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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
April 17, 1967
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
At last I can give you the ONE greatest MOST EXCITING NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENT in the history of our broadcasting Christ's GOSPEL to
the world.
But I am deeply sorry to have to announce, at the same
time, that my wife's critical illness has ended in the manner least
expected--in her death just after midnight Saturday morning, April
15. In the next second of her consciousness she will awake in the
Resurrection, completely HEALED--and, far more than we beseeched
God in our earnest prayers, NOT in the corruptible body of this
mortal flesh and blood, but in an immortal SPIRIT BODY, in GLORY in
GOD'S ETERNAL KINGDOM!
Thirty-four years ago, at this same time of year, when my
father died having reached his 70th year, I had to learn that GOD'S
PROMISES ARE ABSOLUTELY SECURE--but not always in the way we
expect. For HIS WAYS are not our ways. In the "Faith Chapter" of
the Bible, Hebrews 11, speaking of the example of FAITH set by
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-- "the FATHERS"--and of Sarah, we read:
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced
them. . . that they, without us, should not be made perfect."
(Hebrews 11:13 and 40.)
Had they received the PROMISES by their faith AT THAT TIME,
then you and I would have been left out. But God's PROMISES to
them are IRREVOCABLY SECURE! They shall receive them IN THE
RESURRECTION--and many thousands or millions of us also with them.
God has PROMISED to HEAL the sick, upon real repentance and
FAITH. But God has not promised HOW, or WHEN! That, we must leave
to Him IN FAITH.
We did fully expect that God would heal her NOW. True, she
was 75 1/2 years of age. Even King David, who had been rescued
from death, and healed from near-death more than once, "died in a
good old age, full of days," at age 70. (I Chron. 29:28.) In I
Kings 1:1, it is stated that "King David was OLD, and stricken with
years," just before his death.
God already had given my wife 5 1/2 years more of this life