Re: YouTube - Worldwide Church of God
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Hi Blondie,
I was in W.C.G. for 15 yrs, left in 95.
That church, with all the Holy day observances and teachings of the OT, gave me a really good knowledge of the physical events that happened in the OT.
Now, when I am looking at the spiritual application of something, the examples or shadows in the OT are very familiar, and that helps a lot.
The church I was in also studied a lot in Rev., again even tho they were way off in their interpretation, now I am familiar with Rev. and it helps a lot.
Even tho I did not get any spiritual understanding from that church, I believe it was a stepping stone that God used in giving me a background, that I could use in understand His spiritual teachings now.
It was hard on me at the time, my husband did not attend, to bring my young children there alone.
But it was well worth it, since God desired it of me
Hi Tim, that video was mostly about the change. It did not show what it was really like to be in it under Armstrong.
Ray went to the college there, but he has said, he does not go along, now, with any of their teachings before or after the change.
And I believe that is why he left that church, over disagreements with there teachings.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Hi! Roy C
I'm Roy UK thanks for your message. I too followed Herbert Armstrong and received his "Plain Truth" magazine regularly every month and to be fair it was he who brought me to thinking about the Lord in the first place. One truth I learned from his teaching stuck in my mind and is still firmly implanted there and it goes like this;
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death." (Pro.14:12 & 16:25)
To my intellect for what it was and still is, he seemed to be right on the mark but at the same time my spirit within me was never at ease. And then...and then, as Ray would say, the light dawned Herbert was in bondage under the Old Testament which is death.
God bless.
Love in Christ Jesus.
Roy.