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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
June 13, 1978
Dear Co-Workers and Brethren in Christ,
Just as the invisible adversary Satan has been leading this
world toward the final violent WORLD CRISIS at the CLOSE of this
age--so the same insidious and subtle unseen adversary has been
seeking to destroy GOD'S CHURCH!
Satan has been doing his utmost to deceive and mislead God's
Church into SECULARISM--into material and worldly interests--into
going as far as possible into THIS EVIL WORLD'S ways, while we may
still try to keep one foot in God's Church so that we may make it
into THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This Church has been IN MORTAL DANGER!
But in the past four to six weeks JESUS CHRIST has been moving
dynamically to thwart Satan's subtile deception WITHIN GOD'S CHURCH.
First, Christ the living HEAD of this Church SET THE CHURCH
BACK ON THE TRACK of BIBLE ORGANIZATION. NOW our Leader, Christ,
is moving dynamically to AWAKEN His Church from this secular drift--
to get us back on the track SPIRITUALLY in CLOSENESS TO GOD!
A most important article will appear on the front page of the
next GOOD NEWS, due off the press in a few days. It is VITAL to
the Work, as well as your own personal ETERNITY that you READ
CAREFULLY EVERY WORD.
God's battle cry to us NOW is, "BACK TO CHRIST!" He wants us
to get our minds off of worldly pursuits, and to concentrate our
minds and hearts on JESUS CHRIST OUR LIVING LEADER!
Christ is now crying out for us to rally behind Him in doing
OUR PART toward finishing God's OVERALL MASTER PLAN!
God's OVERALL Master Plan started with putting the great
archangel Lucifer on the throne of the GOVERNMENT OF GOD over angels
which first inhabited this earth prior to MAN. But Lucifer, perfect
in his ways from the day God CREATED him till iniquity was found in
him, led his angels into REBELLION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD ON
EARTH!!
Then God renewed the face of the earth, and began His GREAT
PURPOSE by putting MAN on the earth. But the first man, Adam, also
decided on the way of Lucifer (his name now changed to SATAN). God
ALLOWED mortal man to choose the way of Satan--all but those God has
CALLED to Him and HIS TRUTH--and to forsake and OVERCOME Satan. Two
thousand years ago (almost) Jesus Christ appeared on earth in human
flesh. He brought the GOOD NEWS of the yet future restoration of