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(Verse 10). Yet "there assembled at Jerusalem MUCH PEOPLE to keep
the feast of unleavened bread" (Verse 13).
And, (verse 21--Moffatt translation): "For seven days the
Israelites present at Jerusalem held the festival of unleavened
bread with great delight; the Levites and the priests sang praise
to the ETERNAL day by day WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT."
Co Workers! WHY CAN'T WE, TODAY, SERVE GOD WITH ALL OUR
MIGHT?
"So there was GREAT JOY in Jerusalem for since the time of
Solomon ... there was not the like in Jerusalem!" (Verse 26). The
people then, like people today, had gone away from God's ways and
His commands and HIS festivals, into the ways of the pagans. But
notice with what JOY and REJOICING they came back to GOD'S ways!
How about us, TODAY?
Then, chapter 31, verse 4, the king commanded the people to
resume TITHING of their income. What happened? "As soon as the
commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought IN
ABUNDANCE" their tithes (Verse 5)--"and the tithe of all things
brought they in ABUNDANTLY."
What a thrilling parallel to our mission TODAY! Today our
need is SO GREAT! God's Work must keep GOING AHEAD in constantly
accelerating Power! Today God's Work needs your tithes and
offerings in GREATER ABUNDANCE! If those people, who did not have
the blessing of God's Holy Spirit, could respond in such ABUNDANCE
--how much MORE ought we, today?
Here we are, into the last half of the month, and now for
several days the income for God's Work has been falling 'way off
again! And so, once again, this is a proclamation from God's
servant for this day that MORE OF YOU dear Co-Workers respond to
this need in GREATER ABUNDANCE!! PRAY more earnestly for the work
than ever before! Put the work of God FIRST, ahead of everything
else in your life! God will surely BLESS YOU!
With deep love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong