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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, September 15, 1980
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the world is NOT BEING JUDGED. Those in the world uncalled are NOT "lost,"
neither are they "saved.'' Just not judged--YET! But this they do not
understand.
The leaders of "traditional Christanity" do not seem to know Jesus
was born to be a KING. Jesus came to QUALIFY to replace Satan on the
THRONE over the earth. If we are called, and chosen by Him, we shall sit
with Him in His THRONE over the entire earth. We shall be given divine
spiritual POWER to RULE the world with and under Christ, "with a rod of
iron."
WHY are we called, now, into God's CHURCH? For a PURPOSE! That pur
pose is that we, too, through Christ and the Holy Spirit overcome Satan,
have our minds opened by God's Spirit to GOD'S KNOWLEDGE (Truth), grow in
grace and knowledge, develop spiritual CHARACTER to qualify us to RULE
in the Kingdom of God with the restored GOVERNMENT OF GOD over all the
earth.
BUT WE ARE NOT called to become part of the GOVERNMENTS of THIS WORLD
--manipulated by Satan. This is Satan's world. Those not begotten (not
yet BORN) are NOT children of God, THEY ARE CHILDREN OF SATAN (Jesus said
so--John 8:44). But when we are called to repentance, faith, and receiv
ing the Holy Spirit, God's Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are
the begotten children of GOD (Rom. 8:16� but until then we are NONE OF
CHRIST'S (Rom. 8:9).
IF we are begotten children, not yet BORN, we are like father Abra
ham, a stranger and pilgrim in this world. Yet not OF this world or its
politics. Our real citizenship is reserved in heaven (Phil. 3:20). We
are like foreigners and strangers in this world.
ONE BEGOTTEN OF GOD TAKES NO PART IN THIS WORLD'S POLITICS!
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MUST WE DWELL IN BOOTHS?
by
Herbert
w.
Armstrong
Back in the spring of 1927 God opened my mind to see that not only is
the weekly Sabbath binding FOREVER, but the ANNUAL Sabbaths as well. God
had not yet revealed to me WHY, I just knew He commanded, and I obeyed.
For seven years my wife and I kept these days ALONE. When I made the
truth plain to the Sardis brethren in Oregon they laughed me to scorn.
Seven years after my conversion the Philadelphia era of God's Church
was raised up, through a six weeks, six-nights-a-week campaign in a one
room country school house near Eugene, Oregon. They were mostly my own
new converts. They did listen, and with Mrs. Armstrong and me join in
observing them. But it was 12 years later, 1945, when God finally re
vealed to me the MEANING of His annual Festivals--the real REASON WHY He
had commanded them FOR EVER!
God is working out a PURPOSE here on earth! That PURPOSE is dual:
a) God is reproducing Himself--forming future GOD BEINGS from mortal