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Demolition has begun on the Hall of Administration at the former headquarters of the Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College. The entire entire building has been gutted with its walls, ceilings and floors stripped away.
Many see this as one more indignity they have to witness and also consider it blasphemous, while others see this building as the seat of power that sanctioned their abuse, whether it be mental, spiritual or sexual.
World rulers and queens walked its marble floors. Priceless treasures filled its lobby from around the world.
It was the site of the sit-in during the receivership where children were encourage to sit with their backs against the glass so as to intimidate the police.
It housed the revolving offices of department heads, ministers and evangelists as long as they remained in good standing.
It was filled with file cabinets filled with data on the church members, tithing records, notes from counseling sessions and derogatory comments by ministers or faculty. It was the site of the Man Power Project that made horrendous libelous accusations at Ambassador College students due to race, perceived sexuality, women's issues, and more.
A private elevator whisked the apostle/prophet/ from his private parking garage to his fourth floor mahogany paneled office filled with antique European paintings, exquisite silver and gold pieces
It was the site of countless rebellions, rampant sexual liaisons, and eventually ended up being nothing more than studio set for made-for-TV movies due to its decades old furnishings from the 60/70's.
Forty years after it was constructed it is being ripped down. The seat of power in the church is gone and will never again amount to anything again. Its a fitting epitaph of the dying Churches of God.
Countless splinter group leaders and wannabe prophets all lay the blame for this at the feet of Joseph Tkach Sr. The problem lies in the fact that this belief is totally erroneous because no matter who would have been appointed there would have been major divisions.
At the time of HWA's death Ellis LaRavia thought he was the rightful heir. Members did not like LaRavia. Meredith thought the same thing because he thought that since he was trained at HWA's feet he would be the logical choice. Apartian was not a leader so he was out of the running. Richard Ames always pandered to whomever was in charge and could never take a stand, so he would have been driven out of office rather quickly. Headquarters members despised Meredith, so it was with a sigh of relief when he did not get it. David Hulme was not a sound choice. Gerald Flurry was considered a nutcase and was not even in the running. Dave Pack wasn't considered even though he brags that HWA personally trained him, which he did not. None off the present day leaders of United Church of God ever made it to the final round because HWA knew what power hungry ineffective men they were.
Whether it was Tkach or any other COG leader out there to this date, the church was destined to collapse. When Jesus is cast aside and the law is given power over grace it is guaranteed to fail, just like every single COG group is doing to this date.
