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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPoRT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.3, N0.14
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MR. ARMSTRONG BACK IN PASADENA
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
APRIL 3, 1981
GREETINGS TO YOU MINISTERS AND YOUR WIVES FROM PASADENA, ONCE AGAIN:
I have spent very little time the past six years in Pasadena--and
none for two years and three months--until last week �vhen I returned for
a brief visit. Five and six years ago I was away from Pasadena, carrying
the Gospel around the world for approximately 300 out of each 365 days.
In 1977 I had moved to Tucson, and in August of that year experienced
total heart failure. For six months or more I was pretty much bedridden
on a hospital bed--although in my own home. I refused to enter a hospital.
Let me say that reentering the office here--as well as the home--was
like a new, glorified vision from God--an inspiring, refreshing experi
ence. HOW GRACIOUS God has been to have built here the most beautiful,
cultural, high character atmosphere for the HEADQUARTERS of His Church,
His College, and His Work!
Being here has made me realize this is where I BELONG! This is the
nerve center of God's Work.
That very important END-TIME Work may be more nearly finished than
we realize. God's overall PURPOSE is far from finished. Indeed, when
Jesus said, on the cross just as He wasdying, "It is finished," He was
referring to THE WORK God had given HIM in the human flesh to do. That
phase of God's overall PURPOSE and Work was then finished. The apostles
then went out, beginning the proclaiming of the GOOD NEWS of the KINGDOM
OF GOD to the world. In just over 21 years, the suppression of that
Gospel had set in. Thereafter false preachers proclaimed that Jesus was
the Divine Messenger--the CHRIST--but not HIS MESSAGE--His GOSPEL! The
world was DECEIVED!
In 1927--precisely 100 time cycles after Jesus began teaching His
first apostles, He had converted, and began teaching His apostle to carry
that same Gospel Message TO THE WORLD for the first time in 100 time
cycles. In 1931--precisely to the month, 100 time cycles after the first
apostles were ordained and started on proclaiming that Gospel, Christ
ordained and started his apostle for this time proclaiming that same
Gospel. In 1934 that Gospel of the Kingdom began going out over the
air. Precisely one time cycle later, to the very week, first week in
1953, after one time cycle in which the Gospel had gone Coast-to-Coast
in the U.S.A.- it started going out on the most powerful radio station