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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
March 25, l975
Dear Inner-Family of Co-Workers:
This morning, Tuesday, March 25, it happened again!
Another important government overthrown! A month ago, I wrote you
about how one after another of the governments of nations around
the world are being overturned.
This morning, too late for the morning newspapers in New
York, where I happen to be, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was
assassinated. It was all set up for a meeting between myself and
him, possibly on this next trip in April. In many ways King Faisal
was the most outstanding of the Arab heads of state. Tall,
dignified in his Arab headdress and flowing robes, he was a very
picturesque figure. I had met his half-brother predecessor, King
Saud, when he was the Crown Prince Emir. That was in London,
February 1947.
Co-Workers, as I said a month ago, time is now really
running out on us! NEVER has the world been in a time of world
troubles such as we live in now. Governments are toppling like
dominoes or tenpins. The government of South Vietnam and also of
Cambodia may fall to communist North Vietnam any day. I have met
and come to know well President Thieu of South Vietnam, and there
are many others close to him and at or near the top of the South
Vietnamese government. We were all set up for a big campaign
there when the war began heating up and the red forces were driving
so close to Saigon that it was too dangerous to have so big a crowd
-- I expected up to fifty thousand there in the university stadium
outdoors -- to be assembled in one place. It would have been too
tempting a target for North Vietnamese rockets.
Now that God is opening before me these wonderful doors in
so many of the BIG population gentile nations, we must hurry,
because governments are being overthrown almost faster than I can
get to them!
We are definitely in the END TIME. Conditions are already
worse in the world than ever before. We are rapidly moving into
the GREAT TRIBULATION of Matthew 24:21-22, when, UNLESS God
supernaturally intervenes to STOP IT (cut it short), NO FLESH
WOULD BE SAVED ALIVE ON THIS EARTH!
Some years ago I saw factors indicating the possibility
that our work might be completed by early 1972, and immediately
followed by the Great Tribulation. I NEVER SET A DEFINITE DATE.
I NEVER SAID IT WOULD DEFINITELY HAPPEN -- but cautioned there
were indications of the possibility. Yet some misunderstood and
took it as a definite prophecy for a definite date. We need to be