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Pasadena for a meeting with me. He kept his word and arrived on schedule in
Pasadena two weeks ago this afternoon.
Dr. Habsburg addressed students and campus employees on Monday at
11 a.m. Mr. La Ravia and I took him on a brief visit through the Auditorium and
then to luncheon in the faculty dining room. That evening he was guest at a
formal
dinner in my home with other Church officials and their wives. I also had a
private meeting with him, as did Mr. Gene H. Hogberg, chief of our world news
staff. While here he stayed in a guest apartment on campus. Tuesday night he
addressed the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in Beverly Hills.
Wednesday morning he flew with me and some of our staff in our G-II jet
to
Washington, D.C. There he addressed the John Davis Lodge Center for
International Studies at the University club.
In my private meeting with him, Dr. Habsburg expressed disappointment
that progress on the European reunification had moved so slowly. I expressed the
conviction that some totally unexpected world-shocking event could occur
suddenly at any time that would high pressure European nations to go together
overnight, adopting the constitution already prepared by the European
Parliament.
This Parliament, although without substantial power, is composed of leaders who
are framing the constitution in advance. He mentioned that there are madmen
such as Kadafi and Khomeini who could pull off some startlingly unexpected
international act that would press the panic button in Europe.
Incidentally, Drs. Habsburg and Strauss are close friends, and for some
reason I do not understand--but may be of God's designing--both are very
friendly to me and to Ambassador College.
Now let me tell you WHY I know God has HELD BACK end-time world
events--and WHY he will cause things to snap together suddenly when least
expected and bring this world suddenly to its END, and the coming of Christ in
supreme power and glory to rule ALL NATIONS, ushering in the KINGDOM OF
GOD and the WORLD TOMORROW!
In Revelation 7, God suddenly holds up the plagues of the Day of the
Lord,
UNTIL certain events happen--the sealing of the 144,000 and the emergence of
the Laodicean Church. He has held events back before. Yet he says that, when
HIS time comes, he will make a speedy work in the end time and cut his work
short.
In Matthew 24:32-35 Jesus said that when we see world events now
occurring, we are to KNOW that this END is very near--within this generation.
Yet of the day and hour (verse 36) we cannot know. Yet when it strikes it will
strike suddenly, unexpectedly, like a trap that springs shut on a hapless rat
without warning. If one knew at what hour a thief would come in the night to
burglarize his house, he would have watched and been ready to resist him.
We have been seeing these end-time world events coming for several years
now. God has delayed--held up world events. Yet he will SUDDENLY cut his
work short, and END things, as unexpectedly and suddenly as when the trap
springs on a rat before he can move.