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FLOCK -- to "feed" you brethren with the SPIRITUAL FOOD of God's
Word, to PREPARE YOU to be a RULER and/or a priest or teacher,
then made IMMORTAL, over the mortal humans that survive on the
earth.
I said in my recent letter, "THAT IS THE REASON why the
Eternal God put YOU into His Church NOW -- to carry on YOUR PART
in this present GREAT COMMISSION -- rather than for what you GET
out of it."
Let me make this absolutely CLEAR! God IS NOT CALLING THE
WORLD TO SALVATION, NOW. Jesus said NONE CAN come to Him, except
the Father draw him, by His Holy Spirit. Most of your relatives
and friends CAN'T come to salvation NOW. He WILL call them to
salvation -- either in the millennium, or in the Great White Throne
Judgment by a resurrection to mortal life then. And in either the
millennium or Great White Throne Judgment, SATAN WILL NOT BE THERE
TO PLAGUE THEM.
I want you to REALIZE THIS: God could have refrained from
calling YOU, now. He could have left YOU, like MOST of this world,
to be called later, when there will be no devil to contend with.
Then you wouldn't have had to fight constantly against that spirit
of DISCOURAGEMENT, that tendency to LET DOWN in prayer and Bible
study -- that tendency injected by Satan to get into an attitude
of criticism, or even bitterness. Satan is constantly ACCUSING
the Brethren (Rev. 12:10) -- he will accuse ME, and other
ministers, injecting this attitude into the spirit of your mind --
IF you are not on guard to reject it!
CONSIDER THIS: WHY did not God wait to call YOU, at that
EASIER time, along with the rest of the world? Do you realize
that in GOD'S SIGHT YOU are something very SPECIAL, very PRECIOUS
to Him? He selected YOU as one to be CALLED NOW -- and for ONE
REASON ONLY -- that YOU might have YOUR PART, with me, under
CHRIST, to PREPARE THE WAY for His Coming -- to ANNOUNCE the Good
News of the soon-coming KINGDOM OF GOD -- to prepare YOU, even by
stern trial and test, even by DISCOURAGING situations He allows
to develop, for YOUR PLACE IN HIS KINGDOM FOREVER, as well as for
YOUR PART in His Work, NOW! That means a GREATER REWARD -- a
GREATER GLORY F O R E V E R, than if He had called you LATER!
Do you suppose Satan does not know all this? He knows! He
will do all in his power to get you DISCOURAGED -- to get you to
find some fault -- to LET DOWN in prayer and Bible study -- to
LOSE YOUR INSPIRED ZEAL for God's Work!
Brethren, as I said, there really was a TURNING POINT at
this year's Feast.
But WAS IT ENOUGH?
Let me make PLAIN the situation AS IT IS! Our Head and
Leader, the living Jesus Christ, is opening NEW AND MIGHTY DOORS
to INCREASE the POWER of His Work -- much more THIS YEAR than ever
before. But Brethren, WE have not rebounded as FULLY -- as
WHOLEHEARTEDLY back into that inspired, energetic ZEAL as we MUST