MYSTERY OF THE
Why do the churches
disagree on what actually is "the gospel of Jesus Christ"? During
the first twenty or thirty years after the founding of the Church in A.D.31 a
violent controversy arose over the very question of what is "the gospel of
Jesus Christ." There ensued a hundred years in which all history of
the New Testament Church was destroyed. It has been called "the lost
century of Church history." When the curtain lifted, about the middle of
the second century, there appeared an entirely different type of church calling
itself Christian, but in the main preaching its own gospel ABOUT Christ, not
the gospel OF Christ. The gospel OF Christ was the gospel Christ
proclaimed. Jesus was a Messenger sent from God with a message, and that
message was THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Christ's message was Christ's gospel--the gospel
OF Christ. It had not been proclaimed to the world until the first week in
1953, when for the first time in about 1,900 years--a century of time
cycles--it went out on the world's most powerful radio station. Radio
Armstrong Misrepresented Dispute
Concerning The Good News
Acts 15 and the book of Galatians CLEARLY show the nature of the controversy regarding Yah'shuah's good news. The circumcision party were preaching that it was necessary to undertake circumcision and the works of the law of Moshe in order to be saved! Bar-Nabba and Shaul preached otherwise, preaching that salvation is by Yahweh's grace through belief in his Son Yah'shuah the Messiah! The dispute was NOT about whether Yah'shuah was the Messiah or Yah'shuah was coming as King of his kingdom! Armstrong is confusing issues, and introducing an IMAGINARY DISPUTE in history!
Why does not Armstrong just accurately deliver the historical account? Why must he suggest that the dispute was different from what it actually was?
Or is he setting the stage to glorify the works he undertook? And thereby clouding history in order to appear in favourable light to his readers?
What is the one and only
gospel of Jesus Christ? THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW! It has not been preached
for 19 centuries, strange as that may seem. Look into your BIBLE. Look at
it from the very beginning!
Armstrong Alleged No One Heard The Good News
For 19 Centuries
If the good news of the Messiah had not been preached for 19 centuries, does that mean that there was no disciple of Yah'shuah for 19 centuries? For if the good news was not preached, what were the people to believe? For they needed to hear the good news in order to believe it, and be saved. But if they did not hear it for 19 centuries then, according to Armstrong, no one in 19 centuries had salvation abiding in him, until Armstrong came onto the scene! How preposterous!
The Good News The Apostles Preached
1 Corinthians 15: 1-8 reads, "15:1Now I declare to you, brothers, the good news which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain. 15:3For I delivered to you first of all that which also I received: that Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures, 15:4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 15:5and that he appeared to Kefa, then to the twelve. 15:6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 15:7Then he appeared to Ya`akov, then to all the apostles, 15:8and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also."
In other words, the good news that Shaul preached, which was received by the brothers, by which they were saved, in which also they stood, was the death, burial and resurrection from the dead of Yah'shuah the Messiah, all according to the scriptures! This was the message Shaul preached! This was the message the other apostles preached! This is the saving good news! And it is certainly ABOUT the Messiah, all according to the scriptures!
Armstrong Disparaged The Truth
Therefore what Armstrong DISPARAGES is THE TRUTH! What Armstrong says has not been preached for 19 centuries has indeed been preached for 19 centuries! So what is Armstrong talking about? Lies? Twisting of Scripture? Evidently!
Why did Armstrong have to TWIST the good news? To belittle all who preached the good news before him in order to glorify his work as superior to all the works they undertook? Madness! Madness! Deceptions! Deceptions!
Armstrong's words are AGAIN contradicted by Yahweh's words! Armstrong's words are again seen to have come from Hasatan! Armstrong was indeed Hasatan's minister, a minister of darkness transforming himself into a minister of light! Just as he DISPARAGED Yahchanan's work, so also he disparaged the works undertaken by all faithful servants of Yah'shuah for a period of 19 centuries!
Armstrong Disparaged The Works Of Yah'shuah's
Servants
Does a servant of Yah'shuah disparage the works undertaken by other servants of Yah'shuah? Or was Armstrong indeed of Hasatan, and thereby joining Hasatan in disparaging the works of Yah'shuah true servants? Evidently so!
