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HWA on 19-Year Time Cycles 
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From the Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong, chapter 24, "Ordained to Christ's Ministry" ​​

Coincidence? -- or DESlGN!
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This brings us to a series of almost incredible facts.  Whether strange coincidence or planned acts of God I cannot now say.  But these are FACTS, nonetheless. 
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I never recognized these facts until just a few months before the writing of this present chapter.  Certainly this strange chain of occurrences was not of my planning. 
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Here, then, are the actual facts: 

First, Jesus Christ began His earthly ministry at about age 30.  God took away my business, moved me from Chicago, started bringing me to repentance and conversion preparatory to inducting me into His ministry, when I was 30! 
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Second, Jesus began the actual teaching and training of His original disciples for carrying HIS GOSPEL to the world in the year A.D. 27.  Precisely 100 time-cycles later, in 1927, He began my intensive study and training for carrying HIS SAME GOSPEL to all nations of today’s world. 
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l00 Time-Cycles 

It is important that we realize the significance of 100 time-cycles! 

God set the earth, sun, and moon in their orbits to mark off divisions of time on the 
earth.  One revolution of the earth is a day.  One revolution of the moon around the earth is a lunar month (according to God’s sacred calendar).  One revolution of the earth around the sun is a solar year.  But the earth, the sun, and the moon come into almost exact conjunction only once in 19 years.  Thus 19 years mark off one complete time-cycle! 

​Now consider further facts -- whether strange coincidence, or providential design. 

The actual ordination, or completing of the ordination and enduement of power for sending out the original disciples into the ministry occurred after 3½ years of intensive instruction and experience.  It was on the Day of Pentecost.  And the year was A.D. 31. 

Exactly 100 time-cycles later, after 3½ years of intensive study and training, Christ ordained me to preach this same Gospel of the Kingdom in all the world as a witness to all nations (Matt. 24:14).  This ordination took place at, or very near, the Day of Pentecost, 1931. 
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I do not remember the exact day of the month of this ordination.  No special significance was attached to the date then.  Most of those who participated are now dead.  But the date was June, 1931. 

But that is not all!  Consider further! 
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More Amazing Parallels! 
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Christ started out His original apostles preaching the very Gospel of the Kingdom which God had sent by Him, and which He had taught the apostles, in the year A.D. 31.  For exactly one 19-year time-cycle this preaching was confined to the continent where it started -- Asia.  After precisely one l9-year time-cycle, A.D. 50, Christ opened a door for the Apostle Paul to carry the same Gospel to EUROPE!  This was A.D. 50.  After A.D. 70, Roman armies besieged Jerusalem.  From that time the Roman government stamped out the organized mass spreading of the Gospel of Christ.  Soon a different gospel was being tolerated, later endorsed and then enforced by Roman government.  It was Roman paganism now being palmed off under the new name “Christianity.” 
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For nearly 19 centuries the world has been rendered spiritually drunk on the wine of this counterfeit gospel!  As prophecy foretold, ALL nations have been deceived.  But looking into our time, just before the END of this age (Matt. 24:14), Jesus foretold that His same original Gospel of the Kingdom of God was to be preached and published (Mark 13:10) in all the world as a witness to ALL NATIONS!  This was to immediately precede HIS SECOND COMING! 

TODAY THIS IS BEING DONE!  Now consider this amazing parallel! 
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God first opened a door -- that of radio and the printing press -- for the mass proclaiming of HIS ORIGINAL TRUE GOSPEL the first week in 1934!  The exact date was January 7, 1934.  Exactly one time-cycle later, January 7, 1953, God opened wide the massive door of the most powerful commercial radio station on earth, and RADIO LUXEMBOURG began broadcasting Christ’s Gospel to EUROPE and Britain! 

What startling coincidences! -- or are they mere coincidences? 
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