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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
September 20, 1979
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with CHRIST:
This will be my last letter to you before the great
Feast of Tabernacles--perhaps the greatest in 1900 years.
I have just reread a letter I wrote and sent yesterday
to our ministers and their wives. And as I read it, I
felt that it is exactly what I want now to say to you.
So here it is:
WHERE WE ARE, NOW!
Let's not take everyday routine of events for granted.
Let's awake to the REALITY of where we are in the panorama
of world events. For we are in a very SERIOUS time!
As we approach perhaps the greatest Feast of Tabernacles
in 1900 years, we need to be conscious that we are approaching
CLOSER THAN WE THINK the very tremendous event this Festival
pictures to us--the millennial world-reign of the KINGDOM
OF GOD!
At the Feast last year we had the new book ready on
"THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL." This year we have another
book ready to distribute at the Feast, one to each family,
about the very event we are attending to celebrate--the
wonderful world as it will be for a thousand years, ruled
by THE KINGDOM OF GOD!
I have just finished reading again this entire book--
though it is not a thick book I had not read it or seen
it since writing it more than two years ago. I am my
own worst critic, but for this book I will say I am not
displeased because it does not seem as if I wrote it--but
that Christ inspired and I merely typed it at His dictation.
I AM dissatisfied with the cover and the outer paper
flap. That can be changed before the book is put on the
market in bookstores. But the book itself I feel is inspired
and inspiring--as well as TIMELY!
I have said before, it has seemed as if God had
purposely held up and delayed the progression of prophesied
world events, undoubtedly to give us time to get ourselves--
HIS CHURCH--ready for these final climactic events and
Christ's coming to RULE! But NOW there are significant
signs that these events will be SPEEDED UP. The
"resurrection" of the medieval "Holy Roman Empire," the
Great Tribulation, and the plagues of the first phase of
the "Day of the Lord," will in all probability come rather
suddenly and unexpectedly on us.
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