Restored Worldwide Church of God Splinters As Brothers Quibble And Start Separate "Ministry" Sites

When I was young in the church, the vision presented to us as members was that it was a strong unified church marching forward into the Kingdom. It was so beloved by God that nothing could ever tear it asunder. 

Then, the Great Apostasy happened in the 1990's and hundreds and hundreds of splinter groups split off in acts of rebellion.

One family, the Kitchens, has always stood in the breach, ready to take on the new mantle for the church. Sadly, that new shared mantle lasted only a short time. Strife and division reared their ugly heads and two brothers went in two different directions. 

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Perhaps what some was expected to do, was PRESERVE the Worldwide Church of God. But as we near 2003, we see that the ministry no longer desired to be the Worldwide Church of God. They found it easier to go and be someone else.

So they switched from being the Church or Congregation EXITING EGYPT, to the Church in the wilderness, and they became shepherds in the wilderness.

Those who SUPPORT their false narrative, will join with them in the wilderness and fall away into death.

Those who SUPPORT the message of the TWO WITNESSES, will go back to ORGANIZE with Moses, back into that place where they spied out the land of Canaan(Petra), and will cross over into the Promise Land or the Kingdom of God!

It is those who HOLD FAST to the truth(Rev. 3:11), that will endure the period of time of wandering in this spiritual wilderness!

And those HOLDING FAST will support and go with the TWO WITNESSES into the land of Promise!(Rev. 3:10; Rev. 12:14)

Now I would like to speak on something PERSONAL to me.

I am not saying this to indicate I am one of the two witnesses, nor that my brother is one of the two witnesses.

In 2022, I felt inspired to go on a trip to Jerusalem.

I asked God to provide the money I needed, and God did. I was traveling to Arizona to clean windows for some clients, and I asked God to ADD more clients that would covered the cost of a trip to Jerusalem. Within 15 minutes of that prayer, I had people calling me and I ended up with enough money for a plane ticket to Jerusalem.

Now, I had to schedule them FIRST before the rest of my customers, because the rest of the week had been scheduled. After I cleaned their windows, and was paid, I purchased a plan ticket to Tel-Aviv.

Then immediately after, ALL OTHER CUSTOMERS cancelled on me for various of reasons. Over $2,000 worth of revenue GONE.

I had to return back to Missouri, in emergency, because I had no more money to STAY and no reason to stay any longer. God had made A POINT. He wanted me to go to Jerusalem.

So I returned home(over 21 hours away) with nothing but a plane ticket to Tel-Aviv.

Now that was an answered prayer. And God seemed to HIGHLIGHT IT with the fact He caused everyone else to cancel.

A month or two later, my brother Timothy wanted to go with me, so he made a trip out to Arizona, and with the money he raised from my client's he purchased a ticket to Tel-Aviv.

Two elderly women from Canada, friend's of ours, and fellow sisters in Christ, wanted to come with us.

We all felt like time was short. Why did God open the doors for us to go to Jerusalem? It was NEVER a thought or option before this. SO we began to contemplate whether we should leave our homelands with the attitude of returning, or with the attitude of FORSAKING ALL and not looking back as Lot's wife did.

We chose to do the latter, and we desired to please God. So we left, with the foresight of perhaps NEVER RETURNING. We believed if we had to return, God would show us, but we didn't want to make the mistake of looking back as Lot's wife when they left Sodom and Gomorrah, and as the children of Israel desired to return to Egypt. We knew that was a wrong attitude to have.

So we all arrived in Tel-Aviv in September.

Now, prior to this, I left Tim to talk with our good friends in Canada, to determine housing arrangements in Jerusalem. We found out that our arrangements was a SCAM, and when we arrived in Jerusalem, we had to seek other arrangements elsewhere.

Now I have to point out that when my father died, Tim and I were TWO ADMINISTRATORS over this work. Tim was over the website "wwcg-archives.com" and I was over the social media and publishing.

My job was to HIGHLIGHT and RAISE AWARENESS of what Christ taught through Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God. So I created publications, and articles, and videos and more, on social media, to point people to the Archives, so they could know what Christ had faithfully taught His Church! Tim's job was to have the archives ready, and assist with further directing people to where Mr. Armstrong taught these things.

Since our housing was not available in Jerusalem, through means uncontrollable to us, we ended up in Wadi Mussa, Jordan. This was where God placed HIS NAME for us to keep the Fall Feasts of the Lord.

