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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 28, 1979
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It describes, from the member point of view, how the conspiracy to
eliminate both God and Jesus Christ from this Church and Work actually
operated. Of course Satan was the real author of the whole conspiracy-­
now continuing in the California Attorney General's attempt to take over
the Church and its properties and assets--or, in other words, to DESTROY
the Church of the living GOD!
My son, still held in the bond and grip of Satan, has NOT started
another Church of God. God has only ONE Church.
God calls His Church the "Body of Christ." In this case the word
"body" is used in the sense of a cohesive single GROUP--a SPIRITUAL
ORGANISM. We are " ...the HOUSEHOLD OF GOD; And are built upon the founda­
tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
cornerstone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy temple in the Lord" (Eph. 2:19-21).
So we are a "body" of Spirit-begotten people--we are a "building"
and we are a "holy temple." And all that one body is "...fitly joined
together and compacted (welded) by that which every joint supplieth..."
(Eph. 4: 16).
But that Church body is NOT TWO churches but only ONE! "For as the
body is ONE, and hath many memberS:-:-.But now are they many members, yet
but ONE body" (I Cor. 12:12,20).
What has been started in OPPOSITION TO the ONE Church of God is
merely a group, mostly of embittered dissenters, following a MAN!
It was started in anger, and resentment and hostility, under threat
to DESTROY the ONE Church of the living GOD. That conspiracy continued
into the plot that influenced a California lawyer, for his personal profit,
to induce a deputy Attorney General of California to attempt to DESTROY
the Church of the living GOD!
The REAL conspirator is Satan the Devil. He has DECEIVED a handful
of resentful, embittered, hostile former members into trying to DESTROY
that which formerly FED them and supplied all their physical need.
Let us PRAY, earnestly and continuously, that Jesus Christ will LOOSE
him that is in the clutch of Sat0n from the power of Satan, that he may
yet find his way back to that to which he was originally called.
The other morning I awoke from a most startling and vivid dream. I
was walking past a counter in a building, and standing there at the counter
was this one held captive by Satan. He turned and saw me. Looking beaten
and frustrated, he said, "Dad, is there any possible way that I can come
back?"
I awoke at that instant, shaken, but with a new ray of hope. Of
himself it is IMPOSSIBLE for as Paul wrote in Hebrews, when one has tasted
of God's Holy Spirit and the holy Word of God, if he shall fall away, it
is IMPOSSIBLE to renew him to repentance. Impossible for him--yes. BUT
NOT IMPOSSIBLE FOR JESUS CHRIST.
In the 3rd chapter of Zechariah is the forerunner--the antetype or
the prototype of this late 20th century--the High Priest Joshua, clothed