NOW THIS IS STRONG STUFF because it appears that as per Matthew 18:15-20 That 100.000 members have rejected 63 heretics. In actual fact it is just the BOSS the big white chief that has said GO MY WAY OR YOU ARE OUT. The Ambassador Report says that thousands flee the church from Tkach. Ambassador Report (AR59) June 1995. It appears that Joseph Tkach Jr was in fact a little behind the times as the 63 named persons were in fact part of a group of about 113 who had decided to leave on their own accord in the last six months anyway. This is about 1/3 the ministry.
The above heading is quoted from World Wide News Tues April 25 1995--lead idea--Someone then will say," Are you claiming the law is done away?" By now the answer should be clear. "No, the law is not done away, if we mean the great spiritual and moral principles that it contains. The answer is 'yes', if we mean the works of the law-those practices that become boundary markers observance of the old covenant."
[Editors comment]--this is a Laodicean answer if ever there was one.
Basically the disfellowshipped members were hankering after the OLD doctrines such as-
That Satan is the God of this world still hence all the troubles. That the REAL GOD is in fact a GOD family that at the moment consists of two beings. That through man and woman they (the god beings ) are reproducing themselves. That the God family has a great plan for mankind. That there are TWO covenants one still binding and the other in the process of being renewed. That the Identity of Nations is the Key of David. That Queen Elizabeth 2nd is sitting on that throne of David.
That there is the ten commandments, including a Sabbath day, Passover, Pentecost, day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles all epitomising the great plan of God. That there is a first and second and third tithe. That there is also a time for offerings. That one needs to be baptised and "put on Christ" and endure to the end to be saved. That there is a place of safety and the 144,000. Church eras, a great tribulation, a point when no flesh could be saved except Christ intervene.
That there will be a thousand year reign for Christ and the saints, a 100 year great white throne judgement. That Satan will be released for a "short time". That a city of God will come down from Heaven. That all will become God beings, there will be first fruits and second fruits. That there will be a governing body and the creation will expand into the Universe. That Christ will use the Earth as His foot stool. That Christmas and Easter are pagan, that there is such a thing as clean and unclean meats etc etc.
Now people reading this will say that well, more or less 'yes; that's it, you know--- good old Armstrong stuff lets go back to the good old days. Armstrong had it right. It is stuff that really stirred the blood.'
Well sorry chaps to have to say this but he had some parts that were right and some parts that were wrong. And GOD knows it. And God wants us to think.
The rot started back in the 1970's when the now big white chief Mr Tkach then decided that the identity of nations among other doctrines was to be done away with. He has been photographed with (AR41) Armad Hammer (the father of communism) one of the original New world Order leaders. What interest would a Russian have with Britain/Ephraims history?
Once the Key of David, or the Identity of Nations has been DISPOSED of then, the Two Covenants. Knowledge is LOST
There are TWO covenants:
The first one is the one that God made with Abraham (Gen 17:1) --- it is
UNCONDITIONAL because Abraham obeyed him, God also reaffirmed this in his
offspring. This is the identity of nations one of which YAIR DAVIDY1
has written the TRIBES; which has a throne for Christ to come back to sit upon.
Where Ephraim/Britain and Judah (the Jews) will be united as one nation. This is
the Covenant of the SCARLET THREAD in Allen's Judah's Sceptre. It goes on
forever. It did not matter whether the off spring of the Tribes were good or
bad.
The second one is the one that God made with the Israelites which was
CONDITIONAL upon the nation of Israel obeying God. They didn't and hence broke
the contract. Christ came and died so that a NEW contract could be made in the
future when Christ returns. To take part in the NEW covenant we MUST obey the
laws, judgments and statutes, accept that Christ died for our sins and be
merciful. This also includes the WARNING to The Lost TRIBES of the House of
Israel. We now know WHO they are and that they are still being warned.
Part of Mr A's doctrines was to reveal what the Babylonian Mystery Religion
was all about of which we continue from last month.
Now the church of the great whore is quite keen on the idea that when people
are praying to Mary the Queen of heaven that it is done with this thing called
the Rosary, this can have on it up to 99 beads. When done in it's full glory a
person could in fact spend most of their life doing thousands of thousands of
repetitive prayers. Can you imagine a child coming up to it's father and saying
time and time again."I want some strawberry sweets" the father would be driven
nuts. Our Heavenly Father is NO different. That is why Christ instructed the
disciples to pray after this fashion "Our Father which art in heaven-- etc etc."
