Living Armstrongism: Overview of May-June 2014 Tomorrow's World Magazine

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Overview of May-June 2014 Tomorrow's World Magazine

The May-June 2014 issue of LCG's recruitment magazine Tomorrow's World is now out. Let us see what LCG's leader have to say this time.

Roderick C. Meredith has a personal claiming that he learned that mainstream Christianity is false. He mentions how he saw a friend of his die while wrestling and this caused him to search for answers. No doubt this must have been very hard for him to deal with. Of course he will recommend that the reader should join his LCG and pay three tithes to it.

Roderick C. Meredith has an article condemning the rapture theory and instead insisting that worthy LCG members will be sent by God to a place of safety to escape the Great Tribulation. He even has a little picture of Petra on page 26.

Wyatt Ciesielka has an article comparing the Islamic Qur'an with Christianity. Considering he belongs to a religion which claims to be Christian it will be no surprise that he will say that LCG's brand of Armstrongism is true.

Richard Ames has an article claiming that reader can understand prophecy. Of course Ames then merely promotes LCG's version of Armstrongite prophecy, which has been ultimately inherited from the Millerite movement of the 1830s-1840s.

James Ginn has a little article bemoaning various personal scandals among the powerful and famous within Canada and saying this is a sign the Great Tribulation shall soon occur.

John Meakin has a little article recalling D-Day and saying certain events that occurred then were miraculous. In the world of Armstrongism such nostalgic article are often used to claim that the US and Britain and now moral wastelands compared to those days and that such happy events are now quite impossible because of our sins. These Armstrongites conveniently forget that HWA was preaching that Hitler would triumph in the war at the time of the D-day landings.

The Question and Answer explain away the thief's request to Jesus in Luke 23:43 as just a miss placed comma to insist that the doctrine of soul sleep is the truth. This doctrine was inherited from the Seventh Day Adventists.

Douglas Winnail has a fear inducing article claiming that Germany is on the rise and will soon conquer the United States and Britain and make slaves of the peoples.

Scott D. Winnail has a little article telling LCG members that they should stay away from movies which portray violence. This is simply an attempt to socially isolate LCG members from society and make it harder for LCG members to relate to non-LCG members in order to control and exploit them more effectively.

Jonathan McNair has a little article calling for people to respect your elders.

J. Davy Crockett (he who said obelisks are evil, pagan sex symbols) in his little article calls upon LCG members to pay attention to be righteous in even little things.

Page 30 contains a page length explanation for the purpose of their recruitment magazine. The magazine is praised for being free. Of course LCG members pay for this by paying three tithes.

So we see that once again LCG has produced yet another magazine designed to make LCG members believe that they are specially blessed to be in LCG and to continue paying three tithes and extra offerings to LCG.

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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