,,; t)(,.,k tll:"t' LIlJ(r;n from the New WorlC Tr«:fWlat-ion 01 t1M} H()Iy 8cnptu1'GB. 1971 odi 'on. in connection wHh date -, th a1;lb1'(:-\IU!IiloD B.CK means "Be lore th common lC.'rn." and. C. E_ mJ:!1lJlB "01 lhc Common Ern." CHAPTER I S. up--c erhuma--:-'n S'ource The~ . . . ,'... _. Holy of Spirit W HEN man and 'o,man fir met, they felt , a force- the force of attraction. 'They fell in Jove with each othe -mme ately. Although nek,ed. undo1:hed, this first man and first woman . .e re holy Tbat is to say. they were clean. brig;h~ pure, perfect in body, mind and heart. For that reason th.ey felt no embarrassment and 'could have unlnh-bited relationsbip with their Creator. Goel. They enjoyed their ch.Hdllk,e r,ruationship with IDm in a dean aJ1d ho]y place. . It was a place of pure rightly caned the Garden of pleasure~ Eden or Parawse of Ple-d.sure. All the things tha were around 'tbem to. a1Iect them wer-e healthful and Holy spirit, God's holy a,ctive good~ for-ce, was fully in operation there. The man and the woman. our first earthly 2: parents. we-roc ]nunan, that is to saYt of he earth, of things that are fou d here at the earth Burt what about their divine Creator? This One had. to be superhuman. He was infini e y higher 1.han man in the level 0 His heavenly existence. He 1. V"rhy wo ~nly @I on In OD ' atlQ1\ tn Ot G::LI'\!IeD: of E(len when man Dnd WOl7WIiI ftr.st met? ""'hy c r 2. !lid l.J Svt.U"Cc tJly' -,.il'~'" lll:'CWoe f.(jo Dc °up(}l'human '?: 6 HOLY SPIRIT-THE FO'RCe BEHIND THE' COMING N~W ORDERI was higher, too, in the kind of intc igent Person that he was. He \vas. 0 say it simply. of finer u than man was. This is why he was inv:isibl hose powers of vision are limited in toman~ ~ range. aturally, then, the fiT'st man and woman never saw their Creato , thc-r Life-Giver. their heaven yFather. Because of hi s p rhuman, heavenly, invisiblG! C: -stence he was what we ca.ll today uspiriit.'· Becaus he is an individual Person, just as much as his creature man Is the Creator can be called "a Spiri'L" Outstandingly he is The Spirit. He is the unseen Sou ce of holy spirit. for He himself is holy. Befol'le our earth and th heavens about it ~ exist d this spirit Person exist d and active. ~as The holy Book that gives the h.i storical ac count all the way bacli to before man's beginning opens up with these pointed words: "In the be ginning God cr:'eated 'the heavens and the earth.' -Genesis, chapter 1, verse . • Such a. creative God is higher even than the heavens that he created and he efore so much higher 'than earthling man. So he is spirit jn essence n :vhat he is. Thousands of years 0 - after t e creation of ~ the Founder of true Christianity called atl en ti on to that very fact. Alongside a.w'c at H'le foot of Motmt Gcrizim in ancient Samaria he said to a Samar'tan v'oman: ·'God. is a Spirit. and those' worsh -ping him must 3, To whose activity dOl:!> Genesis ;1 po!nt? 4, ~_ \!"hy Is God not to be wo ° hlpea 1zl, a.ny man-m.ade bulldlng Elt aIDY l'~.ru.CL1.l~r p.La.ce on earth °l 7 THill SUPERHUMAN SOURC£ OF HOtV SPlinT worship with spirit and truth." (J" dhn 's Gospel, chapter 4. verse 24) The true God docs not .fIt:ed to be worshiped in a ny man-made religious build ing in any pa rticular place on earth, not even at J erusalom in the Middle East Less than twenty r years after the stat elllent. an apostle Qn~going of Chr.isti.anit y stood be.fore the Supl'cme Court of the city of Athens, where many temples were to found, devoted to thc gods and goddesses of their religion. He said.: God that made the orld and all the n ~'The things in it. beton', as this One is, Lord of heaven and! earth, does not dwell in handmade temples. neither is he a Uendcd to by human hands as jf he needed anything, because he himself g,iv cs to all persons]if and b . ath and all things. And be made out of one man every nal ion of men, to dwell upon (he en.tire surface of the earth. . • -Acts 17:24-ZT. 