If God wanted us to repeat prayers, he would have told us to; like a school
teacher giving us an hundred lines
Then the whore has this worship of the dead saints, DEAD people that by the
mere fact that they are dead have some awe inspiring quality which can be called
upon. The whore has hundreds of saints, one just tailor made for you. GOD says
do not commune with the dead Is 8:19,20-23. Paul when he was talking about
Saints (Eph 1:1) was talking about everyday beings that were alive that could
talk to God on your behalf and with you; not to the dead. that's witchcraft.
Days of the "saints" ; St Luke October 18; St Mark April 25; St John of God
March 8; St Matthew September 21; Mothers Day; Fathers Day.
In Christs day it was the worship of the Stars as gods (Acts 14:11,12) "And
when the people saw what Paul had they lifted up their voices, saying in the
speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And
they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief
speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen
and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes,
and ran in among the people crying out, and saying, sirs why do ye these things:
we also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should
turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth and
the sea and all things that are therein:"
to be contd-----
Mr A also attempted to describe what God was like.
From our article -- What God is actually like
The part in square brackets should read [person to person] to be more
accurate.
In, Exodus 33:15.----the "he " should read, "I" to make logical sense.
Reading--And I ( Moses) said unto him (GOD), if thy (GOD'S) presence go not with
me (Moses), carry us not up hence.
In, Exodus 33: 18. ---And I (Moses) said, I (Moses) beseech (ask) thee (GOD),
shew me (Moses) thy (GOD'S) glory.
#14 Exodus 33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle,
the CLOUDY PILLAR DESCENDED, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the
lord talked with Moses
#15 In, Exodus 33: 11 And the lord spake unto Moses [ person to person], as a
man speaketh unto his friend.
#16 Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy
sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy
sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence
shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. [15] And I said unto him, If thy
presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known
here that I and thy people have found grace in they sight? is it not in that
thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the
people that are upon the face of the earth.
#17 Exodus 33:17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will (show Moses) do this
thing also that thou has spoke: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I
Know thee by name.[18] And I said, I beseech thee,[19] show me thy glory, And he
said. I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name
of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and
will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And he said, thou canst not see my
face: for their shall no man see me and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there
is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: and it shall come to pass,
while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will
cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and
thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
#18 20 And he said, thou Canst not see my face: for there shall not man see
me and live.
#19 23 and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but
my face shall not be seen.
#1, #2, #3, #5, #9, #11, all show that there are two separate beings, #6
indicates more than one being. #7 has been shown to be the spokesman talking to
Isaiah about lifeless idols which people bow down to. Now #2 and #4 become even
more interesting as it shows the ability of God to switch on and switch off his
Brightness. The spokesman ( Creator) could not dwell among us without switching
his physical brightness off; to create Adam in the first place he switched his
light power off; when he carried on his creation by forming every beast of
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he
would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle and to
the fowl of the air and to the beast of the field. This could not have been done
without God switching his light power off and it is speculated that this
creation alone could have taken a further 7 years. We agree with this.
Adam would have studied the various species in action and then gave
them names.
#10, Gods ability to switch off his brightness; #11, at that time this left
only one power source left in the universe.
#15, by placing [person to person] in [11] gives a more sense to what
happened. A pillar of cloud descended[ 9], and stood at the door. Therefore God
was covered in a gaseous mass to dampen down his brightness. Thus with Moses
protected from Gods brightness, God could talk to Moses as a friend talks to a
friend, but of course Moses could not see Gods face as there was a protective
white shield between them. They were however geometrically face to face. The
next thing we learn is that this was not good enough for Moses because he wanted
a closer look at the goodies. So we come to the gap in the rock bit,[22]. Now
this becomes even more fascinating. because God was going to show Moses as much
as he dared.
