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

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WCG: Don't Trust Your Leaders
Part 7

There is a conspiracy in the Worldwide Church of God. If you still attend WCG, you need to get out! God will now fight this 'beast'. And those who side with the heretics who control this monster will pay the ultimate price for their folly. Do you want to be humiliated with them?

Perhaps you find it hard to accept that God would destroy a church. Do you find it equally difficult to grasp that God would destroy a nation? Yet that is what He did with Israel and Judah. He scattered them to the four winds because of their intransigence and willful rebellion.

The reason for the catastrophic collapse of those nations (and don't forget these were the peoples through whom God was working out His purpose, as He is today through the Church), was that big little word... SIN!

Ezekiel recorded God's lament over the destruction of His people:

I gave them My statutes, and showed them My judgements, which, if a man does, he shall live by them. Moreover, I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me... and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths.... (Ezek 20:11-13, NKJV).

Israel was banished for their stubborn rebellion. A similar fate awaits the Church in our day. Those are not my words. They are God's, which is why a great tribulation looms on the horizon. For who really wants to obey God from the heart today? Where are the believers with a true apostolic conversion? Are not most Christians as shallow as puddles, only interested in convenience Christianity and good-time religion?

How many are sincerely sold on obedience to God regardless of the price?! Who is prepared to lay down their lives as the New Testament exhorts?

Therefore [because the heart of the people was not dedicated to obedience toward God] I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live (Ezek 20:25, NKJV).

The same pronouncement is found in the New Testament. It is part of New Covenant theology:

...the mystery of lawlessness is already at work... with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason, God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thes 2:7,10-12, NKJV).

God allows deception to befall those who don't choose the right route, but who hanker after self-willed and vain ideas. He will even arrange for some lying spirits to lie in wait for you, if that is what you want. He is no respecter of persons. He will give you what you ask for.

With clever and deceptive rhetoric, Joseph Tkach is blinding the eyes of his followers that the law God gave Israel was not quite right. So it had to be altered for new covenant theology, he claims. His inference is that God made a mistake and that the law God gave Israel was not good and needed modifying.

The arrangers of the New King James Believers' Study Bible, 1991 version, have more sense than Joseph Tkach and his side-kicks. A footnote beneath Ezekiel 20:25 says this:

"The law given by God was good and promised life in exchange for obedience. The statement that God gave "statutes that were not good" is not a permission for evil, but rather the passing of a judicial sentence based upon the desires and determination of the people (Acts 7:42; Rom 1:24,25; 2 Thes 2:11). When Israel refused to renounce idolatry, God allowed them to be hardened and drawn deeper into its power and control. When people reject truth and righteousness, God allows the wicked desires of their hearts to rule them..."

Are the people of God today any different than our forebears centuries ago? No. Is the judgment of God any different? No. God is the same today as He was yesterday. He no more tolerates rebellion than He did in Israel. But heretics misrepresent Him. Liberals make Him out to be a softie! They have not known Him.

Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him or known Him (1 Jn 3:6, NKJV).

Joseph Tkach not only sins in his approach to the Word of God and in his management of the WCG, but he promotes unrighteousness in his teaching. TKACH IS A HERETIC WHO HAS NOT KNOWN GOD! I trust that you understand of which spirit he is.

A Conspiracy in the Church!

Just as there was a conspiracy in Israel which led to its demise, so is there a parallel conspiracy in the Church today:

There is a conspiracy of her princes [rulers] within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut the eyes to the keeping of My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them (Ezek 22:25,26, NIV).

Why do Tkach and his henchmen do this? Here's your answer. The Master Psychologist reveals:

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain (Ezek 22:27, NIV).

Power and wealth are often inseparable. It is more expedient to preach teachings that appeal to the majority, even if (so they think) there is an initial split in the church over the new teachings. In the long run, they hope, more people will be drawn to Worldwide because of their less rigid theology.

It is humanistic reasoning. God is not pleased!

Upholding the sanctity of the Sabbath was a central feature of WCG doctrine for its entire existence. When that was demolished in 1995 by Tkach senior, there was no reason for God to preserve the church in its influential state. The main reason for its existence in Christendom as a beacon for that aspect of 'lost' truth was now gone. Why should He preserve the WCG any more?

This disregard for the holiness of the seventh day of the week was a pivotal factor in the collapse of the nation of Judah (Jer 17:19-27). God warned:

But if you do not obey Me to keep the Sabbath day holy... then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses (Jer 17:27, NIV).

WCG mentors no longer teach the sanctity of the Sabbath. Now that you are "in Christ" you can do what you like!

Rubbish! Clap-trap! Balderdash! Hogwash!

When did faith in Christ ever give licence to sin? NEVER! Read what Paul says of that in Romans 6:1-2 and 22-23. If you want deception and death, that's the route for you, but if you want life, keep God's commandments and have faith in Christ. The two are inseparable parts of one whole.

The Root of WCG Apostasy

I began part 6 by pointing out that stubbornness is at the root of the WCG apostasy.

These people come near to Me with their mouth and honour Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is made up only of rules taught by men [that is the current WCG position]. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of their wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish (Is 29:13,14, NIV).

That has surely happened in the WCG. The reasoning of their "think tank" has run amuck.

You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!... can the pot say of the Potter, "He knows nothing"? (Is 29:16.)

This is the inference of current WCG theology. It is arrogantly assertive that it knows better than God who gave (they imply) an imperfect law to Israel.

Woe to the obstinate children... heaping sin upon sin (Is 30:1, NIV).

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord's instruction. They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!" (Is 30: 9-11, NIV).

When a prophet declares the truth unequivocally, those who don't want to hear because they are self-willed reject his message of warning. All sorts of excuses and rationalisations are invented. People don't like to be confronted with correction. But the prophet is God's vehicle of verbal correction. If they don't listen to him, they will reap another branch of His correction. One which they may feel in their flesh in some way.

One man I know who resisted God's words through this ministry is paying the price with a terminal illness. Some have paid with their lives. God does not mess with His word or with His prophets. What He gives them to declare, He backs up. Their words don't fall to the ground (1 Sam 3:19).

Serious sins are dealt with seriously.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry (1 Sam 15:23, NKJV).

I have tried to alert members of the Worldwide Church of God to their apostate decline, to the presence of antichrist in their church, and I have been met with insolence, intransigence and resistance.

"Get lost, matey!" is the message I receive at the door. "Please, go away!"

Why will you people not just listen and obey? Why must you struggle the hard way? Why not just admit that you have been duped by a bunch of shysters and that the church has been taken for ride? Why not then get out and give proper credit where credit is due? Why be stubborn?

Do you realise that you are treading dangerous ground by tolerating the enemy within?

...for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds (2 Jn 11, NKJV).

Jesus tells you not to welcome those who despise the truth and not to give them any credit whatsoever if they deliberately promote heresy. You should:

...have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them (Eph 5:11).

Are you exposing them or just tolerating them? Do you complacently just pass by at a distance or do you shout aloud a warning for all to hear? Where are the prophets!? Who is going to stand up and be counted for truth?

These are the days of vengeance, declares the Lord, and His arm will fight for Him! (Is 59:16.)

You think God doesn't fight against His people? You're sorely mistaken!

In His love and in His pity He redeemed them.... but they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so He turned Himself against them as an enemy and He fought against them (Is 63:9,10, NKJV).

If I fight against the evils that you are too timid to contest, why do you condemn me O Church of God?

Malcolm B Heap, 16 March 1998

Further Reading

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