will be worth NOTHING to you. Have you not read the prophecy of
what men will do with their SILVER and GOLD, which in the form of
DOLLARS have become their IDOLS which they worship and serve?
Immediately AFTER our Work is finished -- and NOT UNTIL
THEN -- this shall happen: "And they shall go into the holes of
the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the
ETERNAL, and for the glory of His Majesty, when He ariseth to shake
terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of
SILVER and his idols of GOLD ... to the moles and to the bats."
(Isa. 2:19-21.) This is a picture of the DAY OF THE LORD, which is
to follow the Great Tribulation (of probably 2 1/2 years), which
follows IMMEDIATELY after GOD'S WORK HE IS DOING THROUGH US IS
FINISHED!
Co-Workers, right NOW, dollars are still POWER! Let us
SACRIFICE to put them WHERE THE LIVING CHRIST IS USING THEM IN
GOD'S WORK, now getting His precious Gospel to more than 45 MILLION
people every week, in every inhabited continent of the earth!
In all probability, five years from now will be TOO LATE!
But now it is NOT, yet, too late! Let us WORK while we may, for
"the night cometh when NO MAN can work" -- when there shall be a
FAMINE of HEARING the Word of GOD!
God's Work is in serious NEED. We are now preparing big
Messages to be printed in full page or BIG advertising space all
over the British Isles. We MUST finish getting the Message to
EPHRAIM! But unless our Co-Workers will sacrifice, and INCREASE
their offerings, beside their faithful tithes, this year's budget
will not provide for much of it!
More than ever before we need LOANS of larger amounts from
those who are not free to make these larger sums a contribution at
this time. More than ever we need the "widows' mites" from those
who simply do not have larger amounts to send. Yes, even those
"mites" HELP -- when we all UNITEDLY pitch in to DO OUR PART as
Co-Workers WITH CHRIST!
REMEMBER -- you are HAVING A PART in not only CHANGING THE
WORLD -- but preparing for Christ's coming to SAVE THE WORLD! PRAY
for the Work as never before!! PRAY FOR ME, and Garner Ted,
PERSONALLY, and for our protection against cranks, fanatics,
persecutors. In the POWER of Christ and the HOLY SPIRIT, we go
forth BOLDLY until Christ's Work through us is finished! THANK
YOU! Be THANKFUL you are privileged to HAVE A PART with CHRIST!
With love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong