WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:14.400 In the shadow of the great Himalayas lies the kingdom of Nepal, one of the most isolated 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:22.300 and least developed countries of the world. In the quiet valleys, the people live unhurried 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:27.600 lives with a rhythm that is governed by the calendar, rather than by the clock. 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:40.600 In this remote kingdom, thousands of Buddhist and Hindu temples watch over the land, 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:47.800 guarding the traditions, and preserving its ancient culture. For centuries, the Nepalese remain 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:53.730 secluded in their mountain kingdom on the roof of the world. 00:00:55.300 --> 00:01:02.000 But in the last 20 years, Nepal's leaders have begun the task of modernizing the country. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:08.330 Development must come slowly, for modern technology could destroy a way of life that has endured 00:01:08.330 --> 00:01:15.680 for hundreds of years. The Nepalese realize that they must use caution if their nation 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:23.150 is to find its way into the 20th century. Recently, Herbert W. Armstrong was invited 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:30.000 to visit Nepal to discuss the problems of development with the king and government leaders. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:46.090 The World Tomorrow - the Worldwide Church of God presents Herbert W Armstrong... Internationally 00:01:46.090 --> 00:01:55.799 recognized Ambassador for world peace... Visiting prominent leaders around the globe... discussing 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:07.450 the cause of world problems... and proclaiming the good news of the world tomorrow. 00:02:07.450 --> 00:02:17.459 Ladies and gentlemen Herbert W Armstrong. It's known on this program that I frequently 00:02:17.459 --> 00:02:25.200 visit many heads of government in their countries, in all parts of the world. Now I meet them 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:32.639 as president of the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation. This foundation is a 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:40.989 corporate entity of the Worldwide Church of God, and it is devoted to opening up projects 00:02:40.989 --> 00:02:48.040 in cooperation with different countries, in their own countries, projects toward the development 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:55.739 of their countries and toward world peace. My meetings in these countries enable me to 00:02:55.739 --> 00:03:05.049 speak before many of the leaders in these countries, not only the king or the prime 00:03:05.049 --> 00:03:12.569 minister, or the president, but also those who are leaders in these countries. And in 00:03:12.569 --> 00:03:19.590 so doing, I can explain why we do not have world peace. I can explain something that 00:03:19.590 --> 00:03:24.480 missionaries never can get over to the people in those countries, who do not know Jesus 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:30.309 Christ or do not know the gospel. They're very much prejudiced against that 00:03:30.309 --> 00:03:36.939 sort of thing, and if I were a missionary, I would never be allowed to speak before these 00:03:36.939 --> 00:03:43.569 people. But the effective way is to speak to them in the manner in which I do, giving 00:03:43.569 --> 00:03:50.579 them the cause of world troubles, and telling them the way toward world peace, and the only 00:03:50.579 --> 00:04:00.139 way that world peace is ever going to come. Now I have known King Birenda for many years. 00:04:00.139 --> 00:04:06.930 I knew him when he was the crown prince. I knew his father, King Mahendra, before he 00:04:06.930 --> 00:04:26.090 died, and I recently paid another visit to King Birenda and his wife, the queen. 00:04:26.090 --> 00:04:31.810 Mr. Armstrong flew into the capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu, nestled in an expansive 00:04:31.810 --> 00:04:41.379 valley surrounded by the towering Himalayas. At Tribhuvan Airport, he was met by the foreign 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:51.069 secretary, Bishwa Pradhan, and Major General Aditya Rana, aide-de-camp to the king. Next 00:04:51.069 --> 00:04:58.349 day, he visited Kathmandu's exhibition grounds, where Major General Rana had arranged a display 00:04:58.349 --> 00:05:11.580 of Nepal's development programs. Before a large relief map of the entire country, Major 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:19.889 General Rana showed how Nepal's rugged terrain was a barrier to communication and development. 00:05:19.889 --> 00:05:27.900 Nepal has been called the prisoner of its own geography. Although only 54,000 square 00:05:27.900 --> 00:05:33.960 miles in area, about the size of Arkansas or Tennessee, it has some of the world's most 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:43.340 varied and rugged terrain. Most of the 16 million population live in 00:05:43.340 --> 00:05:49.099 isolated valleys, cut off from their neighbors by the mountains and hills that cover most 00:05:49.099 --> 00:05:57.020 of the country. The first airplane did not land in Nepal until 1951, and it was several 00:05:57.020 --> 00:06:03.490 more years before the country was linked with its neighbors by road. Even today, as more 00:06:03.490 --> 00:06:08.870 roads are built, communication is difficult, and much of the country can still only be 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:16.719 reached on foot. Never far away are the Himalayas, the highest 00:06:16.719 --> 00:06:24.139 mountains on Earth. These wastelands of ice and rock cover one-third of Nepal. Towering 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:33.639 over them all is Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, the highest point of the Earth's surface. 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:41.979 But in spite of its isolation, Nepal has its share of problems. The population now about 00:06:41.979 --> 00:06:48.460 16 million, is rising steadily. Nepal has one of the world's highest birthrates, and 00:06:48.460 --> 00:06:57.479 already 40% of the population is under the age of 14. Poor communications and lack of 00:06:57.479 --> 00:07:03.659 development trap most of the people in a life of poverty and illiteracy. 00:07:03.659 --> 00:07:10.150 They are subsistence farmers, conservative, tough, fiercely independent, and suspicious 00:07:10.150 --> 00:07:19.449 of change. Most belong to the Hindu or Buddhist faiths; their deep religious faith dominates 00:07:19.449 --> 00:07:25.249 the land. It has been said that there are more gods than humans, and more temples than 00:07:25.249 --> 00:07:36.389 houses. To visit Nepal is to step back into time, but the leaders of Nepal know that if 00:07:36.389 --> 00:07:45.629 their nation is to survive, it cannot remain a living museum. Nepal must be led cautiously 00:07:45.629 --> 00:07:53.419 into the 20th century. This is the challenge that faces the leaders of Nepal today. 00:07:53.419 --> 00:08:01.789 Nepal's head of state is His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. He ascended 00:08:01.789 --> 00:08:08.810 the throne in 1972 upon the death of his father, King Mahendra, whom Mr. Armstrong had met 00:08:08.810 --> 00:08:16.650 the previous year. King Birendra is a progressive-minded monarch who is deeply concerned for his people's 00:08:16.650 --> 00:08:23.900 welfare. Mr. Armstrong was invited to visit His Majesty at the royal palace in Kathmandu. 00:08:23.900 --> 00:08:32.599 Upon his arrival, he was greeted by King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya. His Majesty and Mr. Armstrong 00:08:32.599 --> 00:08:38.320 discussed the purpose and the activities of Ambassador Foundation, as well as the special 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:52.440 needs of the development and progress of Nepal. On the last evening in Kathmandu, Mr. Armstrong 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:58.560 attended a banquet. The guests included members of the government and leading figures in the 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:09.810 fields of education and commerce. After a program of traditional Nepalese singing and 00:09:09.810 --> 00:09:15.850 dancing, Mr. Armstrong was invited to explain to the guests the purpose of his travels as 00:09:15.850 --> 00:09:19.780 an ambassador for world peace. [Announcer:] I have the greatest honor to 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:27.480 welcome him and say, "You are welcome to my country." 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:38.450 They have called me an unofficial ambassador for world peace, and so I am, but let me say 00:09:38.450 --> 00:09:46.730 that there has to be a reason why we don't have peace. And you cannot have peace until 00:09:46.730 --> 00:09:55.660 there is something that will cause that peace. And there has to be a reason why something 00:09:55.660 --> 00:10:03.790 has caused us to have just the opposite of peace in this world today. And I'm afraid 00:10:03.790 --> 00:10:15.150 so many don't understand that. Now in the world today, there are many different ideologies 00:10:15.150 --> 00:10:21.370 and philosophies and religions, and everybody seems to think that their own, of course, 00:10:21.370 --> 00:10:28.530 is the right one, and the only one that is true and correct. And I did not come to bring 00:10:28.530 --> 00:10:41.560 any religion or philosophy or ideology, but just to state a few facts that are facts. 00:10:41.560 --> 00:10:49.710 We do not have peace, and will not have peace, until human nature has been changed. There 00:10:49.710 --> 00:11:01.770 has to be a reason why we don't have peace. The oldest history in the world, that goes 00:11:01.770 --> 00:11:12.690 back further in history of human beings on this Earth than any other, tells us that over 00:11:12.690 --> 00:11:19.960 all of the various gods that are worshipped in the world is one supreme creator God, that 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:32.610 he created the first human being on this Earth. The man was offered immortal life, but he 00:11:32.610 --> 00:11:43.360 rejected it. Before him was the opportunity to choose good 00:11:43.360 --> 00:12:01.980 and evil for himself. The alternative was to choose to recognize his creator, to simply 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:10.480 become one with his creator, until he would be dependent on his creator, and he would 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:17.880 rely on this creator for the knowledge of how to live, of what is good, as well as what 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:24.880 is evil. But this first man decided that he would just take to himself the knowledge of 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:32.060 good and evil. He would decide for himself what is good and what is evil, and he rejected 00:12:32.060 --> 00:12:43.740 any reliance on his creator. And so he and his children soon forgot about the creator, 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:50.830 and they have forgotten about him until this day. And so they formed many different nations. 