Letter From A Teenager To The Church (1973)

This was a letter found in the Bulletin, a publication for the ministry, and shows what the teens REALLY felt of their place in the church.

It was addressed to GTA and marked personal. 

contributed by SHT

Another Narcissistic Fool Claims God Has Sent Him To Restore The Truth

Our other favorite Church of God narcissist is pretending to be sent by his god to restore the truth lost after Herbert Armstrong died.  Ever since he hit the scene spouting his legalistic nonsense, he has been seeking to gather a following like Bob Thiel.  Now, some of those that pay attention to his Pharisaical crapfest are claiming he is teaching "strange things" with his worship of New Moons and other Pharisaical nonsense. Like Bitter Bob Thiel, he cannot stand to be criticised, so he has to throw out to his minions that his "god" sent him to restore the truth once delivered and that he is similar to Herbert Armstrong

Brethren I have not come teaching strange things;  I was sent to restore what has been forgotten and is now rejected by those who should know better and have strayed very far from the truth.   

In fact before 1968, HWA taught most of the very same truths that I teach on doctrine!  Herbert taught these truths in a basic form and I teach these same truths with the increased depth of another thirty years of study since 1986, but the fundamental truths are the same! 

In spite of his adherence to the law and his imitation of Herbert, people still reject him and he is not happy.

Friends, since the early 1970’s you have been told that the resurrection of the first fruits comes on the Feast of Trumpets and that the Feast of Tabernacles represents the millennium; and I am rejected by the major COG groups for teaching that the spring harvest of first fruits must be resurrected in the spring. 

I have studied and proved out what I present by the Word of God, nevertheless it has been brought to my attention that Herbert Armstrong also taught [before 1970] that the harvest of first fruits must take place in the spring.   

The plain truth is that after Loma died, Herbert came under the influence of certain persons and he began to allow them to stop holding bible studies on the new moons, also allowing them to go to restaurants and order catered meals etc on Sabbath; he stopped keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the seven full days like Tabernacles, and he also allowed elders to teach the false mainstream position that the first fruits are resurrected on the Feast of Trumpets [see any commentary].  

1. I learned the things that I teach through my own studies independently, not knowing that HWA taught them until this last week, when this information was sent to me.  I teach all of these truths and SO DID Herbert Armstrong before 1970 before Loma died, and before he came fully under the influence of men like Stan Rader and others.  

Like all the other legalistic buffoons that have preceded him, Pharisee Malm is determined to see himself as a prophet.  Pretty soon he too will be peddling dreams and anointings in order to dupe his followers.   Just like Bob Thiel, Malm is one more in a long line of false prophets leading gullible COG members into the utter rejection of the one they claim to follow. Prostituting one's self to the law does not make one a Christian.