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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PASTOR GENERAL
November 25, 1985
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
This has been the MOST SERIOUS year of the Work of God so
far. Never before has God given us such a leap forward in
television coverage and PLAIN TRUTH circulation as in these past
six months.
GOD'S TIME HAS COME TO SPEED UP HIS WORK WITH DYNAMIC
AND TREMENDOUS POWER! Time for completing the GREAT MISSION OF GOD
in this dying world is fast running out on us!
This country--the U.S.--and the whole world is in ferment,
confusion, serious social and economic trouble! Satan knows he now
has but a short time--BUT DO WE KNOW IT? We have to sacrifice now
as never before! We have to put the Work of God FIRST in our
lives! First in our prayers! We now have to dedicate our lives to
his service as never before!
In this time of world turmoil, Jesus Christ is blessing his
Church and its work! We have been plunging forward in the Work.
Spectacular new time availabilities will soon open up on some
television stations that will cover virtually all Europe.
BUT WE SERIOUSLY AND URGENTLY NEED INCREASED INCOME to walk
through these new doors! The Work must now plunge forward in
greater power!
God's time has come! These open doors cost more money.
With the writing of the new book MYSTERY OF THE AGES God has helped
me this year to do the best work of my 93 years of life! But now,
for over three months, I have been suffering a serious illness
which started from a flu bug in August. Since then I have been
confined to my home, with a doctor, who seldom makes house calls,
coming to see me every day--sometimes twice a day. I have been
unable to rid myself of a fever that has left me with low blood
levels and very little strength. Even so, I am working as
energetically as possible from my home.
I now need you to work harder, more energetically and at
greater sacrifice in prayers and extra financial offerings than
ever before!
A few years ago I wrote you a warning that we must prepare
to tighten our belts, and reduce our living standards! This whole
nation is going to have to learn to do that!
I ask you, brethren, in Jesus' name, to put whatever you are
able into God's Work in this crisis hour before the Great
Tribulation that will cut off our work just prior to the soon-
coming of Christ and the World Tomorrow.