You can read 1975 in Prophecy as a flip book here. This is the book that Armstrongites love to suppress. To this day many of the splinter cults claim that HWA and the Church never wrote such things.
I tried embedding the Flippingbook here, but it will not work. Checkout the link here: 1975 in Prophecy
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Yes, and you can see the 1956 booklet 1975 in Prophecy right here.
Both links work for me, but I note embedded spaces -- does either link work? Anyone?
Hopefully, people who visit these links will realize that if a group lied about such an important lynchpin of their evangelistic program, you can't trust anything else they have to say.
Repentence from lying, in such cases, can never again make them into reliable spiritual guides.
BB
Byker Bob, if you haven't gone back and read the original 1975 in Prophecy from 1956 recently, I'd advise you to take another look and really read it. I had forgotten just how nutty it was and how loud the hyperbole was, but it is nothing sort of amazing.
It reminds me of the time as a teenager, I went to this meeting where a professor looking dude stood up and seriously expected us to believe that people lived inside the earth and flew out the North Pole in their flying saucers. Fortunately, I had a heavy scientific background, but he seemed so sincere and convincing.
Contrast the booklet to conditions now and it looks so ridiculous beyond words....
I still have a couple of copies of 1975...I keep them as evidence for when the xcg folks claim, "We never said blah, blah, blah." I recently gave one copy to a neighbor who attends Meredith's church in hopes that he will wise up. He had never seen a copy before.
Glenn Parker
The 1965 version is a classic.
If the link works, Flipping Books will let you download it and print it.
Better yet, give your neighbor a link to DNArefutesBI.com and see what he has to say about that.
When I embedded it all that would show up was the cover page. Then flipped a couple of pages and re-embedded it and it would only show page 3&4. It could be Bloggers issues. I have had a lot of problems with it lately.
And yet, Herbert Armstrong seems to have missed that the Old Testament was all about the struggle between Israel and the Arabs.
Islamic Arab Terrorists seem so much more a threat today than the much more sane appearing and civilized Europeans.
If you're going to map Old Testament Prophecy on to (now defunct) Newspaper headlines, then at least get something that looks even half way credible now that we've passed on from World War II and the Cold War. Well over half the target populations never even lived through President Reagan and many were in grade school when Bill Clinton was Commander in Chief. So few were around for the assination of John F. Kennedy and read about the landing on the moon in history books.
If you're going to be a false prophet, you have to keep updating your stuff -- and in this case, it isn't an option -- but the lies and deception lives on.
It was the 1956 version that my parents read to my brothers and I one summer afternoon in 1957, and it was just plain horrifying. I felt trapped, backed into a corner, lost my respect for life and considered life to be a joke for many years thereafter.
Having heard of the Boy Scouts of America's paper and junk drives during World War II, I told my parents that if the Germans attacked, I'd go through the neighborhood with my wagon, collecting things to help our war effort. I was told that it wouldn't do any good, because God was going to be working through the Germans to punish the US and Brittain for having forgotten their national identity and God's holy sabbaths. Our only salvation was that we had this "precious knowledge" in advance, and could be part of a special group that was to be spared and protected in a place of safety. My angst on behalf of all of our friends and neighbors who didn't have this knowledge was totally overwhelming! My inward thoughts were devoted to wondering how and why I was "chosen" to know all of this abominable crap.
But, that was just the beginning. We actually had to distance ourselves from our very loving extended family, and horrible constant spankings based on the church's legalism soon began, and lasted for the next ten years.
No understanding of "walking in the Spirit", no concept of "living in victory", just the knowledge that the ministers' Holy Spirit overwhelmed our own portion of the Holy Spirit, and the top ones always seemed horribly angry.
BB
No understanding of "walking in the Spirit", no concept of "living in victory", just the knowledge that the ministers' Holy Spirit overwhelmed our own portion of the Holy Spirit, and the top ones always seemed horribly angry.
Yes, the whole thing was a horrible nightmare and any self-esteem was systematically destroyed and undermined at every turn to make the leaders seem like they were supermen, unapproachable by us mere mortals. Psalm 51 over and over and over. The heart is desperately wicked over and over and over. No consideration that with the Holy Spirit inside, people were supposed to be new and holy, pursuing becoming perfect as Christ commanded. Oh, well.
The worst was the anger. I'm going to find a place on DNArefutesBI.com to put the new research from the University in Korea which just finished a study which proves that chronic anger in some people (who have it) have corrupted DNA -- and they now know the exact alleles which cause the malady.
All that anger was probably defective DNA. So much for a "perfect" ministry.
Those in the Armstrongist leadership which have chronic anger are either to be pittied or held in utter contempt.
I'm leaning to contempt, because they had Scripture and should have known better. It's a no win situation: Either they knew and didn't obey Scripture or they didn't know and weren't qualified to be leaders.
Think about that all of you out there who are Armstrongist leaders: You are incompetent. Get over it. You cause great damage to people. You need to think of ways you can be redeemed.
Oh, and in case any of you reading this are tempted to stay with Armstrongism just remember the COMMAND in Proverbs which says, "Go not with an angry man".
That will work out. You'll see. Especially after you see how much money you stop wasting on outrageous incompetents.
Corrupted Alleles? Now, there is a breakthrough concept! It would explain inherited weaknesses and tendencies, such as alcoholism, criminality, and others which it is not politically correct to notice or mention.
BB
Alcoholism is a genetically passed disease of the liver passed from the mother through the mitochondria.
Yes.
Corrupted Alleles.
Byker Bob: A new toy, just for you!
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