Articles for the Benefit of Members and Ex-Members of the WCG

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The Shame of the WCG

Most members are unaware of the vile effects of WCG psychology. I publish here correspondence I have had over the past 5 years with just one of several WCG leaders. The evil fruits he displays are evidence of satanic influence.

You would be hurt, and, because the love of God is in you, you would be concerned. Something is dreadfully wrong in this man's life and spirituality!

Well, just such a scenario exists. There are many such individuals who fit this bill. They are members of the Worldwide Church of God (and, surprisingly, also members of off-shoot churches). They suffer from cult mentality. They repudiate anyone who does not submit to their church leaders. They shun such individuals.

The devil is a very clever trickster. He makes black look white and vice versa. He knows how to catch people and pull them into his lair. He traps them with attitudes of hatred, arrogance, pride, envy, hostility, resentment, self-righteousness and, in the case of cults like the WCG tribe, exclusivism.

A Testing Situation

God sets up testing situations to try all of us. Many of our friends in the WCG were tried several years ago when my wife and I were thrust out of the church by a false minister who fabricated bogus charges against us. His motives may well have been fuelled by envy, resentment and pride.

When we were jettisoned from the church, without a fair trial, without the specifics being presented to the church for a majority appraisal (which is actually against the Constitution and By-laws of the church, under Article III: Section 3: Dismissal of Members), the false minister filled our friends with suspicion and hatred against us.

God tests people to see what attitudes and motives they will submit to. Will they submit to the devil or will they yield to God. The merits of the case may not be cut and dried, and so spiritual discernment will be needed to get to the root and see what lies underneath.

My friend (at least, I considered him a friend, although he was often arrogant, presumptuous, bossy and lacking humility) turned against me without provocation. I had done nothing to warrant his rejection. I had been falsely accused by a WCG minister, not permitted a defence, slandered from the pulpit for my alleged 'crime', and had my character assassinated without recourse. For that, my friend refused to have anything to do with me.

Not being one to give up easily, I wrote to him. Perhaps he could be reached? Perhaps I might be able to persuade him to hear my side of the story? And most important of all, perhaps I could encourage him back into fellowship with me so there could be unity between us?

I was hopeful. I had love for this man and his wife. And where there is love, it will cover a multitude of sins. I was willing to totally overlook his sins.

Letters to Freedom

Some of Paul's letters in the New Testament were written when he was imprisoned or under house arrest. Mine were also written when incarcerated. However, my incarceration was not in a physical prison. My jailers had tried to put me in a spiritual and psychological prison, where I could not affect WCG members.

God worked Paul's imprisonment to His advantage. His letters reached most of the early Church and gave them something to cling to in hard times. What is more, they are preserved for posterity. They have reached millions. My letters have not gone to waste, either. They will fulfil their God-ordained purpose.

While I was churning out letters by the score, a WCG minister tried to counter this threat by preaching to his congregation that letter-writing was ineffective and a waste of time. What a fool! What an ignoramus!

A letter is a permanent reminder. It can remain long after a man is dead. People will forget the man long before they forget his words. Some of the oldest preserved writings are those of God's prophets. God knows how to preserve what people need to hear!

The letters I wrote to my friend were letters written to free him. He could not see the prison which holds him, and if such words of release were to be said, they would have been forgotten long before his release could come. So, God had them written.

They are recorded here for his benefit and for others like him, trapped by the WCG cult mentality.

Letter 1

22nd March 1993

When we met last Sabbath [we visited the Dunstable WCG, but were barred entry] you said, "You've waited two years, can't you wait one more week?" My answer is "Yes, I can." However, I know that the present administrative order in the church over here will do nothing constructive in that week to heal the breach that has been caused. They have already had 120 weeks! The reasons why are not very flattering!

You stood at the door, and by what you said to members of the Dunstable congregation as they came in, you turned their minds against us. You are supposed to be showing fairness and love to your brethren, yet you showed very little of that to us. You have one-sidedly listened to the lies that Harry Sullivan has told about us behind our backs, and you have supported his hostile stance against us. What he has said to you and to others in the church has destroyed our character and our standing in the eyes of all the members.

He has implied I am not submissive to correct government in the church; that I am 'against the Church', and has said various other subtly damaging statements about us. We are never allowed to defend our position, so you and all the membership believe his lies.

I am not against the Church, nor you, nor any of the membership in the Worldwide Church of God. Nor am I against Harry Sullivan, Paul Suckling, or any in church administration. What I vehemently oppose is satanic approaches which they support as church teaching, and which are used to persecute God's people, and God's prophets.

You showed a willingness at the week-end to consider us (until Sullivan silenced you), and I thank you for that. If you are prepared to do as you say and show us some fairness and Godly love, if you are prepared to do something constructive FOR US to try to resolve the present impasse between us and church administration, then I would ask one thing of you. Please read the enclosed booklets with an open mind, considering that we might possibly have something from God which the church needs to heed. Do so on your own without allowing any other minds to sway you thinking, other than the mind of God. Do so prayerfully before your Creator, asking Him to release you from any preconceptions and prejudices you may have, so you can worship Him with your MIND as well as your heart. Then, when you have done so, if you disagree with anything written there, write and tell me where you think I am wrong. I am open to correction, if any can show me where I need to change.

I hope that you will consider us and care for us enough to do this one thing.

May I just state a couple of other things with regard to the booklet A Message To Worldwiders. Firstly, I have sent a copy of it to the solicitors representing the Worldwide. If they can find anything slanderous there, I have challenged them to take me to court. I am not the one defaming Worldwide policies; it is Worldwide policies which have caused the defamation of our characters!

I understand that some have told church members that we no longer keep the Sabbath and the holy days, that we are following 'Sunday observers'. That is absolute rubbish. We not only keep the Sabbath and holy days, but we have also taken this information to many evangelists and preachers who have never understood this information, such as Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, and others. These men have big ministries, reaching many thousands - if not millions - of people worldwide. We are giving them a witness which the Worldwide never did, because it was never able to approach them from the right standpoint. Just because I have penetrated the ministries of some of these men does not mean I take on board their errors. Paul became as a Greek when he went to the Greeks, but he never dispensed with the correct understanding of God's truth. Nor have I. Please don't believe the lies some have said about us that we have gone off the 'rails'. Those are lies which come from Satan, the father of lies, and which are promoted by his stooges. Don't be caught out by their clever tactics or rhetoric! They are very subtle and extremely deceptive.

Please don't misunderstand my motives either. Helena and I love you and all those still in the church towards whom we will always feel a certain kinship.

I enclose a copy of the letter we received telling us we could return to fellowship, and when we came, we were greeted by hostility and resentment. We didn't get more than a few paces up the corridor until we were physically barred from entrance.

I find that staggering that a church which professes to welcome outsiders (according to latest directives from HQ in Pasadena) cannot welcome its own! People with whom you have shared fellowship and company, laughs and camaraderie are turned away as though they were worse than lepers! (without being given reasons why!) People who have loved and cared for their brethren over the years, helped them, encouraged them in whatever way they could, and who still love them and care for them, who would lay down their lives for them, are shunned and pushed out because one man who is the minister claims they have done something un-Christian which is seriously against 'church teaching'. But he never tells the congregation what that actually was!

Since you were never told the real reasons why Helena and I were barred from membership (and any others associated with us), I will tell you here. It is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts, but so be it. I will never make any apologies for the truth. I follow God.

The reason we were put out is because we refused to follow anti-biblical instructions which Sullivan imposed on us. When we explained why they were anti-biblical, we were ignored, and our personal rights and freedoms were taken away from us. We had no recourse, no opportunity of defence. The minister's position was upheld at all costs. Then, feeling his position threatened by us (because he had not done what was right before God), he lied about us to administrative personnel in Elstree House, and to all the church membership. We even taped some conversations of his, in order to protect ourselves, and we have the evidence of his lies on tape. A man who deliberately lies is not of God. You know that. You would not deliberately lie out of evil intent. You do not have evil intent towards us, but Harry Sullivan does, only you can't see it. He has fooled you with his slimy, clever talk. He is a minister of Satan, not a minister of God.

These statements are shocking. I know you won't like to hear them! But they are the truth, and we must not deny the truth, or we will deny Jesus Christ and those whom He will work through in such situations.

