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PASTOR'S REPOR�
PUBLISHED BY THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
Vol.3,
No.31
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
CHRIST NOW MOVES TO PUT
GOD Is GOVERNMENT
BACK ON THE TRACK
There is only ONE PLACE ON EARTH where the
GOVERNMENT OF GOD is administered--and even
that has been side-tracked. Now Christ the
living HEAD ot the Church sets it back.
by Herbert W. Armstrong
August 2, 1979
THE WORLD DOES NOT realize that the GOVERNMENT OF GOD once ruled over
the earth. God's Government does rule the UNIVERSE!
Angels inhabited this earth before MAN. As RULER over the UNIVERSE,
God set a throne on the earth, and placed the super archangel Lucifer on
that throne to administer GOD'S Government over the earth.
But Lucifer rebelled. He led his angels into rebellion--a third of
all the angels. Chaos, destruction came to the face of the earth. Lucifer
became SATAN, His angels became demons.
In six days God RENEWED the face of the earth (Ps. 104:30). God set
out to REPRODUCE HIMSELF THROUGH MAN!
On the 6th day of this re-creation, God formed MAN of the dust of the
ground, out of matter. The MAN, Adam, was composed of matter. But God
formed him and his wife with human MINDS--capable of absorbing knowledge,
and of reasoning and making decisions.
God gave Adam the opportunity to SIT ON Lucifer's throne--IF Adam,
fully instructed by God, would reject the ways of Satan, and accept GOD'S
�·.'A'f--that of GOD'S LAW! But Adam rebelled against God, and chose to go HIS
y;,;� WAY--not realizing, perhaps, he and his human race would be led and
s·,;ayed by Satan.
God pronounced sentence on the man, and through him on MANKIND! Man
was CUT OFF from access to God--all except the VERY FEW God would specially
call for special service preparing for the KINGDOM OF GOD, to be ruled by
the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, to be established after 6,000 years.
Some 4,000 years later, the SECOND Adam, Jesus Christ, came to earth,
born ot the human virgin Mary. He overcame Satan, chose the GOVERNMENT OF
GOD, based on the LAW OF GOD. But He was not to take over the throne of
the earth until the end of 6,000 years. He raised up His Church, with the
GOVEfu�MENT OF GOD ruling IN THE CHURCH. Satanic persecution drove the
Church virtually underground, and the Gospel Message proclaimed by Jesus
Christ was suppressed and not proclaimed to the world for approximately
1900 years.