'lore than a thousand years earlier that fact 1$ abou t the tl"Ue God, who is a superhuman, supcr earthly Spirit, was known to the builder of the .first known. temple at Jerusalem in the Mjddle East. When dedica.t:ing this temple that he had built for God's name', the then l. . ing of Jerusalem. said to Him in pra.yer: '<;But wiJI God truly d\vell upcm the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens. then'lseIves canno con tain you; how much less, then, tl is house that I have built!n- l. K -ngs 8~27. 6_ H~ did the builder ot the lln>t temple at .Teccrsalem JOhow that n -. kl1eH' ·th.at t'a,.~t about GQ(J:'s WIO ,o;l\ [D? 8 I-tOLY .sPIRIT-TH!: 'FORCE B,fHI;-.lD TtiE COMING NEW ORDERI GOD THl'l SOURCE OF RGY , The . pcoal"cr of the above words, Solomon the son of Kina David was the wisest scientist of times before our Co:m.mon Ern. \Vhen he said -that e"\''"Cn the heaven of the hea ens could not contain the God to whom he had built a t('mple~ he spoke the scientific truth. Our ea rth is a tiny part of a uni ..... cll"'SC the ]jmits of which the scient·s ts are unable to reach or bring to even with vielli todayl's mos powerful tel,escopes. Stilll, th] as yet unlneasUTcd un-ve se cannot contain the true God. It cannot :restrict or coniine him. "Vhat al ready xisis·o the present univorse, seen and unseen, the true God ca. surpass. lIe can g«) beyond it and create yct oth r .hings for the of he out b yond its e ist enlargcm~nt ~ universe~ ing borders out into endless space. '¥hat does 7 this mean? It means th.''it God is boW'ldcd 'by neithc ti.me R nor space. His 1i £e :in times past is bou.ndless. lis lifetime in the future is unbound d. To this un- o dcd One the foremost lal,vgi ver of prc III Christinn t · mes. Moses, said: • E\ren from time indefmite to ti:me in.definite you arc God." (Psalm 90 :2) This (".rOd lives to endless time,. to keep on producing unCI c~ 1m!' beyond the present uni verse, expanding it. This s:ignifics thL t he is the bottom ess reservoir of all energy. All the things of the universe a c bundJcs 0 partides of energy from him. These have been brought together into 7. In woot w y n the • 'heaven ot c.h lleave:nJ::" conta!n ~not God~ :8. How endul:'lnS: 1-· Cone Cil'e"!, tor·s C.odshlp. an~ why! nothing ImDOl;si le lor Hlm t 9 THE SUPERHUMAN SOURCE OF HOly SPI~IT masses large and smalL The twen -cth-oontury· scientist Albert E -nstein worked out this formula for it: energy equals mass times th c speed of light squared (or, E=mcZ). Little wonder, then~ that this Source of all energy finds nothing im possible or himself. e ample, note the almost 'Unbelievable 8 Ol' 1a im that He lnakes Cor himself, as he tells us to raise our e),es to the skies by night amI admire the stars. He says.: yo , yes high up and ~.rRaise see. \Vhohas created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number. u.ll of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing:' ·-Isaiah 40: 26. Astronomers of today, with their most pen 10 etrating telescopes, can merely estimate the num ber of stars that the::y can bring within viS; on. rot so with the C utor of the heavens and the earth. •' He is counting tbe number f the stars; all of them be calis by the] ' names." (Psalm 147:4) He likens all the stars of heaven to an arm.y of vast size. He knm.vs how many are in this army of his. He knows each member of this army bY' name. By memory he can go thro gh the roll call o the . "''hen he calls tho roll, not one memh er of this starry ar.my fails to answer. Each one' an..<;\.vers to its name and gi rcs accounting of "Ul its pe' fOl"mance. Each one He finds fulfilling the purpose for which it was created. None is missing. 9. 10_ Hmv is It that God! brings torth tft . finny or the sta[';!l. "bY number-'· and Dot one 01 til ' m prU'I'e& ~o be • ·!lLllS~ng-·· 1"