Tuesday, December 18, 2018

How The Church Denied What Jesus Accomplished And Made Available For All


Collosians 1:3- 14

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified youf]" data-mce-style="line-height: 0;">[to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (NIV)

Colossians 2: 13-15

13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.(NIV)

Colossians 2:10

10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.


Submitted by SHT

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm in United Church of God, and I've never heard this from the pulpit. Get your facts straight!

Anonymous said...

WCG had always cheery-picked the bible in order for it to fit the lies taught by HWA & GTA.

Anonymous said...

So then, Obama and Trump are both under Jesus. Wonder why they are so different. Division in the Kingdom! Anarchy!

Anonymous said...

@ 4:14 AM, I would say that the parts WCG picked were among the LEAST cheery.

Anonymous said...

once again, as you have many times before, you show your total lack of understanding of the gospel.

fear not, you will, one day, understand.

SHT said...

3:37 - The quote was DIRECT from Herbert Armstrong. The Scriptures were DIRECT from the Bible. Which one of these two are you saying is a liar?

7:06 - Can you not see that the reference was SPIRITUAL? It was first said that Jesus had said that he had disarmed the powers and authorities. Then he said Christ is the head of every power and authority. He disarmed the powers of Satan for those who are in Christ!

Anonymous said...

That's why Perbvert was a high-school-dropout:
Who needs teachers/preachers when you're a Narcissist & only follow the voices in your head?

Notice how he quickly thought HE should be teaching his teachers @ C.O.G.7thD when they refused to accept his Goofy Pyramidology & Anglo-Israelism!

FFS said...

Of course you didn’t hear that preached from the pulpit, 3:37. It was about Jesus. Every subject (mostly negative) is preached about BUT Jesus. The above inset was not sourced but I do believe it was written by hwa, and it is blatant denial of Jesus’ Divinity. Anti-Christ.

Anonymous said...

What is the message that is intended. It should be obvious that Jesus is not ruling all the world today. Whether it is unchristian people or the evil spirits may be questionable, but it is not the way Jesus defines as godly.

Unknown said...

Anon @ 8:21 AM is correct. HWA barely 35 years old, and brand new to the faith, starts his own church within just a few years, not listening one bit to the church which initiated him, that even in 1933 was SEVENTY years old!

Besides British Israelism, indeed HWA was into the idea of "Pyramidology" , which was evident in some of his very early writings. This concept is that the pyramids show the future by using pyramid measurements of inner chambers and can be used for predictions and "prophecy". The idea is linked to British Israellism as well, as can be found in this section on Pyramidology in Wikipedia...

Christian pyramidology[edit]
British Israelism[edit]
Taylor in turn influenced the Astronomer Royal of Scotland Charles Piazzi Smyth, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., who made numerous numerological calculations on the pyramid and published them in a 664-page book Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1864) followed by Life, and Work in the Great Pyramid (1867). These two works fused pyramidology with British Israelism and Smyth first linked the hypothetical pyramid inch to the British Imperial Unit system.[9]

Smyth's theories were later expanded upon by early 20th century British Israelites such as Colonel Garnier (Great Pyramid: Its Builder & Its Prophecy, 1905), who began to theorise that chambers within the Great Pyramid contain prophetic dates which concern the future of the British, Celtic, or Anglo-Saxon peoples. However this idea originated with Robert Menzies, an earlier correspondent of Smyth's.[10] David Davidson with H. Aldersmith wrote The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message (1924) and further introduced the idea that Britain's chronology (including future events) may be unlocked from inside the Great Pyramid. This theme is also found in Basil Stewart's trilogy on the same subject: Witness of the Great Pyramid (1927), The Great Pyramid, Its Construction, Symbolism and Chronology (1931) and History and Significance of the Great Pyramid... (1935). More recently a four-volume set entitled Pyramidology was published by British Israelite Adam Rutherford (released between 1957–1972).[11] British Israelite author E. Raymond Capt also wrote Great Pyramid Decoded in 1971 followed by Study in Pyramidology in 1986.

James said...

"He is the head over every power and authority."

Except Gerald Flurry, David Pack, Thiel and a host of other gurus. Then He (Jesus) is third in command after Herbert Armstrong.

Anonymous said...

Here's a source: https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/download/viewitem.cgi

Here's another one: http://www.ccog.org/lesson-6-utopia/

NO2HWA said...

Connie: In the Pasadena Ambassador College Library there was an entire section of the library, in one of the back rooms downstairs, devoted to Pyramidology. It had many of Smyth's books, including ones that sought to outline church history according to measurements of the Great Pyramid. There was also a huge section on British Israelism. Both of these sections had books from the mid-1800's onward.

Anonymous said...

The Great Pyramid was built by Job. Based on the flimsiest evidence.

nck said...

It is true that in COG tradition and popular custom of the times HWA investigated "the Pyramid" question.

Already in the fifties it was pretty obvious and stated by HWA that IF there was some hidden meaning in the Pyramids, he had not been made privy of its significance. It was obvious by Loma's diary notes on her tour of Egypt who noted HWA did not know and HWA's sermons in which he stated that he for sure did not know, although he had "investigated the topic."

Hoeh and Meredith later adopted the Chops theory which in my opinion like 90 percent of Hoeh's writings is 33rd degree Masonry esotirism but nevertheless interesting. Either it 19th century colonialism to state that the builder of the Pyramids must have been "a foreigner." Or it is an echo of a distant past which clearly indicates Semite influence in the government of Egypt since the beginning of time. Either way as interesting as the theory that Columbus as a lowly ship captain was aware that the earth was not flat and on his voyages to Scotland had learned from the "lords of orkney" (who descended from the vikings) that there was a huge landmass on just a couple of weeks sailing, out there......

I believe the intelligence services of the past were much closer to "the truth" than the vatican belief system allowed for. Miracles happen when their interests collide like the "finding of america" and america's pay back time, when Ronald Reagan had weekly contact with the Pope in their common effort to destroy the Iron Curtain.

nck