God placed Moses in the crack in the rock, facing in Gods direction. So Moses
face was now protected this time by the rock from Gods Blazing, Mind Blowing,
Dazzling Glory. God then stretched forth his hand, placed his hand, palm to
Moses face behind the rock and covered Moses eyes; at the same time God looked
away from Moses. This is much the same as a search light being turned away from
you leaving you in partial darkness. Once God had looked AWAY from Moses God
could take his hand away from Moses' eyes. And what a sight that was. Moses
could see with his own eyes the back of Gods head, the back of his arms, his
back and the back of his legs and heels as God slowly walked away from him.
Moses would also have seen everything in front of God lit up in blazing light.
Remember this was the being that created the vast universe and he was slowly
walking away from Moses.
The next thing we can learn is that when God put his hand on Moses face Moses
accepted it, Moses accepted Gods hand as if it was a normal fleshly human hand
much like putting his own hand upon his own face. No I'm not saying it was flesh
and blood Moses just accepted it as IF it was. His face felt NORMAL with Gods
hand on his face. Notice also that God did not give off tremendous heat, like an
all consuming furnace; or that of an atomic bomb going off. His face would
undoubtedly have the brightness of 10 megaton (speculation) Hiroshima type
bombs.
But the temperature surrounding God would have been ambient, or normal heat
to Moses because he didn't complain about it. Then basically God (WHILE his face
was still away from Moses, said to Moses come back tomorrow morning. Also, God
was about the same height as Moses or he would have noted it. Moses was now
satisfied. This is the same type of GOD being that we are striving to become
like.
#8. The same being as in Exodus 33 but after death and resurrection and
restored to greater glory. #12, shows he strengthens us and #13 heals.
CONCLUSIONS. The God family consists of two separate and distinct beings
united by one spirit; in a similar manner as the Cain family consists of FOUR
separate and distinct beings united by the Cain spirit who are also striving to
become part of the God family using the spirit of God.
Now going by the Film of the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, which was
all very dramatic and fascinating to watch. Moses faces the Red Sea he places
his staff in the direction of the sea and we see the waters start to part from
the base of his feet and this gap gets wider as it moves away from him and so
the waters are divided. We then see the Israelites walk into the bottom of the
Red sea on dry ground with those towering walls of water on both sides of them
followed later by Pharaohs army what is left of it as it pursues them in hot
haste. At the other side of the Red sea the reverse takes place and the army is
drowned. All very entertaining and this is what most people believe and accept.
WELL that's not how it was. "BUT WE SAW IT WITH OUR OWN EYES!"people will
scream. No you didn't, you saw a made up film.
The first point, is that the children of Israel had travelled from Succoth
which is WEST of the red sea. To go over the Red sea they had to travel EAST to
get away from Pharaoh. In the film it showed the wind cutting the sea from West
to East because Moses was facing east and the cutting started with Moses. Exodus
14:21 however states that the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east
wind all that night,
Now going by the film, lets assume the height of the wall of water was 30
feet high on BOTH sides. In reality GOD would be using the wind to hold back
millions of tons of seething water. This would mean that the volume of air
required would be something like 10 x the volume of air and air speed of a
hurricane. British people know what it was like to be in the 1987 hurricane
where the wind speed at times reached 150 miles an hour; one could hardly stand
up. So the wind would not only push back the water to a towering 30 feet but it
would also blast out all human beings in its tracks. So you might well say then
"what happened?"
Well the simple truth is, that God FROZE a path of water through the red sea.
The difficulty with most people (ourselves included) is that people don't
READ ON. That is if they believe in the miracle of the Red sea anyway. People
normally read the story part make assumptions and then that's it. More
explanation is given in Exodus 15 plus other parts of the bible. Exodus 15: at
the near beginning says that--The horse and his rider hath he THROWN into the
sea---. Pharaoh army could hardly have been THROWN into the sea if they were
already on the bottom of the sea in first place. Exodus 15:4 says they were CAST
into the sea. And 5 says they-- SANK INTO THE BOTTOM AS A STONE.
Again they could hardly sink to the bottom if they were there in the FIRST
place could they?
So how did God accomplish the freeze up? Very simply FROM GODS VIEW POINT.
Lets take it from the beginning of the time period. It was just a few days after
Passover and the cold winter had not quite gone. Now most people are aware that
in the DESERT the temperature ranges from the very HOT at midday to the very
COLD at midnight. In fact the wilderness of Shur, EAST of Moses across the Red
sea is the north western part of the DESERT of Saudi Arabia. So the Lord caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind ALL THAT NIGHT. If we have a
westerly wind this come from the west; if we have a southerly wind it come from
the south so if we have a strong east wind, it comes from the EAST.
