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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.3, N0.41
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
How Subtly Satan Used
M A K E - U P
to Start the Church Off the Track
How Satan began injecting liberalism
into God's Church
by
Herbert
w.
Armstrong
NOVEMBER 2, 1981
FOR THREE YEARS the living Christ has been working to put His Church
back on the track! But how did the people of the living God get off the
track? How did the whole world first get off the track?
Was mother Eve, the very first woman--a direct creation of God-
insincerely evil? Did she have evil motives and intentions? No, Eve was
DECEIVED!
Undoubtedly she thought she was doing right. The forbidden
tree, after all, "was GOOD for food," and it was "pleasant to the eyes,"
and, Satan had assured her, she would really not die. God knew better than
that--she was an "immortal soul." And besides, Satan had said, it would
make her a god intellectually--it appealed to her intellectual VANITY. She
couldn't see anything wrong with it. So "she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat."
Thus the WHOLE WORLD was started off the track. And Satan is still at
it! "The devil and Satan •••deceiveth the whole world" (Rev. 12:9). The
apostle Paul feared "lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through
his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted••• " (II Cor. 11:3).
Do you think that same wily Satan could not deceive people in God's
Church today? Of all the people on earth, WE are the very ones he wants
most to deceive! He has the rest of the world deceived already. And re
member a deceived person does not know he is deceived--else he would not BE
deceived!
Yet Satan did get to our wives today 1
They certainly had no evil
motives, even as mother Eve had none. Had they not repented and accepted
Christ, and come into the Church? There were no evi-1 motives or intentions.
They, too, saw "no harm in it." They, themselves, would "LOOK GOOD" to the
world. Make-up on the face would be "pleasant to the eyes." And it was
intellectual to follow intellectual liberals in the ministry (NO LONGER)
who reasoned that this,little detail and that little point could be inter
preted to see "no harm in it"--and after all, if we don't see any harm in
it, isn't it all right to do what the world does?
It was all done so SUBTLY! That is how Satan works. Now let's under
stand what DID HAPPEN!