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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
P.O. BOX 431, TUCSON, ARIZONA 85702
Pasadena
March 15, 1982
Dear Brethren of GOD'S Church:
Begin now to focus your mind on the most joyous eight days of this year--
to
be anticipated and enjoyed by the LARGEST number of people to be gathered at
any convention, assembly or festival on earth. More than 100,000 happy brethren
will share this time of rejoicing.
Stop and THINK of the real PURPOSE and MEANING of the Church in
which you are a member! We live in a world of discontent, gloom, sorrow,
frustration, despair. In boundless LOVE and mercy the Supreme GOD has chosen
and called you and me and all our brethren in Christ OUT of this unhappy and
futile world. WHY? Not only to give into our lives HIS happiness and joy and
blessed hope, but to PREPARE us through HIS Spirit and HIS spiritual knowledge
to rule over and TEACH all humanity during the coming thousand years and the
following Great Judgment to have their lives transformed into vigorous
happiness,
joy and accomplishment with the GIFT of eternal life--when we ALL shall live
happily, gloriously, vigorously, productively FOR EVER AND EVER!
We NOW look forward to the coming FEAST OF TABERNACLES. At the
Feast we shall rejoice eight days looking forward to the time when we may be
used in bringing other millions and billions of precious human lives into
immortal
glorious GOD-LIVES! Yes, then born into the GOD FAMILY--being VERY God
ourselves!
All whose hearts and minds are right with God will be spiritually
refreshed,
uplifted, inspired, filled with joyous anticipation, enjoying a real FEAST on
the
SPIRITUAL WORD OF GOD!
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"
(Zechariah 14:16).
And there shall be plagues and severe punishment on nations that neglect
or refuse to attend! People will be compelled to be happy! 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