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<div class="SSN_title">"THE END OF THE WORLD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: I hear a lot of talk these days about the end of the world. Usually associate this talk with old men with gray beards and sandals, carrying sandwich boards as they cry "Repent!"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. TODAY I FEAR THIS TALK FROM COLLEGE PROFESSORS AND SCIENTISTS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Endangered Layer of Ozone Gas.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. 03</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Aerosol sprays.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Supersonic jets.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Atomic explosions in atmosphere.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Could this be related to 4th vial in <a onClick="return mV('Rev',16,1);">Rev. 16</a>?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Man's Reckless Use of Insecticides.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Their use is vital to increased food production.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. DDT does not break down.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Carried by streams into oceans.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. There it seems to have a devastating effect.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Growing Population.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Population is approaching 4 billion - increase of 50 million per year.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Unable to produce enough food for world's needs now.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Jesus speaks of famines as sign of the end.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. The Development of Destructive Weapons.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is said that we now have enough explosive power to equal 15 tons of TNT for each person in the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Russia's numerical strength exceeds ours in every area except long range bombers and nuclear devices.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We are warned that a full-scale atomic war will mean the end of the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Energy Resources Are Rapidly Being Depleted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We used to consider the supplies inexhaustible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Scientists Are Now Predicting Dire Earthquakes in 1982 Due to a Rare Alignment of the Planets.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Meanwhile the Physicists Warn of a Possible Polar Axis Flip with catastrophe Consequences.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. The Social Scientists Are Trying to Interpret the Consequences of the Rising Crime Rates.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Our law enforcement agencies confess their inability to keep pace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There is a growing disrespect for law or any authority.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. IT IS STRANGE THAT THROUGH ALL OF THIS THE CHURCH HAS REMAINED SO SILENT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Maybe they are so preoccupied with their dwindling rolls and increased finance strains, they haven't noticed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Many are wary to lift their voice because of failure of previous failure of unscriptural date - setting.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The church has great cause to cry the end of the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. World (Cosmos).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The prophesies of the re-establishment of the nation Israel have been fulfilled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Israel has returned to the land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They are rebuilding the waste places.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. They are blossoming and budding.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. They are standing alone against all nations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. "When the Lord shall build up Zion..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We see the predicted famines, earthquakes, pestilences, perplexities of nation:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus said "When these things begin to come to pass..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT SHOULD MY ATTITUDE BE TO THESE THINGS?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Sell all I have, quit my job and wait?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Jesus said "Occupy till I come."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Jesus spoke of servant who when He returned was doing...</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. We must have proper attitude toward material world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "In the world, but not of the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Seeing these things are to be, dissolved, what manner..."</div>
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