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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
January 7, 1979
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Our Great God is still on His throne! God has given His
Work a TREMENDOUS VICTORY against the most MONSTROUS conspiracy
and attack Satan ever launched against God's Work!
I want here to give you the true inside story. You've
probably read of the outrageous false charges against myself and
Mr. Stanley R. Rader in 8-column front-page banner headlines,
or heard it on TV news. But we were vindicated in the court,
the conspiracy actually triggered by Satan broken. And God's
Work SURGES ON!
To give you the complete story of this outrageous conspiracy--
Satan's most monstrous attempt to destroy the Church and Work
of the living GOD, I need to reveal to you events and facts going
back ten years or more.
I believed, until some ten years ago, that my son, Garner
Ted Armstrong, had accepted and believed God's truth completely,
and that he was in complete harmony with Christ's chosen Apostle
and God's truth. I knew he had certain likes and dislikes in
living style--(he liked a different kind of music than I--he
liked to hunt and I didn't care for it, etc.)--but I believed
that he and I were firmly together on doctrine and God's truth.
To my very great sorrow I have had to come to see that he
never did really agree with what Jesus Christ through His Word
had revealed to His chosen Apostle. It is only since he has
been disfellowshiped from the Church that the wide discrepancy
of belief became apparent.
Some few years ago, through the office I had given him in
the Work, he began disagreeing on rules of conduct for students
in the college, and on minor points. By 1975 I began to have
an intuition that a conspiracy was in progress to take over total
command of all God's Work. I mentioned this to him as a father
might reveal this thing I sensed, and he assured me there was
no such conspiracy. I could not put my finger on it, to use
an American idiom.
But gradually, in the office of Executive Vice President,
he began demoting the older top-ranking ministers--those who
had received their Bible and theological teaching from me, or
shanghaiing them to some other part of the world. Little by
little I noticed doctrinal differences creeping in, always a
more "liberal" view, watering down TRUTH. It was so gradual--so
subtile, as Satan works so subtilely, that I didn't wake up to
it until it had grown to dangerous proportions.