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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
P.O. BOX 431, TUCSON, ARIZONA 85702
March 25, 1983
Dear Brethren of God's Church:
It's that time again--to begin plans for the most joyous time of the
year--the 1983 Feast of Tabernacles. Once again we're going to say--"Best Feast
ever!" For truly, each Festival seems to become better, happier, more
invigorating
and inspiring than the year before. This year we shall be one year NEARER to the
glorious Kingdom of God, with Christ here in person, and Satan BANISHED!
I am writing high over the Atlantic Ocean, 39,000 feet up, in my office
section of our G-II aircraft, returning from Amman, Jordan, and Jerusalem. We
have a TV set on board, equipped to play TV tapes. I have just finished viewing
and hearing once again, the 1982 Festival "Young Ambassadors" film--for
perhaps about the 10th time. I never tire of it. I hope you all enjoyed it at
last
fall's Feast. Jordan TV is going to broadcast both the Festival 81 and Festival
82
films. They will be viewed all over Jordan, Israel, and even into Egypt and
Cyprus. Our students who, with our TV crew, produced it seem so wholesome,
clean cut, intelligent and talented--I feel no other college or university could
produce such fine entertainment.
This year, because of budget expansions in greatly increased TV and radio
coverage and vastly increased PLAIN TRUTH circulation, we shall not produce
another completely new Festival film, but will combine some of the best of the
1981 and 1982 films, with some needed update material. If you enjoy these as I
do, you'll look forward to a most enjoyable evening's entertainment again this
autumn. I played the 1982 film for a very distinguished small audience of
Israeli
leaders in my hotel suite while in Jerusalem, and they thoroughly enjoyed it.
Brethren, WHY shouid we look forward so eagerly to this coming Feast of
Tabernacles? And, even more eagerly to the coming of Jesus Christ, and Kingdom
of God? WHY has he called us OUT of this world, to be separate in the way we
live?
The answer lies in the answer to another question: "DO WE REALLY
UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT GOD'S WORLD?" It is SATAN's world. But
have we not, most of us, let so much Protestantism rub off on us that we just
sort of
take for granted that this is GOD's world--GOD's civilization? But it is SATAN's
civilization, and always has been. I think we are the only church that knows
that
TRUTH. God is NOT trying to save this world--NOT trying to make it a better
world.
Rather, Jesus came to start a NEW, a DIFFERENT world--an entirely NEW
civilization that will be GOD's world.
Long before MAN was created, God put angels on earth, with the
superarchangel, the cherub Lucifer, on earth's throne to administer GOD's