MODERN 21ST CENTURY.....WAR WITH ROBOTS AND DRONES

WAS  WATCHING  A  DOCUMENTARY  ON  CANADIAN  TV.

IT  WAS  TO  DO  WITH  THE  EVER  INCREASING  21ST  CENTURY  DRONES  AND  ROBOT  MACHINES  TO  FIGHT  FOR  YOU. 

IT  IS  WAY  MORE  COMMON  THAN  MOST  WESTERNERS  REALIZE....THE  USA  IS  MUSHROOMING  IN  ITS  USE  OF  MECHANICAL  DRONES  AND  ROBOTIC  MACHINES  TO  DO  ITS  FIGHTING.

THE  DRONES  CAN  SEE  AT  NIGHT;  CAN  SEE  THROUGH  THE  CLOUDS.

SOMEONE  CAN  SIT  7  THOUSAND  MILES  AWAY  AND GUIDE  THESE  DRONE  AND  ROBOT  MACHINE,  TO  DO  THE  FIGHTING.

IT  IS  GOING  TO  BE  THE  WARFARE  OF  TOMORROW;  LIKE  PLAYING  DEATH  GAMES  AT  A  COMPUTER,  ONLY  THE  REAL  THING.

WATCHING  ALL  THE  FACTS,  IN  MY  MIND  I  WENT  TO  REVELATION  CHAPTER  9.  TURN  TO  IT.... LOCUSTS  -  THE  DESCRIPTION  OF  SOME  KIND  OF  MACHINE  CONTROLLED  BY  MEN  -  THEY  ARE  TO  HURT  MANKIND  BUT  NOT  KILL.  CERTAINLY  MACHINES  COULD  DELIVER  THE  WHATEVER.... TO  TORMENT  MANKIND, BUT  NOT  KILL.  SOMETHING  YET  TO  BE  INVENTED  TO  DO  SUCH  A  WORK.

THE  6TH  ANGEL [TRUMPET] SOUNDS  AND  A  DESCRIPTION  AGAIN  COULD  WELL  BE  21ST  CENTURY  MACHINES  OF  WAR.  COULD  BE  MEN  GUIDING  FROM  THE  GROUND,  OR  DRIVING  THEM  IN  PERSON..... A  MIGHTY  HUGE  NUMBER..... THEY  BRING  DEATH  NOT  JUST  TORMENT!

IN  MANY  WAYS  NOW,  WE  ARE  ENTERING  A  NEW  AND  MORE  MECHANICAL  WAY  TO  REAP  DESTRUCTION  ON  MANKIND.

THE  BOOK  OF  REVELATION  CAN  BE  UNDERSTOOD;  I'VE  EXPLAINED  IT  TO  YOU  ON  MY  WEBSITE,  UNDER  "THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  BIBLE  STORY."
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WHERE ARE THE TRUE PEOPLE OF GOD TODAY???

Hi Keith, 

questions for you 

Is there any remnant of "The church of God" left? I am looking online I see "United CoG, international CoG 

Where is the CoG that broke away from the SDA church?

I have been reading your history pages on this topic but I work two jobs and have not had the time to trace this history to its final conclusion as of yet, so I'm cheating here Keith and asking you to guide me if by the Grace of God you will assist me.

I want to personally thank you for helping me come to an informed decision about the SDA church. I spent many hours reading the history of the SDA and Ellen White. I spent an entire weekend reading transcripts and testimonials of her detractors and defenders. I came away with thought process she was legitimate and God was working through this woman however improbable. But I never thought about or heard about disgruntled former SDA church members (thanks to you Keith) who broke away from SDA and formed the own church.

One other point if I may, When studying the bible it kept jumping out at me of the baptismal aspects and the laying on of hands,  which I noticed was completely absent from SDA teachings and literature.  They were not healing the sick or casting out Devils, how could they be the " remnant church" without that portion of Jesus promise to all believers? And of course there it was, hints of that successful practice being sparsely practiced by the early fathers of the CoG. In the history book of Mr. Nickels on your web page. 

So I left my online remnant CoG, SDA based still using E. White and utilized SoP. 

So my search is on for the real CoG and I am hoping you can assist me Keith!

I feel like a lost soul.


MY  ANSWER

First remember what Jesus said, "I will build my church and the gates of hell [hades, the grave, death] will not prevail against it."

