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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.2, N0.45
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
REMINDER: Satan not Yet Chained!
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
NOVEMBER 21, 1980
God has given us significant and important victories very recently.
He has opened new and extremely important doors for conveying His Gospel
Message to NEW AUDIENCES in NEW AREAS! He has delivered us, for the time
being, from the foreboding State of California lawsuit that hung like a
foreboding cloud over us.
But we must REMEMBER:
The dropping of the lawsuit by the California Attorney General was
only a single battle victory--NOT THE END OF THAT WAR! And Satan is still
on his throne, unchained, knowing he now has but a short time--and HE WILL
NOT GIVE UP!
The Attorney General of California and those politically behind him,
beside those civil service bureaucrats in the Attorney General's depart
ment, and the judges who were, to say the least, irritated by our dynamic
resistance and refusal to "cave in'' that God's Church put up, are angry
and will yet seek to win a next round of this war if possible.
I cannot read the Attorney General's mind, but I would guess he
would like to carry on his political crusade to become the governor.
There is, in this world, the way of life of self-seeking and of
competition that leads to the ECSTACY of winning, and the AGONY of defeat.
The Attorney General and those whose interest is politically with him are
not now going to just lay down and play "dead."
Already a new political movement is in evidence in Sacramento to try
to introduce and pass another bill in the Legislature that will amend the
Petris Bill, and restore that part on which the Attorney General really
based his lawsuit and claim to ownership and total supervision of churches.
Actually, the original bill which the Petris Bill rescinded was aimed
at cults like the Jonestown tragedy--cults that were not really responsible
churches in the accepted sense. I understand there...is another organiza
tion of some sort, claiming now to be a "church" which in reality is not
a real church but engaged in a more or less criminal activity. Those
embittered by the Petris Bill still want legislation to go after these
"cults" posing as churches for legal protection. But if they can now
succeed it may give the Attorney General's office legal grounds for re
newing his lawsuit against God's Church. I'm sure those of that view
would rejoice if they yet could DESTROY the Worldwide Church of God, or
take over its current assets. I say current assets, because there is NO
WAY they can destroy or STOP the Work of the living God. But they could,