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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona, 85702
July 24, l979
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with CHRIST:
We look forward, now, to the most significant fall Festival season in
our lifetime.
We know by many world-shaking events we are in the very LAST DAYS--
the coming of Jesus Christ back to earth in SUPREME POWER AND GLORY is NEAR!
Looking at world events and God's PROPHECIES we know that time is now
short. On the other hand, it seems GOD HAS BEEN HOLDING WORLD EVENTS BACK
in order to get His Church--His soon-coming BRIDE--ready. And we must face
it!--we are NOT yet READY!
But there are definite signs now that prophesied world events may
SPEED UP SUDDENLY in a breath-taking manner.
The recent visit of the Pope to his native Poland may be a most
significant event in bringing this evil world to its END!
Brethren, it is imperative that we WAKE UP! Here we are, NEAR the end--
NEAR the time of Christ's return to earth in supreme POWER AND GLORY!
True, a few prophesied events must come first, such as the Great Tribulation
and the testimony of the "TWO WITNESSES" to be heard worldwide, but all these
climactic events can whisk past us in a quick 3 1/2 years.
Less than two years ago, God brought me back from death. Recently I
asked myself WHY did God bring me back? HOW has God used me these 22 months?
The answer is: PUTTING GOD'S CHURCH BACK ON THE TRACK!
Brethren, we've got to FACE IT! God's Church--and Ambassador College--
had been shockingly derailed--SECULARIZED! The whole WORK had become the
work of MAN! My son Garner Ted had taken to himself authority never given
to him. He took advantage of the fact I was in other parts of the world,
carrying Christ's Gospel Message into other countries, to assume authority
to CHANGE DOCTRINES, and to CHANGE POLICIES. I had denied him BOTH! Much
of it was done SECRETLY! Top-ranking ministers were warned of being fired if
they told me what was going on.
Many of the basic BIBLE TRUTHS God had revealed to me as the very
FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THIS CHURCH were BEING CHANGED! It was no longer
GOD'S College or GOD'S Church! It was becoming precisely what my son is
now trying to build--"GARNER TED ARMSTRONG'S CHURCH"! He was surrounded
by a small group of secular self-professed "intellectuals."
Jesus christ is once again the HEAD of this Church and this Work!
Over two years ago some men in high office finally worked up enough courage
to come to me and say, "Mr. Armstrong, your son is trying to DESTROY
everything Christ has built through you, and build something for himself."
That was true!
Jesus Christ is the HEAD of this Church and entire Work.