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VOL. 3, NO. 14
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
AND NOW--CHRIST SETS CHURCH ON
GOD'S ORGANIZATIONAL TRACK
by Herbert W. Armstrong
APRIL 23, 1979
For a full year now, the HEAD of God's Church, Jesus Christ, has
been moving swiftly to set God's Church, College and Work back on God's
track.
WHY did the living Christ 20 months ago bring me back from DEATH?
For of a truth, I was as dead as any has ever been--for from 30 seconds
up to 1� minutes. Had not desperate measures been taken I would never
have taken another breath of air.
WHY did Christ, the living HEAD of God's Church, bring me back?
I know, now, by what He has done these 20 months. God has a GREAT PURPOSE
He is working out here on earth--in and through mortal humans. He works
through those He has called and chosen for various responsibilities in
His overall PURPOSE!
Until about a year ago now--April of last year--I had not yet
fully recovered in physical strength to be back on the job full force.
As I now look back, I see what Christ has done through His servant
whose life and full mental vitality He restored.
This Church was not read¥ for Christ's soon return as KING of
Kings to rule.
We need to stop and REALIZE THIS!
Read again these significant words: "Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it...that he
might present it to himself a GLORIOUS CHURCH, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing; but that it should be HOLY and WITHOUT BLEMISH" (Eph.
5:25-27).
Fellow ministers of Jesus Christ, this church a year ago WAS NOT
HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH (spiritually speaking, of course).
Then we find, in the not too far distant time from now, "Alleluia!
for
the Lord God Omnipotant reigneth! Let us be glad and rejoice, and
give honor to him; for the MARRIAGE
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the Lamb is come, and HIS WIFE �ATH
MADE HERSELF READY"!
(Rev. 19:6-7.)
Fellow ministers, God's Church a year ago WAS FAR from ready for
that divine wedding! But as I look back on the past year, the living
Jesus Christ has used me as His instrument in swiftly setting His Church
back on HIS TRACK. There is much more in prophecy about this, of which
I will write later.