Armstrong's disparaging of Yah'shuah's true servants over the centuries ALSO exposes another INCONSISTENCY in his fallacious thesis. For earlier on he had said that the true assembly of Yahweh had not died throughout history, in an effort to establish a link between Yah'shuah's true assembly and his Worldwide Church of God. Now he says that all who came before him were lazy labourers who did absolutely nothing with respect to proclaiming the good news! Which is which, Armstrong? Did they or did they not undertake Yah'shuah's works? And if they did not so undertake his works, were they or were they not his servants? The levels that Armstrong descends to in order to glorify his work! Sadly amazing! Sadly amazing!
This thesis of Armstrong, what he calls "truth" or "the restoration of truth" is a FALLACY and a SERIES OF FALLACIES! Armstrong preaches falsehoods and palms them off as truth! He uses some scriptures correctly to catch his readers' attention, and then twists others, thereby deceiving his reader - if his readers believe him! He disparages Yah'shuah's true servants, in order that his work may be glorified in his eyes! What height of vanity! What folly!
No Difference In Gospels Armstrong Alleged Were
Different
"The beginning of
the gospel of Jesus Christ" you'll read in Mark 1:1. "Now after that
John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mark 1:14-15).
It is necessary to
believe that GOSPEL to be saved! And how can you believe it, unless you know
what it is? And for 1,900 years, the world did not know. That gospel was
suppressed and replaced by man's gospel about Christ.
Why is Armstrong trying to HOODWINK people?
There is NO DIFFERENCE between the good news Yah'shuah preached, about the kingdom of the Mighty One, and the good news the apostles preached, about Yah'shuah the Messiah. For Yah'shuah indeed IS the kingdom of the Mighty One! It is one and the same thing!
Even Armstrong earlier acknowledged in his thesis that Yah'shuah is the kingdom of the Mighty One, when explaining what Yah'shuah meant when he said, in Luke 17: 21, that "the kingdom of the Mighty One is in the midst of you"! Why acknowledge that it is one and the same when explaining the meaning of that verse, and then later portray that they are indeed different, with one being true and the other false? Madness!
Armstrong again EXPOSES the INCONSISTENCIES within his thesis! This is the work of a CONFUSED MIND DEVOID OF THE HOLY SPIRIT! The Holy Spirit was NOT dwelling in Armstrong when he wrote this thesis. In fact, the Holy Spirit did not dwell in Armstrong when he undertook his works of darkness! His deceptions! His fallacious teachings, by which he caused many people to worship Yahweh in vain, for he taught them his own commandments for doctrine! Madness!
Armstrong Alleged That Apostles Brought
Double Curse Upon Themselves
Isn't it amazing that
the world has LOST the knowledge of what it is? The apostle Paul preached THE
KINGDOM OF GOD (Acts 19:8; 20:25; 28:23, 31). And God Almighty, through Paul,
pronounced a double curse on man or angel that would DARE preach any other
gospel! (Gal. 1:8-9).
Seeing that Shaul preached ABOUT Yah'shuah the Messiah, as seen above in 1 Corinthians 15, and seeing that Armstrong calls that a gospel DIFFERENT from that of the "kingdom of God", is Armstrong saying that Shaul, and the other apostles, brought a double curse on themselves? Is Armstrong saying that the original apostles who were taught by Yah'shuah personally, face to face, brought a double curse on themselves by preaching ABOUT Yah'shuah the Messiah, and calling this preaching of Yah'shuah, according to the scriptures, the good news!
Armstrong is evidently speaking his own things - sayings of darkness! For by his words he CONDEMNS even the original apostles! And if he has condemned the original apostles, including also Shaul, then why does he still refer to their writings and call them Scripture?
Manifest contradictions! Manifest contradictions! Armstrong's thesis is replete with INCONSISTENCIES - internal inconsistencies! And yet he calls himself Yah'shuah's apostle, Yahweh's Eliyah to come, Yahweh's prophet, Yahweh's minister, etc. Armstrong is CLEARLY EXPOSED as a servant of Hasatan who undertook the works of Hasatan. Those undertaking such works have NO SHARE in the kingdom of Yahweh!
