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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
November 5, 1975
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
It's time, once again, to check up on the STATE OF THE WORLD
AT THIS MINUTE--as compared to 10, 25, and 50 years ago--as to
what is prophesied as SURE to come in the very near future--and
as to the STATE OF AND PLANS FOR GOD'S WORK.
Just where are we now in the panorama of biblical PROPHECY?
Look first at what has happened in the past 10, 20, and 30 years.
Look how freedom of speech and freedom of action are changing
the whole tempo of life.
The new "freedoms" in speech were getting started 30 years
ago. In the movie, "Gone with the Wind," audiences were shocked
when Rhett Butler said to Scarlett O'Hara, "Frankly, my dear, I
don't give a damn!"
Twenty-five years ago I was emotionally shocked when, in a
Broadway play, an actor on stage talked to two other men about
"an s.o.b. [he spoke the words] like you [pointing to one of the
men] and like you [pointing to the other man]...and like ME!
[pointing with his thumb to himself]" just as the final curtain
was rung down. I was stunned to hear such words in a play, for
I had taken with me two twenty- or twenty-one-year-old Ambassador
College male students who were visiting in New York.
But when things like that no longer shocked audiences, they
dished out to the public stronger shocks, until we have come to
X-rated movies. Today in most homes, for even the children to
see if parents do not prevent it, the public is fed a diet of
increasing violence, murder, sex, and themes undreamed of 30 years
ago.
The once-taboo subject of sex is freely discussed among
teenagers. My son Garner Ted explained on his television program
how an embarrassed father felt it his embarrassing duty to talk
to his seven-year-old son about a few elementary facts of sex.
The seven-year-old said briskly, "Oh sure, Dad. What would you
like to know?"
But what of the STATE OF THE WORLD today?
We need to realize that biblical pre-history reveals that
once the universe-ruling GOVERNMENT OF GOD ruled over this whole
earth. There was wonderful, worldwide PEACE, with shouts of JOY!
(Job 38:7) There was a super archangel king on a throne
administering the GOVERNMENT OF GOD (Isaiah 14:13) till
lawlessness--iniquity and rebellion--was found in him (Ezekiel