Great Controversy Special

DATE OF PUBLICATION: MARCH 20, 2004

ARE YOU HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR THE FINAL CRISIS?

IF SO, YOU ARE SHARING THE SPECIAL BOOKS FOR THIS TIME WE ARE TRYING TO DO OUR PART TO HELP YOU DO IT

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Unless you are living where you have no access to current news in the world, you know the situation: The Al Qaeda has declared war on America, as well as on many other nations on the globe.

They are trying to bomb mankind into mass terror, confusion, and submission to Islam.

A few days ago—and four days before national elections—Al Qaeda bombed Madrid, Spain, killing over 200 and injuring thousands. Yet it was so easily done. Men carrying packages, briefcases, or backpacks boarded subways—just like thousands of other people that morning, who were also carrying things.

It was no loss to the Muslims who died; because for years they had been instructed at the mosques that, when they die in the act of killing infidels, they will immediately fly to a heaven that is filled with eternal sex and liquor as their reward.

In Spain, the masses went into an uproar and blamed the government for not protecting them; they did not blame Al Qaeda.

Two million people were on the streets. As a result, in the national elections yesterday, the Popular Party (which had sided with the U.S., thereby incurring Muslim wrath) widely expected to win by a good margin; they were strongly defeated by the Socialists, who had been further behind in the polls. This morning, the new president said he would immediately pull Spanish troops out of Iraq.

So Al Qaeda won a great victory by their action in blowing people apart

just before national elections in Spain. They are learning that bombings accomplish their purposes; and this will occur more often elsewhere. America has elections coming up too.

What would happen if, in coming months, Al-Qaeda planted several bombs in U.S. subways and trains?

There would be terrific confusion. If they were to continue sporadically, there would be work stoppages; and commerce and government would grind to a halt.

In view of what has already happened in (count them!) the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Afganistan, Greece, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, the Balkins, Russia, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain, and our own nation—will it not soon happen here on an even wider scale? America is the supreme target; all those other countries are only secondary.

There can be no defense against suicide bombers, regardless of whether they are walking into train stations or driving cars loaded with dynamite;

because, in American cities, thousands of people and cars are continually on the move. In the days following the Madrid attack, U.S. terrorist experts have repeatedly been questioned. Their response has consistently been the same: It is impossible to defend against bombs carried on board trains and subways, into skyscrapers,—or anywhere else that enormous numbers of people are passing to and fro.

> "Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake from sleep but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed. The terror of the people was indescribable."—Welfare Ministry, 136-137 (Letter 278, 1906).

Many of our people have already obeyed Spirit of Prophecy warnings regarding living in the big cities, where those bombs will be detonated. But when the bombs hit, terror will spread across the land.

"Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise."—8 Testimonies, 28.

What can you and I do to warn others at this time? I solemnly tell you that the best thing that can be done is to distribute the vital books for this time as widely as possible.

Just now people are deeply interested in religious things, because of the new film, The Passion of the Christ. They are ready for the books you need to share with them.

Right now, and even more in future months, they are deeply concerned about terrorist activities and threats. They are doubly ready for the books you need to share with them.

You will have to sacrifice in order to share those books with them. We here at Mission Evangelism must also sacrifice in order to provide those books to you!

It will cost you money to get those books out; it is going to cost us money to get those books to you.

SO AS OF APRIL I, we are lowering the price of our 448-page 1884 Great Controversy to 35 cents a copy

, in boxful amounts (of 48 to the case)!

We are lowering the price of our 736-page 1888

Great Controversy to 55 cents a copy, in boxful amounts (of 48 to the case)!

Where else in the world can you buy books with so many pages at such low prices

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Where else in the world can you buy the most important books of all at such astoundingly low prices

?

"Great Controversy should be very widely circulated. It contains the story of the past, the present, and the future. In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth’s history, it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth. I am more anxious to see a wide circulation for this book than for any others I have written; for in Great Controversy, the last message of warning to the world is given more distinctly than in any of my other books."—Colporteur Ministry, 127 (Letter 281, 1905).