Revelation 22: 12-16 reads, "22:12'Behold, I come
quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
22:13I
am the Aleph and the Tav, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 22:14Blessed are
those who do his commandments, that they may
have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
22:15Outside are the dogs, the
sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone
who loves and practices falsehood. 22:16I, Yah'shuah, have sent my angel to testify these things to
you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright
and Morning Star.'"
It should therefore be evident that those undertaking the works such as undertaken by Armstrong WILL NOT be in Yahweh's kingdom! Repeat - WILL NOT be in Yahweh's kingdom! For so says Yah'shuah!
Because they rejected
Christ's gospel 1,900 years ago, the world had to supplant something else in
its place. They had to invent a counterfeit!
Armstrong's Counterfeit Gospel
Armstrong's gospel of calling the good news about Yah'shuah the Messiah a counterfeit is indeed a counterfeit gospel! For he calls that which is true a counterfeit!
Even Armstrong acknowledged in his thesis that the Father is Truth! Seeing that he has repeatedly called truth falsehoods, and called falsehoods truth, is it not evident that Armstrong was calling Father Yahweh a Counterfeit, and calling the other father, Hasatan, the truth? Madness, madness, madness! Armstrong was indeed Hasatan's minister, transforming himself into a minister of righteousness!
Armstrong Predicted Last Possible Date For
Yah'shuah's Return
The whole purpose of the
DREAM was to reveal GOD'S GOVERNMENT- the fact that God RULES--the truth of THE
KINGDOM OF GOD--the very thing that is the one and only true GOSPEL OF JESUS
CHRIST! And, secondly, to reveal--preserved in writing for us TODAY--what is
to happen "in the latter days"--actually within the next two
decades-- THIS LAST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY!
Daniyel (Daniel) 2: 36-45 reads, "2:36This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 2:37You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the Mighty One of Heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory; 2:38and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold. 2:39After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. 2:40The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. 2:41Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. 2:42As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 2:43Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay. 2:44In the days of those kings shall the Mighty One of Heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 2:45Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great Mighty One has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure."
In other words, Armstrong says that BEFORE the end of the twentieth century, that is within the next two and a half years (for it is about mid 1998 when this is being written), Yahweh will set up a kingdom here on earth that shall never be destroyed. In other words, Armstrong says that BEFORE the end of the year 2000, Yah'shuah will have returned and established his kingdom here on earth!
Will Armstrong's prophecy be fulfilled? Did it come from Yahweh? Or was it just the imagination of his own head, as several of his words in this thesis of his?
It appears to me, seeing that Armstrong is a FALSE PROPHET, that this prophecy of his is just that - the imagination of his own head! Nevertheless, for those who think that he is indeed a true prophet, the Eliyah to come as he calls himself, he has given you this prophecy to determine whether or not he is indeed a prophet of Yahweh!
The Pattern of Government Organization
God has not told us, in so many words, precisely how his coming world super
government will be organized. Yet he has given us the general pattern. He has
told us specifically where 14 high executives (including Christ) will fit in.
And from them we may deduce a great deal of the remaining governmental
structure. Much of the coming structure of government is at least strongly
indicated by what is plainly revealed.
Armstrong's Worthless Speculations
Seeing that Armstrong has acknowledged that he does not know the precise details of the organisation of the coming world super government, why is he engaging in SPECULATIONS about what has not been revealed!
Devarim 29: 29 reads, "29:29The secret things belong to Yahweh our Mighty One; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law."
Since these things that have not been revealed belong to Yahweh our Mighty One, we should best leave them to him. We should concentrate our energies on what has been revealed, so revealed that we may do all of the words of Yahweh's law. Armstrong's speculations DO NOT assist us in doing all the words of Yahweh's law! Such speculations should therefore not be engaged in!
Since Noah lived first,
we now take a look at Noah. In Noah's day, the chief cause of the violence
and chaos of world conditions was racial hatreds, interracial marriages, and
racial violence caused by man's efforts toward integration and amalgamation of
races, contrary to God's laws. God had set the boundary lines for the
nations and the races at the beginning (Deut. 32:8-9; Acts 17:26). But men had
refused to remain in the lands to which God had assigned them. That was the
cause of the corruption and violence that ended that world. For 100 years Noah
had preached God's ways to the people--but they didn't heed.
