Apostle Malm Says UCG Sermons Bring On "spiritual bellache"

The apostate apostle is continuing to hyperventilate over the two sermons given this past weekend in United Church of God services by Bill Eddington and Roy Holiday.  Malm is basically equating these two sermons as the equivalent of setting up the abomination of desolation in the church.

Malm starts right out of the gate by spitting that they use the NIV Bible as their translation of choice.  According to apostate Malm this Bible version is a new age, demonic inspired translation in league with Madam Blavatsky.

One of the notable things about these tow talks is that BOTH speakers relied on the fraudulent evangelical translations produced by the evangelical movement to justify their doctrines and positions.  They also relied on Commentaries produced by unconverted evangelicals.

He then moves on to start reaming Bill Eddington.  Apostate Malm is still jumping to the conclusion that Bill Eddington fainted after the sermon because of the sermon topic, which Eddington never wanted to preach in the first place.  Evidence of which apostate Malm has none.

Bill himself was obviously highly stressed and immediately after the sermon collapsed into a fait requiring medical attention.  Clearly he was uncomfortable with the deception by half truths, that has was asked to perform.

Malm continues on:

Declaring that much existing doctrine is wrong and needs to be corrected: this is true, however the direction they want to go is even more wrong. 

declaring that Christ wants us to teach a false gospel about uniting men with one another; instead of the Gospel of warning, repentance and the internalizing of God’s mind, nature, spirit and works within ourselves, through the diligent keeping of all the commandments of God: which Jesus Christ COMMANDED us to preach. 

For those with eyes to see:  the references to the mistakes of HWA and his WCG, with no mention whatsoever of how wrong the Tkach transitional teachings were and are, is a dead giveaway that they are moving to correct the teachings of the HWA WCG and  moving towards the evangelical fold. 

Malm feels that all of the men currently leading UCG were Tkach lackeys for the time they remained in WCG before they jumped ship to UCG.  He also believes  that all of the men left in UCG are of the same mindset that Tkach Sr. held and want to change UCG doctrine to fit what Tkach Sr. brought.

When they announce that they must learn and correct the mistakes of HWA, and then announce that they are moving to a new beginning in Christ for UCG.  They are saying the lie that HWA was not Christ centered!

That much they have right, if that is what they actually believe. HWA was "law centered" and nothing beyond that.  Every doctrine of the church was law based instead of grace based.

Malm is upset that UCG wants unity on the church to be centered around Jesus Christ.

In fact, this message was all about love and  organizational unity and nothing was said about the way to achieve that unity!   Which is to be built on the foundation of true repentance and the diligent obeying the law of God.  Indeed he implied that grace unites us with God and the commandments are entirely minimized or ignored.

Malm cannot stand that fact that grace is unmerited and that there is nothing anyone needs to do to receive it.  According to Malm grace only comes when you have been beaten over the head with the law and are groveling on the floor for mercy.  Sack cloth and ashes are not even enough to gain God's grace if you do not keep all 613 elements of the law.

In fact grace is only applied to the repentant who commit to: sin no more.  Grace covers past sins repented of and reconciles us to God, but it does not KEEP us in unity with God.  To remain reconciled with God, we must remove and root out the sin that separates us from God.

Then Malm goes on to accuse them of this, which is actually true:

They have reset the minds of the congregations to accept this false teaching;  that it is grace and the resurrection of Christ, and his life that reconciles us to God, and keeps us reconciled.  And that we need do nothing on our own except have love for one another to remain in Christ and reconciled to the Father.

All of the above was just the lead in to picking apart Eddington's sermon.  Malm continues on:

He says that RCG/WCG were filled with mistakes in teachings and actions and they need to be changed.  Then he mentions the split with COGWA and declares that this is an opportunity to make a clean break from the past teachings of HWA and to go forward as a changed organization.

If that's true, which I really doubt, then I say hallelujah! It's about time!  But, I will not hold my breath on this.

He clearly states that the UCG now has a different spirit from the past, produced over the last 12 months in particular.

