Herbert W. Armstrong was ahead of his time!
I'm often accosted by some who mindlessly cut and paste a list
of Herbert W. Armstrong's "failed prophecies." I respond Herbert
Armstrong was ahead of his time and served as an early warning
system. What follows is one of these many exchanges:
...is it really enough to dismiss this written record as
"being ahead of his time"?
Yes. Why don't you just be honest and admit you hate Herbert W.
Armstrong because he spoke the plain truth that CANNOT
be refuted? that your traditional Churchianity is merely
baptized paganism the Bible condemns as part of Mystery Babylon?
For exposing your SUNday as a pagan counterfeit of the biblical
Sabbath; your pagan holidays you've sought with your replacement
theology to replace the biblical festivals; that sheeple like
you bleat they're born again and don't have a clue what they're
talking about, since we're born again at the Resurrection only;
that God is not the sadist traditional Christians make Him out
to be; that the meek inherit the Earth - not float off to
Heaven; that you're not an immortal soul, eternal life is a gift
from God; the wicked will be destroyed, ashes under our feet; we
can become literal God-beings, members of the Kingdom-Family of
God? Why don't you just confess and forsake your sins of
murderous hatred against HWA for slaughtering your "sacred cow"
and exposing it as religious bull from Babylon?
Haven't I refuted Herbert Armstrong by showing his timing was
off?
NO. The Apostle Paul also thought Christ would return in his
lifetime. He was ahead of his time, as he, like Herbert W.
Armstrong, later realized.
The enemies of God and Herbert W. Armstrong can't refute the
plain truth of the Bible that anybody can read and see for
themselves. That's why they have such a murderous hatred against
Christ in him, just like the "religious" violently opposed Jesus
for standing up for the TRUTH over their tradition.
May such misguided folks repent of their mob mentality against
God's servant, Herbert W. Armstrong, and learn to instead go
against popular error and start teaching the plain truth of the
Bible (that contradicts their present idolatrous traditions).
Otherwise they'll die in their sins and traditional darkness.
...by what criteria did he speak truth?
THE BIBLE that counterfeit Christianity has rejected for their
own traditions. The Bereans were noble for checking out what
Paul said compared to THE BIBLE - not compared to their
traditions (Acts 17:11).
...are you denying he said the things I posted?
I said Mr. Armstrong was ahead of his time. The PRINCIPLES of
prophecy he spoke of remain absolutely true: a final revival of
the unholy Roman Empire is prophesied and the EU is forging
ahead with that Frankenstein Monster now.
I'm stating categorically that what you've thrown up against Mr.
Armstrong is a DIVERSIONARY TACTIC, a dishonest attempt to
discredit him, since you can't refute the black and white of the
Bible he taught on the plain points I've made and you know it.
Who do you think you're fooling by such pretense? God? Man? Why
play your foolish games?
Proof that you're offering lame excuses is because every one of
YOUR popular traditional ministers or groups have taught and
said worse things that, unlike HWA, aren't even true according
to biblical prophecy, such as Russia attacking America (when Mr.
Armstrong alone warned it will ultimately be a German-led Europe
that attacks us that even some Protestants now agree is true)
and yet we never see you get all hot and bothered about them or
post against them or call them false prophets. Why your glaring
double standard? Perhaps you're too blind to see it yourself,
but now that it's been brought to your attention, prayerfully
think about it and see this is the plain truth.
"For exposing your SUNday as a pagan counterfeit of the
biblical Sabbath; your pagan holidays you've sought with your
replacement theology to replace the biblical festivals'" -- I
believe Judaizers were addressed by Paul, not by me.
According to your vain traditions and popular error, Paul would
be a Judaizer since he kept and taught the biblical Sabbath and
festivals, just like Jesus did and will command all nations to
keep when He returns and reigns in Jerusalem.
Are you in denial of this plain truth? It says Christ will
command both Jews, Israelites and Gentiles, all nations, to keep
the Feast of Tabernacles - not pagan Xmas or Easter (should tell
you a lot right there!)- when He reigns from Jerusalem with the
glorified Saints, then brilliant God-beings. Is Jesus a
Judaizer? Rather, your kind are Roman wolves in sheep's clothing
with your replacement theology, seeking to demonically replace
the Sabbath with pagan Sunday, the biblical festivals with your
hollow days of pagan origins that GOD HATES, and you do many
other similar things with your idolatrous and tinsel traditions.
"that God is not the sadist traditional Christians make Him
out to be; that the meek inherit the Earth - not float off to
Heaven;" -- who said anything about floating off? I have
specifically said our hope is in the new earth.
Thankfully, you're correct about the New Earth, but your
traditional Churchianity teaches folks go to "heaven or hell"
when they die, which is a RELIGIOUS LIE. And I see you still
misrepresent God as a sadist rather than a loving God who puts
the wicked out of their misery, who mercifully destroys them
completely in the Lake of Fire and lets them return to dust
while the rest become divine.
" that you're not an immortal soul, eternal life is a gift
from God;" -- Yes, a gift already given to all.
Another RELIGIOUS LIE. Why don't you believe the clear teachings
of the Scripture rather than Catholic-Babylonian doctrines of
demons? Satan said, "You shall surely not die." In other words,
you're an immortal soul! Yet God's Word says the soul that sins
it shall die, and Revelation speaks of the second death (from
which there is never a resurrection), and Jesus spoke about
destroying both body and soul in "Hell fire." Why don't you
believe Him? God isn't the sadist you counterfeit Christians
with your serpentine ministers make Him out to be.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son
that whosoever believes in Him should not PERISH (death), but
(on the other hand) have everlasting life." Life or death -
those are the only two choices. Not life and life. And who would
consider it a gift if they had eternal life in torment? You're
not even being logical or biblical. "The wages of sin is DEATH,
but the gift of God is eternal life" (Romans 6:23). Life or
death, plain and simple. And "no murderer has eternal life
dwelling in him" (I John 3:15).
"the wicked will be destroyed, ashes under our feet; we can
become literal God-beings, members of the Kingdom-Family of God?
Why don't you just confess and forsake your sins of murderous
hatred against HWA for slaughtering your "sacred cow" and
exposing it as religious bull from Babylon?" --
I don't believe you ever answered as to why HWA was lying to you
about the Greek language, his sole basis for his beliefs; that
it does not concern you......
Why are you still wrestling dishonestly, desperately, with YOUR
straw man? I've clearly shown how biblical it is to know and
believe and teach we're to become literal God-beings and I don't need to know Greek to read
it in the Bible and believe the simplicity that is in Christ.
Why are you so dishonest and trying to squirm around clear
statements like "flesh and blood does NOT inherit the Kingdom of
God," and "we shall see Him as He is for we shall be like Him,"
and even as we've born the human image of Adam, so we'll bear
the divine image of Christ, the FIRSTBORN OF MANY BRETHREN.
Why don't you believe those clear Scriptures that you're afraid
to address and go off on your little tangents, dishonestly? Why
don't you let the TRUTH set you free from your lying traditions?
Why resist the Holy Spirit of truth? You should praise God for
exposing such darkness to you and be glad to forsake the Babylon
you're in enslaved within. Regardless, it's your choice: you can
become dust or divine, have eternal life or eternal death. But,
like God, I encourage you to CHOOSE LIFE.