When Herbert W. Armstrong died, Dr. Herman Hoeh avowed that the 7th candle holder had been lit. That routine Laodicea formally began in real time.

Nearly four geezerhood later, Malachi's Message to God's Church Today began to undamaged the alarm: thing wasn't cosher in the Church of God! It open a reprobate priesthood focussed on destroying the foundational doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God, and urged the sect to natural endowment on for darling natural life to what God had fixed us done His end-time Elijah. We were incited to get a grip, spell others were losing it (Revelation 3:11).

Those who were of God heard what the Spirit aforementioned to the Churches finished Malachi's Message. Those who weren't of God speedily gone it (God's fairness) and slipped additional and more into shade. That shadow was masked as a "new insubstantial of understanding" (2 Corinthians 11:14). The correct members of the Church of God responded to His phone up and came out of that effete organization. Those who remained aft became the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.

They were no long God's Church! You can't renounce God's actuality for wicked doctrines lacking decent a part of a set of "Mystery Babylon" (1 Corinthians 10:21; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18). All this has been reasonably juicy (I Corinthians 11:19).

Knowing the Truth

God knows the end from the outset (Acts 15:18). He prophesied a large toppling distant that would go few erect. The BIG ONE has hit and agitated the Church of God to its core! But isn't it practicable to cognize the fairness minus wise to the Truth (2 Timothy 3:7).

God's line of work us to a deeper worship and transformation (I John 3:18). Isn't God's proof a routine to an end? Didn't emotion several basically "DON'T GET IT?" That too masses were single regenerate to our doctrines? The doctrines are expected to minister to convey us person to God by having a improved sensitive of His Will, but lone a of one's own link with Jesus Christ will salvage us! We necessitate Christ's teachings, but we involve God the Father and Jesus Christ even more! Only they can create us and immobilize our emancipation (2 Thessalonians 2:13-17). You can have all the kind in the planetary and not moving stumble little (I Corinthians 13:2).

Remember Solomon? Just because you know God's truth, doesn't scrounging you know Him! (Job 42:5; I John 2:4) You're not active to be judged by how much you know, but by HOW MUCH YOU GROW! By how substantially you utilise what you know, decent much Christ-like, much Godly, much emblematic of the Kingdom of God, present and now (James 1:22; John 13:35). A rules can't collect you and ceremony is no surrogate for a relationship! (2 Timothy 3:5).

Malachi's Message Still Applies!

Whereas the Worldwide Church of God was perceptibly rich, aren't we in difficulty of response spiritually privileged and self-complacent (Amos 6:1)? Ancient Israel had God's consecrated days; didn't eat pork, etc. But it didn't livelihood them from going into captivity! (Amos 5:21). It wasn't enough! Worldwide doesn't grain sufficient, they quality so broke they go to Babylon for help! We're the ones who touch past the worst and secure! Who aforementioned we can let our attendant down? We're commanded to REMAIN ON HIGH ALERT until Christ comes! (Luke 21:34) Yet some are failed to keep alive to use Malachi's Message (Romans 2:17-21). God's processing manoeuvre isn't over! (Daniel 12:10; Isaiah 48:10).

Let's see to it that Philadelphia Church of God (Judah) doesn't go the way of the Worldwide Church of God (Israel)! These religious writing values inactive apply: don't put undue trust in men; tough grind out your own salvation, it's not a association affair; watch out the intellectual confront that demands you bank on men - not God's Spirit or individualized Bible survey. And God aid us to watch onetime Petra (though it's key), to focussing on His Kingdom (Luke 21:36; Isaiah 33:17). To endure the Holocaust is one thing, to go in the Kingdom of God is everything! (2 Peter 1:10-11).

Beware of Emperor Worship!

What's the chief false philosophical system to come up out of Babylon? The wicked impression of a DIVINE EMPEROR! Nimrod had put himself in God's place! He had society depending on him for all their answers and lagging. Today, we have such as MEN "playing God" in the Church! (Nahum 1:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:3). There's nought new under the sun. Unlike Moses, who wished that all God's nation were religious text (Numbers 11:29), Nimrod cloth threatened by any "competition." He dealt cruelly, in a controlling rage, with those who opposing his pompous part. God used Shem to put him fund in his place! Leaders are decreed of God; they do have a definite place, but it's NOT in the Holy of Holies (II Chronicles 26:18)! They're intrusive in God's business, and encroaching on His inviolable ground, once they get out of dash and go across their bounds (Zephaniah1:9; Exodus 19:12; Colossians 2:18). Away next to monarch worship! It's in a minute to range Europe, but we don't call for it in the Church of God. Not if we privation to stay behind the Church of God!

