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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.
2,
NO. 39
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
GREATEST FEAST EVER
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
OCTOBER
10, 1980
It has come and gone! How time flies!
Reports from around the world
tell us this was in reality the greatest Feast of Tabernacles in our time.
The entire Church had been made ready for it, because the Church is in
process of making herself READY for a far GREATER event--the coming of the
KING of kings and LORD of lords to usher in the very event of which we
were enjoying merely a foretaste!
Definitely God's Church is by her Head Jesus Christ being set back on
God's track. Reports from around the world have one tone--a NEW SPIRIT
has been injected from God into His people the earth around. There is a
spirit of LOVE--of REJOICING--of UNITY--of TOGETHERNESS--of a common LOY
ALTY to Jesus Christ, His TRUTH with no watering down, of being truly ONE
--AT-ONE-MENT with GOD! It is a HAPPY spirit, a joyous spirit!
The attitude of division, suspicion, taking sides, seems to have
vanished. Now we are once again truly O N E Body of Christ in harmony and
peace and love�
And of course it was another FIRST! Modern technical facilities did
not yet enable us to bring together by microwave and satellite every feast
site on earth. BUT for the first time, on the first day and the Last
Great Day, all
stival sites in the United States, Canada and England
were joined together by television cameras and motion picture screens at
the various sites--all but Hawaii, where they heard the audio portion
only.
A few mechanical difficulties caused a delay on the opening day. But
from all reports the Last Great Day transmission was technically OK and
all of you were as if you were right with us at the moment here in Tucson.
When I spoke, they tell me, by TV camera close up, my face appeared live
many times larger on your screen than if I had been physically there. I
hope it was all satisfactory, and many reports say it was.
THIS DREW US ALL TOGETHER--AS IF WE WERE ALL IN ONE AND THE SAME BIG
AUDITORIUM!
But the main thing is that we all had the attitude, feel, and spirit
of BEING TOGETHER--one of UNITY in CHRIST!
Reports from all over say the sermons were somehow inspired by the
living Christ to be the BEST EVER! I know they surely were here at Tucson,
where upwards of 5,000 were asserebled together.