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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
January 10, 1958
Dear Brethren:
GREETINGS, in Jesus' name. Here we are, in 1958! Time is
running out on us. Apparently, as we have said before, God is
giving us two 19-year cycles to finish HIS WORK which HE has
assigned to His Church to do. He first opened the mighty door of
radio and the printing press for mass-evangelization of the whole
world with HIS GOSPEL the first week in January, 1934.
In the first 19-year cycle, God continued to open that
tremendous door wider and wider, until "this GOSPEL of the Kingdom"
(Mat. 24:14) was being heard in every state in the U.S.
Then, the first week in January, 1953--exactly 19 years to
the very week--God OPENED THE DOOR to shout His Gospel to Europe
and the British Isles. In like manner, God commissioned the
apostolic Church one 19-year cycle to proclaim Christ's Gospel over
the land in which it started--in Asia--beginning 31 A.D. Then,
after one 19-year cycle, in 50 A.D., God OPENED THE DOOR for the
Apostle Paul to carry the same Gospel INTO EUROPE (II Cor.2:12-13
with Acts 16:9). And in the year 69 A.D., after a second 19-year
cycle, the organized evangelizing of the world by God's Church was
broken off.
NEVER, from that time until 1934--19 centuries later--has
that same Gospel been proclaimed in an organized manner by GOD'S
CHURCH to the known world. True, God's true CHURCH has existed,
small and persecuted, thru every generation. True, God has raised
up leaders in His Church, such as Peter Waldo, and Walter Lollard,
who proclaimed Christ's same GOSPEL over limited areas in Europe.
But never since 69 A.D. has it been proclaimed by mass evangelism
over the whole world.
It may, incidentally, be significant that as God started His
Church in the year 31 A.D. so He ordained into His ministry the man
He has chosen for leadership in this FINAL CLOSING WORK of His
Church exactly 19 centuries later--exactly 100 19 year cycles later
in the year 1931 A.D.!
But brethren in God's Church today, here is the IMPORTANT
thing to shake us out of our lethargy and WAKE US UP! If it is
true that God has allotted to us, as He did to the church 19
centuries ago, just TWO 19-year time cycles to complete His work,