...He [God] knows your heart is right with Him, even
though you have made mistakes. (Haven't we all!?) We can be so grateful
for what our Saviour did for us!
He is engineering a situation where you will be in a
position to give the church a moral lead at a time when it has never
needed it more. You will have to take a strong stand to effect justice and
to be uncompromising, regardless of human loyalties. [He later defaulted
in his duty!] We must not look to the flesh, but to the Spirit.
I cannot give you any more help than that at the moment.
[I had given him some prophetic input that other prophets had received.]
God has not revealed any more, other than the following scripture which He
has indicated is a promise to you. God says to you, "Be strong and
courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore
to their forefathers to give them." (Joshua 1:6.)
Be assured, God is indeed with you! [As long as this
individual does right!]
I must move on to other matters now.
You will recall some statements which have been made
against me from the pulpit by certain in the ministry. Stuart Powell seems
to have backed down now under Suckling's pressure. I feel I will have no
option, but to press legal charges for defamation of my character if he is
not prepared to turn.
[Stuart Powell preached a vindictive sermon intended to
polarise WCG members against me. It had its desired effect! He soured the
minds of WCG members, who were already highly prejudiced against any
spiritual input from outside the WCG!]
Also, one of my former friends in College, Andrew Silcox
has, openly in church, made some unfortunate comments about me which,
although I don't think they were in his heart to make, have nevertheless
deterred people from the spiritual latitude to which they should be
entitled. I enclose a copy of the transcript of what was said, underlining
in red what was specifically implied about me which was libellously
incorrect. I repeat that here:
"...But do be aware that there are many "dissident"
groups. There's one individual in this country at the moment, who left the
church down [in], I think it was the Dunstable congregation that he
left... uhm, or actually was I believe disfellowshipped from the church.
But he has taken it upon himself to be basically a clearing house for
many, many other church groups. Not all of them dissident church groups
from the Worldwide Church of God, many of them simply other church
organisations, Christian organisations and he will distribute it to
members of the church if he can get hold of their names and addresses.
"So that is always and has been for years a constant
problem to us is the way that many of these dissident groups get your
names and addresses. Sometimes they are members of congregations who have
naturally the names and addresses of many friends and they start with the
friends. Then they ask the friends to send it to their friends and so the
circle of names and addresses builds up. Sometimes they ask the friends to
send them names and addresses of members. Sometimes they just out and out
steal the addresses if they have been employees of the church, and one man
in the United States stole a mailing list, a substantial sized mailing
list of the United States membership and you know that's how he's
distributed his literature.
"What you will find with the vast majority of these
groups is that they prey on the Church of God. They very often do not have
a work, to go out and preach and teach according to the biblical
instruction, of their own. [That is a blatant lie!!] Their work is, as
they see it, is to destroy and tear apart within the Church of God. [That
is another lie. Jeremiah’s work was to tear down the evils that God’s
people were carelessly constructing. Today’s prophets are sent to do the
same.] That's why you get the literature. You don't see it on a stand down
at New Street Station. You don't see it on a nationally shown television
programme or radio programme, or on Sky television, or in any other way in
newspaper adverts advertising this wonderful truth and gospel from the
word of God to the public. It's a destructive, often resent-filled,
revenge-filled, hate-filled, presentation [it wasn’t in my case -- I
pleaded with WCG administration to heed what I was warning them about, out
of love, not hatred!] that is made to the members of the Church of God,
because their bitterness runs so deep." [My response to WCG abuse is not
out of resentment, but in response to the Holy Spirit.]
I am not bitter, I am not revenge-filled, nor
hate-filled, and the literature I have been distributing has never
displayed any of the evil qualities which he has been wrongly informed it
does. Our literature is designed to lead people closer to God, and wean
them from the milk of the Word onto stronger meat, which the Worldwide
ministry are preventing by their vindictive opposition towards us.
I have asked Andrew as well as Lord McCullough to
re-dress the situation, but have received no reply. If they continue in
their intransigence, I will instigate legal proceedings or media coverage,
or both, to prompt a rectification of the wrongs. [I won’t have to. It
will erupt into the open anyway!] These are not idle threats. I would be
grateful if you would convey this information to Andrew for me. May I give
a little advice too, while I am at it? Please encourage him to do what is
right regardless of what higher human administration in the church says.
If he does, everything will work out right in the end, even if he takes
'flack' for it initially. If he doesn't, he will learn to his sorrow that
disobedience to God can be extremely painful and humbling. I don't wish
him any ill. I only wish to see us reconciled and the membership set free
spiritually.
I notice that Victor Kubik was the one who instigated those comments against
'dissidents'. He may have had a point with regard to Gerald Flurry and
William Dankenbring. Their works will be short-lived if they do not repent
of their spiritual negativism. But to lump together all who are outside the
confines of the WCG as 'dissidents', implying they are equally spiritually
damaging is misleading and against the most recent WCG policy. It is wrong
to imply that Truth is only available inside the Worldwide Church of God.
It was Victor himself who, on his most recent message,
has stated that, "your salvation does not depend upon whether your name is
on a computer listing in Pasadena" or words to that effect. This supports
the previous statement by Michael Snyder that God's Church transcends
denominational barriers. Good! I'm glad to hear it at last! Now let's see
the rest of the ministry begin to live and speak as though they really
believe the same thing!
Let's hear them retract the false vindictive statements
they have made against others outside the WCG -- statements of the same
ilk for which they condemn others, but which they themselves are guilty
of. Just who ARE the ones subtly making the vindictive, slanderous,
accusing statements? When it is done under the auspices of "the Church",
it is OK, because that is the Church of God. Oh, yes? Don't you believe
it! But when it is done by others outside the church, even if there are
legitimate grounds for such accusations, that is categorically wrong! This
one-sided duplicity is vile, and God will put an end to it. If it finishes
off the organisation of the WCG at the same time, as far as God is
concerned, that is tough! If they don't turn, they will be finished.
Expediency will give way to righteousness in the end. God never stops at
anything in His Work as the Master Potter. He will fire us twice over if
He has to, to purify us. He doesn't think as we do. God is God, we are
mere men.
May I make a small request? Would you be so good as to
send us a copy of the Worldwide News each issue? We would like to keep
abreast of the important changes taking place in the church where our
heart has been for the past 27 years. Thank you. The WWN is made available
to all church members. If the church administration lives up to the
statement Victor Kubik made, it will concede that we never ceased to be
church members, for the Spirit of God knows no organisational limits.
[I was declined a copy of the WWN, even though I had
donated several hundred pounds to the WCG after being disfellowshipped!
Would I have done such a thing if I were "bitter" and "filled with
resentment"? Of course not! I was ever hopeful that they would repent. But
they didn’t. They only hardened their hearts and went deeper into sin.
Their antagonism against us worsened.]
I would also like to ask what is going to be done about
re-educating the minds of all members served from Elstree House with
regard to the old cliché, "God's Church", or "The Church of God", implying
that the Worldwide Church of God is the one and only true Church? That is
a falsehood which needs instant rectification. It is a prejudice still
deeply embedded in the minds of most members.
Doubtless, the WCG contains many led by the Spirit of God, who are true
members of God's Church (the spiritual Body), but it also contains the
tares, as do all other church organisations, some more so than others. The
synagogue of Satan is everywhere where God's people are too...