Eddington is right. Now that the legalistic pimps of the law have moved over to their new regime in COGWA, UCG obviously will have a different spirit.  The angry legalists are gone!

He quotes 2 Cor 5:17 as justifying the changes and presenting UCG as a new entity in its core attitude and goals or mission.  He implies that UCG was not in Christ in the past, and is now changed to become new in Christ.

He is very clearly saying that they were NOT in Christ in the past!  He is saying that HWA and the other organizations based on his teachings are NOT in Christ.  Of course they are making mistakes, but this man is declaring them unconverted and NOT in Christ; because they at least make a pretense of  KEEPING God’s commandments.

Therefore he is saying that the keeping of the commandments is not important and is contrary to Christ.  Which is an absolute LIE and a COMPLETE PERVERSION of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

He then says that we are on the threshold of a new organization which is based on the love of Christ!  Based on an emotional cotton candy false love without any foundation, that looks good, tastes good; and has no substance,  bringing only a spiritual  belly ache, rottenness and ultimate destruction!

Bill then says that Christ settled the relationship between God and man by forgiving sin; and that the gospel is for man to do the work of Christ by settling our relationships with each other and forgiving one another tolerating sin; totally perverting the Gospel that Christ commanded that we teach.

That last paraphrase by Malm sends him off the deep end and he starts shouting:

NO, NO, NO!  That is NOT the Gospel.  The Gospel is the message of warning and repentance and instruction to keep all the commandments of God!  The Gospel is that we are to become the children of God by internalizing his nature, mind and spirit through the diligent keeping of all the commandments of God.

 According to apostate Malm the gospel message that Jesus Christ brought is this:

This scripture is also not talking about an evangelical false lovey dovey Christ either; it is talking about a Christ who is filled with zeal for his Father's temple; a Christ who will not hesitate to spew the sinner out of the temple, out of his body, and into great tribulation.

Jesus Christ is NOT some pansy pushover who will wink at every unrepentant sin and gush about how terrible it was that the devil made us do something.  NO, NO, NO!  Jesus Christ is a God of personal responsibility; and he will destroy all unrepentant compromisers and sinners in Gehenna.

Doesn't that war mongering "christ" make you want to drop your NIV translation and run to Malm's arms?   What a welcoming god Malm follows.

Apostate Malm then says  this is what he follows

My Christ is a great man who threw the wicked OUT of his Father's house; who destroyed the Egyptian first born and then the army of Egypt in the sea.  He is a mighty God and Great King, a jealous husband who wants his bride to be united with him and his Father totally as one; in mind, spirit, attitude and ACTIONS; through a passionate love for God and a true zeal for his commandments.

You can read the rest of Malm's silliness here: Bill Eddington announces UCG becoming a NEW organization

Armstrongism And It's Love Of Hidden Meanings

  
When the Worldwide Church of God sold the Pasadena property the lower campus was sold to Maranatha High School.  It is an upscale college prep school that has an excellent reputation for its classes and cost.  Yearly tuition is over $17,000.00.

When they took over the property it was in a sad state of disrepair.  Maranatha dumped millions of dollars into gutting and rebuilding Grove Terrace from the inside out into a state of the art classroom building.  The track was resurfaced and extended into a regulation football field and stadium lights installed.  Major repairs were done to the Student Center also.

They take great pride in the property and have a waiting list for students to attend it.

They take the name Maranatha from the Bible.

Maranatha (either מרנא תא: maranâ' thâ' or מרן אתא: maran 'athâ' ) is an Aramaic word occurring twice in the New Testament (see Aramaic of Jesus) and also in the Didache which is part of the Apostolic Fathers' collection. It is transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated, and is found at the end of Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor 16:22) . The NRSV translates it as: "Our Lord, come!" but notes that it could also be translated as: "Our Lord has come"; the NIV translates: "Come, O Lord"; the NAB notes:

"As understood here ("O Lord, come!"), it is a prayer for the early return of Christ. If the Aramaic words are divided differently (Maran atha, "Our Lord has come"), it becomes a credal declaration. The former interpretation is supported by what appears to be a Greek equivalent of this acclamation in Book of Revelation 22:20 "Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!""

