Herbert W. Armstrong Heralded the World Tomorrow to Tunisia

Tunisian Prime Minister Hedi Nouria received Herbert W. Armstrong at around noontime, Wednesday, June 6, 1979, at the palace Kasbah in Tunis. Traveling with the unofficial ambassador for peace was senior member of the Japanese Diet, Tokuo Yamashita.

The June 11 Pastor General’s Report recounted that the trio “discussed at length a proposed project of triangular cooperation between the government and people of Tunisia, the United States and Japan in the domain of nutrition. The meeting was also attended by the minister of planning as well as the chief of staff of the cabinet of the prime minister.”

Tunisia is the smallest country in North Africa, featuring the aquatic beauty and water access of the Mediterranean to the north, Algeria to the west and Libya at its east.

Its population of almost 11 million is compressed into 64,000 square miles, with the Sahara desert to the south. To the northeast, the country is benefited by fertile soil and 810 miles of coastline.

This demography and geography necessitates a good understanding of agricultural principles not only to feed Tunisia’s citizens but also to ensure the nation’s enduring survival. Its agricultural dominance in North Africa even hails back to the Roman Empire, when its territory was known as the “bread basket” of the resurrected European power.

“Mr. Armstrong explained the Church’s long interest in improving nutritional values everywhere, including various agricultural projects and studies that had been carried on for many years under the auspices of Ambassador College in Texas” (ibid).

This commitment spanned the Atlantic when in 1960 an extensive farm program was sown and grown at the college’s campus in Bricket Wood, England, until its closure in 1974.

Prior to this trip to North Africa, the former head of Ambassador College’s agricultural program met with Mr. Armstrong for discussion of “current developments” in this vital field of study.

On that June evening in 1979, as Mr. Armstrong visited Tunisia, a dinner was held in honor of this ambassador for peace, attended by the country’s ministers of foreign affairs, justice, culture, planning and social welfare, in addition to the ambassadors from Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Romania, Italy and Japan.

Key focus was placed upon the humanitarian activities of Ambassador International Cultural Foundation (aicf) in concert with world governments and their joint programs. The foundation’s spiritual, human, physical and financial resources were highlighted as it was announced that the aicf would cooperate with Tunisia’s National Institute of Nutrition for prospective joint endeavors.

“Mr. Armstrong, in speaking for some 30 minutes, explained the purpose of the Church and the great commission. He announced that world peace would be established in the World Tomorrow with the government of God under the laws of God” (ibid).

He further penned information on God’s system of agriculture, nutrition and the way to assured happiness in health in his hope-filled booklet The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like, noting, “There are blessings for observing the laws of health—absolute guarantees good health will result—and that sickness and disease will become a thing of the past.”

He institutionalized education on the subject from the perspective of the Creator of weather, soil and food, reminding those who cared to hear, such as Tunisia’s government, of the need for the restoration of nutrition and health from this captive world’s norms of famine, poverty, sickness and disease (Jeremiah 30:17).

Today, in the tradition of Mr. Armstrong’s longtime dedication to agricultural development and enhanced nutrition, Gerald Flurry, as founder and chancellor of Herbert W. Armstrong College, oversees an agricultural and food services program which provides students not only job experience, but an informed understanding of health, diet and nutrition from the Creator’s perspective.

“Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the [Eternal], for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all” (Jeremiah 31:12).

Last year’s overthrow of the Ben Ali government amid political corruption and civil strife found Tunisia seeking refuge along with future prosperity at the feet of its historic European overseer.

The European Union is Tunisia’s largest trading partner, dominating over 70 percent of both imports and exports. This economic alliance will have bearing on the continuing imperial march of the EU south and east.

But Tunisia’s dependence on the EU for economic survival is destined to have a far more spectacular ultimate outcome, encapsulated in the very message Mr. Armstrong delivered to its governing elite in Tunis, when he “announced that world peace would be established in the World Tomorrow with the government of God under the laws of God.”

Anciently, the Apostle John wrote of the prophesied rise and fall of the seventh resurrection of this Holy Roman Empire, saying “the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her.” From its prophesied increasing spiritual, political, military and economic dominance, this great northern power will cease from its global exploitation in trade of minerals, forestry, agriculture, food and future slave labor. Tunisia’s and the world’s “merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing” (Revelation 18:11-15).

The cataclysmic fall of this final rise of a Berlin-Rome-dominated 10-nation combine will come at the divine hands of the Supreme One whose very gospel was preached around the world and to Tunisia’s ruling elite by Herbert W. Armstrong, the unofficial ambassador for world peace (Matthew 24:14).

You may be surprised to uncover that God has already sown the future crop of leadership to fulfill the utopian provision of abundant agriculture, nutrition, health, wealth and happiness of mankind. To understand more, without cost or obligation, request Mr. Armstrong’s booklet The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like.