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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
October 23, 1980
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ,
I am writing this time from London. Today I had a luncheon
and meeting with our ministers in southern and central England.
I will speak to the combined churches in this area the day
after tomorrow, and then we fly on to Cairo.
There I have a private meeting set up with President
Anwar Sadat on next Tuesday, and on Monday night I will speak
before a group of about 400 Egyptian leaders in government
and education including wives. Then on to Jerusalem again
where I have another meeting with Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, besides many other meetings with officials in government
and universities. I hope to inspect again the major archaeological
project we are participating in immediately south of the Temple
wall extending to the adjacent City of David.
When the living Christ returns to earth with supreme
power and glory to restore the Government of God and to rule
all nations of the earth, He will sit on the throne of the
ancient King David. That throne is not in the Temple but
in the palace in the City of David adjacent to the Temple.
Some 50 feet of rubble, debris and dirt had piled up and settled
over the point of that ancient throne during the past 2500
years. Our excavations are clearing off all that piled-up
debris. Already we have cleared a considerable area of it,
and now we are getting to the very area of that ancient throne.
A large contingent of Ambassador College students was
sent to Jerusalem to work on this project during the past
summer. Could we be preparing the way, the physical location,
as well as the Gospel carried worldwide, for Christ's imminent
and glorious coming as KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS over
all nations?
Jesus Himself said, "To him that overcometh will I grant
to sit with me in my throne [in Jerusalem], even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne" (Rev.
3:21).
I wonder--how many of us are counted worthy to sit there?
Meanwhile world conditions continue leading to the grand-smash
climax of the prophesied GREAT TRIBULATION (Matt. 24:21-22),
which shall be cut short by "THE DAY OF THE LORD" when Christ
will supernaturally intervene just before His coming into
Power and Glory.
The nations all over the world are upset, with wars and
near wars, which continually seek the overthrow of the governments
in many nations. The war between Iraq and Iran continues;
world nerves tense, watching to see whether the Soviet Union