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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
January 1980
Dear Fellow-Worker with Christ:
I am enclosing your annual receipt for the tithes and offerings you have
sent
for God's Work during the year 1979. Separate receipts have been made for the
Church
and for Ambassador College. With all my heart I thank you, on behalf of Jesus
Christ,
the living HEAD of this Church of God.
We are beginning a new year--and also a new decade. It may be the last
decade
of this age--of this world's civilization as we know it.
We have just closed a most eventful and momentous decade. The world has
moved
at an accelerating pace in Satan's way toward the END of this world--and,
thankfully,
toward the happy, peaceful, glorious WORLD TOMORROW, with Jesus Christ and
the KINGDOM OF GOD ruling all peoples and nations from Jerusalem!
This past year has moved swiftly in two opposing directions: 1) the world
faster
and faster in Satan's way, with ever rapidly increasing problems and evils
unsolvable
by MAN, and 2) in spite of the greatest satanic persecution in the modern
history of
the Church, Christ has moved swiftly this past year in setting God's entire
great
worldwide Work back on God's track. It has been the greatest year of progress in
God's
Work in our lifetime.
On January 3, the State of California, through the Attorney-General's
office,
launched a massive attack against the Worldwide Church of God, Ambassador
College,
and the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation. It was a sudden vicious
attack
to determine WHO is LORD--Caesar, or CHRIST! Government has always opposed
Christ.
Six thousand years ago, after Adam had turned Satan's way and rejected God
as Lord and Ruler--as Revealer of basic knowledge--as giver of eternal life--as
the
One to be worshipped--as the One to form and shape the world's society and
civilization,
God drove him out of the Garden of Eden, and barred mankind's entrance for 6,000
years.