Now there arose a question of WHO WAS TO BE IN CHARGE, of our group of 4. I was intent on showing we were TWO ADMINISTRATORS, with different departments where we should be COOPERATING with each other.

But as Mr. Armstrong said time and time again, The Bible says Two cannot walk together unless they be agreed, and two cannot walk together, Mr. Armstrong noted, unless one is the BOSS.

So we had this disagreement.

Now, I hope we both can agree, that we personally desire to please God. We all made mistakes, and erred. So i hold blame on myself for what happened, and I have repented.

So we left Jordan, divided. One Administrator going one way, and the other another way.

I know I desired to please God. I know Tim desired to please God. But we had to learn a lesson about ourselves, and about our enemy Satan the Devil.

And I hope we can be faithful in our witness of those events and PUT FAR FROM US any false testimony and false report.

We incidentally, stayed right where the children of Israel camped, when they spied out the land of Canaan.

We stayed there for around 40 days.

Now when we ARRIVED in Jerusalem, I announced that the Worldwide Church of God was alive, and was meeting in Jerusalem to keep the feasts of the Lord!

Later, we found in Jeremiah 6:1, "O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem..."

This was not the time Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24:15-16, which says "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:"

Jeremiah 6 deals with a WARNING WORK.

So we gathered in Jerusalem, but we had to flee to Petra.

Now, God placed His name there in Petra. We did not PLAN to keep the Feasts of the Lord there in Petra. We had plans to keep them in Jerusalem! But God worked it out where we had to FLEE from Jerusalem, after gathering there.

We began to think on the scriptures concerning God's Church entering into "her place"(Rev. 12:14). Never before had we considered of going to Petra at THIS TIME, where it was clear God wanted to show us where HIS NAME was placed.

And with 4 of us, gathering there, it was made clear that TWO OR MORE gathered in Christ's name, and therefore God was there and placed His name there!

Now, became the test of WHETHER we put God first, as ADMINISTRATORS. I think that was the reason Tim and I were brought there. To test US and our attitudes.

I am not here to speak about our sins or problems, because we are STILL EXAMINING our hearts, whether we are putting God first, and doing what is pleasing in HIS SIGHT, and NAVIGATING where we have been placed and the job we have been given to do.

I often write, thinking out loud, about what God has ME TO DO. And I often think, if I am to do something, what authority do i have and by what authority to i work this work I am in?

I would much rather support someone. I do not desire a chief seat.

But I have been involved with a work of WARNING God's people, for many many years now. I didn't plan or seek this out. I was thrown into it. And the fruits have made themselves evident.

Now my brother and I may not seem to be in agreement. I know he has made comments that HE IS NOT in agreement with me. I do not know exactly with what he is in disagreement. But I know how he was raised, and if he seeks to do God's will, and I seek to do God's will, this disagreement with disappear. We just have to look to Christ to fix any division, Satan has caused.

I love my brother. I know he loves me. And I know we both love God.

I had recently purchased the "wwcg-archives" from a hosting company. Tim seemed to have trouble with that hosting company, and was forced by necessity to start wwcga.com.

By my purchase, I do not wish to point people away from the archives. My intent was solely to PRESERVE it from outsiders taking it. I have no attached it to worldwidechurchofgod.org, which is serving the Church in providing regular Bible Studies and Church services, and showing that the Worldwide Church of God is still alive.

I believe TOGETHER as the Worldwide Church of God, we will cross the RED SEA set before us! And so I emphasize ORGANIZATION with Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, looking to Jesus Christ our head. I also emphasize the PREPARATION of the return of the ministry.

When the ministry left the Worldwide Church of God, they became ministers of another church.

What occurred under Tkachism, was the PUSH away from assembling as the Worldwide Church of God.

The start of these C.O.G groups, is essentially a net used to keep people from assembling as the Worldwide Church of God. That name is often TARNISHED as a "previous association", and is used simultaneously with the label of APOSTASY, in order to show the necessity of these new groups and why you should stick with them.

What we see in these C.O.G groups are the membership of the Worldwide Church of God assembling under the ADMINISTRATORS who were appointed under the end time Moses, Herbert W. Armstrong. They are giving a false report against that ASSEMBLY that was under Mr. Armstrong, saying our foes are too great to overcome as that ASSEMBLY. The goal is TOO HARD TO REACH, they say, as that Assembly.

So God has allowed a period of time, where these ADMINISTRATORS who were in the Worldwide Church of God, to go away into the wilderness as shepherds, and those who BELIEVE THE FALSE REPORT are going with them.

