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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
May 25, 1969
Dear Brethren and Co-Heirs with Christ:
It is Sunday afternoon. The Feast of Firstfruits -- Day of
Pentecost -- will arrive at sunset this evening. That is the
annual Holy Day that pictures God's HOLY SPIRIT coming to DWELL
within each of us -- begetting us as the very CHILDREN OF GOD --
making us the very FIRSTFRUITS of the Great Living FATHER'S
begotten, and soon to be BORN divine Children!
We need to REALIZE what that means -- how WONDERFUL it is.
We are the very LAST generation in THIS PRESENT WORLD. But Jesus
said the LAST shall be FIRST. And the FIRST of this world are to
be LAST in receiving the SONSHIP of the Living God. Those from
Moses' day were called the CHILDREN of ISRAEL. We are called the
CHILDREN OF GOD. They were the Congregation of Israel. WE the
Church of God. Soon we shall become the KINGDOM of God.
We are even NOW the CHILDREN of GOD (I John 3:2), and what
we soon SHALL be does not as yet APPEAR -- is not seen -- has not
yet happened (same verse). But we know that, when the Living Jesus
Christ does APPEAR, as He soon shall -- His face shining like the
blazing, eye-blinding SUN, full strength -- WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM.
Well, LISTEN Brethren! This, I believe, is EXCEEDINGLY
IMPORTANT!
Some very dramatic things happened Friday -- day before
yesterday. To me, and to my son Garner Ted Armstrong, and other
top executives at Headquarters. IT WAS EXCITING, THRILLING,
ELATING, EXCEEDINGLY IMPORTANT!
Friday morning we had resigned ourselves, regretfully, to
having to give up building the hoped-for "HOUSE FOR GOD" -- at
least for starting it this year -- probably permanently.
I want to give you all the FACTS.
In my letter of May 5, I explained how I had desired to
build, at Pasadena Headquarters, an auditorium -- but one that, to
us, would be more than just the college auditorium. It would be a
HOUSE FOR GOD, at the place He has designated as His earthly
HEADQUARTERS for the present.
Three thousand years ago, King David wanted to build a
HOUSE FOR GOD, and God said "Thou didst well that it was in thine
heart." When I first wrote all our Brethren about it, five or six
years ago, there was an immediate VERY ENTHUSIASTIC response. But
then necessity gave other vitally needed buildings priority. We