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I intended to require a full year's probation before turning
any administrative jurisdiction over to my son. But (he was
received back in June, 1972), by the spring of early 1973, because
I was that year away 200 out of the 365 days, Mr. Portune felt
the responsibility of day-to-day administration was too great a
burden, and with Mr. David Antion he came to my office saying
that I would just have to turn the daily administrative job back
to my son.
That year and in the following,1974, I was away giving out
Christ's Gospel worldwide, 200 days a year, and in 1975 and 1976,
300 out of the 365 days.
I began to senge an undercover conspiracy for my son to take
over -- as two of King David's sons, Adonijah and Absalom, tried
by deceptive means to conspire to take over David's throne.
Does not history repeat? David's son Absalom, because of a
murder (not adultery) was in banished isolation. But good-hearted
David, his father, authorized his return. On returning he spent
two years in Jerusalem, then plotted to steal the throne trom his
father. But God had set David on that throne, and Absalom's
corisp.
iracy failed -- yet David loved Absalom and wept over him.
Later, another son, Adonijah, conspired to usurp David's throne.
I loved and still love my son very deeply. But often a son
feels hostility and resentment against his father.
Well I gave the routine day-to-day administration as Executive
Vice-President over to Ted. I made it EXPLICIT that he was only
to administer the policies, and uphold the doctrines Christ had
put in his Church through his chosen Apostle
that I retained all
authority� policies and doctrines.
Yet, while I was away, I guess it was a repeat of history again,
in a sense. When Moses was called by God to be on Mount Sinai with
him, the people said, "as for this Moses, ••• we wot not what has
become of him" -- and Aaron, whom Moses had left in charge, made for
them a golden calf and led them in this FALSE WORSHIP. I do not
mean that the people or the others at headquarters took the lead in
forming the "golden calf" of secularism and watering down God's
truth -- but while I was away on CHRIST'S ASSIGNMENT, carrying HIS
GOSPEL INTO ALL THE WORLD, that secularism and watering down of
doctrine did take place under GTA's leadership.
Immediately after he was reinstated in executive administration,
he demoted older and top ministers, loyal to me and God's Word -
Raymond McNair, Di-bar Apartian, Dr. Rod Meredith, Dr. Herman Hoeh,
Dennis Luker, Dr. Zimmerman and others. Th d y were threatened with
losing their jobs entirely if they contacte me, or told me wh�
was going on!
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