The Kitchen clan just gets worse by the day. Those of you no longer part of the COG or even worse, IN a splinter COG, have now been placed in the outer court of the temple and have had the Holy Spirit removed from you, except for a minuscule token.
More proof that bad Armstrongite theology produces theological idiocy when the New Covenant is portrayed as inferior to law.
THIS PERIOD OF TIME, of which we now are partakers of today, is the PHILADELPHIA ERA OF THE CHURCH OF GOD!Read concerning the Church of God in the Philadelphia era in Revelation 3:7-13.Jesus Christ raised up Herbert W Armstrong in 1927, and through him raised up the Worldwide Church of God.Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, those of the Worldwide Church of God were fixed, organized spiritually, fitted and jointed with Jesus Christ and God our Father, responding as a group to the will of God!But some crept in unawares, spreading damnable heresies, and seduced the servants of God to sin, to commit fornication with the governments of this world. This was allowed to stay, according to the shame of some.It created divisions, such as Paul the apostle described in Galatians chapter two. And those leaders among the ministry gave approval and acceptance, out of concern for the heretics and nonbelievers.Today are they not yet with them, strengthening the hands of the evil doers?This is sin and sin separates man from God. And when one sins, he/she has the Holy Spirit withdrawn except for a token, a seed. They are placed into the outer court of this Temple, and given space and a time to repent and return unto our Heavenly Father. For this cause we should put out the evil doers from among us, as commanded by the apostles of Christ. For obedience towards God is good. If God loves us, we should love Him; and if we being members of the Body of Christ hate this body, we would allow that which is profane to stay within the Temple; but we who love this body subject ourselves to complete obedience to our Head which is Christ. For if we please God, He will soon reward us, not as bastards, but as children of God!Now those who have been placed into the outer court of this Temple, have God waiting on them with mercy; but being separated they lose the promise of protection of God and are given to the great tribulation for correction and purification.There are no two churches of God, there is only ONE TRUE CHURCH. If we sin against God, we are separated from Him.This provides a great disadvantage for them, for Satan eagerly waits to devour and destroy this people.The two witnesses will be the two anointed ones standing next to the ONE CANDLESTICK. That candlestick is the Worldwide Church of God. It is the Temple of God which has been raised up in the name of Jesus Christ, through Herbert W Armstrong the apostle of Christ who bears authority still on us.But one witness is Laodicean in condition today, and like Peter did in Galatians 2 when others led him astray for a season, he repents and represents the candlestick in the Laodicean era, which begins when great tribulation starts.The Philadelphia candlestick will then be in a place of protection, and it will be the job of this second witness to graft the people in with Philadelphia! There are not two churches simultaneously working!Since Philadelphia(led by thee servant of God) will be off the world scene, Laodicea will then do a work through a time of martyrdom, and this will inspire countless others to repent and come to Christ! At the end of the great tribulation, a enumerable multitude will come out and there will be ONE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD.Right now, however, those inside the Temple, who remain loyal and true, dominate this era. Those in the world, or those in the outer court, DOES NOT DOMINATE! Mark that well brethren!So when you attend another church, you see another condition dominate! Don’t be led by Satan to think an era change had happened, or that we are approved of God by sinning! And if we are attending another church group, lending them support and backing, then we are sinning against God and we are not approved!If others are not following Jesus Christ, come away from them! The blind will lead the blind however, and we should not be blinded to sin.
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The Kitchens may stand alone in thinking it's still the "Philadelphia era."
Even PCG claims it ended when Herbert Armstrong died.
Everybody makes these big, expansive statements. Nobody grows! Growth, and ability to get out a powerful message would provide the proof that a group has the witness of God behind them. None of them have it.
BB
''He came bearing great authority from Jesus Christ, and bound upon the Church of God certain things in the name of Jesus Christ...''
Given all we know of Armstrong, his erroneous gospel and other teachings, coupled with the bad fruits that came with him, this is using Jesus's name in vain.
Quite so BB. Perhaps the church should be renamed as the church of diminishing returns. They all promote the same message yet they are divided, attiring to another gospel than that which the apostles received. Flawed doctrines/theology yet clinging on to what is patently not working. Such is the human condition. I remember a psychologist talking about cults and commenting that many adherents are most likely satisfied with their lot. They have meaning and a home with fellow travellers etc etc etc……………sigh.
The apostles were divided. Christianity is divided.
Better to have been cast! The inner sanctum has been infiltrated by, and polluted by impostors and opportunists! Everyone wants to be an Armstrong franchisee! The lay members become the equivalent of dwarves in a horrifying episode of "Dwarf Bowling"!
As Aesop once quipped in one of his fables that he never wrote, "Let us flee, said the fly! So they flew!"
Sad that folks are still clinging to so much nonsense. From conversations and messages most in WCG (myself included) did not even understand the gospel message. WCG taught a blending of OC/NC often dismissing parts they wanted ignored. After leaving WCG in 1995, I spent years studying and finally rid myself of the false teachings. The OC was ended and as followers of Jesus, we live by the NC. Many still hold onto OC teachings not realizing it is called the law of sin and death. It was never able to save anyone. In the NC, Jesus redeemed us and cleansed us. In Jesus, we no longer are in bondage to sin.
Looks like gobbledygook to me
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