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PASTOR'S R�PORT, August 2, 1979
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�ow we are near the end cf the 6,000 years. Christ is soon to come
3nd set up the KINGDOM OF GOD and rule all the earth once again with the
GOV� '?u.1\J."1.ENT OF GOD!
Forty-six years ago, God raise� up Herbert W. Armstrong, opening his
rnind to GOD' s TRUTH, using him as Chr1_st' s instrument 1-n raising up the
present era a£ the CHURCH OF GOD. Through Mr. Armstrong, Jesus Christ R�
STORED THE GOVERN'."lENT OF GOD--not, o:t course, yet ever the world, but over
the Church--as the ONLY PLACE ON E}"�RTH ',vhere the GOVERNMENT OF GOD is
3��inistered, preparing for the SCON-CO�ING OP CHRIST IN SUPRE�E POWER
AN� GLORY TO SET CF THE KINGDO� OF GOD OVER ALL THE EARTH!
�esus Christ is coming this second time TO HIS TEMPLE.
The CHURCH OF
GOD is to grow "unto an holy TE:,1PLE in the Lord" (Eph. 2:21)--the TE!'1PLE
t:.o which Christ shall come. Christ set GOD'S GOVER.i'JMENT in the Church.
2:.1t today the Church is ccrnpcsed of HUMANS, subject to human error-
:jough humans chosen and led by CHRIST (as was Oavid--a man after His own
�eart--who corrected his mistakes) will likewise correct errors when led
to see them by Cnrist.
The presen� era of the Church of God started small--19 newly-converted
"',embers. The Work of God, however,
GPEW.
Some mistakes were naturally
made, but corrected when Christ revealed them.
X,rlbassador College was found.ed j_n 1�4 7. After a few years a number
of small local churches were growing up, ministered by ordained graduates
c:,f .Z\ri
bassador College.
In those early days I used Raymond Cole, a pioneer student, as a
"t:::c>uble-shooter," to restore peace where frictions had developed. He set
up 3� office at Big Sandy, Texas. I moved him to Pasadena. Soon he moved
to E�ge�e, Greoon.
It was becoming extremely difficult for him to direct
the �rowing ministry from there.
A CAD (Church Administration Department) was set up in Pasadena, with
qoderick C. Meredith administering the department.
By about 1971 my son, Garner Ted Armstrong, had removed Mr. �eredith
from that office, sent him to England as Dean of the Faculty, and installed
Ja�id Antion as Director of the Ministry. This was a mistake, but not then
�ecognized.
It became apparent by 1974 that David Antion had gone too far.
A conspiracy was growing among certain of the ministers to bolt the
Church of God, or, they hoped, through David Antion and Albert Portune at
Heajquarters, to simply TAKE OVER the Church of God. The conspiracy was
�hwarted. But Mr. Antion decided his LOYALTIES were with the ministers,
not the Apostle Christ had raised up and used in BUILDING the Church.
The ministerial revolt, however, resulted in some 35 ministers leaving
': r1e Church, and taking two or three thousand members with them.
�r. Armstrono succeeded in persuading Mr. Antion to stay with the
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rch. A small few of the revoltors formed what they called
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The Asso
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Church of God,
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with headquarters in or near \'Jashington, D. C. A
":._w rrinisters took a portion of their local mernbers with them, each :tormin;
his own little local church.
However it all came to naught.
GOD was not