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This will be my 59th year of keeping the annual Fall Holy
Days. We did not come to realize the meaning and need to keep the
entire Feast of Tabernacles until 1945, though my wife and I began
keeping the annual Sabbaths in 1927.
The Feast of Tabernacles pictures to us year after year the
glorious thousand years, just shortly ahead now, of world peace,
happiness and opportunity for eternal salvation for all not
previously called! It will be a world without Satan! It will be
a world with Jesus Christ ruling with love!
It is a time for us to get away from the dreary routine of
daily life in Satan's world and enjoy eight wonderful days with
brethren in Christ and their families! It is the only time in the
year that God provides a time when we may get away and rest from
our daily regular duties--to be with brethren in Christ to worship
him and look forward to his utopia!
Brethren, as God shows us the importance of attending this
Feast, it is equally important that all shall have been saving the
second tithe to pay your own expenses and enjoyment at the
Festival. Of course, part of that expense is rental of auditoriums
or halls or convention centers and other expenses the Church must
pay. So, as always, be sure to send in a tithe of your entire
year's second tithe by return mail. Mark or list it separately
from your regular first tithe or offering.
What a blessing from God that we have not had to borrow
regularly for the operations of the Work at the banks during all
the last six years and so far this year. Formerly we had to borrow
a million dollars in January and pay back out of Passover special
offerings. Then we had to borrow another million in July to be
paid back from the Fall Festival offerings. Loan rates to largest
bank customers had gone over 20 percent! What a blessing not to
have to pay these excessive interest rates!
Instructions for making your housing arrangements will be
included in your Feast information material. U.S. and Canadian
brethren will receive this information in a special Festival
Planner in April.
I wish you all the best wishes for a solemn Passover and a
joyous Festival of Unleavened Bread.
With much love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong