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Sunday, October 4, 2026

The Purification Ended in January. Somebody Forgot to Tell the Corpse


The forty-year egg timer already went off. Nobody got up to turn it off.

Samuel Kitchen has published another dispatch from the COG mortuary waiting room. Since January 1986, he says, the Worldwide Church of God has been in a forty-year purification. A ten-year judgment ran from 1985 to 1995. A new phase opened in 1991, the start of a nineteen-year time-cycle. Another nineteen-year cycle began in 2010. Victor Kubik slipped a Regional Pastor hypodermic needle into headquarters in 1993 so heretical doctrine could be injected. The ministers left in droves. The splinters are potter's vessels that cannot hold the golden oil. Ezekiel 9 is marking foreheads. Jeremiah 15 is Samuel's family sitting alone. Christ, we are told, is still head of the corporation, going after the little lambs the wolves led away, so that none could be lost.

January 1986 plus forty years is January 2026. It is now October. The purification window has been shut for nine months. The cadaver did not sit up. The golden oil did not resume. The Auditorium did not refill. What remains is a man with a org. chart, a handful of female patient listeners, and a corpse he refuses to bury.

That is the whole show. The rest is just his stationery.

Start with the clock, because the clock is the sermon. Nineteen-year cycles. Ten-year judgments. Forty-year purifications. None of this is in the New Covenant. Paul does not give the churches a headquarters calendar. He gives them a finished cross. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us... nailing it to his cross." The believers in Corinth were not waiting on a Regional Pastor structure Herbert Armstrong had abolished and Victor Kubik had revived. They were waiting on nothing. Christ had already done the work. The Spirit had already been given. The body was already alive, and it was never a Pasadena corporation that could be vacated, filtered, or put on a forty-year colon cleanse.

Kitchen's history is office politics with a prophecy label stuck on the folder. A charismatic man designs an administrative layer. Another man accepts it. A bloc forms. People leave. That is every COG splinter that has ever had metal folding chairs. Calling it a heresy that "slipped in unawares," twice in the 1970s and once in 1993, does not make it Ezekiel. It makes it a org chart. Armstrong abolished one version under what he called apostolic authority. Kubik brought another version back. Tkach Sr. signed it. The field ministry later walked. None of that is the Devil deceiving lambs away from the one true headquarters. It is men doing what men do when the founder dies and the letterhead is still warm. Christ was never the CEO of that letterhead. He is head of the body, and the body is not a membership roll that can be "led away" by a regional pastor and then recovered by the son of a rebellious man who kept reminding people of the old lectures.

The texts are doing all the heavy lifting, and they are doing it for somebody else. Ezekiel 9 is a vision of judgment on Jerusalem, a mark on those who sigh over the abominations in the house. It is not a forty-year secret audit of Radio Church of God alumni. Jeremiah 15 is the prophet eating the words and sitting apart from the mockers under the hand of God. It is not a warrant for a rebellious father and his household to declare every other group a mockers' assembly and then wait to be made God's mouth. Malachi 3 tells the sons of Jacob to return to the Lord. Isaiah 30 tells a rebellious people that returning and rest would have saved them, and they would not. Kitchen reads all of it as a status report on his own magnificence. The vessels broke. The oil will not stay in them regardless of how much oil Sam pretends to pour in them.

What believers are actually longing for is simpler, and it does not require a time-cycle. They are for Christ. They are for the neighbors in front of them. They are for the finished forgiveness that does not come with a booklet, a holy day, and a headquarters address. They are not for reconstructing the Worldwide Church of God, which is dead, gone, and not coming back, no matter how many nineteen-year overlays are laid on the tombstone. A church that can be purified by a calendar, vacated by its ministers, and re-injected by an administrative needle was never the body. It was a membership organization with a radio program. The New Covenant does not resurrect those. It does not need them. The people who left it, and the people who stayed and later left the leftovers, were not lambs stolen from Christ's only pen. They were ordinary Christians and ex-Christians sorting out a system that had already told them the system was the faith.

Men, by and large, have declined the invitation to join up with Samuel. Even his own brothers have walked away from the nonsense. What gathers is a small ring of women willing to keep the flowers watered while the lecturer explains why every other group is apostate and why his own empty chairs are Jeremiah. Christ is not going through the groups with an inkhorn, marking the foreheads of people who sigh for the old booklets, so that none of the 1986 membership can be lost. He already finished the seeking. The ones who believe him are not in probate. They are free of the corporation, the needle, the oil ration, and the man who keeps announcing that the corpse is almost ready.

