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Speaking of this same END TIME, "In all your dwellingplaces, THE CITIES
SHALL BE LAID WASTE" (Ezek. 6:6). Cities now have populations into multiple
MILLIONS. No such destruction in ALL the cities could have occurred before the
hydrogen bomb!
But God WILL INTERVENE! His Church SHALL BE PROTECTED!
We who have restored CHRIST'S TRUE GOSPEL to the world, who have
come out of this world, and served the great GOD, and SUFFERED
PERSECUTION and FALSE ACCUSATION, shall be delivered from terrifying
evils such as never occurred before. Let us REMAIN FAITHFUL and supportive of
God's great and END-TIME WORK!
Now I have a personal announcement for our brethren and co-workers.
On April 18, 1977, I wrote our membership a very personal announcement.
It said that at age 25, God had provided me with the wife of my youth. We were
happily married for 50 years lacking only three and one-half months to the day.
He used her in bringing about my conversion, and as my close partner in being
used of Christ in the raising up and building of the Philadelphia era of the
Church of God. Also she had given me the needed closeness and warmth of
companionship, love, affection and inspiration only a wife can give.
For 10 years after her death, I carried on alone. But in my letter to you
April 18, 1977, I said the loneliness had reminded me how God said, "It is not
good that a man should be alone," and I felt God had, after 10 years, provided
me
with a wife to be constantly at my side and give the help and companionship
needed for God's Work.
But with deepest regret I have to say to you now, Mrs. Ramona Armstrong
has refused to be at my side here in Pasadena headquarters or in further travel,
but has insisted on living separately in Tucson. It has been determined by
events,
facts and fruits that I am not spiritually bound by God and only by man's law of
this world.
Circumstances now render it ill-advised that I condone the continuation
of
the legal marriage, both from the Church point of view and of my own. It was my
hope and effort to resolve the matter, and with the least publicity possible,
for the
benefit of the Church, for her and for myself. All attempts to do so have
failed. It
has therefore become necessary that I accede to the advice of Church legal
counsel and file the necessary legal proceedings. I assure you every effort has
been made, at cost of heavy stress on me personally, to avoid this.
God HATES divorce. So do I. I have gone to every effort to prevent this.
It
would be inappropriate at this time that I state all the facts, but if necessary
and
proper later, I will reveal more.
This matter of marriage and divorce has been of very serious concern to
the