You barred us from entrance into a place of worship. If Jesus came in person, you would bar Him too, because you would not recognize Him when He comes. You didn't read the letter I had, giving me authority to attend, instead you just believed Sullivan yet again. How do you know the letter is a 'forgery'? What if it isn't? To whom are you giving your loyalties? And if it is a forgery, what is wrong with it? Where is it unbiblical? Where does it go against true Christianity?

You must test the spirits (I Jn 4:1), not just go along with all you are told, just because you are told such things by a minister in 'office'. What if he is one of those Paul mentions in II Corinthians 11? "For such are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ... as servants of righteousness" (vs. 13-14).

How can one tell? By their 'fruits' (Matt 7:15-20; Gal 5:22). Whose life shows good fruit? Ours, or Sullivan's? The fact that a man can preach a sermon, use the Bible in doing so, and behave as a minister is not evidence of good fruit! Where is the evidence of his real, deep motivations of self-sacrifice? Does he really love others? Does he have compassion for the sick, the downtrodden, the down-and-outs, the elderly, the deprived? If he were called to go without so that others could have their needs supplied, would he do so? Would he be happy to accept a beat-up old car to drive around in if it meant the Truth of Jesus Christ would be able to go to those who need to hear the Gospel message? Where is his love, joy, real Christian charity? Where are the healings and deliverances from demonic control as a result of his ministry? Where is the miraculous testimony that comes through the manifestation of the love of God? What sort of example do his family set? Are they engrossed also in taking this Gospel to the world, or are they caught up in their own selfish pursuits, even worldly, self-indulgent ones? (A member's son was encouraged by a certain minister's daughter, in a state of drunkenness, to come with her to an all-night rave party! He declined.) The fruits of Sullivan's home life do not reflect the NT guidelines for a minister of Jesus Christ. Our two eldest children are both fully committed Christians, are baptized and Spirit-led. They know Whom they represent, and they endeavour to do so. They want nothing to do with this world and its ways. They love God.

I don't delight in running anyone down, and I certainly have never wanted to compare ourselves with others because I know we all fall so far short of the spirituality of Jesus Christ. But I have had to do so here, because there is a total failure within the church to discern the spirits, and so true and loyal Christians are expelled while the real infidels remain within. It can be very difficult to discern the spirits, because deception is always so subtle and clever.

Do you think Miss Jackson and Mrs. Smith, who knew us better than anyone, would have resigned from the church to which they devoted their loyalties for 30 years over some petty issue for which we should 'repent'? They know the truth. They were lied to by Sullivan about us, but they also heard the truth from us, and they know who to believe! God has blessed them in many ways since taking a stand for what is right. Stella Smith's daughters and sons are now showing more interest in the Truth of God; one was baptized a week ago.... Mrs. Smith received healing herself for her arthritis not long ago while here one Sabbath with us.

Would you call Helena a witch? I think I know you well enough that you wouldn't do such a thing. But Harry Sullivan had no qualms about doing so to a member of the church, to try and turn her against Helena. He never proved his false accusation. Who is the accuser of the brethren? Satan. But when the devil comes in familiar clothing he catches many Christians off guard!

I feel you have a good heart, that you mean well. I know both you and your wife are diligent, dedicated people. But what you may not have been able to see is the way you have been duped by a slick talker, who deceives with smooth talk, laced with subtle deceptions and half-truths, who has painted an extremely grey picture about us in order to preserve his own self image. I caution you to keep this letter strictly to yourself and your wife. If you don't, the following scriptures will surely come to pass in our lives. Part has already been fulfilled, the remainder will automatically follow in due course.

"All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogues [organizations which are led together by a human leader]; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God [people can be that deceived - even in this church!]. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or Me" (Jn 16:1-3).

Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. 'Never, Lord!' he said. 'This shall never happen to you!' Jesus turned and said to Peter, 'Out of My sight, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men" (Matt 16:22-23).

If Jesus could see Satan's character in His 'chief' apostle, could He not see the same in any of us, you included? Yes. The question remains. Who IS serving God and doing His will? Is it us, or Harry Sullivan? We can't both be right. Satan has caused disharmony. Who is submitting to Satan's ways?

Are you, without realizing it? If you support Sullivan as he follows a path which is of the devil, you are submitting to the devil's ways and you will be spewed out by God for so doing.

Sullivan and those who have foolishly supported him in church administration in preference to correct biblical teaching, pour scorn and negativism on the 14 booklets I wrote last year and the several Newsletters. But they have never disproved anything I have written, because it is biblically based and sound. It is the teaching of Jesus Christ.

Jonathan Buck told his congregations to read any material we had written (since several members were receiving it), and to write to us if they disagreed with it, giving scriptural support for any disagreement they might have. We received no letters of genuine disapproval. I have had many comment how they have found our material helpful and spiritually stimulating. The only negative comments we received were from those who were so disaffected by wrong prejudices that they hadn't read it, but were merely hostile against anything which came from another source than from those they looked up to as being the only servants of God on earth. There are many in the Worldwide Church of God who have been so brain-washed over the years by clever but very subtle talk and one-sided use of the Bible, that they still think it is God's one and only true Church, and that every minister in the church is automatically a minister of God, and whatever he says must be right. They never conceive of a minister lying. If someone would suggest such a thing, that person is regarded as a heretic! Do you realize that is symptomatic of the control of a cult over one's mind? Yet to suggest that the Worldwide could be a cult is regarded as blasphemy by those who are gripped by such myopic thinking!

I don't say these things to deliberately offend you or anyone. I say them because they need saying - for your good, and in turn, for the good of others whom you can help to wake up when you yourself do. The church is asleep and it needs waking up to spiritual realities! ALL the virgins fall asleep (Matt 25:5), but the real tragedy is that the foolish ones don't rely on God's oil. Their religion is worthless; it is mere ritual and not based upon the Rock of Jesus Christ. When the shaking comes, they are shaken.

We are now very close to the return of the bridegroom. Spiritually we are now approaching that midnight hour (v 6). The cry to awake is beginning to go out. That time is now here for you. Do you wish to be woken up, or do you wish to continue to slumber and wake up when it is too late to do anything to help yourself?

All those who are confronted with this challenge will not know (recognize) the day or the hour when it occurs (v 13). If you are ready for our Saviour's return now you will be ready at that hour also. If you submit to Satan's ways now, even when cleverly disguised as church policy, you are not ready for His return; you are still spiritually asleep.

If you want to discuss anything with us personally, I am open to any input from you and your wife. I would be happy to meet with you, if you want to try and resolve the ugly division that has been caused between brethren such as ourselves. It is no good trying to get church administration to solve the rift. Like you say, we have waited two years for them to do something worthwhile. All they have done is ignore the real issues. That is why they have a file of correspondence, (some of which is with their solicitors) as thick as their wrist. They have never properly answered my letters. I am no longer asking them, I am asking you. I am giving you the chance to show your true love and loyalties. Are they to men, or to God? How much do you really care for God and for God's people?

I hope you will respond positively, for your own sake and for the sake of true spiritual freedom in the Church.

We do care for you.

I received no adequate reply. He destroyed the booklets I sent him. And he merely asked me to take his name off our "mailing list."

Letter 2

31st March 1993

I have received your note of 25th March, asking us to take your name off our mailing list.

You are not on our mailing list. I wrote to you recently merely because I considered you a friend, indeed more than just a friend - a Christian brother. Do you consider that I am wrong in my appraisal of you?

In my letter to you of 22nd March, I said, "I am open to correction, if any can show me where I need to change. I hope that you will consider us and care for us enough to do this one thing."

I take it that because you want no communication with me, you don't care for us, and you don't want this division in the church healed. I find that very sad. But until you, and all the other church personnel with any influence within, show a willingness to pursue paths of equity and justice, God is not going to make the way smooth before you.

You sign your letter "yours faithfully". To whom are you faithful? God or Satan?

Wake up before it's too late for you and for the church! (Matt 25.)

I received no reply. Two years passed.

God moved me to write to him again after we received a dream from God about him.

Letter 3

6th March 1995

I hope you and your kind wife are both well.

My reason for writing is quite simple: to encourage you at this difficult juncture. God has shown us that you are beginning to respond to the lead of His Spirit. I don't know in what way. He hasn't revealed that to us. All He has shown us is that you are, or will be shortly, responding to His prompting in a positive way. (If you want to know more, do let me know. There is a lot more I could say to explain how God conveyed this and what He conveyed, but it would take too long to put in a letter.)

If I may have the liberty of speculating, I suspect your positive response will be as a result of the recent diabolical changes within the Worldwide Church of God. As you must already know, the WCG leaders have played their cards close to their chests for a long time, but now their real motives are coming out into the open. They tried to brainwash members for a year or two about 'changes, changes, changes...' which were in the offing, without saying what those changes might be. Now it is becoming clearer what those changes are. Joseph Tkach is cleverly watering down truth. He has begun to 'dispense with' the Sabbath and Holy Days, claiming they are not essential matters of obedience for the Church today. His reasoning is filled with errors, as I have explained in recent letters I have written to Francis Bergin, Les Bayer and Tom Shattock.

I suspect that you don't go along with these evil compromises. So, instead of following the WCG leadership without questioning, as we were all guilty of at one time, I expect you are now seeing the handwriting on the wall and making spiritual decisions for yourself. If that is so, well done! It is not easy to take a stand against the rot that the majority are happy to go along with.

When we were 'booted' out over four years ago, it was because we took a stand against unbiblical matters being promoted by Paul Suckling and Harry Sullivan. The church hierarchy tried to make us submit to their views - which I had proved were unbiblical. They were not even supported by church literature! We simply refused. They were actually contravening church policy and church teaching, but we were the ones blamed, not them! The way Sullivan behaved showed he was a false minister. He 'framed' us to get rid of us and lied about us to others behind our backs to cause the church to be polarised against us.

That is all history now, and because it has been swept under the carpet by the ministers involved, it is ignored and forgotten. But the sins remain, because those who committed them didn't repent. They have not sought reconciliation with us, though I sought it at length. I wrote letters to the ministry in Elstree House, seeking a meeting, but I received no adequate reply. I visited Elstree House on more than one occasion, merely to seek reconciliation because my letters were not answered, only to be barred entry and told to go away! That is not a Christian response. That is hatred and victimisation. They even called the police to get rid of us, while all we were doing was standing on the premises, waiting for an opportunity to talk to Francis Bergin about our predicament.

I was stunned at how evil and calloused their response was! Though I have tried, for four years, to alert WCG members to the illicit controls imposed upon them and of the corruption in the leadership, they don't want to know. We are ignored as a lone voice in the wilderness.

The time is coming when we will be heard - and has now come! I am not going to hold back in my efforts to alert church members to such corruption, injustice and abuse. There is rank sin being tolerated by church leaders as if it doesn't matter. Compromise has taken hold of the minds of the leaders and is fast spreading to the members. Justice and righteousness have been thrown out of the window. Isaiah's words are being fulfilled daily within the WCG:

"Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood [spiritually], your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No-one calls for justice; no-one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil" (Is 59:2-4). As a result of the unrepented sins of Joseph Tkach, his son, and some other WCG leaders, blindness has engulfed the church (v 10). It is floundering in a sea of spiritual confusion.

As I mentioned previously, I recently wrote to Les Bayer, Francis Bergin and Tom Shattock. I include the contents of those letters (with minor alterations for privacy), since I feel that what they contain will help you in your present predicament.

I wish you well and pray that it will not be too long before we can be reunited again. And, one other thing. Please do not feel bad about anything which has transpired in the past. I don't consider it a barrier between us. I forgive you for your unwillingness to have our case investigated objectively, and I trust that you don't bear me any ill-will for anything corrective I have said previously.

May we fix our sights firmly upon Jesus Christ and not on men who masquerade as ministers in His name.

I received no reply.

Letter 4

22nd April 1995

I have written to you twice recently to illicit a cordial response from you, but to date I have received nothing but a wall of silence. Why is that?

If the prime minister wrote to you, would you ignore him? If a neighbour of yours wrote to you about a relatively minor matter, would you ignore him? I shouldn't think so. I would have thought you were a reasonable, rational and humane individual.

Correct me if I have got the wrong impression, but your silence would appear to be evidence of latent hostility, am I right? If you take exception to something that has transpired in the past, I would be grateful to know what it is so that I can correct whatever is wrong in my behaviour or approach towards you.

Or perhaps there is something wrong in your approach towards me? Perhaps you should examine your own reactions to see if they are correct? (I trust you won't be offended at the suggestion.)

If your silence is a reflection of your arrogance and exclusivism towards others outside the Worldwide Church of God, then I can understand that. While exclusivism and arrogance could be regarded as a form of self-righteousness, I realise that the WCG leaders have done little to counter those demonic attitudes in the church.

If you want nothing to do with me, please tell me why. It is a brother's responsibility, if offended by another, to tell him straight (Matt 18:15). Of course, if I don't hear from you then I can only reflect on the fact that your silence is a reflection of the undercurrent of continuing WCG exclusivism.

It would help if you consider me to have 'gone astray' which you seem to assume, to tell me where and why according to the Word (Gal 6:1; Jas 5:19,20). That is what I try to live by, as I hope you do too.

I await your reply.

There was no reply! Months passed.

I wrote to his wife in February 1996:

Letter 5

11th February 1996

Les Bayer paid us another visit a couple of weeks ago and informed us that you were not well. As I prayed this morning, you came to mind again, and you have been on Helena's mind, too, not just once but several times. Hence this letter.

I hope you don't mind me writing. It seems we have received such a bad 'press' from all and sundry in the WCG that even the mention of my name raises hackles on most people's necks. So, we are rejected and despised. It is a fate that I accept. Were it not so, I would probably have committed suicide like dear Susan Fowler years ago. The psychological pressures that evil men in the church have imposed by their insistence on control have had far-reaching and immensely damaging effects upon many innocent people. I believe you are one of them.

You were one of the few who cared enough about us that, when we were suddenly disfellowshipped from your company by Harry Sullivan in 1990, you were troubled in spirit and enquired why? Most didn't even care to that extent. Helena and I were grateful that you did ask. What disappointed us was the lack of concerted effort to get to the root of the trouble that caused our ostracisation.

The root was insistence by the WCG on ministerial dominance over our private affairs, principally our views of some therapies that Paul Suckling and Harry Sullivan didn't think we had a right to hold. Despite the fact that their actions were totally in defiance of church policy, they received backing for their illicit subjugation, and we did not. They never conceded any wrong, and they still don' t today, which is part of the reason for the fragmentation and decline in the church since. It will continue until the instigators of evil repent.

Paul Suckling has now left the church and the ministry and gone back into the world to earn a living as a telephone salesman. He offended a considerable number of people in his time as a minister (the Parkinsons, the Fortunes and others besides ourselves), and to my knowledge has not repented of his abuse nor made any apologies. It ought to be clear that my words of warning are now borne out - I was thrown out for calling him a false minister back in 1990. God revealed he was unconverted, but none believed me. They didn't have spiritual discernment. I also stood up to similar abuse from Harry Sullivan, who tried to spiritually subjugate us. Because I would have none of his evil machinations, he engineered matters to get rid of us.

That was how all this division between us began. It started because false ministers were in control in the church. When God showed us some of them, we did what we thought was right by warning the hierarchy above them of their presence according to scripture (Rom 16:17,18). Little did we know that the superstructure above was also liberally diced with satanic elements! Mr Armstrong was an incestuous pervert, Joseph Tkach was a liar, and his son is following in his same corrupt footsteps, introducing heresies into what was previously a church devoted to not compromising the Word of God.

Now look at the compromises! They have dispensed with the Sabbath and Holy Days as of no New Covenant significance. They have stated that only nine of the ten commandments have relevance for today. They have encouraged the eating of unclean foods. They have stated that the Trinity teaching, which has its roots in paganism, is valid. They deny that the English-speaking peoples are descendants of Israel. They deny that God has a 7,000-year plan on earth. And many other pernicious changes have taken place.

There are more sick people in the WCG today than there have ever been! You would think they would wonder "why?" Maybe some do, but the majority have stopped thinking for themselves. Tkach senior died as a judgement from God because he ignored the plight of the oppressed under his care (Is 59). He was in office nine years. Nine is the number of judgement in scripture (see Bullinger's Number in Scripture). People were sick and dying in Corinth for the same reasons (1 Cor 11:27). The WCG is in the same boat. There is unrepented sin in the camp and God cannot dwell with sin.

The WCG ministry have sided with the wicked - false ministers in their employ - and the righteous are repudiated. They would rather point the finger at us and others who are speaking out against heresy and corruption than admit they should shoulder any blame. They will reap what they sow. God is not mocked. They have sown the wind and they are now beginning to reap the whirlwind. It will intensify because of their intransigence against those whom God uses to speak out and uphold truth.

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them - bringing swift destruction upon themselves (2 Pet 2:1).

That is the core of all the problems in the church today. This is the essence of your suffering. We feel for you. We love you. But, it seems we cannot get through to you or to your dear husband because of the slander that has been heaped upon me by those who claim I am out to destroy the church, which I am not. What I am out to destroy is the platform that Satan's elements have within the church to disaffect people's minds and lead them into destructive heresies.

I have spoken out against the corruption that is engulfing the WCG because of its stubborn refusal to do what is right. What is wrong with that? Where is the sin in that? I have done so at God's command. If any want to stand up against God and those He uses to sound the alarm, they will have to answer to Him. But of course, strong words like these are rejected as those of a 'nutter', who has got inflated with delusions of his own 'self importance'. History always repeats itself (Luke 11:48,49).

It is very sad when we see our former friends separated and suffering. Does it have to be this way?

I did not hear from this dear lady.

I wrote a short while later to her husband.

Letter 6

20th February 1996

I am writing to you so we can be reconciled. As you know, there is a wall of separation between us. It is not right that the body of Christ be divided like this. I want to see the division healed. I hope you do too.

Joseph Tkach wrote in the Worldwide News of November 14, 1995, "The Holy Spirit is working today in the body of Christ to heal historic wounds and restore good relations between offenders and offended." I am sure that if you have the Holy Spirit living in you, that you will want to be reconciled to us, just as much as Helena and I want to be reconciled to you and all our friends in the WCG.

The Worldwide News continued: "Many Christian groups have recognised a need to repent for those times in history when they or their forebears deviated from the spirit of the gospel, injured others and brought shame upon the name of Christ...

"It is my painful responsibility to acknowledge that the Worldwide Church of God has been among the offenders..."

It would be heart-warming to receive an apology for our mistreatment six years ago, but I am not looking for that. If that was in the hearts of those who disembowelled us from the body, I'm sure it would be forthcoming. My purpose for writing to you is to seek reconciliation between us so that the healing you would so like to receive, Xxx Xxxx, can be forthcoming. Forgiveness and reconciliation is a necessary precursor to receiving whatever we ask for in prayer (Mark 11:22-26).

Now that I have expressed my wish again to find harmony between us, I hope that you will reciprocate. Obviously, we will have to get together. Helena and I are prepared to travel to visit you, but you may prefer to come here. Do let us know which you would find most appropriate. We look forward to hearing from you by return.

Still, I received no reply!

Letter 7

3rd March 1996

It is now 12 days since my last letter to you, asking you to meet us to resolve the hostile division between us. It is also 21 days since I wrote you a previous letter. I have not heard anything from you as a result of those communications. It seems you don't care about this evil situation. You are happy, it would seem, to perpetuate division and ignore us.

I find it hard to believe that people who can call themselves Christians would fail to respond to such an urgent request in the interests of unity in the body of Christ. I am saddened that you seem to want to stonewall Helena and myself when all we seek is true unity in the Spirit.

On one of our visits to the Open House meetings in the Dunstable WCG, you nearly ran into me in your car, Xxxx, when I was walking in the car park. When I waved to you out of friendliness, I received a blank wall of hostility with no civil response. Your fruits are telling. What has got into you that you turn on a brother with such hatred? Does the Spirit of God move you to do such things, or an evil spirit?

Correct me if I am wrong, but your animosity is an outgrowth of your reaction to what we have said about Worldwide Church of God leadership. As you know, we labelled Sullivan and Suckling as false ministers back in 1990, which was effectively what caused our disfellowship from your company at that time. Of course, they didn't tell you that was the nub of the disagreement between the WCG church administration and ourselves. They gave you a catalogue of half-truths mixed with blatant lies to fob you off with a story that we were 'not submissive to church government', or had 'serious spiritual problems', or were 'dissidents' for any number of other spurious reasons. They have deceived you with false accusations about us that turned you against us. Subsequent events made your prejudice then turn to rancour. Through what has transpired, God has hardened your heart.

What I have said about the church and its leaders has offended many who placed implicit trust in those church leaders. They don't like their idols being exposed for the charlatans that they are. They prefer I was quiet. It hurts their pride to have them exposed as spiritual nit-wits. I don't suppose you are any different. Or are you?

Perhaps you are humble and contrite and willing to learn from any who speaks the truth. I would be willing to be proved wrong. That is one reason I have been willing to spend the time to write to you in all decency. But when I don't receive a decent reply, not even an acknowledgement, what else can I can deduce, except that the love of God is merely talked about, actually not lived?

Xxxx, I noticed your comments in John Halford's short article in the WWN of 16th January. Hardly those of a man imbued with spiritual discernment! If you need longer to wait and see what is right in the doctrinal heresies Tkach junior is introducing by the barrow-load, you ought to seriously question whether you have the Holy Spirit living in you! Can't you see he is a heretic? He has embarked on a deliberate course of removing from the WCG every vestige of truth which does not comply with general views in Christendom.

His changes have nothing to do with pure biblical truth! They have to do with the introduction of whatever seems to be right in the eyes of the majority in the 'Christian' world. You ought to know that much of that is riddled with doctrinal error! As cultic and wrong in its approach as the WCG was for many years, it had some biblical truth which the majority of others in Christendom didn't possess. It was for upholding those tenets of the faith that God preserved the WCG. Now that the WCG is rejecting those and embracing heresies in their place, there is no reason for God to preserve the WCG. So He won't. That is why it is crumbling.

I enclose some relevant material from others who know what is actually going on inside, to put you in the picture.

The campaign of expunging every vestige of pure biblical truth from the WCG has been cleverly planned and orchestrated. The brainwashing of members to accept without criticism these changes began when we were around in Dunstable. Insidiously, things were being altered then, little by little, to prepare people for even more devastating erasures later. When we tried to sound the alarm, beginning six years ago, we were silenced. To consolidate the hierarchy's conspiratorial plans, we were thrown out and victimised, so our witness would have no credibility in the ears of members.

Through totalitarian controls, our opposition to the satanic rot occurring within was effectively countered as far as the ruling junta was concerned. You even helped in that irresponsible opposition against us. You sided with the evil-doers. You shut your mind from hearing any of the real truth from me, and have not changed that stance. Or have you? I am open-minded and will retract anything I have written or said which can be shown to have been incorrect about you.

After we dared to expose Messrs Sullivan's and Suckling's true credentials, we soon discovered they were not the only enemies in the camp. Next we faced others, such as Larry Salyer, Randal Dick, Frank Brown, Leslie McCullough and Jo Tkach senior himself. Then, siding with these ungodly men, David Stirk, Andrew and David Silcox and many others withstood us and our words of truth.

And you wonder why the ship is adrift at sea, floating aimlessly without real direction? How blind are you to the enemy within? How blind is John Halford? How long does it take you to wake up to the fact that men devoid of the Spirit of God are leading you astray and are taking many innocent, blind sheep along with them to perdition?

Who is going to be the first to give us a personal hearing, instead of siding with the evil workers of iniquity? I hold out an olive branch to you once again. It is up to you whether you want to forgive and forget, or whether you want to continue to hold unjustified grudges against us.

Need I say it? There was no reply!

Letter 8

17th March 1996

I wrote to you on 11th February and received no reply. I wrote again on the 20th and still received no reply. I wrote a further letter to you on 3rd March. It's now two weeks later, and you have not replied.

It would appear from your lack of response that you don't care to see the division between us resolved. Why don't you care for reconciliation and harmony?

