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been secured for the Friday, Sabbath and Sunday services. However,
Passover Services will be held at the Shakespeare Club.
This will truly be the greatest Passover season in the
history of God's Church since apostolic days! I hope as many as
possible of you can be here to share it with us! I want to urge
all you brethren from Arizona, Nevada, perhaps parts of New Mexico
and most of California to make every effort to be here for this
wonderful Feast with us!
Do you fully understand the TREMENDOUS significance of
this commanded Feast of God? This is the most solemn spiritual
Feast of the year--the beginning of God's Sacred Year, picturing
the very BEGINNING of the plan of salvation! The Passover is the
beautiful and solemn picture of the redemption of all mankind
through the shed blood of Jesus Christ our Saviour! By partaking
of the symbols which Jesus Himself instituted, we commemorate, at
the Bible COMMANDS, His DEATH! Then, during the Feast Days of
Unleavened Bread, we put all leaven completely out of our homes,
picturing the putting out of sin from our lives.
It is a vital and necessary part of the growth of every
one of God's people that he partakes of these annual Feast Days--
acting out the very PLAN of God that He is working out here below!
To MISS taking part in these Feast Days through sheer negligence,
through carelessness, or mere "forgetfulness" is a very serious
SIN! Perhaps only a small, minute FEW have done this--but some
have! Brethren, it is frankly inconceivable to me, as the servant
and minister of God, that some of the very PEOPLE of God--calling
themselves "Christian" could actually use as an excuse, that they
"forgot" the date for the Passover! How COULD a person actually
"FORGET" the very date commemorating the time when Jesus Christ
shed His blood and gave His very LIFE in sacrifice for YOU!
As you read in a recent article in The GOOD NEWS
magazine, God is truly BLESSING His Church! And now--no matter
where you may live in the nation--there will be Passover Services
held within, at the most, a few hundred miles from your home!
There may be a very few exceptions to this, of course, but only a
few. Several of our local Churches will be holding services for
the full eight days!
My son, Garner Ted and his family, will be at the big
Tabernacle near Big Sandy, Texas, again this year, Mr. Norman
Smith, ordained evangelist in God's Church, and director of our
radio studios, together with Mr. Ken Swisher, pastor of the local
Church at Gladewater, will be assisting. Also, perhaps other
ministers from Texas and surrounding areas will be at the big
Tabernacle for part of the Feast.
Mrs. Armstrong and I will fly from Pasadena during the
middle part of the Days of Unleavened Bread and will be able to
spend, God willing, the last few days with all you brethren at the
big Tabernacle near Big Sandy! Be sure to plan to stay the entire
eight days! Remember, we have ample facilities on the grounds and
in the surrounding area for all who would care to attend for the
entire time!