You may feel all alone, but you are not. Jesus also said about his people, "Fear not LITTLE flock....."  In the Greek "little" is a double diminutive meaning "little little" or as we could say it "very little flock."  Jesus  also  said  his  true  disciples  were  the  salt  of  the  earth....salt is sprinkled here and there.

Now to answer you specifically and in a nut-shall.  Sabbath keepers came across from Europe to the new world. Again scattered here and there. In the early 1800s  William Miller a protestant, preached the return of Christ, what he figured right down to the year and day.  Many people followed Miller including Sabbath observers. Ellen White and others followed Miller. White became convicted on the true Sabbath from 7th day Sabbath observers. When Miller was proved wrong a second date was preached; when that also proved to be wrong, Ellen White said she had visions about that date.... hence was born the strange doctrine of the SDA church...."Investigative Judgment." Sabbath keepers were basically one group back then. But when Ellen White was chosen by SOME, as God's end time prophet or inspired servant, there was a division.....say about half were with Ellen White and her inner party; half said "no, we do not accept Ellen White."  A division was made.  Then those with Ellen White decided the name "Church of God" was to them kind of useless, it did not state the two main doctrines of their faith  -  7th Day Sabbath keeping and the return of Jesus.  They adopted the name Seventh Day  Adventists. The other half said they would keep the name "Church of God."  The adventist group did evangelize greatly, still do, and grew much much larger than the Church of God, at least in North America. Interesting with Sabbath observers, the African continent has about 20 million 7th day observers, and ONLY 2 million of them are SDA members.

The 7th day observers under the name "Church of God" grew much slower that the SDA in North America. They had their "splits" over the last 150 years. Two or three main groups evolved using names like "Church of God, 7th Day" They did believe in the gifts of the spirit, praying over the sick, and the laying on of hands included in water baptism [as you said the SDA church does not lay hands on people being baptized]. The split between the SDA church and the rest widened as the SDA church took Ellen White and her "visions" as from God.

In the 1930s Herbert Armstrong's wife Loma was brought to observing the 7th day Sabbath by one of the ladies of the Church of God 7th Day. Armstrong found it fanatical, and set out to prove to his wife such teaching was wrong. After about 6 months deep study Armstrong was convicted it was correct. He and his wife became members of the Church of God, 7th day Sabbath observers. Within a short time, Armstrong and other ministers came to see the Festivals of the Lord as found together in Lev. 23 should be observed. At the same time, Armstrong and some other ministers became convicted on what is known as "British Israelism." The British Commonwealth and the United States being the tribe of Joseph - a nation and company of nations coming from Joseph. It was "The Lost ten Tribes are found, they are no longer lost" idea.

This put those like Armstrong at odds with the two or three groups of the Church of God 7th Day. They were finally told to resign from being minsters, or they had their ministerial credentials withdrawn. Armstrong went his own way; at least one other guy formed the "Sacred Name" group, they also over the decades split, so there are a number of Sacred Name groups today. Armstrong did not accept a "sacred name" as the Sacred Name groups preached it and still do.

Armstrong was on radio across North America and finally around the world. His church was called "The Radio Church of God." I became a member in the winter of 1961/62. From night and day study of the Bible, I could find NO OTHER group with as much truth, and basically back then it was indeed the plain truth; the teaching from them was study your Bible, find all Scriptures on any topic of the Bible and you will find the truth. In the 1960s up to the death of Loma Armstrong in 1967, that church was willing to be corrected if you could prove it from the Bible. A number of small points were corrected in 2 ministerial meetings a year. After Loma died, Armstrong [HWA] moved into more and more dogmatic "top dog" cultic teaching. I left in 1972. A large split, the first, came about 1978 when Garner Ted Armstrong [GTA] was disfellowshipped. A number of groups emerged, the largest being the GTA Church of God, International.  But there were others as other ministers left the now Worldwide Church of God [the Radio Church of God being dropped] as it was now worldwide in churches and membership. GTA had his problems and splits happened from The Church of God International. I went with Fred Coulter and the Biblical Church of God, who ordained me to the ministry of Jesus Christ, in 1982 at age 40. I left them within 2 years over the issue of Church Government, and have been an independent minister ever since. 

After HWA died 1986, within a few years the leadership of the WCG were into doing away with the weekly Sabbath and feasts of God, and going back to the Protestant world. 1990 saw a split with Meredith leading, within a few years it also split-up. Then you had the formation of the United Church of God, led by a number of ministers from the WCG. It also has split up. 

