Samuel Kitchen, the self-appointed Last Guardian of the One True Faith™(eat your heart out, Bob Thiel!), valiantly spammed Steve Myers and Aaron Dean with yet another batch of "loving correction" emails during the Feast of Tabernacles. Our heroic lone prophet is desperately trying to save their poor apostate souls by commanding them to abandon that wicked, heretical United Church of God and come groveling back to the real Worldwide Church of God—you know, the one that now exists entirely in Samuel's spare bedroom and his unassailable ego.
He's graciously offering them one final chance to see the light (i.e., his light), repent of their filthy compromise, and rejoin the only remnant that he alone has kept pure and unsullied lo these many years.
The humility is just radiating off the screen.
And bless his heart, it appears Aaron Dean is finally starting to get a wee bit irked with Samuel's nonstop, messianic nagging that he ditch UCG and come home to the "true church" (population: Samuel + three other lost souls).
How dare Aaron not immediately fall to his knees in gratitude! The nerve.
I appreciate your zeal and desire to do what is right, but sometimes it seems misplaced. Be careful in making anything man sets up, even though God allows and used it at some point, to make us not see, or perhaps reject something he may have planned. As Paul said, We see through a glass darkly. He will make it clear when the time is right. We must subject our opinions to the truths of the bible, and then we can watch it all happen as he fulfills the prophecies.
Samuel's frustrations were leveled mostly towards Steve Myers, and it was not kind:
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.(Malachi 2:8-9)
What does that mean? It means your ministry is null and void, because you reject the Lord thy God, he rejects you.That’s why I cry over you Mr Meyers. Your ministry is severed from the Head of the Church Jesus Christ! You did it.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”(Hosea 4:6)“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:“Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.“As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.(Galatians 1:6-9)
You now have a double curse on you by the Living God! For preaching contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, to pervert the gospel.Mr Armstrong at one conference, in one audio, doubled that in the name of Jesus Christ! Wow unto you sir!Scripture is clear. And Mr Armstrong faithfully preached God’s Word. And since he is your superior, or was(since you have now no ministry with Jesus Christ), he has given the good report and faithful witness.This entire interaction, I fear, was God bringing this out for Mr Dean to see. I am passing this along to him. Death is not a light thing. Korah challenged God and his “one man”. So did Ananias and Saphirra.(Acts 5)You tried to rope Mr Dean into your blasphemy, and heresy, and apostasy. God have mercy on you if He so wills it, because that so despicable. It’s a wrong spirit. Demonic. Antichrist.I hate to write these things, because I yearn that you return unto God and repent and believe God. But in accordance to God’s Word, I have to.It’s heartbreaking, and I don’t wish harm. But Christ has spoken. It is bound in heaven. The scripture already reveals it.In Jesus Christ’s name,Samuel W Kitchen
We are surely all insane. Some more so than others.
ReplyDeleteFrom politics to religion, all have spawned their share of lunacy.
And look at the Armstrong movement. Divided and at loggerheads with each other, competing for the few crumbs available of the pie that was left with the implosion of wwcog. Outside observers looking in on this movement would just shake their heads in unbelief. Kitchens words simply magnify the sense of disgust so many of us have with this near dead rotting corpse of Armstrongism and its advocates.
This is part of a pattern associated with Sam's pathology. He is now becoming destructive. This was totally predictable!
ReplyDeleteThis entire thing with Samuel and the UCG is getting really sick and creepy! It i no wonder his brother broke ties with Samuel and went with UCG. If I were Dave Myers and Aaron Dean, I would be wary of Samuel. He has the potential now to be dangerous. He is cracking under the stress of self-delusion over all of this church nonsense. He has no more preserved WCG than my cat is the anti-Christ - though he comes pretty close at times.
ReplyDeleteThis is sadly the legacy of the church for those who become fringe believers, and that is what Samuel is. He is so far off the charts that he has now become delusional and psychotic.
Herbert Armstrong would have kicked Samuel's ass to the curb so fast he would not know what hit him. He is everything HWA himself warned about.