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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
May 29, 1967
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
I am writing you from the Ambassador College Campus in
TEXAS. Things are happening -- FAST! I am really enroute once
again to Jerusalem, Jordan, to do the first radio broadcast, LIVE
from the Jerusalem studios -- the FIRST proclaiming of the very
gospel Christ brought, since the original apostles, 1900 years ago!
Today, it looks very much as if I shall not be able to get
into the Middle East. Yesterday it began to look as if the
WAR-SCARE emergency crisis was passing -- the trouble quieting
down. Today we have news of Nasser's UAR soldiers actually opening
fire on Israelis. But, as I write, the Israelis did not return the
fire -- are keeping cool, giving the United Nations and the BIG
Powers -- the United States, Russia, France, Britain -- a chance to
resolve this trouble, before actual WAR starts in the "Holy Land."
THIS IS VERY SERIOUS TROUBLE! The final triggering of
World War III and the end of the world will START in this Middle
East Holy Land area -- the cradle of civilization -- the birthplace
of three of the world's great religions!
Do you realize HOW SERIOUS are world troubles right now?
I DO! It seems I am personally being thrown so close to
it, that it is becoming VERY REAL to me! A year ago, Mrs.
Armstrong and I flew right over South Viet Nam. War was going on
down under us -- but we were more than six miles up above it so we
didn't actually see any of the war! Then, just five weeks ago
yesterday, I was in Nicosia, Cyprus -- in the Mediterranean Sea.
Two of our men and myself went to the airport to board a plane for
London. We wondered why they did not call for the passengers to
board, as takeoff time neared. Then the loudspeakers announced an
hour delay. At the end of the hour there was announcement of
another three-hour delay. Later we learned the reason. We were
to make one stop at Athens. That morning, just after midnight, the
army had staged a military coup, overthrowing the Government of
Greece. All communications at Athens had been cut off. The
airport had been closed. Finally we were allowed to board the
plane. We were delayed another hour at the airport in Athens.
So I was there -- right in Athens -- the very day there
was a military overthrow of the Government of Greece! Of course I
saw nothing of the trouble. But I was there -- and so close, that