There is an HWA worshiping splinter cult which produces a magazine called "The Knock" which makes Herbert W Armstrong out to be God's greatest gift to humanity. I guess wimpy effeminate Jesus does not cut it. This is produced and distributed by The Vigilant Church of God in Berwyn, Illinois.
Of course now that you know this secret hidden gnostic knowledge, you should immediately send in you money to the Vigilant Church of God because it, and ONLY it, is doing the work today!Many claim to understand prophecy, but they have never had all of the pieces, God had scattered and hidden them from humanity intentionally! Sadly, many preachers of false prophecy say that they understand the puzzle by forcefully pressing a few pieces together, even though they’re not a natural fit.
God had RAISED UP a man, by the 1930’s, and showed him where most of the pieces were hidden. In the appointed time period, when knowledge would rapidly increase, God revealed to a man named Herbert W. Armstrong, the places where the pieces were scattered and hidden. Then, this man figuratively, went around the multi acre farm property and gathered up about 90% of the pieces which were the all important FRAMEWORK PIECES to this prophetic puzzle! When these puzzle pieces were put together, they created the beautiful picture that God intended His end time Church to understand. This massive, prophetic framework that had never, UP TO THAT TIME, been assembled before; was assembled by God, through Herbert W. Armstrong!
Only ONE group of God’s called are actively doing this today!
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Legos, Tinker Toys, Erector Sets -- all scrambled together in 50 barrels, ready to be assembled without one shred of directions of how to do it and no clue as to what it should be when you're finished.
The Vigilant Church is complete rubbish: It needs to keep careful watch for possible danger or difficulties, which obviously it is incompetent to undertake and relies on a man who has utterly failed at it before them as a dead false prophet who predicted futures which will never be. This man figuratively, went around the muti acre farm property and gathered up about 90% of the manure and fed it to the naive innocents who decided to follow him.
All in the name of a man who has been dead for over twenty five years.
HWA has been dead 25 years and the COG's have been dead for 25 years. Almost all of them claim to hold on to the pre-1986 teachings. No new knowledge, no new education, no new research, nada, nothing, nilch, deader than a doornail! And they all wonder why their churches are shrinking.
James said, "HWA has been dead 25 years and the COG's have been dead for 25 years".
MY COMMENT - What I find humorous and ironic is that HWA - who once admitted that The Church of God, Seventh Day is "God's Church" also - labeled the COG7D as the Sardis era. Funny, the Church of God, Seventh Day seems more alive today than HWA's dead Worldwide Church of God and the dead 700 splinter groups.
Richard
Well, just one more illustration that old school WCG was based in large part on a huge conspiracy theory, much of that theory being extra-biblical, and with only one man's word supposedly substantiating it. The only basis for 90% of WCG doctrine and teaching was the supposed apostleship of HWA.
It totally boggles my mind that insiders to the HWA personality cults do not acknowledge the failure of his prophecies. They have deluded themselves to believe that all of them are yet to occur, and that he will be totally vindicated. And, of course, they've lied about the original time frame, and continually revise it. I remember all of the numbers being carefully reviewed in Bible class at Embarrassing College during the mid-1960s, and we've now exceeded by decades even the latest dates upon which they had speculated for the return of JC.
I don't know why these ACOGs even continue to exist. Their collective voice in getting out any kind of gospel has been diluted so much as to be virtually imperceivable, their dates continue to postpone themselves, and so much new understanding of the Bible has come into mainstream Christianity that ACOG stalwarts ignore, or deliberately fail to acknowledge. And, the gospel is going out around the world, lovingly targetted by Evangelicals and Baptists to all of the areas of the world known never to have heard the name "Jesus Christ".
BB
Byker Bob said, "It totally boggles my mind that insiders to the HWA personality cults do not acknowledge the failure of his prophecies. They have deluded themselves to believe that all of them are yet to occur, and that he will be totally vindicated".
MY COMMENT - Oh so true. And here is the reason why: Most of these people have invested a lifetime of time and financial resources into the Armstrong end time work. They are committed with their lives to the Armstrong scenario. For some, this would be a tragic admission that their life work was wrong and in vain. At the worst extreme reaction is Terry Ratzmann.
A couple years ago, a close friend to my family in the WCG attempted to commit suicide. We have known the man since the 1960s. He is a stable, leader in the local WCG/LCG church. When I was informed that - I'll call him Mr. X - attempted suicide, my first thought was that he probably finally realized that he had spent a lifetime of 40+ years in time and 40+ years in tithe/offering payments to a Church that is essentially a fraud. Like my own parents, Mr. X didn't spend 40+ years of financial sacrifice so little Joey Tkach could inherit the Church and become an instant multi-millionaire.
So Byker, you have to put your comment in the context of people who invested a lifetime in the WCG.
Richard
It's just like the investor who refuses to sell stocks when they are clear losers because he can't admit that his "sure thing" pronouncements were dead wrong. Instead, he or she, usually he, will ride it to the bottom.
We invested our whole lives and futures in being the chosen ones who would come out on top that, although drowning in absurdities, we would grasp at the puniest straw in a vain attempt to stay on the surface of the water. I was lucky and honest enough to begin seeing through it all in the early seventies.
I knew a friend, now dead and gone, who was so sure the turn of the millenium would precipitate catastrophe he about orgasmed thinking and talking about it. He didn't appreciate my raining on his parade when I pointed out it wouldn't and couldn't happen. He didn't stop prognosticating even then. It just had to happen. But it still hasn't.
Allen C. Dexter said, "It's just like the investor who refuses to sell stocks when they are clear losers because he can't admit that his "sure thing" pronouncements were dead wrong. Instead, he or she, usually he, will ride it to the bottom".
MY COMMENT - Bingo! You hit the nail on the head, Mr. Dexter.
By the way, I am guilty of doing the same with stocks of companies that I believed in. When $8 billion WorldCom bought $20 billion MCI where I was employed for many years, all my MCI stock including MCI's 401K contributions became WorldCom stock. Following the acquisition, WorldCom stock went from $60 a share to becoming worthless in bankruptcy as a result of the now famous WorldCom $11 billion accounting fraud. I road the falling knife all the way down losing well over $100,000.
When WorldCom bought MCI, star analysts touted that everyone needed to own some WorldCom in their portfolios. I no longer listen to "star analysts" just like I no longer listen to self proclaimed apostles of God.
Richard
I'm sorry you suffered such losses, Richard. I've learned to turn a deaf ear to hype. The world is filled with it.
I bit on studying into commodity futures and subscribed for some time to a charts servioe. I never could come up with the money to get started, and that saved me.
When I determined that it was a zero sum game where someone had to lose for me to gain, I decided that kind of gambling was not for me. I might win for a while, even indefinitely if I were smart and prescient enough, but I'd still be nothing but a non-producing leach sucking financial blood from someone else. That's the problem with Wall Street and banking. It's all a system of financial leeches.
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