| I have proven to myself, most prayerfully, that | | | | He would send this outspoken individual to deliver |
| the Philadelphia Church of God is the most unique | | | | a BLISTERING MESSAGE and a SCORCHING |
| of all the groups who've distanced themselves | | | | CONDEMNATION to the NATIONS - just before |
| from the Worldwide Church of God's devious | | | | NUCLEAR FIRE AND BRIMSTONE RAINS DOWN |
| doctrinal changes. Only Malachi's Message clearly | | | | upon those who've rejected GOD'S ULTIMATUM! |
| speaks with AUTHORITY and not "like the | | | | (Isa. 41:27; 30:27; Micah 3:8). |
| scribes" (Matt. 7:29). I've listened carefully for THE | | | | It's from Jerusalem that we must warn another |
| Voice of the Shepherd, hearing what the Spirit | | | | HOLOCAUST is coming! That's the sensitive |
| says to God's Church today, checking out | | | | location where God will spark a NATIONAL |
| everything with the Bible and what Mr. Armstrong | | | | DEBATE and ignite an INTERNATIONAL |
| faithfully taught us (John 10:3; Rev. 3:22; 2 Thess. | | | | CONTROVERSY! (Micah 6:1-2). It'll shock the Jews |
| 2:15). | | | | and anger the Germans! It'll undoubtedly offend |
| Of course, there are those who claim to follow | | | | many holocaust survivors who now live in Israel, |
| the traditions we've been schooled in, yet they've | | | | but they ought to understand and lend their |
| refused to humble themselves and submit to the | | | | voices of experience to ours, having personally |
| fact that JESUS CHRIST had already moved HIS | | | | witnesses GERMANY'S BRUTE FORCE, to help |
| LAMPSTAND by the time they finally saw the | | | | our efforts to ensure "Never Again!" |
| light! All that was necessary for them to do was | | | | Regardless, we can expect a maelstrom of |
| to go where Christ had already gone, and support | | | | protest and a bitter backlash -- but such |
| HIS WORK of knocking the errors in the | | | | persecution will only fan the flames of this |
| Worldwide Church of God, while holding on for | | | | BURNING ISSUE! (Isa. 54:15-16). Both Germany |
| dear life to God's truth! We either GET A GRIP - | | | | and Israel (for their own reasons), will want to |
| or we lose it! (Rev. 3:11). | | | | immediately stop such "incitement" -- calling it |
| Instead of working with Christ, some have | | | | fear-mongering and racist -- but they'll fail and |
| chosen to do their own thing, contributing to the | | | | God's Word will prevail (Jer. 1:19). |
| Church's state of confusion, rather than helping to | | | | God must grant "political immunity" to His Two |
| RESTORE ORDER (1 Cor. 14:33). Why duplicate | | | | Witnesses, so they can be free to boldly say and |
| efforts, wasting precious time and money? Why | | | | do all that He commands, even though the world |
| not join ranks with the PCG so we can present a | | | | will regard them as public enemy number one! (Ps. |
| UNITED FRONT to an increasingly divided world? | | | | 105:15; Rev. 11:10). Undeterred, they'll carry on |
| This would enable us to effectively share with | | | | God's Work and serve as His official government |
| others the message GOD would have them to | | | | spokesmen, even in the hostile face of fierce |
| hear (John 12:49). We ought to come together, in | | | | opposition (Jer. 1:8). But I'm getting ahead of |
| Christ, especially since we've all been taught | | | | myself. This is all related in Beyond Babylon, but |
| repeatedly: "There is only one Church. Not a | | | | let's go back to the beginning - of the true |
| parent church and many little daughter churches | | | | Philadelphian era.... |
| that have split off in disagreement. Divisions | | | | Experiences of Mr. Armstrong |
| splintering off are NOT STILL IN THE CHURCH" | | | | In the words of Mr. Armstrong, referring to his |
| (Mystery of the Ages, pg. 243). | | | | dealings with certain Sardis ministers, "I Shall Not |
| Whether we like it or not, God, in His infinite | | | | Hide the FACTS!" (Autobiography of HWA, Vol. 1, |
| wisdom, chose Gerald Flurry to reveal to God's | | | | pg. 366). However, lest I be misunderstood, I'd |
| Church what was going on - and thereby allow us | | | | been most hesitant to say or write anything |
| to show our true colors by how we responded to | | | | about my experiences with certain professing |
| Malachi's Message. (That doesn't mean Mr. Flurry is | | | | Philadelphian ministers, but I feel compelled by |
| infallible or that he doesn't need to continually | | | | GOD to state the truth, without fearing men's |
| apply the principles of Malachi's Message to himself | | | | reactions, but trusting in God's PURPOSE! |
| and organization, as we all do as explained in my | | | | Mr. Armstrong relates how he had presented a |
| article "Worldwide All Over Again?"). | | | | "dual test" to the Church of God, Seventh Day, |
| Restored to Zion! | | | | to help him determine whether or not it truly was |
| If I'm so convinced that Christ is only with the | | | | the Church of God. His first test involved mailing |
| PCG, and that the others are self-willed, for the | | | | an "exposition of 16 TYPEWRITTEN PAGES |
| most part, resisting God's lead, why don't I attend | | | | proving clearly, plainly, and beyond contradiction |
