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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, November 21, 1980
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if they ever won, take over what current cash assets are in Pasadena and
perhaps millions of dollars worth of fine properties.
Anyway, remember we have won a crucial BATTLE--but not yet the WAR!
And remember, Satan is more subtle and diabolically clever than we
many times over. God set him on earth's throne when he was "perfect in
all his ways from the time he was created." He rebelled, revolted, turned
from the brilliant Lucifer to the cunning, evil Satan. God is allowing
him to remain on that throne, deceiving and misleading an unsuspecting
humanity UNTIL He who qualified is established on that throne, and Satan
chained and put for a thousand years into the "bottomless pit" where he
can no longer sway mankind during that millennium.
If YOU don't fully realize it, Satan does--that now he has but a
SHORT TIME left. And he hates most of all the ONE AND ONLY place on
earth where THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD is administered--in this very Church
of God! We are near, about at or just barely past the time of Revelation
7--the war in heaven, from which Satan and his demons are cast back down
to earth. And what then?
"And when the dragon (Satan) saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
persecuted the woman" (God's Church--us). Then, soon we are to be taken
on the "two wings of a great eagle" toa place of safety and protection
from Satan during the Great Tribulation.
Yes, SATAN KNOWS how close we are to that time. I was personally
persecuted ever since I first wrote my first article and preached my first
sermon during the old "Sardis" days by some of their ministers (NOT by
their brethren)!
But the first time the Church as a body met with real persecution from
Satan's earthly governments was this recent lawsuit! It was definitely
PROPHETIC!
LET IT WAKE US UP!
Now Satan will try harder than ever. He will find new ways to perse
cute us. Even yet our attorneys advise me strongly NOT TO GO YET TO
PASADENA! There are those waiting to grab me or serve papers on me! Not
for any wrong or evil I have done--but pure persecution!
God through Peter says to us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may
devour: whom RESIST steadfast in the faith...." James writes: "Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you."
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