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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.l, N0.13
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
PREPARE TO GREATLY REDUCE YOUR
STANDARD OF LIVING
by Herbert
w.
Armstrong
NOVEMBER 7, 1979
I am in the process of finishing an article under the above head
line, for the January PLAIN TRUTH. Are you ministers keeping your congre
gations aware of the crescendo of world troubles now speeding up the
prophecies relating to this END time?
As I write, this Monday morning, the latest world news concerns the
invasion by a mob of students in Iran of the U.S. Embassy, taking and
holding c>.s hostages dozens of staff members of the American Embassy in
Tehran. They demand that the Shah be returned to Iran for trial. The
students stormed the Embassy Marine guards, apparently blindfolding and
handcuffing the U.S. members of the Embassy.
The Shah, as I suppose you know, is in a New York hospital for a
gallbladder and cancer operation and treatment. He has been granted only
temporary admission to the U.S. until completion of this medical treat
ment.
But this is only today's latest of a growing storm of world troubles
and evils. The past few days the big news was the hundreds of thousands
of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees starving to death and dying of
diseases trying to flee into Thailand. The Cambodian officials had been
turning a deaf ear to appeals to allow shipment of food and medicines into
Cambodia to relieve this holocaust, which may rival that of the Jews
ordered by Hitler during World War II.
This horror in Cambodia appears to be a prelude, or forerunner, of
the "four horsemen" of Revelation--false and evil religion, war, famine
and starvation, disease and death.
In recent months the world has been plagued with uprisings and
violence in the Middle East, continued violence in North Ireland, civil
wars and violent disturbances in South America, beside recent disturbances
and violence in Africa.
Perhaps most significant of all is the emergence of the new Polish
Pope, suddenly appearing as the world's only outstanding and great leader.
There are no more Teddy Roosevelts, FDRs, Winston Churchills, or Stalins.
I sent Gene Hogberg east to cover the pope's arrival in Boston, and his
visits to New York, Des Moines, Chicago and Washington D.C. His article,
a masterpiece of journalistic reporting, will appear in the December
PLAIN TRUTH. Be sure to read it.