What then is left, are TWO WITNESSES, whose testimony PRESERVES that Assembly back in Petra, and after this period of time in the wilderness(we are coming to a close of 40 years now) Christ is calling on us to ASSEMBLE AS WE WERE ASSEMBLED UNDER HERBERT W ARMSTRONG. The children of Israel, after 40 years, had to come right back to the same place they believed the false report, back to the TWO WITNESSES, who led them into the Kingdom of God.

Joshua, became the leader of the Two. Caleb, under him.

Now when you read the scripture in Numbers, where Joshua and the congregation walked over the Jordan, you see the TWO WITNESSES OF GOD, and the finishing journey of the Church walking into the Kingdom.

So I am looking towards the RESTORATION of the ministry to the Worldwide Church of God.

Aaron Dean, numerously enough, told me he would rather be a Caleb instead of a Joshua. Out of all the ministry, he was there with Mr. Armstrong, and is the last of the "ADMINISTRATORS" examined to be the next Pastor General of the Worldwide Church of God.

When he joined United Church of God, he left his ministry with the Worldwide Church of God. He is traveling with the ADMINISTRATORS who are leading in the wilderness. Perhaps His witness and Testimony is needed, to show how God led through Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong. He may be the one through whom God restores THE MINISTRY to the Worldwide Church of God.

I know I am not ordained. But I do speak with authority, knowing what God says in HIS WORD, and through His apostle Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong.

Although I am of the Tribe of Levi, the ministry of Jesus Christ is not based on GENEALOGY. It is based on ORDINATION.

Mr. Dean, has followed the Church of God into the wilderness. He has learned to be DEAN OF A COLLEGE. He was ORDAINED by Christ through Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong.

I believe the Place of FINAL TRAINING, will be likened to AMBASSADOR COLLEGE. A 3 1/2 year long time.

I do not believe that AMBASSADOR COLLEGE was for nothing. I believe that God will restore the ministry of the Worldwide Church of God, and REORGANIZE US SPIRITUALLY.

So I am emphasizing a RIGHT ATTITUDE towards the ministry, as they REPENT and come out of these groups.

I am also WARNING of any UNSOUND doctrine, and any departures from what Christ taught through Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong.

Christ gave SOUND DOCTRINE through Mr. Armstrong, anyone who departed from that is simply UNSOUND, and leading into insanity.

So last nights bible study, pointed out a great deal of information.

Not only is the Worldwide Church of God the ASSEMBLY that gathered under Mr. Armstrong, but we have been experiencing a period of time of WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS because of FALSE REPORTS coming from Administrators who knew better.

God is simply proving a point.

Those who wish to LIE, will not enter into His Kingdom. They will FALL AWAY into death.

Our job, is to HOLD FAST, and to ENDURE the walk through this wilderness, until God leads us back to where HIS TWO WITNESSES TESTIMONY is BELIEVED and once again AS A GROUP TOGETHER we will enter the Kingdom of God.

Crackpot Prophet Continues To Set A High Bar! Eat Your Hearts Out Laodicean Backsliders!

 

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The finest quality available, in a most intimate atmosphere, while surrounded by homeopathic juju pills, overpriced supplements, and shipping boxes. Ambassador quality to the max!

Debbie Down Syndrome In The Church Of God: Two Views On These Troubling Times

 

For many decades, we have had it ground in our psyche that the Church of God had/has a better way of believing and doing things. We had the answer to everything and knew that there was a world coming that would bring peace and harmony for at least 800-900 years, and then it was all going to fall apart again. Evil and damnation would be unleashed again.  What a cruel god! 

Yet, despite having a grand vision of millennial peace as our goal, the Church of God has always found the bad in the world and emphasized it in everything they preached and wrote about. Everything is evil and they can't wait for their god to come and smite all the evildoers and make the world into what they think it should look like.

This is how Gerald Weston starts every weekly update to his members. Something bad is always happening. Evil is lurking in the air ready to devour the loyal church members. This was his update on the 18th. He can't even find joy in Passover!

