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VOL. 3, NO. 21
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
WATERING DOWN--OR BUILDING SOLIDLY UP?
by Herbert
w.
Armstrong
Tunis, June 3, 1979
JUNE 4, 1979
Very shortly after my original marriage in 1917, an angel appeared
to my wife in a dream. He descended from the sky, put his arms about
both of us, said God was calling me soon to a most important commission.
At the time I was embarrassed, suggested she tell it to the preacher
at the church on the corner of the block (Chicago), and erased it from
my mind.
Nine years later, about September, 1927, God did call me in a
manner most disturbing. You read many times of the dual challenges-
from my wife taking up with religious "fanaticism"--Sabbath keeping,
and a sister-in-law challenging me on the doctrine of evolution.
You've heard, or read, the story of the intensive almost night
and-day study which led to PROOF of the existence of God and the AUTHOR
ITY of the Bible--God sweeping my mind clean of every other doctrine
and belief--revealing to me HIS WORD exactly AS IS--no watering down.
I know of no other man who was ever brought to GOD'S TRUTH in
�hat manner.
This led in seven years to the founding of the CHURCH OF GOD at
Eugene, Oregon, which in due time became the Worldwide Church of God.
The living Jesus Christ founded the one true Church of God, A.D.
31. The same living Jesus Christ started the Philadelphia era of God's
Church through me, as His chosen Apostle, August, 1933.
January 1934, He started me on radio, and February 1 The PLAIN
TRUTH made a super-humble bow.
Fellow Ministers and wives, the LIVING CHRIST raised up this era
of His Church through me. HE heads it--leads it! Through me, directly
or indirectly you came into""1Iis Church, and into the knowledge He first
revealed to me.
But the most terrible thing that ever happened to me was during
the recent years when I was away from Pasadena up to
300
of the
365
days in the year, and my son assumed a full and complete authority never
given to him, and encouraged WATERING DOWN God's TRUTH and God's COMMANDS!
For the past year now Jesus Christ, through me, has been SETTING HIS
CHURCH BACK ON THE TRACK!