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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 6, 1981
the 7th-Day Adventists, one of whose cardinal doctrines was the "Investi
gative Judgment" which had the resurrected saints a thousand years with
Christ IN HEAVEN. The Church of God, Seventh Day, of Stanberry, MO.,
proclaimed a "Third Angel's Message." The true GOSPEL had not been pro
claimed to the world for 1900 years!--100 time cycles!
Please do not misunderstand. "Time cycles" are definitely NOT a
Church doctrine. But the sun, earth, and moon do come into almost exact
conjunction once every 19 years. God uses the relation of the sun and
moon to the earth as HIS means of marking off points in TIME. We do not
make a "doctrine" out of a "day" measured by the sunsets, the month
measured by the new moons as seen from earth, or by the lunar year, or
the solar year.
But a century of time cycles is a definite measure of TIME. And a
century of time cycles after the first birth of the Church was a TIME
which God DID USE as a time to start a REBIRTH of His Church, when once
again just before the close of the 6,000-year duration of the "Day of
Man," and the ushering in of the Day of the LORD, His Gospel of the King
dom would be proclaimed worldwide (Matt. 24:14).
At this point we need to understand a PRINCIPLE by which God always
has worked through humans. He has always worked through O N E M A N at
a time. He worked through Abraham. He worked through Moses, through
Joshua, through one "judge" at a time, through Samuel, through David,
through Solomon. He worked through Peter and when Peter had left the
Middle East, through Paul. These men had in greater or lesser number,
staff assistants under them, but God's WORK was through the ONE MAN AT
A TIME!
THIS IS THE "WORK OF GOD"--and not a humanly-organized institution,
operation, or organization on the worldly corporate type of organization,
function, and procedure.
Too many have viewed the Worldwide Church of God, and what we call
the WORK as a secular, man-devised ORGANIZATION, with its Board of
Directors, its Vice Presidents, Department Heads and positions of AUTHOR
ITY, some of whom have tried to pull politicial or corporate business
tactics of rug-jerking to elevate themselves, and grab for POWER. They
have forgotten that the divine, supernatural JESUS CHRIST--the LIVING
Christ--is the HEAD, running this Work HIS way, not the way of this
world's corporate enterprises or institutions. To them GOD is NOT IN
THE PICTURE.
We must RESTRUCTURE this entire WORK in our own minds and realize
it is THE WORK OF GOD, through Jesus Christ who is ALIVE and active, and,
on earth through HIS APOSTLE, whom HE specially trained, prepared, and
chose, and now DIRECTS, EMPOWERS, AND USES!
HOW Christ Started Today's WORK
It was the living CHRIST who opened the door to radio in the fall of
1933 before His chosen apostle whom He already had specially trained and
prepared. After a preliminary super-intense study and in-depth research
into evolution (this world's concept and approach to all knowledge) and