Working So Hard To Hit The Mark And Never Quite Doing It

It has to be an endless tiring process for UCG members and so many other Church of God members to be constantly working day in and day out to make themselves better and get so close to hitting the mark as they can and yet never being able to do it. 

Even now, just a few days after the Armstrongist Passover when their past sins of the past year were wiped clean, they are already racking up black marks that they will carry as burdens till the next Passover. They will spend the next year listening to ministers tell them they are doing something wrong and that there is a chance God will not forgive them.

The threat of losing one's salvation is always looming at the end of the dark tunnel members can never seem to get out of.

This went out before Passover

In just over six weeks from now, we will repeat the cycle of the annual “feasts of the LORD” (Leviticus 23) beginning with Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. In the days ahead we will be reminded of the responsibility to examine ourselves, to put sin out of our lives and seek reconciliation with God and each other. 

 

The Greek word most often translated “sin” in the New Testament is hamartia and it is an archery term for “missing the mark.” So while we examine ourselves, we should look for where we are missing the mark—where our lives do not mirror the perfect righteous character of our elder brother and the only perfect standard, Jesus Christ. Once we identify our sins, we repent and go forward. The more we do this, the closer we get to hitting the mark!

Aaron Dean Still Set To Restore The Ministry Back To The Worldwide Church of God As The Rest Of The Splinters Leaders Go Insane

 

Woo Hoo! The glory days are returning and will be led by Aaron Dean and the Kitchen family. Life is good! Though, I think Aaron Dean might be shocked at this new development.

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.

The New Holy Family Of The Church of God...God Dropped Down To Set Them Apart From The Laodicean Riffraff

 

It is amazing reading about all of the alternative reimaginations of church history that have been created over the last three decades after the implosion of the once-sacred Worldwide Church of God. Many of those alternative versions of the historical WCG are myths and pure nonsense. 

So many look back fondly to the glory days of old when the church was supposedly unified and was united in purpose and vision. Truth be told, it was anything but that. But, heck, the alternative versions of the mythological WCG were/are far more fun.

Today, even after trying for close to 30 years, none of the hundreds of splinter groups have ever been able to capture anything that even comes close to what the mother church did. Yet, they persist.

So, Revelation 12:7-9, is a DISPUTE of the seat of Moses, in which Michael stands up and fights with Satan the dragon, and casts him from heaven for the final time.

That's because God, through His apostle, who has the seat of Moses, did the work of PREACHING WORLDWIDE the gospel of the Kingdom of God!(Matthew 24:14)

He could not do such thing without being in the seat of Moses!

In 1991, the ministry accepted Tkachism and gave to him sole power over the WCG organization, and work.

The advisory council of elders was in charge, having the seat of Moses.

What was under dispute, was the succession of Herbert W Armstrong, or "the seat of Moses".

TKACH Sr claimed apostleship and disqualified himself.

So when the ministry gave it all to Tkach, they gave up rule over the organization and church! They said "No more Worldwide Church of God!"

Then they went out and started their own churches and their own organizations, which they could only produce with Caesar as head!!!!!

So here was the ministry CUT OFF!

So God drops down to a family. Zechariah 6 shows this. Their job is to prepare things and to SERVE THE MINISTRY, SO THEY could have a place when they repent.

That is what Christ has been doing!

That family mentioned above is the Kitchens. 

Where Did Herbert's Money All Go?

 

Every True Church of God leader deserves a gold centerpiece for their dining table featuring 

the three daughters of Bacchus 

celebrating 

the drunken debauchery of their father Bacchus

on their dining table

along with a sterling silver calling card stand filled with pagan symbols of the Zodiac

From a reader:

HWA's 1981 Arizona income tax form shows an adjusted gross income of $421,052. In 1980 his income was $387,755 and his contributions were $46,589. That's about 12% in tithes. His income tax return preparation fee that was deducted from his taxable income amounted to $5,800. I guess that's what Arthur Anderson got. WOW, he should have gone to H & R Block for his tax work.
Let's not forget Ramona's income for 1981. She received $38,308. 

 

With an expense account and the church providing car, housing, etc. where did all the money go? A man his age didn't need the equiv. of over a million a year in income.

And what became of the watch that King Leopold gave him?

Know God Better: Don't Ask Living Church of God!

Know God Better: Don't Ask Living Church of God!

On the Living Church of God's website, they have an article posted by Dexter Wakefield titled Know God Better Through His Statues. For those who are familiar with the Armstrong Churches of God, that title will come as no surprise to them. However, for Christians of a more traditional inclination, it may provoke a bit of a puzzled look - as in what do they mean by that? For Mr. Wakefield, as for most Armstrongites, Torah is a window into the heart and soul of God. For these folks, Torah IS GOD's Law!

Never mind that the "commandments, statutes, and judgments" of Torah were addressed to the children of Israel over and over again throughout those writings. Never mind that those "commandments, statutes, and judgments" were designed to meet the needs of a primitive and tribal people who embraced paternalism, polygamy, and slavery and were surrounded by pagans. Never mind that after the destruction of Jerusalem and the Levitical priesthood, it became literally impossible to fulfill many of the requirements of those "commandments, statutes, and judgments" of Torah. Never mind the New Testament claim that Christ fulfilled those same "commandments, statutes, and judgments." Never mind that Christ summarized Torah into Two Great Commandments, which he claimed comprehended the entire legislation! Never mind, that the epistles of Paul, Peter, James, and John all point to LOVE as the foundation and focus of God's Law!

That's right, according to Scripture, GOD IS LOVE (I John 4:8, 16). Hence, if you really want to know God better, it seems to me that the best way to do that is to learn about what motivates God and his "commandments, statutes, and judgments." Indeed, when Christ was asked about the greatest commandment(s) in Torah, he replied: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:37-40, ESV) The Apostle Paul said that "love is the fulfillment of the law." (Romans 13:10, NKJV) Notice, that it isn't the Law which defines love, it's love that defines the law! In other words, Torah was motivated by God's love for the children of Israel. Moreover, Christ underscored this principle for his followers when he gave them a "new" commandment. He said: "Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." (John 13:34-35, NLT)

Interestingly, the above Living Church of God article references God's prediction through the Prophet Jeremiah that God would establish a New Covenant someday: We read there: "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." (Jeremiah 31:33-34, NKJV) They quote it, but they apparently completely miss how God intended to fulfill this prophecy about putting his law in their minds and writing it on their hearts. Remember, Jesus Christ's mission was to fulfill the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17)

In his famous "Sermon on the Mount," Christ did just that! For his followers, the law would be internalized. The Old Covenant outlined in Torah and typified by a long list of dos and don'ts was to be fulfilled and replaced by him. Christ's disciples would be expected to measure their behavior by the principle of LOVE. In other words, is this behavior motivated by (and consistent with) loving God and each other? Now, as Torah was motivated and summarized by the same principle, we can see that many of the commandments which are associated with how they behaved toward other people and God are consistent with this new iteration of God's Law. For instance, we can readily see that being unfaithful to one's spouse would NOT be consistent with loving him or her. Likewise, we recognize that striking someone or murdering them is NOT consistent with the principle of love. Indeed, as Torah was motivated by love, one would expect the "commandments, statutes, and judgments" found therein to reflect the love which motivated them!

Think about it, if you wanted some insight into the character of the United States would you study the laws of the nation or the principles on which those laws were promulgated? Which came first: the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution? Didn't the principles espoused in the Declaration motivate and serve as the foundation of the laws that followed? In other words, these Armstrongites have it all backwards. To truly know and understand anything, one must start with the foundation. What is the motivating principle? Sure, you may eventually discern that principle by studying the many individual laws but isn't that taking the long way around and increasing the likelihood that you might get bogged down in the details and miss your destination? Hence, if we are really interested in knowing God better, we might want to start with reading about what love is (see I Corinthians 13:4-7). What do you think?

 Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrix