BECAUSE OF MY CO-WORKER IN THE GOSPEL - TARA CHAPMAN - AND HER ANSWERING THE LOCAL UCG SHE HAD BEEN ATTENDING OFF AND ON LATELY. IT IS NEEDFUL FOR ME TO WRITE ABOUT THE LATE HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG.
TARA HAS, AS I KNEW SHE WOULD, COME INTO THE REALIZATION THAT THE UCG GIVES GREAT HONOR TO HERBERT ARMSTGRONG.
WHAT APPLES TO THE UCG [WHO BROKE AWAY FROM THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD IN 1995 AFTER THE APPOINTED SUCCESSOR BROUGHT IN DAMNABLE HERESIES ( I.E SABBATH NO LONGER NEEDED TO BE OBSERVE - APOINTED BY HERBERT ARMSTRONG HIMSELF )], ALSO APPLIES TO ORGANIATIONS LIKE THE SDA [SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS] WITH THEIR HELLEN G. WHITE, AND PAST CULTS LIKE JIM JONES AND DAVID KORISH [LOOK THEM UP ON THE INTERNET].
AND IT APPLIES TO MANY OTHERS, WHO HAVE A ONE MAN LEADER, WHO RULES WITH A ROD OF IRON; ALSO EVEN GROUPS WHO HAVE A "GROUP" LEADERSHIP, WHO ALSO RULE WITH A ROD OF IRON, LIKE THE "HUTTERITES" AND SOME MENONITE GROUPS. AND OF COURSE WE HAVE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT RULS WITH ONE MAN AT THE TOP.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER "EX" WCG GROUPS OUT THERE, WITH A ONE MAN RULE, SUCH AS FRED COULTER, DAVID PACK, ROD MEREDITH AND HIS LCG CHURCH. YOU MAY WELL KNOW SOME OTHERS.
MANY "PROTESTANT" GROUPS LIKEWISE. A BOOK ON THAT SIDE OF THE ISSUE WAS DONE SOME 20 OR SO YEAR AGO CALLED "CHURCHES THAT ABUSE" - IT MAY STILL BE OBTAINABLE FROM PLACES LIKE AMAZON.COM. IT IS ALSO FOUND IN FULL PRINTG ON MY WEBSITE.
SO WHAT HAPPENED TO HERBER ARMSRONG IS NOT UN-COMMON; SADLY IT IS ALL TOO OFTEN TOO COMMON. VANITY AND PROUDNESS IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE, AND THIS IS USUALLY THE ROOT CAUSE OF WHY A MAN BECOMES A CULT LEADER. AS WELL AS DESIRING TO HAVE ULTIMATE POWER. THE TRUE SAYING IS SO VERY TRUE, "POWER CORRUPTS AND COMPLETE POWER CORRUPTS COMPLETELY."
IN THE CASE OF HERBERT W. ARMSTRON G [KNOWN AS HWA] HIS SIDE TO ULITIMATE VANITY AND COMPLETE POWER BEGAN AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE IN 1967. I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS PART OF HIS CHURCH ORGANIZATION AT THE TIME, AND SAW IT ALL HAPPEN FIRST HAND.
OTHERS WERE ALSO TO BLAME; HIS RIGHT HAND MEN [SOME OF THEM] WHO ALSO STROKED HIS EGO AND LICKED HIS BOOTS.
THEY ALSO GOT THE REWARDS OF MATERIAL MONEY AND A SECURE JOB, MANY OF THEM KNOWING OR HAVING NO OTHER SKIL BUT BEING A MINISTER, FOR THEY WENT THROUGH THE BRIANWASHING COLLEGES ESTABLISHED BY HWA.
IN THE LAST 15 YEARS ESPECIALLY OF HIS LIFE, IF YOU VOICED DISAGREENT WITH HWA, YOU WERE MARKED - CAST OUT OF HIS CHURCH. OFTEN AS RECORDED THIS DISFELLOWSHIPPING WAS DONE WITH BRUTALITY, VERBALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND HWA TAUGHT YOU WERE THEN CUT OFF FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD.
HWA MADE IT VERY OPEN AND PUBLIC THAT HE ALONE WAS DIFRECTLY UNDER JESUS CHRIST.
THIS WAS EVENDENT TO THE WHOLE WORLD ON ONE OF HIS TV SHOWS. I HAPPENED BY CHANCE [NOT REALLY, AS I'M SURE GOD LED ME TO IT] - TURNING ON THE TV AND FLIPPING CHANNELS I STOPPED DEAD WHEN IN COMPLETE SHOCK AND DISGUSSED, WHEN I SAW "THE WORLD TOMORROW BROADCAST" PUT A CHART UP FOR ALL TO SEE: GOD THE FATHER AT THE TOP; JESUS THE CHRIST UNDER THE FATHER; HWA UNDER JESUS CHRIST.
YOU TALK ABOUT VANITY...... THIS WAS THE ULTIMATE SHOW OF VANITY BY HWA.
PEOPLE IN HIS CHURCH WERE CONVINCED HWA WOULD TAKE THEM TO A PLACE OF SAFETY TO ESCAPE THE GREAT TRIBULATION TO COME. I MET A MAN IN 1985 WHO SAID THAT TO ME. I LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, " NOW I WILL PROPHECY. I TELL YOU HWA WILL BE DEAD LONG LONG BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK TO EARTH."
THE NEXT YEAR 1986 HWA DIED. IT IS NOW 2014, NEARLY 30 YEARS LATER. HAS MY PROPHECY COME TRUE?
HWA KNEW AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY THE TRUTH ABOUT "CHURCH GOVERNMENT" - HE WROTE AN ARTICLE ON IT. BUT IN THE LAST 15 YEARS OF HIS LIFE HE DEPARTED FROM THAT TRUTH - VERY DRASTICALLY - AND ADOPTED THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, EVEN MORE SO, FOR HWA WAS INFALLIBLE ALL THE TIME. WHEN HE SPOKE HE TAUGHT GOD WAS SPEAKING. HIS WORDS AND MANNER OF LIFE WAS THAT HE ALONE HAD A DIRECT PHONE LINE WITH GOD THE FATHER.
HIS TEACHING ON "DISFELLOWSHIPPING" WAS LIKE ALL CULTS [AS SHOWN IN THE BOOK "CHURCHES THAT ABUSE"] - SWIFT, HARD, OFTEN PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY HORRIFIC - NO PHYSICAL ABUSE, BUT PHYSICAL IN THE WAY MANY MINISTERS WERE CAST OUT; CAR AND HOUSE TAKEN AWAY IMMEDIATELY. NO SEVERENCE PAY. I MET AND TALKED TO SOME EX MINISTERFS WHO WERE DEALT WITH IN THAT EXACT WAY.
MANY MINISTERS IN HIS ORGANIZATION DURING THOSE YEARS ACTED LIKE LITTLE HITLERS - MET MANY WHO WERE CAST OUT WHO TOLD ME STORIES ABOUT THESE MINISTERS THAT WOULD MAKE THE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK STAND UP.
THE HARD HAND AND HARD-MINDED MINISTERS IN THOSE DAYS WOULD BE FIT FOR A HORROR BOOK.
MANY OF THEM DID NOT ESCAPE THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD. WHAT YOU REAP YOU SOW. MANY OF THOSE MINISTERS DIED OF DISEASES WHILE NOT OLD MEN. MANY WENT MENTALLY CRAZY, AND JOINED OTHER RELIGIONS OF THE EAST, AND STRANGER THEOLOGY THAN WHAT THEY HAD COME OUT OF. SOME FEW EVEN COMMITTED SUICIDE.
SOME MINISTERS CAST OUT WERE SO SHATTERED BY THE EMOTIONAL ABUSE THEY SUFFERED, THEY BECAME PHYSICALLY WEAK AND DIED WAY BEFORE THEY SHOULD HAVE.
I PERSONALLY MET AND HAD A FEAST OF TABERNACLES WITH ..... OH FORGOT HIS NAME RIGHT NOW - WELL HE WAS NOT OLD; HE WAS A PhD GUY IN HEBREW AND GREEK, TAUGHT FOR YEARS IN AMBASSABOR COLLEGE. A NICER FOLLOW YOU COULD NEVER MEET - HUMBLE - DOWN TO EARTH. HE WAS BROKEN EMOTIONALLY, AND WITHIN NOT SO MANY YEARS LATER, HE WAS DEAD. DIED WAY BEFORE OLD AGE.
OF COURSE THROUGH ALL OF THIS THOUSANDS LEFT THE WCG, WHO ALSO LEFT GOD AND CHRIST......WENT BACK INTO THE WORLD. MAYBE THEY WERE NEVER TRULY CONVERTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
MANY, AS TARA CHAPMAN HAS FOUND OUT, MANY HONOR HWA BECAUSE IT WAS THROUGH HIM AND HIS ORGANIZATION THEY CAME TO BE "CHRISTIANS" - THAT WAS NOT MY BACKGROUND AT ALL.
