How the Seven Mysteries Were Revealed
God's Truth Would Have Solved!
The real CAUSES of all
this world's religious confusion--and all its evils--are revealed in SEVEN
BASIC MYSTERIES that decry this
But now God's time
has come! He now sends a voice to cry
out with amplified world-covering power to reveal the way out of this senseless
madness, into the world of PEACE and righteousness that soon shall grip the
earth!
In the book of Isaiah is
a "NOW" prophecy:
"The voice of him
that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.... lift up thy
voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say... Behold, the Lord God
will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward
is with him, and his work before him" (Isa. 40:3, 9-10).
That voice now cries
out!
The prophet Malachi confirmed
this:
"Behold, I will
send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom
ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts" (Mal.
3:1).
Armstrong Believed Scripture Prophesied
About Him
It is evident that Armstrong believed that he was indeed "that voice now" crying out! For he believed that he was sent "to cry out with amplified world-covering power to reveal the way out of this senseless madness".
Both of these prophecies
have a dual application. First, they refer to John the Baptist, who prepared
the way before Jesus' human ministry more than 1,900 years ago. But, as a
prototype, or forerunner, these prophecies foretell one to prepare the way
before Christ's Second Coming as the King of kings and Lord of lords to RULE
over ALL NATIONS!
Malachi's prophecy, like
Isaiah's, if you will read on past the first verse, refers to a human messenger
preparing the way before Christ's now imminent Second Coming, this time in
supreme POWER AND GLORY as Ruler over all nations!
Understand the duality
principle here. These prophecies refer to a type and its fulfillment.
John the Baptist was a
voice crying out in the physical wilderness of the Jordan River area, preparing
for the human physical Jesus' First Coming to a material temple at
Jesus came, over 1,900
years ago, to announce the FUTURE
It's going before kings,
emperors, presidents, prime ministers of nations--and to their peoples, on all
continents and all nations of the earth!
Armstrong Believed He Was The Eliyah To Come
It is evident that Armstrong believed that he indeed was the Eliyah to come, the "voice 'lifted up' (greatly amplified by modern printing, radio and TV)". "Going before kings, emperors, presidents, prime ministers of nations".
Let me say here that in
about 99,999 times out of 100,000, when people think GOD is speaking to them in
a dream or vision in this day and age, it is pure imagination, or some form of
self-hypnotism or self-deception. But if
this was a vision from God, like Jonah, I tried to run away. But subsequent to
this, in God's due time, God dealt with me in no uncertain terms, even as he
had dealt with Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Andrew, Peter and the apostle
Paul.
Armstrong's Presumption Concerning
Dreams
It appears that Armstrong was a bit presumptuous to declare "that in about 99,999 times out of 100,000, when people think GOD is speaking to them in a dream or vision in this day and age, it is pure imagination, or some form of self-hypnotism or self-deception"! For Armstrong had already said that we are living in the last days. The days when knowledge and understanding shall increase, as he quoted from Daniyel 12. The days when the Eliyah to come will undertake his preparatory work prior to the return of Yah'shuah the Messiah.
Armstrong Virtually Discounted Validity Of
Dreams From Yahweh
Yet, in this declaration, he was virtually discounting the validity of any dreams anyone may receive from Yahweh! Was Armstrong's practice of virtually dismissing the validity of dreams as having come from Yahweh scriptural?
Acts 2: 14-21 reads, "2:14But Kefa, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, 'You men of Yahudah, and all you who dwell at Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. 2:15For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day. 2:16But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Yo'el:
2:17"It
will be in the last days, says Yahweh,
I will pour forth of my Spirit on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions.
Your old men will dream dreams.
2:18Yes,
and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days,
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
2:19I
will show wonders in the sky above,
And signs on the earth beneath;
Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
2:20The
sun will be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of Yahweh comes.
2:21It will be, that whoever will
call on the name of Yahweh will be saved."'"
Armstrong's Words Contradicted By Yahweh's
Words
Comparing Kefa and Yoel's words, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, with Armstrong's words, it is indeed evident that these words CONFLICT! For where Yahweh said that he would pour out his Spirit and communicate with dreams to his people, Armstrong virtually dismissed this form of communication that Yahweh has with his people!
In so dismissing this form of communication that Yahweh has with his people, it was indeed very likely that Yahweh communicated with his people through dreams, but Armstrong dismissed the validity of these dreams that had come from Yahweh! And in this great likelihood of his dismissal of communication that came from Yahweh, because it came via dreams Yahweh delivered to his people, Armstrong would have rejected Yahweh's words!