So just from the one Radio Church of God, there are many many splits and groups, all basically following the lead of HWA. So stagnant in growing in grace and knowledge.

The history of the Church of God 7th Day observers over the last 150 years is a history of SPLITS!!  Sad to say.

You still have the original Church of God Sabbath observers in groups like, The Church of God, Seventh Day..... a number of them under that kind of name. But they do not accept the observing of the Feasts of the Lord. And they reject British Israel teaching.

There was an organization that used to put out a book on all the 7th day observing  churches around the world......literally  dozens upon dozens upon dozens of them, under various names.

Most of them have much truth.....some more than others. But none of them have what I consider the full truths of God. I've studied most of the larger ones over the last 3 and more decades, after being ordained to Jesus' ministry.

Where are the "SMALL"  -  "LITTLE  FLOCK  -  THE VERY LITTLE FLOCK?  THE SALT OF THE EARTH!

THEY ARE MAINLY INDIVIDUALS, A FEW FAMILIES TOGETHER, A GROUP HERE AND THERE. GROWTH IN INDIA IS GOOD. THE TRUE DISCIPLES OF JESUS ARE INDEED SCATTERED TODAY, ESPECIALLY IN THE WESTERN WORLD. AS SAID, INDIA HAS GOOD GROWTH, AND AFRICA  AT LEAST 18 MILLION  WHO ARE NOT SDA MEMBERS. BUT AS SAID, AS JESUS SAID, THE SALT OF THE EARTH, NOT MUCH SALT IS PUT ON A MEAL COMPARED TO THE MEAL ITSELF. GOD'S TRUE TO THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS, PEOPLE, ARE THE VERY LITTLE FLOCK!!!

MANY  TRUE  SAINTS  DO  FELLOWSHIP  WITHIN  OTHER  GROUPS  OF  SABBATH/FEASTS OF GOD  GROUPS, WHILE  NOT AGREEING  WITH  ALL  THEY  TEACH  OR  LACK  OF  TEACHING...... SO  WITHIN  THE  VARIOUS  7TH  DAY  SABBATH OBSERVING  GROUPS ARE  THE  TRUE  SAINTS  OF  GOD.

IT  IS  INDEED  SOME  WILL  HAVE  TO  BE  ON  THEIR  OWN,  WITH  NO  GROUP  WITHIN  EASY  DRIVING  DISTANCE  TO  FELLOWSHIP  WITH  ON  A  REGULAR  BASIS.

BUT  WE  CAN  BE  A  FAMILY  THROUGH  THE  INTERNET.  THE  RELATIVELY  SMALL  DISCIPLES  OF  JESUS,  HAVE  BEEN  GIVEN  THE  POWERFUL,  THE  MOST  POWERFUL  OF  ALL  EVANGELISTIC  TOOLS  TODAY..... THE  FREE  INTERNET  ACCESS,  AND  WEBSITES  LIKE  MINE.

THERE  ARE  MANY,  THOUGH  SCATTERED,  COMING  TO  SEE  THE  FULL  TRUTHS  OF  GOD  TODAY,  MY  WEBSITE  IS  DEDICATED  TO  LEADING  GOD'S  CHILDREN  AROUND  THE  WORLD,  TO  GROW  IN  GRACE  AND  KNOWLEDGE,  AND  FIND  THE  FULL  TRUTHS  OF  THE  LORD.

THE LOWDOWN ON... WALNUTS....other NUTS.....Dr. Mercola

Can a Handful of Walnuts Keep the Doctor Away?

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One of the basic tenets of optimal health is to eat real food. Nuts certainly fit into this category and, as a bonus, are a convenient, ready-to-eat snack that you can carry in a purse or backpack or stash in a desk drawer at work.

Two of my favorite nuts are macadamias and pecans, in large part because they’re high in healthy fats but relatively low in carbohydrates and protein, which most Americans consume in excess.

However, you really can’t go wrong when eating a variety of nuts, assuming you eat them in moderation. Walnuts are another top choice that have been making headlines due to their numerous beneficial effects on health.

Daily Walnuts May Improve Overall Diet Quality

Researchers from the Yale University Prevention Research Center and colleagues had more than 100 study participants add two ounces of walnuts to their diets daily.¹

The participants ate the walnuts for six months then removed the daily walnuts for another six months. Half of each group also received counseling about healthy nutrition, including how to offset the additional calories consumed by eating walnuts.

Several interesting results were found from this one simple dietary change.

