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October 28, 1953
Dear Co-Workers in Christ's Service:
"The WORLD TOMORROW" now goes out on one of the great
major net-works, ABC, Transcontinental!
From WQAM, Miami, Florida, clear across to KFAR,
Fairbanks, Alaska---and from KECA, Los Angeles, all the way across
to WANI, Bangor, Maine, these scores of stations on the ABC Radio
Net-work now release to the far corners of the North American
continent the VERY SAME Gospel Jesus proclaimed.
From the world's greatest standard-wave station, Radio
Luxembourg, the same dynamic Message from God to this 20th-century
world now enters into the homes of millions in all parts of Europe
and the British Isles---and now HUNDREDS OF LETTERS EVERY WEEK are
pouring in from overseas listeners!
Add all this to the super-power programs going out over
giant Mexican stations, and THE WORLD TOMORROW VERY POSSIBLY NOW IS
THE MOST POWERFUL RADIO BROADCAST ON EARTH!
Listen, CO-WORKERS! This has the greatest significance
of any world event in our time! Do you know what it means? The
disciples came to Jesus and asked Him when the END OF THIS WORLD
would come, and the time of His Second Coming? Read this greatest
prophecy Jesus ever spoke, in the 24th chapter of Matthew. He told
them in plain language WHEN this world shall END---exactly WHEN He
shall come again! And the only sign He gave them was this: "And
this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for
a witness unto ALL NATIONS; and THEN shall the END come."
Jesus' own apostles proclaimed this same GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD thru Palestine and Asia Minor. That took one 19-
year cycle. GOD'S TIME RUNS IN 19-YEAR CYCLES! Then, after the
first 19-year cycle, in 50 A.D., a door was opened for the Apostle
Paul to preach the same Gospel in EUROPE. And all organized work
of preaching it was finally stopped in 69 A.D.---after one more
19-year cycle---when the Roman armies advanced toward Jerusalem,
and the disciples all fled, as Jesus commanded in Mat. 24:15-16 and
Luke 21:20-21. The organized powers of government from Rome
stopped the organized proclaiming of JESUS' MESSAGE from that
point. Soon the Gentile pagans, infiltrating into the churches and
outnumbering the really converted saints, persecuting them and
driving them out of the organized assemblies, introduced new pagan
doctrines and customs. The Gospel Jesus had proclaimed was snuffed
out. A counterfeit Gospel ABOUT the PERSON of Jesus was
substituted.
And now, 18« centuries later, God OPENED THE DOOR of
radio and the printing press in January, 1934, in order that the
very same original Gospel might once again go out AS A WITNESS TO
ALL NATIONS. After exactly one 19-year cycle, in January this
present year, 1953, GOD OPENED THE DOOR for us to take His gospel
once again to ALL EUROPE!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? It means we are already,
now, in the very last 19-year cycle of time left for THIS PRESENT
WORLD! It means THE WAY IS BEING PREPARED for the second COMING OF
JESUS CHRIST! It means that YOU and YOUR FAMILY have only a very
few more years to live IN THIS WORLD---of THIS LIFE. It means that
NOTHING else really counts now---NOTHING else is important to you
and your future---except to permit GOD to change your life---to use
your life---and especially in the work of getting this precious
last warning Message out to the REST of this dying world!
This great net-work broadcast adds FOUR stations in
Alaska. Now the way is opening for us to send out THIS GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM over all the Middle-East---thru Palestine, Egypt,
Syria, Turkey, and as far as INDIA, on powerful radio stations in
that region. LITTLE BY LITTLE this most powerful work on earth is
GROWING AROUND THE WORLD. When it has spanned ALL THE WAY AROUND
THE WORLD, going into ALL nations, as it soon shall---THEN, dear
Co-Workers, SHALL THE E N D OF THIS WORLD COME!
Yes, the WORK OF GOD IS GROWING! It is growing MIGHTILY
---in tremendous POWER! God is using you as well as me, in HIS
GREAT WORK!
Right now there is a national economic readjustment going
on. Not, apparently, a real depression---but a readjustment from
sky-rocketing inflation to a more stable economy. Business
activity is slowing somewhat. Stores are advertising big sales to
try to hold up business. Many farmers have been hit this year from
one cause or another. Many preachers, broadcasting their own
religious messages over the radio, are crying out that they may
have to quit.
CO-WORKERS, Listen! In the face of this economic
slacking off, GOD'S WORK, thru GOD'S POWER, cannot quit, or even
slow down---it cannot even stand still---IT MUST, AND IN FACT IT
ACTUALLY IS LEAPING ON AHEAD IN THE MIGHTIEST SURGE OF POWER OF ANY
PROGRAM ON EARTH TODAY!
Now, GOD HAS OPENED THE DOOR of a great major radio net-
work!
This is the doing of ALMIGHTY GOD! God's Message MUST
GO! God has decreed it, and opened the door wide! But it costs
more and more money---and in the face of economic readjustment, IT
MEANS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU MUST TAKE THIS TO HEART AS NEVER
BEFORE---we must now tighten our financial belts, sacrifice
pleasures and personal desires, and even at cost of going without
some things we have planned, SEND IN MORE MONEY FOR THE WORK OF
GOD!
NEVER before were the one and two-dollar offerings of
those who do not have larger amounts, so badly needed. Those of
you who have thought the little you had would not be enough to
help---SEND WHAT GOD HAS MADE POSSIBLE, little or big. Little
amounts count up. Those of you who have not sent anything for
God's cause recently, send what YOU can---that will be an INCREASE
which God's work needs. Those of you who have been sending small
amounts regularly---can't you send a little more by sacrificing
something else? Those who have sent in regular tithes---God
commands us to give offerings ALSO---and GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL
GIVER! Can't YOU send in LARGER amounts? It is only by ALL OF US
WORKING TOGETHER, each according as God has prospered and made
possible---some with a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, some
who don't have so much, even the widow's mites---but ALL TOGETHER,
each doing his BEST---it is only thru this combined work of ALL
that God's work can now KEEP FORGING ON AHEAD, as God Himself opens
the way before us! *** NOTHING ELSE COUNTS TODAY! We must AROUSE
ourselves, and rally to this great need!
The PLAIN TRUTH has been greatly delayed by lack of
sufficient funds. We are not yet back on week-nights on XEG---but
still SUNDAYS ONLY, at 8:30 Sunday nights. WON'T YOU ALL PRAY---
AND PRAY EARNESTLY, AND IN BELIEVING FAITH---that God will without
further delay again OPEN THIS DOOR for every night broadcasting?
Meanwhile, tune in XELO, 800 on dial, 8 o'clock Mountain time, 9
P.M. Central time, every night.
God bless you all---I know you'll take this to
heart---PRAY WITH ME---and really pour out your heart to God about
it---and do your own part to your utmost!
And THANK YOU, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong
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