The phrase may have been used as a greeting between Early Christians,^[1] and it is possibly in this way that it was used by the Apostle Paul.

This is all good if you are a strong believer in scripture.  It is a name that serves them well at the school.

Then, Armstrongism enters the picture.  This was sent to me by a person tonight.  They said it was on Facebook.  Everything in Armstrongism has to be a conspiracy or have some hidden meaning behind it.

What's in a name?

After AC closed, the campus was purchased by a local high school, Maranatha High School. Interestingly, this word appears in the Bible a grand total of only ONE time. Here: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+16%3A22&version=KJV

In fact, both words "Anathema" and "Maranatha" appear only once in all of scripture, here in this same verse. I looked up their root meanings and found something interesting.

"Maranatha" means "Our Lord comes, or will come".
"Anathema" means "a person or thing doomed to destruction", "a curse", or "a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes".

Isn't it ironic that Ambassador College is now linked to a high school's name that Paul described as being cursed? Did the church (and by extension--the college) lose its love for our Messiah? Did the closing of the college and the subsequent splintering of the WWCG occur as a result of this warning?

This can't possibly be just a mere coincidence.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about Maranatha and anathema:

The original Greek meaning of "anathema", a gift or sacrifice to God, leads to the interpretation that "Anathema Maranatha" in a New Testament context could mean "a gift to God at the coming of our Lord." John Wesley in his Notes on the Bible comments that, "It seems to have been customary with the Jews of that age, when they had pronounced any man an Anathema, to add the Syriac expression, Maran - atha, that is, "The Lord cometh;" namely, to execute vengeance upon him." The Catholic Encyclopedia states, "Anathema signifies also to be overwhelmed with maledictions... At an early date the Church adopted the word anathema to signify the exclusion of a sinner from the society of the faithful; but the anathema was pronounced chiefly against heretics." The negative understanding of maranatha began to die out by the late 19th Century; Jamiesen, Fausset and Brown's commentary of 1871 separates Maranatha from anathema in the same way as modern scholars. However the traditional interpretation is still occasionally found among some Christians today.

It is quit obvious that this person does not have any idea what he is talking about.  Plus, it is quit obvious that this person still believes that the College had spiritual significance and that God removed his presence from the property when the so called apostasy happened. So many Armstrongites look at the property still as a sacred place.

"Not only is Malm playing a silly game, but he is arrogant enough to lie about it."

Poor apostate apostle Malm.  Intense persecution is hitting him from every side! This blog picks on him, Bob Thiel picks on him, and today John Carmack picked on him.

 The apostate apostle claims his web site is the largest COG news site in the world.  Never  mid the fact that Dave Pack claims the same thing.  He makes these claims in order to cast a bad light on Bob Thiel and his blog.  Or at least he tries.  Silly little man!

Apostate Malm was taken to task today by John Carmack on the Church of God Perspective blog.  Malm has been taking a lot of pot shots lately towards Bob Thiel.  Thiel has been calling out Malm on his erroneous prophecies and absurd teachings.  Malm then hits back with my "site is bigger than your site" silliness.

Carmack  takes Malm to task bit by bit making apostate Malm look like the liar and fool he is.

It is becoming more and more obvious that James Malm’s delusions of grandeur know no end.  He thinks a “certain blogger” is “dedicated” to attacking his site, when in reality, Church of God Perspective is dedicated to the truth, which is something that he cannot fathom because he is a liar and the truth is not in him.  He is not the only liar I have exposed on this site, although I try to concentrate on promoting the truth rather than correct the hundreds of errors that false teachers promulgate.  If it seems that he gets more mention on here than others when it comes to exposing deceit, then the reason is obviously because his teachings are more error-ridden than most others.

Besides misquoting me, Dr Robert Thiel, Herbert W Armstrong and numerous others, he now is making up “facts” wanting you to believe, in article “Prophecy marches on: Early elections for Israel”, that his news site is the “Number One COG site for the news that counts and its prophetic implications.”

 Not only is Malm playing a silly game, but he is arrogant enough to lie about it.