Will Aaron Dean, who is responsible for the spiritual condition of the Church today, truly repent this Passover and return to the one True Church?

 

The sun is shining brightly in California as another crazy day in the wackiness of Armstrongism marches forward in all its heretical glory.  Currently, Samuel Kitchen, the self-appointed overseer of the one true Worldwide Church of God, is galavanting around Jerusalem, preparing for the arrival of the true faithful to stream into the holy land as they seek protection in Petra before the coming calamities soon to hit the world, particularly to those sinful heretical losers in the United States where Germany will soon be setting up concentration camps.

Despite the Kitchen family's posturing to be the true church and to claim they are NOT its leaders, they essentially are the leaders, but yet are rudderless in a sea of heretical splinter groups who are in direct apostasy from the true church. Someone needs to arise to lead the wayward followers of Herbert Armstrong OUT of the hundreds of splinter groups back into the one true faith, the Worldwide Church of God.

Sadly, the man most favored to do this is committing spiritual adultery by being a member of the United Church of God, a fornicating harlot of the one true faith. That man, Aaron Dean, needs to be cleansed of his sins and it just might happen this Passover if he takes it in true humility and deep repentance.

If Aaron does this, then we will see the emergence of the greatest work the world has ever seen as the TRUE Worldwide Church of God marches forth in power and authority with the TRUE church government power structure in place. The world will receive a witness never seen before.

This Passover promises to be HUGE!!!!!!!!

The leading man of the two witnesses, is following after Zerubbabel, who had the seat of Moses, and was NOT A PRIEST. He was used to restore the ministry!

So you see Christ cleaning up the ministry, who vacated the Worldwide Church of God, through an individual who will lead the other Witness when he is cleaned up.

God is still working one man at a time. It is the second witness who leads the Laodicean era(those who repented too late), during the tribulation and brings the close of the church era.

This is why you see through Joshua in Zechariah 6, along with the faithful, finishing the temple or church age.

Also remember, Joshua was the assistant to Zerubbabel. Like Aaron was assistant to Moses.

Although Aaron was the elder.

So for me, for the man who will fulfill the second witness, it has to an assistant to Mr Armstrong at some point.

So the only one I can think of is Aaron Dean. He is attending with another church, committing fornication with this world, and unable to fulfill ministerial duties in the Worldwide Church of God because he is in another group.

It was Aaron Dean, if you believe his testimony, that Mr Armstrong said “God wants you” concerning the next Pastor General, and it was Aaron Dean who moved things towards Tkach Sr.

Now back to what I believe Tkach Sr seemed to be a Thyatirian, God said the latter work would be greater than the former(Rev 2 says this).

Aaron Dean wrote the January 10, 1986 letter that appeared to have come from Herbert W Armstrong! Mr Armstrong didn’t write it. Aaron Dean wrote it, and in that letter Aaron Dean wrote “the greatest work lies ahead”. It is this sentence that motorized Tkach and every splinter group! They all use it for the reason they Incorporated a new organization!

So Aaron Dean is responsible for the spiritual condition of the Church today.

So he stands in filthy clothes as in Zechariah 3. But he cannot be used until he repents and comes back.

If it isn’t Aaron Dean, I don’t know who it would be. It would be someone of the ministry. Let is examine the fruits.

The first witness God used is outside of the ministry like Zerubbabel was outside the priesthood! The second witness represents the ministry, like Aaron the brother of Moses.

Aaron Dean also cowrote with Mr Armstrong the book Mystery of the Ages. Which I feel is the greatest book outside of the Bible.

So I’m just a laymember of the Worldwide Church of God, but I’m advocating for the restoration of the ministry that has vacated, because they learned through Tkach to fornicate with the civil governments and create new churches.

So I warn the people of God and call for their repentance.

I’m not setting out to start a new group. But I am calling people to return to the original group that Christ organized through Herbert W Armstrong. That Spiritual Temple called the Worldwide Church of God!

Will God soon clean up the individual destined to fulfill the Joshua type in Haggai and Zechariah prophecies?

God points certain things out, and the necessity of REPENTANCE, and the necessity of Christ’s blood to make one clean and ready for the job!

Perhaps Passover 2025 is that year?

Concerning God inspiring Mr Armstrong to choose Tkach Sr as Pastor General…we must examine what was stopped through Tkach Sr.

Under this man in Church Administration, his son Joe Tkach Jr and assistant Victor Kubik, added a new REGIONAL STRUCTURE above the field ministry, designed for the purpose of giving the ministry a voice, plus input towards church decisions. That is something Victor Kubik admitted in his “Ground Zero” series on Kubik.org.

This new structure had a roadblock. Through the concentration of power and authority to one man, which Jesus Christ gave to Mr Armstrong and passed on to Joseph Tkach Sr, that “regional structure” was unable to take over the Worldwide Church of God! Yes, Tkach sinned against God and departed from Jesus Christ, but he was chosen for a purpose.

