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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona, 85702
May 27, 1980
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Just WHERE is this world going to take you FROM HERE?
The greatest Newscaster of all time said we can prognosticate tomorrow's
weather, but, He asked, can we forecast what will happen to us in world events?
On every TV news program they go to great lengths to describe TODAY'S
weather, and forecast tomorrow's, and the coming weekend. You and I need
to take a look at the world we live in TODAY--and see what GOD has prophesied
for tomorrow and the next day.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
We have had two world wars. They have changed the world we live in
MORE THAN WE REALIZE!
Look at the world NOW for a moment. It has come to social COLLAPSE!
The institution of marriage and the family structure has BROKEN DOWN!
The "new morality" (immorality) has swept the world. Violence has entered
the HOME. Police chiefs will tell you more murders occur in the HOME than
any other place--children against parents and parents against children. Husband
kills wife and wife murders husband. Crime stalks the land everywhere.
Go back to our first parents. God had instructed them in HIS WAY OF
LIFE. It could be summed up in the word "GIVE"--outflowing LOVE toward
others, but first of all toward GOD. They encountered Satan. He sold them
on THE WAY OF "GET"--love of SELF, competition and even violence toward
others. God gave them the knowledge of what is GOOD as well as what is evil.
They took to themselves determination of the knowledge of what is GOOD and
what is EVIL--rejecting GOD'S WAY.
Then God drove them out of the garden of Eden, lest they take of the
tree of life (the Holy Spirit which leads one in GOD'S WAY). God barred
re-entrance and access to THE WAY of God's Holy Spirit and eternal salvation
for 6,000 years--that is, to all but the exceeding FEW God would specially call
to His service and eternal salvation. Others are not JUDGED until after the
6,000 years, which are now almost over.
This left mankind to his own ideas. God said, "I have cut you and your
children off from me and my teaching of the RIGHT WAY. Go, form your own
ideas of right and wrong, led and swayed by Satan. You have rejected me as
your GOD. Go form your own concepts of gods. Form your own religions.
You have rejected my GOVERNMENT over you. Go, form your own unworkable
forms of governments. You have rejected me as Teacher of knowledge of truth
and right education. Go, form your own fund of knowledge and your own schools
and methods of dissemination of your false knowledge inspired by Satan. You
have rejected my teaching of morality, family life and society. Go, form your
own codes of morality and your own kind of social order.
"Satan will guide you, so you will in fact build SATAN'S world. But he
will deceive you into thinking you live in GOD'S world. He will deceive you