Now Job 37:10 points out that By the breath of God FROST is given: And the
breadth of the the waters is STRAITENED. And Job 38:30 The waters are hid as
with a stone, and the face of the deep is FROZEN. This is what happened with the
Red Sea. God caused a freezing cold wind to blow all night from the Wilderness
of Shur ALL NIGHT the freeze up started immediately Moses pointed his staff. God
caused a wide PATH of ice to form on the Red Sea. This DIVIDED the Red Sea into
freezing loose water on the left and right of the ice path. With a path of DRY
ice (ground) on which to cross the Red Sea with.
The wind would have meant that there was a depression over the sea and where
we have a depression the waters become choppy and ICE FLOWS would have formed.
These would have built up on each side of the ICE PATH and so we have a WALL of
(ice) water.
At the other side when all the Israelites were safe and sound on real earth
it would not have taken much warm wind from God in the morning "watch" to heat
the ice and cause it to melt after Moses had raised his staff again the second
time. The Egyptians then would have Exodus 15: 10 --sank as lead in the mighty
waters-- of the Red Sea.
If they walked all night assuming a time of eight hours and a walking speed
of five miles per hour then they would have journeyed 40 miles.
The idea content is taken from Primogenises Page 166 by Rand
We have been ACCUSED
of sidetracking into British Israelism and should concentrate on Mr
Armstrong's MESSAGE rather than the man. Now this could be fair comment but as
some people who have left the ww recently know; what we are really doing is
finding out what we do believe after the confusing mish mash of the Tkach
doctrine or lack of doctrines, and if what we believe is biblical. Our
sidetracking writer does however largely agree with us and "admires us for being
us".
We have at no point wished to condemn Mr A. NP. The Worldwide Church now
knows that many of its members are "Going into the study of British Israelism"
simply to find out WHO THEY AS INDIVIDUALS ARE. I met a Worldwider at the HQ of
British Israelism recently.
Now Mr A's main message was Mathew 24:14 and this gospel etc etc. Which the
Worldwide Church of God under Tkach has studiously avoided. Now this is the same
as Romans 3:2 unto the Jews were committed the oracles of GOD. Also being
avoided--it IS still there.
So what is Gods message?
The bible message is that God created his chosen race the Israelites. He made
a marriage covenant with them which Satan helped to break. God then came in the
flesh and died which made the old covenant null and void but God got the
disciples to send a message (the gospel) that he was making a new (marriage)
covenant with the Israelites which they would be able to keep because he would
rise again as GOD and make a new covenant with them which if the Israelites were
to accept his death he would give them everlasting life; become as GOD is GOD
with an ever increasing family. Non Israelites once accepting God have the same
opportunity or option (The Philadelphian Spirit). This also includes the
unconditional covenant God made with Abraham showing that Gods purpose will
stand--there will be an expanding God family.
So
What on earth,is God doing. He is forcing everyone to think to use the grey
matter, not just to go along willy nilly in an haphazard way to do what someone
else tells us to do but to stop and think and consider what action we are about
to perform, whether those actions will affect people and ourselves for the
better. To make everyone profitable not just the few. Then at the right moment
in Gods time he will make us spirit (GOD) beings in his family. He has in the
last few years scattered the brethren to see if they want to obey HIM or some
other man, he will soon unite the brethren back again.
Alex Cain
Europe
4/6/95 The great Euro debate voted by 56% to no further integration into the
European community. What was also highlighted was; the illusion was dispelled of
what IS at the heart of Europe i.e. Europe is not united. At the centre is,
geophysically speaking Switzerland which is neutral and not a part of Europe
psychologically but of course is the centre of the financial deposits of the
world i.e. secret Swiss bank accounts of the worlds money. The people that have
lots of money of course do not want to be accountable to anyone but themselves.
In other words the New World Order has been recognised. This time it was Norman
Lamont that high lighted it.
