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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 2, 1981
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Jesus Christ for that? HE is infallible. HE makes no mistakes. But WHO
among you could He choose as His instrument to lead you who is already
supernaturally divine and unable to make mistakes?
He took me with my
single-track mind, and used me in STARTING this Philadelphia era of God's
Church. He has used me, in spite of a few mistakes, in BRINGING ALL OF YOU
INTO HIS BODY, THE CHURCH. He revealed HIS TRUTH to me and through me to
YOU! And now He is using me as His instrument in CORRECTING a mistake, and
LEADING YOU BACK ON THE TRACK! Thousands of you have written me saying you
are behind me 100%. ARE YOU?
Jesus Christ through me has been GETTING US ALL BACK ON THE TRACK,
ready for His return to earth as the KING OF KINGS, and Lord of lords. The
Church, as HIS BRIDE to be spiritually MARRIED to Him, is to rise to meet
Him in the air as He descends. Women of the Church, do you think Jesus
Christ will say to me, "SEND A PROCLAMATION TO ALL WOMEN IN THE CHURCH TO
PREPARE FOR MY COMING. TELL THEM TO GO TO THEIR DRESSING TABLES, PLUCK OUT
THEIR EYEBROWS, PAINT ON NEW ONES HIGHER ON THEIR FOREHEADS, AND USE COS
METICS TO MAKE UP THEIR FACES TO MEET ME IN THE AIR."
No, dear people, I don't think He will have me make such a proclama
tion. But rather, "Wash the dirt off your faces! CLEAN UP your faces!"
Now JESUS CHRIST, through His chosen apostle, is going to RULE on this
question once and for all!
It was through me He ruled on smoking. At the time only MEN smoked.
No specific detailed Scripture says: "Thou shalt not smoke." But I knew,
in the spring of 1927 when I was converted, that GOD'S LAW is to be applied
to given circumstances according to its basic PRINCIPLE. I asked myself,
"WHY do I smoke?" To please God? NO! Because other men in Satan's world
do? Yes. To please the five senses? Yes, the sense of SMELL! Does it
express LOVE TO GOD? No! Love to neighbor? NO! To some it was offensive.
For my health? No. I knew it was harmful to whatever extent. It was a
worldly habit. I quit. Through me Christ caused His Church to turn from
smoking.
Now apply GOD'S LAW to make-up. WHY do women use make-up? To please
and glorify GOD? No. God is Master DESIGNER as well as Creator. The world
seems to think God did not design women's faces properly, and they try to do
a better job of making up their faces than GOD did. Does make-up PLEASE
GOD?
HIS Spirit says to me, IT IS DISpleasing to Him!
(And, like the
Apostle Paul, I think I have the "mind of Christ.") To EXALT God? No,
rather to exalt SELF, which debases God. IT IS PURE AND SIMPLE VANITY, and
God knows it is, even if some women are self-deceived and protest it isn't.
It is done to glorify the SELF, not to glorify GOD! It certainly does not
humble the self. One woman says it is an ornament of dress, and she doesn't
feel dressed up without it. GOD says, "whose add'rning•••let it be•••the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit" (I Pet. 3:3-4). Let it be HUMILITY,
exalting GOD.
Do women do it because other women in the world do? Emphatically, YES,
even as I once smoked because other men did. It is done to BE LIKE THE
WORLD. But of the world--even its religion, specifically the Christian
religion, God says, "COME OUT OF HER, my people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins, and that ye receive not of HER PLAGUES" (now soon to come) (Rev.