GCI "Probably" Tried To Kill My Family!

 

There have been loads of crazy rumors spread though out the church since the death of Herbert Armstrong and the dissolution of the Worldwide Church of God by the Tkachs. Many wild and crazy stories have been floated trying to explain what happened during those tumultuous years. My favorite is how the Tkachs hatched.a plan that involved all the men currently leading COG splinter groups. They were all in on this since day one! Who knew!  LOL! Oh, and they tried to wipe out the Kitchen clan because they and they alone were the preservers of the "truth once delivered".

Samuel Kitchen writes:

The UNITED CHURCH OF GOD, AN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, doesn't represent the Worldwide Church of God.

The LIVING CHURCH OF GOD INC doesn't.

The RESTORED CHURCH OF GOD INC doesn't.

GRACE COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL doesn't.

The PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD doesn't.

The CONTINUATION CHURCH OF GOD doesn't.

The CHURCH OF GOD ASSEMBLY doesn't.

The INTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF GOD doesn't.

Etc.Etc.Etc.

They represent their own membership. And that is great.

But where did that membership come from? That is the fraud that has taken place. They targeted membership from the Worldwide Church of God, and claimed to be teaching what had been taught before.

They didn't go out, and start a preaching campaign and gain membership that way. No they went to the people they knew in the Worldwide Church of God, and brought them over and used their support to establish a new church.

But as we find out, it was a fraud and a huge deception. Many of the ones who started these organizations are working with GRACE COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL.

I know one minister in LCG whose wife was(and may still be) the assistant to Joseph Tkach Jr! I met her!

Tkach Jr talked about "Church planting" in his book "transformed by truth". The people who've tried to shut my family down, is working with GRACE COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL!

It was probably GRACE COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL who was involved in the death attempts against my family in the 1990's, and probably involved with my parents and grandmother's death too.

In the 1990's while our family was going through a huge ordeal bigger than the movie Eric Brockovich, Tkach formed a local task force, and put out local minister(John Bailey)in charge of it. John Bailey told us this!

So it's pretty clear to me, it's all connected. Tkach Jr wasn't a lone man in this, there were others.

They had to TRANSFORM an existing membership into a COG Landscape that we see today.

One thing is for sure in Armstrongism, it is never dull because you never can anticipate what looniness will be said next!

New Church of God Group: Only Armstrong - - 24 Hours a Day, 7 days A week, 365 Days A Year

 

The website is not up yet, but their magazine is...Upholding the Plain Truth

If you thought the idolatry of Herbert W Armstrong by Bob Thiel and Gerald Flurry was appalling, this new site takes it to the extreme. It's like entering the Armstrong Twilight Zone!

Double-click to enlarge:

Gerald Flurry On How If Jesus Had Sinned "...would have left the Father as the only remaining God forever."

Armstrongism is not known for its pure religion and sound theology and Gerald Flurry has confirmed that in his latest message to the dwindling faithful of the Philadelphia Church of God.

Notice the very first two paragraphs of his article The Goal of Our Work:

A God from the northern heavens came to Earth and became flesh and blood, risking the loss of eternal life. Failure would have left the Father as the only remaining God forever.

Spend more time and ponder what failure would have meant to our Father—the rest of eternity spent as the only God in the universe! Then you can better comprehend the kind of love He has for His creation.

The craziness continues:

Can we fathom this loving sacrifice by God? This universe-shaking truth challenges our imagination. We are the recipients of this unparalleled act of love.

An “eternal life,” which was God, the Word, came and died for us. This ought to excite mankind beyond anything we can imagine. It was the beginning of what will probably become billions of sons in God’s Family.

Because we teach this God-ordained message, we are almost glutted with new revelation! This should show us what this message means to the Father and the Son. Revelation comes because we honor our Father and Husband.

At no point in the entire article does Flurry go into how Jesus lived a perfect life, though tempted in all things, There is no discussion about the crucifixion nor the resurrection and what was accomplished by these two things.

Instead, it is an article about church unity and their goal to bring all into fellowship with their Father god and their Son god. 

The deepest kind of UNITY comes from God. This is the unity God and the Logos have had for eternity. And it is the only future life there is. Every­thing else is about eternal death!

The 12 disciples saw, touched and handled this Word—God in the flesh. John says they were overwhelmed with joy. They understood how God and the Word became the Father and Son—and what that means to every human being.

The goal of our work is to bring all humanity into fellowship with the Father and Son! Please read that again.

That is a pretty tall task considering how the PCG has shoved Jesus to the back burner much of the time while they worship their one true God, Herbert Armstrong, a man more powerful than Jesus. 

It has been their mission for decades to get the word of Herbert Armstrong out to the world. Getting the message of Jesus out has never been anything they have attempted. Notice what is more important to them...forcing people to get behind their "work". Not following Jesus or understanding the redemption, grace, justification, and sanctification he brought, but getting behind their work.

The job of our ministers is to help get our people 100 percent behind God’s work—so we can complete this work as speedily as possible. We are in THE LAST HOUR! We must work while we can, BEFORE this world is plunged into the Great Tribulation.

Later on, Flurry discusses who was sent to redeem the world...not Jesus, but  Herbert Armstrong and he himself, the end time Elijah:

God sent an Elijah to restore all things. It was an astounding message not heard around the world for almost two millennia! 

Notice what that message entails...not Jesus of course, but Armstrongism:

And from the early college days to the end, Mr. Armstrong had outstanding, God-inspired spokesman clubs. There were research and writing classes. The students were not there just to learn the message. They were also taught how to deliver it, both in this age and in the Millennium.

In Herbert W. Armstrong College, our students are taught how to write and speak like kings and priests. We have a message that must be communicated to all humanity! 

Not a Jesus message though...

Receiving God’s message is just half of the responsibility. The second part is communicating it. And what a communication job! This message must be delivered to every person ever born!

What good is the message if it is not declared and taught? What a failure if we don’t deliver our Father’s message! What a calamity. Now is the time to be a witness for God.

That is the purpose of this Work. We declare God’s message on television, in ­maga­zines, books and booklets and via the Internet—any means by which we can deliver it in a quality way. 

Poor Bob Thiel, left whimpering by the side of the road, again. But, even he, the Great Bwana to Africa ignores the message of Jesus and what he accomplished for humanity. Instead, the focus is firstly upon his greatness, then on crappy booklets, heretical doctrines, and other claptrap posted on the internet.

Flurry then ends with this:

The Philadelphia Church of God has bought and paid for 170 acres and all of our buildings. What is it all for? We are getting ready to help Christ rule this world and the universe!

God has blessed us mightily. Now He wants to fire our imaginations to see what a marvelous, mind-staggering future this world has. We have the greatest, most complete message God has ever given to declare!

Like John, we must never lose this awesome vision of love! Then we must be a witness for God. This is what the world so desperately needs. 

Jesus, where are you?