Armstrong Not Different From "Traditional
Christianity"
And in rejecting Yahweh's words Armstrong would have been NO DIFFERENT to "traditional Christianity" whom he accused of promulgating false teachings! In other words, since he lambasted "traditional Christianity" for rejecting Yahweh's words in the Bible, and he very likely rejected Yahweh's words to Yahweh's people delivered via dreams, he was acting no differently to "traditional Christianity". And therefore whatever guilt he accused "traditional Christianity" of bearing, he also bore!
For Yahweh's words are Yahweh's words, whether they are recorded in the scriptures, or whether they come by dreams! The mode of delivery is NOT what determines the validity of their source. What is important is to note that the words originate with Yahweh, and should therefore be abided by.
After all, who is man, any man, including Armstrong, that he should insist that Yahweh speak to him in a particular designated manner? Is it for us human beings to instruct Yahweh concerning the manner he is to speak to us? Or is it for us to listen to him irrespective of the manner he speaks to us? Is it for us to accept his words when he speaks to us in a manner we approve, and then reject his words when he speaks to us in a manner we do not approve of, such as by dreams to his people? And are we being submissive to Yahweh by making impositions on him with respect to the manner he should communicate with us?
Armstrong's approach in this matter of virtually rejecting all dreams Yahweh gave to his people in these last days was a REJECTION OF YAHWEH, for he rejected Yahweh's words because they did not come via a mode he approved of!
Would one whom Yahweh had made the Eliyah to come before the coming of his Messiah really reject Yahweh and his words, because they did not come via a method or mode one approved of? Did the Eliyahs who came in times past insist that Yahweh communicate with his people in the manner they approved of? Did they not rather accept Yahweh's communication in the manner Yahweh chose? Did they not FULLY SUBMIT to the will of Yahweh, accepting Yahweh's communication in the manner he gave it?
Armstrong's virtual dismissal of Yahweh speaking to his people via dreams in these last days was a rejection of Yahweh's words in the Bible, the very Bible Armstrong portrayed himself to uphold, and castigated "traditional Christianity" for not upholding! And seeing that Armstrong did not think that he was deceived, for he believed he had the truth, while it was "traditional Christianity" that he said was deceived, his guilt in rejecting Yahweh's words indeed remained upon his own head, even as Yahchanan (John) 9: 40-41 shows! Armstrong was just as guilty of rejecting Yahweh's words as those whom he accused of so doing - "traditional Christianity"! Armstrong was EVIDENTLY NOT the Eliyah to come, despite proclaiming himself to have indeed been that Eliyah to come! (For further study on the Eliyah to come please read the article Who Is the Prophesied Eliyah to Come? at http://www.ServeYahweh.org/Article/Eliyah.htm.)
So I continued the study
of the Bible. I began to write, in article form, the things I was learning. I
did not then suppose these articles would ever be published. I wrote them for
my own satisfaction. It was one way to learn more by the study.
And I can say now, with the apostle Paul, "that the gospel which [is]
preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither
was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.... But when it pleased
God...to reveal his Son in me...immediately I conferred not with flesh and
blood: neither went I [to a theological seminary, but I was taught by Jesus
Christ, the Word of God (in writing)]" (Gal. 1:11-12, 15-17).
Armstrong Not Taught By Yah'shuah The Messiah
Armstrong's words notwithstanding, as already seen above, NOT ALL of Armstrong's teachings were taught him by Yah'shuah the Messiah, the Word of the Mighty One. For Yah'shuah DOES NOT contradict himself. If he says that Yahweh will indeed communicate in the last days to his people by dreams, and Armstrong virtually dismisses the fact that Yahweh does indeed communicate with his people in these last days by dreams, it is indeed evident that Armstrong's words are contradicted by Yah'shuah's! Therefore in saying that what he preached was taught him by Yah'shuah the Messiah Armstrong WAS WRONG!
And if what was taught him was not taught him by man, as he indeed says, then WHO taught him? As Yah'shuah did not teach him things that contradict Yahweh's words in the scriptures, and Armstrong says that he was indeed taught, and not by a human being, then which non-human being taught Armstrong? Which non-human being taught Armstrong teachings contradicted by Yahweh's words in the scriptures? An enemy of Yahweh? Hasatan the devil? Who?
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