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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.2, N0.9
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
CHURCH N O T FIGHTING STATE
FEBRUARY 28, 1980
Let's make it plain once for all that God's
Church is NOT fighting the STATE.
by Herbert W. Armstrong
NOTICE NOW God's Scriptural teaching to His Church in regard to
whether the Church should have "caved in" (to use an expression of the
lawsuit-granting judge) to allow the State illegally to take over all
Church properties in California, and to manage and operate GOD'S Church.
I have printed before the truth about Romans 13 and allied passages.
But God's Church emphatically DID ACT according to God's own Biblical
teaching. And the full facts FROM THE BIBLE about that have never yet
been printed. I give them to you now.
First, remember this: Neither God's Church nor its leaders have
broken any LAW OF THE STATE. The State has no evidence of any such un
lawful acts. There were false allegations made by dissenters and former
members, unsupported by any facts or evidence whatsoever.
Neither myself, Mr. Rader, nor the Church had broken any law. WE
WERE NOT CHARGED WITH BREAKING ANY LAW:
It was a civil action lawsuit. UNLAWFULLY the Deputy Attorney Gen
eral induced a judge in the privacy of his chambers, to appoint a Receiver
--a personal friend and ex-judge--to TAKE OVER possession of Church prop
erty and the management of Church operations, without even the legally
required notice.
Now notice what we have not mentioned to you before--the BIBLICAL
EXAMPLES AND TEACHING!
A demon-possessed woman was pestering Paul and Silas at Philippi.
Paul cast out the demon. The woman's masters, finding their means of
profit gone, induced the magistrates to beat Paul and Silas with many
stripes and put them in prison.
Paul and Silas were two individuals, but the legal action was taken
because of their religion--actually against the Church! Paul and Silas
were seized forcibly and unable themselves to resist. BUT, IN PRISON, GOD
DID THE RESISTING AGAINST THIS FALSE ARREST!
Suddenly, at midnight, there was a great earthquake. Immediately all
the doors of the prison were opened, and the iron bands binding Paul's
and Silas' feet were loosed. This awakened the prison keeper. Paul spoke
to him, he was converted, and Paul baptized him.