LAODICEA IS WELL AND HEALTHY.....
I TUNED IN TO CEM AND CGI LAST FEAST IN KENTUCKY - THE 8TH DAY FEAST AFTER THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
ONE MAN SAID, "WHAT DO YOU THINK?"
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK....
THE LAODICEA CHURCH IS WELL AND HEALTHY!!
AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, THE HYMNS WERE OFTEN UNKNOWN AND NOT EASY TO SING - A CULTISH ATTITUDE OF MIND.
ONE SPEAKER TALKED ABOUT RON DART AND SOME MEETING OF "WHOSE WAS WHO IN THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD." NEVER HEARD OF THIS MEETING BUT NOT SURPRISED. THANKFULLY MANY OF "WHO WAS WHO" IN THE WCG WERE NOT THERE, BECAUSE THEY ARE DEAD! THIS "OLD BUDDY" MEETINGS FROM THE WCG..... WELL IF MEETING, THEY SHOULD BE MEETING TO TALK ABOUT THE ERRORS, AND HOW NOT TO EVER COME CLOSE TO IT AGAIN.
HE TALKED ABOUT UCG AND A KINDA FAMILY TOGETHERNESS, IN THIS FEAST.
IT WAS OBVIOUS THEY ARE TRYING TO PUT OUT THIS ATTITUDE OF MIND - "TOGETHERNESS"
BUT ALL IT DOES IS GIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT PEOPLE IN CERTAIN GROUPS LIKE UCG, DO NOT HAVE TO ADMIT THEIR PARTICIPATION IN A CULT UNDER HERBERT ARMSTRONG IN HIS LAST 20 YEARS OF LIFE.
I THOUGHT THE CGI AND CEM HAD MOVED FORWARD IN THEIR MOVING OUT OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD IN 1978/79.....BUT IT SEEMS THEY ARE NOW MOVING BACK TO HOOK UP ARMS WITH THE ATTITUDE OF THE UCG THAT ALL WAS OKAY IN THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD TILL 1990, UNTIL THE WCG DID AWAY WITH THE SABBATH AND FEASTS AND OTHER THEOLOGY IDEAS. FOR THEM EVERYTHING WAS FINE UNDER HERBERT ARMSTRONG.
NO, IT WAS FAR FROM BEING FINE!
UNTIL PEOPLE ADMIT THAT HERBERT ARMSTRONG IN THE LAST 20 YEARS OF HIS LIFE, MOVED THE WCG INTO BEING A CULT, THEY ARE IN THE ATTITUDE OF THE LAODICEAN MINDSET...... ALL IS FINE, I AM RICH, AND I NEED NOTHING.
JESUS SAYS TO THEM, "AND YOU KNOW NOT THAT YOU ARE WRETCHED, AND MISERABLE, AND POOR, AND BLIND, AND NAKED. I COUNSEL YOU TO BUY OF ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE, THAT YOU MAY BE RICH; AND WHITE RAIMENT, THAT YOU MAY BE CLOTHED, AND THAT THE SHAME OF YOUR NAKEDNESS DO NOT APPEAR; AND ANOINT YOUR EYES WITH EYESALVE, THAT YOU MAY SEE. AS MANY AS I LOVE, I REBUKE AND CHASEN: BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE AND REPENT!" (REVELATION 3:17-19).
THE UCG - IT'S MINISTERS AND PEOPLE, STILL HAVE TO REPENT OVER BEING IN A CULT FOR MANY MANY YEARS.
THE CEM AND CGI SHOULD BE STANDING FIRM ON THEIR FIRST STANDING THAT THE WCG UNDER HERBERT ARMSTRONG HAD BECOME WRONG, AND SO LEFT IN 1978/79.
BACK THEN THEY WERE ONE ORGANIZATION - LATER CEM WAS FORMED BY RON DART OVER THE IMMORAL SINS OF GARNER TED ARTMSTRONG. CGI FINALLY FIRED TED ARMSTRONG. BUT BOTH ORGANIZATIONS ADMITTED THE SINS AND ERRORS OF HERBERT ARMSTRONG AS HE MOVED THE WCG INTO A CULT MINDSET.
SO BACK TO THIS DAY AND THIS SERVICE OF THE FEAST OBSERVANCE IN KENTUCKY.
NO AFTERNOON SERVICE TO BRING PEOPLE TO THE CLOSE OF THIS HOLY DAY SERVICE, AS IT USED TO BE DONE. I REMEMBER HOW IT WAS OBSERVED BACK IN THE 1960s IN THE WCG AND WITH THE CGI IN ITS FIRST YEARS OF EXISTENCE.
AFTER THE NOON MEAL PEOPLE WILL BE PACKING UP; GOING ABOUT THEIR OWN BUSINESS.....DOING THEIR OWN THING! ON THE HOLY DAY SABBATH!
THIS IS CORRUPTION AND A WRONG MIND-SET!
REPENTANCE NEEDS TO COME; AN AFTERNOON SERVICE SHOULD BE HELD, BRINGING PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE END OF THIS SABBATH FEAST DAY, AS IT WAS CONDUCTED ORIGINALLY.
THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO END THIS LAST FEAST, THAN TO HAVE GOD'S PEOPLE IN A GATHERING TOWARDS THE END OF THIS FEAST....BRINGING A WONDERFUL CLOSE TO THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, AND SAYING "GOODBYE" TO OTHERS YOU MAY NOT SEE UNTIL THE NEXT YEAR, OR MAYBE NOT UNTIL THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES TO EARTH.
THE LAODICEA MIDSET, SADLY IS STILL WELL AND HEALTHY IN MANY OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD.
IF REPENTANCE DOES NOT COME GOD WILL SURELY BRING REBUKE!
IN FACT HE IS BRINGING IT RIGHT NOW AS YOU READ THIS.
IT IS TIME FOR MANY TO PUT ON EYE OINTMENT TO REALLY SEE THE PLAIN TRUTH, OF THE WRONG CONDITIONS PREVALENT IN MANY OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD TODAY.
HE THAT HAS AN EAR TO HEAR WITH, SHOULD HEAR!
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