I HAVE TOLD YOU IN SOME DETAIL ON MY WEBSITE, MY BACKGROUND. I DISCOVERED AND KNEW THERE WAS A GOD FROM AGE 5, ON THE FIRTS DAY OF ATTENDING A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL MY PARENTS SENT ME TO. WE WERE GIVEN A BIBLE ON THAT FIRST DAY, AND TOLD TO OPEN IT TO GENESIS ONE. WE READ: "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH....." I KNEW THEN THE ANSWER AS TO WHY ALL CREATION AROUND ME I HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH......THE BIRDS, THE TREES, THE HORSES, THE FLOWERS, THE SOFT CATTERPILLAR CRAWLLING ON MY ARM, THE LADY-BIRD, SO TINY AND CUTE, THE BUTTERFLIES.....JUST EVERYTHING I COULD SEE....... I KNEW FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THERE WAS A GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE WHO CREATED THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD I WAS SEEING.
I ATTENDED SUNDAY SCHOOL FAITHFULLY; READ MY BIBLE AT HOME DURING MY GROWING UP YEARS; LEARNT MANY TRUTHS [LIKE JESUS WILL COME AGAIN]. AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE TO BE OBEYED. I WAS ALREADY A DEDICATED CHRISTIAN YEARS BEFORE HEARING HWA ON THE RADIO. YES I LEARNT MORE THRUTHS THROUGH HIS ORGANIZATION; BUT I WAS NEVER GOING TO BOW DOWN TO A MAN. I WOULD ALWAYS SEARCH FOR TRUTH, I WOULD ALWAYS PROVE ALL THINGS.
AND IN SO HAVING THAT ATTITUDE OF MIND, IT WAS PRETTY EASY FOR ME TO SEE WHEN HWA STARTED TO GO OFF THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATHWAY AND TEACH FALSE DOCTRINES, AND ACT LIKE A CULT LEADERS.
GOD TOOK ME OUT OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD AND AWAY FROM HWA IN 1972.
I WALKED ALONE FOR 7 YEARS, MEDITATING, WAITING, THINKING, FINDING MY WAY OUT OF WHAT HAD BECOME DARNESS WITHIN LIGHT, AND THE LIGHT WAS FAST BECOMING MORE DARKNESS.
THE MOMENT YOU STOP HUNGERING AND THIRSTING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE MOMENT YOU STOP WILLING TO BE CORRECTED; THE TIME YOU STOP THINKING FOR YOURSELF, THE TIME YOU LET OTHERS THINK FOR YOU; THE TIME YOU LEAVE YOUR MIND AT THE CHURCH DOOR; AND HAND IT OVER TO A MAN OR A GROUP OF MEN; IT'S THE TIME YOU START TO BE DECEIVED, ADN TO FALL INTO FALSE THEOLOGY.
NOW YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE AN OPEN MIND TO PROVE ALL THINGS, BUT YOUR MIND SHOULD NOT BE THAT OPEN THAT YOUR BRAINS FALL OUT.
SORRY TO SAY BUT THOSE IN ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE OFF-SHOOTS FROM THE WCG AND OLD HWA, HAVE NOT YET ADMITTED THEY WERE PART OF A CULT.
AS THE APOSTLE PAUL ONCE SAID, "THERE WAS A TIME WHEN GOD WINKED AT THIS, BUT NOW CALLS EVERYONE EVERYWHERE TO REPENTANCE."
HE THAT HAS AN EAR TO HEAR WITH SHOULD HEAR.!!
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Your strategy of misinformation and self-ordained righteousness seems to have backfired since your coworker in Christ has now become an atheist who is diligently seeking to discredit the Bible. Your coworker in Christ who is a very interesting and friendly person who appears to be a great mother and spouse is without God's Spirit; and I assure you is not condemned because she never had it. Like you, she was religious. Yours is a spirit of contention built upon personal opinions and heresies of the Bible.
ReplyDeleteUCG does not idolize a man, but it is smart enough to acknowledge how we came to the truth of the Bible. Are not men and women of the Bible honored by name and by God Himself. Do we not honor their memory and example as well? Were not some of them the sole leader of their time? Did that type of leadership disqualify them of God's and our honor? You, however, spend much time using words for dishonor and contention, and I'm guessing something about your behavior turned your coworker on a dime, or, because of the health, wealth, and prosperity fallacy, she has faced a trial she could not mesh with the false Christianity you teach. What a thought, huh? A man or woman can keep the commandments of God (of course, in your case, not all of them) and claim there is only one true God, but not be a true Christian. Why? Well, to read a book and believe what it says is one thing. To be given God's Spirit in conjunction with that is another. One is religion governed by the natural mind and the other is being led by God, even despite the people His followers choose to honor for their tireless work and example of faith.
I pray God actually calls your former coworker, because she has a very special quality of determination and determination is a must for enduring to the end. She has been in the presence of some of God's people, and I hope that's enough in this life to help her come "full circle" so to speak, but this time with a true submission to the very nature of God and not just carnal religious devotion.
interesting reading best go back to GODS word
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