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THE FUTURE OUTLOOK THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. 0. BOX 20381 ? GREENSBORO, N. C. 2T4? PHONE 278-1768 ? i Clans Postage Paid at Greensbcro, N. C. lOe Per Copy Published Weekly $S.0f Per Tear J. P. JOHNSON MISS EMMA P. JOHNSON L. A. WISE Editor & Publisher News Reporter Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mail to: America- -The Land of Bellyachers By Ricardo Raffles I never have seen a nation of cry babies as we have in America, or even in Greensboro for that matter; Cry, cry, Cry, that's all I hear all day long. We belly ache because we don't have a new cajr like our neighbor. We're jealous because we don't live in a palace like the Ones or Prices. They're crying the blues because they must pay too much taxes on the extra millions of profits they made in sixty eight. Every time Uncle Sam takes an extra bite from our take home check ,you can hear a howl from here to China and back. Look what I got from that cheapskate for Christmas, a lousy necktie ; or I slave all day in the kitchen and wash and iron and take care of the babies and what's my hus band giving me ? A stinking pair of nylons ; Gripe, gripe, gripe ! Honey, I've had this dress for ten months ; Mommy ! Bobby got a new pair of tassle loafers and I ain't going to school unless I get a pair also ; Helen, let's go over to the Jones for Christmas, they got a new color T.V. and I don't want to watch this old last year black and white model. Talk about jealousy, envy, green eyes of coveting! If it ain't one thing it's another. Why the poorest Ameri can in these United States is the richest man or woman or child in this whole wide world. So you only got a little old shack you rent. So you only live in a fifteen thousand home and a second mortgage on it. Maybe you have a 1965 jalopy you're driving around. So what? You are wearing last year's suit or dress. Maybe you're not eating steak three times a week. Maybe you don't take a Carribean cruise like some millionaires I know in Greensboro. I say Americans, Greensboroans, wise up baby! Stop your belly achin', stop your cryin' the blues. 'Bout time you count a few blessings. Let's go on the other side of the track for a week or so. Let's take a look around a little at some of our Neighbors. Open your eyes, open your ears, get a nice smell, eat a little, sleep a little, live a little, in the areas and sections of the world and 111 guarantee you'll never belly ache or be a chronic complainer again. As we leave America and head down into Mexico, Central America, Panama, South America, this is how eighty percent of you would live. Your diet would be most ly rice, fried flour, fried bananas, a fried or roasted lizard or wild boar once in a while. You would live in a thatched one room hut, eat off makeshift flimsy tables made from the limbs and boughs of trees. When you went to bed, you would sleep on a sort of a lean-to hammock or shaky thatch bed, while sleeping, you took the chance of being bit by scorpions, snakes, tarantulas, mosquitos loaded with the malaria bug. Then your days if you wake up in the morning, were spent by a little farming on a little piece of jungle clearing, raising a little corn or sugar cane. Then the rest of the day would be spent loafing. No shows, no televisions, no supermarkets to brouse around in. Oh yes ! No shoe stores either, for these people in the jungles don't need any shoes. In fact most of them never wore m i shoe their whole thirty or forty years of living. They also | wouldn't have any use for a super market, because they were unemployed and since they had no job, they had no paycheck and therefore they dian't need a supermarket to shop in. They could read books; Oh I forget! They have no schools, so no schools, no books. So since these natives of the jungles are so broke, so illiterate, It wouldn't pay for a big beautiful church to be built there to teach them of the Good Old Gospel would it preacher? Then lefs take a quick hop over into Africa, around the Sahara Desert area. Not much to see, only a few thousand camels, a bunch of old raggedy tents and a million or more so of Nomads. Let's not worry about them, they're used to the desert and sun, after these last three thousand years or so. Ah yes, lefs go through the Congo, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi. But let's go real fast, you see there is thousands dying from starvation daily. There's a lotta leprosy and sleeping sick ness, so we better head on down to Rhodesia and Union of South Africa. My, look at all those big black Africans, thousands of , them going into the gold mines and diamond mines. 1 1 hear they only get a dollar slid ninety cents a day for ten This Weed's Sunday School Lesson S. THE KINGDOM SHALL COME What la Our Concern? In June; 1967, the Middle East erupted into a short but savage war between the Jews and the Arabs. During the brief conflict Israel routed her an cient Egyptian and Syrian mies and recovered the old city of Jerusalem formerly held by Jordan. Places holy to three re ligions ? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ? are located in old Jerusalem. Some Christians who inter pret the Bible literally and await an iminent Second Com ing of the Lord were as enthu siastic about the war as the nationalistic Jews. These Chris tians claimed it was a sign that God's consummation of human history was close. Eminent Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem and elsewhere sug gested that the obvious purpose In Israel's victory was the re building of the Temple in the old city and the resumption of sacrifices. Christians believe that Jesus' sacrifice of himself for the sins of mankind has made the Tem ple with its sin offerings un necessary. (See Hebrews 10.) Probably many modern Jews, accustomed to worshiping in synagogues, would not like to return to sacrificing animals. Can we think of Israel's victory as God's action in history? If so, in what way? How should we regard the injustices suf fered by the Arab refugees? How can we think of any event (especially one as com plex as war) as God's action in history? How does God's power to make all things new itself in action? Before Yon Bead the Scripture The prophet-poet continued to describe what the end of time would be like. It is a puzzling series of visions in that it presents events (such