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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
P.O. BOX 431, TUCSON, ARIZONA 85702
Pasadena
January 26, 1983
Dear Brethren in Australia:
Evangelist Gerald Waterhouse has just returned to Pasadena
from his most recent visit to many of the churches in Australia,
and I thank God for his report of your continued faithfulness and
loyalty to our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, and of your continuing
steadfast in spiritual growth.
I recently returned from conferences with government leaders
in Europe. I am much sobered by what I learned. The revival of
the medieval "Holy Roman Empire" may be much more imminent than we
have supposed--and both prophecies of Revelation 17 and Daniel 2:44
show that its reformation will result quickly in the Second Coming
of Christ, the END of this present evil world and the bursting
forth of the wonderful, happy and peaceful WORLD TOMORROW!
We in God's Church are of the glorious TEMPLE to which the
glorified Christ is coming.
More of that later, but I find there have been some
misunderstandings as to what Mr. Waterhouse taught, and also about
God's Church and what it is. God has shown me that this letter
must be straight and PLAIN TALK- the PLAIN TRUTH. For I know you
do not want to be wrong due to misunderstanding.
Time indeed is now short. We are the last generation of
this present evil world--the generation that shall be caught up in
the air to meet Christ as he returns to earth as KING of kings and
LORD of lords to establish A WHOLE NEW WORLD! Brethren, we are all
still human. We have been called of God to come OUT of this
world's ways and beliefs--to be a separate and holy people, forming
the glorious TEMPLE OF THE LORD to which he soon will come.
But also, the first century church at Corinth were called
out of this world, and though now dead they shall be resurrected at
Christ's coming and with us (then changed to spirit immortality)
together meet with the returning Christ in the air at his coming.
And Christ's apostle to them of that day had to write: "Now I
beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and
in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you ...
that there are contentions among you" (I Corinthians 1:10-11).
Some of them followed one minister, some another. This was causing
divisions in the Church.
And the apostle Paul also wrote to those at Rome, "Now I
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them"
(Romans 16:17).