I'll just leave this here for comment:
Malachi speaks of messengers to come who will prepare the way before the comings of Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1-5). Verses 2-5 and 4:5 where God promised to send “Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” clearly refer to Jesus’ second coming.
In Matthew 17:10-13, Jesus’ “disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ Jesus answered . . . ‘Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already . . .’ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.”
God’s Church has been an Elijah messenger before the second coming! As John the Baptist did, in all of our messages we must “make straight the way of the Lord” (John 1:23). We should always make the truth plain!
and this:
God will help us be His Malachis individually and as His Church and work. Let’s learn from what this minor prophet teaches, live it, teach and proclaim it!
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Is this new "Make Straight the Way" campaign a formal repudiation of former UCG President Dennis Luker's controversial compassionate outreach toward ACOG homosexuals?
The prophecy indicates ONE person. Changing it to the church is nonsense.
Wow! Isn’t this a title that even Dave Pack has not yet taken to himself? He has taken so many, and he may have claimed this one too. I’m sure Marc can ‘enlighten’ us to that.
‘Gods church has been an Elijah messenger…’
Which begs the question, are there other Gods church as many claim, and what if the message they proclaim is different from yours, and why if you are Gods church is there so much division between you and those who make the same proclamation. A kingdom divided will not stand, and that is surely true with the Armstrong movement.
"........God promised to send “Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” clearly refer to Jesus’ second coming."
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It does?? How about the first coming, and the "great and dreadful day" was the "great tribulation" of God's punishment for the murder of His Son where no flesh should be saved but was, Av 10, 70 AD to Nisan 15, 74 AD......1290 days + 45 days of the siege at Masada = 1335 days. (??) Dave Pack: take notice.
Google.....how long was the siege at Masada?
Jesus second coming (Heb 9:28) will be as in the days before the flood when the people "knew not" or maybe to put another way they thought they knew but didn't.
UCG ministers stopped considering Herbert Armstrong "the end-time Elijah" a long time ago.
That's partly why PCG ministers say UCG members "have work to do," as I heard one minister in Edmund say in the 2010s.
These groups don’t preach the gospel. They don’t even preach the message of John the Baptist who was the Elijah who prepared the way for the Lord. And who is the Lord?? Jesus Christ.
How many members are they down to now? Under 1000?
God forbid if anyone in UCG ever said they were Jesus's followers.
When the church imploded, the UCG attracted more than its share of unsuccessful Christians.
If we are all Malachi, I guess we are all That Prophet. And I guess we are all The Messiah.
Context? Context is everything !
Always got a kick out of the ol' "God's Church" routine. As if it were an exclusive, and none of the other churches were. What hubris!
Honestly? I'd rather enjoy a nice vanilla milkshake than to participate in this charade. It'd be much more honest and satisfying.
Exactly, then one of these splinter groups still thinks HWA was the Elijah to come.
They all gotta be prophets huh... what about the other positions.
Ephesians 4:11-12 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
Why not just be content about being His jewels?
Malachi 3:16-17 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name. “They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels.
And I will spare them...
They, them , those (plural)
Proclaiming themselves the "end-time Diotrephes" just doesn't have the same appeal... even if it is closer to the truth!
Always remember, and never forget, that the disUnited Church of Godlessness, an International Abomination is a hopeless mess of unrepentant, unconverted unbelievers behaving very badly while playing church.
This is in keeping with the times in which we live. We are watching the talking heads attempt to make the outrageous and unprecedented appear perfectly mainstream and normal.
I bet these Malachis would just love to wear their red baseball caps!
From UCG.org in February 2023: "UCG Angola has 70 congregations, 1,800 baptized members and an average Sabbath attendance of 4,500 brethren."
That's simply in Angola. Many more in other countries.
"God’s Church has been an Elijah messenger"
What about being an ambassador for Christ?
These ACOGs are baptized in the Old Testament/Covenant. And yea, they might still be wearing those red baseball caps, unless they are farmers. Hopefully they pay a fair wage for their workers (Malachi 3:5).
Members is a funny word to use. Attendees. Tithers. Sheep. Those are better.
This Malachi nonsense came from British-Israelism and Pentecostalism. Go to william-branham.org, and you'll see numerous articles and a book or two about the obsession with Malachi and his supposed end-time message. Herbert merely tapped into a belief that was quite prevailant among the B-I, COG 7TH Day, and Pentecostal people in the early 20th century to create his cult.
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