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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
October 26, 1979
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Time flies! It has been almost two weeks since the greatest Feast of
Tabernacles
in our time ended. And what a Feast it was!
Yesterday I had a meeting here, with eight ministers. They had been in
several
Feast sites. All reported the same at every site--by far the greatest Festival
they
ever attended.
Our Great God is now drawing us all TOGETHER in close UNITY with our
brethren,
with Him and with the giorified HEAD of the Church, Jesus Christ. We have not
had
such unity and togetherness in fifteen years, and there definitely is a spirit
gripping
us, around the world, to draw closer to Jesus Christ, that we may be prepared
and
READY for His soon coming! I have not noticed THAT spirit of urgency and
dedication
before.
With this Festival there was launched in earnest a NEW program drawing
CHILDREN
closer to the parents and the parents to the children. That program is taking
energized
shape under direction of an enthusiastic and inspired leadership, under my
direction,
of a number of our younger enthusiastic ministers.
But we cannot now ease off and rest on our laurels. We cannot let down. We
must gather momentum and dedicated energy in correcting ourselves, overcoming,
devoting ourselves to increasingly fervent PRAYERS--praying that God will show
us
our weaknesses and sins, give us a deep spirit of repentance, continually
praying for
the Work, for Christ's Apostle and the ministers working loyally with him,
praying
for one another, praying prevailingly for deliverance from Satan and his attacks
on
the Church and on us individually--for Satan is now stirred to white-hot WRATH
against
us! He knows, far better than we, that he now has but a short time until our
Glorified
Christ returns to DETHRONE HIM, AND TO RULE, WITH US!
That glorious day is fast approaching. There did seem to be an indication,
some
ten or more years ago, that God was HOLDING UP world events in Satan's world, to
give His Church more time to FINISH THE WORK, and be PREPARED ourselves for