Bravo to the illustrious Kitchen brothers, who've heroically churned out countless websites and Facebook pages over the years, all in the noble quest to "preserve" Herbert Armstrong's timeless wisdom and the oh-so-sacred teachings of the dearly departed Worldwide Church of God. Because nothing says "eternal truth" like a barrage of outdated memes on social media.
And now, in their latest stroke of genius, they've launched a shiny new site dedicated to hoovering up your hard-earned cash (as long as it's solemnly sworn not to touch anything as important as preaching the gospel). Their grand masterplan? After indoctrinating the impressionable youth with tales of the great Herbert Armstrong, they'll all pack their bags for a quick vacay in Jerusalem, then scamper off to Petra to link arms with visionaries like Bob Thiel and Ron Weinland. There, they'll nobly train the next generation of cosmic overlords on how to boss the universe around—with a rod of iron, naturally, because subtlety is for losers. And don't forget, the legendary Aaron Dean will swoop in to resurrect those "lost truths" of the WCG, because who needs progress when you can recycle the past?
So, dear brethren, fling open those wallets and surrender every last penny to this epic "final push"—a spectacle so groundbreaking it'll make Bob Thiel's own final push look like a pathetic whimper in comparison! Aaron Dean was seen shaking his head in approval!
It is clear, spiritually speaking for the Spiritual Temple, the gold and silver are the members of the Church!The command is to bring them for the House of God in JERUSALEM. Gather them together in JERUSALEM. And since we do not need to perform sacrifices any more, Christ dying finally and nailing sacrifices to the cross, we gather to keep the Sabbaths, the Feasts of the Lord!Gold and silver. For what reason? So that the ministry may be RESTORED, so the Temple may be ready and finished for marriage with Jesus Christ.So I have created “The Supportive Services of the Worldwide Church of God” and I am developing a website for it. Ultimately we will gather in Jerusalem.I’m going to personally help with funding this. I hope many of you want to help fund it.I want to introduce the old World Tomorrow programs to this generation, because the gospel has already gone around the world as a witness to all nations. The Worldwide Church of God is a testament to that fact. And when we stand up, and gather together, we are standing up on behalf of Jesus Christ, and God the Father, not in shame, not holding our identity in contempt, but because we trust God and we look to Christ as our deliverer.We haven’t gone away. We faded, while others did as they pleased. God tested our hearts. He is testing our hearts now.What is more important than anything in this world? God’s Church serves as a mother. And many of us have our mother to thank for feeding us spiritually while others have left and vacated.Jesus Christ did not give up on us.The more I study God’s Word, Christ still rules this Church, in spite of the ministry vacating due to tremendous persecution.Now is the time of restoration, of coming back and out away from Babylon. To do the Work of God.Showing up is part of our part. Setting up, is part of our part, and eventually the preacher and ministry will be there. But we cannot forsake our parts!!!! Zerubbabel was no priest, yet he was of that family line. He was used to bring up the support structure, a candlestick.(Zechariah 4) The Temple, the Church(Rev. 1:20).We can support. As Pillars. And accept what God says. We seek not our own will but the will of God. I hope that is true. For me it is.
The Kitchens are flogging a dead horse. The house of Herb imploded because of its minister's imposed street gang morality. There's no putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.
ReplyDeleteThese charlatans will only deceive the gullible. HWA was a Freemason, and anything associated with him does not originate from Abba Father but from the adversary.
ReplyDeleteWhat evidence do you have of Armstong being a Freemason? I am not saying you're wrong, but I would like to look into that more.
DeleteAll I know is HWA produced a book against Freemasonry early in his career but I think due to his hiring of Masonic halls for services he had to discontinue it. I think it’s similar to the Jesuit conspiracy (ie that Protestant churches like WCG have been infiltrated by “Jesuits” leading to the watering down of anti-papal teachings and other doctrinal changes that are more supportive of traditional Catholic teaching).
DeleteJack Elliot wrote an article about the Masons
DeleteWeird. Ironically the concept and use of websites are now out of date and passè.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't trust Kitchen and his mentor Dean at all.
Ironically the concept and use of websites are now out of date and passè.
DeleteIronically, here you are, posting your thoughts on a website.
This is not a website Mr or Mrs Nasty but a blog.
DeleteWhat a waste of time, energy and money ;
ReplyDeletethere are so many interesting things in this life to do, no need to bring back old outdated Herbert teachings
They could create an AI likeness of Herbert to be used on their new web site to spread his propaganda. Nothing would surprise to see a screaming Herbie telling all he was chosen to bring the message - even after death?
Delete"create an AI likeness of Herbert" -- I bet someone already has.
DeleteHow many organizations are going to claim that they are doing the work of God?
ReplyDeleteDuring the middle of the Jesus movement back in the '80s, it was also a secular trend for sales people to call one on the telephone, both at home, and at the office. The term "telemarketer" came into vogue. Sick of both, I came up a little skit that parodied both.
Delete"Hello!"
"Good Morning sir! Is the owner of your company available?"
"Uh, no. He is currently indisposed!"
"Could you give me his name?"
"Why, yes! That would be the Lord Jesus Christ!"
"Oh, come on! Who runs the place?"
"I told you, the Lord Jesus Christ!"
"But there must be someone I can talk to!"
"You can! But just not by telephone! Have you tried prayer?
Click.
For those who might think that sacrilegious, actually in what I shared with that telemarketer, I was unwittingly 100% truthful with him. My attitude back then may have had a mocking tone, but Jesus does actually own everything!