Technique Used By Hasatan's Ministers
Armstrong here again repeats his fallacious theory on races and interracial marriage, a theory he postulated but did not prove! A theory negated by Yahweh's words! Yet he repeats it as if it is truth!
These are the TECHNIQUES USED BY HASATAN'S MINISTERS! Repeat falsehoods enough times, and people will come to believe it is true, thereby being deceived!
Education in the World Tomorrow
But the real world
evangelism will be administered by this Headquarters Church, composed of resurrected
immortals, under direct personal supervision of Christ himself. One thing
there will not be in the millennial Headquarters Church is a doctrinal
committee of intellectual "scholars" to decide whether Christ's
teachings are true doctrines.
There was no such
doctrinal committee in the first century Headquarters Church at Jerusalem. All
teaching came from Christ through the apostles--and a few times Christ
communicated to apostles via the prophets (of which there are none in God's
Church today since the Bible for our time is complete). God's Church today,
as in the first century, receives its teachings from the living Christ, through
an apostle, just as in A.D. 31.
Armstrong, by his comments, shows his aversion for "intellectual 'scholars' to decide whether Christ's teachings are true doctrines"! Seeing that he also said that "God's Church today … receives its teachings from the living Christ, through an apostle", he implied that those teachings were above scrutiny from a group of "scholars"! And seeing that he Armstrong was that "apostle", he really meant that his teachings were above scrutiny from a group of "scholars"! In other words, he was averse to subjecting his own teachings to a group of "scholars" for determination whether or not those teachings were true doctrines!
If Armstrong knew that his teachings were true, what did he have to FEAR from their examination by a group of scholars? If Armstrong really believed that his teachings came from "the living Christ", what did he have to fear from their examination by a group of scholars? Did not Armstrong believe that the Messiah had intellect superior to that of all the world's scholars combined, seeing that he is the one who created man? Or did Armstrong know, as has been shown by this examination, that his teachings were fallacies, and their examination by a group of scholars would have exposed those fallacies? Thereby exposing him as a FRAUDSTER? Does not this appear to be the real reason why he was so averse to the examination of his teachings by a group of scholars?
Believers Commanded To Test All Things
1 Thessalonians 5: 21 reads, "5:21Test all things and hold firmly that which is good."
Seeing that this is a command to all believers, even scholars in the assembly of Yahweh are ENTITLED to test the teachings they receive, to assess whether they are true!
Yet Armstrong purposely prevented adherence to this command! Why?
Armstrong, by his conduct, is again exposed as a FRAUDSTER! A minister of Hasatan transforming himself into a minister of light! And when he realised that his false craft was about to be discovered, he came up with dubious reasons for doing away with potential discoveries of his false craft!
Armstrong Despised Prophesying
Armstrong acknowledges that "a few times Christ communicated to apostles via the prophets", yet he rules out their existence today, on the DUBIOUS ground that the Bible for our time is complete!
1 Thessalonians 5: 20 reads, " 5:20Don't despise prophecies."
Yet Armstrong DESPISED prophesying, for he ruled out their existence in the present day! So whom was Armstrong really following?
The Messiah, in his word, says do not despise prophesying. Yet Armstrong despised prophesying! Armstrong was evidently following another messiah, another anointed one, and not Father Yahweh's Son. Armstrong was, by disobeying Yah'shuah the Messiah, following Hasatan the devil, Armstrong's father!
Armstrong Rejected Yahweh's Word By Yoel
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."'"
The prophet Yoel faithfully transmitted Yahweh's words whereby Yahweh said that in the last days, the days Armstrong acknowledges have already come upon us, he would pour out his Spirit on all flesh. And both sons and daughters of the children of Yisrael would prophesy! Both Yahweh's servants and his handmaidens would prophesy in those days!