For starters, the participants, who were at increased risk of developing diabetesbecause they were either overweight or had elevated blood sugar or blood pressure levels, had improvements in blood vessel wall (epithelial) function, and lower levels of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol.

Improvements were also seen in other heart variables, such as blood pressure and body fat, but similar improvements were also seen in the group excluding almonds, which means the walnuts may not have been responsible for the heart benefits.

What was remarkable, however, was a significant boost in diet quality among the participants eating walnuts. And despite the added walnuts, none of the participants gained weight. David L. Katz, founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, told Forbes:²

“Our primary outcome was diet quality, and that differed significantly between walnuts-added and walnuts-excluded … The implication of that is that (a) walnuts displace less nutritious foods when added to the daily diet; and (b) the net effect is a significant improvement in overall diet quality.

… The take-away here is: eat walnuts routinely, improve your overall diet quality – and apparently, without risk of weight gain … That is because though high in calories, walnuts are very satiating. That high ratio of satiety-to-calories makes them helpful in appetite control.”

Eating Walnuts May Lower Your Risk of Heart-Related Death

Walnuts contain the amino acid l-arginine, which offers multiple vascular benefits to people with heart disease, or those who have increased risk for heart disease due to multiple cardiac risk factors.

Walnuts also contain the plant-based omega-3 fat alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is anti-inflammatory. Research shows that people who eat a diet high in ALA are less likely to have a fatal heart attack and have a nearly 50 percent lower risk of sudden cardiac death.³

Eating just four walnuts a day has been shown to significantly raise blood levels of heart-healthy ALA,⁴ and walnut consumption supports healthy cholesterol levels.

Separate research showed that eating just one ounce of walnuts a day may decrease cardiovascular risk,⁵ and among those at high cardiovascular risk, increased frequency of nut consumption significantly lowers the risk of death.⁶

Previous research by Katz and colleagues also revealed that eating about two ounces of walnuts daily improved endothelial function in overweight adults with visceral fat without leading to weight gain.⁷ Endothelial dysfunction (affecting the inner lining of blood vessels) is associated with cardiovascular events.

Walnuts Have the Highest Level of Antioxidants of All Nuts

Antioxidants are crucial to your health, as they are believed to help control how fast you age by reducing  free radicals, which are at the heart of age-related deterioration.

Walnuts contain several unique and powerful antioxidants that are available in only a few commonly eaten foods. This includes the quinone juglone, the tannin tellimagrandin, and the flavonol morin.⁸

Walnuts contain antioxidants that are so powerful at free-radical scavenging that researchers called them "remarkable,"⁹ and research has shown that walnut polyphenols may help prevent chemically-induced liver damage.¹⁰

One study also found that consuming high-antioxidant foods like walnuts “can decrease the enhanced vulnerability to oxidative stress that occurs in aging,” “increase health span,” and also “enhance cognitive and motor function in aging.”¹¹

In another study, researchers found that nuts, especially walnuts, have potent antioxidant powers. Walnut polyphenols had the best efficacy among the nuts tested and also the highest lipoprotein-bound antioxidant activity.

The researchers concluded:¹²

“Nuts are high in polyphenol antioxidants which by binding to lipoproteins would inhibit oxidative processes that lead to atherosclerosis in vivo. In human supplementation studies nuts have been shown to improve the lipid profile, increase endothelial function and reduce inflammation, all without causing weight gain.”

Lead researcher Professor Joseph Vinson, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry at The University of Scranton, continued, “A handful of walnuts has almost twice the antioxidant content as an equivalent amount of any other commonly consumed nut.”¹³

The outermost layer of a shelled walnut – the whitish, flaky (or sometimes waxy) part – has a bitter flavor, but resist the urge to remove it. It’s thought that up to 90 percent of the antioxidants in walnuts are found in the skin, making it one of the healthiest parts to consume.¹⁴

Walnuts May Fight Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes and Cancer

When you add real foods to your diet, you’re adding in a multitude of beneficial compounds, from healthy fats to antioxidants. As such, you’ll find they tend to benefit your health in multiple ways as well. This is certainly the case with walnuts. In addition to potentially boosting your heart health, the beneficial dietary fat in walnuts has been shown to benefit metabolic parameters in people with type 2 diabetes.

