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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
August 23, 1984
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Now we're hearing in the news of a soon-coming NUCLEAR WINTER.
Nuclear explosions will produce an earth-covering cloud that will give us a
NUCLEAR NIGHT. The sun will not get through. Crops will not grow. Billions will
be killed by the nuclear blasts. Those remaining will starve.
That is, unless the great Creator GOD does intervene and cut the nuclear
war short before all humanity is erased from the earth!
It is now months ago since the nuclear scientists set the DOOMSDAY
CLOCK forward one more minute--from four to ONLY THREE MINUTES TO
MIDNIGHT. Midnight is the END of the world and of civilization as we know it!
Brethren and Co-Workers, this is no wolf-wolf cry! It is PROPHESIED in
your Bible! It is REAL! And the present economic crisis threatens to bring this
about in a matter of months--or at most a very few years from now. Will we
listen
to what our GOD warns us?
Right now we need to refresh our minds on what is prophesied in Bible
PROPHECIES!
First, where are we right now in the sequence of prophesied world events?
YOU, with me, are being used by Jesus Christ in the fulfillment of Matthew 24-
14,
where Jesus, foretelling the sign of the END OF THE WORLD, said, "This gospel
of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations;
and then shall the END come."
We, by personal preaching, and by television, radio, The PLAIN TRUTH
and other publications and literature, have proclaimed that very message, for
the
first time in 1,900 years, into every nation on earth except Laos and
Cambodia--and even they are under Soviet dominion and we have gotten the
message into the Soviet Union. So Jesus' prophecy HAS BEEN FULFILLED!
But what is the gospel of the kingdom? It is the gospel OF JESUS CHRIST.
In Mark 1:1, "the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ" and in verses 14-15,
it
is "the gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD."
But in about two decades after Jesus said that, we read in Galatians 1:6-
7,
they already were turning to ANOTHER gospel. It was men's gospel ABOUT
Christ--a false gospel, holding back from the people the message Christ
preached about the kingdom of God.
But what IS the kingdom of God? The world does not know. The churches