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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
Proclaim to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
December 29, 1970
Dear Family of Co-Workers:
I have just returned from Japan. I have a very wonderful
ANNOUNCEMENT. In this great worldwide Work we have never yet
reached Japan. I have now set the tentative date for going into
Japan with very powerful IMPACT -- next July 1st.
Do you realize how IMPORTANT that country is? Industrially,
in world trade, economically, in gross national product, it is
THE NUMBER TWO NATION of the world, next to the United States.
It has no military force of its own -- but it could create
one larger than the U.S.S.R. in very short order -- it has the
financial power.
Japan is a very powerful country of 100 MILLION PEOPLE! They
are a very aggressive people -- of high educational standards.
Let me tell you what a providential happening was required
for me to be able to make this most important announcement to you.
Ten years ago I was on a trip around the world with our overseas
advertising agent from New York. He brought up the question of
reaching the Japanese people.
"That would take an absolute miracle," I explained. "There
would not be one chance in a thousand million, without an absolute
miracle. Here's what would have to happen: First, a native-born
Japanese, an experienced radio speaker from Japan would have to
enroll in Ambassador College, spend four years there and graduate.
He would have to also understand English. He would have to be a
converted man - as a believer in Jesus Christ, coming into the
full TRUTH of the Bible, and the very same Gospel Jesus and the
original apostles taught -- the same as we teach. And such a man
would have to just appear, without our searching him out, because
we have no contacts there whatever, and no way whatever of
finding such a man. It would have to be a miracle sent from God."
But I actually believed it would happen, because Japan is
TOO IMPORTANT a nation to overlook when we are commissioned to
get the very same GOOD NEWS Jesus brought to the world, "into all
the world, for a witness unto all nations."