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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">February 21, 2012</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>2012-02-21
- “TRIBULATION” - FOREWARD - H. A. Baker</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>(Author
of “Visions Beyond the Veil - written in the 1920's</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>See
our Archives - 2010-07-07 to 2010-09-09 for a copy</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Also
see end of Chapter IB 2010-07-07 - Adullam Beginnings - for
information </b>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>how
to receive an updated copy by H. A. Baker's grandson Rolland)</b></p>
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This is a companion volume to <b>Tribulation to Glory</b> (sent out
1931) which has been surprisingly well received the few months it has
been in circulation. After reading the message of that book many
readers say that it brought out clearly truths they had before seen
in more or less obscurity. This reaction toward the former book
encourages the bringing of the present volume into circulation, for
it gives the fuller scriptural support for this theme relating to the
time of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.</p>
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As in the case of my other books, in sending this one out I have
especially in mind our friends who have been faithful prayer
supporters of our work for many years and have been interested in all
we have done or written.</p>
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I wish here to assure you that if you will carefully read and
meditate upon what is contained in this book and come to believe in
the truths herein set forth, you will find yourself brought more
fully into the meaning of the cross as we should expect to experience
it. You will feel that you are more perfectly in line with the
experience of Jesus and the saints who have gone before us. You will
see that the cross-bearing way, the tribulation way, is the most
glorious way.</p>
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What we want is truth. All truth must check out with scripture. But
we all, as Paul says, see through a glass darkly as compared with
seeing all truth as it is in its right setting and proportions. We
must ever remember that in our searching for the truth as revealed in
the scriptures it is important to maintain a spirit of love and right
consideration towards other seekers for truth. Difference in
doctrinal beliefs is not ground for unchrist-like attitude of mind.
Many of our best friends at present believe differently for what they
will find in this present book. We love them none the less for
believing what that have been taught - erroneously taught, as we now
see it. While I believe what they will read will give such a more
consistent and satisfying Christian life, a supreme love for Christ
and His children should be paramount.</p>
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We are naturally inclined to grab at any straw that will help defend
us in our position, while rejecting truth that would be most clearly
evident were we willing to accept it. It is hard to honestly and
fairly consider and weigh every interpretation of scripture on its
own merits. More than that, we are naturally cowards. We are afraid
to act on the truth we see because of the physical, mental, or
spiritual pain honest acceptance and execution of truth will involve.
Let's be honest in facing truth and facts. Let's be brave and accept
without excuse the truth we see and make our actions check in its
execution. Otherwise we will surely miss God's best. My hope is that
readers of this book will honestly consider what is written and
compare it all with scripture. If what you find is scriptural, as I
believe it is, I will rightly expect you to accept it and act upon it
regardless of what it may involve in the way of pleasure or pain.</p>
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It seems to me that the reader will not fail to see that the
so-called “pre-tribulation theory” that the Church will be caught
away from the earth before the time of the reign of the man of sin,
or anti-Christ, is false doctrine, not supported by scripture. I
believe this present discussion will show, on the other hand, that
the coming of the Lord will not be until after the so-called great
tribulation.</p>
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Like myself, so far as I know, or anyone who knows, every believer of
the popular any-moment-secret-rapture-doctrine came to believe in it
by first hearing it from a preacher, or a teacher, or a friend, or
from reading it in the religious literature of the day. I know of no
one at present who came to this belief at first by his own personal
Bible study, do you?</p>
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Books on this then and much other literature that came to my hand in
my first contacts with this subject, with but little exception,
taught the commonly accepted erroneous doctrine. I secured a
Schofield Bible and practically devoured its contents. I studied
every chapter, verse, note, line. At last I came to a “dead end.”