I can only conclude that you are so brainwashed by the false ministers of the Worldwide Church of God who are controlling your minds that you believe you are doing the right thing by ignoring us. Presumably you assume that Helena and I are totally at fault for our separation from you and from other former friends in the WCG. If that is the case, if you have any decency in you, tell me what it is we have done to warrant you ostracising us.

All we have had cast at us up to now are false accusations by those who want total control of your minds. They certainly seem to have it! They have succeeded in turning you against us. You have gullibly swallowed their pernicious lies about our motives and actions.

Xxxx, it is strange that a man of your intellect should be so hoodwinked by the duplicitous rhetoric coming out of Pasadena. Have you imbibed all their false teachings equally easily? Can't you see where the evil men who rule the WCG are taking it? Do you really want to follow them into the pit?

Do you resent me for warning you of charlatans in the church? Just what is it you have against Helena and me?

If you try to avoid answering my letters, what will you do when I call on you personally? You are not leaving me much other option. Why should I go away quietly and suffer the silent abuse of all those in the WCG like yourselves who resent the outspoken words from one being moved by the Spirit of the living God?!

Still, there was no reply!

Letter 9

10th May 1996

I am writing again to you at this juncture to seek reconciliation with you. Although I have addressed this letter to you, please share it with your wife, as she is involved as well. I have not yet received any recognition of my previous letters to you of 22nd April 1995 and 20th February 1996. I am still hopeful that you will adopt a Christian approach towards me and Helena.

As you know, Helena and I have been ostracised by the Worldwide Church of God for holding certain views which the ministry of the church have taken exception to. Some of these views, you and others in the church may even agree with, but that makes no difference to the WCG ministers. They don't want us in the church because they don't want to own up to their own failings or admit that they have been wrong while we were right. If we were present in the church, they feel that they would lose their control over the minds of members. We are effectively a threat to their domination. So, we are kept out.

However, that should not prevent you talking with us and treating us in a humane, cordial and civil way. So, I appeal to your better nature to put behind you any prejudices the WCG hierarchy have given you towards us and arrange for us to meet you so we can resolve the rift between us.

I write as a brother, I hope you will reciprocate. As I said previously, Helena and I are willing to travel to meet you, so we are planning to come and visit you on Sunday 19th May at about 11 am. If you would prefer to come here or if this date or time is inconvenient, please let me know, giving an alternative date and time. Thanks.

We want to see this division between us healed. Walls of silence do nothing to resolve the impasse.

He did not reply to my letter, not even to tell me that he was planning to go to a wedding of a young lady in the WCG. Helena and I travelled 25 miles to his home, and although he did not want to invite us in, when our conversation at the doorstep would have embarrassed him in front of his neighbour 20 feet away, he felt obliged to let us come in. We talked for a few minutes, but clearly he was not willing to be open or friendly.

He asked us to leave as soon as he conveniently could. How fortunate for him that he had an excuse to attend the wedding function!

Letter 10

19th May 1996

Thank you for spending a little time with us today. Although it was brief, I hope that it was enough for you to see that we care for you and your wife. We are not hostile towards you or any others in the church, despite the false accusations to that effect about us.

This is now my ninth letter to you to try to resolve the division between us. I have been blamed for this unpleasant situation by church administration, who have levelled at me any false accusation they can think up to absolve themselves of bearing their guilt. You were never privy to what actually transpired which caused our expulsion from the church. I have wanted you to know all the facts, because the material facts have been consistently denied you and others in the church to avoid them knowing the real truth about ministerial misconduct and spiritual abuse. They have duped you with lies and half-truths about Helena and me which you have naturally believed because you have placed your absolute trust in those who lead the church. However, that is highly dangerous, because you end up following men and not Christ. The men who lead the church actually usurp the office of Christ. And if you place your total trust in the leadership structure (which we have all done, and you still do) when they are not men of God, Satan gains control of the church. This is what has happened.

It occurred in the first century AD. John the apostle was booted out by an impostor, Diotrephes, as were many faithful Christians (3 Jn 9,10). Many prophetic warnings were given about false ministers taking over (such as Acts 20:30; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 Jn 2:26; Jude 4-12; 1 Tim 4:1-2; Is 3:12-15; 9:16; 66:5; Jer 5:31; 23:1; 25:34; Ezek 13; 14; 22:26; Ezek 34; 2 Tim 3:5-7; Jn 16:2; Matt 24:4-5; 7:15-20; Rev 2:2,9,14,20; 3:9; 2 Cor 11:13-15). Almost every NT letter contains allusions to the problems created by false teachers or false ministers in the Church. The fulcrum of the epistle of Jude is the matter of charlatans in the ministry.

Our case highlights this danger and that is why we have kicked up so much fuss about it. We are not just seeking exoneration for our conduct which was without reproach (regardless of what others think about my later verbal outbursts which were in keeping with a spirit of righteous indignation after we were consistently stonewalled for years!), we are championing the cause of 1 John 4:1 in the church. Members just don't know how to enact this scripture, or Ephesians 5:11 or Romans 16:17-18. They have been mentally conditioned NOT to, by the subtle psychological controls exerted by the leadership. Anything which challenges the leader's totalistic domination is repudiated.

You repudiate anything I say or write because you don't want to admit that the church hierarchy could have been wrong. But what if they contained satanic elements whom we are warned about in those many verses I have already quoted to you? Should we follow men who follow Satan, or follow God? Acts 5:29 ought to suffice. You should know the answer. The problem is, it is not easy putting it into practice.

The physical organisation called 'the church' is a human representation of what God is creating in the spiritual. The organisation called Worldwide Church of God is not all the Church of God. What about those in other organisations? What about those with Global, United, Philadelphia, Triumph Prophetic Ministries, and the scores of other off-shoots of the parent church? What about those in other denominations? (You still seem to believe that you are in the only true Church. Yet the WCG administration has had to modify its appraisal of other Christians outside their borders, and include them in their assessment of the body of Christ. How can you still claim that the WCG is the only true Church while the church officially denies it is the only true Church?) Armstrong himself declared in 1939 that the true Church was not a physical organisation, but a spiritual organism. He was right! Christians are not confined within the boundaries created by the physical WCG organisation.

What about those who claim to be part of the church but who are clearly - as you well know - tares? The WCG contains satanic elements. So the WCG is not the totality of the body of Christ - the 'ekklesia'. Those who are being led by the Spirit constitute the ekklesia or Church1 (Rom 8:14). But who is being led by the Spirit; is it us, or those who castigated us and got us removed? This is what YOU must discern, otherwise you are not testing the spirits (1 Jn 4:1). If you are following a wrong spirit, you are being led astray. You won't know it, because a deceived person doesn't know he is deceived. And herein lies the problem at the moment in the WCG. People are being deceived wholesale and they continue to sit in the WCG, gullibly following the leaders regardless of the rubbish they teach!

You are not to follow men and what they teach if it contravenes the pure Word of God. Even if all the church goes astray from obeying the Word of God, you should still follow Jesus, not the church. God will let false ministers take over, just as He did in John's time, to test the people, to see whom they will follow. If they quench the lead of the Spirit and follow men, they shut Jesus outside the door, just as it is prophesied of the end-time Church in Rev 3:20. Jesus is not knocking on the inside of the door, but on the outside!

I have come to you seeking reconciliation and you have closed the door of your mind to me. You refuse to read my letters objectively or listen to our grievance. You refuse to hear our witness about false ministers on the payroll of the WCG who are leading God's people astray. Those who lead the WCG are hypocritical liars! Yet you follow them in their hypocrisy and lies! You are not testing the spirits, but falling prey to the spirits of fear and control, powerful demon spirits which have hijacked the WCG. You are not following the lead of the Holy Spirit by stonewalling me as a prophet who is declaring to you the will of God. Personally, I don't care if you shut me out and thereby shut Christ outside your life. I have no personal loyalties. My loyalties are to the One who called me into the WCG 30 years ago, for this very hour. He brought me into it that I should learn of the falsity of the system of worship within which denies Christ, so that I would be used as a mouthpiece in its destruction. I will not rest until I have accomplished the task for which I was called.

As I have said to you previously, we want to see this division between us healed. Walls of silence do nothing to resolve the impasse. But you did not make Helena and me welcome today. I realise that you had to go out, but you could have told us beforehand and given us an alternative time. You didn't even show me any courtesy by replying to my letter! Now I ask you to show me the genuineness of your love by coming to visit us in our home that the division between us can be resolved.

