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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
Tucson, Arizona
February 8, 1981
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
We are off to a running start in the new year, 1981. Never before has
God given us such a leap forward at the very beginning of a new year!
This is the MOST SERIOUS year of the Work of God so far. GOD'S TIME
HAS COME TO SPEED UP HIS WORK WITH DYNAMIC AND TREMENDOUS
POWER! Time for completing the GREAT MISSION OF GOD in this dying world
is fast running out on us!
This country--the U.S.--and the whole world is in ferment, confusion,
serious TROUBLE! President Reagan has just said the economic state of the
U.S. is the worst and most serious since the supreme Depression of 1929-1936.
It's a NATIONAL EMERGENCY!
Nations are being overthrown around the world. Satan knows he now has
but a short time--BUT DO WE KNOW IT? We have to sacrifice now as NEVER
BEFORE! We have to put the Work of God FIRST in our lives! FIRST in our
prayers! We now have to DEDICATE OUR LIVES TO HIS SERVICE AS NEVER
BEFORE!
In this time of world turmoil, Jesus Christ is starting off His Work for
1981 with a DYNAMIC START! He is inspiring me as never before. I am doing
the best, most effective and powerful work of my life. I feel the surge of God's
Spirit and inspiration and power as He uses me more effectively than ever!
I returned a week ago from the last important meetings in Japan and the
Philippines. They were the most successful so far in all these years.
In Tokyo I spoke a vigorous message on the soon-coming Kingdom of God
at a banquet of some 400 important and leading people of that energetic and
upcoming nation. Then I spoke on the Sabbath afternoon to 100 Japanese
subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH, mostly college students and professors. Then
again about the same number three weeks later on the return from the
Philippines.
At Manila, reporters of newspapers and TV news met me at the airport
and we had a press conference. President Ferdinand Marcos had ordered a pilot
siren car and three motorcycle police with sirens to escort me to my hotel --
and at my service, escorting me with sirens screaming wherever I went for
the more than two weeks I was there.
I was guest of honor, and spoke a full message in power at a huge banquet
of 750 members of the very important Philippine Constitution Association,
a power in the Philippines. I was guest of honor and speaker at a luncheon of
combined Rotary clubs. I spoke to a packed auditorium a full Message of the
Kingdom of God at the very prestigious Adamson University. I had a private
televised meeting, featured that evening on TV and next morning with my picture
at the top of front pages of Manila newspapers, with President Marcos. There
was a short meeting with the First Lady later. Minister of Labor Blas Ople
hosted a dinner for me, with two or three other cabinet ministers and Mr. Rader,
of course. Impressed by the things I said, the Minister of Agrarian Reform