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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
January 27, 1974
Dear Inner Family of Brethren
and Co-Workers with Christ:
Here I am, seven-and-a-half miles high, flying back to
Pasadena, after the most successful round-the-world trip so far.
Exciting things have happened -- and even more exciting events in
this great Work loom now immediately ahead. I have much to tell
you!
First, though, let's get our bearings. Let's see where
at the moment -- the progression of world events -- the
progress of this Work in relation to it.
NEVER has there been a year like 1973. Stop and CONSIDER
a moment! Four governments OVERTHROWN in the one year. I had
indirect personal contact with three of them -- Afghanistan, Chile,
Thailand. Then there was Greece. The "Holy-Day-War" between the
Arabs and Israel -- and I want to tell you of my "playing-hide-
and-seek" with Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger as the
Separation of Forces was finally signed.
Then the Vietnam war was still sputtering intermittently.
There was the stepped-up terrorist skyjacking, wholesale machine
gunning at Rome airport, bombing of planes, buildings, and people.
The Watergate disaster, and the ENERGY CRISIS, hitting seriously
EVERY NATION -- the unprecedented famine and wholesale starvation
of people in Ethiopia. The world was rocked with violence and
disasters as NEVER BEFORE!
What still greater disasters and evils will strike this
year? World troubles are escalating with ever increasing
momentum.
Yet, in the great Work of God, to which you and I have
been called as Co-Workers with the living CHRIST, last year was
the year of GREATEST accomplishment! And I want to tell you how
THIS YEAR now looms as a GREATER YEAR BY FAR!
WHY is our Work -- GOD'S WORK -- so supremely IMPORTANT
just NOW?
Let me put it in perspective. Let's stop and get our
bearings of THIS MINUTE!
Over 1900 years ago, God sent His Son Jesus as His
MESSENGER (Malachi 3:1) with a Message for mankind. It was the
glorious GOOD NEWS of the coming KINGDOM OF GOD to bring PEACE,
happiness, joy and abundance to this earth! (Mark 1:1, 14-15.)