00:12:50.830 --> 00:13:00.350 Now what he did take to himself was the knowledge of good and evil. And there is good in human 00:13:00.350 --> 00:13:15.270 nature, as well as evil, but even the human good can mount up only to the level of self-righteousness. 00:13:15.270 --> 00:13:21.970 I have often said that perhaps one of the best forms of good that we know in human life 00:13:21.970 --> 00:13:28.870 is mother love, the love that mother has for her child. But I wonder if we ever stop to 00:13:28.870 --> 00:13:35.870 think that even that love is selfish. She loves that child because it is hers; she bore 00:13:35.870 --> 00:13:41.990 it, and she doesn't love other children the same way. It is selfish, even though it is 00:13:41.990 --> 00:13:51.450 good, and the highest good that man has been able to have, except what he might have had 00:13:51.450 --> 00:13:59.700 as a gift from his creator, is self-righteous good - good within himself. 00:13:59.700 --> 00:14:05.920 Now we have a great deal of that in the world. We have in the world many upstanding people 00:14:05.920 --> 00:14:15.990 of high ideals, good principles, high morals, and they only want to do good. I want to do 00:14:15.990 --> 00:14:23.770 good. I am an unofficial ambassador for world peace, yes, but I have not brought world peace. 00:14:23.770 --> 00:14:29.950 And ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to bring world peace by myself. I can't change 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:36.540 human nature. We do not have peace, because people are not 00:14:36.540 --> 00:14:47.210 living the way of peace. I know in our Western world, we have a world of awesome progress. 00:14:47.210 --> 00:14:58.370 We send men to the moon and back. We send unmanned spacecraft to the surface of Mars 00:14:58.370 --> 00:15:04.620 with cameras that photograph the surface of Mars and send those photographs back to the 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:12.890 United States. But while we have a world of such awesome progress and inventing - the 00:15:12.890 --> 00:15:19.870 computers, airplanes, automobiles, and the marvelous things that we have today - at the 00:15:19.870 --> 00:15:29.470 same time in the world, we have appalling evils, with men and women jealous of one another, 00:15:29.470 --> 00:15:36.870 having an attitude and a spirit of competition one against another, selfishness. 00:15:36.870 --> 00:15:48.820 This first man started out on the selfish course that I like to simply state in such 00:15:48.820 --> 00:15:55.450 simple language that everybody can understand it. I say it is the philosophy of "get." There 00:15:55.450 --> 00:16:04.540 are just two broad philosophies in life, actually, in a broader sense. One I state as "get": 00:16:04.540 --> 00:16:09.550 take care of yourself and take away from others and get for yourself, selfishness; and the 00:16:09.550 --> 00:16:17.310 other is "give": cooperate, help, and be concerned for the good and the comforts and the pleasures 00:16:17.310 --> 00:16:23.640 and the welfare of others. And you don't see very much of that in the world, because most 00:16:23.640 --> 00:16:31.340 people are selfish. They're only concerned about their own self-good, and that is not 00:16:31.340 --> 00:16:36.470 the highest form of good when you're just concerned for your own self. 00:16:36.470 --> 00:16:45.070 And that is the kind of world that we live in. In this world, almost everything is run 00:16:45.070 --> 00:16:51.840 from a selfish point of view, and we need to get more generosity and wanting to help. 00:16:51.840 --> 00:17:00.310 Now I do try to do that. I try to help, I try to give, and try to cooperate. And you 00:17:00.310 --> 00:17:09.350 know, the greatest leader who ever lived said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." 00:17:09.350 --> 00:17:18.860 And I found about 58 years ago that truth, that it does pay off, and it does make one 00:17:18.860 --> 00:17:25.390 more happy, if you are giving. I know that if a few of you plan something 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:30.490 for the good of someone else, to surprise someone with something real good and real 00:17:30.490 --> 00:17:38.020 nice, and you work to make it possible and to present it to that person, and when you 00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:43.020 give it, you are happier to see him receive it than he is to receive it. Did you know 00:17:43.020 --> 00:17:52.110 that? It is better to give than to receive. And that's what we do in the Ambassador Foundation. 00:17:52.110 --> 00:18:02.920 We know that we are just poor humans. We're not able to solve all of humanity's problems. 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:14.100 We want to help, we want to give, we want to cooperate, and I came here to do that. 00:18:14.100 --> 00:18:23.620 The first man rejected reliance on his creator, and direction from his creator. And the result 00:18:23.620 --> 00:18:33.030 is that his children born from him have grown now into many nations all over the world. 