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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona, 85702
Tucson, March 21,
1980
Dear Brethren of God's Church:
Now we are enthusiastically looking toward the first Feast of Tabernacles
in the NEW
DECADE OF THE EIGHTIES! It's a sobering thing to bear in mind that this could
well be the very
last decade in which we may attend this wonderful Festival prior to Christ's
coming in supreme
POWER and GLORY to establish the KINGDOM OF GOD!
In that regard think how IMPORTANT this Festival is! After the return of
KING of kings
Jesus Christ, "it shall come to pass that every one...shall even go up from year
to year to
worship the King, the Lord of hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles" (Zech.
14:16). And
there shall be plagues and severe punishments on nations that neglect or refuse
to attend!
Of course that is speaking of MORTAL people then left alive--not of Christ's
saints who then
will be IMMORTAL and in the very Family of God.
But you and I are, now, still mortal--and the above scripture shows us HOW
VERY SERIOUS
IN GOD'S EYES it is that we attend this wonderful Feast this year. For we MAY be
attending it
as IMMORTAL BORN children of God before this present decade is out! That
certainly is a likely
possibility.
Brethren, there have been reasons for believing God may have held up--
slowed down,
delayed--the march of world events during the decade of the seventies. But there
are a number
of signs in world events since this decade of the eighties began to indicate God
may well now
be SPEEDING UP world events--cutting short the progress of events in this world
of Satan's.
We have undoubtedly entered the most EXPLOSIVE decade in the history of
man. But it is
possible that God will cut short the days of Great Tribulation ahead, and ring
us into the
WONDERFUL and GLORIOUS Kingdom of God before this decade is out. Again,
remember, I am not
setting dates! Jesus said no man will know the day or the hour. But He did say
we may know
by world events when it is near--even at the door!
This will be my 54th year of keeping the annual fall Holy Days. We did not
come to