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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 2 8, 1979
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with filthy garments--covered with sin. Beside him stands Satan, holding
him BOUND (but not possessed)--unable to shake himself loose--unable to
REPENT! Then comes Jesus Christ and REBUKES Satan, frees Joshua, orders
his filthy garments to be taken off, and clean garments of white (right
eousness) put on, and then a fair mitre put on his head.
PRAY WITH ME, earnestly and diligently that the END-TIME EVENT which
that foreshadowed may yet come to pass. I pray for this fervently DAILY,
as I pray also for all of YOU.
August 19, 1979
Dear Mr. Armstrong:
This afternoon while my wife and I were going through some files and
boxes in my study, I came across the letter you wrote to the brethren
dated, June 28 , 1978 in which you told us that you had been forced to dis
fellowship your son, Garner Ted. I do not wish to reopen the wounds and
deep sorrows of the past, but I wish only to tell you my feelings and
thoughts after having read that letter after over a year had past since
you wrote it. Some of the things I thought of were significant and I
feel like you may wish to hear about them.
I can recall in the early 70s some of the changes in the sermons we
began to receive from those who came from Headquarters on the Holy Days
(actually, High Days!) were nearly undetectable except for the "appeal"
to our human desire for "relief" from the ministerial "oppression" so
many of us were told we had experienced over the years! Maybe there were
some extenuating circumstances in which this may have been true. But
yet, the kind of sermons we received during those years of "oppression"
were the kind which made us go home and dig into our Bibles and search
diligently for greater understanding of the Way of the Living God! The
language Satan inspired to be used during those later years was so slick
and subtle that we virtually saw this "new" way of thinking as being a
process of maturation in the Church, and most of us fell for it. But
then again, we didn't. The answer to that statement lies in the fact
that the preaching that the Living Christ inspired through you and those
Christ taught through YOU was the very preaching that sustained most of
us through the years of trial and confusion.
Referring to your letter, I realize more than ever now how important the
lesson is that God brought to us, especially to you, in the episode of
Moses and Aaron and how Aaron led the people into gross idolatry in Moses'
ahsence. Now, with the work being changed once again in structure with
yuu eliminating any man or office between you and the ministry, I know
more than ever that Jesus Christ is truly more determined to place His
Church in the most powerful shape it has EVER been throughout its history
of over 1900 years! The Living God IS getting His Church back on God's
Track! Times are exciting! Christ truly is SOON to come! There IS much