When Victor Kubik ran into this roadblock, he exited and vacated the Worldwide Church of God, taking that regional structure and forming a new church called the United Church of God!

And so we see the roots of every departure the United Church of God has came from this new regional structure!

They were forced to exit and form a separate church using such a structure! Otherwise it would have taken over the Worldwide Church of God! Made it more democratic, just like the liberals in the 1970’s attempted to accomplish through GTA!

We can’t ignore the fruits of this tree.

And Mr Dean has been seduced into this group, unable to perform his ministerial duties within the Worldwide Church of God, and only dealing with the younger next generation as Dean of a College.

It’s something to discuss, pray about and to remember.

Because Satan has been clever! He wants to destroy this Church! But let us remember and always recall, that God is restoring, and building! His Word can never be broken!

AI-COG: Comparing Cults: Armstrongism vs. Hebrew Roots Armstrongism and the Hebrew Roots Movement: Two Peas in a Legalistic Pod

In the same vein as our previous article about the Sacred Name Movement, we also wanted to expose the similarities of Armstrongism with the Hebrew Roots Movement.

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When one cultic movement isn't enough, why not jump to another one that preaches the same legalistic gospel? This is precisely what many former Armstrongites do when they leap into the Hebrew Roots Movement (HRM). The transition feels seamless, almost as if Armstrongism were a mere gateway drug to an even deeper obsession with Old Testament legalism. In this article, we'll explore the striking similarities between these two groups, their shared disdain for orthodox Christianity, and why both movements ultimately fail to grasp the gospel of Jesus Christ.

A Shared Love for the Old Testament (and a Deep Suspicion of the New) Both Armstrongism and the Hebrew Roots Movement treat the Old Testament as if it were the pinnacle of God's revelation, while viewing the New Testament as a somewhat sketchy, heavily Greek-influenced afterthought. Sure, Jesus is acknowledged, but He tends to be relegated to the role of "law enforcer" rather than Savior. Instead of seeing Christ as the fulfillment of the law (Matthew 5:17), they see Him as the guy who came to make sure we all eat kosher and keep the Sabbath properly.

The HRM, much like Armstrongism, teaches that Christians must keep the Torah, arguing that the early church went astray by abandoning its Jewish roots. This is remarkably similar to Herbert W. Armstrong's claim that "traditional Christianity" was corrupted by pagan influences, necessitating a "restored" understanding of God's truth (which, conveniently, he alone rediscovered).

The Obsession with the Sabbath and Holy Days If there's one thing Armstrongites and Hebrew Rooters can bond over, it's their shared disdain for Sunday worship. In both groups, Sabbath-keeping is not just a preference—it’s the ultimate litmus test for true believers. If you worship on Sunday, you’re practically bowing before the sun god Baal.

Armstrongism and the HRM both demand adherence to Old Testament feast days, claiming they are still binding. Armstrongites take their calendar straight from the playbook of HWA, while HRM followers often dabble in rabbinic calculations to determine when exactly to blow their shofars and bake their unleavened bread. Either way, both groups live under the illusion that God is far more concerned with whether you fast on the right day than whether you understand the gospel.

Dietary Laws: The True Measure of Holiness One of the most ridiculous ways both groups measure righteousness is through diet. Armstrongites won’t touch pork or shellfish, and HRM folks do the same—but with extra zeal, often adopting full kosher observance. In their world, nothing screams "true believer" like scrutinizing food labels for hidden pork gelatin while ignoring the weightier matters of faith, grace, and love.

Paul’s rebuke of dietary legalism in Colossians 2:16? Must be a mistranslation! Instead of reading Scripture in context, both movements cling to Leviticus 11 as if it were the gospel itself.

Hebrew Name Obsession In classic cultic fashion, both Armstrongism and the HRM have a thing for linguistic exclusivism. Armstrongites insist on calling Jesus "the Word" or "the Eternal," while Hebrew Rooters insist that only "Yeshua" (or some other variation like Yahushua) is the proper name for the Messiah.

Dare to say "Jesus"? You might as well be invoking Zeus! Never mind that the apostles wrote the New Testament in Greek and referred to Him as Iēsous—these groups prefer their own reconstructed "pure" names, as if God refuses to hear prayers uttered in anything other than the cult mandated terminology.

Authority Issues: Who Needs the Church? Another shared trait is a deep distrust of church history and traditional Christian doctrine. Armstrongism teaches that all churches except their own are deceived by Satan, and the HRM promotes a similar narrative—claiming that Christianity lost its way by embracing Greek philosophy and abandoning Jewish customs.

