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The PLAIN TRUTH
a magazine of understanding
Pasadena, California 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Pasadena
November 8, 1983
Dear PLAIN TRUTH Subscriber:
The recent flurry of world-shaking catastrophes has caused even President
Reagan to wonder if we are not approaching "Armageddon" and the end of this
world.
Suddenly, unexpected mind-boggling disasters fill the news. September 1,
the deliberate shooting down by Soviet warplanes of the Korean passenger flight
007, killing 269 civilian passengers. Then October 23, the Beirut massacres,
killing 230 sleeping U.S. Marines and 58 French peace-keeping soldiers. Just
prior, October 9, 17 South Korean officers assassinated in Burma. November 4,
four days ago as I write, in Lebanon again, 29 Israelis killed. October 25, the
U.S.
military intervention in Grenada iust in time to prevent a Soviet-Cuban takeover
of
much of the Caribbean that could possibly have led to a Central American
takeover by the Soviet-Cuban forces, which in turn could have led to Soviet
takeover of the entire United States.
Even disasters of nature warn us. October 29, a severe earthquake in
Idaho,
registering 6.9 on the Richter scale, leaving a 10-mile-long gash in the earth.
One
woman reported seeing a chasm several feet wide suddenly open its mouth, and
then slowly shut again--a frightening sight. October 30, eastern Turkey quakes
killing more than 1,000. November 7 (yesterday as I write), a quake registering
5.9 in northeastern China. Early today, near Liege, Belgium, a severe quake
registering 5.0, killing two people and causing tens of millions of dollars
damage.
Then nature warns us in the weather. Weather patterns are upset in the
past
year all over the earth.
These events are deadly serious and ominous of the approach of the END
OF THIS WORLD.
They caused the U.S. President to say: "You know, I turn back to [the]
ancient prophets in the Old Testament, and the signs foretelling Armageddon, and
I find myself wondering if--if we're the generation that is going to see that
come
about.... But, believe me [those prophecies], certainly describe the times we're
going through."
In addition to the alarming catastrophes, disasters and troubles cited
above,
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