Yet Armstrong says that no prophets exist in our time! It is therefore evident that Armstrong DID NOT BELIEVE Yahweh, his words to the contrary notwithstanding! For when Yahweh prophesied that there would be prophesying, by both men and women, in the last days, Armstrong says that there would not! Whom should one believe - Armstrong or Yahweh? Yes, between Armstrong and Yahweh, whom should one believe?
It is VERY EVIDENT that Armstrong WAS NOT a servant of Yahweh, for his words are CONTRADICTED by Yahweh's words! Yet he claimed to be Yahweh's Eliyah to come! Madness! Absolute madness!
The Eliyahs who came in times past BELIEVED Yahweh! In fact, the works they undertook were at Yahweh's command, and not on the authority of their own thoughts, or on Hasatan's authority! Yet Armstrong elevates himself to this level! Madness! Absolute madness!
Armstrong Rejected Prophet Agav's Work
Acts 11: 25-30 reads, " 11:25Bar-Nabba went forth to Tarsus to look for Sha'ul. 11:26When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Messianic in Antioch.
11:27Now in these days, prophets came down from Yerushalayim to Antioch. 11:28One of them named Agav stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius. 11:29The disciples, as anyone had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Yahudah; 11:30which they also did, sending it to the Zakenim by the hands of Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul."
Here we have an account of the work prophets did during the early days of the assembly. The Spirit revealed to Agav that there would indeed be a great famine over all the world. The assembly was therefore informed in very good time, and could thereby make adequate provision for the famine, and assist their needy brethren in areas where the famine was severe.
Now this warning did not have much to do with Agav writing scripture. Nevertheless it was still a work of the Spirit through Yahweh's prophets! And in this case it was Agav who was selected for delivering this message.
Armstrong therefore exposes his INADEQUATE knowledge and understanding of the work of prophets in the assembly of Yahweh! For he thought that the only activity they undertook was writing scripture!
Yahweh Has Rejected Armstrong From Being His Priest
Hoshea 4: 6 reads, " 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no Kohen to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your Mighty One, I also will forget your children."
Armstrong's lack of knowledge of Yahweh and Yahweh's ways permeated virtually the whole of the Worldwide Church of God, apart from some exceptions here and there. The members of the Worldwide Church of God were therefore being DESTROYED for lack of knowledge! Also, Armstrong REJECTED Yahweh's knowledge, for he was not ignorant of the scriptures. He knew them. But he rejected them, choosing instead to TWIST them to suit his own fallacious theories! Therefore YAHWEH REJECTED ARMSTRONG from being a Kohen or priest to him!
Seeing that Armstrong was REJECTED by Yahweh, it should be clear that Armstrong WILL NOT be in the first resurrection of the just! Repeat - Armstrong WILL NOT be in the first resurrection of the just! Yahweh has rejected him from being a priest to Yahweh, and therefore he will not be resurrected a priest in the first resurrection of the just!
Armstrong Ignored The Works Of Several
Prophets At Antioch
Acts 13: 1-2 reads, "13:1Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Bar-Nabba, Shim`on who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Menachem the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Sha'ul. 13:2As they served the Master and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, 'Separate Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul for me, for the work to which I have called them.'"
We see above that prophets served Yah'shuah and also fasted.
Of these five prophets who have been named here, the only one of whom we have his writings as scripture is Shaul. The other four served Yah'shuah in ways that did not necessarily include writing scripture!
Yet Armstrong IGNORED this witness in the scriptures, erroneously portraying that the only function of prophets is writing scripture!
Also, where did Armstrong get the notion that the Bible is complete for our time? Does it say so in the Bible? Was the Bible complete at the time the assembly of Yahweh commenced activity on the day of Pentecost? Was it complete with Shaul's death? Where does it say the Bible is complete for our time?
This is just a theory of Armstrong that CANNOT be supported from the Scripture!
Armstrong Rejected The Witness Of Acts 15
Acts 15: 22-33 reads, "15:22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the Zakenim, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba: Yahudah called Bar-Sabba, and Sila, chief men among the brothers. 15:23They wrote these things by their hand:
'The apostles, the Zakenim, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Goyim in Antioch and Aram and Cilicia: greetings. 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law," to whom we gave no commandment; 15:25it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul, 15:26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Master Yah'shuah the Messiah. 15:27We have sent therefore Yahudah and Sila, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth. 15:28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.'