I saw no through road in its teaching. My first contacts with this
doctrine and my first study of it through other men's eyes, as well
as natural inclination towards so pleasing a way out of the present
confusing and evil world, led me to half believe the doctrine and to
half-heartedly preach it. In spite of all my reading in its favor
there had, from the first, been underneath it all the thought that
this very important, much-embracing doctrine was founded on
“inference” rather than definite statements of scripture. I feel
certain that it was the Holy Spirit who, one morning, when I was
studying this question, brought clearly to my mind nearly all the
main considerations found from Chapter I to the end of this present
discussion.</p>
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Later when the Lord poured out the Holy Spirit upon our orphanage of
Chinese children in a most remarkable way, as recorded in my book,
<b>Visions Beyond the Veil</b>, and as shown there, many children,
even small children, had repeated visions and other revelations of
the reign of the anti-Christ and the persecution of saints as well as
revelations of the preaching of the gospel in unusual power at that
time. This corroborated what I had seen in the scripture and at the
same time made the coming of anti-Christ-tribulation so imminent that
it had a very practicable and far-reaching effect on my subsequent
missionary work. I will now indicate how this belief affected my
work.</p>
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Shortly after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit just mentioned, the
Lord miraculously opened the doors for the remarkable work of the
Spirit that took place among the tribal people in the mountains of
Yunnan province, China, as recorded in my other book, <b>God in Ka Do
Land.</b> Thoroughly convinced now that the Church would be on earth
till the end of the reign of the anti-Christ and that the anti-Christ
persecution was very near, from the time I made my first itinerary
among the tribes I always felt the urge to work with, that it might
be my last chance to freely preach. No itinerary was ever free from
this thought. Knowing that anti-Christ persecutions were ahead and
that my people must be prepared for the tribulation that would come
upon them, I never wanted to plan any self ease, or prepare myself
for less that I expected was to be our lot in the future. I felt no
time was to be taken out for furlough or for months or weeks or even
days of vacation. I even watched the very hours lest time be lost. I
allowed nothing to divert me from the work in hand, so that I might
prepare as many people as possible and as well as possible for the
day the door would slam in my face and tribulation would settle down
on my sheep in the mountains.</p>
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I expected that I and my Christians of various tribes would be caught
together in the persecutions of the anti-Christ, whose spirit we
often felt about us. From the first I taught my people that they were
not to count their lives dear unto themselves, but I taught them what
the Bible said, that the anit-Christ would come first and then Jesus
would return. This they plainly saw in reading the Bible for
themselves. My many co-workers and I everywhere preached that some,
or all, of us might have to be martyrs for Jesus. We talked and
preached so much about the cross and how Jesus loved us and died for
us, while the Holy Spirit made these things so real that the thought
of suffering even unto death for Him who had suffered all for us
became a joyful thought and an inspiration to lives of deeper
devotion to our Lord. I have seen young men and young women and old
men and old women weeping outright many a time because they regretted
they had been unable to suffer more for Jesus. Since we would all
have to die some time, unless the Lord came in our day, many came to
think that of all the forms of death imaginable, there could be no
death so satisfactory and glorious as to be a martyr for Jesus.</p>
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I am relating this because it shows the right outcome of the teaching
of right doctrine. My people were always taught that the anti-Christ
would come first and then Jesus would come. They were always taught
that the more we suffer for Christ, the more Christ-like we become.
They knew that the nail-pierced hands are a challenge for us to enter
resurrection glory by way of the cross.</p>
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Is not this the Christian way? Is not this the way the Old Testament
prophets and the Old Testament saints went? Is not this the way the
Church has come down through the centuries? How about the saints
behind the iron and the bamboo curtains today? For whom is there an
easy rocking-chair or a soft hammock way to heaven today? Is there to
be an exception to the whole principle of Christianity and the
experience of the saints ever since the days of Abel? Why any
exception? Are saints today better than Daniel and all of his train?
Or, are present day saints too weak and cowardly to suffer
tribulation and hence desire to be taken away lest they fail the Lord
in time of trial? Surely not. If too weak and cowardly, what would
they do in heaven if they got there? Would they not be so ashamed
when they looked upon the nail-pierced hands and looked into the
beaming faces of the martyrs that they would plead night and day for
the Lord to allow them to return to earth to really suffer a little
for Jesus?</p>
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In China I faced grave danger many times. I have faced death more
than once. Then at last the Lord spoke to my people in the words:
(Chinese) “Bei Muh si dy gong dzo wai, liao. O yao ling ta dao ih
go hao di fange.” Which means: “Pastor Baker's work is finished.
I am going to take him to a good place.” I wondered if what I had
expected and tried to be prepared for had come. Was I going to die in
the midst of my people, or was I going to be killed and go to that
“good place, - heaven? Here I am, out of it all, in the “good
place” - America.</p>
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How about my people? When I was anxious about what would happen to
them, did the Lord not speak directly to me in words, telling me who
would not care for them, “He who cares for the sparrow!” Not one
of them will fall without my Father's notice. Not a hair of their
heads will perish. If killed for Jesus' sake, not a hair will perish.
They are already on the resurrection side. If the Lord wants to keep
them alive He will still do what He did while I was there: turn
enemies into friends and make the communists, who are supposed to
destroy the churches, say that the Christians were the best of the
people and even tell the ungodly that had better be Christians. It is
my opinion that my sheep, right in the midst of the ungodly mess, are
not suffering. On the contrary, they may be suffering great
tribulation, as have saints in all ages. To be ready to suffer all
things for Christ and to count all loss for Him and to leave it with
Him when to suffer in prison or when to be delivered by the angels is
the right attitude of mind. Should not every follower of the
crucified Christ be prepared to go through great tribulation to glory
and then leave it to Jesus to work it all out?</p>
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Since many readers of this present volume may not have had
opportunity to read Volume I, (It costs $100 at Amazon and Alabris!)
in the <span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Introduction</b></span><span style="text-decoration:none">
to the present volume, I summarize much that was in the former
volume, showing the errors of the any-moment rapture, or the
escape-tribulation theory. If you have read the first book you may,
if you desire, skip the </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Introduction</b></span><span style="text-decoration:none">
and begin with Chapter I.</span></p>
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