Letter from Local Newspaper
CATHOLICS CRUCIFIED
In response to the letter from Mr Luhful Karim on his call for greater
religious tolerance over the possibility of a mosque in the area. " I would
suggest that anyone who objects to an Islamic presence is far from ignorant and
out of touch, but in fact more likely to be well informed and aware of the
potential cultural danger."
[further quoting from paper]
Let's look at just a few of the more recent examples of the "tolerance" of
Islam.
In the Sudan the campaign of genocide continues against the Christian and
Animist population seeing the crucifixion of four Roman Catholics in the summer
of 1994. Three Protestant ministers were recently murdered in Iran. A Christian
charged with "blasphemy" assassinated in Lahore. Five Coptic Christians murdered
outside a monastery in southern Egypt. The bombing of a church in the
Phillipines by Moslem rebels, leaving seven dead.
Tolerance is indeed a great virtue, but one which is sadly and obviously
lacking in Islam, as the editor correctly pointed out, with Moslems justifying
the slaughter of the "infidel" in striving to serve their god in the Jihad, the
"holy" war.
Of course we should be tolerant of other religions and philosophies, this
being a mark of a civilized society, but only in sofar as those religions and
philosophies are in themselves tolerant.
People in the west need to become aware of the clerical fascism which is
Islam, potentially threatening our hard-gained liberty. Anyone familiar with the
recent history of parts of Eastern Europe and Greece, and any non-Moslem in the
Islamic State is all too aware of the threat.
AS MOST readers now know we do receive lots of articles from independent
Groups all over the world and these groups are a POWERFUL SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
TO US keep up the good work. Some of the articles are bit iffy on the doctrinal
side which means more bible study, but lots of the articles can be put straight
into the Countdown. It is of course interesting to us to read how many of the
groups have discovered independently that Christ washed the disciples feet AFTER
supper and not before. We still class this as New Truth.
The subject of anointing has come up i.e. Going back to WWCG "Mr Tkach is the
anointed one so he is Gods leader". Being anointed does not guarantee leadership
one way or the other. Saul WAS anointed and went desperately wrong; Noah appears
not to have been anointed but of course followed God. Really Christs own words
are a better guideline--"Ye shall know them by their fruits."
A writer in his personal has stated that in AD 70 THE WHOLE JEWISH NATION
DIED A VIOLENT DEATH. This is a false idea.
A consultation with a Rabbi in the London Chief Rabbi's Office has shown that
about 10 % of the Jews escaped (clever people the Jews) these also rejected
Christ. It should be pointed out that logically there are Jews around the world.
And when The King returns he will unite Judah with Ephraim/Britain into one
nation.
In the same writers Magazine under the title Why the Universe? It is pointed
out from Mr Armstrong's book. The Incredible Human Potential- (quoted in it)
that what followed was a devastating UNIVERSAL WAR (emphasise ours) in which
Lucifer and his angels were thoroughly defeated.
To date we have been unable to find any biblical evidence that before Adam
there was a DEVASTATING UNIVERSAL WAR IN HEAVEN. This was just a figment of Mr
A's imagination, all very captivating which we all believed at the time and
listened enthralled. In fact the reverse is true GOD created the heavens
perfectly. Satan got transferred with his angels very rapidly from the third
heaven in the sides of the north to earth. It was only the earth that became
without form and void.
THINK ABOUT IT, You remember the Hymn that was taken from Psalm
19--The heavens God's glory do declare, the skies his hand-i-works teach---. It
was our favourite that was never sung correctly. It was written by David after
Adam. DOES IT SAY--The Heavens Satan's DEVASTATING UNIVERSAL WAR DECLARE---? No
of course not. Remember God "only" had to renew the face of the earth Gen 1:1-3.
So the writer has copied Mr A without thinking about it and also has plagiarized
Dr Ernest Martin's work (AR59-page 10) tut tut such Philadelphian spirit.
THE CHURCH OF GOD teaches that The Core Message of the Bible (page 8) God has
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That there are typographical and translational errors in Exodus. It was
discovered while producing this article. This is from the Authorised version. It
is because Exodus 33:11 And the lord spake unto Moses [ face to face], as a man
speaketh unto his friend, APPEARS to contradict, Exodus 33:20 And he said, thou
Canst not see my face: for there shall not man see me and live.
The RED SEA crossing showing Gods power
Where did the Egyptians slip up in crossing the Red Sea?