Basic HTML Version
•
t
Page 2
PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 27, 198i
homestretch finishing of the Great Commission the living Jesus Christ has
called us to do, and
3) to UPDATE you, so that you may update the brethren under you in the
true PURPOSE, the organization and government of the Church of GOD for
this time and this paramount Commission.
Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking before a joint ses
sion of the United States Congress at the time of World War II said,
"There is a PURPOSE being worked out here below." A Higher Power above
is working out His PURPOSE! That purpose is the creation of perfect, holy
and righteous CHARACTER in separately-created beings for continuing God's
creative Work throughout the endless UNIVERSE perpetually, time without
end.
First, while God can create separate living entities, this righteous
spiritual CHARACTER cannot be created automatically by fiat. The individ
ual created being must make his own decision and take his own action in
the CHARACTER-creation.
God first created angels. He placed angels on this earth at it's
creation. God set a throne of earthwide rulership on the earth.�
placed on that throne a super archangel, the great cherub Lucifer, to
administer the GOVERNMENT OF GOD over the earth and those inhabiting it.
Lucifer rebelled and led his angels into rebellion. He became Satan
the Devil. His angels became demons. They are SPIRIT beings with im
mortal life. Satan is still on that throne, invisible to human eyes,
TODAY!
So God created MAN in GOD'S image, but composed of MATERIAL flesh and
blood from the GROUND. The first man, Adam, made the decision for his
HUMAN FAMILY--the WORLD--to reject the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, based on the
LAW of God. His sin cut THE WORLD as a whole--all but the minute FEW God
would specially call--off from God and His immortal-life-impregnating HOLY
SPIRIT, UNTIL the restoration of the GOVERNMENT OF GOD over the earth.
They are reserved for their JUDGMENT DAY after restoration of GOD'S
GOVERNMENT over the earth--in a resurrection to judgment in an afterlife,
as explained in Revelation 20, Ezekiel 37 and other Scriptures.
Jesus Christ, the second Adam, came more than 1950 years ago. He
QUALIFIED to restore the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, and to establish on earth the
KINGDOM OF GOD. He said, "I will build my Church and the gates of the
grave shall not prevail against it."
The Church of God which He founded in A.D. 31, is a SPIRITUAL ORGANISM
--not a secular human organization. But it is ORGANIZED on God's spirit
uaY-pattern as explained in I Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4 and other New
Testament Scriptures. Of course GOD the Father is HEAD over ALL. Jesus
Christ is living Head of the Church. Under Him apostles were given over
sight of the Church and its organized Work. Though a spiritual organism,
it is organized, not on a carnal human pattern, but on God's spiritual
pattern.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the MESSAGE HE PROCLAIMED! That Message
was the Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD--the restoration of the GOVERNMENT
of God by the coming KINGDOM of God.