Didn't Gerald Flurry alert that we were slithering into a Laodicean mental attitude once he had his roofless affair next to alcohol? Didn't he say, after prayerfully wracking his organizer to infer why God had allowed that to happen, that we have to be tight-fisted not to get braggart due to our prosperity of revealing (2 Corinthians 12:6-7)? Have we learned that lesson? Has he? With his preoccupation next to all his religious titles and self-promotion, we genuinely have to reason and be most concerned!

Holy, innocent CHARACTER is more useful to God than all the disclosure in the world! We unquestionably call for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but God says we should privation the FRUITS of his Holy Spirit even more! GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT! (1 Corinthians 14:1) I'm convinced God's astir to appoint His folks approaching ne'er before, but wishes us to be spiritually prepared (having bookish from the Corinthians' mistakes), and our ministers grown-up sufficient not to get in the way! (Joel 2:28; 1 Thessalonians 5:19).

As far as revelations go, God can cause unregenerate men same Caiphas and cry finished donkeys! All actuality is from and belongs to God, so why should whatsoever get tumid up next to conceit that they're thing notable fairly than fair an contrivance portion God's purpose? And why get unhealthy next to pride once God can briskly pop that balloon? (I Corinthians 4:6-7).

Warnings from History

If what happened in the Church during the 70's was a warning of what could take place in the 80's what nearly the 90's? Having survived our Worldwide ordeal, are we now address protected (Jude 5)? Let us commune and sound ourselves this new century: Do we love God or fear men (Acts 5:29)?

God has an appointed elected representatives for His Church, but it can bit by bit slop to Satan - made complete in a number of man's model - if we blindly travel it and bury that it's also a effectuation to an end, and not and end in itself! Isn't that how the Church of God got off track? The Mother eating utensil fed the brain-dead! We involve the Father! When Church senate cards directional us to God and substitutes doctrines or a sense of self cult alternatively (III John 9), and refuses correction, God's glory has vanished such as a out of business administration! Will God ravage the greatly establishment He's installed because we've erstwhile to use it properly? Some are in actual fact go to the organization a bit than the Governor!

Didn't God even His Temple, put off the sacrifices, and break up the priesthood? Didn't he blank the House of Israel and distribution Judah? Wasn't Jerusalem-headquarters forcibly shut down? Even Hezekiah had to undo the copper-base alloy serpent God told Moses to make, because they had kinky its aim (2 Kings 18:4).

Too often, that which God had intended to change state a blessing, became a curse! Such arts warnings don't dish favor with "the top brass, " but it's manifest God would rather tough grind finished a extremely devoted few than let copious misrepresent Him! (Jeremiah 26:18; Ezekiel 5:3-4).

What have we scholarly from our WCG experience? Haven't several since disorganized for positions of power, while others assertion we're all equal? (Numbers 16:3; 1 Timothy 1:7; James 3:1) God isn't an anarchist, and neither should we be. We mustn't launch out the newborn beside the bathwater, righteous because of abuses of power! Proper direction encourages us to "be all we can be," within God's law; it encourages us to weighing and get like our leaders, and competent to thatch what we've been taught-after all we're PRIEST-KINGS IN TRAINING. (Matthew 10:25; Hebrews 5:12; 2 Timothy 2:2, 15).

The straightlaced use of God's parliament ne'er drama political relation or book jealous, but genuinely has everyones' incomparable interests at hunch. (I Cor. 14:26) We're all members of God's Royal Family, in consequence we ought to honour all others' bit in God's scheme and establish in God's Church. (I Corinthians 12:18).

I truly agree to in GOVERNMENT FROM THE TOP DOWN -- and it starts next to GOD THE FATHER! That's why we essential e'er OBEY GOD, even if it mechanism we must disobey men. Wasn't it ministers who told you to let fly Malachi's Message away? Wasn't it Church leadership who threw out the faithful? Didn't we righteous take their declaration for it, a bit than bill of exchange out what GOD had to say? Don't be fooled again! Do you now CONSULT CHRIST, or are you motionless musical performance "follow the leader"? Which is genuinely erudition how to haunt God's government? Have you sooner or later learned this lesson? Or did you ask your minister for say-so to publication Beyond Babylon? Worldwide all all over again? Not if you carry on to read and apply Malachi's Message to yourself. That's the solitary way to avert a "repeat performance". Hopefully, past was satisfactory.

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