Both groups revel in being "set apart" from mainstream Christianity, convinced they alone hold the truth. This results in endless theological rabbit holes, as members constantly debate calendars, Hebrew pronunciations, and other trivialities while missing the entire point of the gospel.

Legalism vs. the Gospel At the core of both Armstrongism and the Hebrew Roots Movement is the same fundamental error: a failure to grasp the sufficiency of Christ’s work on the cross. Instead of embracing salvation by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), they insist on returning to the yoke of the law, despite Paul’s clear warnings against it (Galatians 5:1-4).

Their obsession with Old Testament law keeps them from experiencing the freedom found in Christ. They see grace not as the power of salvation but as a mere "helping hand" to keep the law better. This is why so many who move from Armstrongism to Hebrew Roots simply exchange one form of bondage for another.

Conclusion: From One Cult to Another The Hebrew Roots Movement is, in many ways, just Armstrongism with more shofars and Hebrew terminology. Both reject the gospel of grace in favor of legalistic rule-keeping. Both see themselves as the "one true remnant." And both twist Scripture to fit their own pre-determined theological conclusions.

Ultimately, the real gospel—the one found in Scripture—teaches that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. It’s not about feast days, Sabbath-keeping, or avoiding bacon. It’s about trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Anything else is just another dead-end road paved with self-righteousness and spiritual pride.

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Op-ed: The Seventy Weeks Prophecy

 

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The Seventy Weeks Telescopic Prophecy

by Multi-Part Man

 

The graphic above pictures my interpretation of the “seventy weeks” prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, informed by relevant Scriptures; it is reasonably straightforward, so just a few observations:

 

The Seventieth Week is a Prophetic Week for both The Christ and the Antichrist.

 

The end of the 69 weeks and the beginning of the 70th week is the start of The Christ’s ‘week’. The Antichrist’s ‘week’ begins seven years before the return of The Christ. The Christ’s week is a ‘telescopic’ week while the Antichrist’s weak is a ‘continuous’ week.

 

Both The Christ and the Antichrist are assassinated and resurrected in the middle of their ‘weeks’. Before the assassination the Antichrist he is the seventh king and after his resurrection he is the eighth (Rev 17:11). Antiochus Epiphanes, the OT Antichrist and the eighth king of the Seleucid dynasty provides a type for the Antichrist/Beast.

 

The first half of each week is a time of relative peace, while the second halves are characterised by war. Joshua, son of Nun and the conquest of Canaan provides the ‘type’ for Joshua, Son of God in His conquest of the world. The battles of Jericho and Jerusalem are the initial battles respectively and the northern coalitions of Jabin and Gog are the final major campaigns respectively - but there is still a lot of conquest to follow. The setting up of the tabernacle at Shiloh then provides the type for Ezekiel’s temple.

 

From Daniel 7 a ten-king kingdom will appear out of the old Roman Empire. The little horn/Antichrist will come up amongst the ten kings and became the leader toppling three of these kings (Da 7:24), presumably replacing them with his own appointments.

 

The beginning of the Antichrist’s week begin with a covenant with the Jews (Dan 9:27a), which appears to involve the building of a Temple. An earthquake in Jerusalem similar to the “earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah” (Zec 14:5) may level the Muslim buildings on the Temple Mount to facilitate the building project.

 

The covenant will be broken with the assassination of the Antichrist, by a Jew? to fulfil typology, and then the sacrifice and the oblation will cease (Dan 9:27) and the persecution of the Jews will begin and this will continue for “a time and times and the dividing of time” (Dan 7:25).

 

“Telescoping: The leaping of a prophecy from a near to far horizon without the notice of intervening mater” (J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, p.xviii).

 

Both the image of Daniel 2 and the Beast of Daniel 7 are telescopic in that there is a time gap between the kingdom of iron and the kingdom of iron and clay/ the kingdom of the fourth beast and the kingdom of the ten kings.

 

With Titus and Hadrian the Jewish state came to an end and the qualifications to be a part of the image, from the Jewish perspective, was over. It was not until the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 that the requirements to be part of the image could begin to be fulfilled.

 

During the first half of Christ’s prophetic week He raised up, or laid the foundation, of Israel the Church and commissioned it go and teach all nations (Mt 28:19-20). In the second half of His week He raises up Israel the Kingdom and commissions it to be “a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isa 49:6). While this Scripture is written from the ‘principal’ perspective the fulfillment is by the “agent” — compare Paul’s application of this Scripture in Acts 13:47.

 

At the end of the first half of Christ’s prophetic week He returned to the higher realm of heaven; after His second half He returns to the lower realm of heaven, with the Saints, and rules the earth from the heavenlies recently vacated by Satan and the demons.

 

The Seventy Weeks ends when Christ takes up residence in the Messianic Temple just as he had taken up residence in the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomonic Temple. The graphic below pictures the fulfilment: “And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever (Eze 43:7a).