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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
July 21, 1977
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
It is Tuesday morning July l9th. We are in flight in our
G II from Tokyo to Hong Kong. We have on board one of my "Japanese
sons"--a high member of the Japanese Diet, with his very charming
wife and two of their three sons.
Last Sabbath we had a private dinner in the private dining
room connecting with the Fontainebleue Restaurant atop the Imperial
Hotel with the Ambassador of Israel and his wife, with other
members of the Israeli Embassy and their wives, making it a total
of 12 at the dinner. There immediately followed a Sabbath
afternoon service attended by some 200 PLAIN TRUTH readers.
Last night was the big night of the visit to Tokyo--a most
important banquet with about 150 in attendance, including several
high in the Japanese government with 13 ambassadors from as many
countries. Most of my "Japanese sons"--all members of the Japanese
Diet--were present. I was guest of honor and main speaker. I
did get over to them the GOOD NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM
OF GOD.
I mentioned, first, that I had a very happy ANNOUNCEMENT
to make. I then mentioned that some three years ago I had been
guest speaker at a luncheon in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, attended
by 19 ambassadors--official representatives of 19 nations--and
most of their wives. Everyone was so jovial in a bedlam of
laughing conversation that I then said this was evidence that all
our nations could live happily at peace as we were doing. I said,
last night, that "tonight I will go further. I ANNOUNCE to you
tonight, that, in our very present living generation, ALL NATIONS
WILL come to live happily and joyfully together in WORLD PEACE.
We will not bring this about ourselves," I said. "We humans have
brought only trouble, pain and suffering--discontent, injustice,
and unhappiness on ourselves!
"Governments are now being overthrown at the rate of one
a month. This will accelerate. For the first time in all history,
since 1950, man has created the weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION that
can ERASE ALL LIFE FROM THIS PLANET EARTH. We humans are going
to bring conditions to the very brink of TOTAL DISASTER! Our
number one problem now is SURVIVAL of the human race!
"Many world-famous scientists say our only hope is the
emergence of a ONE WORLD SUPER-GOVERNMENT to rule all nations.
One of our great weekly news magazines in the United States said
in an editorial that it would seem that mankind's ONLY HOPE now