| their services? (Matt. 7:21; 1 Sam. 15:23). And how | | | | that a certain minor point of doctrine... was in |
| can I believe that God is actively working through | | | | error... to see whether their leaders would confess |
| me in the Middle East? Because I've unjustly been | | | | error and change." Their leader admitted what Mr. |
| disfellowshipped (2 Thess. 3:2), yet I remain loyal | | | | Armstrong pointed out was true, but feared it |
| to God's truth they teach! | | | | might upset many of the members and even |
| It's BEWILDERING to see an organization that | | | | threaten to divide the Church! "Naturally, this |
| apparently started out so good and strong and | | | | shook my confidence considerably." |
| righteous degenerate into a personality CULT that | | | | (Autobiography of HWA, Vol. 1, pgs. 360-361, |
| rules through intimidation and fear and borders | | | | emphasis mine). |
| emperor worship! Yet they have more truth in | | | | I, too, detected "a certain minor point of doctrine" |
| many regards than the others, just like Herbert | | | | taught by Dennis Leap (on the 144,000), was in |
| W. Armstrong saw Sardis (Church of God, 7th | | | | error. I didn't want to rock the boat, and it wasn't |
| Day) did, however impotent. Strange but true! | | | | something I'd lose sleep over, so I wanted to just |
| Perhaps it's like Saul was still the anointed until he | | | | ignore or overlook the matter, but God wouldn't |
| was punished by death for his sins and then David | | | | let me! Amazingly, a dear friend asked me about |
| reigned..... | | | | the 144,000 out of the blue, and then somehow it |
| When Gerald Flurry wasn't anything in his own | | | | came up again with someone else; so God |
| sight or mind God used him and now, | | | | succeeded in getting my attention to write Dennis |
| unfortunately, it appears to have gone to his | | | | Leap about it. I sent him my PAGE AND 1/2 |
| head, all the new revelation (simply a deeper | | | | LETTER, reproduced here -- and didn't hear |
| understanding of some things), and he forgets | | | | anything. |
| that all truth is from and belongs to GOD and that | | | | Finally, around my third try (I don't give up easily!), |
| God can use a donkey to deliver it! (1 Cor. 4:7). | | | | Dennis Leap discussed it with me on the phone. |
| Gerald Flurry has become so swollen in his own | | | | When I mentioned that the Scriptures clearly |
| imagination that he fails to see that he is the | | | | state that once you've broken your "seal" you've |
| leader of LAODICEA! He knows what warning | | | | lost your salvation, and to claim we can somehow |
| God is giving the Laodiceans, of which he is chief! | | | | be "resealed" amounts to crucifying Christ twice, |
| He had better heed his own words! | | | | Dennis Leap stammered around, unable to justify |
| Under Herbert Armstrong Pasadena, California | | | | his position, but remained determined to stick with |
| was the headquarters of the Philadelphia era of | | | | it -- to my sorrow. Like Herbert W. Armstrong's |
| God's Church; now Edmond, Oklahoma is the | | | | experience, "Naturally, this shook my confidence |
| headquarters of the Laodicean era, and next in | | | | considerably." |
| God's plan is the restoration of His headquarters | | | | Church Rejects New Truth |
| to Jerusalem! | | | | God used an evangelist in Florida to challenge Mr. |
| God knows my attitude and actions still support | | | | Armstrong. He had written Mr. Armstrong and |
| the work God's given them to do, but I truly | | | | told him he was ignorant if he didn't know where |
| believe what Gerald Flurry teaches: their work's | | | | we are mentioned in the Bible. After gleaning |
| almost finished! It'll just slightly overlap the | | | | through the surprising amount of information on |
| beginning of GOD'S FINAL WORK as outlined in | | | | the subject in the library, Mr. Armstrong PROVED |
| my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall | | | | that the so-called "Lost 10 Tribes" are, in fact, the |
| (John 3:30). Minister Dennis Leap wickedly | | | | American, British and Northwest European peoples. |
| disfellowshipped me for believing that GOD has | | | | He then sent the "lengthy manuscript of close to |
| ORDAINED that I should promote its timely truth | | | | 300 TYPED PAGES" that he had written to |
| (Isa. 61:1), even though I'm not from the "school | | | | support this truth to the editor and leader of the |
| of the prophets" (Ambassador College), or going | | | | Church. "Did this Church accept and proclaim this |
| about it in the "conventional" way (1 Sam. 17:39). | | | | vital new truth... But this Church refused then to |
| I've come to better understand that God has | | | | accept it or preach it or publish it though their |
| already begun the transitional process of | | | | leader frankly confessed it was TRUTH and a |
| RESTORING His Menorah - His Lampstand to | | | | revelation from GOD! Yet here was the Church |
| JERUSALEM! (1 Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11). As | | | | which appeared to have more truth, and less |
| prophesied, a NATIONAL MESSENGER will be on | | | | error than any other... Truly this was bewildering!" |
| active duty in Jerusalem, preparing the way for | | | | (Pg. 362)... |
| Messiah's imminent return(Zech. 12:8). God reveals | | | | |