Les Bayer was willing to do so. Tom and Cathy Shattock have done so. Richard Wood has done so. Why can't you? If you serve Christ and not men, you will do so. You would talk with us until the situation is resolved. It will only be resolved when those in church administration who have been accomplices to false ministers own up to their abusive behaviour. We have been slandered, falsely accused, and made scapegoats for ministerial corruption. We deserve an apology and public retraction of the malicious lies that have been spread about us.

You parrot the false accusation of Andrew Silcox and others in WCG administration that I have gone about seeking redress the wrong way? Read all the correspondence between us first before you perpetuate their abusive false claims! There are umpteen numbers of letters on my PC showing that I DID go about it the right way. It was church administration that defaulted on their responsibilities. I offer you the evidence to see who is telling the truth. Please read them all!

In one of your replies you told us to come back to church and "forget about it" (my pursuit of justice). When we came back, Andrew and Gerry called the police! Are you of the same hostile spirit? Up to now I haven't seen evidence that you aren't.

I left with you today a small booklet Why Forgive? We have been continually accused of not being forgiving. But it's always a one-way street. Those in church administration have not forgiven us for trying to expose their duplicity, ineptitude and deceit. Do you want to continue on being unforgiving towards us and refuse to see us? Forgiveness MUST be genuine for God to come through in our lives (Mark 11:22-25).

What are you going to do about it? Are you still going to ignore us, or show us some true Christian love for a change?

Sincerely, in His love,

Malcolm

PS I enclose copies of three previous letters to McCullough which he casually ignored. That man was a fraud! He was arrogant and showed himself to be spiritually decrepit. I'm glad you realise he was a fraud. This is step number one in testing the spirits, to realise whom we are dealing with! He represented Satan, not God. That is why our campaign for justice in the church never got off the ground. He blocked it continually. He protected other satanic stooges in the WCG structure. Halford, Bergin, Stirk and Silcox continue to do that also. What should happen to those who don't abide by the true teachings of God's Word? They should be thrown out! But who's got the nerve to oppose them? Those I've just mentioned seem to be a bunch of wimps who wouldn't scare a cat.

I also enclose copies of all my previous correspondence to you. I am sending a copy of this letter to Francis Bergin and John Halford. I hope they soon begin to wake up to their complicity in evil, because I am not going away.

On 19th May 1996, when we visited this person, I left with him some letters of other WCG personnel who had resigned from the church because of the rank duplicity of Tkach and his cronies.

Instead of reading these objectively, our friend later admitted to me that he had disposed of them. He destroyed every tape, booklet, letter and video which I sent him at my expense. Even a video which I sent to him, explicitly stated as "on loan", he destroyed!

And he has the gall to accuse me of being hostile?!

Let this episode serve as a reminder to all Worldwiders that the god they serve by such responses is not the Holy One whom I serve. Their god is the devil!

I mentioned before that we had learned that his wife was very ill with a life-threatening disease [she has now died; May 1998]. Since I had not heard from her following my letter of 11th February, I sent her some books that we had which give much sound teaching and encouragement for those seeking healing.

Of course, these books were not by WCG authors, so they were not accepted. Not long afterwards they were returned unceremoniously and ungratefully without being considered. But at least they were returned! Perhaps his wife had persuaded him not to destroy them this time! Things were looking up!

I wrote to this lady on 21st May 1996:

Letter 11

21st May 1996

It was good to see you and your husband on Sunday, even though the circumstances of our visit were not the best. Perhaps next time we can come at a more convenient time.

This morning, I felt the Lord prompting me to send you some books to feed you spiritually and to encourage you. I hope what I have enclosed is not too much all at once, but there is no hurry to return them, so take your time.

Francis McNutt used to be an orthodox priest. God drew him out of the Catholic Church to give him greater understanding, particularly in the area of healing. He has some excellent points in his comprehensive book Healing.

I have enclosed one by Melvin Banks. He is an English evangelist who has preached around the world for the last 30 years. He has seen thousands healed in his ministry and, through his prayer, seen a man who was dead for more than 10 minutes raised back to life. He has several other really uplifting and faith-building books which you may like to either read or purchase from Christian bookshops or direct. (His address is at the back of Expect a Miracle.)

Helena sends her love and we both hope that you will find encouragement in what I have enclosed. We pray that the division between us can be healed in due course. I'm sure it will. All in God's good time.

Sincerely, in His love for you both.

These items were not acknowledged. And within a month they were returned without thanks, so clearly they were not objectively considered.

I wrote again on 17th June 1996 to her husband, asking for his opinion of a meeting we had with Andrew and David Silcox, from WCG administration. The meeting was recorded on video and I loaned him a copy of this video. Following that letter, I received an irate phone call from him. First, here is my letter:

Letter 12

17th June 1996

I would like to ask you now that you have viewed the evidence we have finally been allowed to present to the church (on video) whether you approve of our dismissal from the WCG? Do you feel it was right and justified? If so, I would be glad to hear from you as to your reasons why. If you disapprove, I would be equally glad to hear from you.

As you know, Helena and I want this division resolved. Those who are responsible for causing it should be disciplined or marked accordingly. If we are guilty in any way, it needs to be stated in writing of what we are guilty that warranted this unilateral action against us by WCG leadership.

Letter 13

23rd June 1996

Further to your rude phone call this morning, I don't take kindly to abuse. I don't thank you for it. You showed no love, no compassion, no kindness. You simply told me you have no sympathy for me, that you don't read the literature of others, which you claim you said to me when we met on 19th May. [He lied to try and get rid of me!] I don't remember you saying that - if you did - which I find hard to believe, because you accepted a packet of literature which I left with you on your sofa. You didn't say that you wouldn't look at it. You gave me the impression that you would.

Now you say you throw the literature of others into the bin without reading it! I have given you some literature I have written and a tape in the post last week, which was given you out of our love for you and your wife. You have reciprocated with hatred towards the care we have shown you.

That is not just offensive, but worse. Jesus warned us to beware the time when love would grow cold because of the increase of lawlessness (Matt 24:12).

I have written to you now, yet again, because you put the phone down on me without giving me the right of any reply, and when I returned the call three times you refused to answer. You can't tell me you weren't at home, because I got your number by dialling 1471. The recorded announcement says you had dialled me from home at 11.16 am.

As I said previously in my letter to you of 17th June, I request your opinion. I have contacted you to ask you: "now that you have viewed the evidence we have finally been allowed to present to the church (on video), whether you approve of our dismissal from the WCG. Do you feel it was right and justified? If so, I would be glad to hear from you as to your reasons why. If you disapprove, I would be equally glad to hear from you.

"As you know, Helena and I want this division resolved. Those who are responsible for causing it should be disciplined or marked accordingly. If we are guilty in any way, it needs to be stated in writing of what we are guilty that warranted this unilateral action against us by WCG leadership."

You have done nothing to resolve this unseemly mess. You have made it worse by your own intransigence. Simply shoving us aside and wishing us death is not going to bring death on us but on yourselves.

I have asked you a civil question and I request a civil reply. If you refuse to reply cordially, I will call at your home until you repent of your hatred towards us and play fair with us.

Please also return the literature, tapes and videos we have passed on to you, if you don't want them. It is showing contempt for us to throw those things in the bin without objective assessment. Tonya doesn't like hearing her wages are thrown away like that! I will call round some time to collect those items so you don't resent having to pay to return them.

I also wrote to his wife on the same day:

Letter 14

23rd June 1996

Your husband phoned me this morning and effectively told me to get lost - hardly a Christian response to the love I have tried to show him and you recently.

He told me he doesn't read "anyone else's literature", by which I presume he means he only reads that which emanates from the Worldwide Church of God. You obviously don't have the same predisposition, because you were grateful to Miss Jackson for the copy of Kathryn Kuhlman's book I Believe in Miracles which she loaned you a few months ago. Because of that, I thought you would also find the books and video useful which I sent on 6th June.