Passover and Unleavened Bread are now upon us. How many more Passovers will we have before Christ returns? The events of the last four years are sobering—a pandemic with all the disruption it brought, inflation, violent crime and demonstrations in our streets, weather upsets of historical and “of biblical proportions” in various places around the world, illegal immigration, wars in Europe and the Middle East. However, there is a positive to all that we see happening. “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28). Some among us are going through severe trials and we cannot minimize how difficult that is for those individuals affected, including family members, but we must never take our eyes off the big picture. God called us and gave His Son on our behalf, and Jesus willingly suffered for us that we might be healed and that through His indwelling Spirit we might have eternal life. May we never forget Paul’s inspired words: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18). I wish all of you a profitable and joyous Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread!—Gerald Weston

Compare Gerald Weston's negativity to an article below from Ralph Woodrow. You remember Woodrow, don't you? He wrote the fourth supplemental "sacred scriptures" that most COG members believed fervently in, until the horror of horrors, he refuted it all. 

In the Church of God hierarchy of official doctrine setting works, we had the Bible, US and BC In Prophecy, Mystery of the Ages, Hislop's  The Two Babylons, and finally Woodrow's Babylon Mystery Religion. Woodrow's works were so popular in Armstrongism that he even started quoting some of our teachings to back up his works.

Then, in a shocking twist of fate for Armstrongism, he refuted his Babylon Mystery Religion book in 1997, right amid the time period the Worldwide Church of God was refuting many of their long-held erroneous teachings.

The Babylon Connection? shows that the claims about Babylonian origins often lack connection, 

takes a closer look at the oft-quoted The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, 

and provides some much needed clarification on this subject. 

Was Nimrod a deformed, ugly black man, married to Semiramis, 

a beautiful white woman with blue eyes and blond hair? 

Was Semiramis the originator of Soprano singing and priestly celibacy? 

Was she the mother of Tammuz? 

Is the cross a symbol of Tammuz? 

Are round communion wafers sun-symbols? 

Are candles, black clergy garments, the letters I.H.S., the fish symbol, halos, 

and church steeples of pagan origin? 

Does the Pope wear a crown with 666 on it? 

Was the papal mitre copied from the fishhead of Dagon? 

Does the Book of Revelation describe the Roman Catholic Church as "Mystery Babylon"?

This sudden change of belief sent many in COGland into a frenzy. It was further proof that Satan was hellbent on destroying the church. 

Fast forward to today when I was surprised to see he has teamed up with Greg Albrecht and serves on the Board of Directors for Plain Truth Ministries. Some will see this as further proof that Satan is at work in the church...c'est la vie.

The latest online Plan Truth has an article by him, titled, Is Everything In The World Getting Worse And Worse?

There are some who tell us in all seriousness that “everything in the world is getting worse and worse!” It seems popular, even in some pulpits, to talk about how bad everything is getting—“and getting worse all the time!” But the evidence is overwhelming that MANY things are better than they have ever been, especially in countries that enjoy the blessings of civilization. 

 

This is not to say there is not a lot of evil in the world. Many things are not as they should be. Nevertheless, progress has been made in the right direction. In harmony with Philippians 4:8, “... think on things of good report”—let’s consider some of the GOOD things God has blessed us with and for which we should be thankful.

Woodrow goes on to discuss advances in travel and technology and how there is progress in the right direction. 

He then states:

Was the world or this country better in the days of child labor? Was it better in the days of slavery? Was it better when travel was in covered wagons? Was it better when women could not vote or own property? Was it better when lights burned coal oil? Conditions may not be as they should, but on the whole, many have better food, better clothing, better housing, better health care, better education, better working conditions, better pay and better transportation than in the past. 

 

Today there are organizations to encourage clean, wholesome activities for boys and girls; organizations to aid the blind, the handicapped, the underprivileged, the elderly; organizations to prevent cruelty to animals and provide shelter. Progress is being made in Alzheimer’s research. Such things speak of kindness and progress in the right direction. 

 

Despite all the “good things” the Lord has allowed us to enjoy in this day, there are those who suppose things are getting worse all the time. While the Bible does say that “evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13), this may simply refer to the fact that one sin leads to another sin; one lie leads to another lie; those who head in the wrong direction get further and further away from Jesus and the gospel. 

 

“But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day” (Proverbs 4:18). Where sin abounds, grace shall much more abound (Romans 5:20). Let people of faith everywhere look on the bright side, thankful for the progress that has been made! Is there evil in the world? Yes! No doubt about it. But while “everything” is not as it should be, we are BLESSED in many ways! 

Woodrow certainly has a better outlook on life than do so many of the miserable professional complainers making up the leadership of the Church of God today. It is no wonder so many in the Church of God today are depressed. Their very own leaders are the cause of this!

When will the church be people of faith? Having a grounded faith so joyful they revel in the joy that grace brings and are thankful for all the beautiful and good things in this world?