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ask ourselves, WHY has God ALLOWED IT? He tells us all things
work together FOR GOOD to those who love and obey Him. IN WHAT
WAY, then, has this very traumatic, monstrous injustice been
ALLOWED by our God? Not that He wanted to punish us. Not that
He wanted to bring suffering upon us. But because WE WERE
DRIFTING INTO A CARELESS LUKEWARM SPIRITUAL CONDITION! God has
allowed Satan to bring this upon us. First, to wake us up
spiritually and bring us back CLOSER TO HIM, and second, to DRAW
US CLOSER TOGETHER and third, to sift out from our midst some of
the chaff from the wheat.
Brethren, this terrible ordeal IS ACCOMPLISHING THOSE THREE
THINGS! It is a SIFTING TIME. Some "liberals" who wanted to water
down God's TRUTH are being sifted out.
It is also the time of Daniel 12:10, "Many shall be purified,
and made white, and tried ..." It is speaking of THIS VERY TIME
shortly before Christ's second coming!
God has ALLOWED it exactly as He ALLOWED Satan to take away
everything from Job, and then afflicted Job with boils from head
to foot -- Job was SELF-RIGHTEOUS.
But also as God allowed Satan to afflict Job, it is really
SATAN who has INFLUENCED deceived people to bring on us this
terrible ordeal! SATAN WAS BACK OF IT! But some members or
former members, some perhaps sincere but MISLED, were in a CONSPIRACY
to bring this outrageous thing upon us! Dr. Herman Hoeh was being
innocently drawn into this CONSPIRACY. But God opened his eyes to
see what really was going on, and he rushed to our Church attorney,
Mr. Ralph Helge, with a statement revealing the whole conspiracy.
Satan MASTERMINDED it -- but Satan used members and former members
(not more than five or six who precipitated it, although a few
others were in on the conspiracy, but kept their names out of it).
But just as, once Job came to REALIZE his sin of
SELF-righteous-ness and repent of it, God restored to him TWICE AS
MUCH as he had before, even so, my brethren -- my own children in
the Lord -- God will restore to us and His Work double or much
more than double, once HIS PURPOSE, as I stated above, has been
accomplished.
My children in the Lord, WE NEED TO GO TO OUR KNEES! We need
to FAST and PRAY! True, I need you to stand back of me now as never
before in specially generous offerings to fight this montrous
miscarriage of justice -- but even more YOU need -- TO DRAW CLOSER
TO OUR WONDERFUL AND GREAT GOD.
Don't ever worry about God or Christ forsaking us or His Work.
HE WON'T! We need to be concerned about whether we have begun to
veer away to some extent FROM HIM -- have WE unknowingly begun partly
to forsake HIM?
I said this is a testing time, SOME OF US MAY BE THROWN IN
PRISON before this is over, and the living Christ gives us the victory.
I myself, stricken with the Asian flu, with a fever temperature at
age 86, may be thrown into prison. It has come to me indirectly that