Perhaps you would be good enough to reply to indicate whether or not you want to look at these items to benefit from them? Xxxx [husband] tells me he "bins" all other material, which I find horrendously close-minded and bigoted, especially since the Worldwide Church of God [now claims it] will meet with other Christians, talk with them to learn from them, and even promote some of the information which we have been promoting for the past few years. Apparently, he is not in line with current WCG protocol, or biblical procedure. I hope you will point out to him his foolishness in rejecting our input - since he doesn't listen to me! If the WCG can accept and meet with Hank Hanegraaff why can't they (or you) accept us? There is a hypocritical ambivalence in official WCG approach. Now that I have made you aware of it, I hope you will do what is in your power to bring this to the WCG leaders' attention.

If you don't wish to receive the books and other items I sent you previously, please say so and I will collect them. I will call round on Thursday evening (27th June), unless this time is inconvenient (in which case, please say when is convenient) or unless, of course, you would like to view them.

Thanks. May God bless you.

With sincere love,

Malcolm

PS A Christian brother recently passed on to us two videos of Kathryn Kuhlman ministering in 1969. They cost £40, because they contain the only available film footage of her. What these two videos contain are many cases of people miraculously healed in her meetings, at the time they occur. They are not staged. They are spontaneous, and were recorded on film.

We would be happy to loan you this remarkable video evidence if you would like to see it. Alternatively, if you would like to obtain your own copies, they are available from Benny Hinn Media Ministries, PO Box 20, Bedford, MK4 10ZZ.

My letters were received with the customary silent hostility! And to avoid meeting me, he made sure the books were returned before my scheduled visit!

Letter 15

26th June 1996

Thank you for returning the books I loaned your wife recently:

Terry Law, How To Receive Your Healing!
Lilian B Yeomans, Healing From Heaven
Melvin Banks, Expect A Miracle
Edwina Allison, Miracles Today
Francis MacNutt, Healing.

I have received them safely, together with the tape of miracles in Nagaland (God Does Not Change), and the two videos Jesus Heals Today and Sir Lionel Luckhoo at the FGB.

However, you have not returned the second video we sent you of our August 1995 meeting with Andrew and David Silcox, nor the first one we sent you last year. Please return those too, as well as the literature I gave you on Sunday 19th May which you agreed to look at.

If you have thrown this literature away, please first tell me why and what was wrong with it. It is a folly and a shame to answer a matter before hearing it. It is equally foolish to ignore the lone voice that speaks out for justice and equity.

I look forward to meeting you on Sunday 30th June. I hope by then, you will be in a more civil mood and prepared to give me biblical reasons why I deserve this victimisation from you.

On the evening of the 29th June, our friend called me on the phone. He made it quite clear that he wanted nothing to do with me, and certainly didn't want to see me on the 30th. His call was to pre-empt my proposed visit the next day.

He also told me to get lost and threatened to take me to court, falsely accusing me of contributing to his wife's ill health. He couldn't see that it was his obstinacy that was a prime factor in that!

Letter 16

29th June 1996

You hung up the phone on me tonight, and I didn't get a chance to remind you that you have not yet returned the 2 videos we sent you of our August 1995 meeting with Andrew and David Silcox. When I telephoned you again five minutes later, you refused to answer the phone. So, I am writing to formally request that you return the two videos which were loaned you so that you could objectively consider the facts surrounding our dismissal from the Worldwide Church of God. One of these was sent you last August. The second one you received earlier this year, together with the other material which you have returned.

If you decide to take me to court, that is your right as a citizen of this country, but it is not your right as a Christian (1 Cor 6). I have appealed to you in the interests of true justice and equity and you have responded with close-minded venom. The members of the Worldwide Church of God are not capable of judging in cases of internal dispute, as Paul recommends, because they are so psychologically 'loyal' to all the church hierarchy suggests that they mentally shut down except to the input of their spiritual overlords. This is nothing less than cultish submission. It is not scriptural and far from objective. That is the way you behave. You think it is right, but it is terribly wrong.

I have asked you to give me biblical reasons why I deserve this victimisation from you, and your response has been far from cordial, far from objective, and far from Christian. Helena and I have dearly wanted to help your wife receive the healing she needs, but you have thrown out our input as if it was dirt. To add insult to injury, you now blame me for your wife's condition - which you are exacerbating by your obduracy in following the party line from the WCG church government's evil policy of victimisation and isolation of 'dissidents'.

You may think I am again being defamatory of your idol, the WCG. I am speaking the truth. Your behaviour is a classic example of the evil results of the psychological cloning induced by clever ministerial coercion and subtly wrong teaching on church authority. It leads to John 16:2 situations, and you are doing just that to me in the spiritual sphere.

You, as a member of the Board of Trustees are morally responsible for the spiritual state of the church, and to see that the church behaves in a way that is commensurate with its charitable status. Yet you have reneged on your responsibilities. You have been an accomplice to psychological abuse and mental coercion - not just against us, but also perpetrated against the Parkinsons, the Fortunes, Mrs. Stella Smith and Miss Barbara Jackson. You have ignored their input and valid witness against Harry Sullivan, the original instigator of all this mess. I have tried to alert you by way of letters, and you have totally repudiated my witness, without even showing us the decency of discussing the matter with us when you knew we strongly differed with the hierarchy's decisions. What you said on the phone tonight is a reflection of the psychological captivity in which you are held. You are not free to think for yourself. Your mentors subtly dictate your views and responses. You behave as 'big brother' in the church wants you to behave. Yet you can't see it.

I am saddened that you would want to take me to court - a brother who has only wanted to do you and your wife good. But it doesn't surprise me. You are as stubborn as your WCG overlords who adamantly refuse to listen to our witness against the church in its apostasy.

You will have to take me to court, because I have every right to be heard in the church, and I will pursue my rights to the bitter end for the sake of justice and higher moral principles. See you there!

There was no reply.

I had no desire to go to the newspapers. I would prefer to settle this dispute amicably, but the opposition I have received seems to obviate any reasonable solution. The newspapers will get hold of it eventually!

Newspapers feed on gossip, slander and injustice. I don't wish to see former friends belittled and humiliated by the press, but it is what they are asking for, due to their own intransigence!

Because this individual was so stubborn, God had me write him so many letters. He still had not finished with him. I had to write again:

Letter 17

9th July 1996

I have still not received from you the two videos of our meeting with Andrew and David Silcox from August 1995. I trust that you will return them forthwith. Thank you.

Although you have not adequately answered my questions posed in previous correspondence to you, you have indicated on the phone that the reason you close your mind to my input is that you feel you should obey implicitly any injunctions imposed by the church leadership irrespective of whether they are right or wrong. You told me on the phone that I should submit to their abuse.

I'm sorry, but I don't find that in the Bible. Perhaps you can enlighten me.... or perhaps you should read your Bible more carefully, if it is you who have got it wrong. I see in Acts 5:29 that we have to choose between obeying men or God, and when such conflict arises, we are to follow God. That is what I have tried to do for the 30 years in which I have wanted God to rule my life. When men usurped His prerogatives that is when I took a stand against their abuse, and for which I have been condemned by you and everyone else in the church.

But who is right?

I am always open to correction - as church ministry ought to be too - but no-one has yet proved me wrong. I offer you the chance now. I hope you will welcome my challenge. I seek truth. I would hope you do, too.

Letter 18

18th July 1996

I hope by now you have had time to consider more objectively the contents of my last letter to you of 9th July. Since you have not come back to me to tell me where my 'thesis' is wrong, it is patently obvious it is not. It is yours that is in need of radical revision.

You accuse me of having offended you and many in 'the church'. Presumably, that offence is due to my uncompromising outspokenness against unrepented evils in the church that need correcting. Perhaps I can remind you of your offences against us. I wrote to you several years ago explaining how we had been victimised by the ministerial overlords in the WCG, but you shut your mind to our witness. You insulted us by accusing us of being the trouble-makers, when it was Harry Sullivan, Paul Suckling and their ministerial cronies in Elstree House who were at fault. Now you insult us further by continuing to ignore our testimony. We gave it to you on that video, recorded in August 1995 - with stated approval of David Silcox (stated on the video itself).

I have asked you several times to return the two video copies I have loaned you and you still have not done so. I can only deduce that you no longer have those. You have passed them on to Elstree House, have you not? If that is so, that is another indication of your psychological subservience to the jerks who call themselves ministers of Christ in the WCG.

