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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
VOL.l, N0.7
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA,
CALIFORNIA
WHERE WE ARE, NOW!
by Herbert W. Armstrong
SEPTEMBER 18,1979
Let's not take everyday routine of events for granted. Let's awake
to the REALITY of where we are in the panorama of world events. For we
are in a very SERIOUS time!
As we approach perhaps the greatest Feast of Tabernacles in 1900
years, we need to be conscious that we are approaching CLOSER THAN WE
THINK the very tremendous event this Festival pictures to us--the millen
ial world reign of the KINGDOM OF GOD!
At the Feast last year we had the new book ready on "THE INCREDIBLE
HUMAN POTENTIAL." This year we have another book ready to distribute at
the Feast, one to each family, about the very event we are attending to
celebrate--the wonderful world as
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will be for a thousand years, ruled
by THE KINGDOM OF GOD!
I have just finished reading again this entire book--though it is
not a thick book. I had not read it or seen it since writing it more than
two years ago. I am my own worst critic, but for this book I will say I
am not displeased because it does not seem as if I wrote it--but that
Christ inspired and I merely typed it at His dictation.
I AM dissatisfied with the cover and the outer paper flap. That can
be changed before the book is put on the market in bookstores. But the
book itself, I feel, is inspired and inspiring--as well as TIMELY'.
I have said before, it has seemed as if God had purposely held up and
delayed the progression of prophesied world events. And undoubtedly to
give us time to get ourselves--HIS CHURCH--ready for these final climactic
events and Christ's coming to RULE'. But NOW there are significant signs
that these events will be SPEEDED UP. The "resurrection" of the medieval
"Holy Roman Empire," the Great Tribulation, and the plagues of the first
phase of the "Day of the Lord," will in all probability come rather sud
denly and unexpectedly on us.
Many of the present Pope John Paul II's activities point to the fact
that he can be the pope that will initiate this European reunion, in a
"United States of Europe." As a matter of fact, his having come from
Poland, and the effect of his visit there indicate that instead of the
coming "resurrected" Holy Roman Empire including such nations of Israel
itish ancestry as Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the ten nations
to compose it may include such nations, now Russian satellites, as Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia. The latter two are long since,to
a considerable degree,independent of the Kremlin. The Soviet Union may
soon experience a breakaway of some of the Balkan satellite nations. It
does seem that the nations of Israelitish ancestry, in western and north-