The first verse of Revelation demonstrates God’s royal family government. These words introduce God the Father and Jesus Christ. Prophecy From the FatherĬonsider what is revealed in just the first few words of the book of Revelation: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass …” (Revelation 1:1). God commands that we do all we can to broadcast this message to the whole world.Ī lot of insight about the Church’s commission can be found in the earliest chapters of the book of Revelation. But that message also includes a strong warning about the worst suffering ever to strike this Earth, just before Christ’s Second Coming. He charges us to deliver a message of hope and good news. God gives His Church a great responsibility, and He expects a lot from us. Every gigantic step in world events is described in that book, where we can read and study it. Revelation gives us a time sequence of major events.
We can see it as never before: The events it describes are beginning to unfold before our eyes! The terrible events besieging our world were all prophesied in Revelation. It is for this time right now, and it is mostly about the chaotic present. The Apostle John recorded the prophecy, but he didn’t understand most of it. The book of Revelation is all about world news! What God gave in the Bible’s most important book of prophecy is a description of world events that carry this world to the time of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming! When you recognize what has happened to God’s Church in this end time, it makes the importance and relevance of the history contained in this book many times greater for us today! It is my hope and prayer that you will take much instruction, correction and inspiration from this, the true history of two millennia of the Spirit-begotten saints of God. It wasn’t until that Laodicean era unfolded that we could have a complete understanding of Church history. Armstrong taught about Church history, you get a clear picture of the spiritual problems within the Church that produced the last era of the Church-the Laodicean era. If you fail to deeply understand that first era as he taught it, you cannot see the whole picture.Īnd as this book will also show, if you understand what those other writers did by neglecting what Mr. This book contains a lot of material on the first era of the Church, Ephesus, in an effort to fully document the outstanding truth Mr. That was the main problem with what they wrote. Armstrong gave on the subject! That is because they were harboring spiritually lukewarm traits and tendencies- even while Mr. Hoeh and other writers failed to value the instruction Mr. He gave the overview that helps us understand all Church history. Armstrong did a masterful job of explaining Church history, especially the first era. When you understand the prophecies about God’s true Church in this end time, you can understand why that would be the case. The mindset that led to those mistakes in the Church history booklet ended up being fully exposed after Mr. The book you are reading corrects that error. Other writers committed the same error.įor this reason, I have come to realize that the full story of the Church’s history has never been properly told.
Hoeh made one deadly error that led to other mistakes in his booklet.
Hoeh.īut in A True History of the True Church, I discovered that Dr. Few people were given more opportunities in the wcg than Dr. He gave excellent classes, and at Ambassador College, I took every class he taught that I could because I felt they were so valuable. Armstrong really nurtured him and helped him grow into the evangelist he became.
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Armstrong taught him how to write and to teach, and he became one of the outstanding scholars in the Work. He came to Ambassador College as a young man.
Armstrong, the man who wrote the most stirring, effective and helpful articles was Dr. I believe of all the writers in the wcg, after Mr. I recently decided to read it again to see if I could determine what it was. Armstrong’s lifetime, the history of God’s true Church was always well reported-but there must have been something he didn’t like about that booklet. Armstrong, pastor general of the wcg until his death in 1986, was behind that decision, and I always wondered why he did that. In days gone by in the Worldwide Church of God ( wcg), I always loved reading A True History of the True Church, by Herman Hoeh.
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