You are a member of the Board of Trustees. You have a moral duty to ensure that the decisions made in the church are in the charitable interests of all members. You are not fulfilling your responsibilities in that respect, are you? If you think it right to stone-wall those who have tried only to do you good; if you think it right to refuse to consider their defence against one-sided oppression; if you think it right to encourage submission to spiritual abuse; if you think it right for church ministers to lord it over others; if you think it right to consider only the information the WCG feeds you - then you are very wrong. You are trapped by cult psychology and need deliverance. And so do the guys in Elstree House. They're the most deceived, because they perpetuate the same system of abuse, convinced they are doing God a favour.

I'd be grateful for a more considered response from you. I trust you will reciprocate instead of idly threatening 'legal action'. That is no way to treat a brother! But, of course, if you persist in such an abusive approach, I will defend myself through the media and expose the church's vile tactics in the newspapers. That is no idle threat, because I have already contacted the Daily Mail.

If I have not heard from you in a few days' time, I shall pay you another visit. This situation must be resolved. It is not right to let it ride indefinitely. I am not going away.

God bless you - when you begin to behave sensibly.

He adamantly refused to reply. He didn't have the courtesy to return the videos and other materials I had sent him previously, and because he was so hostile to me, I asked a friend, Howard Fawsitt, to call on him and ask for those items. But when Howard called on him, he was told they had been destroyed!

To go 25 miles and to be told that what belonged to us had been destroyed without being considered was one of the biggest insults I have received in my life!

This is the ugly legacy of WCG teaching!

They say they espouse New Covenant theology!? What a farce! What they espouse is utter tripe! 'New Covenant theology' is a deceitful garb for what is really antinomian heresy, which tills the ground to produce fruits of lawlessness - the worst fruit being the destruction of love for others (Matt 24:12).

Letter 19

29th July 1996

Howard Fawsitt called on you yesterday to collect the videos we loaned you of our meeting with Andrew and David Silcox last August. He has told me that you threw them away. Why is that? They had labels on them that they were on loan from Midnight Ministries. I was not giving them to you. They were our property and I expected them back, as I explained in the covering letters I sent you.

Apparently, from your actions, you have not read those letters, otherwise you would not have thrown the videos away.

I sent them to you because they contained our testimony which the church has consistently denied hearing. I wanted you to hear our defence against the allegations that were thrown at us and which you are supporting without even knowing whether you are right in doing so.

If the WCG ministry gave instructions to its members to commit suicide, would you do it? If they embarked on a campaign to brainwash you into murder, would you do it? You have done just that! The only difference is that what you have done is the spiritual counterpart. You have 'murdered' Helena and me, and committed spiritual suicide.

I don't write these letters continually to annoy you, although I realise that you don't welcome them. I write them to try to wake you up to what you are permitting to take place. Jesus said: "Beware that no man deceive you..." (Matt 24:4). The end result of that deception would be that the love of brothers would grow cold (v 12).

Where is your love for me? You won't talk to me. You won't welcome me into your home. You won't discuss the situation with regard to our relationship to the WCG and vice versa. You won't read my letters. You won't listen to reason. You won't listen to anyone other than the WCG leadership. So, this horrendous division between us goes on. Your wife suffers. You suffer. We suffer. The church suffers. All because there are some stupid people around who won't live by the words they profess to uphold.

You are stupid, are you not? I have been wasting my time on you. If all you can do is throw away our witness in defence of ourselves after the unilateral action Harry Sullivan took against us in 1990 - which you blindly followed without asking for corroboration - then I can't call you anything else, because that is what God calls you.

You call yourself a Christian! Huh! What sort of Christian strikes his brother when he has only ever done him good? What sort of Christian is it that shows hatred? He is not a true Christian, that's for sure! What sort of Christian is it who shuts his eyes when he sees his brother in need? Who closes his ears and refuses to hear his defence when he is accused falsely? Who kicks him when he has been struck down? Who perpetuates falsehood to further blacken his character? Who accuses him of malicious motives, while he returns venom in response to his pleas for justice?

That is you! You have joined hands with those who perpetrate acts of terror in Northern Ireland - men who take the name of Christ in vain, and who leave behind a trail of blood, injustice and sorrow.

What does it take you to wake up to your spiritual indifference? You prefer to support a corrupt regime in Elstree House than do what Jesus said. You believe their lies. You promote their deceit. You willingly submit to abuse and encourage others to submit to it as well. Instead of standing up to an abusive system, you support it.

What a fool you are! What a fool you are! What a fool.

Forgive me for berating you. But you give me no other option. I have written. I have phoned. I have called personally. I have sent now another person. Yet you can't wait to see the back of us. You respond to nothing. What can I do more than hopefully provoke you into coming to see us so that we can resolve this division?

Will you now come and talk with us? Or do you want to see this mess in the tabloids? I have no other option. I give you a week to decide. Let me know, please, by next Tuesday, 6th August.

The tabloids, I fear, will have their feed in due course.

Some will criticise me for my outspoken, and what they might think provocative, writing. But when I write under the inspiration of God's Spirit, I do as He bids me.

Isaiah insulted the hard-nosed Israelites by calling them Sodom and Gomorrah (Is 1:10). That was the worst insult that could be hurled at anyone at that time. But it was what God had him say. I make no apologies for what I have had to say. It would not have been necessary had those who are in need of correction humbled themselves and behaved according to the principles they claim to espouse.

God always deals firmly with hypocrisy! It is one of the worst sins.

Consider these words of the Almighty who sees all the stubbornness and chicanery of men:

Jeremiah 5
(partially paraphrased)

1. Go up and down through the church, look around and consider, search through every quarter. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this people. 2. Although they say, 'As surely as the LORD lives', still they are swearing falsely. 3. O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. 4. I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God. 5. So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.' But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds. 6. ...their rebellion is great and their backslidings many. 7. Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods... 9. Should I not punish them for this? declares the LORD... 10. Go through her vineyard and ravage it, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD... 11. They have been utterly unfaithful to Me... 12. They have lied about the LORD; they said: 'He will do nothing! No harm will come to us... 13. The prophets are but wind and the Word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.' 14. Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Because the people have spoken these words, I will make My words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes...' 21. Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear: 22. Should you not fear Me? declares the LORD. Should you not tremble in My presence?... 23. But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away. 25. ...Your sins have deprived you of good. 26. Among My people are wicked men who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch men. 27. Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful 28. and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor. 29. Should I not punish them for this? declares the LORD...

30. A HORRIBLE AND SHOCKING THING HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAND: 31. THE PREACHERS PREACH LIES, AND THE PRIESTS RULE BY THEIR OWN AUTHORITY AND MY PEOPLE LOVE IT THIS WAY.

BUT WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THE END?

Isaiah 59

1. Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. 2. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. 3. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things. 4. No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil. 5. They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken an adder is hatched. 6. Their cobwebs are useless for clothing, they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7. Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. 8. The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no-one who walks in them will know peace. 9. So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. 10. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight among the strong, we are like the dead. 11. We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away. 12. For our offences are many in Your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offences are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities. 13. Rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God,' fomenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived. 14. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter. 15. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

I did write one last letter on 12th August 1997:

Please find enclosed a video which comes to you with our love and kindness. Despite the despicable way we have been treated, we bear no one in the WCG any malice or hard feelings, contrary to the false accusations that some have levelled at us. We have a fondness for you both, even though we have been cut off from contact with you. It appears that the only way we can share with you what God has given us is via these videos and in letters.

I hope you will take the time to watch each video we send. It is costing us dearly, but that doesn't matter if there is a spiritual benefit in the end.... you are by no means the only ones getting the enclosed.

I hope you find it enlightening. I know you have binned most things we have sent you in the past. That is understandable, considering the lies which you have been told about us and the intransigence promoted by higher command. Most react that way. But I am hopeful that you are more broadminded now, and that the previously prejudicial approach which the WCG leadership encouraged can be replaced by a spirit of glasnost.

The reason I am sending these things to you is because God told us to keep you informed. He has given us various dreams and two of them concerned you. You can read about them in the enclosed literature.

God is waiting for the repentance of His people.

Malcolm B Heap, February 1998