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trusted Regional Directors have been plotting with their Ministers
and Deacons to try to do what I mentioned in the forepart of this
letter, what Satan is trying to do -- DESTROY the Work of the
LIVING God. They were, of course, keeping their nefarious plans
secret. We do not yet know the true extent of their defection, but
it may involve anywhere from five or ten to twenty-five Ministers.
Garner Ted has sent an urgent message asking me to fly immediately
back to Pasadena.
These are men I have loved, trusted and supposed to
be true dedicated Ministers of Jesus Christ. Words cannot express
how shocked and grieved I am -- for they are not, as they suppose,
striking merely at me and my son, but allowing themselves to be
used of the ENEMY and accuser of the Brethren, Satan the devil.
And they are striking at the Living CHRIST, at the very Work of
Almighty God. I grieve for them, because it is a fearful thing to
fight against the Living God!
Satan HATES God's Church and God's Work. He tried to
strike at me about four years ago. He failed. Then he tried to
destroy Garner Ted. And believe me, that was SATAN'S work. But
through it all, my son remained LOYAL to the Church, the Work,
to me, and to Jesus Christ. He could have done FAR GREATER HARM
to the Church and Work when he was on the outside than these men
can do now. But not once was there any rebellion or lack of
loyalty or wrong attitude toward God, or me, or the Church or Work.
But real hours-long desperate and prevailing PRAYER brought real
repentance, and that and FAITH brought God's FORGIVENESS,
restoration and blessing, and abundant FRUITS for the Work and
God's KINGDOM this past year and nine months. I only hope those
Ministers now attacking and going out of God's Church will likewise
spend hours on their knees in real repentance and also find their
way back.
For when Satan could not destroy God's Work through me, or
through Garner Ted, he now is trying to destroy it through a lower
level -- and he will even try to destroy it through the Brethren
when he fails through the Ministry.
Other ministers did all in their power to discredit me,
even before God started this Work through me. In the early days of
the broadcast ministers repeatedly tried to stop the broadcast.
Once they planned to physically kidnap me (so I could not drive
from Eugene to Portland for the broadcast) -- but I was warned
by a son of one of them and drove by another route. NOT ONE of
the several who have attacked and tried to stop God's Work in
more than forty years has succeeded. NOT ONE has himself
prospered, and I only hope these present mutineers do not come to
the terrible fate all of the others did, for they are men I love.
Fellow Ministers, if Satan can influence us to get our
eyes off the ONE BIG GOAL to which He has called us -- and get SO
CLOSE to questioning this or that, OR SOME DOCTRINE of mere
insignificance by comparison, we could magnify the lesser matter
so BIG that we could no longer see the ONE BIG GOAL!
Just this past week, I was SO HEAVILY IMPRESSED with the