00:18:33.030 --> 00:18:38.430 They started out with three general types of races: the yellow, and the black, and the 00:18:38.430 --> 00:18:44.780 white. And there have been mixtures, and now we have different nations, all speaking different 00:18:44.780 --> 00:18:56.650 languages. And yet, all wars have come because of selfishness, and because human minds can't 00:18:56.650 --> 00:19:03.370 agree with other human minds, and there is conflict, conflict between one mind and other 00:19:03.370 --> 00:19:08.440 minds, in between one group and other groups, and between one nation and other nations. 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:14.290 And so, we find that people go to war. And wars don't settle these things. They never 00:19:14.290 --> 00:19:22.070 have; they never will. Now I'm not going out to crusade and just stop all wars; I can't 00:19:22.070 --> 00:19:28.300 do that. I have enough sense to know that I can never do that. And there is no man on 00:19:28.300 --> 00:19:37.060 Earth who can. It is only the great Creator who can, and it's because we do not rely on 00:19:37.060 --> 00:19:45.560 the Creator for the knowledge of how to live, and how to do, and because we just look to 00:19:45.560 --> 00:19:54.670 ourselves, that we find we're helpless before our problems. The world does not know how 00:19:54.670 --> 00:20:04.110 to live, because it does not rely on the great Creator that is above all the gods, and above 00:20:04.110 --> 00:20:14.820 all that is worshipped, above all of the ideas of human beings. 00:20:14.820 --> 00:20:20.510 But most human beings know nothing of that God. I can just tell you that God is a god 00:20:20.510 --> 00:20:28.940 of love. He loves everybody on the Earth, and he is going to intervene in due time. 00:20:28.940 --> 00:20:37.440 And that time is going to be soon. He is going to let this world learn its lesson first. 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:43.780 And this world is going to get into more trouble than it is in now. Instead of peace, we're 00:20:43.780 --> 00:20:50.520 going to have more wars than we have ever had, and we are soon going to have the nuclear 00:20:50.520 --> 00:20:57.980 war that could erase all human life from this Earth. 00:20:57.980 --> 00:21:03.809 And I say to you on the authority of that great God, that that war is definitely going 00:21:03.809 --> 00:21:12.940 to come. And unless that God does exist, the God who is supreme above all gods, and unless 00:21:12.940 --> 00:21:23.390 he does intervene and save all humanity from ourselves, all human life would be wiped out 00:21:23.390 --> 00:21:29.059 of existence and not a man, woman, or child would be left alive on the face of this Earth. 00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:37.670 But I say to you on his authority, that that great God is going to intervene. He is going 00:21:37.670 --> 00:21:43.820 to come and give us peace and save us from ourselves, because we humans would destroy 00:21:43.820 --> 00:21:51.190 ourselves. Human scientists have now invented, and governments 00:21:51.190 --> 00:21:59.420 have produced, the weapons of mass destruction that can erase all human life from this Earth. 00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:05.380 And the greatest scientists, and the greatest leaders in the world, acknowledge that once 00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:13.540 a nuclear war starts, it can never be stopped. And if it goes on, it would end all humanity, 00:22:13.540 --> 00:22:23.140 and that's the world you people are living in. But the great God is going to intervene. 00:22:23.140 --> 00:22:28.990 Now I'm not here to sell you on anything, or on any religion. 00:22:28.990 --> 00:22:36.990 I'm just here to tell you, and you are being told, that that God does love all of us in 00:22:36.990 --> 00:22:45.130 spite of ourselves, and in due time he will intervene, and he will give us all the truth. 00:22:45.130 --> 00:22:49.600 And those of us who think we have the truth and don't have it, are going to wake up and 00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:56.390 find the real truth after all. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything, I'm just 00:22:56.390 --> 00:23:05.440 telling you. But I do speak with authority, and it will come to pass. 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:14.559 As I was saying in Nepal, God Almighty will intervene in the coming nuclear war that would 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:22.309 destroy all humanity. And at that time, he will send Jesus Christ to stop it, and to 00:23:22.309 --> 00:23:27.790 prevent the annihilation of human life, and to bring us world peace. Now I have a special 00:23:27.790 --> 00:23:35.610 booklet that I would like to send you, explaining about World Peace: How It Will Come, how the 00:23:35.610 --> 00:23:43.500 Eternal God is going to bring us world peace after we had learned our lesson. World Peace: 00:23:43.500 --> 00:23:51.400 How It Will Come. It will open your eyes. It will give you facts you don't realize that 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.850 you have never known about the condition in the world, and how peace will come. 00:23:55.850 --> 00:24:01.460 Now in line with that, I have another booklet also touching on something I mentioned in 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:09.140 this address in Nepal, on human nature: Did God Create Human Nature? How did we come to 00:24:09.140 --> 00:24:15.880 have human nature? 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