We have featured on here numerous posts about the Kitchen family over the years. The devotion or obsession with all things Herbert Armstrong is over the top and it weighs heavily on the remaining family members.
YouTube recently shut down Samuel Kitchen's video channel where he featured HWA's sermons. From reading his posts it seems as if a former member of the WCG also has claimed ownership of the WCG name and videos and filed a claim with YOutube against Samuel's site. It is a convoluted mess.
Tonight, Samuel made a rather discouraging post on his Facebook page. It shows exactly what happens to a mind obsessed with the church and Armstrong. It is unhinged and unbalanced. I seriously have concerns for the guy.
This is what he posted:
I've been feeling lately like a man facing extermination. Not only with regards to my physical family line, but also with my spiritual family as well.Seeing how far people will go, to put to death this Worldwide Church of God, well it saddens me and angers me.I've seen how far people will go to put to death members of my own personal family. It's pretty far.If extermination is my written end, I want my days to be filled with making sure it doesn't happen to someone else.In God's Word, we have a promise that the Church of God Jesus started won't be exterminated. I have hope in that promise.The Worldwide Church of God is not something a man started. It isn't subject to extermination when people get tired of it, like some child with a toy. God doesn't trash it.Satan the Devil has thought that limiting the numbers of the membership of the Worldwide Church of God, will suffice in exterminating it.He thought that by vacating the ministry, and luring them over into other groups, would allow for the extermination of the Worldwide Church of God.What a worthless work. All in vain. He won't succeed.Now whenever someone speaks up, they are persecuted and bullied. Perhaps their family line gets exterminated as well?But I ask the question....what if the one you keep trying to kill, gets up and keeps coming?You can read about the prophecies of the two witnesses, the world will face this sort of spectacle. To try to kill again and again, people who just won't die! When the two witnesses shall die, the world rejoices! They were waiting for the day!I think all of God's people have been at one time or another, someone who couldn't be exterminated.Looking at my father's life, I know some have to be bald from pulling their own hair out over my dad not dying when they thought he would!God protects His people and delivers them.So why fear what men can do?I only fear of being negligent of fighting for others who do not know yet what is being done.The Worldwide Church of God continues to exist. Bullies do not. Satan is going to be chained soon. So let us rejoice to be found on the opposite side of the Devil!Let our name burn his ears!
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What year did the Kitchens come into Armstrongism? Samuel in various places rails against lawyers and corporations, yet he acts as if he is unaware that Herbert Armstrong founded the Radio Church of God, and that was HWA's lawyers who in 1968 founded the Worldwide Church of God corporation. If people are getting buggy about the Kitchens' use of the corporate name Worldwide Church of God, maybe the Kitchens should forget what the lawyers did and should go back to promoting HWA's personal creation, the Radio Church of God.
Is he implying he's getting death threats? He should take that to law enforcement, if so - especially if they're coming from other "church members."
Didn't I read somewhere that the Timmons family held the rights to "Worldwide Church of God"?
The COGwa was very cagey in embedding Worldwide into their name, and I have a feeling that they were familiar with the existing legalities.
I don't know how we would go about comforting or helping anyone with the angst that extreme zealotry or perfectionism brings. Seems like the worst situation that a human can have is the way our mind wants to fight itself. I believe it reaches a point in the extremes where there is no longer free will involved. The compulsion becomes involuntary.
The Worldwide Church of God is not something a man started.
herein lies the error the Kitchens and all Armstrongists have made and keep on making. It is entirely a man made affair and its demise is like that of any other corporation we read of all the time. God wasn't involved in its growth or demise as this ''work'' was the work of men and their vain ambitions and greed for the almighty dollar.
Lest anybody forget an earlier example, if one Googles David ben-Ariel, there is still an abundance of his materials present on the ''net including Youtube. David was a very sincere and tragic figure in his obsession, and did visit some of our forums and blogs up until his death in 2011.
And you have permission to reprint Kitchens Facebook posting???
All as bad as each other.
On close examination, the WWCG was a certain mixture of truth and error. If someone is wedded to that combination, while refusing correction, God always ceases to bless that person. This is experienced by Christians in every denomination. Every Christian eventually has their "mark of the beast" moment whereby they have to choose between following Christ or some pastor/denomination.
And you have permission to reprint Kitchens Facebook posting
Would have thought a posting on facebook is public for anyone to see? And if so available for public use.
the WWCG was a certain mixture of truth and error.
About the only truth WCG held was that God exists and Jesus is the Messiah
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