The church he is purifying is not seeking to be resurrected. It is dead. It is buried.

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Since January 1986, The Worldwide Church of God have been going through a FORTY YEAR PERIOD of purification.

In 1991, the work of God entered into a NEW PHASE. It was the start of a new 19 year time-cycle.

1985-1995, was a ten year period of JUDGEMENT.

September 1995 Joseph W Tkach Sr died.

In 1993, an IDEA was INTRODUCED to Joseph Tkach Sr, and this is included in the apostasy.

The IDEA was to establish a NEW Administrative Pastor structure, between Headquarters, and the field ministry.

Victory Kubik designed it, and hand picked the list of men than filled those "Regional Pastor" positions.

I want to make it clear again, this action was something that SLIPPED IN, and crept in unawares! It had slipped in twice before in the 1970's, and Mr. Armstrong finally caught it and ABOLISHED IT under apostolic authority!

But these men were going apostate, and decided it was good for the Worldwide Church of God, to reintroduce this "restructuring".

Victor Kubik said the sole purpose of this "Regional Pastor Structure" was for the "injection of doctrine".

As changes were approved, they would go out through this administrative needle, into every congregation of the Worldwide Church of God.

Now, Joseph W Tkach accepted this structure change, that was brought to him by his son Junior and Junior's assistant Victor Kubik. But it was really Victor Kubik's baby, as he went on to organize the UCG with it!

Tkach Jr. re-organized and went off into doing something else. He eventually became Grace Communion International. SO we know whose heart it really came out of! It was Victor Kubik who designed it, and who filled the roster, and then introduced it as a supplement to the Worldwide Church of God!

Earlier in 1994-95, he got into contact with those "Regional Pastors" using them as a power-bloc, and they wanted to break away from Joseph Tkach Sr "peacefully".

They did not desire to remain as the congregations of the Worldwide Church of God,

They wanted to pull away and do things better.

In order to do that, they had to leave the Church. They were actually getting fixated on MEN, and forgot that Jesus Christ was STILL HEAD of the Worldwide Church of God! They thought Jesus Christ wasn't fixing the problems they saw, (they couldn't wait until that September) and that it was up to them to LEAVE in order for the problems to be fixed!

But the course was being set forth, back in 1993, with this introduction of this new Regional Pastor structure by Victor Kubik. It was a HERESY, that got accepted by Joseph W Tkach Sr. It did exactly what Mr. Armstrong said such a structure would do! Start a power-block, that would be used to divide the Church!

If Tkach Sr, had said NO. What would we now see?

It was wrong. They had weighed the directive of the apostle, and chose to do the opposite, because they figured they could do better.

What happenned? MINISTERS vacated the Worldwide Church of God, and went and followed those who LED AWAY from the Worldwide Church of God.

It is an APOSTATE BRANCH, that has no connection to Jesus Christ, except...EXCEPT....for those inside who have come from the Worldwide Church of God who are obeying God with all their heart and mind, and do not know the Devil has deceived them and led them away from Christ! Jesus Christ will go after the little lamb who has been become prey for the wolves, and will work with them so they can be spared. That is what Christ has been doing these last forty years!

So none could be lost.

As the faithful remember what was taught, they have the chance to OBEY GOD and have that flow of the golden oil resume and strengthen in them!

So this is what we saw between 1995-2005. These different groups, have been litterally working hard to squeeze and restrict and discourage people from knowing what was taught, unless you pass through THEIR FILTER and worldview.

I saw local libraries decimated, and destroyed because the minister ordered it trashed.

And I saw members litterally starving spiritually to death! They were discouraged and were beginning to give up, and lose their crown, and their salvation. But My father reignited the Holy Spirit in them, by constant reminding!!! And as we faced troubles, we as a congregation began facing them together! And that is what we need today! Get to praying for each other, and opening up to our brethren so they can pray for us!

But i saw the flow of the golden oil rush through them, and it was like a light turned on! It SCARED that dissident group!

Around 2005 I began to share what i saw God doing through my father to others.

We were eventually asked to stay home! We were outcast.

Yes, Jesus Christ has been going through these groups, looking at the hearts of our people!

This fulfills the prophecy set forth in Ezekiel 9:3-4!

"And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

"And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."

This has been happening in the last FORTY YEARS!

Since 2010, a new PHASE or start of a 19 year time-cycle began.

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