We will be providing you these two books at a price decidedly below what we pay for them

—even before the printing house tacks on the shipping charges to us. In addition to that, there are significant costs in processing each order, which ought to be covered by the sale. However, those processing costs are not met on any of our low-cost missionary paperbacks. However, with our Great Controversys, the loss will be decidedly greater.

> "The warning [in Great Controversy] must go where the living messenger could not go, and that it would call the attention of many to the important events to occur in the closing scenes of the world’s history."—Colporteur Ministry, 128 (Letter 1, 1890).

I cannot say how long we will provide those two books to you at slashed prices. When we cannot do it anymore, we will let you know.

—But, if we can, we intend to keep those lowest prices in place indefinitely. Our doors would close tomorrow if it were not for friends who believe in what we are doing and help us continue on. We are nearing the end; and work must be done—work for all of us!

Use the enclosed order blank to order these titles and our other books.

Our 84 Great Controversy will cost you 35 cents each in boxful quantities. That amounts to $16.80 + $13.00 p&h = $29.80 ppd.

Our 88 Great Controversy will cost you 55 cents in unopened boxes or $19.80 + $14.00 = $33.80 ppd.

If you pick up a load here, per box, books will cost less:

only $16.80 + $1.55 tax = $18.35 (84 GC) or $19.80 + $1.83 tax = $21.63 (88 GC). But if you want to come here for a load, you must phone ahead; only come Monday-Thursday, between 8:00-4:00.

> "The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones."—9 Testimonies, 11.

> "The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the strained, restless relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place,—that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis.

> "Angels are now restraining the winds of strife, that they may not blow until the world shall be warned of its coming doom; but a storm is gathering, ready to burst upon the earth; and when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture."—Education, 179-180.

> "The time is near when large cities will be swept away, and all should be warned of these coming judgments.

> But who is giving to the accomplishment of this work the wholehearted service that God requires?"—Welfare Ministry, 135 (Manuscript 53, 1910).

> "The keeping of [1888] Great Controversy from the field has done a work that men will have to answer for in the judgment."—Manuscript 64, 1894.

> "The results of the circulation of this book [Great Controversy] are not to be judged by what now appears. By reading it, some souls will be aroused, and will have courage to unite themselves at once with those who keep the commandments of God. But a much larger number of those who read it will not take their position until they see the very events taking place that are foretold in it. The fulfillment of some of the predictions will inspire faith that others also will come to pass, and when the earth is lightened with the glory of the Lord, in the closing work, many souls will take their position on the commandments of God as the result of this agency."—Colporteur Ministry, pp. 128-129 (Manuscript 31, 1890).

> "As the spirit of God has opened to my mind the great truths of His Word [in Great Controversy], and the scenes of the past and the future, I have been bidden to make known to others that which has thus been revealed,—to trace the history of the controversy in past ages, and especially so to present it as to shed a light on the fast-approaching struggle of the future."—Great Controversy, xi.

Our two Great Controversys are not stripped-down versions!

We prepared them with tender loving care—in order to make them extremely readable. Each one is in easy-to-read print size and has key points in bold print. Each one has standardized paging notations, historical maps, four indexes, dates of key events in each of the historical chapters, doctrinal charts, and loads of special topical quotation sections. Both have quotation source indexes and map indexes—never printed before. In addition, the 1888 edition has Basic Steps to Christ, at the front, and Satan’s instructions at the back.

Like Ellen White, let us prize these books highly.

> "The book, Great Controversy, I appreciate above silver or gold, and I greatly desire that it shall come before the people. While writing the manuscript of The Great Controversy, I was often conscious of the presence of the angels of God. And many times the scenes about which I was writing were presented to me anew in visions of the night, so that they were fresh and vivid in my mind."—Colporteur Ministry, 128 (Letter 56, 1911).

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