15:30So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter. 15:31When they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation. 15:32Yahudah and Sila, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them. 15:33After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles."
It is clearly seen that the prophets Yahudah and Sila were "chief men" among the brothers! They were not some obscure people, as Armstrong would have them, but "chief men" among the brothers!
They were also men of good repute, for their word was used to CONFIRM that which the assembly at Yerushalayim wrote in a letter! They also performed errands between the different locations of the assembly. For in this case they acted as messengers communicating information from the assembly at Yerushalayim and that at Antioch, and vice versa. They also PREACHED to the assembly, Armstrong's earlier words to the contrary notwithstanding! And their preaching had the effect of ENCOURAGING and STRENGTHENING the brothers!
It is therefore evident that prophets did indeed have various activities they undertook in the assembly, activities that did not necessarily involve writing scripture! Yet the very things Armstrong said they did not do, are the very things we see they did!
Whom should one believe - Armstrong with his fallacies, or Yah'shuah and Yahweh with their truth?
Armstrong is again EXPOSED as a PHONEY! A false apostle who sought to thwart the work of Yahweh by his Spirit. He acted as Yahweh's adversary, even as Hasatan his father taught him how to do!
Armstrong Rejected Prophetesses
Acts 21: 7-14 reads, "21:7When we had finished the voyage from Tzor, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day. 21:8On the next day, we, who were Sha'ul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea.
We entered into the house of Pilipos the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. 21:9Now this man had four virgin daughters, who prophesied. 21:10As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet, named Agav, came down from Yahudah. 21:11Coming to us, and taking Sha'ul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, 'Thus says the Holy Spirit: "So will the Yahudim at Yerushalayim bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Goyim."'
21:12When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Yerushalayim. 21:13Then Sha'ul answered, 'What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Yerushalayim for the name of the Master Yah'shuah.'
21:14When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, 'The Master's will be done.'"
Here we have confirmation of the other portion of Yoel's prophecy, of Yahweh's handmaidens prophesying! These are indeed the last days! And Yahweh's words by his prophets DO NOT fall to the ground, notwithstanding the efforts of his adversaries like Armstrong trying to thwart his will! For just as Yahweh said that handmaidens would indeed prophesy in the last days, so did Pilipos's four virgin daughters prophesy!
The Holy Spirit Does Not Limit Communication Only To
Apostles
It should also be noted that Agav the prophet had a message from the Holy Spirit to Shaul. This shows that the apostle was NOT the sole person or class of person that Yahweh used to communicate to the assembly. Yahweh used whomever he chose at whatever time he chose! At certain times it was an apostle. At other times it was a prophet. At other times it was his handmaidens who were prophesying. Yahweh used whomever he chose at whatever time he chose!
It is therefore clearly seen that the work undertaken by prophets and prophetesses in the assembly of Yahweh involved more than just writing scripture. Of those mentioned as prophets we have Shaul's writings which are scripture. But we do not have the writings of all the other prophets. Thus one SHOULD NOT conclude that the only work for prophets is writing scripture, as Armstrong erroneously asserted!
What Yah'shuah Will Tell Armstrong After He
Returns
Mattityahu 7: 15-23 reads, "7:15Beware of false
prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 7:16By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17Even so, every good
tree brings forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
7:18A good tree can't bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 7:19Every tree that
doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 7:20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. 7:21Not everyone who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter
into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in
Heaven. 7:22Many will tell me in that day, 'Master, Master, didn't we
prophesy by your name, by your name cast out demons, and by your name do many
mighty works?' 7:23Then I will tell
them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'"
Armstrong's fate should now be evident! Being a FALSE PROPHET, bringing forth evil fruit, as already seen above, HE WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT WILL BE THROWN INTO THE FIRE! For he did not do the will of Father Yahweh who is in heaven! Instead he disbelieved Father Yahweh's words, and did the works of Hasatan the devil! Yah'shuah will therefore tell him, "I never knew you. Depart from me, you who works iniquity"!
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