Overweight adults with type 2 diabetes who ate one-quarter cup of walnuts daily had significant reductions in fasting insulin levels compared to those who did not, and the benefit was achieved in the first three months.¹⁵

Walnuts may even help reduce not only the risk of prostate cancer, but breast cancer as well. In one study, mice that ate the human equivalent of 2.4 ounces of whole walnuts for 18 weeks had significantly smaller and slower-growing prostate tumors compared to the control group that consumed the same amount of fat but from other sources.

Overall, the whole walnut diet reduced prostate cancer growth by 30 to 40 percent. According to another study on mice, the human equivalent of just two handfuls of walnuts a day cut breast cancer risk in half and slowed tumor growth by 50 percent as well.¹⁶

Walnuts may even impact male fertility. Among men who consume a Western-style diet, adding 75 grams (a bit over one-half cup) of walnuts daily significantly improved sperm quality, including vitality, motility, and morphology.¹⁷

Weight Gain Typically Not an Issue

Several of the studies already featured noted that participants added walnuts to their diets daily but didn’t gain any weight as a result. Taking this a step further, walnuts may even help you to lose weight as long as you don’t overeat them.

In one review of 31 trials, those whose diets included extra nuts or nuts substituted for other foods lost about 1.4 extra pounds and half an inch from their waists.¹⁸ Eating walnuts is also associated with increased satiety after just three days.¹⁹Research presented at the 6th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition also highlighted nuts’ role in helping to reduce your risk of obesity. As reported in the Epoch Times:²⁰

“[Purdue University’s Professor of Foods and Nutrition Dr. Richard] Mattes claims that nuts can actually suppress both the appetite and the brain’s desire for food, which can lead people to overeat even when they’re full.

Plus they’re energy-packed, which can impact the way your body adjusts your intake of calories throughout the day. Mattes suggested that a 100-calorie serving of nuts in the morning could decrease your calorie consumption by as much as 75 calories later in the day. This could be due to the filling nature of nuts, but more research is needed on this particular point.”

Raw and Organic Nuts Are Best

You can't really go wrong when choosing nuts to eat, as long as you pay attention to quality (and by nuts I’m referring to tree nuts, not peanuts, which are technically legumes that I don’t recommend eating). Walnuts are highly perishable and their healthful fats easily damaged.

If you’re purchasing shelled walnuts in bulk, avoid those that appear shriveled or smell rancid, or that you cannot verify are fresh. Walnuts should be stored in an airtight container in your refrigerator or freezer, whether they are shelled or unshelled.

Phytic acid, which is found in the coatings of nuts and seeds, is an "anti-nutrient" responsible for leeching vital nutrients from your body. Soaking nuts will help to get rid of the phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors, which can interfere with the function of your own digestive and metabolic enzymes, in the nuts.

To make them more palatable you can use a dehydrator to improve the texture. Enzyme inhibitors in nuts (and seeds) help protect the nut as it grows, helping to decrease enzyme activity and prevent premature sprouting.

When nuts are soaked, the germination process begins, allowing the enzyme inhibitors to be deactivated, and increasing the nutrition of the nut significantly, as well as making them much easier to digest. One exception is with macadamia nuts (and other white nuts), which have only negligible amounts of enzyme inhibitors, so soaking is not as necessary. If you prefer to eat nuts and seeds roasted, do so yourself so you can control the roasting temperature and time.

Walnuts Should Be Eaten in Moderation

Most Americans consume three to five times more protein than they need, along with excessive starchy carbs and not enough healthy fats. Excess dietary protein can lead to elevated blood sugar, weight gain, kidney stress, leaching of bone minerals, and stimulation of cancer cells, and it’s easy to overdo it if you eat a few handfuls of high-protein nuts. A more ideal protein intake is likely around one-half gram of protein per pound of lean body mass, which for most is 40 to 70 grams a day.

This is why my favorite nuts are those that are lowest in protein and highest in fat, including macadamia nuts,  pecans, and Brazil nuts. The following list shows the nutrition facts in grams per one ounce for your most common tree nuts (one ounce of nuts equates to just over 28 grams, or about a small handful):²¹ If you’re a fan of walnuts, you can see they fall into the mid-range as far as protein and carbs are concerned. So feel free to eat them, even daily if you like, but do so in moderation.

Tree Nut Numbers are grams per ounce	Fat	Protein	Carbohydrates
Macadamias	22	2	4
Pecans	20	3	4
Pine nuts	20	4	4
Brazil nuts	19	4	3
Walnuts	18	4	4
Hazelnuts	17	3	5
Cashews	13	4	9
Almonds	14	6	6
Pistachios	13	6	8

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