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than He gave David. She was just a few months older than I, though
part of each year we were "the same age," as they are counted. Yet
neither of us have felt or acted in any manner like "old folks," or
"elderly" people. We never thought of her as being anywhere near
seventy!
God had called her, and then me through her. He had chosen
us for His Work. He had built His great Work through us, bearing
great and rich spiritual "fruit."
He used her illness to JOLT into a REAWAKENING His people,
carrying on HIS WORK, around the world. God used her illness to
CHANGE many thousands of lives--including, first of all, our own.
My entire daily routine is much changed. With this jolt God gave
us, He gave me what was needed to OVERCOME the three things that
had plagued me--and which I had desperately tried, but been unable
to overcome previously. It was like a chain reaction. This same
reawakening, reconsecration, continued on through God's ministers
here at world Headquarters of HIS WORK, and on to our ministers
over the world--and then on to thousands and thousands of HIS
PEOPLE whom He is using directly and indirectly in His Work.
IF you'll read John 15, you'll realize that God corrects,
"prunes, or "purges" every branch in Christ which is producing
fruit--THAT THEY MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT. It is only those
bearing none that He cuts off.
This great WORK OF GOD not only HAS produced fruit--but
right now God is opening gigantic NEW DOORS for His Work to
MULTIPLY in POWER!
In our human thinking, it seemed God would heal her NOW,
that she could continue the remaining few years as my HELP in the
closing years of GOD'S WORK preparing the WAY for Christ's COMING,
and the KINGDOM OF GOD, ushering in the wonderful WORLD TOMORROW!
But, we know now, God had intended otherwise. He had intended to
take her from "the evil to come," as He explains in Isaiah 57:1
(which read).
Perhaps greater persecutions and terrors await us than we
had expected. We are greatly persecuted already. From here and
there, it seems tracts, booklets, religious-paper stories are
belching forth utterly and foully MISREPRESENTING what God is
proclaiming through this, HIS WORK. They are falsely telling
people "Armstrong teaches" this and that--which we emphatically DO
NOT TEACH AT ALL! If you want to know what we teach, then just
listen to The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast, or read The PLAIN TRUTH, or
write in for our free booklets or literature on whatever subject
you wish. WE WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
Perhaps this persecution will become PHYSICAL threatening,
and violence--we know not. Perhaps God has mercifully spared my
dear wife from this.
BUT GOD HAS NOT BROKEN A ONE OF HIS PROMISES! Like
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Sarah, my wife will receive the PROMISE
of complete HEALING in the Resurrection--a VERY few years hence!