as Armageddon end the millen nium) that we cannot com pletely understand. Yet the vi sions have a forceful intensity because, beneath their obscure symbolism, we can understand their essential message. The martyrs' songs are fol lowed by the author's depletion of the fall of Rome. (18:21b-24) Armageddon, the final combat between Christ and his forces (the martyrs and angels) the hosts of Satan, occurs in all its intensity. (1?:14, 10; 10:11 21) During the Christ rules his people with Justice and peace. (20:1-5) Aft erward, Satan's force, are ut terly defeated, and Satan him , U condemned to eternal torment (20:7-10) , The Jf* Judgment find* sinners brought before God to amount for their transgre^ions. all f0r excuaea- and all are judged according to how ^ h.Ve Uved, with condemnation for the wicked. (20:11.15) However, . later passage suggests a uni versal salvation. j After God overcomes all 0D P??tion to his righteous ru? e 'ashlons a new heaven and a new earth for redeemed hu mishty stru"* to reclaim his creation has been accomplished. Now he estab lishes his Kingdom, beyond the ?Phera of human history, for Wmself Mid his people. (21:1-*) The wicked have been pun ished and the faithful rewarded. God'? ability to mak^St powers subject to and servants of his glory has overcome the destructive forces of sin and ftiHiir' ^IS purposes have been ulfilled and his people glorified through him. Truly he has made all things new. What the Scripture Says The Scripture for today is Revelation 21 and 22. Selected verses are printed below. s2 Home Bible Study suggest!^ m the back of the quarterly Revelation 21:3-7, 22-27 fj An? 1 heard a great voice from the throne saying "Re old, the dwelling of Good ia w?h men. He win dwell with them, and they shall be his People, and God himself will be with them; 4 he will wipe away every tear from SS eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there b? mourning nor crying nor pain ?? ~0re' f?r f0?er things have passed away." 5 And he who sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all <<^ngs new." Also he said, . thia' for these words are trustworthy and true." 6 And he said to me, "It la donel I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the and. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain ?f the water of life. 7 Ha who conquers shall have this heri tage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son.** th23.*?d* **w n?> temple in* the City, for its temple Is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has ap need of sun or moon to ?>.!?? th? *Icjy 01 to ?? light, and its lamp is the hours. I also hear that they are not allowed to go into the city where the white people are, without a passport. Some thing- they call apartheid. Man, let's get out of this coun try. Let's take a run over to India, Bombay or Calcutta. Look at the people, millions and millions of them. Where did they come from? Thousands .of them lining the streets, begging for food and money. I understand that they line up almost on top of each other sleeping on the streets at night I also hear thousands are dying daily from disease and hunger, yet they allow millions of cattle to roam around, supposed to be sacred or something and no one can eat them. I even hear that certain people are not al lowed to be touched and must remain untouchable for life because of Caste Systems. Let's get out of here. China and Russia is real beautiful, but I'm afraid to go there, they might confiscate my camera or money. Or I might say something I shouldn't and they'll throw me in jail! Space wont allow me to go on, bat the journey is ended for me. How about you? America ain't a bad place to live in is It? No more belly aehin' for me. How about Lamb. 24 By ita light shall tha nations walk; and tha kings at the earth shall bring their glory into it. 25 and its gates shall never be shut by day ? and there shall be no night there; 26 they shall bring into it tha glory and the honor of tha na tions. 27 But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any on* who practices abomination or false hood, but only thoae who are written In the Lamb's book o t life. Revelation 12:1T 17 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Coma." And let him who hears say, "Come." And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price. Memory Selection: He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life." ? Revelation 31:6 How We Understand the Scripture The author of Revelation uses four main symbols to de scribe the new created order brought into being by the Lord. They are the new Jerusalem, the bride of Christ, the title of God, and the royal gifts. (21:2, 6, 24) Jews anticipated the rebuild ing of Jerusalem, the holy city, as a part of the Messiah's tri umph when he came to redeem his people. The Greek philoso pher, Plato, believed that earth ly objects were copies of ideals, or perfect forms, that were In the mind of God. Perhaps these two thought forms were com bined in this symbol Greek thought certainly had permeated Judaism at the time the Book of Revelation was written. All man's earthly ef forts at religion and at true community represented by the earthly Jerusalem now cam* to fruition in the descent of the heavenly ideal. Thus, this sym bol contained elements that ap pealed to Jews and gentiles alike. The redeemed Christiana' new and eternal dwelling place is personified as the bride of Christ. Earlier the author com pared Babylon (oar Rome), the fallen city, to a harlot. (17:1-18) The contrast between this symr bol for the regenerate city and that for the eternal city of God is as obvious as it is dram stir From the midst of the city, God speaks: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." (31:0) Alpha la the first and Omega the last letter of the Greek alphabet. This title means that God is the source and the goal of all reality, all creation. From him we come; to him we return. In Revelation 21:24 we are told that all the nations and kings of the earth shall bring their accomplishments as gifts to the kingdom city. All the nations of men will finally walk by the light of God's living presence. The first symbol ? that of the new Jerusalem ? gives rise to a pertinent question About the creation of God's kingdom. Xs the heavenly kingdom an en tirely new creation beyond his
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