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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, December 27, 1979
How is all this Iranian situation going to end? Nobody knows.
at a stalemate.
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It is
A logical guess would be that the Iranians will try the hostages and,
of course, convict them as "spies." Then they will claim to show the
"mercy" of their Shiite sect of the Islamic religion, by "mercifully"
pardoning them and releasing them. This, they will feel, will give them
a tremendous moral victory over poor, helpless America.
But what of the year 1980? We are starting not only a new year but a
new decade. If the conunonly accepted chronology from creation of Adam and
Eve is correct (which I think it ISN'T), the 6,000-year period of mankind
on earth would end about 1996--only sixteen years after the decade we are
about to enter. And surely we might well expect the second coming of
Christ to occur no later than that. There apparently will be a 3�-year
period for the Great Tribulation--and the "Day of the Lord" may come during
the final year of that 3� years.
Expect Pope John Paul II, with the Roman Curia, to start making great
progress toward offering "their good offices" to help the nations of Europe
unite again. Undoubtedly it is already working by secret negotiations.
Also expect world evils to worsen.
But there is another most significant and foreboding fact about all
this: It has proved that the U.S. Embassy in one foreign nation has not
been secure, and thereby proves that NO NATION'S DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES
IN ANY OTHER NATION ARE SECURE--and THIS SMACKS OF WORLD CHAOS!
It signals
that the END OF THIS WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS HERE-Y-
But that, after all, is GOOD NEWS--for it also signals that the KING
DOM OF GOD IS VERY NEAR AT HAND!
Yes, this has been a year of proving that the governments of nations
are unstable, being toppled at the rate of about one a month. It has
proved that no Church or Work of God in California is safe. And if not in
California, not in America. And if not in America, not anywhere in the
·world! GOD IS GOING TO HAVE TO INTERVENE VERY SOON!
It has been a year of increasing divorce, family breakdowns--increas
ing crime, increasing evils! It's time to pray, "THY KINGDOM COME!"
The year got off to a start--January 3rd--of Satan's most massive blow
of persecution so far in his attempt to destroy the Church of the Living
God.
But the Lord Jesus Christ had moved in advance to protect us. He had
maneuvered circumstances to move me out of California and into Tucson,
Arizona. Think what would have happened had I still been in Pasadena.
Immediately I sent out a letter to all members and co-workers in an emer
gency appeal for funds for legal defense. The court-appointed Receiver
stopped the letter from going out at the Pasadena Post Office. Inunediately
I sent another letter, from another post office, with funds to be mailed
to me in Tucson where the Receiver could not get his hands on it.
Had I still been in Pasadena, this would not have been possible, and
had I sent out a second letter, I would have been imprisoned for Contempt