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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
P.O. BOX 431, TUCSON, ARIZONA 85702
November 22, 1982
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
I write you in flight over the Atlantic Ocean, London to Pasadena,
California.
In Europe I have talked privately with heads of state and officials high
in
governments. Many threads of government in both Eastern and Western Europe
are coming together suddenly. Very shortly, probably in a matter of months, the
whole world is going to be rocked with the astounding news that a new super
nation has been formed in Europe--possibly even more powerful than either the
United States or the Soviet Union!
I can tell you now, soberly, that the feared nuclear World War III is
definitely coming--and comparatively SOON! All human life would be erased if
God should not stop it short of that!
Events I have foreseen, proclaimed over the air and published in The
PLAIN TRUTH for 48 years, are at last suddenly falling into place. The gigantic
new world power--the United States of Europe--the resurrection of the medieval
"Holy Roman Empire"--is about to blossom into almost unbelievable REALITY!
The unthinkable World War III--all-out NUCLEAR WAR--will soon follow.
That war is described in Bible prophecy as the Great Tribulation, leading
immediately to the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST!
On this trip I have discussed the subject with high officials in Europe.
With
me was Mr. Gene Hogberg, world-news editor of The PLAIN TRUTH.
I have to warn you, the immediate future of the world appears now
frightfully threatening. The proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,
with your help, is the very prophesied event to trigger this massive
reunification of
Europe and the Great Tribulation.
I foresaw this world-ending event in the very first issue of The PLAIN
TRUTH, dated February, 1934--almost 49 years ago. Why, then, has it been so
long delayed? For one thing, this Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD (Matt. 24:14)
had to be proclaimed into all the world first. No one had proclaimed that Gospel
to the world for nearly 1,900 years. I began proclaiming it then, but only to a
small area in and around Lane County, Oregon. Within 19 years I had proclaimed
it by radio and The PLAIN TRUTH over the entire United States. Then, the first
week in 1953--precisely 1,900 years (a century of time cycles of 19 years each),
I
began sending out this Gospel to all Europe over the world's most powerful radio
station, Radio Luxembourg.
It was about A.D. 53, some 22 years after the start of the Church, that
the
apostle Paul wrote to the churches in Galatia that the Gospel of the Kingdom--
the