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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August 15, 1980
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to be the head of the wife, succumbed to her leadership. She led him
into Satan's way. Adam joined her in rebelling against the GOVERNMENT OF
GOD--rejecting God as Revealer of basic knowledge and as Giver of eternal
LIFE�
When the first man and woman REJECTED GOD and HIS GOVERNMENT, CUT
THEMSELVES OFF from God and the gift of His Holy Spirit, God made their
decision binding on all their progeny for 6,000 years--until Christ, the
"Second Adam," should have come, qualified by overcoming Satan and Satan's
way, and actually RESTORED the GOVERNMENT OF GOD. This shall happen now,
very shortly. For we are right at the END of that 6,000 years of the DAY
OF MAN under SATAN, and the DAY OF THE LORD is almost upon us!
So ALL HUMANITY--except the minutest FEW God has specially called
to His service in preparation for that future world government, has been
CUT OFF from God and HIS GOVERNMENT. Man has been left to form HIS OWN
ideas of how he should be ruled.
Down through history, some peoples have submitted to the tyranny of
DICTATORSHIPS and autocratic MONARCHIES. Some have swung to the center
and called it "Democracy." Others to the extreme left, calling it
COMMUNISM. Even there it is actually the autocratic dictatorial RULE
of a central Politburo, in which one man--a Stalin, a Khruschev, or a
Brezhnev--dominates as real RULER.
Even in the Democratic National Convention, some individual dele­
gates interviewed were fightingly for turning "still farther LEFT."
But through TV, the public has seen a sample of MAN-made government
in our day.
The living Jesus Christ is soon now going to return, as KING of
kings, to RULE ALL NATIONS with the GOVERNMENT OF GOD!
There will be no election campaigns. No multi-million dollar fund­
raising campaigns--no political conventions. No politics, pulling the
wool over the eyes of the people in the struggle for POWER!
No wars. No crime. No more broken families. No hospitals, for
people will be divinely healed.
What will be the BIG DIFFERENCE, THEN?
The present world, though the world of humans doesn't realize it,
is actually swayed and RULED by the invisible Satan--the former Lucifer
who originally sat on the THRONE of the whole earth.
Backtrack a second, to the original Adam and Eve. In the Garden of
Eden were the two symbolic trees--one the "tree of LIFE" symbolizing the
Holy Spirit of God and gift of eternal life. The other, the tree of "the
knowledge of good and evil," and this knowledge they--for all humanity-­
took to themselves.
Just one super-significant thing was wrong with that. They did not
realize--and mankind does not know today--that man was made with a "human"
spirit inside him. This spirit, not present in animals or any other