What a strange title for this piece. The truth is that it is just as evil for the Kitchens to take money that wasn't "hard earned" as it is for them to take "hard earned" money.
ReplyDeleteWhat, in the hell, are you blathering on about? You must have stayed up all night thinking your comment through. What a strange comment!
Delete"But we cannot forsake our parts!!!!" -- I wonder if all those exclamation marks actually persuade anyone?
ReplyDeleteI'm more concerned with the declining numbers of elephants. There were 10 million of these majestic animals during the 1930s. Numbers are down to 450,000 to 500,000 currently. It's all part of the Holocene extinction, also known as the Anthropocene extinction. Saving the elephants is far more important than preserving the teachings of false prophets and false teachers.
ReplyDeleteWe ought to be good stewards of the planet!
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Save the elephants. Really, they are worth it.
DeleteAbsolutely BB. And saving the Bees, rhinos, whales and critically the V8 engine brother. As for saving Herbs old sermons and videos…nah. Back in the day it was ‘my way or the highway’ in the old wwcog. Let’s hit the highway folks, preferably on a Harley lol. To the Kitchens, it’s over guys and gals, the horse has bolted never to return, what you are doing is simply reminiscing about the past. Let’s move on.
DeleteYa know, 1:49, I'd just hazard a guess that the type of extreme environmentalists who believe that we need to get rid of most the cattle and become vegetarians so we won't have so much cow-methane are probably happy about the diminished elephant population! My ancient V-8 Ford and old Shovelhead certainly aren't killing elephants. The ivory trade and the poachers who support it are. Plastic piano keys work just as well as ivory ones, They are not like the now rare tone woods that are responsible for the sweet sounds of a '59 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar, or the older gold top models.
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Okay splinter groups, time to pack it up and go back home to your mother church. 😁
ReplyDeleteWhy of course. 2026. End of 40 years of wandering in the dead HWA wilderness. End of 6000 years. End of Daniel's 70 weeks.
DeleteMother church? Oh you mean join up with Grace Communion ?
DeleteThe Kitchens aren't reminiscing about the past, but rather craving the past. Which is why they will never let go of their restoration quest.
DeleteAaron Deans Kitchen restoration project won't achieve a thing as it was Herbert himself who believed and taught God only works with one man at a time. Every AC grad knows this.
DeleteIt also wouldn't surprise me if this 'deadman restoration tepie coloured' movement is an attempt to destroy the Churches of God. There is already a bizarre movement emerging that is extremely against anything modern and is fake wrapped up in nostalgia for the past.
"The world is a vampire!" Smashing Pumpkins said that. But of course, the ACOG is a parasite. In either case, it leads to the same end quotation: "Despite all the rage, I am still just a rat in a cage!" My attempt at retro 1995 pseudo hipness, but the '90s were the last good decade. Everything has gone to hell since then.
ReplyDeleteA woman's place is ..... Far away from any Kitchen especially Sammy XD
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these guys incorporate some of the matters HWA made a federal out of back in the 1950s and '60s. You know~the faith once delivered?
ReplyDeleteLike going out of your way to find raw milk for normal family usage. My family had a 5 gallon milk pail that we took to a local farmer weekly to purchase this milk. The container did not have a liquid-tight cap, and there was a bit of spillage from the trip home. The car always smelled like spoiled milk! When we got the milk home, we'd funnel it into 1 Gallon Gallo Wine Bottles, which of course, being good upstanding Radio Church of God members, my parents never had a shortage therof. Thankfully, we never contracted salmonella. I secretly used the turkey baster and skimmed the cream which rose to the top to pour on my stewed prunes and wheat germ in the AM.
Mixed materials were a big no no. We spent just as much time reading clothing labels in department stores as we did the food labels in the supermarket. I heard later that there had been an old man in Pasadena who dutifully pulled all of the strands of elastic from his new socks as soon as he got them home. His sagging socks looked ridiculous hanging over his oxfords, with his best 1940's double breasted suit each sabbath, but he was admired for his obedience to the no mixed materials edict.
Orange juice was always to be freshly squeezed, and consumed immediately because "it loses up to 75% of its vitamin C within 5 minutes of being squeezed." No Tropicana or frozen concentrate for our family! When my parents made orange juice, we kids enjoyed eating the remnants still left on the rinds. Soon, we quit the juice step altogether and just ate oranges, lemons, and grapefruit. Don't get me started on white flour and white sugar. We knew beekeepers, too!
Proper dressing for a cut or wound was a mixture of dry wine (like burgundy) and olive oil. I personally hated this because it took forever for a cut to heal. Incidentally, very little of the wine from our makeshift milk bottles (see above) was consumed as dressings for wounds.
When one of the high profile ministers toured the Wrigley plant in the early '60s, he saw bags of the organic chemical urea. Not having seen this on the list of ingredients, he asked what this was for, and was told that it was a softening agent. Soon, word spread throughout the church amongst ignorant members who knew nothing about chemical compounds that you shouldn't chew gum because there was urine in it!
Music which was based on electric guitars (rock, blues, country) was all frowned upon for various reasons. To satisfy the requirements their parents imposed upon them, many of the church kids became fans of piano playing rock stars, such as Elton John and Billy Joel, who of course were each into activities, although different from one another, which were anathema to everything HWA taught.
There's more. Thing is we allowed ourselves to be known as "peculiar people" in so many totally unneccessary ways. That isn't the best way to "let your light shine". But, I'm sure some of you guys in the Peanut Gallery have got this handled. I'm used to comments like, "Why we just don't believe you, BB!" I ain't lyin'!
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