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Brethren, GOD HAS ONLY ONE CHURCH. Today's era and generation
have been forty-five years BUILDING UNDER CHRIST'S BLESSING to this
powerful advantage.
But now I must direct your minds to the fact that there DID
ARISE, during the years when I was in other parts of the world on
CHRIST'S MISSION 200 to 300 of the 365 days in a year, DIVISION
and OPPOSITION to this VERY GREAT COMMISSION by the one I left in
charge of the day-to-day administration of CHRIST'S POLICIES and
DOCTRINES that Christ had installed in God's Church through His
chosen Apostle. He was SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN TO CHANGE OR MAKE
POLICIES OR DOCTRINES.
Yet he demoted, shanghaied away, and restrained the loyal
ministers older in service, FORBIDDING THEM to contact me in any
way under pain of being fired, HID from me what was going on at
Headquarters, TOOK OVER TO HIMSELF FULL AUTHORITY, watered down
doctrines and teachings, secularized God's College until it NO
LONGER WAS GOD'S College, and instituted a campaign AGAINST Christ
carrying out the GREAT COMMISSION through His chosen Apostle!
It was a CHURCH DIVIDED. It was a Church and gigantic
worldwide Work being subtilely TAKEN OVER by stealth and deception
--Satan's methods--trying, as some top ministers at Headquarters
finally had the courage--in spite of threat of being fired--to
come to me and let me know what really was going on behind my back.
"Mr. Armstrong," this group of four top ministers said solemnly
and gravely to me, "your son has been trying to DESTROY everything
Jesus Christ has BUILT through His Apostle, and build something for
himself."
The College was a shambles of immorality and secularism. Illicit
sex was rampant on campus. I may give you a more detailed report
later of the actual conditions that existed a year ago--men in
official positions are preparing such a report for me.
Brethren, I was shocked beyond measure, hurt and grieved
beyond words to describe, to think my own son had thus conspired
to TAKE OVER God's Church and Work, and make it Garner Ted's work!
HOW do you think King David felt when he discovered his son
Absalom had manipulated a CONSPIRACY to take over the throne where
God set DAVID?
David's son Absalom, because he had committed murder (not
adultery) was in banished isolation. But good-hearted David, his
father, authorized his return (as I did the return of my son in
1972 after three times having been disfellowshipped from the Church).
On returning, Absalom spent two years in Jerusalem, during which
time he was conspiring to take over the kingdom which was GOD's. He
secretly, hiding it from his father, plotted to steal the throne
from his father.
But God had chosen David and set him on the throne--even as