Legacy Letter October 2011

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers,
I am going to talk to you in this letter about a NEW WORLD ORDER.  There is a very powerful world movement towards a system of world government that has centralized power, is socialist and humanist in nature, enacts worldwide uniform and universal laws, and will have a new system of world trade with a new world currency.  Of course, individual nations will have to give up their sovereignty to this immerging new world order, or they will not be permitted to benefit from its control of world trade. Now before you begin to think I have gone off on a conspiracy theory trail to fanaticism, just let me say that the Bible talks a great deal about this New World Order—and it turns out to be not so “new” after all!

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The three annual pilgrimage feasts are times when God’s people gather before Him to worship and fellowship with one another. In Asia, it is particularly important that we gather because most here have few pastors and no regular Sabbath services to meet together.

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong met King Bhumibol Adulyadej the first time in 1971. At that time, the king told him about a new project to educate the ethnic hill tribes that inhabited the highland border region of northern Thailand. These hill tribes grew opium and sold it to Chinese middle-men as their only cash crop. The king wanted to teach them to grow other crops, such as peaches and vegetables, to replace the opium they grew. This would be more profitable for the hill tribes and much less destructive to the upland forests and humanity as a whole. The king also wanted to give their children an education but had very few trained teachers.